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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.



THAYER, ASAHEL, born Feb. 10, 1790, in Amherst, Massachusetts, was married May, 1813, to Mary Cannon, of Greenwich, Massachusetts. They had eleven children, five of whom died young. They moved to Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois, May 14, 1839, thence to Morgan county, Illinois, in 1846. Of their children -

Lois K., born in 1814 in Amherst, Massachusetts, was married in February, 1839, to George W. Crooker. See his name. Mrs. Lois Crooker died suddenly at Taylorville, Illinois, July 5, 1876, after the Crooker family sketch was printed. See sketch of G. W. Crooker.

Asahel E., born in 1821 in Amherst, was a member of the junior class in Amherst College, when he came to Illinois with his father, began the study of medicine with Dr. J. B. Lewis of Chatham, and died in his twenty-first year.

Gustavus H., born in 1825, in Amherst, is a graduate of Illinois College, and at one time a minister in the M. E. Church. He is unmarried, and resides with his father.

Helen, born in 1827, in Amherst, died in her twenty-eighth year.

Emma, born in 1832, in Amherst, was married January, 1850, to T. Milton Metcalf. He is now county clerk of Macoupin county. They have an adopted daughter, and reside in Carlinville, Illinois.

Frances A., born in 1834 in Amherst, resides with her father.

Mrs. Mary Thayer died May, 1866, in Waverly, where Asahel Thayer now resides - 1876.



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