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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.



POTTLE, JEREMIAH, was born about 1800, near Camden, Knox county, or Waldo, Waldo county, Maine. When he was twelve years old his parents moved to Bracken county, Ky. Martha McDaniel was born Oct. 13, 1794, near Stroude station, Clark county, Ky. They were married April 2, 1828, in Bracken county, Ky., and had four children there. They then moved to Indianapolis, Ind., where one child was born, and from there to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1836, at Buffalo Hart Grove, where one child was born. Of their six children--

JONATHAN, born Feb. 6, 1829, in Kentucky, died August 29, 1866, in Sangamon county.

ELIZABETH, born May 13, 1830, ?? unmarried, and lives with her mother.

JAMES H., born Nov. 13, 1831, is unmarried, and resides with his mother.

DANIEL, born April 12, 1834, in Bracken county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., Feb. 23, 1859, to Mary E. Jones. They had four children, JEREMIAH and HOMER died young. LAURA and STROTHER live with their father. Mrs. Mary E. Pottle died Jan. 24, 1868, and Daniel Pottle was married Nov., 1874, to Sarah E. Ford, and reside three miles east of Buffalo Hart Station. Daniel Pottle served in Co. I, 9th Ill. Cav., from Feb., 1865 to Nov. 18, 1865, when he was honorably discharged.

JOSEPH, born July 3, 1836, in Indianapolis, Ind., died Nov. 18, 1868, in Sangamon county, Illinois.

ABNER, born Oct. 15, 1842, in Sangamon county, is a school teacher, and lives with his mother.

Jeremiah Pottle died August 9, 1861, and his widow lives three miles east of Buffalo Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illinois--1784.



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