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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.



PARRISH, SAMUEL, was born June 22, 1809, in Franklin county, Ohio. He married Sarah Manning. They had three living children in Ohio. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1839, in what is now Gardner township, where six children were born. Of their children--

SYNDISA, born Dec. 23, 1831, in Franklin county, Ohio, was married Feb. 26, 1852, in Sangamon county, to William Wilson. They had three children, MARGARET A., MOLLIE, died in her tenth year, and CHARLES. Mr. Wilson died Dec. 18, 1864. His widow married May 31, 1866, to James L. Carman. They have one child, CORA, and reside at Kenny, DeWitt county, Ill.--Dec., 1875. James L. Carman went from Salisbury, and enlisted in 1861, in Co. E, 14th Ill. Inf., for three years; re-enlisted as a veteran, Jan. 4, 1864, served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged, May 21, 1865.

CORNELIUS, born Jan,, 1836, in Ohio, died in Sangamon county, aged twenty-two years.

REBECCA, born Feb., 1838, in Ohio, was married in Texas to John Byford, and resides at Springfield, Arkansas.

JAMES, born Dec., 1841, in Sangamon county, enlisted in Co.--. 114th Ill. Inf., in 1862, for three years. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June, 1864, taken to Andersonville prison-pen, where he remained nine or ten months, was released, and died May 15, 1865, at Jacksonville, Florida.

SAMUEL, born May, 1843, in Sangamon county, enlisted in an Ill. Art. Co. for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran, and served to the end of the war. He was married in Tennessee to Jane Richardson. They have three children, JOSEPH, CHARLES and FLORENCE. Samuel Parrish is Superintendent at the National Cemetery, at Fort Donnelson, Tenn.--1874.

AMANDA, born Feb., 1845, in Sangamon county, married S. Neff. They had seven children, FRANKLIN E., JOHN S., FRANCES M., LUELLA, ROSCOE C., ANNA M. and another. They reside near Chinkapin Hill, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOSEPH, born June, 1848, in Sangamon county, married Eliza Richardson. They have one child, and reside at Dover, Tenn.

CHARLES, born July, 1853, in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and lives in Arkansas.

Mrs. Sarah Parish died Dec., 1861, and Samuel Parish married Mrs. Mahala Legget. He died May 28, 1873, in Springfield. Mr. P. is believed to have chopped more timber than any other man in Sangamon county.



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