DARNALL, AMELIA
, whose maiden name was Yocom, sister to Jacob Yocom, was born October, 1793, near Lexington, Ky., and was married there, August, 1813, to Samuel Darnall. Seven children were born in Kentucky, and they moved to Indiana, where they had one child, and moved in 1829 to Funk's Grove, McLean county, Ill., where they had one child. Mr. Darnall died August, 1830. Mrs. D., with her nine children, moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830 in what is now Williams township. Of her children--BENJAMIN F. died at twenty-one years of age.
EVELINE married Levi Smith, has eleven children, and live near Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
SALLY died at sixteen years of age.
HARVEY, born August 10, 1821, in Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Agnes Simpson. They have eight children. MARY married Stephen Hussey, and live in Logan county. WINFIELD SCOTT, JAMES M., JOHN F., STEPHEN H., JESSE HARVEY B. and LILLIE E., live with their parents near Barclay.
NANCY J. married Franklin Yocom. See his name.
JAMES died at thirty-five years of age.
MELVINA married Thaddeus Evans, and died in Montgomery county, leaving six children.
ELIZABETH married David Bailey, has ten children, and live in Mason county.
REBECCA, born in Illinois, married March 6, 1866, to Oliver McGarvey, has one child, WILLIAM N., and she lives with her mother.
Mrs. Amelia Darnall resides (1874) one mile northeast of Barclay. She is more than eighty years old.