LYNN, JAMES, was born Feb. 24, 1788, in Rowan county, N. C. In 1809 he went to Muhlenberg county, Ky., and when the war between the United States and England commenced, in 1812, he enlisted in a regiment at Russelville, Ky., and served eighteen months. He was severely wounded by a gunshot in Canada. After leaving the army he returned to Muhlenberg county, Ky. Sarah DePoyster was born April 29, 1795, in Iredell county, N. C. When she was a child her parents moved to Butler county, Ky. James Lynn and Sarah DePoyster were married Nov. 27, 1814, in Butler county, and at once visited his parents in North Carolina, remaining one year, and in the fall of 1815 moved to Barren county, Ky., where they had four children, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1825, at the north end of Buffalo Hart Grove. Mrs. Lynn says that the country looked so new and wild, it required three days to look around and consult before they could decide to unload their wagons. Her husband would willingly have gone back, but she would not consent to it. Indians were very numerous, but never did them any harm. They had four children in Sangamon county. Of their eight children--

MARY ANN, born Nov. 7, 1816, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Feb. 28, 1840, to Garrett Laughlin. They had eight children. JAMES H., born Dec. 6, 1842, and JOHN W., born Nov. 1, 1845, are unmarried, and reside with their parents. SARAH J., born April 9, 1848, married April 9, 1870, to Alexander McMurray, whs was born in 1843, in county Donegal, Ireland. She died Sept. 29, 1873. ISABEL, born March 14, 1850, married Jan. 13, 1869, to Samuel Remines, have two children, MINNIE and MARY. WILSON D., GEORGE P., GARRET F. and EMMA C.--the four latter live with their parents, half a mile southwest of Cornland, in Sangamon county.

R. PERRY, born July 20, 1819, in Barren county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married May, 1865, at Sedalia, Mo., to Emily Dickson, a native of Arkansas. They had three children; two died in infancy. CATHARINE lives with her parents at the homestead settled by his father in 1825, near Buffalo Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

CALYOU JANE, born Feb. 2, 1822, in Kentucky, married March, 1868, in Sangamon county, to William Beck. They live in Vernon county, Mo., near Appleton, Kansas.

JOHN W., born May 24, 1824, in Barren county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married Aug. 5, 1858, to Sarah Matthews, at Decatur, although they both lived at the time in Sangamon county. She was born Sept. 14, 1835, in Clermont county, Ohio. They had eight children; two died in infancy. LUE BELLE died March 23, 1871, in her twelfth year. The other five, ALICE A., SARAH F., CLARA D., MARY E. and ADA MARIA live with their parents, two and a half miles east of Buffalo Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARTHA, born Dec. 29, 1826, in Sangamon county, died Sept. 25, 1830.

SUSAN, born Feb. 2, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Feb., 1851, to Lewis Dyer. They have five children, and live in Vernon county, Mo., near Appleton, Kansas.

SARAH F., born May 4, 1834, in Sangamon county, married Sept., 1857, to Monroe Lynn, have one child, LAURA, and live at Niantic, Illinois.

MARIA K., born Sept. 22, 1836, married Feb., 1867, to John G. Lynn, and died June 11, 1870, in Missouri.

James Lynn died March 11, 1860. He carried the musket ball received in 1814, in Canada, in his flesh to the grave. His widow resides--1874--with her son, R. Perry Lynn, on the farm where herself and husband settled in 1825. It is half a mile northeast of Buffalo Hart Station.