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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.



RIDDLE, WILLIAM, was born Sept. 1, 1805, in Kentucky. He is a nephew of David Riddle. At six months of age, he was taken by his parents to Logan county, Ohio. Maxamillia Bousman was born in 1809 in Champaign county, Ohio, where they were married in 1826. They had four living children in Ohio, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving May 31, 1836, in what is now Williams township, where they had five children, and in 1851 moved to Douglas county, Oregon. Of their nine children--

JANE, born April 14, 1828, in Logan county, Ohio, married Jan. 15, 1850, in Sangamon county, to Thomas Wilson, who was born Nov. 4, 1817, in Dumfries-shire, Scotland. They have four living children, born in Sangamon county, namely: JANE F., WILLIAM R., JOHN T. and LILLIAS H., and reside two miles southwest of Buffalo Hart station, Sangamon county, Illinois--1874.

ARTAMESIA, born Oct. 11, 1830, in Sangamon county, married in Feb., 1849, to James P. Chapman, who died, and she married William H. Merriman. See his name.

ISABELLA, born Jan. 16, 1835, in Ohio, came to Sangamon county with her parents; thence with them to Oregon, and was there married to Israel R. Nicholls. They have eleven children, and reside near North Canyonville, Douglas county, Oregon--1874.

WILLIAM H., born March, 1836, in Ohio, came to Sangamon county; thence with his parents to Oregon, and died there in July, 1836.

GEORGE W., born Feb. 22, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Anna Rice, has two children, and live near North Canyonville, Douglas county, Oregon.

ABNER, born in 1842, in Sangamon county, married Alice Rice, has two children, and reside near North Canyonville, Oregon.

JOHN B., born in 1845, in Sangamon county, married in Oregon, and his wife and child were drowned while crossing a stream in a wagon. He is living with his second wife in North Canyonville, Oregon.

ANNA M., born April 8, 1847, in Sangamon county, married Vincent Beal, has one child, and lives in Jacksonville, Oregon.

TOBIAS S., born Aug. 30, 1849, in Sangamon county, married Sarah Smith, has two children, and lives at Harney lake, Oregon.

Mrs. Maxamillia Riddle died August, 1868, and William H. Riddle resides at North Canyonville, Oregon--1874.



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