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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.



LEWIS, LEVI D., born Aug. 26, 1801, near Morristown, N. J. Eliza Sutton was born Feb. 4, 1804, at the same place. They were there married Aug. 13, 1823, and had six children, one of whom died, aged five years. The family moved to Springfield, Ill., in Nov., 1835, where they had one child. Of their six children--

WILLIAM C. B., born Sept. 11, 1824, in New Jersey, went as musician in an Illinois regiment, to the Mexican war, returned, and died Oct. 6, 1847, in Springfield.

SARAH, born July 30, 1826, near Morristown, N. J., married in Springfield to Reuben Coon, who was born July 22, 1821, in New Jersey. They had eight children in Springfield, one of whom died young. LEVI L., born June 11, 1849, married in Springfield, Jan. 8, 1872, to Mary J. Tully, who was born Jan. 8, 1855, at Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. L. L. Coon is engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes, in Springfield. ANN ELIZA, born July 27, 1851, married in Springfield, Feb. 25, 1873, to William H. Billington, who was born March 31, 1849, in Shrewsbury, England. They have one child, LINA MAY, and reside in Springfield. Mr. Billington is conductor on the T. W. & W. railroad. FRANKLIN P., born May 12, 1853, is farming. CHARLEY, LINA, SUSAN and GEORGE reside with their mother. Mr. Reuben Coon was for several years engaged in the leather trade, and the manufacture of boots and shoes. He died, Nov. 7, 1871, and his widow and children reside in Springfield, Illinois.

MARY E., born Sept. 19, 1834, in N. J., married in Springfield, in 1853, to Thomas H. Palladay. She died May 18, 1855.

JAMES S., born Feb. 10, 1837, in Springfield, was married March 27, 1862, to Mary A. Smith, in Monmouth, Warren county, Ill., and reside there.

JOHN BERGEN, born Nov. 15, 1843, in Springfield, married in Nov 1871, near Monmouth, Ill., to Eliza Smith, and resides at Lenox, Iowa.

Levi D. Lewis was connected with his brothers, Joseph and Thomas, in the boot and shoe business for several years. In 1849 he went to California, and died there Feb. 24, 1850. Mrs. Eliza Lewis resides with her daughter, Mrs. Coon, in Springfield.



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