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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.



CASSITY WILLIAM, cousin to Alexander and Willis, was born in Bath county, Ky. He was married in Nicholas county, Ky., to Honor Wells, a native of Pennsylvania. They had five living children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830, in what is now Rochester township. Of their children--

GEORGE died in Kentucky, at twenty-two years of age.

JEREMIAH died in Kentucky, at sixteen years of age.

REBECCA, born Feb. 14, 1802, in Nicholas county, Ky., married Edward Branch. See his name.

LEWIS, born in Kentucky about 1805, and died in Sangamon county, unmarried, in 1852.

MARY, born Aug. 28, 1806, in Nicholas county, Ky., married there Jan. 4, 1827, to James W. Neill. See his name.

William Cassity died in 1844, and Mrs. Honor Cassity died Aug., 1854, both in Rochester township.



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