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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.



JONES, HASKINS, was born in Maryland, and married in Jefferson county, Tenn., to Lucy Tolley, and came to Sangamon county, in 1835, settling in Sand Prairie, five miles east of Rochester. They had thirteen children--

JOHN F., married Lucinda Pike and died, leaving one child, CHARLES T.

ELIZABETH, married John L. Firey. See his name.

DAVID C., married Ann Griffith and lives near Breckenridge, Ill.

NANCY, married James Campbell, and lives in Edinburg, Ill.

MARY P., married John B. Eaton. See his name.

CARTER T., born Aug. 17, 1834, in Jefferson county, Tenn., married in Sangamon county, April 23, 1863, to Theresa Talbert, has four children, FANNY, LUCY, BETTY and CARTER T., Jun., and lives four miles south of Rochester, Illinois.

HASKINS, Jun., married Lettie Sweet, who died, and he married again, and lives near Breckenridge, Illinois.

LUCY J., married John H. Martin, and lives near Taylorville, Illinois.

PRISCILLA, married Thomas Stokes. See his name. He died and she married James Lay, and lives in Kansas.

Haskins Jones died in 1842, and his widow died April, 1873, he in Sangamon, and she in Christian county, Illinois.



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