GARVEY, SAMUEL, was born Aug. 31, 1794, in Culpepper county, Va. His father, Job Garvey, was born in Scotland, and brought to America when he was quite young. His parents both dying early, he was bound to a man who proved to be a cruel master. Determined to escape the hard servitude, and partly from patriotic motives, he enlisted as a soldier in the revolutionary army, and served the whole seven years. When Samuel was about one year old his parents moved to Woodford county, Ky., and four or five years later moved to Franklin county, about eighteen miles south of Frankfort. Samuel volunteered in a regiment of dragoons at Frankfort, under Col. Dick Johnson, and was in the battle of the river Thames, in Canada, in which Col. Johnson is reputed to have killed the Indian chief Tecumseh. After his return the family moved to that part of Gallatin which is now Owen county, Ky. Samuel Garvey was there married, Dec. 26, 1816, to Maria Elliston, who was born July 25, 1800, in Franklin county. They lived in Owen county for some time, then, with a family of seven children, moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830, in the vicinity of what became Mechanicsburg, where they had five living children. Of their twelve children--

SCOTT, born Nov. 12, 1817, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county in the twenty-first year of his age.

LEMUEL, born Sept. 11, 1819, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county in his twenty-sixth year.

MARY A., born Aug. 11, 1823, in Kentucky, married William H. Hampton. See his name.

SAMUEL, Jun., born Aug. 27, 1825, in Owen county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, July 31, 1849, to Sarah A. Gideon. She was born Jan. 13, 1828, in Champaign county, Ohio, and came to Sangamon county in 1846. They had five children. MARY A., born May 21, 1850, married Sept. 9, 1869, to David C. Fletcher. They have three children, NEVADA, CORINNA and LENORA, and reside in Illiopolis township, three miles east of Mechanicsburg. D. C. Fletcher was born May 3, 1843, in Christian county. He enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, for three years, in Co. A, 73d Ill. Inf., was wounded at the battle of Stone's river, Tenn., also at Adairsville, Ga.; served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged in June, 1865. ANN M., born Aug. 23, 1852, CATHARINE J., born Oct. 16, 1854, and HENRY C., born Aug. 13, 1863, reside with their parents. ANDREW S. died Dec. 6, 1871, aged four years. Samuel Garvey, Jun., resides two and a half miles east of Mechanicsburg.

ELIZABETH A. and NANCY C., twins, born March 1, 1827, in Kentucky.

ELIZABETH A. married in Sangamon county to John P. Jack, and resides at Edina, Knox county, Mo.

NANCY C. married John S. Hampton. See his name.

WILLIAM F., born Aug. 22, 1829, in Owen county, Ky., married in Springfield, Feb. 2, 1854, to Elizabeth A. Williams, who was born Nov. 29, 1829, in Montgomery county, Md. They had six children. Their second, THOMAS E., died, aged eight years. The fourth, EMMA J., died, aged two years. HORACE O., CLARA, WILLIAM H. and SAMUEL, reside with their parents, one and a quarter miles southwest of Illiopolis.

JANE, born March 25, 1831, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 5, 1872, to Josiah T. Peden, a native of Pennsylvania, and resides at Illiopolis.

JEREMIAH C. died, aged six years, and

EMILY died, aged four years.

JOHN, born June 29, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 12, 1869, to Maria F. Darneille. They had four children. OWEN and OLIN died in infancy. MINNIE F. and BERTHA live with their parents at the homestead of his father, one and a half miles east of Mechanicsburg.

HENRY C., born July 15, 1844, died April 26, 1864.

Mrs. Maria Garvey died Jan. 17, 1871, and Samuel Garvey, Sen., resides one and a half miles east of Mechanicsburg, and within that distance of where he settled in 1830, just before the "deep snow."