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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.



YOUNG, JAMES, was born Dec. 19, 1788, in Wilkes county, North Carolina. His parents moved to Montgomery county, Kentucky, when he was a young man. He was there married Feb. 10, 1822 to Lucinda R. Cunning, who was born August 12, 1804, in the same county. They had seven children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1838 in what is now Curran township, where three children were born. Of their children three died under five years. Of the other seven:

VIRGINIA, born Jan. 15, 1823, married John P. Lindsay, had six children, and died May 2, 1850 near Springfield. See his name in Omissions.

WILBOURN, born Oct 23, 1824, is unmarried, and resides at the family homestead near Curran, Illinois.

ELIZABETH, born Oct. 21, 1826, married Wade Burch. See his name.

JAMES, born August 20, 1831, married Catharine Foster, have eight children, SILAS A., MARGARET, JAMES M., EUGENE, FRANCIS, ALBERTUS, NANCY, and EMMA and live near Chatham, Illinois.

SILAS F., born March 1, 1834, is unmarried, and lives in Fayette county, Illinois.

ANN E., born Oct. 15, 1837, married William B. Greenwood. See his name. He died and she married Benjamin Easley. See his name.

MARTHA C., born June 6, 1841, married Feb. 22, 1865, and has three children, FATIMA, ARTHUR, and LEONA MAY, and live with their mother.

James Young died March 11, 1870, aged eighty two years, and his widow resides on the farm where they settled in 1838, near Curran, Illinois - 1874.



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