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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.
CROW, WILLIAM - was born March 5, 1793, in Botetourt county, Va.
Three brothers, John, Thomas and Andrew Crow, came from Ireland to America during the Revolutionary war.
John was the father of him whose name heads this sketch. John Crow moved to Barren county, Ky., when
William was a child. William Crow and Miriam Enyart were married in Cumberland county, Ky., and
had one child. In 1819 they moved to Madison county, Ill., where he was ordained to preach the
gospel by the recognized authorities of the Old School, or Regular Baptist, church. In the fall of 1820 he
moved to what is now Salisbury, or Cartwright, township, in Sangamon county, north of Richland creek,
where they had one child, and Mrs. Miriam Crow died, Aug. 7, 1823. William Crow was married in the fall
of 1824, in Cumberland county, Ky., to Susan Hall. On his return to Sangamon county, he sold out
and settled in what is now the southeast corner of Cass county, where two children were born.
Of his four children--
JEROME E., born Sept. 2, 1817, in Cumberland county, Ky., was brought by his parents to Sangamon county,
married in Cass county, June 19, 1844, to Eliza J. Brockman. They have five children, two of whom are
married, and all live with and near their parents, in the vicinity of Humboldt, Richardson county, Neb.
REBECCA W., born June 9, 1821, ia Sangamon county, and is believed to have been the first white child
born on Richland creek. She was married Oct. 9, 1844, in Cass county, to Washington A. Mitchell, who was
born Dec. 21, 1816, in Logan county, Ky. They have five children, WILLIAM I., CHARLES C., JOHN L., ALBERT J.
and ANNAH E., and reside in the southeast corner of Cass county, one mile southwest of Ashland, Ill.
JOHN H., born March 14, 1826, in Cass county, married Sarah F. Dillon, of Sangamon county. They have
three children, and reside in Tecumseh, Neb. See Dillon family.
MARY A., born Dec. 18, 1828, married August, 1848, in Cass county, to James L. Beggs. They have eight
children, three of whom are married, and one of the married daughters resides in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Beggs
reside in Ashland.
Mrs. Susan Crow died April 11, 1845, in Cass county, and Rev. William Crow died Aug. 22, 1865, at Brownsville, Neb.
He preached from the time he came to Sangamon county until about 1860, a ministry of forty years. He was
known to all Baptists throughout central Illinois.
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