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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.



KENNEY, MATTHEW P., was born Sept. 3, 1808, in Christian county, Kentucky. He came to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1827, and was married Jan. 6, 1829, to Amanda Viney. They had seven living children in Sangamon county, namely:

JAMES T. married Mary Crane, and lives in Auburn township.

JOHN N. married Amanda Wallace, and lives one and a quarter miles south of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM married Martha A. Drennan, and live in Bates county, Missouri.

REBECCA married Elias Tucker, have three children, and reside three and a half miles east of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MATTHEW S.,

NINIAN E. and

ABRAHAM V. live with their mother.

Matthew P. Kenney died Dec. 13, 1851, and his widow resides--1873--on the farm where they settled in 1829. It is three miles east of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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