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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.
RAY, REASON or REZIN
, was born in Maryland, went to Kentucky, where he married Sarah Walters. They had four children, and came to Sangamon county in 1823, settling in Gardner township. His daughter--
LAVINA, born in Kentucky, in 1822, married in Sangamon county, to Ezekiel Drennan. See his name.
Mrs. Drennan remembers the "deep snow." She was eight years old, and was helping her father gather corn, and slipped into a whirlpool that formed around a hill of corn. She went under the snow, and her father happening to see her go down, drew her out in time to save her from suffocating.
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