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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.



HARDIN, ASA, born Nov. 22, 1785, in Adair county, Ky., was married there, Feb. 4, 1813, to Elizabeth Taylor, who was born Feb. 29, 1790, in Orange county, Va. They had ten children in Kentucky, and moved to Morgan county, Ill., and two years later to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1832, at Island Grove. Of their children -

JAMES T., born Dec. 3, 1813, in Adair county, Ky., came to Sangamon county with his parents and was married May 1, 1843, in Iowa to Mary A. Pitzer. She died, leaving two children - OLIVIA died young. BEN is a teacher, and lives with his uncle, William Stitt, in Sangamon county. James T. Hardin went to California, and was drowned by the upsetting of a skiff on Feather river, Nov. 3, 1849.

NANCY F., born April 29, 1815 in Adair county Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., to George Crane. They have five children, and live at Fairfield, Iowa.

SARAH F., born Nov. 25, 1816, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, Ill., Aug. 14, 1834, to Greenbury Rucker. They had two children. MYRA married James Phillips. They have two children, and live at Center Ridge, Woodson county, Kansas. MARY lives with her uncle William Stitts. Mr. Rucker died in 1846, and Mrs. R. died in 1854; he in Morgan county and she in Sangamon county, Ill.

STEPHEN, born March 25, 1818, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, Dec. 25, 1844, to Elizabeth C. Parker. They had five children. ALICE died, age seventeen. VIRGINIA died in her twentieth year. JULIETTE and CLARA live with their uncle and aunt Stitt. CHARLES is a member of Co. G., 1st United States Dragoons now - 1873 - and stationed in California.

MARY, born Jul 5, 1819, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to John R. Reagor, who died, leaving four children. Mrs. Mary Reagor married M. D. Archibald. They had two children, and she died in Iowa.

JOHN F., born Nov, 15, 1820 in Adair county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Sept. 12, 1855 to Mrs. Frances C. Butler, whose maiden name was Brown. They have one living child, J. DICK. Mr. Hardin was elected city assessor and collector of Springfield in 1864, elected clerk of Sangamon county, in Nov. 1873, and resides in Springfield.

EVAN T., born Dec. 23, 1822 in Kentucky, brought up in Sangamon county, was married there Jan. 29, 1852, to Leutha A. Boynton. They have seven children. Evan T. Hardin and family live near Calhoun, Harrison county, Iowa.

ELIZABETH, born Sept. 5, 1824, in Adair county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., to William Stitt. See his name.

WILLIAM, born Nov. 25, 1827, in Kentucky, was brought up in Sangamon county, Ill., and enlisted in June, 1846, in Co. A, of the 4th Ill. Inf., under Col E. D. Baker, and died in Mexico, Oct. 30, 1846.

ALBERT, born Sept. 17, 1830 in Adair county, Ky., brought up in Sangamon county, enlisted in 186-, in Co. C.---Ill. Inf., for three years, and died at Bowling Green, Ky.

Asa Harding died Aug. 22, 1847, and Mrs. Elizabeth Harding died Feb., 1854, both in Sangamon county, Ill.



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