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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.



MORGAN, CHARLES, was born Sept. 5, 1781, in Hampshire county, Va. His parents moved to Fleming county, Ky., in 1793. Charles Morgan and Elizabeth Constant were there married in 1807, and had four children in Kentucky. The family moved in March, 1814, to Clermont county, Ohio, where they had four living children, and then moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in Oct., 1826, in what is now Mechanicsburg township, where two children were born. Of their ten children--

JACOB, born May 20, 1808, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county May 17, 1832, to Susan Correll. They had three living children. JOSEPHUS, born March 30, 1833, is unmarried, and resides five and a half miles northwest of Illiopolis, Ill. MINERVA, born Nov. 8, 1834, died April 3, 1854. CAROLINE, born July 21, 1837, married George W. Hesser. See his name: Mrs. Susan Morgan died Oct. 15, 1848, and Jacob Morgan was married Nov. 22, 1855, to Mrs. Mary A. Wilson, whose maiden name was Stickel. She was born April 16, 1825, in York county, Penn. They have four children, LUELLA, SELINA B., ANNA M. and CHARLES W. Mrs. Morgan has one son by her first marriage, ANDREW S. WILSON, born Mar. 23, 1847, in Macon county, Ill., married in Bloomington, Ill., to Mary Hamilton; had one child, and resides in Washington, Kansas. He has represented Washington county in the Kansas Legislature two terms, and is now--1874--Judge of the Twelfth judicial district in that State. Jacob Morgan resides two and a half miles west of Mcchanicsburg, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born in 1810 in Fleming county, Ky., died in Sangamon county in 1828.

JOHN C., born May 19, 1812, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county Jan. 28, 1836, to Elizabeth Bridges. They had eight children in Sangamon county. MARTHA E., born June 23, 1837, died Oct. 6, 1857. LAVINA J., born Feb. 19, 1839, married Oct., 1857, to Zenas Crawford. They have five children, MARTHA E., CHARLES H., ANNIE F., WM. GRANT and JOHN T., and live near Princeton, Franklin county, Kansas. CHARLES W., born Nov. 11, 1841. enlisted July, 1861, for three years, in Co. I, 41st Ill. Inf. He was killed at Fort Donelson Feb. 15, 1862. His remains were brought home and interred near Mechanicsburg. SARAH A., born Feb. 21, 1844, married July 22, 1865, to Victor Bechtel. He served three years, from July, 1861, in Co. I, 41st Ill. Inf. They have five children, IDA MAY, LILLIE A., HARVEY T., ALVA E. and ALTA I., and live near Ottawa, Kansas. NORMAN C., born Sept. 23, 1846, married Aug. 31, 1871, to Emily Peak, have one child, JOHN T., and live near Richmond, Kansas. AARON T., born July 22, 1849, died Jan. 12, 1865. FIDELIA ADALINE, born July 5, 1852, and RUTH EMELINE, born July 10, 1854, reside with their parents, three miles southwest of Illiopolis, Illinois--1874.

DANIEL, born Feb. 28, 1813, in Fleming county, Ky, married in Sangamon county Jan. 9, 1834, to Melinda Morgan. They had seven children; one died in infancy. ELIZA, J., born Dec. 31, 1834, married Aug. 26, 1858, to Jeremiah Kelly, have two children, and live in Madison, Greenwood county, Kansas. MARY, born Nov. 22, 1836, married Dec. 6, 1860, to James Lockhart, and died July 14, 1861. FRANKLIN B., born March 14, 1839, married Oct. 13, 1870, to Margaret A. Ficklin, had one child, FRANKLIN, and live two and a half miles west of Mechanicsburg. WILLIAM W., born Nov. 24, 1841, married Jan. 12, 1868, to Emily A. Patterson, have one living child, EDGAR, and live three and a half miles west of Mechanicsburg. ERSKINE, born June 3, 1849, and EMMA A., born May 12, 1854, reside with their parents, two and a half miles each from Mechanicsburg, Dawson and Buffalo--1874.

AARON, born March 3, 1816, in Clermont county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county Jan. 12, 1837, to Matilda A. McDaniel, whose maiden name was Shinkle. They had eleven children, four of whom died under seven years. Of the other seven--MARIA L., born April 26, 1840, married George H. Grabendich, had one child, WILLIAM R., and Mr. G. enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. C, married Robert Alls, and died, leaving 124th Illinois Infantry. He was wounded at Vicksburg, June 26, and died June 27, 1863. Mrs. Grabendich one child, CHARLES A. MINERVA E., born Nov. 30, 1844, married James Moore, have two children, and live two aud a half miles west of Mechanicsburg. CHARLES W., born June 30, 1849, married Matilda Moon, have one child, and lives three miles northwest of Mechanicsburg.

MARY F., JAMES A., JANETTA and MARTHA J. reside with their parents, two and one half miles southeast of Dawson.

WASHINCTON, born Feb., 1818, in Ohio, died in Sangamon county Sept. 26, 1838.

LAVINA, born in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to G. W. Carrico, and live in Missouri.

CHARLES W., born May 23, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 15, 1850, to Elizabeth E. Derry, who was born Oct. 26, 1830, in Loudon county, Va. They had eleven children, five of whom, GEORGE E., JOHN R., WILLIAM A., CORDELIA S. and EMMA F., died under six years of age. MINERVA J., born Dec. 28, 1851, married March 9, 1871, to Benjamin Cox, have two children, EVELINE and ALVA, and live three miles north of Illiopolis. JAMES R., ELIJAH A., LAURA A., LUELLA L. and CHARLES A. reside with their parents, in Macon county, three and a half miles northeast of Illiopolis, Illinois.

JAMES A., born March 13, 1834, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 14, 1856, to Sarah A. Lee, who was born March 15, 1841, in Gallatin county, Ohio. They had seven children. The first, second and fifth, HENRIETTA, IDA E. and HENRY L., died under four years. CHARLES F., VIOLA E., EDWIN O. and MELVIN A. reside with their parents, in Macon county, four miles northeast of Illiopolis, Illinois.

Charles Morgan died Jan. 25, 1866, and Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan died Oct. 9, 1868, both in Sangamon county, near where they settled in 1826.



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