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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.



SHEPHERD, MARY, born Oct. 31, 1813, in Shepherdstown Virginia, married Nov. 15, 1833, in Sharpsburg, Maryland, to S. B. Smith, who was born June 10, 1810, in Martinsburg, Virginia. They had thirteen children, six of whom died under two years. Of the other seven--

ANDREW, born August 3, 1837, in Pickaway county, Ohio, was in Berkley county, Va., at the beginning of the rebellion, and voted against the ordinance of secession. He was forced into the rebel army by receiving a severe bayonet wound, but refused to take the oath of allegiance or perform military duty. Some whisky was offered him which he could not be induced to drink. It was carelessly left in the way of one of their own men, who drank it, not knowing that it was poisoned, and he died in two hours. Andrew Smith escaped from the rebels, entered the Union army at Washington, D. C., and after a brief term of service was discharged on account of physical disability. He is now--1876--engaged in mercantile business at Boise City, Idaho Territory.

WILLIAM, born Jan. 5, 1839, in Allegheny City, Penn., enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. I, 29th Ill. Inf., served six months over time, and was honorably discharged. He was married Sept. 5, 1866, to Lou Ray. They have three children, LILLIAN, GRACE and JESSIE, and live in Champaign City, Illinois.

HENRY H., born Oct. 10, 1840, in Pittsburg, Penn., brought up in Sangamon county, enlisted in April, 1861, on the first call for 75,000 men, but was rejected on account of physical disability, went to the gold regions of the Pacific in 1862, was married Nov. 14, 1864, at Three Mile Creek, Utah, to Mrs. Lovina Wakley, who was born July 25, 1843, in Hancock county, Illinois. They have three children, MARY P., FRANCES A., and GEORE W., and live at Corinne, Box Elder county, Utah Territory.

JOSEPH S., born Jan. 23, 1844, in Allegheny City, Penn., brought up in Sangamon county, was married Feb. 15, 1872, in Springfield, Ill., to Mary J. Craig. They have one child, and live near Morrisonville, Illinois.

THOMAS C., born March 31, 1848, in Sangamon county, and is the seventh son in succession. He was married Jan. 12, 1876, to Annie Craig, and lives three miles south of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

AMANDA L., died Nov. 19, 1869, in her twenty-first year.

MARY P., died Oct. 4, 1869, in her seventeenth year.

S. B. Smith was four times Sergeant-at-Arms, as assistant and principal, in the Illinois Legislature, from 1850 to 1854 Mr. Smith and his wife now--1876--reside three miles south of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois. He was four times Sergeant-at-Arms as assistant and principal in the Illinois General Assembly from 1850 to 1854.



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