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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.



TOMLINSON, ELIZABETH, whose maiden name was McKinnie, was born in Orange county, on the Shenandoah river, Virginia. She was taken by her parents to Fayette county, Kentucky, and was there married to Elijah Tomlinson, a native of Virginia, also. They had ten children in Fayette county, and Mr. Tomlinson died about 1812. Mrs. Tomlinson with her children came to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1829, three miles northwest of Springfield. Of their children--

WILLIAM raised a family and died in Kentucky.

CATHARINE died in Kentucky,aged twenty years.

MARTHA married Andrew McKinnie. See his name.

CHARLES B. went to the Galena lead mines when a young man, and died of cholera in 1833, at Mineral Point, Wisconsin.

LOUISA, born April 16, 1801, in Kentucky, married there to Nathaniel Hurst, and came to Sangamon county in 1829, and died in Springfield many years later.

NICHOLAS, born in Kentucky, married in St. Louis county, Missouri, to Nancy Davis, and came to Sangamon county in 1845. Mrs. T. died leaving seven children, and he married Mrs. Sarah Brady, and both died in Springfield, leaving four children. Their son, Charles Tomlinson, lives in Springfield.

REBECCA married C. Hendricks and remained in Kentucky.

LEWIS.

ANDREW, born in Kentucky, went to the Galena lead mines in 1827, and died there in 1828 or '9.

JAMES M., born May 20, 1809, in Fayette county, Kentucky, came to Sangamon county with his mother in 1829. He spent five years in the lead mines, went to Kentucky, and was married April 30, 1837, in Fayette county, to Louisa Hurst, who was born Jan. 1, 1809, in Ohio. They had one child in Kentucky, and came to Sangamon county in 1838, where they had four children. Of their five children, MARTHA E., born Jan. 31, 1838, in Kentucky, married March 6, 1866, to John W. Hurst, has three children, and lives in Galena. ELIJAH and ELISHA T., twins, the former died in infancy. Elisha T. enlisted in November, 1861, in Co. G, 10th Ill. Cav. for three years, re-enlisted January, 1864, served to the end of the rebellion, was honorably discharged in January, 1866, and lives with his parents. JOHN B. and THOMAS H. B., twins, born July 5, 1841. The former died in infancy. T. H. B. served from August 7, 1862, to the end of the rebellion in Co. I, 7th Ill. Inf. He married Mrs. Sarah Shufelt, whose maiden name was Meadow, and lives near Lafayette, Indiana. ANDREW J., born April 16, 1843, enlisted September, 1861, in Co. I, 39th Ill. Inf. for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran; was wounded August 16, 1864, at Deep Bottom, Virginia, and died Sept. 14, following, from the amputation of a leg. NICHOLAS B., born June 24, 1845, married Sarah Gillock, have one child, and live in Springfield. James M. Tomlinson and wife reside three miles northwest of Springfield.

Mrs. Elizabeth Tomlinson died at the house of her son, James M., Dec. 31, 1850, near Springfield, Illinois.



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