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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.



SIMPSON JOHN, was born Sept. 30, 1801, in Tennessee, and when a young man went to St. Clair county, Illinois. Mary Taylor was born August 25, 1803, in Georgia, and when a child was taken to Lookingglass Prairie, St. Clair county, Illinois. They were married there in 1821, and moved to Shelby county in the same State, where they had one child, and from there to Sangamon county, arriving in 1824 in what is now Williams township, where they had two living children. Of their children--

CHARLES, born Aug. 25, 1823, in Shelby county, Illinois, brought up in Sangamon county, married in White Water, Wisconsin, to Mary Bothrell. Mr. Simpson enlisted in 1862 in the 19th Wis. Inf. for three years, and died August 22, 1864, at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, leaving a widow and six daughters at White Water, Walworth county, Wisconsin.

PERMELIA A., born April 14, 1825, in Sangamon county, married William Correll. See his name.

SILAS B., born Oct. 10, 1831, died June 18, 1851.

John Simpson died Feb. 2, 1835, and Mrs. Mary Simpson died Feb. 25, 1864, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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