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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.



WIKOFF, WILLIAM W., born March 23, 1808, in Monmouth county, New Jersey. His parents moved to Warren county, Ohio, in 1810. He was there married Dec. 24, 1829, to Sarah C. Sinnard, who was born in the same county Oct. 5, 1810. They moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving June 19, 1837, on Richland creek, and in 1838 to Island Grove township, and in 1864 into what is now New Berlin township. They brought three children from Ohio, and had six in Sangamon county. Of their nine children

ALBERT G., born Dec. 6, 1830, in Warren county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county, Dec. 14, 1854, to Ann E. Allen, who was born Dec. 14, 1837, in Morgan county, Illinois. They had five children. THOMAS J. died aged three years. CORDELIA K., DORA BELL, EDWIN A. and ALONZO H. live with their parents one and three-quarter miles southeast of Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois--1874.

WILLIAM S., born Feb. 18, 1832, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county, Sept. 18, 1853, to Mary E. Allen. They have eight children, and live near Hamburg, Fremont county, Iowa.

ALONZO H., born Oct. 16, 1835, in Ohio, married Dec. 24, 1857, to Ella McDonnell, have four children, and live in Hamburg, Iowa.

CATHARINE F., born July 24, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 24, 1861, to Thomas W. Taylor, and resides in Berlin, Illinois.

PETER P., born Oct. 10, 1841, in Sangamon county, married May 20, 1872, to Mary A. Cox, and live in Hamburg, Iowa.

THOMAS J., born July 4, 1844, died May 10, 1864.

JOHN M., MARY M., and MARTHA C., reside with their parents near New Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois.

W. W. Wikoff was keeping tavern at Palmyra, now called Mason, Warren county, Ohio, at the time of the sudden change, Dec. 20, 1836. He remembers that the cold wave arrived there about nine o'clock P. M. When he came to Illinois and conversed with the people, he found that the change took place here about one o'clock P. M. It had taken about eight hours to travel 350 miles. See sudden change, page 65.



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