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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.
CHANDLER, ROBERT
, was born about 1812, in Kentucky. He was left an orphan at eight years of age, and was bound to Russell Fletcher, who took him to Overton county, Tenn., and from there to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the spring of 1832. He married Ellen Parmenter, who died, and he married Elizabeth Carter. They had eight children in Sangamon county--
LUCY J. married Christopher Wheelan, and live in Riverton.
REBECCA died, aged eighteen.
MARY E. married Stephen Huntsley, and live in Christian county.
MARTHA W., FRANCIS M., GEORGE H., CHARLES O. and EDWARD, reside with their parents, half a mile from Sherman.
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