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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.



RIDGEWAY, AUSBURN, brother to Samuel, was born in Berkley county, Va., and married in North Carolina to Jane Phelps. They moved to Lincoln county, Ky., from there to Washington county, in the same State, thence to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1828, in Buffalo Hart grove. They raised a large family, and the parents both died in Sangamon county. Of their children we will mention four only--

JOHN, born Feb. 23, 1806, in Lincoln county, Ky., came with his parents to Sangamon county, in 1828, and was married, Feb. 12, 1829, to Sarah Bridges. They had seven children, two of whom died young. MARTHA J., born Jan. 3, 1830, married Charles Eckel, and lives near Ottawa, Kansas. ALFRED A., born March 13, 1834, died in 1857. ADALINE and CAROLINE, twins, born Jan. 17, 1837. ADALINE married Benjamin F. Hill, has six living children, and reside near Decatur, Illinois. CAROLINE married Henry Lee, and died Nov. 2, 1864, near Illiopolis. LEVI S., born Sept. 29, 1839, married Rhoda Fletcher. He died, August 2, 1868, in Sangamon county, leaving a widow and four children, who live near Decatur, Ill. John Ridgeway died Oct. 28, 1858, and his widow married Jonathan Constant. See his name.

PATTERSON, born Nov. 19, 1813, in Lincoln county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Nancy Huddleston, who died, leaving two children, and he married Mrs. Rhoda J. Walker, whose maiden name was Withrow. They have one child, and live in Cooper township, Sangamon county.

MELINDA married Alexander Dickerson. See his name.

ALEXANDER served three years in the 73d Ill. Inf., has a large family, and moved west after the close of the rebellion.



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