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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.



STEELE, Mrs. ELIZABETH R., whose maiden name was Robison, was born in Delaware, and taken by her parents to Nicholas county, Ky., where she was married to Samuel H. Steele, who was born in Ohio. They had six children in Kentucky, and Mr. Steele died in Natchez, Miss., of cholera, while on business there in 1832. His widow and children moved to Sangamon county, arriving December, 1833, in Buffalo Hart Grove, where her father, John Robison, had moved three years before. Of her six children--

WILLIAM M., born April 2, 1820, in Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, to Amanda Rodgers, and had six children. Mr. Steele enlisted in 1862 for three years in Co. E, 116th Ill. Inf. He died March, 1864, in military hospital at St. Louis, Missouri. See the Rodgers family name.

JOHN R., born in Kentucky, came to Sangamon county in 1833 with his mother, went in 1842 to Arkansas, married there to Martha J. Hendrix. Being a Union man, he was killed by rebel bushwhackers in the fall of 1863, leaving a widow and three children.

NANCY A., born April 10, 1825, in Bath county, Ky., was brought by her mother to Sangamon county in 1833, married Aug. 4, 1844, to Wesley Lanham. See his name. He died Aug. 26, 1861, and she was married Jan. 29, 1868, to William Graham, who was born Jan. 13, 1808, in Lincoln county, N. C.; lived in Todd county, Ky., from 1827 to 1839, when he moved to Morgan county, Ill., thence to Sangamon county in 1858. He has three children by a former marriage. MARY M., born Dec. 30, 1840, in Morgan county, married John Churchill. See his name. NANCY J., married B. M. Wood. See his name with the Burns family. JOHN F., is unmarried and lives near Illiopolis. William Graham and wife reside near Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELIZABETH J., born April 4, 1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county in 1845 to John M. Crary. They had two children. ANNIE E., married Isaac Newton Ransom. See his name. GEORGE E., lives in Wisconsin.

JULIA A., born October 16, 1829, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, aged thirteen years.

GEORGE R., born December, 1831, in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, went to California in 1849, and lost his life by the caving in of a mine.

Mrs. Elizabeth R. Steele was married in 1836 to Jewett Stafford. See his name. She died March 29, 1842, near Rochester, Illinois.



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