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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.



PRESTON, EBENEZER, was born in 1786, in Cape May county, N. J. Mahala Tomlin was born April 7, 1789, in the same county. They were there married, about 1809, and had nine living children in New Jersey. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Oct. 16, 1839, on Richland creek. Of their nine children--

RICHARD was a navigator, never married, and little is known of him since the family came west.

DAVID married Amelia Corson in New Jersey, came to Sangamon county, raised a family, and moved to Carroll county, Missouri.

EBENEZER, Jun., born May 14, 1821, in New Jersey, married February 15, 1849, in Sangamon county, to Catharine Greene, who was born September 22, 1827, in Greene county, Ill. They have two living children--ALMEDA married Robert Corson, have two children, MINNIE B. and CYNTHIA C., and live in Cartwright township. JULIA A. lives with her parents, three miles northwest of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.--1874.

ELIZABETH married David Wright. He died, Oct., 1870, leaving a widow and four children, five miles north of Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born July 26, 1827, married in Sangamon county to Margaret Hatch, have seven children, and live in Mason county, Illinois.

SARAH married Haythorn Tomlin, have five children, and live in Mason county, Illinois.

ROBERT married Mary Henderson, have three children, and live in Mason county, Illinois.

LYDIA married Jeremiah Corson, have two children, and lives in Mason county, Illinois.

OTHNEIL died, in 1855, in Mason county, aged eighteen years.

Ebenezer Preston died May 10, 1849, and his widow died Feb. 17, 1872, he in Sangamon, and she in Mason connty, Illinois.



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