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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.



FERGUSON, MRS. LUCY, was born about 1767 in Culpepper county, Va. Her maiden name was Pendleton. She was married there in 1791 to Benjamin Ferguson, who was also a native of Virginia. They had fifteen children born in Virginia, and Mr. F. died there. The mother, with five children, moved to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1836, about three miles cast of Rochester. Just before she left Virginia, Mrs. Ferguson was enumerating her descendants: there were seventy-five then. Of her five children who came west with her--

WILLIAM H., born February, 1798, married in Virginia in 1818 to Lucy Broadux. They came to Illinois with their mother. Mrs. Lucy Ferguson died in the fall of 1871, and Wm. H. died March, 1873, leaving four children, three of whom are now married.

LUCY C., born in Virginia, was married there in 1832 to Isaac Haines. He was a Methodist preacher. They came west with their mother. He died in 1838. She died in 1850, leaving two children, one of whom, WILLIAM C., married, and lives one mile south of Taylorville. LUCY A. married J. Clark, and resides opposite Cairo, in Missouri.

ELLEN, born in 1812, married in Sangamon county in 1838 to Daniel Johnson. They have one child, ELIAS, who married, and resides on the farm with his father, four miles east of Rochester. Mrs. Ellen Johnson died about 1841.

PHILIP C., born June, 1815, in Virginia, married there in 1836 to Mary Haines. They have five children living. They all reside in Kansas but one, EZEKIEL, who married a Miss Kelly, and lives near Taylorville. Philip C. Ferguson was a physician, and died from lockjaw in 1862. His widow resides near Wathena, Kan.

JAMES, born March 11, 1817, married in Sangamon county March 21, 1838, to Mary J. Young, who was born in 1824, in Trigg county, Ky. They have four children. MARTHA J., born Jan. 16, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 25, 1860, in Christian county, to Archibald Sattley. See his name. CLARA A., born April 24, 1842, married Feb. 15, 1862, in Christian county, to Charles E. Sattley. See his name. ALBERT L., born Jan. 31, 1849, and ADA M., reside with their father. James Ferguson came to Sangamon county with his mother, and engaged in farming; has been for twelve years justice of the peace at Stonington, and assisted in organizing the first Sunday school there, and has been superintendent ever since. Mrs. Mary J. Ferguson died Oct. 20, 1875.

Mrs. Lucy Ferguson died in the autumn of 1838, on the farm where they settled in 1836.



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