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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.



FULLINWIDER, HENRY, was born in 1799, near Hagerstown, Md., and was taken when quite young to Shelby county, Ky. This family, with others, soon after assembled in a block house for protection. The men all being out, Indians attacked the fortifications, and killed an elder brother of Henry, a lad who was aiming to enter the fort. A hole was dug under the timbers from the inside, and his body drawn in, to prevent its falling into the hands of the Indians. This circumstance made an impression on the mind of Henry that was never effaced. Harriet Neal was born in 1789, in Fauquier county, Va., and was taken when quite young to Kentucky. Henry Fullinwider and Harriet Neal were married. They had thirteen children, all born in Shelby county, Ky., four of whom died young. In the fall of 1833 Mr. Fullinwider visited Sangamon county, and purchased a farm adjoining Mechanicsburg on the east. He returned to Kentucky for his family, and died there July 21, 1834. The family moved to the home thus provided, arriving at Mechanicsburg in the fall of 1834. Of their nine children--

LUCINDA N., born Dec. 27, 1809, in Shelby county, Ky., married in Kentucy, March 8, 1832, to Richard Bird. See his name.

SAMUEL N., born Feb. 17, 1811, in Shelby county, Ky., married Matilda Hathaway. They had three children, and Mrs. F. died in Sangamon county from injuries received while riding in a wagon. Two of their children are dead. HARRIET married Lee Phillips, and resides at Fremont, Neb. Samuel N. Fullinwider married in Chatham to Mary Thornton. They reside at Fremont, Dodge county, Neb.

ELIZABETH G., born March 8, 1812, in Kentucky, married there, Feb. 10, 1832, to Talbott Lyon. They had three children: HARRIET H. married Joseph Foster, and died. See his name. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Lyon died, and Mr. Lyon married Eliza Correll, and he died. See Correll.

JACOB N., born June 5, 1814, in Shelby county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, March 23, 1837, to Sarah A. Ballard. They had eleven children, three of whom, MARY E., ANN E. and JOHN W., died under four years. Of the other eight. ELIZABETH J., born March 8, 1838, married David S. Hall. See his name. WILLIAM A., born Nov. 20, 1842, in Mechanicsburg, was married there, March 4, 1875, to Alice Elkin, and resides near Mechanicsburg. HARRIET N., born Sept. 11, 1845, near Mechanicsburg, was married there to Edward W. Bennett. See his name. HENRY T., born March 1, 1846, was married Dec. 28, 1871, to Sarah C. Lindsly, who was born June 13, 1849, in Christian county, Ill. They had one child, CHARLES W., who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. F. reside three miles northeast of Mechanicsburg. MARCUS L., born June 13, 1849, in Mechaniscburg, graduated in 1871, at the Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill., and graduated in medicine Jan., 1874, at Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill. He was married May 11, 1876, in Bloomington, Ill., to Clara F. Munsell, and resides in Mechanicsburg. Dr. Fullinwider is practicing his profession there. SAMUEL T., born June 21, 1851, in Mechanicsburg, graduated June 17, 1874, at Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill., and was married in Mechanicsburg, May 27, 1875, to Lucilla Elkin. They reside near Mechanicsburg. JACOB T., born Nov. 24, 1853, and OWEN H., born August 19, 1856. The two latter live with their parents. Jacob N. Fullinwider resides on the farm where the family settled in 1834, adjoining Mechanicsburg on the east, and is one of the most extensive farmers and stock raisers in Sangamon county.

NANCY N., born July 3, 1818, in Shelby county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Nov. 23, 1837, to Rev. Arnold Bowman, of the M. E. church. They had seven children. LAVINIA married Capt. Theodore True, of the U. S. Army, and resides--1876--at Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory. HARRIET F., born in October, 1844, resides with her mother. JOHN was killed, aged about twenty years, in Sangamon county, while hauling logs. JENNIE married Lewis P. Butler, a practicing lawyer at Murphysboro, Ill. MATILDA married Dr. Josiah Richardson, and resides in Louisville, Ky. They have one child, RICHARD H., born Oct. 13, 1860, in Springfield, Ill. HOWARD lives with his mother. Rev. Mr. Bowman was a preacher in the M. E. church twenty-eight years, and died Oct. 3, 1865, near Mechanicsburg. His widow resides at Mattoon, Ill.

SOLOMON N., born in 1820, in Shelby county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Little. They had three children, HENRY, HARRIET and

ELIZABETH. Mrs. Elizabeth Fullinwider died, and S. N. Fullinwider married Amanda Fox. They had two children. Mr. F. enlisted in the army to suppress the rebellion, and died Jan. 10, 1864, at home on sick furlough. His widow married Marion Smith, and resides one mile east of Buffalo.

SIMON P., born May 14, 1826, in Shelby county, Ky., was married Aug. 22, 1848, in Sangamon county, Ill., to Louisa C. Hesser. They have five living children. EDWIN R., born July 2, 1840, enlisted at Cincinnati, O., March 10, 1865, in Co. K, 81st Reg. Ohio Inf., for one year or during the war, and was honorably discharged July 13, 1865, at Louisville, Ky. He was married Nov. 3, 1870, in Mec??icsburg, Ill., to Flora Gore. They have three children, SIMON P., ESTELLA J. and EDWIN E., and live near Wheatfield postoffice, Sangamon county, Ill, HENRY N., born May 14, 1851, lives with his parents. G. SAMUEL born Dec. 22, 1852, is a clerk in Springfield. KATIE L. and RICHARD S. reside with their parents, one-half mile east of Lanesville, Sangamon county, Ill. Their postoffice is Wheatfield.

MARCUS L., born June 29, 1829, in Kentucky, married in Mechanicsburg to Sarah Fairbanks. They had two children, GEORGE and CALVIN, and Mrs. F. died. He married Maria Ely, and had two children, LINCOLN and GUY. Mrs. Maria Fullinwider died. Mr. Fullinwider married a third time early in 1876, and lives at Fairmount, Vermilion county, Ill.

JOHN H., born Sept. 17, 1831, in Shelby county, Ky., married in Sangamon county Sept. 20, 1855, to Isabel Hall. They have four living children, HARRIET J., JOHN GRANT, HENRY A. and NANNIE BELLE, and reside adjoining Buffalo on the east.

Henry Fullinwider died in Kentucky, July 21, 1834, and Mrs. Harriet Fullinwider died Jan. 31, 1867, in Sangamon county.



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