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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.



DEARDORFF, ANTHONY, was born in 1786 in Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Powell was born in 1800, in Bedford county, Pa. They were married in 1818, in Franklin county, O., and had four children there. The family then moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1823, in what is now Ball township, where they had six children. Of their ten children--

MARY, born in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Morgan Matthew, who died, leaving a widow and three children in Missouri.

CATHARINE, born in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to John Kent. He died in the United States army at Vicksburg, in 1863. His widow and five children live in Missouri.

PETER, born in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Nancy Williams. They had four children, and Mrs. D. died. Mr. D. and his children live in Iowa.

CHARLES P., born in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Mrs. Sarah Rummerfield. They have five children, and live in Cass county, Ill.

REBECCA, born in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and lives in Ball township.

BARBARA, born in Sangamon county, married Joseph Beam. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon county, died at sixteen years old.

WILLIAM P., born in Sangamon county, married Catharine Parvin. He died, leaving a widow and two children in Cass county, Ill.

JOHN died at eighteen years of age.

SUSAN, born in Sangamon county, married Henry Shipman, and live in Adair county, Mo.

Anthony Deardorff died in 1834, and his widow married Simon Matthew. See his name. She died Oct. 21, 1850.



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