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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.
HAND, ELIAS
, was born about 1770, in Cape May county, New Jersey. He was married there to Miss Sayre. They had four children in New Jersey, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving May 30, 1838, in what is now Gardner township. Of their children--
DANIEL died, aged thirty years.
MARIA married John Robinson, and lives in Minnesota.
JESSE married Mary Hagin, and lives in New Jersey.
ELIZABETH, born in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county to Franklin Bradley. They had one son, FRANK, who is a minister in the M. E. Church, and in 1873 lived in Davisville, Michigan. Franklin Bradley died Sept. 14, 1845, and his widow married John G. Ransom. See his name.
Elias Hand died November, 1856, and his widow died in 1869, aged eighty-seven years.
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