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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.



KINNEY, HENRY, was born March 1, 1774, in Woodstock, Connecticut. In 1795 he went to Cazenovia, N. Y., and from there to Clinton, Oneida county, in the same State, and was there married, March 4, 1798, to Dicey Pond. She was born Sept. 4, 1778, in Hartford, Conn. They lived at Cazenovia, Madison county, N. Y., until they had three children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving May 6, 1822, in what is now Loami township. Of their three children--

HENRY, Jun., born Aug. 4, 1807, in New York, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 23, 1828, to Margaret Dorrance. They had five children in Sangamon county, namely--DANIEL married Annis Elmore. They have two children, HENRY H. and EDITH C., and live one and one-quarter miles east of Loami. CLARISSA, born April 9, 1831, married James M. Darneille. See his name. CAROLINE died, March 6, 1853, in her twenty-first year. ELIZA J., born Oct. 9, 1834, married, Nov. 30, 1854, to John R. Shelton. See his name. REBECCA married David M. Vanderen. See his name. Henry Kinney, Jun., and his wife reside in Chatham. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war, in 1831, in a cavalry company, under Capt. Jonathan Saunders.

MAJOR, born Jan. 2, 1810, in New York, married, Nov. 15, 1834, to Melissa S. Pond, who was born March 12, 1819, at Meadville, Penn. Her father, Martin T. Pond, moved to Logan county, Illinois, before the "deep snow," and was living there when his daughter Melissa was married. He moved to Concord, Morgan county, and died there, Feb. 2, 1864. Major Kinney and wife had five children in Sangamon county, namely--DICEY, born Nov. 25, 1840, married, March 29, 1860, to Wm. D. Farrar, have three children, FRANK D, ALLICE G. and STELLA B., and live in Osage county, Kan. AMANDA, born Aug., 1842, married, in 1862, to James N. Moore. She died, Nov. 7, 1864, leaving one son, HERBERT B., who lives with his father, near Virginia, Cass county, Ill. HENRY, born Nov. 21, 1844, married, April 9, 1868, to Anna F. Hesser, who was born June 3, 1845, near Palmyra, Mo. They have two children, WILLYS H. and EUGENE E., and live near Loami. JULIUS M. died March 4, 1864, in his sixteenth year. ALICE, born July 18, 1851, lives with her parents. Major Kinney and wife reside near Concord, Morgan county--1874. He was a soldier in a Light Horse company in the Black Hawk war.

JOHN, born Sept. 2, 1813, in New York, married in Sangamon county, Nov. 3, 1836, to Asenath Sweet. They have two children, both married. Mr. and Mrs. Kinney live at Linden, Osage county, Kansas.

Mrs. Dicey Kinney died, Sept. 15, 1850, and Henry Kinney, Sen., died March 18, 1859, both in Loami township. He was a member of the Baptist church sixty-seven years, and a deacon the greater part of that time.



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