WILLIAM P. SPRINKEL was born January 7, 1846, in Arkansas; came to Sangamon county in the spring of 1860, with his parents, and married Sarah Staines, April 16, 1871; who was born May 9, 1854, in Ohio. Her parents came to Sangamon county in the fall of 1865. William P. has four children: Minnie E., born June 27, 1872; Nora A., born February 7, 1875; Gertie A., born February 24, 1878, and Ina May, born July 24, 1880. Mr. Sprinkel's father and brother died in the Union army of the late war. Joseph M., born March 1, 1841, married Mrs. Charlotte Cre, and lives in Effingham county, Illinois. He was a member of Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-third Regiment Illinois Infantry - three years' service. John, born June 22, 1844, and married Rebecca A. Patts, in October, 1869, and lives in Montgomery county, Kansas. Mrs. William P. Sprinkel's mother now lives in Mechanicsburg with her second husband, Hugh McCarty, who owns in Cooper township, one hundred and fifty acres of land under good cultivation, and worth $60.00 per acre. The family are members of the U.B. Church, and Mrs. S. is a Republican.