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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.




TRIMBLE, GEORGE, was born April 22, 1814, in Montgomery county, Kentucky. He was married August 23, 1836, to Lydia Shumate, who was born in that county August 15, 1815. They started the next morning after marriage for Sangamon county, Illinois, and arrived in September, 1836, in what is now Curran township. They had six children in Sangamon county, namely:

HUGHEY T., born June 2, 1837, died in his seventh year.

WILLIAM H., born Dec. 31, 1839, married October, 1864, to Nancy A. Gibson. They had two children. JOHN died in infancy, and ANNA E. resides with her father. Mrs. Trimble died Feb. 9, 1869, and Mr. T. was married Oct. 14, 1869, to Helen J. McGraw. They have one child, DORA BELL, and live two miles south of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELIZA J., born March 28, 1840, married F. M. Miller. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born April 27, 1842, married Edmund T. Miller. See his name.

JAMES A., born July 27, 1846, married Mary A. Barbre, and reside in Curran township.

GEORGE C., born Sept. 28, 1849, died Nov. 21, 1870.

Mrs. Lydia Trimble died Dec. 3, 1866, and George Trimble was married Dec. 5, 1867, to Rebecca Drennan. They reside two miles southeast of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.




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