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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.



MATTHEW, WILLIAM, was born June 9, 1802, in Bracken county, Ky. He was married Jan. 4, 1824, to Sarah McDaniel, who was born August, 1808. They had six children in Kentucky, and moved to Marion county, Ind., in 1834, and to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving October, 1836, in what is now Mechanicsburg township, where two children were born. Of their eight children--

JOHN W., born Oct. 4, 1824, in Bracken county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, August, 1848, to Rachel Lanham. They have eight children--MARTHA E. married Blackstone McDaniel. See his name. WILLIAM H. married Edna Vaughn, have one child, ESTELLA, and lives with his father. ELIJAH T., SARAH F., IRENE, HARRIET E. and MARY F., live with their parents. JOSEPH died, aged three years. John W. Matthew has no education from books, but has been a good business man in farming and stock dealing. In 1872 he took an over dose of quinine which totally destroyed his hearing. Not being able to read or write, and knowing nothing of sign language, he is utterly unable to receive or communicate a thought. He lives near Dawson, Illinois--1874.

ROBERT W., born Jan. 27, 1826, and died Sept., 1853.

NATHANIEL F., born Nov. 4, 1827, in Bracken county, Ky., married Nov. 26, 1856, in Sangamon county, to Mary McDaniel. They had seven children; the first and third, ALBERT and DOUGLAS, died young. OLIVER F., BELLE M., ROBERT S., GEORGE M. and WILLIAM J., live with their parents, four and one-half miles southeast of Buffalo Hart station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

LUANNE, born Dec. 10, 1829, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Jan., 1855, to A. J. Newhouse, have five children, and live in Marion county, Indiana.

JAMES H., born March 20, 1832, in Bracken county, Ky., brought to Sangamon county, in 1835, married Nov. 14, 1854, in Hillsboro, to Sarah C. House, who was born Sept. 2, 1835, in Cabarras county, N. C. They have four children, JOHN L., ALICE M., MARY A. and ILLNOY C., and live one-half mile northwest of Barclay, Illinois--1874.

ELIZABETH M., born in Kentucky, Aug. 15, 1834, married John H. Lanham. See his name.

MARY E., born Sept. 15, 1837, in Sangamon county, married, Feb., 1857, to William D. Turner. They have five children, and live in Wayne county, Illinois.

MARTHA J., born Feb. 1, 1840, in Sangamon county, married, Sept., 1857, to John Turner, had one child, and Mr. Turner died. She married John Goodman, has two children, and lives in Wayne county, Illinois.

William Matthew died, April 12, 1841, and his widow died Sept. 26, 1851, she, in Sangamon, and he, in Logan county, Illinois.



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