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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.



TIPTON, DAVID B., born May 4, 1799, in Blount county, Tennessee, was married there to Rebecca Jones, who was born in 1802 in Carter county, in the same State. They had three children in Tennessee, and the family moved in 1837 to Clarke county, Illinois, and a year later moved to Sangamon county, arriving October, 1838, in what is now Chatham township, where they had five children. Of their children--

WILLIAM J., born Oct. 1, 1830, in Blount county, Tennessee, married in Sangamon county, Feb. 26, 1852, to Martha Fordner, who was born March 15, 1833, in Green county, Tennessee. They have seven children, JAMES, TEMPERANCE, LEWIS H., MARGARET J., DAVID B., MARY A. and MATTIE, and live near Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.

PHEBE A. married Charles Ferguson, have three children, and their residence is not known.

LAVINA married John H. Large, who enlisted in Co. B, 30th Ill. Inf., and died in 1863 in Mississippi. She married Philip Fordner, had three children by each marriage, and lives near Curran, Illinois.

TENNESSEE, born 1840 in Sangamon county, married Peter Large, and live in Morgan county, Illinois.

ELIZA, born 1842, married Theodore Leggett. He died, leaving a widow and one child in Curran township.

MARY A. married Joseph Large, has two children, and lives in Fort Scott, Kansas.

DAVID B., born Feb. 12, 1847, married Ellen Large, Feb. 20, 1867, and had one child. He served four years and eight months in Co. B, 11th Ill. Cav. He is in Santa Fe, New Mexico--1873.

Mrs. Rebecca Tipton died in March, 1849, and David B. Tipton died January, 1863, both in Curran township, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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