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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.
WOOD, WILLIAM
, was born October, 1794, in Knox county, Tennessee. He went to Madison county, Illinois, when he was a young man, and was there married, in 1814, to Polly Cox. They moved to what became Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1818, in what is now Auburn township. They had ten children--
LUCINDA married Andrew Gates. See his name.
JOHN married Rebecca Bowen, moved to Texas, and died there.
JAMES went to Texas, married Electa Jenkins, and lives there.
EDWARD married Amanda Pitzer, and died in Illinois.
SALLY married Peter Gates. See his name.
GILBERT, married, and lives in Missouri.
MARGARET married Juseph Campbell, and lives in Virden, Illinois.
WILLIAM married Jane Bristow, and lives in Iowa.
GEORGE married Isabella Easom, and lives in Virden, Illinois.
EVA died in Virden, unmarried.
William Wood and his wife both died in Sangamon county, Illinois.
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