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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.



WALTERS, LYDIA, (widow of James Walters), was born in December, 1783, near Salem, Rowan county, North Carolina. Her maiden name was Donner. She was sister to George and Jacob Donner. Her parents moved to Jessaminel county, Kentucky, about 1811. She was there married to James Walters. They had nine children in Kentucky, and in 1829 the family moved to Decatur county, Indiana. James Walters died there in June, 1830. In 1839 Mrs. Walters moved her family to Sangamon county and settled in Auburn township. Of her children--

NOBLE married in Kentucky to Elizabeth Davis, moved to Sangamon county, and died in 1859.

GEORGE went to Texas and died there.

MATILDA is a cripple and blind, and lives at the family homestead, in care of her brother, Pollard K.--1873.

POLLARD K. is unmarried, and lives at the family homestead in Auburn township, near the line of Macoupin county--1876. He lost a leg by a reaping machine many years ago.

JOHN went to California and died there.

JAMES married Nancy Baldwin, and lives in Virden, Illinois.

WILLIAM T., born April 21, 1822, in Kentucky, was married Jan. 17, 1858, to Sarah Green. They have four living children, WILLIAM A., CHARLES H., LYDIA MAY and JOHN CARROLL, and live two and one-half miles southwest of Lowder, Sangamon county, Illinois--1874.

MARY ANN married James Clack, and lives in Virden, Illinois.

Mrs. Lydia Walters died July 1, 1871, in Auburn township, in the eighty-eighth year of her age.



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