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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, MICHAEL, was born March 16, 1800, in Rowan county, North Carolinia. Eleanor Turner was born about 1801 in the same county. They were married, and had two children there. In 1823 the family moved to Monroe county, Ky., where two children were born; and in 1827 moved to Morgan, and in 1837 to Sangamon county, in what is now Curran township, where they had six living children. Of their children--

RICHMOND married Charity Hart, and lives in Iowa.

ELIZABETH married Pleasant Prather, moved to Adams county, Iowa. He was a Union soldier, re-enlisted as a veteran, and while at home on a furlough, was killed on his own farm by a rebel bushwhacker, in 1864. The murderer was his nearest neighbor, and was caught by other neighbors and hung near where the murder was committed. He had two sons, Union soldiers, one of whom was killed in battle after his father's death. The widow and children reside on the same farm, in Adams county, Iowa.

BURRELL died, at sixteen years.

JOHN A., born April 4, 1821, in Rowan county, North Carolina, came with his father to Morgan county, Ill., in 1827, and to Sangamon county in 1837. He was married Nov. 24, 1842, to Louisiana Clements. They had nine children, three of whom died young. FRANCIS M., born Oct. 11, 1844, was teaching school near Mechanicsburg, abandoned it, and enlisted in June, 1862, in Co. H, 69th Ill. Inf., for one hundred days, and died at home on sick furlough July 17, 1862. JOHN A., Jun., born Aug. 26, 1852, in Sangamon county, married June 25, 1874, in Adams county, Iowa, to Margaret E. Prather, who was born in that county Feb. 26, 1852. They live near Chatham, Ill. THOMAS P., born Jan. 26, 1855, married Aug. 30, 1874, to Martha V. Graham, at Franklin, Morgan county, Ill., where she was born Sept. 8, 1859. They live near Chatham, Ill. CHARLES O., OSCAR C. and ANN E. live with their father. Mrs. Louisiana Miller died Aug. 5, 1874, and John A. Miller resides near Chatham, Ill.--1874.

CHARLOTTE married Joseph Little. She lives with some of her children, in Mechanicsburg.

HENRY A. married Jane Mason. She died, and he married Elizabeth Martin, and lives in Mechanicsburg, Illinois.

SARAH married William Robbins. See his name.

MELVINA married Joseph White, and she died.

CORNELIA J. married Lewis Hauser, and lives in Adams county, Iowa.

GEORGE W. lives in Iowa.

Michael Miller died Jan. 5, 1863, and his widow lives in Adams county, Iowa.



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