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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.



RHODES, RANDOLPH, was born about 1791, in North Carolina, and when he was a young man, went to Barren county, Ky. He was married in the adjoining county of Greene, in Oct., 1820, to Elizabeth Short. They had three children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1826 on Sugar creek, east of Springfield, where four children were born. In the spring of 1838 Mr. Rhodes moved to southwest Missouri, where two children were born, and returned to Sangamon county in the spring of 1845. In 1849 or '50, he moved to Macoupin county, and died there, Dec. 25, 1851, leaving a family near Macoupin station. Of their children--

WILLIAM, born about 1821, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Jemima Center, had three children, and all the family died in Sangamon county.

JOHN T., born Nov. 10, 1825, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, March 2, 1848, to Telitha M. Vice. They had six living children, MARY E., married Levi King. See his name. LAURA A., CHARLES I., JULIUS W., ANNIE B. and LUCINDA A. live with their parents, four miles northwest of Springfield, Illinois.--1874.

MARY A., born Jan., 1831, in Sangamon county, married, in 1851, to Wm. R. Hammonds. They had six children, and Mr. Hammonds died, leaving his family in Crawford county, Kansas. Two of the children were killed, and two others severely wounded by a tornado, May 22, 1873.

JAMES J., born May, 1837, in Sangamon county, married Mary M. Tibbs, have two children, and live near Cremona, Allen county, Kansas.



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