VIGAL, MATHIAS
, was born August 28, 1779, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. His father died, and his mother married Adam Mung. They moved to Jefferson county, Kentucky. Mary Roney was born March 13, 1777, on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, and was taken by her parents to Jefferson county, near Louisville, Kentucky. Mathias Vigal and Mary Roney were married and had four children in that county. They moved in 1820 to Clark county, Indiana, and from there to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1830 in what is now Cotton Hill township. Of their four children--ELIZABETH, born July 9, 1801, in Kentucky, was married in Indiana to Samuel Slake. They had three children and moved to Springfield, Illinois, in the fall of 1828. In the spring of 1829 they moved to what is now Cotton Hill township, where four children were born, and Mrs. Slake died there July 25, 1855. Of their children, three only are living. WILLIAM is married, and lives in Taylorville, Illinois. JOHN and GEORGE are both married and live near Palmer, Christian county, Illinois. Samuel Slake is blind, and lives with his son, William, in Taylorville, Illinois.
RACHEL, born in 1803 in Kentucky, died in Indiana, aged sixteen years.
WILLIAM W., born May 14, 1805, in Jefferson county, Kentucky, came to Sangamon county first in 1828. Since that time he has lived in Springfield, and Cotton Hill township, in the latter of which he now lives, and is yet unmarried.
JOHN T., born April 8, 1808, near Louisville, Kentucky, was married March 10, 1830, in Clarke county, Indiana, to Hannah Coble, who was born in that county May 20, 1811. They moved, in company with his father, arriving in the autumn of 1830, in what is now Cotton Hill township, between Brush and Horse creeks. They had nine children in Sangamon county. MELVINA, born May 22, 1831, married Thompson C. Spicer. See his name. Mrs. Melvina Spicer died Dec. 9, 1873. WILLIAM H., born Jan. 22, 1833, was married Oct. 31, 1855, to Sarah A. Willian. They have six children, MARCIA A., EVERETT A., METTA E., WILLIAM M., FREDERICK H. and ERMIN CARROLL, and live in Cotton Hill township, one and a half miles south of New City, Sangamon county, Illinois. W. H. Vigal was a member of Sangamon County Board of Supervisors in 1862, and is at present a member. He has been township treasurer since 1858. ALFRED, born April 28, 1835, was married Dec. 17, 1857, to Diana Carpenter, who was born Feb. 6, 1831, in Delaware county, Ohio. They had six children, CLARA I., JOHN F., ADALINE, the latter died Jan. 19, 1875, aged twelve years, ANTONIO, EDWIN ULYSSUS GRANT, and MARY L., and live near New City, Sangamon county, Illinois. MARY A., born April 30, 1837, married William H. Boyd. See his name. JOHN F., born July 11, 1839, in Sangamon county, enlisted August, 1862, for three years, in Co. E, 114th Ill. Inf., and was killed in battle at Tupelo, Mississippi, July 15, 1864. SARAH J., born August 25, 1841, died June 22, 1864. NANCY C., born Oct. 20, 1843, died aged ten years. DAVID M., born Nov. 2, 1846, is a teacher, and lives near New City, Illinois. CHARLES E., born March 10, 1852, was married Jan. 7, 1875, to Mary A. Miller. They have one child, LUTHER F. Mrs. Hannah Vigal died May 12, 1853, and John T. Vigal, lives where he settled in 1831, in in Cotton Hill township, near New City, Sangamon county, Illinois.
Mrs. Mary Vigal died March 13, 1837, and Matthias Vigal died Dec. 25, 1862, both in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county, Illinois.