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





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THOMAS A. GREENING was born November 19, 1798, in Fauquier county, Virginia. His parents, Reuben Greening and Sarah Allen, were born and married in that county. In 1804, they moved to Cumberland Gap, Claiborne county, Tennessee, and in 1808 moved to Clarke county, Kentucky, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Thomas A. was a soldier from that county in the War of 1812. He was married there in 1816, to Elizabeth Dawson. She was born January 1, 1789. They had six children in Kentucky; moved to Montgomery county, Missouri, and from there to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1830, at Buffalo Hart Grove, where they spent the winter of the "deep snow". In the spring of 1831, they moved to what is now Loami township. Mr. Greening died in 1855.

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