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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.




MENGEL, ISAAC R., was born about 1820, in Lancaster county, Penn. He left home with his brother, Levi B., April 17, 1838, and arrived at Springfield, Ill., early in May, and a few days later went to Lebanon, now Loami, in the employ of J. P. Langford, who had a contract for furnishing timber for the State House, then being built in Springfield. He was married near Loami to Eunice M. Meacham. They had twelve children, among them two pairs of twins, and once three at a birth, two boys and a girl; the latter and one of the boys died young. The other boy--

ELLIS, lives with his parents in Nebraska.

LEVI enlisted in Co. K, 124th Ill. Inf., and died in the army.

ETHAN M., enlisted in Co. K, 124th Ill. Inf. He lost an eye by an accidental shot from a weapon in the hands of his Captain, near the close of his term of service. He married Amanda M. Weber, in Sangamon county, and lives in Nebraska.

ARMINDA J., married a Mr. Griffin, in 1865. They have three children, and live near Lincoln, Neb.

HATTIE lives with her parents in Wahoo, Neb.

Isaac R. Mengel resides at Wahoo, Saunders county, Nebraska. He is Probate Judge of that county--1875.




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