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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, WILLIAM B. , was born Dec. 25, 1800, near Salem, New Jersey. Beulah Smith was born Dec. 19, 1810, in Cape May county, New Jersey. They were married Jan. 4, 1830, in Cape May county, and had three living children in New Jersey. They moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving May 16, 1838, in what is now Gardner township, one and a half miles north of Farmingdale, where they had five children. Of their eight children--

JOHN L., born Oct. 13 1830, in New Jersey, raised in Sangamon county, and started April 4, 1851, to California. He has not been definitely heard from by his friends since 1857.

BEULAH ANN., born August 10, 1835, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county, in 1857, to Isom Bolin. They have six children and live in Sangamon county, Illinois.

ROXANA S., born Oct. 22, 1837, in New Jersey, is unmarried, and resides with her brother, William B., Jun.

VICTORIA M., born Dec. 28, 1839, in Sangamon county, lives with her brother, William B., Jun.

JOSEPHINE, M., born March 3, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 11, 1858, to Sidney Robins, had one child, CHARLES, and for a second husband married, August, 1867, to Geo J. Fiddler. They have one child, JACOB BEN., and live in Mason City, Illinois.

WILLIAM BIDDLE, Jun., born June 1, 1842, in Sangamon county, and resides four miles north of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois--1874.

ABIGAIL B., born March 20, 1845, in Sangamon county, married April 6, 1865, to Thomas Maylor, and lives near Coyville, Wilson county, Kansas.

ZACHARY, born Oct. 23, 1846, in Sangamon county, and died Oct. 15, 1864.

William B. Taylor, Sen., died May 26, 1852, and his widow died August 22, 1860, both in Sangamon county. He was related to Nicholas Biddle, who was associated with the first United States bank.



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