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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.



PEASE, ABRAM, born July 22, 1791, in Martha's Vineyard, Dukes county, Mass. The ancestors of this family were from Wales, and came to America more than two hundred years ago, settling in Massachusetts. Abram Pease, whose name heads this sketch, went to the State of New York, when a young man, and was married there. Aug. 18, 1811, to Orpha Southwick. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, from Cayuga county, N. Y. Abram Pease and wife came to Sangamon county with the family of Jesse Southwick, arriving in 1818 in what is now Ball township. They had four children--

DEXTER, born July 14, 1817, in New York, THEODORE, BRIGHAM and NANCY; the latter died August 11, 1820.

Mrs. Orpha Pease died Feb. 22, 1820, in Sangamon county, and Abram Pease was married, June 21, 1827, in Sangamon county, to Dorotha Lathrop, who was born April 12, 1805, in New York. They had one living child--

SHAW, born April 23, 1828, in Sangamon county, was married July 6, 1851, in same county, to Amanda H. Pettus, who was born June 24, 1832, in Nicholas county, Ky., and came to Sangamon county with her father, Thomas P. Pettus, and her grandfather, George Bryan, of Bryan's station, Ky. Shaw Pease and wife have eight living children. LESLIE T., born Aug. 5, 1852, in Sangamon county, studied medicine, and was married, May 9, 1875, to Mary L. Halsted, who was born Feb. 7, 1854, in Castile, Wyoming county, N. Y. Dr. Leslie T. Pease is practicing medicine at Blue Mound, Macon county Ill., and resides there. Of the other seven children--A. JUDSON, FRANCIS W., IDA, LUELLA and LINCOLN, were born in Sangamon county, and GEOROE and CHARLES P. were born in Macon county, Ill. Hon. Shaw Pease was a farmer in Woodside township, Sangamon county, until 1867, when he removed to the vicinity of Niantic, Macon county, where he now resides. He served one term as member of the Board of Supervisors of Macon county. In Nov., 1874, he was elected to the twenty-ninth district in the State Legislature for two years. Mr. Pease nor either of his sons chew tobacco, drink whisky or use profane language.

Mrs. Dorotha Pease died, Aug. 13, 1832, and Abram Pease died September 1, 1843, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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