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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.



TOMLIN, ALMARIN, was born July 28, 1800, in Cape May county, New Jersey. Rhoda Smith was born June 15, 1802, in the same county. They were there married January 11, 1821, and had seven children in New Jersey. The family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving October, 1837, in what is now Cartwright township, where five children were born. Of their children--

EMELINE, born in 1822 in New Jersey, married Samuel Sutton, a native of New Jersey, also. They have three children, HENRIETTA, JOSEPH and CHARLES N., and reside three miles north of Salisbury, Menard county, Ill.

LOUISA, born April 4, 1824, in New Jersey, married William B. Quinn. They have one child, ALMARIN, and live near St. Paul, Minnesota.

EDWIN, born July 29, 1826, in New Jersey, was married April 5, 1854, in Sangamon county, to M. Margaret Correll. They had nine children. FANNIE, the second, died in infancy. EVA H. was married March 16, 1876, near Pleasant Plains, Illinois, to William Sinclair, of Cass county, Illinois. THOMAS A., CHARLES S., LEE C., SALLIE, JACOB, ANNIE and ISAAC F. The seven latter live with their parents on the farm settled by Mr. Tomlin's father in 1837, and is one and one-fourth miles northwest of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JEREMIAH T., born Oct. 5, 1828, in New Jersey, married Jennie Richmond of the same State. They had four children, and Mrs. Jennie Tomlin died in 1869. J. T. Tomlin was married to Mrs. Belle Newman, whose maiden name was Hall, and moved to Quincy, Illinois.

HARRIET, born August 27, 1832, married Josiah Reed. They have eleven children, and live near Circleville, Ohio.

JAMES S., born Oct. 19, 1834, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county to Anna Townsend, of New Jersey. They have ten children, and reside near Wichita, Kansas--1873.

LYDIA H., born Sept. 11, 1836, married Josiah Alkire. They have three children, and reside in St. Louis, Missouri.

MARY and MARTHA, twins, born Sept. 11, 1839, in Sangamon county.

MARY, died in her thirteenth year.

MARTHA is unmarried and lives with her mother at Jacksonville, Illinois.

RACHEL and RHODA, twins, born January, 1842, in Sangamon county.

RACHEL married Monroe Rankin. They have two children, and live in McLean county, Illinois.

RHODA married Stephen Capps. They have four children, and live at Jacksonville, Illinois.

Almarin Tomlin died April, 1859, and his widow resides at Jacksonville, Illinois.



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