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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.



REED, JAMES E., was born May 14, 1810 in Wayne county, Ky. His father died when he was four, and his mother when he was seven years old. He came to Springfield, Ill., in the fall of 1828, was in the Black Hawk war from Sangamon county in 1831 and again in 1832. He was married July 6, 1837 to Eliza A. Kendall. They had two children-

MARY A., born Feb. 27, 1838 married March 4, 1858 to Josiah B. Morgan. They have four children, and live near Neodesha, Wilson county, Kansas.

SUSAN F., born March 12, 1839 married Feb., 1858 to Edward S. McMurry. They have three children, and live at Leghorn, Pottawatomie county, Kansas. He is Postmaster there-1874.

Mrs. Eliza A. Reed died Sept. 22, 1847, and James E. Reed was married Nov. 6, 1847 to Mrs. Susan Ralston, who had previously been Mrs. Earnest, and whose maiden name was Kendall. They had two children

SARAH E., born Dec. 21, 1848, lives with her parents.

BURZILLA K., born NOV. 20, 1850, married Oct. 16, 1873 to William T. Simpson. See his name

J. E. Reed and wife reside five miles west of Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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