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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.



DAVIS, JOHN, was born Oct. 15, 1809, in Baltimore county, Md. He was married there in May, 1829, to Mrs. Margaret Davis, whose maiden name was Gore. She was born Oct. 6, 1806, in the same county, and was married first in September, 1824, to Capt. Robert Davis, a soldier in the war of 1812. They had two children, and Capt. Davis died May, 1827.

John Davis and wife had two children in Maryland, and moved in 1832 to Preble county, O., where they had one child, and from there to Darke county, where one child was born. The family then moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Feb., 1837, in what is now Gardner township, where they had three children. Of the two children of Mrs. Davis by her first marriage--

ELIZABETH, born Sept. 3, 1825, near Baltimore, Md., married in Sangamon county to Samuel H. Reid, Jun. See his name.

NANCY, born Aug. 6, 1827, near Baltimore, married in Sangamon county to Henry H. Foster. See his name.

Of the seven children by the second marriage--

ELLEN, born Dec. 12, 1830, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county Jan., 1855, to Joseph McCoy. They have one child, JOHN, born in Sangamon county, and reside in Missouri.

JAMES, born Jan. 23, 1832, in Maryland, brought up in Sangamon county, and went to California in October, 1853. The family have not received any reliable information from him since June 8, 1856, and have no hope that he is living.

MARTHA J., born March, 1834, in Preble county, O., and died in Sangamon county, November, 1848.

MARGARET, born in 1836, in Darke county, O., died in Sangamon county March 31, 1853.

SARAH, born September, 1840, in Sangamon county, married in the same county to James Bruce, has one child, ANNIE, and live near White Oak post-office, Montgomery county, Ill.

JOHN, Jun., born Dec. 12, 1842, in Sangamon county, enlisted September, 1861, in Co. B, 10th Ill. Cav., for three years, and re-enlisted as a veteran December, 1863. He served until Jan. 5, 1866, when he was honorably discharged in Springfield, being the last man of the regiment. He was killed by lightning July 5, 1875, while attending to some stock on his father's farm, near Curran, Sangamon county.

DALLAS, born Oct. 4, 1846, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 31, 1868, to Louisa Smith. They have two children, MARY A. and THOMAS O., and live two miles east of Curran.

John Davis and wife reside two miles cast of Curran, Sangamon county, Ill.



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