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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, JOHN M., born Aug. 11, 1813, in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, spent six years as clerk in Boston, and married there to Almyra Andrews. They had three children and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving at Springfield May 4, 1839. Of the three children--

SARAH A., born in Boston, married in Sangamon county to James A. Poor. See his name. He died and she married James McCausland, and live near Curran, Illinois.

EMILY married Thomas Springhall, and resides in Springfield--1874.

JOSEPH E., is married and lives in Kansas.

Mrs. Almyra Smith died and he was married in 1844, to Julia A. Duff. She died and J. M. Smith married May 4, 1846, Harriet Baldwin. They have three children--

WILLIAM W., JOHN E. and NANCY E., and live half a mile north of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.




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