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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.



JEFFERIES, ELIAS, was born March, 1800, in Ross county, Ohio. His ancestors were from Hardy county, Va. Elias was married March 11, 1824, to Rachel Johnstone. She was born in the same county in 1805. Her ancestors were from Monroe county, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Jefferies had one child in Ohio, and moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1826, where they had one child. Of the two children--

GEORGE J., born May 13, 1826, in Ohio, raised in Sangamon county, and died in Ohio, in his nineteenth year.

NIREM A., born Aug. 2, 1828, in Springfield, raised in Ohio, married in 1861 to Ruth J. Weese, in Sangamon county. They had four living children, and Mrs. Jefferies died June 4, 1872. Mr. Jefferies married in 1874 to Miss Weese, and, with his four children, JOHN, HENRYC., LAURA L. and GEORGE, live four miles north of Springfield.

Mrs. Rachel Jefferies died Dec. 3, 1830, and Elias Jefferies was married to Margaret Jack. They had four children, three of whom died under five years of age.

ROBERT J., born April 27, 1836, married April 30, 1857, to Mary Weese. Mr. Jefferies has served four years as Justice of the Peace, and is now--1874--in his second term. He has no children, and lives in Fancy creek township, eight miles north of Springfield.

Mrs. Margaret Jefferies died in the fall of 1838, and Elias Jefferies died in the spring of 1840, both in Springfield township, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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