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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.
McGINNIS, WILLIAM S.
, was born March 30, 1810, in Mercer county, Ky.; came to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1827, with his brothers, David and G. Dawson. He was married the latter part of 1833 to Mary M. Kelly. They had one child.
JOHN G., born Dec. 4, 1834, in Sangamon county; raised in Jasper county, Mo., and married there July 10, 1860, to Sarah F. Vestal, who was born Feb. 24. 1843, in Hardin county, Tenn. They had two children. LAURA E. died in infancy. DELILAH MAY lives with her parents in Chatham township, two miles east of Loami.
Mrs. Mary M. McGinnis died August, 1835, and W. S. McGinnis married Alta M. Kelly, a cousin to his first wife. They had one child in Sangamon county, and the family moved, in 1837, to what was Barry, but is now Jasper county, Mo., where five children were born. William S. McGinnis died Oct. 20, 1845, and his widow and four children reside in Jasper county, Missouri.
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