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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.



TURLEY, THOMAS J., was born May 7, 1802, in Montgomery county, Kentucky. His parents had fourteen children, seven of each sex, all born in the same county. The parents, with part of their chiildren, came to Logan county, Illinois, about 1823, and there are many of the name in that county, as the whole fourteen children raised families. The eleventh child, being the youngest son, is the one whose name heads this sketch. He came from Logan to Sangamon county, and was married Sept. 27, 1827, to Mary Trotter. They had ten children, all born in Sangamon county. Two died young. Of the other eight children--

ELIZABETH, born June 8, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 7, 1850, to William Kenney, who was born in 1827, in Harrison county, Kentucky, was a soldier from DeWitt county, Illinois, for one year, from June, 1846, in Co. E, 4th Ill. Inf., in the war with Mexico, and came to Sangamon county in 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Kenney had five children, MARY A. died in her second year. JOHN B., VICTOR, SARAH F. and WILLIAM live with their parents, two miles west of Mechanicsburg, Illinois.

AGNES J., born Nov. 18, 1829, married Nicholas B. Whitesides. See his name.

BOLIVAR, born August 12, 1831, in Sangamon county, married in the same county, Jan. 22, 1857, to Maria Wilson, who was born Nov. 15, 1834, in New Hampshire. They had five children, one died in infancy, and ALBERT J. died in his third year. GEORGE LINCOLN, NICHOLAS IRVING, and HENRY ELMER live with their parents on the farm where his parents settled in 1828. It is two miles north of Sangamon Station, and four miles east of Springfield, Illinois.

JAMES, born May 4, 1833, married Oct. 20, 1853, to Mary B. Kenney. They had six children, JAMES T., AMBROSE, ADA BELLE, LAURA C., CHARLES H. and ELIZA A. Mr. Turley died August 26, 1862, and his widow and children reside five miles east of Springfield, Illinois.

HENRY D., born Feb. 3, 1836, in Sangamon county, married Sept. 10, 1856, in Logan county to Eliza J. Scoggin, who was born in that county Dec. 12, 1840. They had nine children, four died under two years. FANNIE A., MARY A., CHARLES L., MAGGIE MAY and CHLOE E. reside with their parents, five miles east of Springfield, Illinois.

THOMAS J., Jun., born Jan. 20, 1838, married May 20, 1858, to Rebecca Barr. She died Feb. 14, 1874, leaving five children, ALVAN, ELIZABETH, FLORA A., JAMES and ELIZA A. Mr. Turley was married a second time, and resides three miles east of Springfield, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born Oct. 16, 1840, in Sangamon county, enlisted July 25, 1862, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf., for three years, served until the end of the rebellion and was honorably discharged July 4, 1865. He was married August 10, 1865, in St. Louis, to Ellen Curran, who was born April 7, 1842, in Glasgow, Scotland. They had two children, JOSEPH W. and MARY E., and Mrs. Ellen Turley died August 8, 1872. Mr. T. and his children live with his mother, five miles east of Springfield, Illinois--1874.

MARY, born Dec. 11, 1842, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 28, 1864, to Quintus Embree. They had one child, FANNIE A., born Nov. 4, 1865. Mrs. Embree was married Feb. 20, 1875, to William D. Henry. They have one son, WILLIAM D., Jun., and reside five miles east of Springfield, Illinois.

Thomas J. Turley died Sept. 7, 1852, and his widow resides with her children, near where she and her husband settled in 1828, five miles east of Springfield, Illinois.



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