McGINNIS, GREENBERRY DAWSON, brother to David and William. He was born Feb. 16, 1800, in Mercer county, Ky. Sally Barkley was born August 7, 1806, in Bracken county, Ky. Her parents moved to Boone county. G. Dawson McGinnis and Sally Barkley were married in Boone county, Ky., Sept. 13, 1827. A few weeks later they moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 18, 1827, in what is now Island Grove township, and soon after into Curran township. He prepared his logs and hauled them together to build a house. By that time all his money was gone except one quarter of a dollar. They did not like to part with their last cent, not knowing where the next was to come from, but it was the universal custom to have whisky at their house raisings. The raising was delayed, hoping to find some way to obtain the whisky and save the money. The thought was entertained for a time of inviting their neighbors to assist without the accustomed stimulant. It was doubtful if they would come, but the husband and wife held a consultation, and decided that even though they responded to the call and helped them, he would always be regarded as the stingiest man in the whole county, and that it would be better to part with his money than to have such a name. The whisky was purchased and the house raised. That house was less than one-fourth of a mile north of the Lick creek timber. His neighbors wondered at his going so far from timber, and assured him that he could never raise any except muley cattle, because the weather would be so cold out on the prairie that it would freeze the horns off. They had nine living children at that place, namely--

DAVID ERVIN, born August 24, 1828, married August 1, 1850, to Matilda Miller. They had four children, PERMELIA A., the third child, died in her eighth year. The other three, WILLIAM J., GREENBERRY D. and ROBERT E. live with their father. Mrs. Matilda McGinnis died May 3, 1858, and he was married Jan. 20, 1859, to Mrs. Ruth A. Forrest, whose maiden name was Greenwood. They have six children, SCOTT, THOMAS H., JEROME, CAROLINE, CLIFTON and a boy babe. David E. McGinnis resides in Loami township, three miles southeast of Bates, Sangamon county, Illinois.

W. WASHINGTON, born March 15, 1830, married April 2, 1857, to Charlotte Jacobs. They have five living children, TABITHA, TEDORSIS, ULYSSES GRANT, LUTHER and a babe. W. W. McGinnis lives at the family homestead, where he was born.--1874.

ELIZABETH, born Sept. 2, 1831, died in her eleventh year.

PEYTON M., born August 9, 1833, married Oct. 22, 1857, to Caroline Neal. She was born April 18, 1840. They reside in the southwest corner of Curran township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARTHA A., born March 24, 1835, married April 2, 1857, to James Brawner. See his name.

GREENBERRY D., Jun., born May 4, 1837, married Catharine Jacobs. They have seven children and live in Bates county, Mo.

SARAH, born August 5, 1839, married John E. Gibson. See his name.

ROBERT SMITH, born July 23, 1841, enlisted August 13, 1862, at Springfield, for three years, in Co. B, 130th Ill. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged at Springfield, August 30, 1865. He was married Nov. 1, 1866, to Mary E. Bacon. a native of Ohio, and resides one and a half miles south of Bates, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARY E., born August 12, 1849, lives at the family homestead.

Greenberry Dawson McGinnis died Jun. 29, 1869, of heart disease, and his widow resides with her son W. Washington McGinnis, at the homestead settled by herself and husband in 1827. It is four miles southwest of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.--1874.