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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, was born June 23, 1812, in Hartford, Connecticut, and at six years of age he was taken by his parents to Ontario county, New York, and from there to Michigan in 1830. John Smith went to St. Louis, Missouri, in February, 1840, and was there married Jan. 11, 1841, to Charlotte Getchel, who was born Nov. 5, 1812, in Maine. They came to Sprinfield, Ill., in February, 1841, where they had one child, and moved to Chatham, where four children were born. Of their children--

MARY E., born Oct. 5, 1841, in Sprinfield, died Nov. 6, 1853.

BENJAMIN F., born Jan. 12, 1843, in Sangamon county, enlisted Dec. 8, 1863. in Battery A., 3d Ill. Art., served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged in Springfield. He was married in 1869, in Lynn county, Missouri to Elizabeth Dustin. They have four children, and live near North Salem, Lynn county, Missouri.

GEORGE W., born May 3, 1845, in Sangamon county, enlisted Dec. 8, 1863, in Battery A, 3d Ill. Art., served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged in Springfield. He was married April 22, 1872, in Missouri to Mrs. Elizabeth Britton. They live near North Salem, Lynn county, Missouri.

EDWARD, born Oct. 19, 1847, in Sangamon county, died Aug. 30, 1870, about seventy miles below St. Louis, on the Mississippi river.

ANNIE L., born April 7, 1851, in Sangamon county, died Oct. 22, 1865.

Mrs. Charlotte Smith died Feb. 2, 1853, in Sangamon county, and John Smith was married Oct. 2, 1860 to Elizabeth Trumbo, They have two children--

ADAM T., born July 14, 1861, and

EMMA L., born Feb. 11, 1866, live with their parents, three-fourths of a mile south of Woodside, Sangamon county. Ill.



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