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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.



TAYLOR, EDMOND, was born Oct. 22, 1785, in Christian county, Kentucky, married there to Mary Pugh, had five children, and she died. He married Constant Blakey, who was born June 22, 1791, in Georgia. They moved to what became Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1819, on Sugar creek, and in 1822 or '23 moved to the south side of Spring creek, four and a half miles west of Springfield. They had eight children in Sangamon county, three died young. Of his ten children--

JOHN, born in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, married in 1829, in Pike county, to Eveline McIntire. They have seven children, and live in Seneca, Nemaha county, Kansas.

EDWARD, died in Sangamon county, aged thirteen years.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, married Samuel McClure, have nine children, and resides near Macomb, Illinois.

ELLEN, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Martin L. C. Kendall.

JAMES, born in Kentucky in 1818, raised in Sangamon county, became sheriff of Menard county, and died in office, unmarried, about 1848.

By the second wife--

WILLIAM, born in Sangamon county, died in Iowa, aged twenty-one years.

NANCY, born in Sangamon county, married Benjamin R. Kendall, have seven children, and live in Jefferson county, Kansas.

SUSAN, born in Sangamon county, married John Archer. See his name. They reside near Macomb, Illinois.

DANIEL, born Nov. 28, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 12, 1858, to Nancy A. Ralston. They have six children, WILLIAM E., JAMES H., FANNIE E., LAURA A., JOHN G. and JANE K., and reside on the farm where his parents settled in 1822 or '23. It is four and a half miles west of Springgeld, Illinois.

AMERICA A., born Nov. 18, 1831, in Sangamon county, and married John Vulgamott. They have nine children, and reside near Oakley, Macon county, Illinois.

Edmond Taylor died August 20, 1866, and Mrs. Constant Taylor died Sept. 17, 1872, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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