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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
. See her name, page 295. Her son, WILLIAM H., left four children, J. H., ELLEN, WILLIAM and MARTHA, now living near Decatur, Illinois. Her daughter, LUCY C., born in 1809, in Culpepper county, Virginia, married there in 1831 to Rev. Isaac Hames, of the M. E. Church, who was born in 1806, in Rappahannock county, Virginia. They lived a short time in North Carolina, returned to Virginia, and from there to Sangamon county in 1836. They had two children, WILLIAM C., born Sept. 21, 1832, in Wilmington, North Carolina, brought up in Sangamon county, married Dec. 14, 1859, in Christian county, Illinois, to Lucy E. Young, who was born Jan. 12, 1840. She died Dec. 16, 1865, leaving one child, DORA E. William C. Haines was married Jan. 1, 1866, in Missouri, to Margaret Hancock, who was born in 1846, in Henderson county, Kentucky. They have two children, LUCY B. and WILLIAM C., jun., and reside near Taylorville,
Illinois. LUCY A. Haines, born in 1835, in Albemarle county, Virginia,
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