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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.



MCCLEES, THOMAS, was born about 1775, in Pennsylvania, and went to Fleming county, Ky., and from there to Ohio, where he was married Sept. 9, 1804, to Mary Jameison, who was born in Fleming county, Ky. They had two children in Ohio, and returned to Kentucky, where six children were born. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830, and settled five miles southeast of Springfield. Of their eight children--

JANETTA, born Nov. 18, 1805, in Ohio, married Benj. C. Law. See his name.

JOHN, born Jan. 25, 1807, in Ohio, never came to Illinois. History not known.

WILLIAM, born in Fleming county, Ky., came with the family to Sangamon county, and died at Mineral Point, Wis., in 1851.

DANIEL, born about 1812 or '13, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Margaret Clark. They had three children, and he went to California in the early gold-digging times, and his family went to him. His daughter MARY J., married John Spence. He served three years in a Wisconsin regiment; was starved in Andersonville prison, and died after coming home. His widow lives in Springfield. CHRISTIANA married Thomas Petty, and lives near Sangamon station. Daniel McClees lives in Washington Territory, near Puget Sound.

LOUISA, born about 1815, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to John Lewis, who died, and she married Peter Carril, and had one child, JAMES T., who is married, and resides near Quincy, Mo. Peter Carril died, and his widow lives with her sister, Mrs. Law.

GRACE, born Feb. 22, 1817, in Fleming county, Ky., married Levi W. Jones. See his name.

THOMAS, born Nov. 18, 1818, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, in his twenty-fourth year.

JAMES, born Oct. 17, 1820, in Kentucky, went from Sangamon county to California soon after the discovery of gold, and has not been heard of since about 1850.

Mrs. Mary McClees died in Sept., 1831, and Thomas McClees died in 1852, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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