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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.



KIRK, WILLIAM B., was born Jan. 18, 1787, in Virginia; was married there Aug. 31, 1809, to Mary Young, a native of Virginia also; and moved to Bath county, Ky., where they had seven children. They moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov., 1836, in what is now Cartwright township. Of their children--

RACHEL B. married S. A. Craig, and remained in Kentucky.

JOHN A., born Oct. 17, 1812, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Julia W. Cunnin, who died, and he married in Kentucky to Isabel Frazier, who died in Menard county, leaving one child, MARY J. She married Henry Giger. See his name. J. A. Kirk married Sarah Ferguson, who died, leaving one child, JOSIAH B. He enlisted in an Illinois regiment, and died of disease near Memphis, Tenn., in March, 1863. J. A. Kirk died in Cooper township, Jan., 1861.

WILLIAM Y., born Feb. 21, 1815, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Alletta A. Earnest. They had one child, JULIA F., married and lives in Missouri. Mr. K. died in Sangamon county in 1852. His widow married a Mr. Watson, and lives in Missouri.

MARY A. V., born April 15, 1820, in Bath county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Benjamin A. Giger. See his name.

ANDREW ST. CLAIR, born April 13, 1822, in Bath county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, was farming there, and in February, 1861, left home unexpectedly, and the first heard of him at the end of two years, he was in the Union army. Served three and a half years, and was honorably discharged. He resides four miles north of Athens, Illinois.

MARGARET J., born Oct. 6, 1824, in Bath county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Benjamin A. Giger. See his name.

AGNES S., born Sept. 11, 1827, in Kentucky, died unmarried in Sangamon county, Oct. 29, 1866.

William B. Kirk died April 12, 1847, and his widow died March 22, 1848, both at Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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