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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.



LAMUN, JAMES, was born Dec. 12, 1802, in Ross county, Ohio, and was married May 25, 1822, in that county, to Ann McCafferty, had three living children, and Mrs. Lamun died there, May 31, 1830. Mr. Lamun came to Springfield alone in 1839, and four or five years later returned to Ohio and brought out his three children, namely--

JOHN, born July 2, 1823, in Ross county, Ohio, and after spending several years in Sangamon county, returned to Ohio, and was there married; has six children, and lives in the northwest corner of Cooper township, two and a half miles southeast of Mechanicsburg.

ELEANOR, born March 3, 1825, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Flemuel Prickett, and lives near Mt. Auburn, Christian county, Illinois.

ANDREW, born March 25, 1829, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Hettie Robbins. They moved to the vicinity of Shady Grove Postoffice, Dallas county, Mo., where he died in 1870, leaving a widow and six children.

James Lamun has remained a widower forty-five years, and resides in the northeast corner of Cooper township, two and a half miles southeast of Mechanicsburg, Illinois.--1874.



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