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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.



NEWMAN, HENRY, was born Aug. 18, 1787, in Baltimore, Md. In 1795 he was taken by his parents to Knox county, Tenn. During the war of 1812-13-14 with England, he served in three different companies; once for himself and twice in the place of relatives, who had been drafted. He was under Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. Henry Newman was married in Knox county, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1815, to Priscilla Plumlee, who was born May 13, 1791, in Burke county, North Carolina. They had seven children in Tennessee, and moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving in Dec., 1828, where they had two living children. Of their nine children--

ELIZABETH E., born Jan. 9, 1817, in Knox county, Tenn., married July 13, 1858, in Springfield, to John Haines. They have one child, CHARLES HENRY, and reside in Cotton Hill township, near New City, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MINERVA W., born April 29, 1820, in Knox county, Tenn., married April 26, 1839, in Springfield, Illinois, to Henry Teed, who was born in 1818 in Springfield, Mass. They had four children, one of whom was drowned at about fifteen years of age. The other three, ALBERT, MINERVA A. and CHARLES, live with their mother in San Francisco, Cal., whither the family went in 1852.

MARY ALMIRA, born Feb. 3, 1822, in Knoville, Tenn., married Dec., 1842, in Springfield, Ill., to Josiah Moore, a native of Hagarstown, Md. Mr. Moore died in 1857, and she died July, 1858. Their only living child, ANDREW J. Moore, lives in San Antonio, Texas.

JACOB S., born Jan. 6, 1825, in Knoxville, Tenn., raised in Sangamon county, and was assassinated by an unknown hand April 23, 1873, at Springfield, Missouri.

JOHN W., born Jan. 11, 1826, in Knoxville, Tenn., raised in Springfield, married in St. Louis, Mo., May 13, 1852, to Caroline M. Field, who was born April 13, 1834, in Auburn, New York. They have three living children, HERBERT S., JOHN B. and ANNA G., and reside in Springfield. Mr. Newman is a member of the firm of Thompson & Newman, planing mill and door, sash and blind factory, Springfield, Illinois.

JOSEPH PLUMLEE, born Nov. 18, 1827, in Springfield, enlisted in the 4th Ill. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, and was killed at the battle of Cerro Gordo, Mexico, in 1847.

JAMES Y., born July 29, 1829, in Springfield, and died Sept. 20, 1861, in his native city.

MARY A., born April 15, 1831, in Springfield, married Nov., 1852, to William Fooshe. They had one living child, JOSEPH P., a machinist, and reside with his mother in Springfield.

WILLIAM H., born Jan. 1, 1835, in Springfield, and died March 8, 1873.

Henry Newman died March 20, 1861, and his widow died Aug. 10, 1873, both in Springfield, Illinois.



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