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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.



TURPIN, Mrs. ELIZABETH, whose maiden name was Isom, was born about 1775, in Kentucky, and married there to Philip Turpin. They had twelve children, and Mr. Turpin died in Kentucky. Mrs. Elizabeth Turpin, with six of her children, came to Sangamon county in 1831 or '32, and settled two miles southeast of Loami. Of her children--

WOODFORD married in Kentucky, moved to Missouri, and afterwards to Sangamon county. His son, JAMES M., born May 10, 1848, in Howard county, Missouri, married Charlotte Webb. See Webb family. Mr. Turpin is a merchant in Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

SARAH married in Kentucky to John Clements, and she died there.

Of the six children who came to Sangamon county--

ELIZABETH, after the death of her sister, Sarah, married John Clements and came to Sangamon county. See his name.

WILLIAM, born in Kentucky about 1797, died unmarried in Sangamon county, Oct. 2, 1865.

CELIA married William Withrow. See his name.

URIAH, born in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, aged twenty-two years.

MARTHA, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Absalom Stine, had eight children, and he died. The widow and some of her children live in Missouri.

NANCY, born in Kentucky, married Jefferson Back. They had nine children. The parents are dead. Their daughters, ELIZABETH married George J. Walker. See his name. They live in Loami, Illinois. CAROLINE married D. Rose, and live in Loami, Illinois. MIRANDA married David D. Martin, and resides in Auburn, Illinois. He is a carpenter and builder there.

CHARLES I., born Nov. 28, 1818, in Kentucky, came with his mother to Sangamon county in 1831 or '32, married August 11, 1836, to Sarah Jarrett. They had eight children. They moved to Missouri and returned. Some of their children were born in each State. REBECCA A., born August 9, 1837, in Sangamon county, married Aaron Hall, Jun. See his name. WILLIAM A., born August 29, 1839, in Lewis county, Missouri, enlisted August, 1862, for three years, in Co. I, 73d Ill. Inf. He died Dec. 26, 1862, at Nashville, Tennessee. His remains were brought home and buried in Sulphur Springs Cemetery, near Loami, Illinois. ELIZABETH, born Feb. 8, 1841, in Missouri, married Hugh A. Park. See his name. JONATHAN J., born July 7, 1842, in Missouri, married in Sangamon county to Sarah E. Cloninger, who was born August 12, 1841, in Cabell county, West Virginia. They have three children, WILLIAM A., CHARLES L. and SARAH M., and reside one and one-half miles southeast of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois. CHARLES I., Jun., born Feb. 24, 1849, enlisted in Co. E, 133d Ill. Inf., for one hundred days, and was honorably discharged, with thanks of President Lincoln, Dec. 15, 1864. He was married June 27, 1867, to Eliza Jane Hays, who was born March 24, 1849, in Macoupin county. They reside two and a half miles south of Loami, Illinois. DENNIS, born Sept. 19, 1851, married Dec. 21, 1870, to Caroline F. Hays, who was born May 21, 1853, in Macoupin county, Illinois. They live two miles south of Loami, Illinois. JAMES F., born Sept. 11, 1853, lives with his mother--1874. Charles I. Turpin, Sen., died April 1, 1869, in Sangamon county, and Mrs. Sarah Turpin resides one and one-half miles southwest of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

LUCINDA, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to George Taylor, has five children, and resides in Christian county, Illinois.

Mrs. Elizabeth Turpin died in 1860 in Sangamon county, Illinois, aged eighty-five years.



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