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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



JOHNSON, JOHN, was born about 1795, in Cazenovia, Madison county, N. Y. He was married to Elizabeth Coley, had three children in New York, and moved, in company with her brother, Willis Coley, to Shawneetown, Illinois, and came to Sangamon county in 1825, where they had one child. Of their four children--

EMELINE, born in New York, married in Sangamon county, in 1836, to Rev. Peter Wallace. She died in 1862, at Sidney, Champaign county, leaving four children, who live with their father, who is maryied again, and is presiding Elder at Quincy, Illinois.--1874.

LUCINA, born in New York, married in Sangamon county to James Langford, and lives in St. Louis, Mo.

JAMES, born in New York, married in 1838 to Margaret Cheney. He died, and his widow married, and lives in San Francisco.

FRANCIS M., born Oct. 11, 1830, in Sangamon county, married in 1851 to Columbia Withrow. They had five children in Sangamon county. OSCAR, born July 5, 1852, married July 4, 1872, to Mary A. Sanborn. They have one child, LOUIE GLENN, and live in Loami. FLORA B., CHARLES L., NELLIE and HARRIET E. live with their parents at Onarga, Iroquois county, Illinois.

John Johnson died Sept. 15, 1870, and his widow lives with her son, F. Marion Johnson, at Onarga, Illinois.



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