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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.



SMITH, GREENBERRY, was born Feb. 5, 1793, in Washington county, Kentucky, and was married there to Nancy Killen, who was born in 1800 in the same county. They had one child there, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1830, in what is now Springfield township, where they had one child. Of their two children--

ETHELINDA J., born Dec. 21, 1826, in Washington county, Kentucky, married Nov. 21, 1844, in Sangamon county to John Prince. They had six children, WILLIAM P., JAMES L., NANCY J., GREENBERRY, JOSEPH and CHARLES, and live in Springfield, Illinois.

LAFAYETTE, born Nov. 21, 1834, in Sangamon county, married Jan. 1, 1857, in Springfield to Harriet A. Buchanan. They had seven children, two of whom died in infancy, and ALBERT G. died at fourteen years of age. FRANK B., EDWIN F., HARRY L. and FREDERICK WORRALL, reside with their parents in Springfield, Illinois. Lafayette Smith is the senior member of the firm of Smith & Hay, wholesale grocers, in Springfield.

Greenberry Smith died April 23, 1871, and Mrs. Nancy Smith died May 21, 1873, both in Springfield, Illinois.



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