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LEVI CANTRALL was born October 1, 1787, in Botetourt county, Virginia. He was taken by his parents in 1789 to that part of Mercer which afterwards became Bath county, Kentucky. He was there married November 30, 1809, to Fanny England. They moved to Madison county, Illinois, in October, 1819; moved on and arrived where Springfield now stands, December 4, 1819, and reached the north side of the river, in what is now Fancy Creek township, on the fifth, made the selection of a location on the seventh, and commenced building a cabin December 8, 1819.