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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.



ROBBINS, HIRAM, was born Dec. 26, 1793, in Buncombe county, N. C. His parents moved to Overton county, Tenn., thencc to Washington county, Ky., and from there to Vincennes, Indiana Territory. At that place he entered the army, and served six months in the war of 1812 with England. The family after the war, moved back to Tennessee, and from there to Pope county, Illinois, where the father died, and the family moved to Madison county. Hiram Robbins was there married, Dec. 29, 1816, to Elizabeth Dean. They had two children, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving in the summer of 1821 within one mile of where Barclay now stands, and in 1823 moved to what is now Cooper township, where they had six living children. He was a soldier from this county in the Black Hawk war. Of their seven children--

JOHN was twice married, served three years in the 73d Ill. Inf., and died April 1, 1868.

WILLIAM H., born March 1, 1821, in Madison county, Ill., raised in Sangamon county, married in Greene county, Aug. 11, 1845, to Ann Dodson. She died Aug. 12, 1846. He was married May 14, 1848, to Sarah A. Miller. They had one child, ALICE A., born July 5, 1850, married Benjamin F. Miller, and resides three and one-half miles west of Mechanicsburg, Ill. Mrs. S. A. Robbins died in 1852, and Wm. H. Robbins married, Sept. 4, 1856, to Elizabeth Laswell. They have four children, JOHN W., THOMAS LYON, NANCY E. and ANDREW H., and live near Mechanicsburg, Illinois.

JEREMIAH, born Nov. 29, 1821, in Sangamon county. He has been twice married; served three years in Co. H, 114th Ill. Inf., and lives in Cooper township, Sangamon county.

WILSON, born Jan. 3, 1824, in Sangamon county, married, Oct. 25, 1850, to Susan A. Cantril. They had six living children. ANNA M., born Jan. 1, 1851, married, Dec. 18, 1871, to George Baker, have two children, and live in Cooper township. MARY E., ALBERT S., MARTHA S., JOSEPH E. and ALLEN L. live with their parents, two and one-half miles west of Mechanicsburg, Illinois. Wilson Robbins served one year, from June, 1846, under Col. E. D. Baker, in the war with Mexico.

MARY A., born April 27, 1825, in Sangamon county, married Thomas Simpkins, who died, and she married William Taff. They had one child, THERESA TAFF, who married John Johnson. See his name. Mr. Taff died, and she married Joseph Brown, had one child, and Mr. Brown died, and she married Francis Gough, and she died April, 1862.

ELIZABETH A. married E. Taylor, and died in 1847.

HIRAM, Jun., was twice married, and died in McDonough county.

PRUDENCE married M. D. Gough.

ELIZA A., born June 21, 1842, married J. Wesley Veach. See his name.

Mrs. Elizabeth Robbins died Aug. 17, 1866, and Hiram Robbins was married to Mrs. Merada Gordon. For a third wife he married, Oct. 1, 1872, to Mrs. Elizabeth E. White, whose maiden name was Strode. They reside in Cooper township, Sangamon county, Ill.



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