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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.



MOORE, BUSHNELL B., was born Jan. 6, 1801, in Shoreham, Vt. Melissa Northrope was born Jan. 30, 1803, in the same town. They were there married Jan. 7, 1824. Mr. Moore had previously established himself in business at Hopkinton, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. They had two living children there, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving July, 1836, in what is now Gardner township. Of their children--

MARCIA A., born Oct. 7, 1826, is unmarried, and resides with her mother, at Farmingdale, Illinois.

MARIA L., born June 29, 1828, at Hopkinton, New York, married in Sangamon county May 15, 1849, to Eben Dutch. He was born Oct. 18, 1819, in Augusta, Maine. They had four children in Sangamon county. FLORENCE MAY is a teacher in the public schools, and resides at Farmingdale. FREDERICK and WINTHROP live with their uncle, Henry S. Dutch, in Oxford, Johnson county, Iowa. RALPH E. lives at Farmingdale, Ill. Eben Dutch died Aug. 29, 1864, in Sangamon county, and his widow died in 1876, near Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Bushnell B. Moore died June 18, 1838, in Sangamon county, and his widow married Rev. Billious Pond. See his name.



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