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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, JACOB, was born in 1789, in Kentucky. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, mustered in at Winchester, Ky.. and was in the battle of Tippecanoe. Lucina Poats was born Dec. 18, 1793, in Stafford county, Va., and was taken to Clark county, Ky., when she was quite young. Jacob Miller and Lucina Poats were there married in 1812. They had five children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Dec., 1824, in what is now the northwest corner of Chatham township, where they had five children. Of their children--

ELIZA, born June 1, 1815, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 20, 1832, to John Greenwood. See his name.

EUNICE, born May 29, 1819, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Feb. 22, 1839, to John D. Foster. See his name.

JOHN H., born Dec. 6, 1821, in Clark county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Feb. 14, 1849, to Elizabeth Greening. They have three children--CAROLINE married William H. Shumate, have one child, ROBERT R., and live in Marshall county, Kansas. ELIZA married George W. Stubbs. See his name. JOHN T. J. lives with his parents, in Chatham, Illinois.

EMILY T., born Jan. 13, 1824, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, March 7, 1843, to John Greenwood. See his name. She died, April 21, 1866.

SALLY, born March 20, 1826, in Sangamon county, lives with her mother.

MATILDA, born Sept. 25, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Aug. 1, 1850, to David Erving McGinnis. See his name.

JAMES F., born Aug. 7, 1831, in Sangamon county, married July 6, 1854, to Melinda E. Shutt. They have four children living, THOMAS J., WILLIAM A., CHARLES H. and OLLIE MAY, and live in Loami township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

EDMUND T., born Feb. 15, 1834, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 20, 1859, to Elizabeth Trimble. She had one child, and mother and child died. Mr. Miller was married Jan. 27, 1870, to Elizabeth A. Stubbs. They have one child, MINNIE F., and live on the farm where his parents settled in 1824. It is five miles west of Chatham, Illinois.

FRANCIS M., born Feb. 11, 1836, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 1, 1858, to Eliza J. Trimble. They have seven daughters, FLORA A., SARAH E., MARY F., LILLIE, LUELLA, LYDIA B., and a babe, and live in Chatham township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM G., born in Sangamon county, married Jan. 14, 1858, to Nancy Baker. She died, leaving two children, HENRY E. and MARY A. William G. Miller married Sarah Hall. They had two children, WILLIAM M. and MINNIE M., both of whom died young. W. G. Miller enlisted, Aug. 9, 1862, in Co. I, 73d Ill. Inf., for three years. He was wounded at Mission Ridge, Nov. 24, 1863, served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged, June 24, 1865, and resides three miles south of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Jacob Miller died, July 27, 1862, and his widow, Mrs. Lucina Miller, resides at the homestead where they settled in 1824, in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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