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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.



TAYLOR, JOHN WICKLIFFE, was born April 21, 1798, in Boone county, Kentucky, nearly opposite Lawrenceburg, Indiana. In 1802 his parents moved to that part of Gallatin which is now Trimble county in the same State, opposite the city of Madison, Indiana. See sketch of his two sisters, Mrs. Jane E. Elliott, widow of James Elliott, and Mrs. Sally Smith, widow of Joseph Smith. J. Wickliffe Taylor was married June 1, 1820, in Tremble county, Kentucky, to Jemima Gray, who was born there Feb. 8, 1804. They had one child there, and moved to Springfield, Illinois, early in 1833. In April, 1834, they moved to what ia now Cartwright township, ten miles west of Springfield, where they had three children. Of their four children--

JOHN P., born April 10, 1821, in Kentucky, died there July 19, 1832.

BENJAMIN P., born and died in Sangamon county, aged three years.

WILLIAM H., born August 2, 1838, in Sangamon county. He has spent the last two years in Colorado, and has just returned to Sangamon county, and lives near Wheatfield.

SALLIE JANE, born August 12, 1843, and died April 18, 1858.

Mrs. Jemima Taylor died in 1874, near Wheatfield. Since her death Mr. Taylor has lived with his sister, Mrs. Smith, at Bates.

J. W. Taylor was elected in 1852 Judge of the Sangamon county court, and served four years.



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