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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.



RANSOM, LORING, was born April 13, 1806, in Chazy, Clinton county, N. Y., and came with a colony of fifty-three persons to Sangamon county, arriving at what is now Farmingdale, in Sept., 1833. He was married Oct. 29, 1839, at a place called Millville, north of Lick creek, and three miles west of Loami, to Mary Wariner, who was born April 20, 1817, in Barren county, Ky., and came to Sangamon county in the spring of 1834, with her father. Mr. and Mrs. Ransom had three living children--

ISABELLA W., born Sept. 13, 1840, in Chatham, married in Springfield, Feb. 24, 1861, to George W. Johnson, who was born Aug. 7, 1835, in Henniker, Merrimack county, N. H. He is an engineer on the G. C. & S. railroad, and resides in Springfield.

WILLIAM A., born Jan. 7, 1843, in Chatham, was married Nov. 23, 1872, in Hannibal, Mo., to Kittie Shelton Kiger, who was born July 29, 1843, in Nelson county, Va. They live in Springfield, Illinois.

ISAAC N., born May 12, 1846, in Springfield, married, Nov. 10, 1870, to Annie E. Crary, and live in Springfield, Illinois.

Loring Ransom was farming a few years and then went to Chatham, from there to Berlin, and from there to Springfield, where he died, Sept. 13, 1867. Mrs. Mary Ransom resides with her children, in Springfield, Illinois.



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