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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.



LOCKRIDGE, JOHN, was born July 17, 1799, either in Montgomery or Fayette county, Kentucky. He was married in Kentucky Sept. 3, 1811, to Margy Killough, and moved in 1826 to Owen county, Indiana, and from there to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 20, 1838. Of their eight children--

NANCY, born in Kentucky, married in Indiana to John M. Hart, and died, leaving a family in Putnam county, Indiana.

JOHN MILTON, born Jan. 15, 1814, in Montgomery county, Kentucky, came to Sangamon county, near Auburn, in 1837, one year before his father come. He was married July 2, 1840, to Jane Nuckolls. They had five living children in Sangamon county. ROBERT H., the fourth one, born Jan. 17, 1850, married May 3, 1871, to Ella Hough, who was born July 22, 1853, in Lewis county, New York. They live two and a half miles southeast of Chatham. The other four, JOHN W., JAMES M., ANDREW H. and CHARLES E., live with their parents. J. Milton Lockridge and family reside one mile west of Auburn, Illinois. Mr. Lockridge has served several years as a member of the Board of Supervisors of Sangamon county

JAMES W., born in Kentucky, married Margaret A. Bridges. She died, and he married Jane Foster. They reside at Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois. He has children by both marriages.

MARGARET married Alexander Smith, and died, leaving seven children in Chatham.

MATTHEW K. married Pauline Landers. She died, and he lives in California.

JOSEPH H. married Mrs. Elizabeth Frazier, whose maiden name was Wallace, and live in Auburn, Illinois.

ELIZABETH married Madison Curvey, and died without children.

LOUISA married Franklin Steele, and lives in Owen county, Indiana.

John Lockridge died in Oregon Sept. 20, 1852, having left his family in Sangamon



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