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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.



JUDD, REZIN, was born Dec. 26, 1798, in Mason county, Ky., and taken when a child to Clermont county, Ohio. He was married, in the adjoining county of Brown, Jan. 3, 1822, to Eve Shinkle, who was born in that county Dec. 2, 1804. They had two children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1826, in what is now Clear Lake township, where his brothers, Ezekiel and Corban, had settled the year before. They had eight children in Sangamon county--

ALBERT J. and MARY I. died, each in their fourth year.

ELIZA A., born Oct. 18, 1822, in Brown county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Thomas A. Magee. They had six living children. Mr. Magee died, in 1863, and his widow lives five miles south of Mechanicsburg, in Christian county, Illinois.

NELSON S., born Oct. 22, 1825, in Brown county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county, Nov. 15, 1849, to Susan Miller, who was born April 20, 1831, in Champaign county, Ohio. They have six living children, ELIZA J., SARAH E., GEORGE W., MARY M., ANNA E. and EMMA A., and live three miles southwest of Dawson, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHN A., born Sept. 6, 1830, in Sangamon county, died Oct. 7, 1848.

ARMINDA R., born April 17, 1833, in Sangamon county, married John H. Shankland. They have three children, and live in Riverton.

WILLIAM W., born Aug. 19, 1836, in Sangamon county. He served three months in Co. F, 70th Ill. Inf.; and enlisted in May, 1864, for one hundred days, in Co. I, 133d Ill. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged. He is Postmaster, at Dawson, and lives with his mother--1874.

MARGARET E., born Feb. 13, 1839, in Sangamon county, married, May 30, 1871, to Robert Alls. He was born Dec. 2, 1833, in Montgomery county, Va., was married in Clinton county, Illinois, to Mary M. Potts, who died, leaving one child, REBECCA V. He was married in Sangamon county, Feb. 11, 1867, to Mrs. Maria L. Grabendich, whose maiden name was Morgan. See Morgan's name. She died, leaving one child, CHARLES A., and he married M. E. Judd. They have one child, REZIN A., and live near Dawson, Illinois.

MARQUIS L., born Dec. 23, 1841, in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. F, 70th Ill. Inf.; served full term, and was honorably discharged. He lives in Dawson.

REZIN A. V., born Dec. 16, 1846, in Sangamon county, and lives with his mother.

Rezin Judd died, July 7, 1873, and his widow resides with her three sons, in Dawson, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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