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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, WILLIAM A., was born Jan. 17, 1810, in Montgomery county, Ky. He was married there to Sally Moore, June 3, 1830. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved in company with his father, John Lockridge, to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Oct. 22, 1835, in what is now Ball township, where five children were born. Of their seven children--

BURRILLA N., born June 11, 1832, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, to James M. Lewis. See his name.

JULIA A., born in Kentucky, married to Napoleon Lloyd. They have three children, WILLIAM, ROBERT and HATTIE, and reside at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.

MARY E., born March 14, 1836, in Sangamon county, married William Gardner. They reside in Chatham, Illinois.

MARGARET, born in Sangamon county, is an invalid, and resides with her sister, Mrs. Ingels.

SARAH B., born Jan. 1, 1841, in Sangamon county, married Nathaniel Ingels, who was born Jan. 1, 1837, near Paris, Ky. They have five living children, SARAH P., HENRY G., FREDERICK L., JOHN A. and JESSIE N. WILLIAM B. died, aged two years. They live in Ball township, two and a half miles southeast of Chatham, Illinois.

WILLIAM R., born in Sangamon county, married April 22, 1869, to Mary Nuckolls. They had one child, CHARLES W., and reside adjoining Pawnee on the north. William R. Lockridge is a farmer, stock-raiser and merchant.

JOHN R., born in Sangamon county, married to Sarah J. Headley. They have one child, JAMES W., and live in Ball township, near Sugar creek Cumberland Presbyterian church, on the farm settled by Joseph Dodds in 1818.

Mrs. Sally Lockridge died Nov. 23, 1857, in Sangamon county, and Wm. A. Lockridge was married June 10, 1858, to Amanda E. Goodbar, who was born in Kentucky, June 2, 1826. They have three children, EMMA, RACHEL L. and MARY M.

Wm. A. Lockridge resides in Ball township, two and a quarter miles south of Chatham, Ill. When Mr. Lockridge came to Sangamon county the timber land was all taken, and it was almost impossible to buy it at any price. Prairie land could be obtained for two or three dollars per acre, and at the same time he has known timber land to sell as high as eighty dollars per acre. Timber land equally good can now be bought for forty dollars per acre, while the prairie land that was then so cheap sells from forty to sixty dollars per acre. Railroads, coal and the hedge plant have wrought the change. Mr. Lockridge says he raised wheat, tramped it out with horses, hauled it ninety miles to St. Louis, and sold it for thirty seven and a half cents per bushel. It required ten days to make the trip, and a full four-horse load would bring about seventeen dollars and fifty cents. The best he could do in selling net pork in Springfield was one dollar and a quarter per hundred pounds, and half of that in trade at very high prices. Mr. Lockridge is now one of the most extensive farmers in the county.



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