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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.



SHINKLE, CHRISTIAN, (a brother to Mrs. Mary M. Shinkle) was born in Berks county, Pa., and taken by his parents to Brown county, Ohio. Melinda Judd, sister to Rezin Judd, was born in Maryland, and taken to Brown county, Ohio. Christian Shinkle and Melinda Judd were married and had four children in Ohio, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving October, 1826, in what is now Mechanicsburg township, where one child was born. Of their five children--

CHRISTIAN, born October, 1813, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county, to Sibbeth Carrico, have six children, and live near Fullerton, DeWitt county, Ill.

EZEKIEL, born April 26, 1816, in Ohio, is living with his third wife, and has seven children. They reside near Fullerton, Ill.

MATILDA A., born June 24, 1821, in Brown county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county to David S. McDaniel, who died in less than three months after marriage, and she married Aaron Morgan. See his name.

JAMES, born September, 1823, in Brown county, Ohio, raised in Sangamon county, married in DeWitt county, to Martha McCord. They have three children, and reside near Twin Springs, Linn county, Kansas.

JOHN J., born Nov, 11, 1832, in Sangamon county, married in DeWitt county to Sarah A. Barnes. They have four children, and live near Twin Springs, Kansas.

Mrs. Melinda Shinkle died April, 1842, and Christian Shinkle died March 3, 1849, she in Sangamon, and he in DeWitt county, Ill.



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