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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.



MORGAN, DANIEL, brother to Charles, was born March 10, 1785, near Warm Springs, Hampshire county, Va., and was taken by his parents, in 1793, to Fleming county, Ky. Mary S. Woods was born June 17, 1786, in Burke county, N. C., and was taken by her parents to Wilkes county, in the same State. In the fall of 1794 they moved to Clark county, Ky., and in 1799 to Chillicothe, Ohio, and in 1801 to Fleming county, Ky. Her father, Andrew Woods, was born in Pennsylvania, taken by his parents to South Carolina, and was Captain of a company from that State, and served nine months in the war for Independence. He died March 26, 1803, in Fleming county, Ky. Daniel Morgan and Mary S. Woods were married Oct. 24, 1810, in Kentucky, and had three children there. They moved to Monroe county, Indiana, in 1822, where one child was born, and then moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Nov. 21, 1828, in what is now Mechanicsburg township. Of their five children--

MELINDA, born May 18, 1811, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Ill., to Daniel Morgan. See his name.

MARY, born Nov. 5, 1815, in Fleming county, Ky., died Aug. 24, 1835, in Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELIZA M., born August 24, 1822, in Fleming county, Ky., married Jan. 29, 1843, in Sangamon county, to Samuel N. Little. See his name.

MAHALA C., born July 19, 1824, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, June 29, 1854, to Rev. James B. Houts, who was born May 31, 1817, in Salem, Livingston county, Ky. They had two children, MARY F. and MINERVA L. Rev. J. B. Houts died Nov. 10, 1872, at Myersville, Vermilion county, Ill. At the time of his death he was filling his 33d appointment as circuit preacher in the M. E. church. His widow and daughters reside in Springfield, Illinois.

WILLIAM H., born June 26, 1826, in Monroe county, Indiana, is unmarried, and resides one mile west of Mechanicsburg, adjoining the farm on which his parents settled in 1828. He remembers going with his father to a water mill on the Sangamon river, and that the mill was roofed by first covering it with logs and slabs, and earth was thrown on that. Weeds were growing on top of the mill, which he thought was very strange.

Daniel Morgan was a sold er from Fleming county, Ky., in the war with England, from Aug., 1812, to March, 1813. He died in Sangamon county, Sept. 6, 1866, and his widow resides with her son, William H. She draws a pension for the services of her husband in the war of 1812.



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