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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.



WALKER, SAMUEL, was born Dec. 8, 1777, in Campbell county, Virginia. He was there married to Martha Hannah, who was born March, 1790, in the same county. They had three children in Virginia, and the family moved to Rutherford county, Tennessee, in October, 1816, where four children were born, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving October, 1828, in what is now Loami township, where they had two children. Of the nine children--

WILLIAM, S., born Nov. 2, 1811, in Virginia, married in Loami, Dec. 4, 1831, to Clarissa Colburn. They had thirteen children, four died under three years. ACHSA J., born April 28, 1834, married April 1855, to N. G. Estes, have six children, and live in Loami, Ill. SAMUEL S., born April 22, 1836, enlisted August 6, 1862, in Co. F, 51st Ill. Inf. for three years, was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 19, 1863, recovered, served full term and was honorably discharged June 16, 1865. He was married May 1, 1870, to Catharine Conrad, and lives in Loami, Ill. WILLIAM H. H., born August 3, 1840, enlisted May 1, 1864, in Co. E, 133d Ill. Inf. for one hundred days, served full term and was honorably discharged. He was married Jan. 10, 1867, to Elizabeth Swink have one child, SAMUEL S., and live one and a half miles northwest of Loami, Illinois. ELI J., born Oct. 1, 1842, married Sarah Swink, have one child, and live one and a half miles northwest of Loami, Illinois. EUNICE M., born Jan. 22, 1845, married John G. Kelly, have three children, and live in Loami, Illinois. ELMINA F. and LUCY A. live with their parents. REBECCA A., born March 29, 1854, married Alfred Davis February 19, 1871, have one child, and live in Loami, Illinois. LEVI F. lives with his parents at Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JAMES R., born August 13, 1813, died at eleven years.

THOMAS J., born in Virginia June 2, 1816, married Elizabeth Denton, have six children, and live in Cedar county, Missouri.

GEORGE J., born July 29, 1819, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 22, 1843, to Elizabeth Back, who was born Dec. 25, 1827, in Garrard county, Kentucky. They had eight children, four of whom died in infancy. AMARINE, born Jan. 7, 1854, married Robert J. Collins, have one child, ALONZO D., and live at Loami, Illinois. GEORGE W., LUELLA and JOHN B. live with their parents in Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

SAMUEL C. died at twenty-one years of age.

BEVERLY W., born Feb. 8, 1825, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Cooley, have five children, and live in Douglas county, Kansas.

THEOPHILUS, born in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to Rhoda J. Withrow, and died.

REBECCA, born August 12, 1829, in Sangamon county, married William C. Smith. See his name.

HIRAM W., born April 3, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Martha E. Scott, have three children, MARY, LUCY A. and CHARLES F., and reside near McMurray Chapel, in Ball township, four miles southeast of Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Samuel Walker died August 31, 1834, and his widow died April, 1852, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.



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