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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.



CROWL, JOSEPH, was born Sept. 3, 1794, in Shepherdstown, Va. He was a soldier from Maryland in the war of 1812, and was married Jan. 1, 1817, in Washington county, Md., to Mary A. Dillihunt, who was born Feb. 22, 1804, in Kent county, Md. They had ten children in Washington county, Md., three of whom died young. They moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1834, at Springfield, and the next spring moved to what is now Cooper township, south of the Sangamon river, where they had five children. Of their twelve children--

MORDECAI, born July 20, 1820, in Maryland, married December, 1869, in Springfield, to Catharine E. Crowl, a native of Berkley county, Va. They reside four miles southeast of Pawnee, in Christian county.

UPTON, born Feb. 7, 1822, in Maryland, served one year from June, 1846, in the 4th Ill. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, in the Mexican war. He was married in 1850, in Sangamon county, to Sarah E. Taggart. They had one living child, MARY J., born April 22, 1858, married Feb. 10, 1874, in Springfield, to Eugene W. Renshaw, who was born June 25, 1851, in Decatur. He is a grandson of James, who was a brother to Samuel Renshaw. See his name. E. W. Renshaw lives one and a half miles northeast of Berry station. Upton Crowl died March 8, 1872, and his widow resides one and a half miles northeast of Berry, or Clarksville.

CORNELIA, born Oct. 18, 1823, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county, April 18, 1839, to Stephen Hussey. See his name.

MARY E., born Nov. 13, 1825, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county to William R. Ross. See his name.

JOSEPH F. and JACOB J. (twins), born Aug. 30, 1827, in Maryland; the latter died young.

JOSEPH F. was raised in Sangamon county, went with his sister (Mrs. Hussey) to Oregon, and was married May, 1853, in Yamhill county, to Julia A. Shortridge. They had nine living children. Eight of their children were born in Oregon. They reside near Nashville, Barton county, Mo.

ROBERT F., born July 5, 1829, in Maryland, died in Sangamon county, Aug. 14, 1843.

MIRANDA, born Oct. 18, 1831, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county to Isaac T. Darnall. See his name. He died, and she married, Feb. 11, 1873, to George W. Taylor, and live in Cooper township.

VAN BASSETT, born April 8, 1836, in Sangamon county, married in same county, Feb. 9, 1864, to Eliza Crowl. They have two children, and live in Christian county, four miles southeast of Pawnee.

VINTON, born June 12, 1838, in Sangamon county, died April 19, 1852.

HELEN, born May 26, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 24, 1863, to Thomas F. Morris, who was born Nov. 12, 1834, in Clarke county, O. They have two children, MARYLIDA and ISAAC C., and reside in Cooper township, three and a half miles southwest of Mechanicsburg.

MARIA A., born Feb. 14, 1843, in Sangamon county, married May 11, 1867, to Samuel Carper, who was born April 30, 1829, in Shepherdstown, Va. They have three children, JOSEPH W., JOHN B. and MORDECAI I., and reside at the family homestead where her parents settled in 1835, in Cooper township. It is one and a half miles north of Berry station, or Clarksville.

WILLIAM H., born April 14, 1845, in Sangamon county, married January, 1871, to Ella Miller. They have two children, and reside five miles southeast of Pawnee, in Christian county.

Joseph Crowl died Sept. 8, 1865, in Sangamon county, and his widow now (1874) resides on the farm where they settled in 1835. It is one and a half miles north of Berry station, or Clarksville.



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