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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, FRANCIS, was born August 23, 1797, in Shelby county, Kentucky. Nancy Jackson was born march 18, 1795, in the vicinity of Richmond, Virginia, and was taken by her parents to Shelby county, Kentucky, when she was a child. They were married October, 1821, in Spencer county, where they had two children, moved to Oldham county, where three children were born, and then returned to Spencer county, where they had twins, one of whom died in infancy. The family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 13, 1834, at what is now Sangamon Station. Of their six children--

JULIA F., born and died in Kentucky at ten years of age.

PERMELIA A., born May 16, 1824, in Spencer county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county April 16, 1840, to Benjamin West. See his name. He died and she married Erastus Woodruff, of Orange county, New York. (His son, Augustus Woodruff, by a former wife resides near Sangamon Station.) Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff had one child, MARY E., born August 1, 1853, married Oct. 22, 1873, to Frederick D. Wilson, a native of St. Lawrence county, New York. They reside four miles northwest of Illiopolis. Erastus Woodruff died of cholera Oct. 30, 1854, on Round Prairie, five miles east of Springfield. Mrs. Permelia A. Woodruff married John North. See his name.

PHILIP W., born March 16, 1826, in Oldham county, Kentucky, married Ann M. Connelly. They had eight children, and live at Clinton, DeWitt county, Ill.

FRANCIS J., born March 14, 1828, in Oldham county, Kentucky, married in Rochester, Illinois, to Mary T. St. Clair. They have five children, and reside at Decatur, Illinois.

FANNY, born August 7, 1830, in Oldham county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county June 22, 1848, to Rev. Robert F. Shinn, of the Protestant Methodist Church, and resides in Quincy, Illinois.

JOHN S., born Jan. 13, 1834, in Spencer county, Kentucky, married Julia Mills. They had two children, and Mr. Taylor was drowned near Henry, Illinois, Feb. 22, 1860.

Francis Taylor died March 21, 1841, and his widow died Nov. 21, 1852, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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