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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, JAMES L., was born Oct. 20, 1786, in South Carolina. He was married there May 28, 1806, to Jane M. Berry, and soon after went to Union county, Ky., where they had eight children, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving, in 1824, in what is now Fancy Creek township, where they had three children. Of their children--

NANCY H., born Nov. 28, 1808, married George Levan, who died in 1843, and she married John D. McCumber, and she died March 6, 1872.

WILLIAM N., born May 25, 1810, in Kentucky, married Sarah Kilgour, who died, and he married Lucinda Ensor, and he died Feb. 19, 1872, in Sangamon county. His widow and six children reside in Montgomery county.

ELIZABETH C., born Dec. 23, 1812, married Enos Darnall. They had six sons, two of whom, JAMES L. and WILLIAM, are deaf and dumb, and were educated at Jacksonville. Mr. Darnall died near Wintersett, Iowa. His family reside there.

BENJAMIN F., born March 28, 1815, in Kentucky, married May 15, 1835, to Susannah Dunlap. They had seven children. MARY C. married George W. McClelland. See his name. ARMINDA M. married Owen G. Allen, and reside in Sullivan county, Mo. JOHN J. married Mary A. Short, have one child, and reside at Heyworth, McLean county. EDNA D. died Feb. 1, 1866, aged eighteen years. JAMES T. died Dec. 30, 1865, in his fifteenth year. ANNA F. married Martin McCoy, and reside in Fancy Creek township. Benjamin F. Brown died Feb. 21, 1866, and his widow resides four miles northwest of Sherman.

MARY H., born June 23, 1817, married James T. Dunlap. See his name.

THOMAS C., born Nov. 2, 1819, died, aged eleven years.

SARAH B., born April 3, 1821, married Orlando Bates. See his name.

EMILY A., born May 12, 1823, married John R. Dunlap. See his name.

MARTHA J., born April 29, 1825, married George Groves. See his name.

SUSAN F., born Aug. 27, 1827, married G. Willcockson, have six children, and reside in Lawrence county, Mo.

REBECCA H., born Feb. 24, 1832, married William D. Power, Feb. 8, 1847. They had one child, and he died March 15, 1848. His widow married March 22, 1849, to Joseph Bates. See his name.

James L. Brown died April 18, 1854, and his widow died twenty-seven days later--May 15, 1854. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was at the battle of New Orleans.



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