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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.



HARNSBERGER, JACOB, was born in 1781, in Rockingham county, Va., and was there married to Catharine Harnsberger. They had two children in Virginia, and moved to Clarke county, Ohio, where seven children were born, and from there to Clinton county, Ind., where one child was born, and Mrs. Harnsberger and one child died there. The eldest son went to Wisconsin, married, had one child, and died there. Two sons and three daughters remained in Indiana. Mr. Harnsberger and three sons came to Sangamon county, arriving Aug. 29, 1839, in what is now Cartwright township. Of the three sons--

HENRY M., born Feb. 2, 1823, in Clarke county, Ohio, married Feb. 18, 1846, in Sangamon county, to Melinda A. Harrison. They had four children--JOHN J. married Nancy C. Campbell, has one child, CARRIE, and lives in Menard county, near Pleasant Plains. G. LEONARD, S. AMANDA C. and M. A. VIRGINIA, live with their parents. Henry M. Harnsberger and wife reside three and one-half miles northeast of Pleasant Plains--1873.

GEORGE G., born in 1825, in Ohio, and married Mary Scott. They have four living children, and reside six miles northeast of Decatur.

JACOB S., born in 1829, married Sarah Starr, have three children, and reside near Tionus, Bibb county, Ala.

Jacob Harnsberger died Sept., 1847, in Montgomery county, Ala.



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