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HENRY SPRINKEL, a farmer, born January 14, 1840, at Mansfield, Ohio; went with his parents to Arkansas, and there remained until 1860; then came to Sangamon county, and settled in Cooper township. He married October 20, 1861; to Mary Ellen Buzley, the daughter of William M. and Priscilla (Evans) Buzley. They have had ten children, namely: James Henry, born August 21, 1862, died October 25, 1862; infant daughter born October 25, 1863, and died same day; infant son born December 29, 1855, died same day; Priscilla Catharine, born November 10, 1866, and died December 6, 1866; Benjamin Franklin, born February 17, 1868; Jesse Davis, born November 28, 1870, died May 22, 1877, from a wound in the knee, caused by his falling on an axe, just one month after the accident; Fannie Maria, born August 23, 1873; William Otterbein, born March 10, 1876; Cynthia Viola, born February 24, 1879; Mary Josephine, born December 29, 1880.

Mrs. Sprinkel's father, William M. Buzley, was born in Kentucky; and her mother, Priscilla (Evans) Buzley, was born in Meigs county, Ohio. Two of her brothers, Joseph and Christopher C., served in the Federal army in the war of the Rebellion, and died in Federal hospital in Missouri. Her father returned to Missouri and purchased land; but before he got his family upon it, the battle of Wilson's Creek was fought, and their farm was near the battlefield. Her brother was taken prisoner, but made his escape, and with his father's family he hurriedly left for Sangamon county, where they arrived in September, 1861. One of Mrs. S's. Brothers owned a nursery in Arkansas during the war, but being a Union man, he was constantly in danger, till at last his neighbors put a rope around his neck to hang him, but by some means he made his escape and reached Sangamon county in September, 1861, and afterwards returned to Missouri, where he now resides. Her father died in Missouri, in 1880, in his seventy-sixty year; and her mother is making her home with her, at the age of seventy-four.