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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.



NORRIS, AQUILLA, was born Jan. 1, 1776, near Baltimore, Md. He was there married to Eleanor Norris. They had eight children in Maryland, three of whom died young, and Edward, the eldest, died there Aug. 30, 1830, aged nineteen years. The parents, with four children, came to Sangamon county, arriving in Round Prairie, six miles cast of Springfield, in April, 1835. Of their four children--

JAMES L., born July 18, 1813, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 17, 1841, to Sarah E. Cole. They had one living child, PRISCILLA, who married Jesse Estes, has five children, and lives in Winchester, Scott county, Illinois. James L. Norris and wife live near Cotton Hill Postoffice, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHN, born Oct. 17, 1814, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 17, 1841, to Mary W. Cole. The two brothers and sisters were married by the same ceremony. John Norris was a soldier in the Springfield Cadets, was on duty at Nauvoo, in the Mormon war, and was shot dead accidentally, Sept. 28, 1844. His widow married John Fagan. See his name.

PRISCILLA, born Aug. 19, 1820, in Baltimore, Md., was married in Sangamon county to Gershom Keyes. See his name.

MARY A., born Feb. 3, 1822, in Maryland, married to Bedford W. Higgins. See his name.

Mrs. Eleanor Norris died Oct. 28, 1852, and Aquilla Norris died March 4, 1856, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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