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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.



FLETCHER, THOMAS P., was born in 1791, near Richmond, Va. His parents moved, when he was a boy, to Union county, Ky. He was there married to Marion Davis. They had six children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1828 in what is now Williams township, and in 1831 moved to Tazewell county, and from there to Logan county, in 1836. The mother died in 1845, and the father in 1865. Their children, Thomas J., Melinda, William D., Judith W., Rigdon S., Emily and James M., are married and live in different parts of the country. Two only are connected with old settlers families of Sangamon county.

ELIZABETH, born in Virginia, married Madison M. Merriman. See his name.

BENJAMIN F., born March 28, 1834, in Tazewell county, married Cordelia L. Merriman. They reside at the old homestead of her father, where he settled in 1829, two miles southwest of Williamsville. B. F. Fletcher enlisted Aug., 1862, in Co. B, 130th Ill. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably discharged in 1865.



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