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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.



ELKIN, WILLIAM F., was born April 13, 1792, in Clarke county, Ky. In 1811 he went to Xenia, O., and was there married Dec. 5, 1813, to Elizabeth Constant. She was born June 14, 1799, in Clarke county, Ky., also. They had four children in Ohio, and in 1820 moved to Brownsville, Ind., where they had three, and then moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in December, 1825, in what is now Fancy Creek township, where they had six children, four of whom died under five years. Of the other nine--

ROBERT, born Dec. 17, 1814, in Ohio, died in Sangamon county, aged eighteen years.

THOMAS, born Sept. 16, 1816, in Xenia, O., raised in Sangamon county, married Feb. 28, 1843, in Jacksonville, Ill., to Harriet C. Church. She was born Feb. 19, 1820, in Lexington, Ky. They had three children, WILLIAM L., born June 3, 1844, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug., 1862, for three years, in Co. G, 114 Ill. Inf., served full term and was honorably discharged in 1865. He studied law with Herndon & Zane in Springfield, went to Calvert, Tex., engaged in practice, and died there Oct. 29, 1873. WALLACE A., born April 5, 1846, in Sangamon county, and lives at Salt Lake City, Utah. LAURA F., born Jan. 5, 1850, in Springfield, married in St. Louis Aug. 7, 1872, to Edward Pew, a native of Kentucky. They have one child, EDWARD W., and live in St. Louis. Mrs. Harriet C. Elkin died Aug. 26, 1867. Thomas Elkin was married Dec. 4, 1873, in Springfield, to Mrs. Eva M. Smith, whose maiden name was Mealey. They reside in Springfield.

MARY A., born May 8, 1818, in Xenia, O., married in Sangamon county to Benjamin F. Pickrell. See his name. He died and she married Abner Riddle. See his name.

JOHN G., born March 28, 1820, in Xenia, O., married Oct. 24, 1843, in Springfield, Ill., to Eveline McNabb. They had four children, ALICE, born Feb. 20, 1845, married William A. Fullinwider. See his name. ADELAIDE, born Dec. 6, 1850, was married Dec. 3, 1875, in Mechanicsburg, Ill., to Henry O. Correll. See his name. LUCILLA, born July 6, 1853, in Mechanicsburg, married Samuel T. Fullinwider. See his name. ARTHUR, is attending Eureka College--May, 1876. John G. Elkin was a prosperous merchant for a period of fifteen years in Mechanicsburg. He died Aug. 27, 1867, in that place, and his widow resides there.

ZACHARIA E., born Nov., 1821, in Brownsville, Ind., raised in Sangamon county. He went overland in 1849 to Oregon, and from there to California and spent several years in mining. He went to Idaho in 1860, and was married Oct., 1873, to Mrs. Harriet Luckett, and resides in Idaho City, Boise county, Idaho.

GARRETT, born March 2, 1823, at Brownsville, Ind., raised in Sangamon county, married in Jacksonville, Ill., to Mrs. Martha Tegarden. They had eight children, and Mrs. Elkin died Oct. 24, 1872. He was married May 1, 1873, to Mrs. Matilda Conner, whose maiden name was Gibbons. They reside in Springfield.

ANDREW H., born Nov., 1825, in Indiana, died in Sangamon county, aged eighteen years.

MARGERY, born July 8, 1832, in Sangamon county, married July, 1852, in Springfield, to Edward A. Jones. They have three daughters, LUELLA, IDA and HATHAWAY, and reside near Decatur, Ill.

WILLIAM F., Jun., born Feb. 29, 1836, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 16, 1860, in Springfield, to Maria Louisa Harvey, who was born Oct. 13, 1839, in Springfield. They have seven living children, EMMA C., CHARLES H., ROBERT R., JOHN F., LEWIS P., ZACHARIA C. and CLARA B., and reside in Springfield.

William F. Elkin was one of the representatives of Sangamon county in the legislature of 1828 and '9. He raised a company in Springfield in 1831, and was Captain of it in the Black Hawk war of that year. He was again elected to represent the county in 1836 and 1838, for two years each time, and was consequently a member of the legislature that enacted the law for the removal of the capital from Vandalia to Springfield. See the arlicle: Long Nine. His last labors in the legislature was at its first meeting in Springfield, in call session Dec. 9, 1839. In 1840 and '42 he was elected Sheriff of Sangamon county, for two years each. He was appointed Register of the U. S. Land Office at Springfield, in Sept., 1861, by his old "Long Nine" colleague, Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he moved to Decatur, but held the office in Springfield until 1872, when he resigned. His wife died August 25, 1872, in Decatur, and W. F. Elkin resides near that city with his daughter, Mrs. Jones. He is in his eighty-fifth year.



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