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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.



MILLER, SOLOMON, was born about 1796, in Adair county, Ky. He was married there to Nancy A. Antle. They had four children in Kentucky, and moved to St. Clair county, Ill., and from there to Sangamon county, arriving in the spring of 1820, at what is now Salisbury, where five children were born. Of their children--

BARBARA, born March 15, 1812, in Cumberland county, Ky., married Reuben Buchanan. See his name.

EVE, born Dec. 11, 1813, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Wm. T. H. Duncan. See his name.

MELINDA, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to William C. Hoag. See his name.

SARAH, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Morris Lindsay. See his name.

JASON, born Nov. 6, 1819, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon oounty, Feb. 10, 1853, to Sarah E. Willis. They have five children, FRANCIS M., MARY E., HARRIET A., THOMAS W. and SARAH IDA, and reside at Salisbury, Illinois.

JOHN A., born April 8, 1822, in Sangamon county, married in 1847 to Hannah J. Jackson, a native of Massachusetts. They had three children in Sangamon county. ALLEN A., born May 8, 1850, married Nov. 9, 1871, to Margaret A. Crawford, who was born May 3, 1850, in Laurel county, Ky. They have one child, EDWARD, and reside two miles northwest of Bradford station. MORRIS R. and HARVEY reside with their parents, two miles north of Salisbury, Illinois.

DOCIA, born in Sangamon county, married Rev. Tilford Clarke, have nine children, and live in Gardner township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ALLEN, born in Sangamon county, married Clarissa Keys. They have seven children. and live in Springfield.

NANCY A., born in Sangamon county, married George McMurphy. See his name.

GEORGE W., born May 18, 1833, in Sangamon county, married June 8, 1854, to Abigail Baker. They had three children, JOHN B., JENNETTE and MAY. Mrs. Abigail Miller died May 11, 1867, and George W. Miller lives in Salisbury, Illinois.

Mrs. Nancy A. Miller died April, 1854, and Solomon Miller married Lucinda Gard. He died in 1858, near where he settled in 1820, at Salisbury, Illinois.



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