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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.



WARD, JOHN, was born July 19, 1810, near Romney, Virginia. Mary Shivers was born Feb. 8, 1814, near Fredricktown, Maryland, and taken by her parents, in 1830, to Virginia. John Ward and Mary Shivers were married near Romney, August 15, 1833. They had two children in Virginia, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 2, 1838, in what is now Cotton Hill township, where five children were born, the four youngest died under seven years. Of the other four--

SARAH C., born June 22, 1835, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Isaac Snodgrass. See his name.

HARVEY, born Jan. 22, 1838, in Virginia, died in Sangamon county in his fifteenth year.

EMILY J., born June 28, 1842, in Sangamon county, married Alfred N. Funderburk. See his name.

John Ward died Nov. 8, 1852, and his widow married Robert Snodgrass. See his name. He died and she was married Sept. 15, 1859, to Lemuel Hall, as his second wife. Lemuel Hall was from Ohio. His daughter, Sarah S., born Feb. 19, 1844, is the wife of William H. Snodgrass. See his name.

Lemuel Hall and wife reside in Cotton Hill township, near New City, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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