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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.



HAMPTON, SAMUEL C., brother to James P., was born about 1791, in Franklin county, Ky. He was there married, in 1819, to Catharine Johnson, a native of Virginia. They had four children in Frankfort, Franklin county, Ky. The eldest, J. Henry, died there. Mr. Hampton moved with his family to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830, in what is now Mechanicsburg township, where they had one child. Of their four children--

JAMES W., born Oct. 4, 1823, in Frankfort, Ky., married in Springfield to Elizabeth Johnson. They had three children, two of whom died young. JOHN T. is married, and resides in Decatur, Ill. Mrs. Elizabeth Hampton died, and James W. Hampton married Ada Baker. They had three living children, FRANK, NETTIE and CHARLES R. James W. Hampton died Oct. 25, 1875, in Springfield, Ill. His widow and children live at 817 South Fourth street.

ELIZABETH, born in 1825, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county in 1842 to Isaac Hart. They had five children, and in 1860 moved to, and are now living at, Ottumwa, Iowa.

SETH COOK, born April 18, 1828, in Frankfort, Ky., was married Sept. 8, 1853, in Springfield, to Mary A. Conant. They had seven children--SETHCOOK, Jun., the eldest, and EMERY E., the youngest, died under five years. The other five, HARRY L., LYDIA C., ALBERT S., RUTH M., and RUFUS C. live with their parents. Mr. Hampton has been, from his boyhood, engaged in merchandizing, and is now in that business in Springfield--1876.

CHARLES B., born March, 1830, in Sangamon county, died March 1, 1874, in Springfield, leaving neither wife nor children.

Samuel C. Hampton died about 1839, and Mrs. Catharine Hampton died Jan. 19, 1859, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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