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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.



KENT, JOSIAH P., was born Nov. 28, 1804, near Bainbringe, Ross county, Ohio. Clarissa Poole was born Nov. 19, 1816, in the same county, near Chillicothe. They were there married Aug. 2, 1836, and came to Sangamon county, arriving in November of that year, in what is now Illiopolis township. They had two children--

ADALINE, born Aug. 7, 1837, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 8, 1854, to Charles M. Turner, who was born Dec. 2, 1820, in Juniata county, Pa., and came to Sangamon county in 1847, to visit his sister, Mrs. S. G. Nesbitt. Mr. and Mrs. Turner had seven children, three of whom died under two years. ELIZA A., MARY E., CHARLES A. and LAURA BELLE reside with their parents in Illiopolis.

JAMES T., born August 8, 1842, in Sangamon county. He served nine months in the U. S. Navy in the war to suppress the rebellion, and was married Sept. 6, 1869, in Sangamon county, to Jennie Dorrell. They have two children, HORACE G. and GEORGE, and reside at Washington Heights, office 202, LaSalle street, Chicago, Illinois.--1874.

Josiah P. Kent died July 26, 1856, in Illiopolis township. Mrs. Clarissa Kent was married March 17, 1861, to Albert Booth. He died March 1, 1873, in Springfield, Illinois, and his widow resides there.



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