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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.



McDANIEL, JAMES, an elder brother to Robert, was born Sept. 2, 1781, in Pennsylvania. His father, Robert McDaniel, was a Revolutionary soldier, served three years and six months, and was present when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va. When James was a child the family moved to Stroude's station, Clark county, Ky. He was there married to Mary Matthews. They had one child there, and moved to Bracken county, where they had three living children, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving, in 1838, at Buffalo Hart Grove. Of their four children--

JEPTHA, born in 1806, in Clark county, Ky., married in Bracken county, and came to Sangamon county with his father in 1838. They had one child in Kentucky and seven in Sangamon county. ELIZABETH married Levi McDaniel. See his name. MARY married William Matthews, have five children and live in Buffalo Hart township. MARTHA married Oliver McDaniel. See his name. JOHN T., unmarried, is a teacher. Mrs. Sarah McDaniel died in 1852, and Jeptha

MARY, born Dec. 16, 1820, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, in her twenty-seventh year.

McDaniel died in 1856, both in Sangamon county.

LUANN, born March, 1810, married Glover Matthews, and had eleven children. He died August, 1855, and his widow resides in Buffalo Hart township.

MARY, married Thomas Elliott, and both died.

WILLIAM married Nancy A. Smith, had two children, and he died. She married again, and is now a widow near Riverton.

Mrs. Mary McDaniel died in 1845, and James McDaniel died in 1861, both in Sangamon county.



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