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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, WILLIAM, was born about 1793, in Orange county, N. C. He was married in Wayne county, Ill., in 1824, to Lucinda Gore, had three children in that county, and the family moved to Sangamon county with his brothers, Alexander and Robert, in 1827 or '8 and settled in Ball township, where eight children were born. Of all the children--

MARGARET, born March 28, 1825, married Elijah Wall, who died, and she married Smith McAtee, and had two children--JANE McATEE is unmarried and lives in Cotton Hill township. MARY McATEE married Henry B. Rose, and lives near Independence, Kansas. Smith McAtee died, and she married Felix Stovall, and he died.

MARY, born Sept. 16, 1826, in Wayne county, married Richard Wall. See his name.

SARAH, born Jan. 30, 1827, married Johnson Wall, and she died.

JAMES, born Nov. 5, 1828, in Sangamon county, was a member of an Illinois regiment, and died in Mexico, in time of the war in 1846 or '7.

ELIZABETH married Logan Lightfoot, as her third husband, and lives in Davis county, Iowa.

DELILAH married to Wm. Callaway in Marysville, California.

ANDREW J., born in 1835, in Sangamon county, served three years in the Union army, married Elizabeth Lard, and lives near Independence, Kansas.

SUSAN, born Feb. 21, 1837, in Sangamon county, married, Jan. 8, 1853, to David B. Greenawalt, who was born June 30, 1819, in Hardin county, Ky. They have three children, MARY M., DAVID M. and IVEY D., and live two miles north of Pawnee.

ROBERT A., born in 1839, in Sangamon county, served in the Union army, married Sarah J. Keys, and live near Independence, Kansas.

NEWTON C., born in Sangamon county, served three years in the Union army, married, and lives near Grafton, Kansas.

Mrs. Lucinda Jones died May 19, 1843, and Wm. Jones died April 2, 1844, both in Sangamon county.



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