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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, RICHARD
, brother to James, born in 1790 in Maryland, went when he was a boy, with his parents to Washington county, Kentucky. He was there married to Monica Higdon. She had six children, and died, and he married Ann Vinson, had three children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in 1830, in what in now Ball township. After a stay of but one year in Sangamon county, Richard Simpson moved his family to Christian county, and both died there. Of their children who remained in Sangamon county--
LOUISA married Thomas Burtle. See his name.
MARY married James R. Durbin. See his name.
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