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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.




STUBBS, ROBERT L., was born Dec. 24, 1813, in Virginia, taken by his parents to Greene county, Kentucky, and came to Island Grove, Sangamon county, Ill., in the fall of 1832. Martha Ann Smith was born Dec. 5, 1818, in Greene county, Kentucky. Her parents were from the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn., and both died in Kentucky; the father in 1823, and the mother in 1826. She came to Sangamon county in 1834, with the family of Dr. Richard Barrett. R. L. Stubbs and M. A. Smith were married August 4, 1836, and had fourteen children in Sangamon county.

MARY E., born June 11, 1837, married Sept. 11, 1856, to Samuel Clawson, have two children, WILLIAM H. and MARTHA M., and live near New Home, Bates county, Mo.

JAMES T., born March 5, 1839, married Oct. 29, 1867, to Hannah F. Robeson, who was born Dec. 12, 1840, in Morgan county. They have three children, ALBERTL., ELIZABETH A. and JAMES T., and live three and one-half miles east of Berlin, Sangamon county, Ill.

SARAH F., born Dec. 3, 1840, married March 18, 1858, to A. Jackson Rude, have one child, EDWARD E., and live five miles west of Chatham, Ill.

NANCY H., born Sept. 30, 1842, married Sept. 10, 1862, to James Campbell. See his name.

ELIZABETH A., born March 13, 1844, married Jan. 29, 1870, to Edmund T. Miller. See his name.

GEORGE W., born August 23, 1846, married Sept. 15, 1870, to Eliza Miller. They have one child, GEORCE R., and reside four miles west of Chatham, Ill.

WILLIAM S., born Jan. 7, 1851, married Nov. 6, 1872, to Annie A. Johnson, have one child, JAMES G., and live two miles west of Berlin, Sangamon county, Ill.

MARGARET J., born June 6, 1853, married Dec. 29, 1870, to Dayton LaDue, have two children, and reside near Arthur, Moultrie county, Ill.

ROBERT L., Jun., MARIA M., PETER G., DOLLIE T. and CHARLES E. reside with their mother.

Robert L. Stubbs died Sept. 7, 1871, and his widow resides four miles east of Berlin, Sangamon county, Ill.




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