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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.
LYMAN, ALVAN
, born Mch. 5, 1786, at Brookfield, Vt. He was married, February, 1813, at Royalton, Vt., to Lucy Perrin, who was born there Dec. 22, 1790. They became acquainted in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and returned to Vermont to be married. They had two children born and died in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and moved with a colony of fifty persons to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1833 near Farmingdale. Mr. Lyman helped to haul the silver coin from Alton to Springfield, to establish the State Bank of Illinois. He arrived with one of four loads of coin, July 4, 1835. Alvan Lyman lived thirty-three years in Sangamon county, and died September, 1866, near Farmingdale. His widow resides with her niece, Mrs. T. H. Ferry, four miles southwest of Pleasant Plains.--1874.
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