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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.



TOLLEY, ISOM, was born about 1754 in Virginia, went to Bourbon county, Kentucky, when he was a young man, and was there married to Isabel Whitesides, had six children in Kentucky, moved to St. Clair county, Illinois, thence to Morgan county, and from there to Sangamon county, in what is now Loami township in October, 1823. Of their children--

DANIEL, married Jane Bailey and left Sangamon county soon after.

ELIZABETH married John Weir, and moved to Iowa in 1843 or '4.

JAMES born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and married Elizabeth Mace. They had eight children. SAMUEL was killed by lighting on Spring creek in 1840, aged twenty years. LUCINDA married Arthur Davenport. They have seven children, and reside near Berlin, Sangamon county, Ill. MARY A. married Ephraim Shryer. See his name. MARTHA J. married Aaron Van Patton. See his name. KATE or (CATHARINE E.), born August 27, 1828, was married Jan. 8, 1845, in Sangamon county, to William W. Beerup. See his name. They had three living children. SOPHIA, born Feb. 25, 1849, married John K. Shumate, and lives in Springfield, Illinois. ROSETTA, born Sept. 8, 1855, died March 19, 1861. ADALINE, born Dec. 18, 1858, resides with her parents one and one-half miles south of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois. ELIZABETH married Charles Myers. He died leaving a widow and six children at Middletown, Logan county, Illinois. MATILDA married Harris Elliott, has two children, and lives at Middletown. SUSAN married William Douglas. See his name. Mrs. Elizabeth Tolley died in 1838, and James Tolley married America Kelly. They moved to Kansas, and he died there.

NANCY married John Porter. She died leaving one daughter in Clear Lake township, Sangamon county, Ill.

JOHN married Susan Washburne, who died. He married again and lives near Salisbury, Illinois.

UNITY died unmarried, aged about twenty-five years.

Mrs. Isabel Tolley died aged about ninety-six, and John Tolely died, aged about one hundred and six years, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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