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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.



PROCTOR, SIMON L., born Jan. 12, 1793, in Shelby county, Ky. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was in the battle of Tippecanoe; was married in Nelson county, Ky., May 16, 1813, to Jane Scifers, who was born April 5, 1795, in that county. They had one child, and moved to Green county, Ind., where two children were born, and moved to Hardin county, where they had eight children, and from there to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving May 18, 1837, at Springfield. Three years later they moved to Lick creek, and in 1845 to what is now Cotton Hill township. Of their eleven children--

SARAH, born February 5, 1815, in Nelson county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, in 1846, to William Hays, who died, and she married Wm. George, who died, July, 1872, aged ni ety-three years. She lives in Rochester, Illinois.

RICHARDSON H., born Oct. 28, 1816, in Indiana, married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Young, had two children, and she died March, 1851, and he married Sibbie A. Young, had two children, and R. H. Proctor died, in 1858, at Springfield, Illinois.

MARGARET, born Oct. 7, 1818, in Green county, Ind., married in Sangamon county to John Williams, have a family, and live near Milton station, Mills county, Iowa.

ELIZABETH, born May 12, 1821, in Hardin county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Stephen B. Neal. See his name.

JANE, born June 15, 1823, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, Oct. 10, 1850.

BARBARA, born May 12, 1825, in Hardin county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Elisha T. Sanders. See his name.

SAMUEL C., born June 14, 1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Dorcas A. Crowder, a daughter of Chandler Crowder. They had eight children, two only are living, MARY E. and JOHN. Mrs. Proctor died Jan. 9, 1869, and he died June 28, 1871. Samuel C. Proctor was ordained, May 16, 1868, as a minister of the gospel, at the Horse Creek Baptist church.

LOUISA, born July 4, 1828, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Nov. 17, 1851, to Marion F. Greenawalt. They have seven children, and live near Rochester, Illinois.

LUCINDA, born Sept. 28, 1831, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to George W. Sanders. See his name.

BRYANT R. W., born May 11, 1834, in Kentucky, was drowned while bathing, in Sangamon county, June 28, 1851.

BENJAMIN K., born May 28, 1836, in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, enlisted July, 1862, in Co. K, 114th Ill. Inf., for three years, and died, Jan., 1864, at Pawnee, Ill., while at home on sick furlough.

Simon L. Proctor died Sept. 18, 1845, and his widow died June 14, 1853, both in Sangamon county.



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