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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.



CLAYTON, JOHN S., was born August 2, 1802, in Caldwell county, Ky. Elizabeth Clayton was born May, 1806, in the same county. They were there married in 1824, and had one child in Kentucky. The family moved to Morgan county, Ill., where one child was born, and moved back to Kentucky, where two children were born, and they again moved to Morgan county, Ill., in 1833 or '4, and after a few years spent there, moved to Sangamon county, in what is now Ball township, where they had seven children.

FKANKLIN JEFFERSON, born Feb. 13, 1827, in Caldwell county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Scott. They have six children, RUTH JANE, GILBERT, AMANDA E., PERLEASY, EMMA and SHELTON L., and reside in Ball township, near Chatham.

ALEXANDER, born Sept. 16, 1829, in Morgan county, Ill., married in Sangamon county to Mary A. Marshall. They had two children, CHARLES E. and HENRY N., and Mrs. Mary A. Clayton died, and he married Theresa J. Penix. They have four children, MELISSA J., ADA M., MARY A. and JACOB B., and live in Ball township, four and a half miles southeast of Chatham.

MINERVA J., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to John Ogden, who died, and she married William Smith, and lives near Moberly, Randolph county, Mo.

MARQUIS D., born March 16, 1834, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, August 29, 1860, to Susan A. Matthew. They had eight children, three of whom died young. The other five, CHARLES A., SARAH E., FRANKLIN L., THOMAS E. and MANFORD E. live with their parents, three miles north of Pawnee.

ELZIRA, born in Illinois, married William Easley, have six children, and live in Clark county, Mo.

MARY A., born in Illinois, married Simon T. Matthew. See his name.

GEORGE M. married Miss J. Patterson, who died, and he married Harriet E. Debow. They have one child, NETTIE FLORENCE, and live in Cotton Hill township, three miles north of Pawnee.

MARIETTA, born in Sangamon county, married George Lamb. See his name.

JOHN L., born in Sangamon county, married in 1873 to Mary Allen, and lives with his mother.

John S. Clayton died Sept. 7, 1861, and Mrs. Elizabeth Clayton resides in Ball township, four and a half miles southeast of Chatham.



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