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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.



DAVENPORT, GEORGE, was born about 1781, in North Carolina, married, had one child, and his wife died there. When the child was three weeks old he carried it on horseback to Casey county, Ky. He was there married to Winney Clifton, a native of that county. They had two children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in the fall of 1819, and first camped where Springfield now stands, and three weeks later moved six miles west, at the north side of Spring creek, where seven children were born. Of his children--

THOMAS, born in North Carolina, raised in Sangamon county, married, and is living with his second wife near Independence, Mo.

WILLIAM, born in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, has his second wife, and resides near Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky, married Thomas Davis, has six children, and resides in Vernon county, Mo.

ALFRED S., born June 24, 1820, married Lucinda Tolley. They have seven children, JAMES, GEORGE, JOHN, ADOLPHUS, MARY, SOPHIA and NOAH, and reside two and a half miles northeast of Berlin.

MARY married Thomas Andrews, who died, leaving three children, and she married John Runnels, and he died, leaving a widow and two children, near Dallas, Texas.

NANCY married Jeremiah Kendall, had four children, and she died, leaving her family in Oregon.

URIAH L. was a soldier in the 4th Ill. Inf. under Col. E. D. Baker, and was wounded at the battle of Cerro Gordo, Mexico, and died eight or nine days later.

JOB C., born January 4, 1823, in Sangamon county, was married Dec. 4, 1845, to Alice J. Mosteller, who was born Nov. 29, 1830. They have five children, JOHN H., LAURA (the latter was married May 9, 1875, to William Sayre, and resides near Pleasant Plains), CHARLES M., NEWMAN and WILLIAM EDWARD. All the unmarried children live with their parents in Menard county, near Salisbury, Sangamon county.

ADOLPHUS died in 1850 in Chicago, aged about twenty-four years.

AMANDA married Allen Baker, and died in 1849.

RHODA married Thomas Ray. They have four children, and reside in Vernon county, Mo.

Mrs. Winney C. Davenport died Jan. 15, 1845, and George Davenport died Feb. 14, 1845, both in Sangamon county, eight miles west of Springfield.



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