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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.



NEWCOMER, CHRISTOPHER, was born in Huntington county, Penn., Oct. 9, 1791. Susan Sells was born March 17, 1794, in the same county. They were married July 1, 1813, in Franklin county, Ohio, and had five children there. The family moved to Sangamon county. Ill., arriving Dec. 9, 1824, in what is now Woodside township, where they had five living children. Of their children--

MARY, born June 7, 1814, in Ohio, married Davis Meredith. See his name.

CHARLES S., born in 1816, in Ohio, raised in Sangamon county, and died June 14, 1839, at the Galena lead mines, where he was engaged in smelting lead.

SAMUEL, ELIZA and SUSANNAH all died young in Ohio.

ARMENIA, born in 1825 in Sangamon county, died Sept. 4, 1845.

JANE M., born in 1826, in Sangamon county, died September 10, 1845.

The two latter were engaged to be married, which was to have taken place just about the time of their deaths, if they had lived.

AMANDA E. died April 23, 1839, in her tenth year.

DOW, born May 26, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Nancy M. Fry, who died Feb. 23, 1852, and he married July 4, 1854, to Catharine M. Brunk. They have two living children, CHARLES W. and MARY JOSEPHINE, and live on the farm settled by Mr. Newcomer's father in 1824, in the southeast corner of Woodside township, seven miles southeast of Springfield, Illinois.

Christopher Newcomer died Feb. 12, 1852, and his widow died Jan. 12, 1872, both on the farm where they settled in 1824.



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