ARCHER, WILLIAM, was born July 30, 1793, in North Carolina, and in 1807 his parents moved to Tennessee, where he was married to Elizabeth Jackson. They had one child, and moved to Madison county, Illinois, where they had one child, and Mrs. A. died, and he married Elizabeth Holt, Dec. 20, 1818. She was born Dec. 3, 1793, in Oglethrope county, Ga., and, losing her parents when quite young, she was taken by an uncle, Robert White, to Madison county, Ill., in 1811. Wm. and Elizabeth Archer had twins in Madison county, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving April 30, 1820, in what is now Curran township, where they had nine children. Of all his children--

WINSTON, born Sept. 12, 1814, in Tennessee, raised in Sangamon county, married Mary Robinson, moved to California, and died in 1866, leaving a widow and six children, near Petaluma, Sonoma county, California.

MARTHA, born Sept. 24, 1817, in Madison county, Ill., married in Sangamon county to John Riddle. See his name.

By the second wife--

JACKSON and CARROLL, twins, born Sept. 30, 1819, in Madison county. Ill.

JACKSON, married Oct. 7, 1844, to Elcy F. Meacham. They had three children. ELIZABETH J. was killed in her eighth year by a fall from a wagon. MARY A. born May 14, 1848, married Feb. 16, 1865, to Andrew Alson, who was born March 6, 1838, in Sweden, and came to America in 1855. They had three children. The second, CHARLES, died in his fourth year. ANNA E. and CLARA A. reside with their parents, six miles west of Springfield. GEORGE R. born August 13, 1851, resides with his mother. Jackson Archer died April 7, 1852, in southwest Missouri, while on a journey for his health. His widow married Wm. Duff. See his name.

CARROLL married Nov. 24, 1842, to Delilah Renshaw. They had three children. MARTHA T., born May 27, 1847, married to Lorenzo Stillman, have three children, and reside near Curran. ANN E., born August 5, 1849, married Sept., 1870, to Edward Robison, and reside in Linden, Kan. SARAH C., born Feb. 8, 1851, married November 21, 1872, to Henry Gaines, and resides near Odell, Ill. Mrs. Delilah Archer died May 31, 1865, and Carroll Archer was married Sept. 4, 1866, to Elizabeth Houghton, who was born Oct. 25, 1830, in Menard county. They have two children, EDWIN and MARIA BELLE, and reside three miles northwest of Curran.

MARY, born May 24, 1822, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 11, 1840, to Alexander Penny; had one child, WILLIAM, born Nov. 3, 1844, enlisted August 14, 1862, for three years, in Co. F., 144th Ill. Inf., was captured at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June, 1864, and died in Andersonville prison, Feb. 24, 1865. Alex. Penny died in 1868, and his widow married Mathew Redman, who was born May 1, 1828, in county Wexford, Ireland. They reside five miles west of Springfield.

SARAH, born Dec. 24, 1823, resides with her mother.

NANCY, born Nov. 13, 1825, in Sangamon county, married Samuel O. Maxcy. See his name.

JOHN, born Oct. 3, 1826, married Susan Taylor. They have one child, AMERICA, and reside in McDonough county, near Fandon. He was a soldier in a cavalry regiment from that county in suppressing the rebellion.

MADISON, born August 27, 1828, married Margaret Dixon, who died Dec. 29, 1863, leaving three children, WILLIAM B., MARY J. and SARAH E.

THOMAS J., born August 3, 1830, and resides near Rossville, Kan.

WASHINGTON J., born July 19, 1832, married Dec. 29, 1861, to Mrs. Melinda Hammond, whose maiden name was Cox. They have five children, GEORGE W., THOMAS C., MINNIE L., MARY A. and WILLIAM, and reside three miles north of Curran.

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 1, 1838, married Jan. 18, 1865, to Peter VanOrman. Mrs. VanOrman and her child, LIZZIE, reside with her mother.

William Archer died August 31, 1867, from the effects of being thrown from a horse, and his widow resides at the farm where they settled in 1820.

In the fall of 1873 Mrs. Elizabeth Archer, then eighty years of age, gave to the writer a piece of a dress made with her own hands more than sixty years before. The family of her uncle, with whom she moved from Georgia to St. Clair county, Ill., in 1811, brought some cotton in the bolls, for the purpose of using the seed in growing cotton in their new home. Miss Holt, as her name then was, obtained the consent of her uncle to apply the cotton to her own use. She picked it from the bolls and separated the cotton from the seed with her fingers, and spun it on a wheel, borrowed from a neighbor more than thirty miles distant. She had a rude loom constructed for the purpose, and had just commenced weaving, when the first assassination among the white settlers by Indians took place, as the beginning there of the war with England. That occurred in June, 1812. She, with her uncle's family, fled to Fort Bradsby, a rude wooden fortification near by. Appealing to the Lieutenant in command for protection, he reported the case to Governor Edwards, who authorized him to grant her request. A guard was accordingly placed around the cabin, and kept there until the weaving was completed. The design was unique and beautiful. The cloth was carefully preserved, some of it bleached to snowy whiteness, and made into a dress. She wore it the first time to a quarterly meeting in 1815, just after the close of the war, and attracted universal attention as the finest dressed lady in all that region of country.