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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.




STITT, WILLIAM, was born August 12, 1820, near Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio. He left home quite young, and traveled by water down the Ohio and up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to Beardstown, Illinois, in company with William W. Wykoff. They started from Beardstown with one horse to ride and tie. When within about fifteen miles of their destination, Mr. Wycoff mounted the horse, gave Mr. Stitt particular directions about the road, and forgot to tie any more, for which he was excused by Mr. Stitt, because he was so near his family, from whom he had been absent several months. This caused Mr. Stitt to arrive on foot, alone, tired and hungry, at the south side of Richland creek, in what is now Cartwright township, in 1838. William Stitt was married Sept. 5, 1847, in Sangamon county, Illinois, to Elizabeth Hardin. They had five children in Sangamon county. The fourth child died young.

WILLIAM WALLACE was married March 9, 1875, to Julia F. Hurt. They live in Cartwright township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

HELEN A., LAURA L., and EDITH BELLE live with their parents, three and one-fourth miles southwest of Richland Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Isaac Stitt, the father of William, was born in 1779, in Pennsylvania, and married there to Elizabeth Phillips, who was born July 9, 1780, in New Jersey. They had nine children, and Mr. Stitt died in October, 1825, in Ohio. In 1845 Mrs. Stitt, her son, David and family, and her daughter, Elizabeth, came to Island Grove, Sangamon county. David moved the next year to Peoria county, and died there June, 1865, leaving a widow and two children. Elizabeth married Joshua Butler. See his name. Mrs. Elizabeth Stitt died March 10, 1871, at the residence of her son, William.




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