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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





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EARLY SETTLEMENT - MECHANICSBURG TOWNSHIP

Jacob Constant, brother to John, was the grandfather of Rezin H. He was also the brother of Isaac and Thomas, and was born about 1765 in Virginia. Eleanor Clinkinbeard was born about 1769, in Virginia also. They were there married, and soon after moved on pack horses - that being the only way goods could be transported at that time through that mountainous country - to Fleming county, Kentucky. They had fourteen children in that county, and in 1814 moved to Clermont county, Ohio, where they had two children. The family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving October 26, 1826, in what is now Mechanicsburg township. He died in 1828.

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