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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.



STAFFORD, JEWETT, was born Jan. 13, 1795, at Coventry, Kent county, R. I., was taken by his parents in 1804, to Essex county, N. Y. In 1812 he went as a soldier from that county in the war with England, was in the battle of Plattsburg, Boquet river, near Willsboro, his home. Jewett Stafford was married in 1818 to Harriet Eggleston, in Essex county, New York. She was born there March 4, 1802. They had two living children in that county, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving July, 1825, where Rochester now stands, and had one living child in Sangamon county. Of their three children--

CHARLES, born Oct. 12, 1820, in Essex county, New York, married in Sangamon county, March 21, 1847, to Julia A. Stafford. They had one child, JULIA A., born Dec. 6, 1847. She married Mitchell Dickerson. They have two children, and live near Rochester, Illinois. Mrs. Julia A. Stafford died Dec. 17, 1847, and Charles Stafford was married Sept. 27, 1848, to Mrs. Sarah A. Stafford, widow of John Stafford. Her maiden name was Wallace. She was born Dec. 24. 1822, in Culpepper county, Virginia. They had four children, MARY A., born Feb. 12, 1854, married George W. Boyce, has one child, and lives near Clarksville, Sangamon county, Illinois. ALBERT R., born Sept. 17, 1856, lives with his parents. IDA L., born Jan. 4, 1860, died May 26, 1874 WILLIAM W., born April 6, 1868, lives with his parents at Clarksville, Sangamon county, Illinois.

HORACE, born June 23, 1822, in Essex county, New York, raised in Sangamon county, married in Taylorville, Illinois, Dec. 9, 1850, to Mary A. Gessner, who was born Nov. 1, 1834, in Fredericktown, Maryland. They had three children, CHARLES J., the second one, died in infancy. MARIA L., born Feb. 27, 1852, and EDMUND W., born Oct. 7, 1855, live with their parents. Horace Stafford and family reside at Clarksville, Sangamon county, Illinois. He is postmaster there, of Berry post office.

AMANDA, born May 9, 1826, in Sangamon county, died April 11, 1837.

Mrs. Harriet Stafford died May 3, 1835, in Sangamon county, and Jewett Stafford married Mrs. Elizabeth Steele, whose maiden name was Robison. She had one child.

HARRIET A., born June 28, 1838, and married Nov. 10, 1860, to William E. Hill, who was born Nov. 9, 1839, in Macon county, Illinois. They had four living children, LAURA E., CARRIE F. and HARRY W. Mrs. Hill died in 1876, and William E. Hill and his children live at Clarksville, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Elizabeth Stafford died March, 1842, and Jewett Stafford was married November, 1845, to Mrs. Prudence Stafford, whose maiden name was Putnam. Jewett Stafford died August 12, 1862, and his widow lives one mile southeast of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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