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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.



MAXCY, JOEL, was born about 1759, in Rockingham county. Va. He was a soldier in a Virginia regiment in time of the Revolution, and was in the battle of Guilford Court House. He remembered having seen Generals Marion, Morgan, DeKalb and Gates. He was married after the war in Prince Edward county, to Mrs. Susan Hill, whose maiden name was Davis. She had five children by her first marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Maxcy had three children in Virginia; and in 1798 moved to Warren county, near Bowling Green, Ky., where one child was born. Mrs. Susan Maxcy died there Aug. 27, 1812. Of her four children, one only ever came to Sangamon county.

JAMES, born Nov. 17, 1791, in Prince Edward county, Va., and was taken by his parents in 1798 to Warren county, Ky. He enlisted at Bowling Green, in 1812, in the United States army. His regiment started the day of his mother's death, Aug. 27, 1812,--and returned in four months. He enlisted again Aug. 25, 1813. His regiment marched the next day. At Newport, Ky., he was elected Second Lieutenant. The march continued north, and he was in the battle of the river Thames, Oct. 5, 1813, and was honorably discharged in November following. He returned home, and was married Dec. 29, 1813, near Bowling Green, to Maria C. Cook. She was born Feb. 20, 1794, near Danville, Ky. They had four children in Kentucky, and moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving May 3, 1834. Of their children--JOHN C., born Nov. 22, 1814, in Bowling Green, Ky., married Sept. 22, 1835, in Springfield to Farnetta C. Lloyd. They had six children. Of their five living children, MARGARET D. married Charles S. Zane. See his name. JAMES R. was married in Chicago to Harriet Dickson. MARY AGNES was married in Springfield, Ill., to R. D. Lawrence. They have one living child, Susie C., and live in Springfield. MARIA C. married George A. Davis. They have one child, Georgia. ZACHARY T., born in 1851, in Springfield. John C. Maxcy has filled several local offices; among others, he has been a member of the Board of Supervisors of Sangamon county, and resides in Springfield, Ill. JAMES M., born Sept. 16, 1816, in Kentucky, lived in Springfield from 1834 to 1849, when he went to California. He was Quartermaster in the United States army during the rebellion, and died there in 1866. MARGARET E., died in her fifth year. MARY J., born July 27, 1822, in Kentucky, married in Springfield to Wm. H. Herndon. See his name. Mrs. Maria C. Maxcy died in 1876, and James Maxcy lives in Springfield. He was the first City Marshal of Springfield, and for twenty-six years in succession filled some one of the city offices. He is now in his eighty-fifth year.

Joel Maxcy was married in Butler county, Ky., to Mrs. Betsey A. Howard, whose maiden name was Brown. She was born Feb. 14, 1795, in Prince Edward county, Va. She had two children, Mordecai and America Howard, both of whom married and died in Shelby county, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Maxcy had two children born in Butler county, Ky., and moved to Logan county--same State,--where three children were born; and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov., 1827, at Springfield, and soon after moved to Island Grove township, north of Little Spring creek. Of their five children--

NELSON, born Dec. 26, 1814, in Butler county, Ky., married in Sangamon county April 27, 1829, to Mary Campbell. They had one child, ERASTUS, who now resides near Washington, Texas. Nelson Maxcy married, as his second wife, Melinda Maxcy, in Arkansas. They had two children, CYRILDA and IRENE, and Mr. Maxcy died Nov., 1869, near Washington, Texas, leaving his family there.

BURRELL J., born Sept. 29, 1818, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, in his twenty-first year.

HARRISON B., born Sept. 26, 1820, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, Dec. 7, 1845.

NAPOLEON B. died in Kentucky, aged four years.

SAMUEL O., born Aug. 19, 1825, in Logan county, Ky., married in Sangamon county Nov. 16, 1848, to Nancy Archer. They had two children in Sangamon county. JAMES H., born Sept. 18, 1849, married Feb. 19, 1873, to Alice S. Jameison, who was born April 7, 1846, in Licking county, Ohio. They reside four miles east of Berlin. WILLIAM J., born Oct. 13, 1856, lives with his parents. Samuel O. Maxcy and wife reside on the farm where his father settled in 1827. It is four miles east of Berlin.

Joel Maxcy died Dec. 27, 1827, in Sangamon county. His widow lived with her son, Samuel O., but went to visit her children by the first marriage, and died in Shelby county Feb. 11, 1856.



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