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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, EZEKIEL, was born about 1795, in Trigg county, Kentucky, He was married in North Carolina to Sarah Coleman. They had five children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in 1827 on Richland creek, where one child was born. Two of their children only are in Sangamon county.

LUCINDA married Samuel Beardon. See his name.

ARCHIBALD, born April 21, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 18, 1850, to Elizabeth Wood, born in Sangamon county, (sister to Mrs. Wolgamot.) They had four children. EMMA died January, 1868, in her fourteenth year. LAURA died July, 1869, in her fourteenth year. MARY E. and IDA BELLE reside with their parents, near Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Ezekiel Young died May, 1853, and his widow died in 1864, both in Cass county, Illinois.




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