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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.



JONES, ANDREW, was born Jan. 10, 1783, in Culpepper county, Va. His parents died when he was quite young, and about 1808 he went to Bath county, Ky., and was there married, in 1812, to Eleanor Goodan, who was born March 16, 1793, in Pennsylvania, and was taken by her parents to Kentucky when she was young. They had five children in Bath county, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1825, on Round Prairie, where one child was born. Of their six children--

RACHEL, born Sept. 8, 1814, in Bath county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county to George W. Poffenberger. See his name.

LEVI W., born April 26, 1817, in Bath county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Feb. 23, 1837, to Grace McClees, who was born Feb. 22, 1817, in Bath county, Ky. They have three children. EMILY, born Nov. 28, 1837, married William Beadle. They have two children, ELIZA E. and WILLIAM A., and live in Springfield, ELIZABETH E., born Oct. 29, 1842, married William Underwood. They have three children, JOSEPH, CLARA and ETTIE F., and live near Santa Fe, Missouri. LEVI W., Jun., born Dec. 22, 1848, lives with his parents, one and a half miles west of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELIZA, born Sept. 12, 1819, in Bath county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., to Samuel Miller. See his name.

DANIEL G., born Nov. 15, 1822, in Bath county, Ky., was married in 1849, in Sangamon county, to Amanda J. Brunk. She died Sept. 28, 1865, leaving two children. LAURA, born Feb. 3, 1852, died Jan. 18, 1870. GEORGE A., born May 31, 1860, lives with his father. Daniel G. Jones was married May, 1869, to Mary F. Rickard. They have two children, MARY R. and HELEN, and live fourteen miles south of Springfield, in Cotton Hill township.

EVELINE, born May 1, 1825, in Bath county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., to Joseph E. McCoy. See his name.

JOHN A., born Oct. 4, 1829, in Sangamon county, was married there to Louisa Smith. They have four children, ARTHUR E., EVA E., GEORGE A. and LOUELLA, and live in Clinton, DeWitt county, Illinois.

Andrew Jones died Oct. 20, 1854, and Mrs. Eleanor Jones died March 8, 1859, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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