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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.



MOORE, JOSEPH, was born Aug. 12, 1780, in Shenandoah county, Virginia. He was there married, Sept. 15, 1803, to Julia Ann Duck. They had six children in Virginia, and then moved, in 1815, to Bath county, Ky., where two children were born. After a residence of twenty-one years in Kentucky, Mr. Moore moved his family to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in what is now Auburn township, in the fall of 1836, and four years later moved to Ball township. Of their children--

REUBEN, born in Virginia, married Charlotte Coaley, moved to Texas, about 1847, and died there, in 1862, leaving a wife and five children.

MARY, born in Virginia, married to Daniel Hannah, who died, leaving a widow and one child in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.

SARAH, born April 27, 1807, in Shenandoah county, Virginia, married in Kentucky to Wm. A. Lockridge. See his name.

JOHN H., born in Virginia, married in Kentucky to Louisa Boyd, and remained there.

ABRAHAM, born in Virginia, died in Mississippi, aged twenty-six years.

ELIZABETH, born in Shenandoah county, Va., married Wm. M. Patton. See his name.

MORRISON M., born in Bath county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Crow. They have eight children--JOSEPH M. lives in Minnesota. JOHN H. and CHARLES live with their parents. MARGARET A. married William D. Nuckolls. See his name. GEORGE L., WILLIAM D., ASA B. and SARAH E., live with their parents, on the farm where his father settled in 1840. It is two miles south of Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JAMES W., born in Virginia, married Mary A. Walker, who died, and he married Virginia Lane, and is a practicing attorney in Washington City, D. C.

RILEY, died, at ten years of age.

Mrs. Julia A. Moore died, July 23, 1853, and Joseph Moore died Sept. 7, 1856, both in Sangamon county.



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