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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.



SWEET, JOSEPH, was born March 15, 1789, in Otsego county, New York. He was there married to Abigail Neal, who was born Oct. 30, 1793, in Hartford Connecticut. They had eight children in Otsego county, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1830 at Lebanon, now Loami, where two children were born. Of their children--

ASENATH, born Nov. 11, 1813, married in Sangamon county to John Kinney, had three living children, and reside at Linden, Osage county, Kansas.

MANASSEH, born August 10, 1815, married three times, had one child by the first, and three by the second wife. He died in 1872, in Canton, Missouri.

EUNICE, born Sept. 9, 1817, married Jacob Markle, has several children, and lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

FRANCIS, born March 13, 1819, married Phebe Morton, who died, leaving one child, and he married again, and lives in Lewis county, Missouri.

CORDELIA, born June 14, 1822, married Jacob Weidner, has ten children, and lives in Lewis county, Missouri.

JOSEPH, born March 25, 1824, in Otsego county, New York, married in Sangamon county to Lola Hinman. They live in Chatham, Illinois.

IRA, born May 2, 1826.

VERMELIA A., born Feb. 5, 1828, the last birth of the family in New York, married in Sangamon county to Washington Clawson, had two children, and Mr. C. died and the widow married Theodore Watson, had one child, and lives in Waverly, Illinois.

ARABELLA L., born March 18, 1831, the first birth of the family in Sangamon county, married August 22, 1848, in Springfield to Ebenezer B. Watson, who was born Nov. 21, 1819, at East Windsor, Connecticut. They had ten children, six of whom are dead, namely, ALICE died March 10, 1864, in her fifteenth year, PHILIP, GRACE A., HENRY, ARABELLA and MARY R. died under three years. The other four, ANNA, SERENA, EBINEZER B., Jun., and ARABELLA L. live with their parents in Talkington township, three miles east of Waverly, Illinois.

SARAH T., born Sept. 25, 1833, in Sangamon county, married Samuel Brown and moved to Texas.

Joseph Sweet moved to Scyene, Dallas county, Texas, in 1852, and soon after became postmaster, and died in office in 1864. His wife died the same year.



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