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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, ROBERT, born Sept. 25, 1790, in Orange county, North Carolina, was a brother of Alexander, William and Thomas. When he was a child his parents moved to Madison county, Ky., and from there to Pulaski county, same State, where his father died, and all the family moved to Bedford county, Tenn. He went from that county as a soldier in the 4th Tenn. Reg. during the war of 1812, and was in a battle against the Indians on the Talladega river, Alabama, in which Gen. Jackson was in immediate command. Robert Jones served three months and fourteen days. He went from Tennessee to Hart county, Ky., where he was married about 1816 to Tabitha Lard, who was born June 18, 1795. She was a sister of John Lard. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had one child in Kentucky, and moved to Wayne county, Ill., where four children were born; thence to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving May 13, 1828, in what is now Ball township, where they had three children. Of all their children--

MAHALA, born Nov. 9, 1818, in Hart county, Ky., died Aug. 7, 1838, in Sangamon county, Illinois.

ALEXANDER J., born Jan. 9, 1820, in Wayne county, Ill., brought up in Sangamon county, was married June 26, 1871, in Christian county, Ill., to Cassandra E. Hunt. Mrs. C. E. Jones died May 5, 1875, leaving one child, MELISSA A., who lives with her father in Ball township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOAB, born Aug. 27, 1823. in Wayne county, Ill., died Aug. 30, 1844, in Sangamon county.

JOHN G., born July 21, 1825, in Wayne county, died Sept. 2, 1838, in Sangamon county.

MADISON, born Aug. 7. 1827, in Wayne county, Ill., died Feb. 16, 1849, in Sangamon county.

DRURY, born June 12, 1830, in Sangamon county, was married there July 11, 1850, to Amanda M. Porterfield. They had three children. JAMES M. lives with his father. ROBERT P. died, aged seven years. MINERVA J. died in infancy. Mrs. A. M. Jones died Apr. 22, 1855, and Drury Jones was married Sept. 11, 1856, to Susannah Meredith. They had seven children. SARAH M. A. died in infancy. AMANDA J. was married Oct. 1, 1874, to Charles R. McClure, and lives near Pawnee, Sangamon county, Ill. The other five, CHARLES C. L., DAVIS A. W., WILLIAM A. E., FRANCIS M. J. and MARY E. T. M., live with their parents, in Ball township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

CALVIN, born Aug. 22, 1832, in Sangamon county, died, unmarried, Dec. 15, 1855.

ROBERT WILEY, born May 17, 1838, in Sangamon county, died Dec. 12, 1845.

Mrs. Tabitha Jones died Sept. 22, 1861, and Robert Jones died May 16, 1874, both in Ball township. He was in his eighty-fourth year.



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