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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.



NOTTINGHAM, JONATHAN, was born Sept. 25, 1808, in Cape May county, New Jersey. Clark Nottingham emigrated from England, and settled in Delaware, about 1760. He moved to New Jersey soon after the Revolution, and raised a family. His son Jonathan was Colonel of a New Jersey regiment in the war of 1812. He was there married, and was the father of the subject of this sketch. Jonathan Nottingham number two was married, Jan. 30, 1831, to Hannah Smith, who was born July 10, 1807, in the same county. They had four children in New Jersey, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in Oct., 1837, and stopped south of Richland creek, where they lived two years, and in the spring of 1840 moved to a farm he had purchased, two and one-half miles northwest of Pleasant Plains. Seven children were born in Sangamon county. Of their children--

REUBEN L., born Dec. 14, 1832, in New Jersey, married Lutheria Hubbard. He enlisted, Aug. 8, 1863, for three years, in Co. --, 101st Ill. Inf., and died of disease, at Cairo, Ill., Dec., 1863.

JOHN, born in New Jersey, married Mary A. Corson, have three children, and live in Menard county.

ABIJAH S., born in New Jersey, married Mary Eaton, and lives near Pleasant Plains.

FRANCIS A., born June 22, 1837, in New Jersey, raised in Sangamon county, went to Pike's Peak, in 1858, and now lives in Mendocino county, California.

RACHEL, born in Sangamon county, married Reuben Corson, have four children, and live in Menard county, Illinois.

ALMARIN, born March 31, 1840, in Sangamon county. Served three years in the 1st Oregon Cavalry, and was honorably discharged. He is a stock dealer at Oskaloosa, Kansas.

CLARKE, born Feb. 26, 1842, in Sangamon county, married in Dayton, Ohio, in May, 1873, to Annie Christian, and lives two and one-half miles northwest of Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

JANE, born Oct. 29, 1843, in Sangamon county, married Henry K. Hoff, has three children, and lives in Golden City, Colorado.

JAMES S., born Jan. 17, 1845. Served three months in Co. 1, 71st Ill. Inf., and is now--1873--an attorney at Silver City, New Mexico.

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 22, 1847, married Alexander Higgins. See his name.

CHARLES W., born June 29, 1848, in Sangamon county, married March 26, 1873, to Georgia Pellet, and lives near Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

Mrs. Hannah Nottingham died July 9, 1850, and Jonathan Nottingham was married, Aug., 1852, in Cape May county, N. J., to Mrs. Mary A. Townsend, whose maiden name was Sutton. Jonathan Nottingham resides on the farm where he settled in 1840, two miles northwest of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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