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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.



BOZARTH, WILLIAM H., was born about 1796, in Grayson county, Ky. Elizabeth Stewart was born in 1797, in the same county, and they were there married in 1819. They had four children born in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in Oct., 1825, on Spring creek, west of Springfield about two and a half miles. Mr. Bozarth was killed by a fall from a horse in December following, only two months after coming to the county. His widow returned to Kentucky, was there married to Rawley Martin, returned to Sangamon county in the fall of 1830, and settled on Lick creek. In 1840 Mr. Martin moved to Warren county, Iowa. Of the four Bozarth children--

HIGGINSON married Mary Bozarth, in Grayson county, Ky., and remained there.

OLVER H. P. married Elizabeth Brooks, and resides in Grayson county, Ky.

ELI L., born in Grayson county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Artelia Peddicord. They had five children. ARMINDA and MINERVA P. died young. Eli L. Bozarth died Oct. 29, 1868. His son, WILLIAM W., was drowned in Sugar creek, April 21, 1869. The other two children, VIOLA E. and PHOEBE, reside with their mother at the house of her father, Jonathan Peddecord, in Ball township.

ISAAC H., born in Grayson county, Ky., married Rhoda Seybold, and resides at Blandinville, McDonough county.



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