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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.



SHINKLE, JOHN, was born in February, 1783, in Berks county, Penn., and when he was a boy his parents moved to Brown county, Ohio. Mary M. Shinkle was born Nov. 12, 1784, in Berks county, Penn. In May, 1805, her parents moved to Brown county, Ohio. John Shinkle and Mary M. Shinkle were there married Nov. 7, 1805. They had ten living children in Brown county. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving December, 1826, in what is now Clear Lake township, north of Sangamon river, where one child was born. Of their eleven children--

DANIEL, born August 17, 1806, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Nancy Owens, moved to the vicinity of Maquoketa, Iowa, had several children, and Mrs. Shinkle died. He was married to Elizabeth Simons and he died in 1872.

SARAH, born Sept. 4, 1807, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Clinton Wilson. See his name.

JAMES, born May 2, 1810, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county, to Rebecca Williams. They had five children, one died in infancy, and one, JOHN, died in the Union Army. James Shinkle and his wife reside near McConnell's Grove P. O., Stephenson county, Ill.

ELIZABETH, born May 22, 1813, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to David Worley. They have a family, and reside near Ottawa, Kansas.

THOMAS, born June 12, 1815, is a cripple, and resides in Dawson, Illinois.

CHRISTIANA, born May 20, 1817, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Jeremiah Smith. They had two children. ZACHARY T. lives at Marion, DeWitt county, Ill.; HARRIET A. married A. Herrol, and lives near Twin Springs, Kansas. Jeremiah Smith died in 1849, and his widow lives with their son, Zachary, T., in DeWitt county, Illinois.

JOHN, Jun., born Oct. 21, 1819, in Ohio, married Oct. 4, 1851, in DeWitt county, Illinois, to Martha Miller, who was born there Aug. 28, 1830. They have four children, MARY KATE, CYRUS L., IDA MAY and LINCOLN A. Mr. Shinkle lived on the farm where the family settled in 1826, three miles southwest of Dawson, until 1875, when he moved to Springfield, Ill.

GEORGE, born Nov. 7, 1821, in Ohio. He enlisted at Springfield in 1862 in Co. C, 124th Ill. Inf. for three years, and died of disease at St. Louis, Oct. 8, 1864. His remains were brought home for interment.

BARBARA, born March 12, 1823, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Joseph Prokopp. They have one child and live near Riverton, Ill.

REBECCA, born Oct. 21, 1824, died in her fifteenth year.

LEWIS, born March 5, 1827 in Sangamon county, lives at the old homestead, near Dawson.

John Shinkle died August, 1827, in Sangamon county, less than one year after his arrival in the country. His widow raised her family on the farm where they settled, and now resides there. It is three miles southwest of Dawson, Ill. She is 92 years old, and has been a widow nearly half a century.



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