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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.



POWER, GEORGE, was born Feb. 18, 1798, in Fayette county, Ky. His father was born in Virginia, and had spent some time in North Carolina before he went to Kentucky. When George was about ten years old, his parents moved to Bath county. He was there married, Feb. 10, 1820, to Nancy Wilcockson. They had one child in Bath county, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1821, in what is now Fancy Creek township, where one child was born. Of their two children--

WILLIAM D., born May 2, 1821, in Bath county, Ky., brought by his parents to Sangamon county the same year, and was married, Jan. 6, 1843, to Nancy J. Barnett. They had five children, namely: ARMINTA L., born Oct. 8, 1843, married, March 3, 1869, to Joel Dalbey, who was born August 28, 1829, in Pickaway county, Ohio. They had one child, JENNIE EMELINE. She died in the spring of 1875, and Mr. and Mrs. Dalbey live in Springfield, Illinois. JAMES L., born May 4, 1847, died in infancy. GEORGE D., born May 14, 1851, married, Oct. 25, 1871, to Eliza J. Dunlap. They have one child, WILLIAM D., Jun., and live near Cantrall, Illinois. MARY E. and WILLIAM E. live with their mother. William D. Power was elected County Judge in 1857, re-elected in 1861, served until March 2, 1863, when he died in office. His widow and children reside in Springfield, Illinois.

JAMES E., born Dec. 1, 1824, in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and resides with his parents, near Cantrall, Illinois.

George Power and his wife now--1876--reside near Cantrall, Sangamon county, Illinois, where he settled in 1821. He has held civil and military offices, among which are the following: Commission from Governor Ninian Edwards, dated Sept. 15, 1827, as Major of the 25th Reg. Illinois Inf., under the old military laws. He was commissioned, June 4, 1831, by Gov. Reynolds, as 2nd Lieut. of a company of mounted volunteers, in the Black Hawk war. He has an old commission as justice of the peace, from Gov. Edwards, dated July 25, 1828. For the same office from Gov. Reynolds, Sept. 3, 1831. From Gov. Joseph Duncan, Aug. 27, 1835. From Gov. Thomas Carlin, Aug. 27, 1839. From Gov. Thos. Ford, Aug. 14, 1843; the whole covering a period of nineteen years, as justice of the peace. He built the first frame house in Sangamon county north of the Sangamon river. He commenced business in Sangamon county with a total cash capital of five dollars. He has now a stock farm in one body of two thousand acres. His family vault cost five thousand dollars, is situated on the farm where he resides. It was built soon after the death of his son, Judge William D. Power. His remains were the first placed in it.



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