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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.



STOVER, SAMUEL, was born Nov. 10, 1810, in Franklin county, Pa. He was married Oct. 26, 1837, in Washington county, Md., to Elizabeth Wolgamot. In the following spring they went to Pittsburg, and from there by water, down the Ohio, and up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to Peoria, thence to Springfield in a wagon, arriving in June, 1838. He settled six miles south of Springfield, and had two children there, namely--

SUSANNAH, born Jan, 17, 1841, married May 31, 1864, to John Brotherton, a native of Franklin county, Pa. They had two children, SAMUEL S. and MAUD, and Mr. Brotherton died Dec. 3, 1867, in Springfield. He was a druggist. His widow and children reside with her parents in Springfield.

JOHN, born March 28, 1844, married Sept. 15, 1871, to Emma Wagner, of Ogle county. They had two children. He died July 15, 1875, in Springfield.

Samuel Stover and wife lived on the farm where they settled in 1838, until January, 1875, when they moved to Springfield, Illinois, where they now reside--November, 1876.



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