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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.



CALLERMAN, URIAH, was born Dec. 31, 1798, in Fleming county, Ky., and was married there to Eleanor McKinnie. They had one child in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1822, four miles north of Springfield, where they had three children. Of their children--

JOHN L., born June 2, 1822, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Sept. 18, 1845, to Frances Cole. They had one child, JOHN L., Jun., born in Sangamon county, married Jan. 8, 1874, to Susan M. Lightfoot, and live five miles northwest of Springfield. John L. Callerman died August 26, 1846, and his widow married Levi Branson, and lives near Cincinnati, Neb.

ELIZABETH, born Dec. 26, 1823, in Sangamon county, died Sept. 21, 1845.

NANCY, born March 3, 1826, in Sangamon county, married Goodrich Lightfoot. See his name.

JAMES W., born April 19, 1828, in Sangamon county, married March, 1856, to Emma Ash. They have six children, and live ten miles southeast of Springfield.

Uriah Callerman died Sept. 13, 1828, and Mrs. Eleanor Callerman died August 26, 1846, both in Sangamon county.



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