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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881






Page 960

JACOB MORGAN (deceased), son of Charles Morgan, was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, May 20, 1808, and came to Sangamon county with his parents, in October, 1826, where he married Susan Correll, May 17, 1832, by whom he had four children: Josephus, born March 30, 1833, died January 5, 1877; Minerva, born November 8, 1834, died July 21, 1837; Caroline, born July 21, 1837, and married Geo. W. Hesser, and lives on a farm in Illiopolis township; Rufus, born September 16, 1840, died May 12, 1843. His wife, Susan, died October 15, 1848, and he was married again, November 22, 1855, to Mrs. Mary A. Wilson, whose maiden name was Stickel. She was born in York county, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1825. She, with her parents, who were of German descent, had moved to Macon county, in 1837, where they died; they were John and Mary Stickel. She had one son by her former marriage to Jas. J. Wilson, named Andrew S. Wilson, who was born in Macon County, Illinois, and married in Bloomington, to Mary Hamilton, and had two children. He now resides in Washington county, Kansas, where he has represented that county two terms in the legislature, and is now Judge of the Twelfth District there. Mrs. Morgan has had by her second marriage, the following: Luella, born September 4, 1856, died October 6, 1877; Selina B., born February 4, 1859, is single, and at home; Anna M., born March 3, 1861, also at home; Charles W., born September 4, 1863, with his mother on the farm, and yet single.


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