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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.



VINEY, ABRAHAM, born in 1781, in Greenbrier county, Virginia, was married, either in that state or Kentucky, to Rebecca Skiles, who was born Nov. 11, 1781, in Pennsylvania. They had one child in Virginia, and moved to Warren county, Kentucky, where seven children were born, thence to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the autumn of 1819, on the south fork of Sangamon river, fifteen miles south of where Springfield now stands. Of their children--

SARAH, born July 2, 1803, in Greenbrier county, Virginia, was taken by her parents to Warren county, Kentucky, at two years of age, and brought by them to Sangamon county in 1819, where she was married to Edward Clarke. See his name.

WILLIAM S., born in Kentucky, married Margaret Laughlin, and lives in Iowa.

MARY, born in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to Ezekiel Drennan. See his name. They moved to Missouri and both died there.

AMANDA A., born March 2, 1810, in Warren county, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to Mathew P. Kenney. See his name. She died July 9, 1876, in Sangamon county, Illinois. Her son, Ninian C. Kenney, was married Nov. 15, 1876, to a daughter of F. Ewing Dodds. See Dodds in Omissions.

CYNTHIA A., born in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, Illinois, aged twenty-three years.

JOHN N., born July 13, 1813, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to Nancy Black, and both died. His death occurred Jan. 5, 1871. He was a preacher in connection with the Cumberland Presbyterian church.

REBECCA, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Amos Richardson, and both died.

HENRY, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Catharine Kessler and lives in Macoupin county, Illinois.

Abraham Viney died August 24, 1820, and his widow married in 1823 or '24 to Thomas Black, Sen. See his name.



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