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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.



LINDSAY, JOHN, was born in 1773 at Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh, Penn. He was taken by his parents to Fleming county, Kentucky. He was married there in the year 1800 to Mary Glass. She died January, 1811, leaving five children, and Mr. Lindsay was married there in September, 1811. They had one child in Kentucky, and moved in 1817 to St. Clair county, Illinois, where they had one child, and moved to what is now Sangamon county in 1819, settling in what is now the western part of Springfield. Of his children--

REBECCA, born September, 1802, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Andrew Orr, and died within one year.

POLLY, born September, 1804, in Kentucky, married James Smith, and died there, leaving one child, AMANDA.

DAVID H., born February, 1807, in Fleming county, Kentucky, married in 1832, in Sangamon county to Mary A. Dorrance. They had four children, MARY S., born March, 1833, died Jan. 6, 1869, in Shelby county, Illinois. MARGARET A., born March, 1836, married B. F. Sinard. She died, leaving a son, MILTON SINARD, who lives in Mt. Auburn, Illinois. MARQUIS D., born March 23, 1839, enlisted August 9, 1861, for three years, in Co. B, 30th Ill. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged Aug. 27, 1864. He was married in Sangamon county Oct. 31, 1866, to Margaret Kinney, who was born April 6, 1839, in Cazenovia, New York. They had two children. LOGAN L. lives with his parents. IDA MAY died in her fourth year. M. D. Lindsay lives near Loami, Illinois. MARTHA, born March, 1842, married Daniel Young. Mrs. Mary A. Lindsay died in 1846, while her husband was in Mexico. David H. Lindsay was a soldier in the 4th Ill. Inf., under Colonel E. D. Baker. He served one year from June, 1846, returned home and died in 1847, of discase contracted in the army.

GEORGE G., born November, 1808, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Margaret Ward, and died there, leaving one child, JAMES.

AMANDA L., born December, 1810, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to John Morgan, and died, leaving four children, ELIZABETH, SALLY ANN, JOHN W. and SOPHIA S.

By the second wife:

JOHN P., born July, 1814, in Fleming county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county in 1839, to Virginia B. Young. They had six children in Sangamon county. MARY J., born July 22, 1840, married Seth Moore, and lives in Lawndale, Illinois. MELISSA G., born Dec. 23, 1841, married Charlie E. Morton, and lives near Centerville, Iowa. James N., born July 30, 1842, is unmarried, and lives in Centerville, Iowa. ELIZABETH, born Feb. 15, 1846, died aged seven years. ELIZA ANN, born Sept. 15, 1848, married William A. Smith, and lives in Colfax county, Nebraska. JOHN W., born March 22, 1850, is unmarried, and lives in Russell county, Kansas. Mrs. Virginia B. Lindsay died May 2, 1850, in Sangamon county, and J. P. Lindsay married Eliza A. McCandless, and in 1853 moved to Logan county, where they had five living children, SOPHIA BELLE, FLORENCE P., ALMA M., CHARLES E. and WINNIE M. John P. Lindsay resides near Lincoln, Logan county, Ill.

ABRAHAM L., born April 10, 1819, in St. Clair county, Illinois, was married in Sangamon county to Ann Wise. They have seven living children. JOHN D. is married and lives in Ottawa, Kansas. NANCY J. married B. H. Lake and and lives in Mount Pulaski, Illinois. SOPHIA MAY, marrried N. Elkin, and lives near Elkhart, Illinois. WILLIAM H., EVA E., GEORGE B. and HARRIET C. live near Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois. Mrs. Ann Lindsay died January, 1865, near Elkhart, Illinois, and Abram L. Lindsay now--1876--lives in Russell county, Kansas.



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