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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.



WYCKOFF, SAMUEL, born in 1781, in Loudon county, Virginia. He moved in company with his parents to Bourbon county, Kentucky, in 1808. He was there married in 1812 to Rebecca Darneille, who was born at Bryan Station, Kentucky, in 1787. They had seven children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving Oct. 12, 1822, in what is now Chatham township, where two children were born. Of all their children:

JULIA A., born in 1813, married Stephen B. Neal. See his name.

JOHN THOMAS, born 1814, married 1837 to Sarah Shelton, who died, and he married Amanda Jacobs, and she died and he married Jane Foster. She died and he died in 1856, leaving one child.

SUSANNAH H., born July 7, 1815, married Washington Hall. See his name.

MAHALA J., born 1817, died aged twenty-seven years.

LORENA, born 1818 in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Allen Snyder. They have nine children, and live at Mowequa, Shelby county, Illinois.

BENJAMIN F., born July 19, 1819, married Delilah Harbour, had one child, and Mr. Wyckoff died August, 1843.

ASHER P., born Nov. 28, 1821, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 15, 1840, to Sarah M. Gibson, who was born April 24, 1817, in Todd county, Kentncky, and came to Sangamon county with her mother in 1828. The mother died March 12, 1859, at Wyandotte, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. W. had ten children, among them three pair of twins. Six of their children died under seven years of age. Of the other four, JOHN W. lives in Kansas. HENRY C. lives near Chatham, Illinois. They were both soldiers in an Illinois regiment. MARY A. married James Eaman, and lives in Ottawa, Kansas. WINFIELD S. was a soldier in an Iowa regiment. Asher P. Wyckoff and wife live in Kansas.

EMELINE, born in Sangamon county in 1824, married Henry Hall in 1843, and both died leaving five children, near Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

CHARLES H., born 1826, married Emeline Rude, and live in Cedar county, Missouri.

Samuel Wyckoff died March 18, 1850, and his widow in March, 1853, both near Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois



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