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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.



PURVINES, DAVID SIMPSON, was born May 18, 1787, in Cabarras county, N. C. Elizabeth Weddington was born Dec. 25, 1790. They were married, and had three children in North Carolina, and the family moved to Richland creek, in what became Sangamon county, and Cartwright township, arriving in the fall of 1820, where they had five children. Of their seven children--

JOHN L., born Feb. 6, 1814, in North Carolina, married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Earnest. They had two children--HENRY married Jane Thompson, and lives near Clinton, Dewitt county, Illinois. JOHN died, at twenty years of age. John L. Purvines died, Jan. 6, 1842, in Sangamon county. His widow has been twice married since, is now a widow--1873--and lives near Clinton, Illinois.

MATILDA, born May 3, 1816, in Cabarras county, N. C., brought up in Sangamon county, married Madison A. Cartwright. See his name.

WILLIAM H., born Dec. 13, 1819, in North Carolina, married Feb. 25, 1847, in Sangamon county, to Frances A. Harrison. They had four children--ALFRED B., born May 11, 1848, married, Sept. 13, 1870, to Nannie C. Martin, who was born Nov. 27, 1850, in Robertson county, Tenn. They have one child, LEVI PERRY, and live two and one-half miles northeast of Pleasant Plains--1873. PEYTON A. lives with his mother. SARAH E. married Henry Welland, has one child, HARRY A., and lives one mile west of Pleasant Plains, Illinois. WILLIAM H., Jun., lives with his mother. William H. Purvines died, Sept. 25, 1855, and his widow married Wm. H. Harrison. They had one child, FIELDING T., who lives with his mother, one and one-half miles west of Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

SAMUEL F., born March 24, 1822, in Sangamon county, married April 16, 1845, to Elizabeth Bryant, and had two sons. CHARLES married Miss McAtee, and lives at Greenview, Menard county, Illinois. JOHN lives with his mother. Samuel F. Purvines died July 22, 1849. His widow has been twice married, and lives in Iowa or Kansas.--1873.

NATHAN S., born March 3, 1829, in Sangamon county, married, Dec. 6, 1849, to Wealthy M. J. Harrison. They had seven children, one died in infancy. EMILY F., born Oct. 13, 1850, married Feb. 25, 1868, to Wm. Fletcher Correll. See his name. JOHN Q., NORMAN M., ELIZABETH P., PEYTON L. and NATHAN L., reside with their parents, near Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.

DAVID P., born Jan. 17, 1832, in Sangamon county, married, May 20, 1852, to Amanda Crafton. She died, Aug. 29, 1865, and he lives in Springfield, Illinois--1873.

David Simpson Purvines died March 14, 1852, and his widow died Jan. 6, 1872, both in Cartwright township, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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