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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.



HUSBAND, HARMON, was born April 10, 1791, in North Carolina, and taken by his parents to Christian county, Ky. Sarah Pyles was born Nov. 12, 1790, in South Carolina. Her parents moved about 1795, to the vicinity of Mt. Sterling, Ky., and three or four years later moved to Christian county. Harmon Husband and Sarah Pyles were there married in 1811, and had five children in that county. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in Oct., 1820, and settled three miles east of the present town of Auburn, where seven children were born. Of their children--

EVELINE, born April 1, 1814, in Christian county, Ky., married Josephus Gatton. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born about 1816, in Kentucky, married Thomas Mason. See his name. She died Dec. 23, 1850, leaving four children.

MARY A., born in Kentucky, married Thomas J. Higgins. See his name.

JANE, born in Kentucky, is unmarried, and lives at the family homestead.

MARTHA, married Wm. M. Snow, and died March 8, 1856, in Carlinville, leaving one child, ENOCH W. SNOW. He lives at the Husband family homestead.

SUSAN died in 1850, aged twenty-eight years.

JAMES E. D. is unmarried, and lives at the family homestead.

JOHN Q. A., born Feb. 19, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Jan. 7, 1864, to Ann E. Barrow. They have three children, EFFIE A., MINNIE A. and CLARLES H., and live six miles south of Springfield.

SARAH R., and

WILLIAM H., twins, born in Sangamon county, are both unmarried, and live at the family homestead.

EMILY, born in Sangamon county, married Lockwood M. Todd. See his name. They live in Virginia City, Montana Ter.

Harmon Husband died Feb. 15, 1848, and Mrs. Sarah Husband resides--1874--on the farm where they settled in 1820. It is three miles east of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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