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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.




POLLOCK, THOMAS, born April 15, 1812, near Brownsville, Penn. He came to Sangamon county about 1837, and was one of the engineering corps that surveyed and located the Northern Cross railroad, now the Toledo, Wabash and Western railroad. He was married Dec. 5, 1839, to Elizabeth A. Foutch. They had ten children in Sangamon county, three of whom died under seven years--

THOMAS, Jun., born Sept. 22, 1840, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. 12, 1862, for three years, in Co. A, 106th Ill. Inf. He was appointed Corporal, promoted to Orderly Sergeant, 2d Lieutenant, and was commissioned 1st Lieutenant on his birth day, in 1864. He served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged, August, 1865. He resides with his mother, (1876), near Berlin, Illinois.

SARAH J., born Sept. 17, 1847, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 1, 1865, to James H. Malyon, who was born in 1840 in London, England. He was a bugler in the British army, at the siege of Sevastopal, Russia, in 1854, came to America soon after, and to Sangamon county in the fall of 1857. He enlisted August 12, 1861, at Springfield, in Co. D, 26th Ill. Inf., for three years. Re-enlisted as a veteran, Jan., 1864, served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged at Springfield, July, 1865. They have four children, LIZLIE J., KITTIE F., HARRY D. and an infant, and live in St. Louis, Missouri.--1873.

HUGH, JOHN W. and HENRY Y. live with their mother.

Thomas Pollock died Oct. 15, 1867, in Sangamon county, and his widow resides three miles west of Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois.




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