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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.




KILGOUR, JAMES W., was born Dec. 14, 1823, near Chillicothe, Ohio. His father died when he was quite young, and his mother married William V. Brown. They had one son, who died at seven years of age. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1832 in what is now Fancy Creek township. Mrs. Brown died, April 17, 1857, and William V. Brown died in 1871.

James W. Kilgour was married, Aug. 10, 1846, to Hannah H. Alexander. They had four children, namely--

WILLIAM J. died, at ten years of age.

MARY E., aged eight, and

GEORGE, in infancy.

SARAH ANN, born Sept. 23, 1851, married, Sept. 29, 1870, to B. F. Larkin, and live in Logan county, two and one-half miles west of Williamsville, Illinois.

Mrs. H. H. Kilgour died, March 12, 1855, and J. W. Kilgour was married, Dec. 5, 1855, to Nancy E. Tipton, who was born March 17, 1824, in Carter county, Tenn. They have one child--

ISAAC F., born Oct. 17, 1856, and lives with his parents.

James W. Kilgour enlisted Feb. 17, 1863, in Co. G, 7th Ill. Inf., for three years, served until July 17, 1865, when he was honorably discharged with the regiment. He resides at Sherman, Sangamon county, Illinois--1874.

KINNEY, HENRY, was born March 1, 1774, in Woodstock, Connecticut. In 1795 he went to Cazenovia, N. Y., and from there to Clinton, Oneida county, in the same State, and was there married, March 4, 1798, to Dicey Pond. She was born Sept. 4, 1778, in Hartford, Conn. They lived at Cazenovia, Madison county, N. Y., until they had three children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving May 6, 1822, in what is now Loami township. Of their three children--

HENRY, Jun., born Aug. 4, 1807, in New York, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 23, 1828, to Margaret Dorrance. They had five children in Sangamon county, namely--DANIEL married Annis Elmore. They have two children, HENRY H. and EDITH C., and live one and one-quarter miles east of Loami. CLARISSA, born April 9, 1831, married




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