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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.
LOGSDON, JOSEPH
, was born about 1780, in Madison county, Ky. He was there married to a Miss Simmons. They had several children born in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1824, in what is now Ball township, near where St. Bernard church now stands. In 1832 or '33, he moved his family to Missouri, and from there to Texas. He died in 1848 on his road from Texas to California. He is particularly remembered in the vicinity of St. Bernard church from the fact that the first religious services ever conducted by a Catholic priest in Sangamon county was held at his house, in 1829.
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