STRICKLAND, GEORGE, was born March 29, 1812, in Amherst, Massachusetts. He was married May 30, 1836, in Northampton, Massachusetts, to Sarah Little--sister to Thomas S. Little and Mrs. Sophia Phelps. Mrs. Strickland was born Nov. 21, 1814, in Northampton. They had one child, and moved to Springfield, Illinois, arriving in August, 1837, They had five children in Springfield, two of whom died young. Of their four children--

EDWARD P., born May 14, 1837, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and raised in Springfield. He enlisted in the first call for 75,000 men in April, 1861, for three months, in Co. I, 7th Ill. Inf., served full term and was honorably discharged. He again enlisted for three years in 1862, in Co. B, 114th Ill. Inf., and commissioned as first lieutenant at the organization of the company. After the capture of Vicksburg he was promoted to captain. The regiment was put on provost duty at Memphis, Tennessee. He was sent on an expedition and was taken prisoner in June, 1864. He was part of the time at Macon, Georgia, and part of the time at Charleston, South Carolina, where he was with other Union prisoners, placed by the rebel authorities under the guns of the Union army, in order to protect the city. He was moved from Charleston to Columbia, South Carolina, from where he escaped, and, with his first lieutenant, traveled thirty-five days, making a distance of between four and five hundred miles, on foot, to Knoxville, Tennessee, without seeing a white man, neither did they wish to. They traveled at night and subsisted on what they could obtain from the negroes, arriving Dec. 31, 1864. They were sent from Knoxville to Louisville, Kentucky, furloughed home, returned to the regiment, and was with it at the capture of Mobile, after which he was breveted major. He served until the fall of 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He now resides in Springfield, Illinois.

SARAH S., born Sept. 12, 1842, in Springfield, married Oct. 4, 1859, to Jesse D. Lloyd, a native of Springfield, also. He enlisted in 1861 in the 11th Mo. Inf., was commissioned as first lieutenant at the organization of the company, and promoted to captain. He served to the end of the rebellion and died April 10, 1865, leaving his widow and two children, WINFIELD S. and FRANK M., residing in Springfield, Illinois.

HELEN C., born July 16, 1847, in Springfield, and married in her native city May, 1874, to Newell Sturtevant, a native of Maine. They reside in New York City.

THOMAS S., born Oct. 14, 1853, in Springfield, is a printer, and resides with his parents in Springfield, Illinois.

Mr. George Strickland and wife are both living and reside in Springfield, Illinois.