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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.



MILLER, ADAM, Sen., younger brother to Christian, Sen., was born, raised a family, and died in Loudon county, Virginia, Aug. 6, 1828. His three sons and five daughters all came to Sangamon county, as follows--

ELIZABETH married John Jacobs in Virginia. She is a widow in Cooper township, where she came in 1839.

CATHARINE married in Virginia to Israel Dulaney. She died in 1844 in Rochester township, Sangamon county.

CHRISTIAN, Jun., born Dec. 25, 1805, in Loudon county, Va., came to Sangamon county in 1835. He never married, and died at the house of his brother, John A., Sept. 23, 1874.

BARBARA, born Feb. 20, 1808, in Loudon county, Va., came to Sangamon county in 1835, and married Samuel A. Jones, and both died near Rochester, Illinois.

JOHN A., born Nov. 11, 1810, in Loudon county, Va., came to Sangamon county in 1835 with his uncle, Christian Miller, Sen. He was married July 14, 1842, in Sangamon county, to Mary Ann Norwood. She was born June 7, 1811, in Loudon county, Va., and came in 1838 to Sangamon county with her brother, William, who writes his name Norred. John A. Miller and wife had four children in Sangamon county, MARY V., born April 9, 1846, married Aug. 10, 1864 to Andrew B. Surber who was born June 8, 1836, in Pulaski county, Ky. They have three children, WILLIAM F., MARY E. and JOHN, and live three miles east of Rochester, Illinois. JOHN F., born Oct. 5, 1848, married Dec. 22, 1873, in Galesburg, Ill., to Laura J. Highmore, daughter of John S. Highmore. They live in Edinburg, Ill. CHRISTIAN E., born March 12, 1850, and SUSAN E., born April 18, 1852, reside with their parents, two and a half miles east of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois--1874.

MARY, born in 1812 in Loudon county, Va., married George M. Greene. See his name.

SARAH, born in Loudon county, Va., married there to Abraham E. Nickolls. They came to Sangamon county in 1842, and she died in 1844, leaving two children. Her son, GEORGE Nicholls, lives near Rochester, Illinois.

ADAM, born July 13, 1819, in Loudon county, Va., came to Sangamon county in the fall of 1835. He was married in Rochester Dec. 31, 1856, to Cynthia Elgin. She was born Nov. 19, 1839, in Greene county, Ind. They had six children, five of whom, GILES E., FRANCISCO, DON L., WILLIE, EDNA and a babe, all died under ten years. JESSE E., born March 15, 1864, lives with his parents, in Pana, Christian county, Illinois.



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