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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.
COE, EBENEZER
, was born August 25, 1812, in Loudon county, Va., and came to Sangamon county, Ill., with George M. Green, in 1839. He went back to Virginia in the fall of 1843, and was married in Loudon county, Sept. 17, 1844, to Jane Grubb, a native of that county. He returned to Sangamon county in 1851. Mrs. Coe died near Rochester, May 10, 1860. Mr. Coe was married March 26, 1861, in Loudon county, to Mrs. Julia A. Edwards, whose maiden name was Conard. They came soon after to Sangamon county, and Mrs. Coe died Dec. 22, 1869, leaving four children--
JOSEPH H., SAMUEL B., WILLIAM C. and MARY C.
Ebenezer Coe was married Dec. 13, 1870, in Decatur Ill., to Harriet Lanham, who was born July 25, 1830, in Sangamon county. They live one mile east of Rochester.
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