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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.



WEAVER, LEWIS, was born August 8, 1798, near the river Rhine, in Germany. He came to America when a young man, and was married in Franklin connty, Pennsylvania, to Savilla Earhart, a native of Maryland. They had four children in Pennsylvania. He started to move to Jefferson City, Missouri, but changed his mind and came to Saugamon county, Illinois, arriving in 1838 or '39, near Springfield, where four children were born. Of their children--

FREDERICK, born Sept. 23, 1829, in Pennsylvania, died in Sangamon county, Sept. 23, 1842.

LEWIS, Jun., born July 17, 1832, in Pennsylvania, died in Sangamon county, July 3, 1842.

SAMUEL, born Oct. 16, 1834, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, married Feb. 14, 1860, in Sangamon county, to Maria Jane Lake, who was born March 13, 1843, in Knox county, Ohio. They have six children, RACHEL L., JACOB F., MARY C., PHILIP L. and JESSIE E., and live in Cooper township, four miles southwest of Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHN H., born June 13, 1837, in Pennsylvania, married and lives near Illiopolis, Illinois.

ELI, born Jan. 15, 1840, in Sangamon county, married near Chatham to Anna Haddon. They have one child, MARY A., and live near Blue Mound, Macon county, Illinois.

LOUISA, born Jan. 19, 1843, in Sangamon county, married William R. Parker, have two children, and live near Eugene City, Oregon.

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 9, 1845, in Sangamon county, married Henry M. Johnson, and lives near Blue Mound, Macon county, Illinois.

DANIEL, born Sept. 22, 1849, in Sangamon county, lives with his brother, Samuel.

Lewis Weaver died April 22, 1853, and Mrs. Savilla Weaver died Oct. 14, 1864, both in Sangamon county, Illinois



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