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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.



ANDERSON, JAMES, was born in 1784 in Botetourt county, Va. Nancy Fletcher was born in 1786, in Rockbridge county, Va. They were there married, in 1802, and had two children in Virginia. They moved, in 1808, to Kentucky, where they had three children, and in 1813 moved to Indiana, where one child was born. They moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1820, and settled in what is now Ball township. Of their six children--

ROBERT N., born in Virginia, married, in Sangamon county, to Rebecca Wilson, who died, and he married Clarissa Woods, moved to Wisconsin, and both died there.

MARGARET L., born March 28, 1806, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to William Drennan. (See his name.)

JOB F., born in Kentucky, died unmarried, at 55 years of age.

JOHN N., born in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, married in Arkansas, and died there.

NANCY, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to John Caldwell, and died in Texas.

REBECCA, born in Indiana, raised in Sangamon county, went to Arkansas, married and died there.

James Anderson died in 1828 and his widow died in 1845, both in Sangamon county.



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