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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.



SKIPTON, DANIEL, came from Muskingum county, Ohio, to Sangamon county with his wife, Susan, and one or more children, previous to 1840. He stopped first on Archer's creek, and later settled four miles west of Springfield. Of their children--

JOHN, born in Muskingum county, Ohio, came with his parents to Sanagmon county, and was married about 1838 to Emily J. Sims. They had seven children, namely, JOHN S., born Dec. 28, 1840, Married Feb. 9, 1864, to Susan A. Williams, has one child, FREDDIE R., and live six miles west of Springfield, Illinois. LUCY A. married J. W. Gaines, has three children, and lives near Cayuga, Livingston county, Illinois. MARY J. married Henry Hays, has three children, and live near Cayuga, Illinois. LUCINDA died aged fourteen years. JAMES V., DANIEL and EMILY A., live with their parents near Odell, Livingston county, Illinois--1874.

ANN married Vinson Singleton, has three children, and lives at Mason City, Illinois.

MARY married Samuel Scott. They have five children, and live near Havana, Illinois.

JAMES K. has been married three times, and lives near Mason City, Illinois.

SALLY married Isaac Lane, and lives near Havana, Illinois.

MATILDA married Wilson Logue, and live in Sidney, Iowa.

DANIEL, Jun., married Jane Sims, has eight children, and lives in Kansas.

LUCINDA lives with her sister, Mrs. Sykes.

SUSAN married Edward Sykes, and lives near Mason City, Illinois.

WILLIAM died aged twenty-four years.

Daniel Skipton died in Mason county in 1842, and his widow lives with her daughter, Mrs. Singleton, in Mason City, Illinois, aged seventy-nine years--1874.



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