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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.



VAN NATTEN, DANIEL, was born March 3, 1800, in Fleming county, Kentucky. He was married Dec. 25, 1818, in Bath county, to Deborah Ferguson. They had one child in Fleming county, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1825, in what is now Fancy Creek township, where five children were born. Of their six children--

JOSEPH, born March 10, 1821, in Fleming county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, April 7, 1842, to Currency Stanley. They had nine children all born in Sangamon county. NORMAN A. enlisted in 1862 in Co. G, 73d Ill. Inf., for three years, served full term and was honorably discharged. He was married after the war to Clarissa Tufts, and lives in Fancy Creek township. THOMAS M. enlisted for one hundred days in Co. I, 133d Ill. Inf., served five months and was honorably discharged. He married Annie Renney, and died May 4, 1872, leaving a widow and two children near Springfield, Illinois. EMILY J. married James Renney and resides in Sangamon county. WARREN O. married Christiana Bowen, and lives in Fancy Creek township. MARTHA A., DANIEL W., JOHN N., JOSEPH J. and CLARISSA O. live with their parents, seven miles northwest of Springfield, Sangamon county, Ill. JOSEPH Van Natten enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. G, 73d Ill. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged at the close of the rebellion.

ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon county, married Joseph Van Natten--a relative of the family--have one child, and live near Edina, Knox county, Missouri.

NELSON, born in Sangamon county, married Elizabeth Patterson. He served three years in a Missouri Union regiment, was honorably discharged, and lives in Knox county, Missouri.

DEBORAH, born in Sangamon county, married Benjamin Ferguson, and died in Fancy Creek township.

EDNA, born in Sangamon county, and died in Texas at nineteen years of age.

DANIEL, Jun., is married and lives in Knox county, Missouri. He served three years in a Missouri Union regiment to aid in suppressing the rebellion.

All the Van Natten family moved to Texas in 1858, and all the living returned to Knox county, Missouri, in 1859, except Joseph, who returned to Sangamon county in 1860.

Daniel Van Natten died Oct. 16, 1869, and his widow died March 4, 1871, both in Knox county, Missouri.



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