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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.
GARRETSON, THOMAS P.
See his name, page 324. He was born Sept. 18, 1818, in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, came in 1839 to Sangamon county, was married July 2, 1845, in Menard county, Illinois, to Martha M. Harrison, a native of Kentucky. They had two children, both of whom died in infancy, and Mrs. Garretson died April 26, 1848, in Springfield. He was married Feb. 22, 1854, in Menard county to Phebe Campbell, who was born April 26, 1831,
in Butler county, Ohio. They had ten children. The three eldest, VINCENT, AMANDA and ALBERT died of scarlet fever from the 24th to the 28th of September, 1858. The other seven, CORNELIUS, BEAUREGARD, LOURENA MAY, JAMES T., SARAH J., WILLIAM L. and ANNETTA, live with their parents. Thomas P. Garretson is a carpenter by trade, and was working within six feet of Winchester House, on the steeple of the First Presbyterian church in Springfield, in 1842, when Mr. House was thrown from the steeple by lightning and killed. Mr. Garretson and family reside ten miles west of Lincoln, Logan county, Illinois.
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