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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.



BASHAW, MRS. ELLEN, whose maiden name was Reed, was born about 1774. Her parents were from pennsylvania. Ellen Reed was married in Bourbon county, Ky., to William Bashaw. He was a native of Virginia. They had three children, and Mr. Bashaw died in Bourbon county. Mrs. Bashaw, with her three sons, moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830, and settled three miles north of Rochester. Of her three children--

JAMES, born Jan. 18, 1800, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Jan. 17, 1832, to Mary McCune. They had seven children in Sangamon county, CINCINNATUS, ELEANOR, EMILY, HIRAM, CORDIANN, JAMES R. and WILLIAM M. James Bashaw died in 1850, and his widow resides two miles north of Rochester.

WILLIAM S., born Nov., 1805, in Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, in 1834, to Isabel McCune. They had nine children; four died young. AMANDA, born April 6, 1835, married James A. James. See his name. JAMES, born Jan. 27, 1838, married Feb. 20, 1862, to Mary Bailey, who was born Jan. 26, 1844, in Hawkins county, Tenn. They have three children, LAURA I., GEORGE A. and DOLLY, and reside in Clear Lake township, eight miles due east of Springfield. HANNAH, married William Thomas, and resides one mile west of Dawson. CHARLES SPENCER and ALEXANDER reside in Clear Lake township. Mrs. Isabel Bashaw died July 27, 1861, and William S. Bashaw died Jan. 3, 1874, within one and a half miles of where he settled with his mother in 1830. Wm. S. Bashaw had been five years a Justice of the Peace, and was in office at the time of his death.

JAQUELIN, born Nov. 24, 1808, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Eleanor Poor, had nine children, and he died in 1868. His widow married James McQuinn, and resides near Rochester.

Mrs. Ellen Bashaw died Sept., 1852, on the farm where she settled in 1830.



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