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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.



MITTS, CYRUS, born May 19, 1798, near Chillicothe, Ohio. Martha Burbridge was born Aug. 16, 1798, in Bath county, Kentucky. They were there married Sept. 22, 1818, and had two children, when they moved to Pickaway county, Ohio, where three children were born; and then moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in June, 1828, in what is now Fancy Creek township, where they had six children. Of their eleven children--

JAMES M., born July 23, 1819, in Bath county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Eveline B. England. They had six children in Sangamon county. THOMAS J. married Minerva Stratton. They have two children, and live in her native city, Chillicothe, Ohio. MAGGIE E. married James Symms, have three children, and live in Clarke county, Iowa. DAVID H. married Mary Josephine Nelson, and lives with his mother. LEWIS P., JAMES E. and BELLE M. live with their mother. James M. Mitts died Feb. 10, 1858, and his widow resides four and a half miles northwest of Williamsville, Illinois.

JESSE B., born Dec. 17, 1820, in Bath county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married in Iowa to Julia Russell. They had four children. Mr. Mitts was a member of 37th Iowa Inf., (Grey Beards), and died Dec., 1864, in the army. His widow and children live in Keokuk county, Iowa.

JANE, born Oct. 20, 1822, in Ohio, married, in Sangamon county to George W. Council. See his name.

ROLAND, born in Ohio, died Dec. 6, 1862, aged thirty-eight years.

ELIZABETH A., born March 19, 1828, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to John McClelland. See his name.

CARLISLE, born March 12, 1830, in Sangamon county, married June 4, 1863, to Margaret Hall, who was born Nov. 23, 1838, in Menard county, Ill. They reside in Fancy Creek township, four miles northwest of Williamsville, Illinois.

CYRUS, Jun., born Jan. 28, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Sarah Layton. They have nine children, and live in Keokuk county, Iowa.

ROBERT, born July 24, 1835, in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and lives in Clarke county, Iowa.

MARTHA, born March 31, 1837, in Sangamon county, married Robert McClelland. See his name.

MARY A., born June 25, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Jefferson Perce. They had two children, and Mr. Perce died in Sangamon county. His widow and children live in Clarke county. Iowa.

JOHN, born Sept. 10, 1841, in Sangamon county, was a soldier three years in Co. C, 114th Ill. Inf., married Susie D. Hay, has three children, and lives in Clarke county, Iowa.

Cyrus Mitts died Aug., 1852, and his widow died Dec. 19, 1862, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

The Union General, Burbridge, of Kentucky, was a nephew of Mrs. Mitts. Her father was a Revolutionary soldier from Virginia, and four of her brothers were soldiers in the war of 1812 from Kentucky.



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