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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.



DUNN, ELIJAH, was born about 1798, in Fleeting county, Ky., and was married there to Eleanor Callerman, a native of the same county. She was a sister of D. K. Callerman. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1825, and settled two and one-half miles west of Springfield, and three years later they moved north of Spring creek. They had three children in Sangamon county. Of their children:

JOHN C., born Aug. 20, 1823, in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon- county went to Galena, engaged in lead mining, and died there about 1845, aged twentytwo years.

JAMES K., born June 21, 1825, in Fleeting county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, March 15, 1869, to Bertha Kelly, who was born April 4, 1846. They had three children. CHARLES and ALFRED died in infancy, KATIE lives with her parents. J. K. Dunn resides on the farm where his father settled in 1828. It is four miles northwest of Springfield.

DANIEL A., born Jan. 8, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Eliza Ann Kelly. They had two living children, and Mrs. Dunn died March 15, 1871. Of her children-JOHN lives with his father, and OLIVER with his uncle, J. K. Dune. D. A. Dunn resides four miles northwest of Springfield.

URIAH born Nov. 13, 1833, in Sangamon county, died aged twenty years.

ELIZABETH Dec. 14, 1837, in Sangamon county, married Feb. 17, 1859, to Joel J. Manning, who was born to 1833 in Montreal, Canada, and came to Sangamon county in 1838. They had seven children. Their second, ELIJAH died Aug. 24, 1873, aged 12 years. MARY E., FRANCES E., JAMES G., NORA M., IDA BELL, and a babe, reside with their parents four miles northwest o Springfield.

Mrs. Eleanor Dunn died about 1853 Elijah Dunn died Aug. 7, 1866-both in Sangamon county.



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