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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.
GRAHAM, NATHANIEL
, was born in Pennsylvania. When a young man he went to Columbus, Ohio, and a few years later to Fleming county, Ky., where he was married to Sarah Harbor. They had eight children in Fleming county, and the family moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1826. In the spring of 1827 they moved three and a half miles east of Springfield, between Sugar creek and the South fork of Sangamon river. Of their eight children--
NANCY, born in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to James Woods. They had ten children, two of whom lived to be married, but all are dead. Mr. and Mrs. Woods live at Darlington, Lafayette county, Wis.
WILLIAM, born in 1808, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Trotter. They had four living children. JAMES lives in Springfield. HESTER married David Carver, and lives in Springfield. CHARLES married Jane Hart, and lives in Springfield. William Graham and wife are both dead.
SARAH, born in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, married in Lafayette county, Wis., to John Woods.
THOMAS, KEZIAH and HESTER, all died.
MARY, born Jan. 3, 1818, in Kentucky, married Dec. 22, 1840, to Turner Lloyd. They have six children, and live in Springfield.
JOSHUA
, born Jan. 6, 1821, in Fleming county, Ky., married Sept. 25, 1848, in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth A. Branch. They had eight children, five of whom died under two years. NANCY ELIZA, GEORGE E. and REBECCA E., reside with their parents near Sangamon station, on the farm where his parents settled in 1827.
Nathaniel Graham and his wife both died in Sangamon county, on the farm where they settled in 1827.
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