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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.



BARNETT, THOMPSON, was born Dec. 15, 1795, in Kentucky. Ann Patterson was born Sept. 29, 1803, in Holston county, Va. When she was two years old her parents moved to Adair county, Ky. Thompson Barnett and Ann Patterson were married there, Jan. 19, 1822., They had three children born in Kentucky, and moved to Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1829, at Irish Grove, Menard county, where one child was born. Thompson Barnett died Dec. 12, 1830, at Irish Grove. Mrs. Ann Barnett was married May 26, 1836, to Levi Cantrall, and brought her four children to his home in Fancy Creek township. Of her children by the first marriage--

NANCY J., born Nov. 25, 1822, in Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to William D. Power. (See his name.)

ARMINTA M., born March 27, 1825, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, to Jefferson Vandergrift. They had four children, and she died. Mr. V. and his children reside in (???), Wis.

MARY E., born August 29, 1829, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to James Hibbs. Mrs. Hibbs died, leaving one child, NANCY J., who married Dorrell Primm, and resides in Menard county.

J. THOMPSON, born April 20, 1830, at Irish Grove. He married and has five children, JAMES, EDDIE, NATHAN, ANN and MARY, and resides in Fancy Creek township.

For Mrs. Ann Barnett's further history, see Levi Cantrall.



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