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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.



STARR, ANDREW, was born Jan. 27, 1795, in Bourbon county, Ky. He was a brother to Adam Starr, and was married in Kentucky, Dec. 27, 1821, to Mary Neal. They had two children in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1030, in what is now Chatham township, where three children were born. Of their five children--

WILLIAM M., born Jan. 17, 1823, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Amanda A. Withrow. They have two children. MARY A., married Oct. 9, 1865, to Edward W. Lucas. See his name, in connection with the Colburn family. ADDISON B., lives with his parents. William M. Starr and his wife reside at Loami, Sangamon county, Ill.

BARBARA ANN, born May 19, 1825, in Kentucky, married William V. Greenwood. See his name.

JOHN ALFRED, born March 22, 1831, in Sangamon county, was married Sept. 20, 1854, to Marion Gould, who was born April 23, 1836, in Jefferson county, New York. They have six children. MARY C., born June 26, 1855, was married March 23, 1871, to Robert T. Hardin. They have three children, JOHN W., IDA MAY., and WILLIAM SHERMAN, and live near Sweetwater, Menard county, Ill. LILLIE I., WILLIAM A., THOMAS S., ANNIE F., and CARRIE A., live with their parents, three and three-fourth miles west of Chatham, Sangamon county, Ill., on the farm settled on by his parents in 1830. John A. Starr is now--1876--plowing his thirty-sixth season in succession on the farm where he was born, and has no recollection of a physician ever having been called to see him.

MARY J., born July 3, 1834, married Sept. 5, 1851, to Dr. A. M. Browning, and died six weeks later. Dr. Browning is a practicing physician in Loami, Sangamon county, Ill.

GEORGE W., born Feb. 3, 1836, married Sarah O. Kelly, and lives in Green county, Missouri.

Andrew Starr died May 5, 1851, and his widow died Aug. 28, 1856, both on the farm where they settled in 1830, near Chatham, Sangamon county, Ill.



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