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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.




HUGGINS, JOHN, was born about 1788, in New York, and raised in Greenbrier county, Va., and went to Gallia county, Ohio, when he was a young man. Jane Hazlitt was born about 1797, in Stokes county, N. C., and was taken to Gallia county, Ohio, when she was quite young. They were married, had seven children, and moved to Virginia, where one child was born; thence to Carter county, Ky., where one child was born, and to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1840, in what is now Loami township. Of their children--

HANNAH, born in Ohio, June 5, 1818, married in Sangamon county to James Short, and had two children. Mr. Short went to California, was on his way home, and is believed to have been lost on the ship Central America, about 1855. His widow died July 7, 1871. Their daughter, FANNIE, married Peter Workman. See his name. His wife and two children live with their grandmother Huggins, JAMES A. SHORT lives with his grandmother Huggins, also--1874.

CHARLES, born April 30, 1820; died, aged 23.

JOHN T., born April 16, 1822, married Mrs. Lucy Runyon; has two children, and lives near Bethany, Harrison county, Missouri.

ELIZABETH, born April 22, 1824, lives with her mother.

SARLH, born June 18, 1826, in Ohio; married Jan. 20, 1852, in Sangamon county, to Ethan A. Bell, who was born July 25, 1829, in Madison county, Ill. They have three children, SUSAN J., MARTHA E., and THOMAS B., and reside three and one-half miles west of Loami.

MARTHA, born Aug. 4, 1828; lives with her mother.

FRANCES M., born July 22, 1831, married Daniel Whitehead; have eight childrer and reside near Edinburg, Illinois.

PHEBE, born Jan. 22, 1833, in Virginia, married James Lindsay, who died, leaving a widow and five children, in Davis county, Missouri.

JUNIOR, born June 3, 1837, in Carter county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Lavina Bartlett; had two children, and live near Edinburg, Illinois.

John Huggins died Sept. 19, 1845, and his widow lives half a mile west of Loami, Illinois.




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