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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.



INGELS, JAMES V., was born April 5, 1815, in Fayette county, Ky. His father, Thomas Ingels, was born April 20, 1789, in Penn., was taken by his parents to Bourbon county, Ky., and was married in Fayette county to Judith Haley. They had six children, and moved to Jacksonville, Ill., thence to that part of Schuyler which is now Brown county, where they had three children, and Mrs. Judith Ingels died. Thomas Ingels married again, his wife died, and he moved, with part of his children, to Gentry county, Mo., and died there. Two of his sons came to Sangamon county, James V. and John. The former, whose name heads this sketch, came in Oct., 1837, and was married March 22, 1838, to Henrietta Earnest. They had four living children, namely--

SARAH J., born Feb. 13, 1840, married Jan. 31, 1867, to Charles W. Hall. They live in Piatt county, near Weldon, DeWitt county.

JACOB E., born June 25, 1841, in Sangamon county, went to Idaho Territory in 1862, married there July 14, 1867, to Augusta Thompson; moved to California, where she died. He returned to Sangamon county, and was married Jan. 25, 1871, to Salome O. Turner. They have two children, EDWARD E. and

JAMES T., and live six miles west of Springfield, Illinois.

S. GERARD, born Aug. 22, 1848, and

HENRIETTA E., born Feb. 14, 1858, live with their parents.

James V. Ingels resides in Island Grove township, four miles east of Berlin--1874.



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