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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, WILLIAM, Jun., was born about 1808, in Kentucky. His father, James Jones, was a brother to Alexander, Robert, Thomas and William. William, Jun., came to Sangamon county, when a boy, with his uncle, Robert Jones. He was married in 1831 to Martha A. Lillard, who was born July 24, 1815, in Rockingham county, N. C., and came to Sangamon county in 1829. They had seven living children--

TEMPERANCE, born August 25, 1832, married April 8, 1852, to A. C. Campbell.

SARAH E., born Dec. 24, 1834, married in 1854 to W. C. Enix. They have three living children, and live near Moravia, Monroe county, Iowa.

TABITHA A, born Nov. 6, 1837, married Alexander Elliott, August, 1853, have five living children, and live near Palmer, Christian county.

ROBERT A., born April 14, 1840, married March, 1862, to Rachel A. Sears, have three living children, and reside at Palmer, Illinois.

JAMES T., born July 10, 1845, in Sangamon county, is married and living in Washington Territory.

WILLIAM C., born April 28, 1848, in Sangamon county, married Burnetta Hill, who died, and he married Alice M. Shadrick, and lives in Palmer, Christian county, Illinois.

NANCY J., born Jan. 10, 1851, married James P. Lawley. See his name.

William Jones, Jun., died in 1858, in Sangamon county, and his widow, Mrs. Martha A. Jones resides near Palmer, Christian county, Illinois.



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