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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.
SIMPSON, JAMES
, was born about 1785 in Maryland, and went to Washington county, Kentucky, when he was a young man, and was there married to Mary A. Boone. They had five children, and she died. He married Monica McAtee, had six children in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1828. He located about three hundred yards southeast of where St. Bernard Catholic church now stands, in Ball township, where two children were born. Of their children--
MATILDA married John Burtle. See his name.
James Simpson moved his family to Randolph county, Illinois, in April, 1838. He and his wife both died there. Part of their children live in that county and part in Missouri.
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