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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.



LAW, BENJAMIN C., was born March 31, 1805, in Huntington county, Penn. His parents moved to Ohio, thence to Bath county, Ky., where he was married Sept., 1824, to Janetta McClees. They had one child in Kentucky, and moved to Dickson county, Tenn., where three children were born; and from there to Sangamon county Ill., arriving April, 1836, five miles east of Springfield, where six children were born. Of their ten children--

ANNA, born March 5, 1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to J. Perry, and both died of cholera in 1851, leaving two children.

THOMAS, born Sept. 21, 1831, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to Louisa Gibson; have five children, and live in Mechanicsburg township.

REBECCA, born June 3, 1833, in Tennessee, married Henry Harwood, an engineer of the T., W. & W. They have six children, and live in Springfield.

MARY. born March 31, 1835, in Tennessee, married David McCarthy; have five children, and live in Mechanicsburg.

JANE, born Dec. 5, 1837, in Sangamon county, and lives with her parents.

MATTHEW and MARK, twins, born Sept. 30, 1839, in Sangamon county, both live with their parents, five miles east of Springfield.

MARK enlisted July, 1862, for three years, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf. Served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged with the regiment in July, 1865.

NARCISSA, born June 9, 1842, in Sangamon county, married May 19, 1872, to Silas Thomas, a native of Clermont county, Ohio. She died Dec. 31, 1873. Silas Thomas enlisted in July, 1861, in Co. G, 7th Ill. Inf.; re-enlisted as a veteran, served until July, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. Himself and four brothers served through the whole war, and came out without a wound.

GRIZELLA, born Feb. 17, 1844, died, aged seven years.

LYDIA C., born Feb. 17, 1846, lives with her parents.

Benj. C. Law and wife--1874--live on the farm where they settled in 1836, five miles east of Springfield.

Mark Law, the father of Benjamin C., was born March 6, 1762, in county Tyrone, Ireland, came with his son to Sangamon county, and died Feb. 23, 1840.



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