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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.



HENSLEY, SIMON, was born Feb. 26, 1785, in Washington county, Va. He was married Feb. 2, 1820, near Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio, to Mary Arnold, who was born Aug. 24, 1792, in Ohio. They had two children in Ohio, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1823, in what is now Island Grove township, north of Spring creek, where two children were born. Of their four children--

JOHN, born Jan. 20, 1821, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county, Thursday, between Christmas and New Year, Dec., 1861, to Leanah Lynch. She was born Jan. 12, 1841, in Pickaway county, Ohio. They had six children--MARY and JAMES died young. KATIE, WILLIAM, SAMUEL and HARRY, live with their parents, in Cartwright township, four miles east of Berlin.

SAMUEL, born June 16, 1822, in Ohio, is unmarried, and lives with his brother John.

JAMES, born Jan. 2, 1824, in Sangamon county, died Aug. 18, 1831.

GEORGE; born Dec. 13, 1825, in Sangamon county, married, in 1857, to Calista Huber, a native of Ohio. They have three children, MARY J., HORACE and BELLE, and live near Topeka, Kansas.

Simon Hensley died Aug. 12, 1826, in Sangamon county, and his widow married Aug. 22, 1827, to Josiah Kirkpatrick. They had two children--

JACOB KIRKPATRICK, born Oct. 5, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Huldah Atkinson. They have three children, HENRY, WILLIAM and MARY, and live--1873--near Roseville, Warren county, Ill.

MARY A. KIRKPATRICK, born Aug. 19, 1831, in Sangamon county, married Dr. Remer Sanders. They have two children, MARINDA and CLARA, and reside near Avon, Fulton county, Ill. Dr. Sanders is a practicing physician, now--1873--on a tour to Europe.

Mrs. Mary A. Kirkpatrick died, in 1857, and Josiah Kirkpatrick died March 18, 1872, both in Warren county, Ill.



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