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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.



BIRD, HETTY E., was born July 9, 1818, in Mason county, Ky., came with her mother to Sangamon county in 1835. She was married near Mechanicsburg, Feb. 25, 1845, to Samuel Powers, who was born April 28, 1797, in Hampshire county, Va. They had one child, and Mrs. Powers died, March 16, 1851, in Sangamon county. Mr. Powers moved to Iowa with his daughter-- RHODA A., born Sept. 19, 1848, in Sangamon county, and married in Iowa, July 22, 1865, to Barzilla Reeves, who was born April 5, 1841. They had five children in Iowa. Their second child, ISAAC N., died in his fourth year. ANDREW J., DAVID M., GARRISON B. and HESTER A., reside with their parents, near Sidney, Fremont county, Iowa. Samuel Powers resides in Atchison county, Mo.



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