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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





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HARVEY GRAGG, farmer, post office, Mechanicsburg, is a son of William and Sophia Gragg, natives of Kentucky, and was born in this county, Jan. 21, 1853; has always followed farming. April 26, 1877, he married Hettie A. Rodgers, who was born in this county, March 5, 1856, daughter of Uriah and Hettie Rodgers, from Berks county, Pennsylvania, and parents of ten children, nine of whom are living, one having died in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Gragg have two children - Georgia Etta, born June 24, 1878, and Bertha Ella, born December 20, 1879. Mr. G. owns one hundred and forty-five acres of land valued at $7,250. The farm is well improved.

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