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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.



JACK, ROBERT, was born Nov. 9, 1778, in Virginia. His parents moved to Kentucky when he was a boy. He was married there to Nancy Fleming, who was born Nov. 25, 1786, in Pennsylvania. They had five children in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1825 or '6, near Old Berlin. Of their children-- JAMES died at fourteen or fifteen years of age. MARGARET married Elias Jefferies. See his name. RHODA G., born June 30, 1813, married Nov. 21, 1833, to John W. Stringfield. He died Dec. 6, 1847, and she was married March 22, 1849, to Nicholas A. Garland. See his name. MARIA, born in 1815, married about 1833 to Robert Patton. They moved to Lawrence county, Mo., had five children, and returned to Sangamon county during the war, and Mr. Patton died here in 1863. His family live in Missouri. JOHN D. died at eight or ten years of age. Robert Jack died about the spring of 1834, and his widow died January, 1863, both in Sangamon county.



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