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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.



WHITED, JAMES, was born Sept. 8, 1804, in Virginia. His parents moved when he was an infant to Fentress county, Tennessee. Lucy Thurman was born in that county, August 23, 1811. They were there married March 5, 1828, had three children in Tennessee, and came to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving March 28, 1838, in what is now Woodside township, where nine children were born, two of whom died under thirteen years of age.

RICHRD R., born in 1830, married Mary Grissom, had three children, and he was stabbed to death at a convivial party in Sangamon county, Jan. 17, 1860. His widow and children live at Albia, Monroe county, Iowa.

MARY H. married Thomas W. Newlun, have three children, and live in Ball township.

SUSANNAH died in 1850, aged 18 years.

JEANETTE, married Joseph Newlun, have six children, and live near Woodside, Illinois.

JAMES V. married Miriam A. Tucker and lives at the homestead near Chatham, Illinois--1874.

LUCY A. married William Knotts, have five children; and lives in Chatham, Illinois.

RUHAMA M. married William Carter, and died Oct. 10, 1872, leaving two children near Woodside, Illinois.

ROBERT H., born Dec. 9, 1851, married, August 25, 1869, Agnes J. Showers, have one child, CHARLES E., and live near Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois.

THOMAS A. and JANE R. B., live near Woodside, Illinois.

James Whited died April 19, 1870, and his widow died January, 1873, both in Ball township, half a mile south of where they settled in 1838.



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