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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.
PATRICK, JOHN H.
, was born Nov. 1, 1789, in Clarke county, Ky., married Jane Foster. They had three children, and Mr. Patrick died while on business in the State of Mississippi. His widow married John Armstrong, and they moved, with her three children, in company with her brother, George Foster, to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1827, in what is now Loami township. Of the three Patrick children--
SOPHIA, born in Kentucky, in 1813, married in 1828, in Sangamon county, to William Easley.
MARGARET F., born Jan. 5, 1815, in Kentucky, married Albartes Barger. See his name.
LAVICA, born in 1817, in Kentucky, married there to Joseph Burch, and lives in Lafayette county, Mo.
Mrs. Jane Armstrong died Aug. 27, 1870, in Macon county, Mo. Both her husbands were soldiers in 1812. She drew a pension to the end of her life as the widow of John Armstrong.
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