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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.



PIERSON, MOSES, born June 7, 1802, in Warren county, near Lebanon, Ohio. Clarissa Morris was born June 18, 1808, in the same county. They were married, Nov. 3, 1824, and had two living children there. They moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1833, at Springfield, and a year or two later settled two and one-half miles northeast of Springfield. They came to the west hoping that Mrs. Pearson's health would be improved, but finding that it was not. They were returning to Ohio, and stopped at Paris, Ill., to visit some friends, when Mrs. Pierson suddenly died there, June 9, 1836. Mr. Pierson took his two children to their relatives in Ohio, and returned to Sangamon county, where he was married, Oct. 18, 1837, to Harriet Kilbourn, who was born Oct. 18, 1818, near Chillicothe, Ohio. They had nine children in Sangamon county. Of all his children--

DAVID M., born Nov. 12, 1827, near Lebanon, Ohio, was married Dec. 27, 1865, in Sangamon county, to Celestia E. Wilson, who was born Sept. 5, 1839, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. They had two children. LAWRENCE L., the youngest, died in his second year. GILMAN M., born Oct. 9. 1866, resides with his parents, at his grandfather Wilson's, two miles northeast of Springfield.

SARAH LAVINIA, born April 4, 1831, near Lebanon, Ohio, was married in Sangamon county, June 27, 1867, to Richard H. Beach. See his name.

Children of Moses Pierson by the second marriage--

CLARISSA, born Aug. 27, 1838, in Sangamon county, married Lucius C. Francis. See his name.

JOHN G., born Sept. 3, 1840, in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and resides at the family homestead, two and one-half miles northeast of Springfield.

JANE MARY, born Sept. 30, 1842, resides at the family homestead.

THEODORE F., born June 7, 1844, enlisted Aug. 5, 1862, for three years, in Co. G, 114th Ill. Inf. He was taken prisoner June, 1864, at the battle of Guntown, Miss., spent four months in Andersonville prison, and taken from there to Savannah Ga., and parolled. On being exchanged he returned to duty, at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, where he was honorably discharged, July 27, 1865. He was married at Jacksonville, Ill., Sept. 15, 1874, to Josephine E. Morrison, who was born Nov., 1847, near Naples, Scott county, Ill. They reside four miles north of Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illinois.

FRANK, born Sept. 25, 1846, resides four miles north of Illiopolis, Illinois.

JOSEPH, born March 22, 1848;

EDWARD, born May 13, 1849;

JESSIE A., born Jan. 6, 1854, and

HARRIET, born Feb. 27, 1857, reside at the family homestead, near Springfield, Illinois.

Mrs. Harriet Pierson died Feb. 18, 1858, and Moses Pierson died Dec. 20, 1860, both on the farm where he settled in 1834 or '5, two and a half miles northeast of Springfield, Illinois.



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