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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.



SCOTT, DALLAS, was born April 6, 1791, in Cumberland county, Ky. Sarah Foster was born May 1, 1793, in the same county. They were there married in 1815, and had two children in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 1, 1819, on Richland creek, three miles east of the present town of Pleasant Plains, where six children were born. Of their eight children.

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 13, 1816, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Travis Elmore, and live near Ashland, Cass county, Illinois.

GEORGE M., born July 18, 1819, in Kentucky, married in Cass county, Ill., to Margaret Whitmire. They had two living children. He was a physician, and died June 13, 1851, at Lagrange, Missouri. His children live with their mother, who married, and lives near Sidney, Ohio.

CINTHELIA, born Sept. 10, 1821, in Sangamon county, married Feb. 9, 1841, to Valentine C. Cartwright. See his name.

MILTON M., born Feb. 24, 1824, in Sangamon county, Ill., married in Kentucky to Jane Scott. They have one child, and live in Crawford county Mo.

JOHN F., born April 6, 1826, in Sangamon county, married, has five children, and lives near Omaha, Nebraska.

MATTIE J., born April 24, 1829, in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and lives with her sister, Mrs. Cartwright.

HATTIE N., born December 4, 1831, in Sangamon county, married Amos Dick, has one child, EMMA, and lives near Wapella, DeWitt county, Illinois.

FRANCIS M., born April 26, 1835, in Sangamon county, married January 17, 1858, to Mary L. Brockman, who was born Oct. 1, 1836, in Morgan county, Ill. They had seven children. HARRIET E., the third child, died at four years, and AMOS, the seventh child, died Sept. 4, 1873, in his second year. The other five, GEORGE D., CYNTHIA A., JOHN L., JAMES H., and EUGENE, live with their parents. F. M. Scott resides at the homestead where his parents settled in 1819. It is in Cartwright township, three miles northeast of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Ill.

Dallas Scott died June 18, 1841, and his widow died Feb. 4, 1862, both in Cartwright township, Sangamon county, Ill.



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