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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.
BENNETT, THOMAS L.
, was born July 6, 1809, in Jefferson county, Va. - For family history, see the sketch of his brother, William A. - Thomas L. Bennett arrived in Sangamon county first in the fall of 1833. He was married Nov. 6, 1842, at Jubilee College, Robins' Nest, Peoria county, Ill., to Jeanetta S. Ingraham, a native of New York City. They had four children in Sangamon county -
AGNES, the youngest, died at ten years of age.
HENRY, V. S., visited Greenwood county, Kansas, in the autumn of 1868, where his father and family joined him in the spring of 1869.
SUSAN C. and
SOPHIA went with their parents. The latter was married Oct. 12, 1871, in Kansas, to Alexander F. Crowe. They have one child, THOMAS B., and reside in Kansas, also.
Thomas L. Bennett and family reside near Line Postoffice, Lyon county, Kansas.
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