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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.



GREEN, GEORGE M., born Dec. 25, 1809, in Prince William county, Va. He was married Dec. 26, 1833, in Loudon county, to Mary Miller. They had two children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Oct. 2, 1839, near Mechanicsburg, and May 9, 1840, moved south of the Sangamon river into what is now Rochester township, where two children were born. Of their four children--

ANN N., born Sept. 16, 1836, in Loudon county, Va., married Feb. 21, 1856, in Sangamon county, to William H. Rhodes. She died, Sept. 17, 1870, leaving six children, JOHN D., CHARLES W., GEORGE W., MINNIE V., HARRIET E. and MARY O. They live with their father near Rochester.

MARGARET J., born May 10, 1839, in Loudon county, Va., married in Sangamon county to Robert H. Sattley. See his name.

CHARLES F., born June 4, 1842, in Sangamon county, died July 7, 1861.

GEORGE H., born March 5, 1844, in Sangamon county, married in the same county, Dec. 24, 1869, to Catharine Hughes. They have two children, and reside near Coon Creek Postoffice, Barton county, Mo.

Mrs. Mary Green died Aug. 3, 1848, in her native county of Loudon, where she had gone hoping to improve her health. George M. Green was married Jan. 3, 1849, in Sangamon county, to Harriet Sattley. They have eight children--

EMILY F., EDWARD F., JOHN W., MARY E., IDA E., ROBERT W., LEWIS M., and JESSIE L.

George M. Greene and family reside two miles southeast of Rochester.

Mrs. Margaret Green, mother of George M., John, James and William, came to Sangamon county, with her four sons, in the fall of 1839. Her husband, Rolla Green, and her second son, Sumner, having died in Virginia. She died in Sangamon county, at the house of her son George M.



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