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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.
DUNCAN, JOHN
, was born in 1789, in Cumberland county, Ky. He was married there to Sally Miller, and had six children there, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., about 1827, in what is now Salisbury township, where they had six children. Three only of their children reside in Sangamon county.
POLLY, married John Davies. See his name.
JOHN married Nancy Kane, have three children, and reside in Salisbury.
ARMINDA, born Feb. 14, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Jan. 8, 1849, to Frederick Luchsinger, who was born April 2, 1824, in Canton Glarus, Switzerland. They have six children, HESTER A., married John Danenberger and resides in Sangamon county. SARAH E. married Silas Danenberger, and resides in Salisbury township. JANE M., HARRIET E., JANETTA and ELIZA O. reside with their parents, near Salisbury.
Mrs. Sally Duncan died Nov. 1850 and John Duncan died 1863, both near Salisbury.
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