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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.



NUCKOLLS, JAMES, was born Jan. 5, 1777, in Botetourt county, Va., and the family moving to Grayson county, same State, he was there married Jan. 5, 1804, to Janey Swift, who was born March 2, 1781, in that county. They had six children in Virginia, and in 1818 moved to Madison county, Illinois, where they had one child, and moved to what became Sangamon county, arriving in 1820, in what is now Auburn township, where they had one child. Of their children--

CHARLES D., born March 2, 1805, in Grayson county, Va., was married March 10, 1832, in Sangamon county, to Mary Wilson, who was born Jan. 3, 1812, in Buncombe county, N. C. They had eight children in Sangamon county. MARGARET J., born March 19, 1833, married Richard Ricks, and both died, leaving one child, MANFORD J. THOMAS J., born Dec. 6, 1834, was married Jan. 19, 1871, to Martha A. Brunk. They have three children, LILLY JANE, LUCY M. and GEORGE T; the latter died Feb. 10, 1876. T. J. Nuckolls lives in Auburn township, near where his grandfather settled in 1820. JAMES M., born Dec. 28, 1836, married Nancy Drennan, and died August 24, 1866, leaving one child, LAURA MAY, who lives with her mother. Mrs. Nancy Nuckolls married James M. Bennington. See his name., JOHN W., born March 30, 1838, married Louisa Pyle. They have three children, MARY M., CHARLES F. and MILLY ANN, and live four miles west of Pawnee, Ill. GEORGE W., born April 23, 1843, lives with his mother. MARY E., born Sept. 28, 1845, married William R. Lockridge. See his name. CHARLES Wm., born May 27, 1848, married Margaret J. Moore. They have one child, MINNIE, and live six miles east of Auburn, Illinois. Charles D. Nuckolls was a farmer and builder in early life. In the early settlement of Springfield he was engaged in the leather business. He purchased a lot at the southeast corner of Sixth and Washington streets for twelve dollars, and several years later sold it to Sangamon county for twelve hundred dollars. A court house was built on it, which was occupied as such from 1845 to 1876. Late in life Mr. C. D. Nuckolls studied medicine, and graduated in 1856, at McDowell College, St. Louis, Mo. He practiced several years, and died Nov. 19, 1865. His widow lives four miles east of Auburn.

THOMAS J., born Oct. 12, 1806, in Virginia, died in Madison county, Ill., aged fourteen years.

MARY, born Jan. 6, 1809, in Grayson county, Va., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., to Alfred Curry, who died, and she married Jesse Elgin. They live in Pana, Illinois.

MARGARET, born April 2, 1811, in Virginia, was married in Sangamon county, to James Wilson, and died. See his name.

MARTHA, born Feb. 20, 1813, in Grayson county, Va., was married in Sangamon county to Noah Mason. See his name.

JAMES M., born March 11, 1815, died in his sixth year.

JOHN, born March 24, 1817, in Grayson county, Va., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., to Elizabeth Ricks. They had one child, MYRA J., who died, aged seventeen years. Mrs. Elizabeth Nuckolls died, and John Nuckolls married Adaline Rice, and lives at the family homestead settled by his father in 1820, four miles east of Auburn.

JANE, born Oct. 11, 1819, in Madison county, Ill., was married in Sangamon county to John Milton Lockridge. See his name.

ANN, born August 23, 1822, in Sangamon county, was married there, in 1843, to William Graham. He was drowned in July, 1844, while attempting to cross a stream of water in Christian county. His widow was married July 30, 1849, to Thomas P. Bond, who was born July 11, 1812, in Burton county, N. C., raised in Kentucky, came to Montgomery county, Illinois, in 1835. In 1839, he, in company with G. R. Jernigan and Wm. S. Ricks, circulated a petition, obtained the requisite number of signatures, and Mr. Bond took it to Vandalia, presented it to the legislature, and secured the passage of the law creating Dane county, which was afterwards changed to Christian county. In 1848 he was elected to fill an unexpired term as county clerk, and then to a full term; was elected in 1868 to an unexpired term as county treasurer, and then to a full term. Thomas P. Bond acquired the title of Colonel by being elected to that position in the State Militia in 1840. Mr. Bond has two daughters by a former marriage, both married. One resides in Nebraska, the other at Fairplay, Park county, Col. Thomas P. Bond and wife reside in Taylorville, Christian county, Illinois.

Mrs. Jancy Nuckolls died June 15, 1836, and James Nuckolls died Sept. 15, 1859, both on the farm where they settled in 1820. It is five miles cast of Auburn.



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