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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.



MAXWELL, ELIAS - was born in Green County, Ohio. He was there married to Mrs. Nancy Morgan, a native of the same county. They moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, about 1825 and has six children in Island Grove -

SARAH A., born in Sangamon county, married, had one child, and mother and child both died.

JULIA A., born in Sangamon county, married Thomas D. Smith. He died Feb. 10, 1873, leaving a widow and seven children at Humboldt, Kansas.

WILLIAM, born May 4, 1830, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 27, 1852, to Hannah H. Batty, a native of England. They had eight children; three died young, and WILLIAM H. died, aged twelve years. RICHARD E., JOHN E. and EMMA E., reside with their parents in New Berlin, Illinois.

ANTHONY P., born in Sangamon county, went to the Pacific coast in 1859, married in Oregon to a Miss Powell, has a family and lives near Salem, Oregon.

GEORGE M., born May 1, 1837, in Sangamon county, married March 27, 1860, to Adaline Meacham. They have two children, LUELLA and GEORGE H. and reside one mile north of New Berlin, Illinois.

EDSON died, aged twelve years.

Mrs. Nancy Maxwell died Nov., 1837, and Elias Maxwell married Minerva Grant. They had one child -

LUDLOW W. born in Sangamon county, married Ada Record. They have one living child, and live at Shapier, Wisconsin.

Mrs. Minerva Maxwell died, and Elias Maxwell married Mary Ellis. They had one child -

ABNER, born in Sangamon county, enlisted April 1861 for three years in Co. D, 26th Ill., Inf., reenlisted as a veteran, was taken sick in the army, came home and died in 1864.

Elias Maxwell died April, 1848, in Sangamon county. His widow married Andrew Scott. See his name.



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