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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.



WALLACE, JAMES, was born between 1780 and '85 in South Carolina. He was no relation to the other James Wallace from the same state. He was married there to Francis A. Benison. They moved to North Carolina, thence to northern Indiana, and from there to Henry county, Kentucky. In 1818 they moved to Shawneetown, Illinois, and in the spring of 1819 he moved to what became Sangamon county, settling on Lick creek. They brought nine children, namely,

JOHN, married Minerva Myers, and died in 1843 or '44, leaving a widow and four children near Decatur, Illinois.

WILLIAM married Elizabeth Miller. He died in Arkansas, leaving a widow and three children.

ROSE ANN married Randall Davis, who died in 1867 or '68, leaving his family in Macon county, Illinois.

ELIZABETH, born in South Carolina, came with her father to Sangamon county, was married in Macon county to Edward Turpin. They have four children, and live near Hopewell, Macon county, Illinois.

SARAH died unmarried in Sangamon county in 1831.

ISAAC and MELINDA, twins, born August 22, 1815, in Indiana.

ISAAC was married April 13, 1837, in Springfield, to Mrs. Eliza Hawker, whose maiden name was Lindsay. They had four living children, namely, SAMUEL, married Frances Grissom, and lives in Springfield, Illinois. HELEN married F. M. Scott has four children and lives in Mechanicsburg, Illinois. FRANCES married Emery Mayfield, has one child, and lives near Auburn, Illinois. ALICE married Benjamin Kessler, Jun., and live in Auburn, Illinois. Isaac Wallace and wife reside in Springfield, Illinois.

MELINDA married in Macon county to William Hanks, and both died there.

SAMUEL, born in Kentucky, is married, and lives near Tower Hill, Shelby county, Illinois.

James Wallace died in Sangamon county in 1822, and in 1832 his widow, with some of her children, moved to Macon county, where she died.



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