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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.
GRANT, JAMES
, was born in Rutherford county, N. C. He was there married to Sarah Elliott, sister to Andrew Elliott. They had two children in North Carolina, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1834, near Springfield, where two children were born. Of their four children--
WILLIAM, born in North Carolina, raised in Sangamon county, and married Mrs. Sarah Gibbons. They have children, and live at Greenview, Menard county.
MYRA, born in North Carolina, raised in Sangamon county, was a deaf mute, and died at the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, at Jacksonville.
JOHN A., born in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and lives at 439 north Fourth street, Springfield.
JAMES, Jun., is married, and lives at 439 north Fourth street.
James Grant and his wife both died in Sangamon county.
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