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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, JOHN, was born Sept. 1, 1804, in Tennessee, and when quite young was taken by his parents to Cape Girardeau county, Missouri. Mary Thomas was born Nov. 14, 1799, in Bracken county, Ky. Her parents moved to Lebanon, Ohio, and from there to St. Genevieve county, Mo., and then to Cape Girardeau county. She was there married to Samuel Cupples, had three children, and Mr. Cupples died in 1828. Mrs. Cupples was married March 22, 1834, to John Taylor. They had two children in Cape Girardeau county, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the spring of 1837, west of Springfield, and early in 1838 moved to a farm he purchased, in what is now Gardner township, north of Spring creek, where three children were born. Of all her children--

MARY Cupples, born Dec. 8, 1821, in Missouri, is unmarried, and lives with her mother.

FRANCES T. Cupples, born March 9, 1823, in Missouri, married Sept. 28, 1847, to Lysander Root, and she died Feb. 16, 1850.

ROSETTA C. Cupples was born Nov. 11, 1826, in Missouri, married April 9, 1844, in Sangamon county, to Jesse M. Shepherd. They have three living children, and reside at Baker City, Oregon. He is a practicing attorney, and editor of the Bed Rock Democrat--1874.

Of the Taylor children--

ANN E., born Nov. 25, 1834, in Missouri, died in Sangamon county, Feb. 6, 1850.

ADALINE C., born August 8, 1836, in Missouri, married in Sangamon county, March, 1854, to John P. Attix. They have three children, and live near Keosauqua, Iowa.

RICHARD S., born May 25, 1838, in Sangamon county, married in Iowa, Dec. 25, 1867, has two children, and lives at Oswego, Kansas.

MARGARET A., born June 18, 1840. in Sangamon county, lives with her mother,

JOHN W., born August 10, 1842, in Sangamon county, was married Feb. 25, 1864, to Margaret L. Stevenson. They had three children, LOTTIE B., JESSE B. and CLARA L. Mrs. Margaret L. Taylor died July 6, 1872, and John W. Taylor married in 1874 Nancy E. McKinnie. They have one child, WILLIAM, and live near Bradfordton, Sangamon county, Ill.

John Taylor died April 22, 1853, in Sangamon county, and his widow resides where they settled in 1838. It is one and three-fourth miles southwest of Bradfordton, Sangamon county, Ill.



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