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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.



CRAFTON, WILEY, was born Jan. 25, 1801, in Lunenburgh county, Va., went to Trimble county, Ky., where he was married in 1824 to Agnes Chalfant, who was born in that county about 1801. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved, early in 1831, to Vandalia, Ill., where they had one child, and the same year moved to Sangamon county, Illinois. They returned, in a short time, to Kentucky, then came back to Sangamon county, where they had four children. Of their children--

WILLIAM P., born May 25, 1826, in Trimble county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, Illinois, married Nov. 28 1855, in St. Louis, Mo., to Eliza ?? Harrison. They have three children, PEYTON L., AGNES E., and WILLIAM P., and reside in Springfield. Wm. P. Crafton was elected Police Magistrate at the Springfield city election, April, 1876.

THOMAS T., born May 27, 1828, in Trimble county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, to Miss Dawson. They have two children, and reside in Atlantic, Cass county, Iowa.

MARY, born in 1831, at Vandalia, Ill., married Dr. J. L. Million, and resides in Springfield.

Wiley Crafton lives in Springfield.



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