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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.
SPENCER, JOHN
, was born about 1800 in Adair county, Ky. Cynthia Harvey was born in the same county, and they were there married and had three children. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving August, 1836, in what is now Salisbury township, where two children were born. Of their five children.
CATHARINE, born Aug. 29, 1830, in Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Pierson Roll. See his name.
NANCY, born in Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Isaac Miller. They have six children, and live in Pike county, Missouri.
DIANA, born in Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, to John Shanahan, have three children and live at Point of Rocks, Wyoming Territory.
MARY E., born in Sangamon county, married Eli Drone. They have four children, and live in Pike county, Ill.
JOHN W., born in Sangamon county, married Mary Clements, and live in the southeast corner of Macoupin county, Ill.
John Spencer died September, 1863, and Mrs. Cynthia Spencer died Nov. 26, 1869, both in Sangamon county, north of the river.
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