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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.



TRUMBO, ADAM, was born May 6, 1790, in Bourbon county, Kentucky. Mildreth Foster was born February, 1790, in the same county. They were there married, had ten children, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in November, 1828, about six miles south of Springfield, in what is now Woodside township, where two children were born. Of their children--

JOHN married Ellen Haley and died in 1848 or '49, and his widow married Milton Bridges. See his name.

MELINDA married Jeremiah Adams. She died, leaving four children near Galena, Illinois.

JACOB died at seventeen years of age.

LAVICA married James L. Southwick. See his name.

HARNESS, born Oct. 9, 1816, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, July 15, 1838, to Elizabeth Hall. They had eight children. WILLIAM, born April 10, 1840, died Sept. 14, 1862. SARAH C., born Jan. 26, 1843, lives with her parents. JAMES P., born Jan. 27, 1845, married Dec. 25, 1870, to Anna Staley. They have one child, WILLIAM, and live one and one-half miles west of Chatham, Illinois. JACOB, born July 2, 1848, lives with his parents. MARIA L. died at five years of age. HARNESS, Jun., born Nov. 15, 1854, and OSCAR, born Feb. 7, 1856, live with their parents. ANDREW J., born August 25, 1861, died Sept. 23, 1875. Harness Trumbo lives six miles south of Springfield, near where his father, Adam Trumbo, settled in 1828.

LOUISA J. married Thomas Chord, had ten children, and Mr. Chord died Jan. 20, 1874, leaving his family near Petersburg, Illinois.

NANCY married Joseph Scales. They have ten children, and five in Wisconsin, near Galena, Illinois.

ELIZABETH, born March 10, 1823, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to John Smith. See his name.

ANDREW F., born in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, and married in Missouri to Mary Flernoy, has three children, and lives near Barr's Ridge P. O., California.

REBECCA married Mitchell Graham. See his name. She had one child, REBECCA, who married Mitchell Lawson, and lives near Johnstown, Bates county, Missouri.

ISAAC H., born March 13, 1830, in Sangamon county, married Emma Bridges. They had three children. The secord one, AMANDA J., died, aged seven years. ALMA and ARABELL live with their parents, one mile north of Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

GEORGE W., born Mov. 28, 1832, in Sangamon county, married March 29, 1865, to Mary F. Malone, who was born Feb. 24, 1844, in St. Louis county, Missouri. They had four children, twins, died in infancy. EUGENE L. and ARTHUR A. live with their parents. G. W. Trumbo resides where his parents settled in 1828, and where he was born. It is six miles south of Springfield, Illinois.

Mrs. Mildreth Trumbo died April 20, 1835, and Adam Trumbo married Mrs. Hannah Hall, whose maiden name was Cunningham. He died Oct. 6, 1856, and she died January, 1872, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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