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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.



McCOY, HAMILTON, was born March 22, 1815, in Mason county, West Virginia; came to Sangamon county (Cotton Hill township) in 1836; was married Jan. 3, 1838, to Mrs. Marie Cooper, whose maiden name was Lewis. They had ten children, - two died young. Of the other eight children -

JOHN married Elizabeth Abell, and died. Leaving two children, WILLARD and JOHN.

SAMUEL, born in Sangamon county, enlisted in Feb., 1862, in the 33d Ill. Inf., and was discharged on account of physical disability, Sept. 1862. Enlisted in 1863 in the 16th Ill. Cav.; was captured in Virginia, taken to Libby prison, exchanged, and died in Baltimore, Md., from he effect of his prison treatment.

POLLY died in Sangamon county April 3, 1864, aged twenty-two years.

WILLIAM died, aged twenty-two years in Sangamon county.

JAMES A. died, aged twenty-two years.

ALFRED, born in Sangamon county, served a term in the 10th Ill. Cav., and was in Washington at the time of President Lincoln's assassination. He married Jane Rhodes, and lives at Columbus, Ohio - 1874.

DAVID, born in Sangamon county, and went to California in 1873.

THOMAS PRESTON, born in Sangamon county, married Margaret Berry, and reside one and one-half miles southwest of Breckenridge.

Mrs. Maria McCoy died Sept. 14, 1872, in Sangamon county, and Hamilton McCoy resides near the old Breckenridge mill, in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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