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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.



REDMAN, WILLIAM E., was born May 15, 1815, in Maryland, eight miles north of Washington City. He was married, Jan. 6, 1840, in Hagerstown, to Catharine Wolgamot, and moved with her father to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving May 31, 1840, in what is now Woodside township. They had eight children in Sangamon county, five of whom died under seven years. Of the other three children--

ISABEL O., born July 16, 1843, married Dec. 19, 1865, to Daniel Keller. She had one child, MARY, and died in Chatham, Illinois.

CATHARINE F., born March 18, 1842, married Nov. 11, 1872, to Daniel Keller, also. They have three children, HETTIE, HARRY and CHARLEY, and live in Chatham, Illinois.

CHLOE ANN E., born March 20, 1847, married Oct. 15, 1867, to D. F. Brewer. They have four children, KATIE E., ADAM POE, JOHN M. and CHLOE B., and reside in Springfield, Illinois. Daniel F. Brewer was born April 26, 1842, in West Chester, Butler county, Ohio, enlisted Sept. 4, 1861, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 11th Independent Battery, served until Nov. 5, 1864, when he was honorably discharged, and came to Chatham in 1865.

William E. Redman enlisted June 28, 1861, in Co. F, 21st Ill. Inf., for three years, at Springfield. Although he was past the age to be subject to military laws, he went to the field under Col. Ulysses S. Grant, served until April 28, 1864, when he was honorably discharged on account of physical disability. He was employed for a few months after that in the quartermaster's department. Mrs. Catharine Redman died Dec. 31, 1874, and Wm. E. Redman resides in Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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