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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.



LYON, HENSON, was born July 28, 1790, in Loudon county, Va., was taken by his parents about 1800 to Clark county, Ky. Nancy McCann was born Jan. 8, 1795, in Clark county, and they were there married Aug. 10, 1814. They moved to Shelbyville, where they had nine children, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Oct., 1834, in what was then called Portland, south of the Sangamon river, and seven miles northeast of Springfield, where one child was born. In March, 1835, they moved to a farm, two and one-half miles east of Springfield. Of their ten children--

HARRISON D., born May 7, 1815, in Shelbyville, Ky., married in Sangamon county April 6, 1843, to Mary E. Hickman. They had four living children. MARY E. lives with her parents. WILLIAM H. married March 12, 1874, to Sarah A. Day, a native of New York, and resides three miles northeast of Springfield. EUCLID F. and JAMES F. reside with their parents, three and one-half miles northeast of Springfield.

LUCINDA M., born Feb. 20, 1818, in Shelbyville, Ky., married there to Clifton L. Burge, and came to Sangamon county in 1836. She died July 27, 1860, leaving three children in Sangamon county. GEORGE W. married in Springfield to Martha Clarke, and lives in Ottawa, Kansas. SOPHRONIA E. married in Kansas to Willis P. Broadwell, and lives in Rockport, Boone county, Mo. CLIFTON L., Jun., lives in Ottawa, Kansas.

JAMES O., born Oct. 15, 1821, in Kentucky, died, unmarried, in Springfield, Feb. 5, 1860.

HESTER A. R., born Nov. 13, 1823, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to James S. Dawson. They have seven children, and live near Paris, Mo.

ELIZABETH M., born June 21, 1825, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Morgan Mace, and live near Ironton, Mo.

HARVEY M., born Feb. 25, 1827, in Ky., died Oct. 22, 1859, unmarried, in Springfield.

BENJAMIN N., born Oct. 26, 1829, in Kentucky, died, unmarried, in Springfield, Sept. 5, 1857.

EUCLID F., born Sept. 27, 1830, in Kentucky, died, unmarried, near Springfield, Feb. 22, 1848.

THOMAS L., born Sept. 28, 1832, in Kentucky, died, unmarried, at the house of his brother, Harrison D., Aug. 16, 1866.

CLIFTON B., born Jan. 15, 1835, in Sangamon county, died, unmarried, near Springfield, Feb. 21, 1857.

Mrs. Nancy Lyon died Dec. 5, 1845, and Henson Lyon died Sept. 29, 1867, both near Springfield.



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