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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.



CARVER. JACOB, born March 10, 1787, in Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Hoover was born Dec. 8, 1784, in Virginia. They were married near Dayton, O., and had nine children there. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830 in what is now Clear Lake township, four miles northeast of Springfield. Of their nine children--

WILLIAM, ELIZA and JOHN died between thirteen and eighteen years of age. The other six are--

HIGHLY, born Jan. 13, 1806, near Dayton, O., was married there April 20, ??26, to Philip Shaffer; came to Sangamon county with her parents; moved the same fall to Cass county, where Mr. Shaffer died, August 28, 1843, leaving six children. The widow married Feb. 1, 1846, to Daniel Lahmon. They have one child, and reside near Virginia, Cass county.

SARAH, born Nov. 26, 1810, near Dayton, O., married there to Jesse Smith, came to Sangamon county with her parents, had three children, moved back to Ohio, where two children were born and Mr. Smith died. The family reside at New Carlisle, Clarke county, Ohio.

REBECCA, born Sept. 21, 1812, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Benjamin Hooton, had four children, and moved to Ozark county, Mo., where she died.

SOPHIA, born Aug. 19, 1820, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Henry Bedinger. They had one child, and Mr. B. died, and she married Job Dickson. They had two children, and both parents died. Their son, JOHN DICKSON, married Mary Collins, and resides in Sherman. SARAH DICKSON married Edward Workman. He was shot dead, Oct. 4, 1865, by a drunken man, because he would not drink with him. The widow married Wm. Howard. She had one child by each marriage--WM. H. WORKMAN and JOHN E. HOWARD. Mr. and Mrs. Howard live four miles east of Springfield.

JAMES, born Dec. 13, 1825, near Dayton, Montgomery county, O. He was married in Sangamon county, Jan. 16, 1863, to Martha Workman, who was born May 23, 1847, in Rush county, Ind. They have four children, WILLIAM W., JOSEPH B., JAMES F. and GEORGE H., and live at the homestead settled by his parents in 1830. It is four miles northeast of Springfield.

FELIX, born Oct. 4, 1828, near Dayton, O., married in Sangamon county, Jan. 22, 1857, to Rachel Donner. They had five children. FLORA died young. LIZZIE, ALBERT, HENRY and FRANK. The four latter live with their parents, near where Mr. Carver's parents settled in 1830.

Jacob Carver died in 1833, in Ohio, having returned there on business. Mrs. Elizabeth Carver died Nov. 8, 1857, on the farm where the family settled in 1830.



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