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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.



LYMAN, EZRA, born Feb. 23, 1789, at Brookfield, Vt. He went to Potsdam, N. Y., in May, 1809, and in 1811 went back to Brookfield, Vt., and was married to Mercy Cushman. They made their home in Potsdam, until four children were born, one of whom, BETSY, died at three years of age, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1833, with a colony, and settled in what is now Gardner township. Of their children--

EZRA C., born May 19, 1814, in Potsdam, N. Y., married in Sangamon county, March 28, 1840, to Caroline Van Patten. They had eight children in Sangamon county. ALVAN, born June 23, 1842, died, aged seven years. HANNAH H., born Oct. 14, 1844, married, Nov. 15, 1863, to Thomas H. Earnest. See his name. MARY E., born Feb. 23, 1846, married, Dec. 12, 1867, to Robert Morris, a native of New Jersey. They have two children, ETTIE C. and WILLIAM E., and reside near Maroa, Macon county.

CORNELIUS, born Oct. 14, 1849. CUSHMAN, born Oct. 21, 1851. ALVAN, born Jan. 31, 1853. JOHN D., born Oct. 7, 1856. LAURA A., born Oct. 16, 1858; the five latter reside with their parents, near Maroa, Macon county, Ill., where they moved from Sangamon county in 1874.

MERCY S., born May 19, 1820, in New York, married in Sangamon county to Jeremiah D. Low. (He was one of the fifty-two colonists, and was a teacher.) They had three children--CORNELIA A. died in St. Louis, aged eleven years. LAURA T., born July 16, 1848, and CHARLES H., born Oct. 11, 1851, reside with their parents, in Chicago.

ZERVIAH H., born about 1831, is unmarried, and resides with her brother, Ezra C.

Ezra Lyman died, Oct. 1, 1851, and Mrs. Mercy Lyman died in 1864, both in Sangamon county.



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