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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, JONATHAN, was born April 8, 1796, in Clark county, Ky. He was married March 23, 1820, in Harrison county, Ky., to Elizabeth Correll. They had five living children in the latter county, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1835, in what is now Mechanicsburg township, where they had two children. Of their children--

LUANN, born Jan. 6, 1823, in Kentucky, married Jonathan Huckleberry. See his name. She died Jan. 2, 1855.

MARTHA, born August 1, 1825, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to John Langley. She died in 1850, and Mr. L. married Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, whose maiden name was Huckleberry.

ROBERT, born Oct. 30, 1827, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, Feb. 22, 1855.

ELIZABETH, born Sept. 23, 1834, in Harrison county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, April 9, 1861, to Jacob Myers, who was born Oct. 22, 1831, in Berks county, Pa. He has three children by a former marriage, WILLIAM, ELI and MARIA, and by the present wife, EDWIN, OLIVER and LENA. Mr. and Mrs. Myers reside three miles north of Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JAMES, born Sept. 22, 1837, in Sangamon county, died in his sixth year.

MARIA, born Nov. 26, 1838, in Sangamon county, married John W. North. See his name.

Jonathan McDaniel died Jan. 1868, in Sangamon county, and Mrs. Elizabeth McDaniel resides with her daughters, Mrs. Myers and Mrs. North.--1876.



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