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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.




YOAKUM, JAMES, brother to William and Matthias, was born in Virginia or Claiborn county, Tennessee, and came with his mother to Sangamon county. He married Julia Owens, and had eleven children in Menard county, Illinois. His sons--

GEORGE and NELSON were soldiers in the Mexican war, and both lost their lives there in 1847.

WILLIAM was married June 16, 1836, to Priscilla Batterton. See Batterton sketch. They have one son, WILLIAM F., who married May Adams, and lives near Salisbury, Illinois.

JOHN lives in Menard county, Illinois.

ISAAC lives in Iowa.

James Yoakum died in Menard county, Illinois.




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