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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.



FORD, DANIEL, was born Feb. 22, 1796, in New Jersey. His parents moved to Fayette county, Ky., when he was a boy. Mary Randolph was born in Fayette county, Ky., June 17, 1802. Daniel Ford and Mary Randolph were married there, May 11, 1820. Nine children were born in that county, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in Nov., 1838, in what is now Ball township, where two children were born. Four of those born in Kentucky, and one in Sangamon county, died under four years of age. Of the other six--

WILLIAM R., born July 3, 1824, in Kentucky, married in Illinois, Nov. 6, 1849, to Minerva J. Scott. They have two children. SARAH E. married Charles M. Shepherd. See his name. WILLIAM P. resides with his parents, in Ball township, fifteen miles south of Springfield.

ANN E., born in Kentucky, May 10, 1816, married John Patterson. They have eight children: MARY R., the second child, married Robert Scott. See his name. WILLIAM V., the eldest child, JOHN R., AMANDA F., SAMUEL E., ROBERT D., IDA MAY and NENA F. reside with their parents, thirteen miles south of Springfield, on the George Lamb farm--1874.

AMANDA, born in Kentucky, married Josephus Parkinson. They had two children. IDA CORNELIA married Frank Shores, and resides in Chicago. KATE ELEANOR lives with her mother. Josephus Parkinson died May 11, 1866, and his widow resides in Chicago.

JOHN, born Jan. 13, 1834, in Kentucky, married Nov. 12, 1861, to Ara Holmes, who was born Jan. 31, 1843, in Brown county, Ohio. They have four children, ANNA L., CHARLES A., ALEX. E. and FREDDIE T., and live in Ball township--1874.

GEORGE W., born in Kentucky in 1837, died in Sangamon county, Feb. 12, 1858.

MARY, born in Sangamon county, married Thomas J. Scott. See his name.

Daniel Ford died May 21, 1852, in Sangamon county, and his widow died April 2, 1864, at Macomb, Ill.



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