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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.



GAINES, RICHARD, was born Nov. 8, 1777, in Charlotte county, Va. Amy C. Green was born Feb. 3, 1782, in the same county. They were married and had three children, and moved to Barren county, Ky., about 1807, where they had three children, and the family moved to Christian county, where one child was born, and then moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in November, 1825, in what is now Cartwright township, and settled about one mile north of where Pleasant Plains now stands. Of the seven children--

ROBERT G., born June 20, 1801, in Virginia, married June 26, 1823, to Hannah Quaite. They had nine daughters and one son, and Mrs. Gaines died April 27, 1843. Mr. Gaines is living with his third wife, in Missouri.

MILDRED, born Oct. 4, 1802, in Virginia, married Feb. 22, 1823, to Samuel Black. See his name.

RICHARD F., born March 18, 1806, married in Sangamon county to Mary Black. They have five children, and live five miles north of Jacksonville.

JOHN, born April 20, 1808, in Kentucky, married Feb. 25, 1836, in Sangamon county, to Sarah Renshaw, had six children, and Mrs. Gaines died. Mr. Gaines lives with his brother-in-law, William Batterton.

COLEMAN, born Dec. 28, 1809, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county Nov. 17, 1831, to Susan Batterton. They had one son, JOHN ST. CLAIR, who died, aged seventeen years. Mrs. Gaines died in 1833, and Mr. G. was married Oct. 9, 1834, to Priscilla McDonald, and lives at Lincoln, Ill.

ELIZA, born Dec. 4, 1811, married Jan. 1, 1833, to William Batterton. See his name.

ABRAHAM CLAY, born June 4, 1814, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county Nov. 21, 1839, to Mary Sackett. They had eight children, and Mrs. G. died May 9, 1863, and he was married Sept. 15, 1864, to Mrs. Sarah J. Newell, whose maiden name was Mills. They have two children, and live near Odell, Ill.

Richard Gaines was a local preacher in the M. E. church for twenty-five or thirty years. He died Jan. 7, 1845, and Mrs. Amy C. Gaines died Aug. 19, 1871, both in Sangamon county.



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