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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.



MERRIMAN, LYMAN, was born in 1792, in Connecticut. He went with his brother Reuben to Scott county, Ky., in 1812, and was there married to Sarah R. Howard, who was born there in 1794. They had four living children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1829, in what is now Williams township, where one child was born. Of their five children--

MADISON M., born March 11, 1817, in Scott county, Ky., married Elizabeth Fletcher. They have seven living children. Their daughter, ELIZABETH A., married Irvin J. Houtz, and reside in Williams township, two and a quarter miles north of Sherman. The other six reside with their parents, in Logan county, Illinois.

SARAH J., born Aug. 22, 1819, in Scott county, Ky., married William Yocom. See his name.

ELVIRA married Francis M. Young, had one child, and died in 1851.

CORDELIA L., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county March 10, 1862, to B. F. Fletcher. See his name.

MARY A., born in Sangamon county, married Hiram J. Young. She died Aug., 1867, leaving four children, LAURA A. and MARY A. reside with their aunt, Mrs. Wm. Yocom. The two sons live with their father, in Montgomery county, Illinois.

Lyman Merriman died in March, 1865, and his widow died Sept. 20, 1869.

LAURA, the sister of Reuben and Lyman Merriman, who came with them from Kentucky, married in Sangamon county in 1829 to Francis Arenz, went to Beardstown, and died within a year after she was married. The mother of the Merriman brothers and sister died in Beardstown, also.



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