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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.



MARTIN, GEORGE, was born in 1805, in Hampshire county, Va., and was there married to Leah Fahs. They had two children, and moved to Licking county, Ohio, where one child was born; and then moved to Sangamon county, arriving in the spring of 1834, in German Prairie, and in 1836 moved to what is now Cotton Hill township, where three children were born. Of their six children--

MARGARET A., born in Virginia, died Feb. 19, 1849, in Sangamon county.

JOHN W., born Feb. 22, 1830, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Mary Wood. He died July 2, 1862.

JAMES M., born June 15, 1832, in Licking county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county Feb. 1, 1855, to Mary Williams. They had six children, four of whom died under six years. MARY F. and JAMES H. reside with their parents, in Cotton Hill township, near old Rienzi, Sangamon county.

MARY C., born in Sangamon county, married David H. Stewart, and died.

MELINDA J., born in Sangamon county, died, aged ten or twelve years.

RACHEL L. died, aged three years.

George Martin died Oct. 25, 1841, and Mrs. Leah Martin died Aug. 8, 1860; both in Cotton Hill township.



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