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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.
JACOBS, GEORGE
, was born in 1793, in Clarke county, Ky. He was married there to Nancy Haney. They had five children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., with his brother Daniel, arriving Nov. 7, 1825, in what is now Loami township, where five children were born; about 1839 the family moved to Christian county, where one child was born. The only representative of the family in Sangamon county is--
EVELINE, born Oct. 12, 1819, in Clark county, Ky., married Thompson Hall. See his name.
SARAH married Willis Virden, have two children, and live in Shelby county.
JAMES married Elizabeth Atterbury. She died, leaving two children, and he married Belle Covington, and live in Macon county.
The other children are all dead.
George Jacobs died Jan. 1, 1845, and his widow died Jan. 16, 1857, both in Christian county, Ill.
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