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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.



YOAKUM, WILLIAM, was born in 1791 in Virginia, and when he was an infant his parents moved to Claiborn county, Tennessee, where his father died. His mother moved her family, about 1810, to Madison county, near Edwardsville, Illinois. They moved next to Montgomery county, and then to Sangamon county, arriving June 10, 1819, at the north side of Richland creek, in what is now Salisbury township. William Yoakum was married in 1821 to Sarah Simmons. They had eight children--

JOHN W., born in 1825, started to California in 1849, and died on the way.

MARY A., born in 1827, married William Penny, had six children, and he died in Missouri. She lives near Salisbury, Illinois.

GEORGE H., born in 1830, is unmarried, and lives near Salisbury, Illinois.

MARTHA J., born Dec. 30, 1852, married Francis M. Duncan. See his name.

JAMES C., unmarried, and lives in Menard county, Illinois.

ISAAC R. is unmarried.

JESSE J. married Sarah Miller, and lives at the family homestead, four miles west of Salisbury, Illinois.

Mrs. Sarah Yoakum died in 1863, and William Yoakum was married January, 1868, to Mrs. Letitia Henderson, whose maiden name was Rice, and lives near Salisbury, Illinois. The mother of William, James and Mathias Yoakum died in Salisbury township.



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