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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.



NEAL, JAMES W., was born Sept. 26, 1806, in Bourbon county, Ky., and was married in Nicholas county, Jan. 4, 1827, to Mary Cassity. They had two children in Bourbon county, and moved, in company with her father, to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830, in what is now Rochester township, where three children were born. Of their five children--

ALMIRA J., born Nov. 3, 1827, in Kentucky, married Feb. 13, 1851, in Sangamon county, to Isaac Keys. See his name.

ELIZA E., born Sept. 10, 1829, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to H. Cicero St. Clair. See his name.

NANCY E., born March 14, 1833, in Sangamon county, married Feb. 10, 1853, to Oscar L. St. Clair. See his name.

WILLIAM H., born April 12, 1835, in Sangamon county, lives at the family homestead, one mile west of Rochester, Illinois.

JAMES H., born Sept. 5, 1838, in Sangamon county, married in Taylorville, Nov. 13, 1866, to Lizzie H. Moore. They had two children, NELLIE and MARY R. The latter died May 8, 1875, aged two years. James W. Neal resides at Lamar, Barton county, Mo. He was elected Treasurer of that county in the fall of 1872, for two years, and is a banker in Lamar.

James W. Neal died June 20, 1870, and his widow resides on the farm where the family settled in 1825, one mile west of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois--1876.



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