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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.



GOODELL, CALVIN, born Nov. 5, 1783, in Connecticut, was married in New York to Martha Coley, who was born Feb. 14, 1789. They had six children in New York, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1824, in what is now Loami township, where five children were born. Of their children--

CHLOE, born May 11, 1809, in New York, was married in Illinois to Philip Aylesworth. She died, leaving four children.

HARRISON, born April 9, 1811, in New York, was married in Sangamon county to Mary Taylor. They have seven children, and live in Woodford county, Ill.

PHYLATTA, born March 13, 1813, in Madison county, N. Y., married Johnson Harding, had three children, and Mr. Harding died, and she married George Beach, who was born in 1810, in Maryland. They had eight children, three of whom died under ten years. Of the other five: LAFAYETTE, born Nov. 5, 1842, married May 29, 1862, to Catharine Alexander, have one child, CHARLES D., and live five miles west of Chatham. MARY, born Oct. 19, 1839, married June 2, 1860, to Josiah S. Kirk, who was born Dec. 7, 1834, in Washington county, Va. They have three children, MARY J., GEORGE A. and MARTIN F., and live in Loami. JOSEPH, born Feb. 8, 1852, OSCAR F., born Oct. 13, 1854, and JULIA A., live with their parents. George Beach and wife reside in Loami.

SCHUYLER, born July 18, 1815, married Melinda Sowell, have eleven children, and live in Miami county, Kan. See Sowell family.

WILLIS, born Sept. 1, 1817, in New York, married in Sangamon county to Sally Sowell. They had one child, ALICE, and he died. See Sowell family.

JOSEPH, born Jan. 5, 1820, in New York, married in Sangamon county, moved to California, and died there, leava widow and two children.

WILLIAM, born Sept. 21, 1822, married to Mrs. Sally Goodell, whose maiden name was Sowell, and lives in Missouri.

MARY A., born Dec. 3, 1824, in Sangamon county, married Martin Thurber. They had six children, and Mr. T. died. The widow and children live in Hancock county, Ill.

CALVIN, Jun., born April 13, 1827, in Sangamon county, was a soldier in an Illinois regiment, and died in the army.

ADALINE, born Dec. 30, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Herman Burt, had five children. He died in Indiana. She resides in Madison, Wis.

NEWTON M., born in 1840, in Sangamon county, married, has three children, and lives in Menard county.

Mrs. Martha Goodell died Sept. 13, 1852, and Calvin Goodell died March 10, 1863, both at Loami.

Mr. Goodell was always engaged in milling. He built a mill on a small stream one mile east of Loami. Cultivation soon drained the country and cut off his supply of water. True to his Yankee origin, he then put horses inside the wheel, and ran it on the principle of a squirrel cage.



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