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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.



STOKES, JOHN, was born April 14, 1796, in Nicholas county, Kentucky. He was married in that county April 15, 1819, to Deborah Dickerson, who was born Feb. 4, 1798, near Hagerstown, Maryland. They had four children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1830, in what is now Rochester township, where four children were born. Of their eight children--

SUSAN, born Sept. 13, 1822, in Nicholas county, Kentucky married Isaac B. Bell. See his name.

LOUISA, born June 22, 1825, in Kentucky, married Robert E. Richards. See his name.

BENJAMIN F., born Nov. 27, 1827, in Nicholas county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Malvina C. Cooper. She died and he married Elzirah C. Cooper. They had four living children, JOHN W., JACOB F., MINNIE M. and GABRIEL, live with their parents in Christian county, near Edinburg, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born Jan. 30, 1830, in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, went to California in 1852, and died there December, 1862.

ELIZABETH A., born August 6, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Robert E. Berry. See his name.

JOHN, born April 19, 1835, in Sangamon county, married April 18, 1858, to Drada Lovelace, who was born August 7, 1840, in Shelby county, Illinois. They have three living children, CHARLES H., IDA A., and HARRIET A., reside with their parents near Edinburg, Christian county, Illinois.

THOMAS, born Nov. 4, 1837, in Sangamon county, married Priscilla Jones. They had three children, two of whom died young. Thomas Stokes enlisted August, 1862, in Co. E, 114th Ill. Inf., was taken sick at Camp Butler, conveyed home, and died Oct. 28, 1862. His son, HERSCHEL V., resides with his mother, who is now the wife of James Layard. They reside near Sunny Side, Montgomery county, Kansas.

EMILY, born April 14, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Samuel Hedrick, and died August 25, 1867, leaving two children, who live with their father near Morrisonville, Christian county, Illinois.

John Stokes died March 15, 1853, and Mrs. Deborah Stokes died Feb. 12, 1870, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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