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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.
STRINGFIELD, JAMES
, was born about 1765 in Buncombe county, North Carolina. His parents moved to Warren county,
Kentucky, when he was a young man. He was there married to Nancy Simmons who was born in Roanoke county, Virginia. They had ten children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county in the fall of 1820 in company with their son-in-law, John Strode. Of their children--
MARY, born August 12, 1796, in Warren county, Kentucky, married John Strode. See his name.
ROLAND resides near Williamsville. Their other children are scattered and many of them dead.
James Stringfield died in 1835, and his widow died a year or two later, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.
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