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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.



WILCOCKSON, WILLIAM, born August 8, 1789, in Rowan county, North Carolina. Mary England, sister to Rev. Stephen England, was born March 14, 1786, in Virginia. Her parents moved to Bath county, Kentucky, when she was quite young. William Wilcockson and Mary England were there married, had seven children, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, in the fall of 1821, in company with their son-in-law, George Power. They settled in what is now Fancy creek township, where two children were born. Of their children--

DAVID died in Kentucky, aged seven years.

NANCY, born June 13, 1804, m Bath county, Kentucky, married there to Geo. Power. See his name.

MELINDA, born in Kentucky, was twice married, is now a widow, Gibson, and resides in Woodford county, Illinois.

JOHN married Caroline Spears. He died leaving a widow and nine children in Christian county, Illinois.

STEPHEN E., born in Bath county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Mary J. Lake. They have eight children, BAYLESS L., LUCY J., ELIZA A., EMELINE F., CHARLES H., JAMES E., ELIZABETH C. and JOHN S. The second and third are married, and reside in Henry county, Missouri. All the others reside with their parents near Elkhart, Illinois.

LUCY married Hiram Powell, and both died without children.

ELLEN married John Morgan, had twelve children, and lives in Iowa.

WILLIAM B., born Oct. 15, 1822, in Sangamon county, married September, 1848, to Clarinda Claypool, who was born Nov. 17, 1823, in Champaign county, Ohio. They had four children, and Mr. Wilcockson died very suddenly, April 26, 1856, near Athens, Illinois. Of their children, LEVI C. lives with his mother and manages the farm. THOMAS R., is a student at Ann Arbor, Michigan--1874--with the intention of making the law his profession. JOHN W. and MARY E. reside with their mother, two miles north of Cantrall, Sangamon county, Illinois.

GEORGE W., born in Sangamon county, married Susan Brown. They had seven children, and live in Lawrence county, Missouri.

Mrs. Mary Wilcockson died August 10, 1860, and William Wilcockson died July 24, 1864, both in Fancy creek township, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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