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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.



ROBINSON, WM. R., was born about 1776, in England. When he was ten or twelve years old, his parents came to America, and settled in Virginia. When he attained to manhood he went to Blount county, Tenn., and was there married, in 1808, to Sarah Witcher. They had five children in Tennessee, and moved to Barren county, Ky., where six children were born, and then moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in what is now Williams township, in 1836. One of their children only resides in Sangamon county--

JANE, the third child, born in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to Abel Yocom. See his name.

The children are scattered all the way to the Pacific coast. The family moved to Logan county, where the parents both died in 1860.



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