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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.



BROWN, JACOB J., was born August 15, 1781, in Vermont. He was married Feb. 24, 1803, in Hartford, Conn., to Ann Bacon, who was born there, Sept. 19, 1786. They had four children in Hartford, and moved to Green county, Penn., where they had four children, then moved to the State of New York, and from there to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1823 or '4, in what is now Gardner township, north of Spring creek, where they had two children. Of their children--

DELOS W., born Oct. 28, 1803, in Hartford, Conn., married in Sangamon county, to Ruth Morgan, and had three children. ELIZABETH married Abner Wilkinson, and died. Mr. W. and his children reside in Springfield. D. W. Brown moved, about 1856, to Atchison county, Mo., and from there to Fremont county, Iowa. He died, and his widow and two children reside near Sidney, Iowa.

AMOS W., born March 11, 1807, in Connecticut. He married three times. His second wife was Sophia Earnest. She died, leaving one child.

JAMES M., born May 16, 1809, in Connecticut. He was a soldier from Sangamon county, during the Winnebago war, came home sick, and died August 22, 1827.

MARY A., born April 27, 1811, in Connecticut. She was married three times, is now a widow Elliott, and, with two of her children, resides in Grundy county, Mo.

JULIA ANN, born August 9, 1812, in Green county, Pa., married in Sangamon county, to Jeremiah King. See his name.

LEANDER J., born March 19, 1815, married twice, and died, leaving a widow and five children near Oakford, Menard county.

HULDAH M., born April 18, 1817, in Green county, Pa., married in Sangamon county to Jesse Ankrom, and lives in Springfield.

LUCY M., born Feb. 13, 1820, in Pa., married twice, and died August 4, 1852, in Beardstown.

JACOB J., Jun., born March 8, 1825, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 4, 1850, to Emily M. Ralston. They have seven children, and live near Farmingdale.

ELIZABETH A., born Nov. 9, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Joshua M. Brown. See his name. He died and she married Wm. Mercer, and lives near Hamburg, Iowa.

Jacob J. Brown, Sen, died Oct. 11, 1839, and his widow died Oct. 21, 1873, both in Sangamon county.



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