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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, THOMAS , was born in Fauquier county, Va. Mary Paine was born there also. They were married and had eleven children in that county. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1835 in what is now Fancy creek township, two miles northwest of Sherman. Of their eleven children--

JAMES G., born Sept. 22, 1801, came to Sangamon county with his father. He never married, and resides near Linden, Johnson county, Wis.

JOSEPH W., born in Virginia, died unmarried.

SAMUEL, born in Virginia, married Jane Evans, had one child, and all died in Sangamon county.

SARAH, born and married in Virginia to Patrick Welch, had two children, and Mr. W. died in Virginia. She and her two sons came to Sangamon county with her father. JOHN went to Missouri, married there, enlisted in the Union army, and died at Memphis, Tenn., in 1862 or '3. JAMES married Miss Beck, and lives near Elkhart. Mrs. Welch married Sanford Cherry, and resides near Elkhart, Ill.

DANIEL, born in Virginia, came to Sangamon county with his parents, is unmarried, and resides near Linden, Wis.

ELIZA, born in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Sanford Cherry. They had four children, and she died in Sangamon county. Mr. Cherry married her sister, Mrs. Welch. They reside near Elkhart, Ill.

MARY, born in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to William Glascock. They have three children, and reside near Linden, Wisconsin.

SYLVESTER W., born Nov. 27, 1813, in Fauquier county, Va., married Dec. 26, 1837, to Amarilla Enos, in Sangamon county. They had seven children in Sangamon county. MARY C., born Jan. 24, 1839, died in her fifth year. ABNER T., born Oct. 4, 1840, enlisted August, 1862, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably discharged in 1865, married October, 1874, to Rebecca McGinnis, near Williamsville. SARAH E., born July 12, 1842, married Daniel Pottle. See his name. WILLIAM H., born Sept. 22, 1845, enlisted July 20, 1861, at Springfield, in what became Co. B, 11th Mo. Inf., and was drowned Sept. 2, 1861, while bathing in the Mississippi river near Cape Girardeau, Mo. SYLVESTER W., Jun., born Sept. 3, 1847, enlisted January, 1865, for one year, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf., served until the spring of 1866, and was honorably discharged. AMARILLA, born Nov. 28, 1850, and ARMINTA, born March 29, 1853, are unmarried, and reside with their mother. Sylvester Ford died July 10, 1866, and his widow resides three miles southeast of Buffalo Hart station.

WILLIAM, born in Virginia, came to Sangamon county with his parents, married in Wisconsin, and moved to California.

THOMAS, Jun., born in Virginia, raised in Sangamon county, married in Wisconsin to Mary Perry, and live near Linden.

FRANCIS, born in Virginia, came to Sangamon county with his parents, married to Frances Adams in Wisconsin, and resides near Linden.

Thomas Ford and the younger members of the family moved to Johnson county, Wisconsin, near Linden, in 1849. He and his wife both died there.



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