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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.



DIXON, JAMES M., was born Aug. 3, 1807, in Harrison county, Ky. He was married in that county, Jan. 23, 1827, to Joannah Bird, who was born Nov. 20, 1807. They had four children in Mason county, Ky., and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in the fall of 1834, in what in now Mechanicsburg township, where they had two living children. Of their six children--

WILLIAM A., born Nov. 10, 1827, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, in his twenty-fifth year.

SARAH A., born Oct. 1, 1829, in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, married in Logan county to Abraham Copland. They had five children, and Mrs. C. died, Feb. 26, 1872, leaving her family near Mt. Pulaski.

JESSE D., born Oct. 10, 1831, in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, went to Oregon in 1849, married there to Louisa Milligan, has three living children, JOANNAH, RICHARD and JOHN, and lives at Lafayette, Yamhill county, Oregon.

LUCINDA, born Sept. 6, 1833, in Mason county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to James L. Barbre. See his name.

HESTER D., born Feb. 9, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Sept. 4, 1861, to Thomas Stoker, who was born Dec. 27, 1836, in Fairfield county, O. They had four children. DAVID A. died in infancy. JAMES A. died at six years of age. ARTHUR E. and ARMANELLA live with their parents in Buffalo.

RICHARD, born Feb. 29, 1844, in Sangamon county, married May 6, 1874, and lives near Mechanicsburg.

James M. Dixon died Dec. 19, 1843, near Mechanicsburg, and his widow married John C. Eckel. See his name.



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