Sangamon County, Illinois - The whole text, 1876 (part 15 of 31)

ELLIOTT B., born Aug. i, 1820, at Troy, Madison county, 111., has practiced law in Springfield since 1842. He was city attorney during 1854 and '5, and county attorney in 1856. He was United States District Attorney, under President Buchanan, and was corporation counsel during 1874 and '5. E. B. Herndon was married, Sept. 30, 1875, to Mrs. Jerusha Lee, whose maiden name was Palmer. She was born April 16, 1833, in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Mr. Herndon is a practicing lawyer, and resides in Springfield, 111.

ARCHER G., Jun., born Nov. 29, 1825, in Sangamon county, 111., was married in DeWitt county, Oct. 15, 1846, to Roanna R. Robbins, who was born April 17, 1829, in Campbell county, Ky. They had eleven children, three of whom died under two years. Of the other eight - WILLIAM FRANCIS, born April 9, 1848, was married Sept. 14, 1871, to Mary H. Bryant, who was born Sept. 21, 1852. They have one child, EDGAR BRYANT, and live in Springfield, Illinois. NONA R. died Jan. 17, 1876, from burns, caused by the explosion of a lamp. LOAMI D., ELLIOTT G.^ RODELIA A., MOLLIE E., ROMEPEER R. and ELMA R.; the six latter live with their parents. Archer G. Herndon, Jun., and family, reside near the southeast corner of Rochester township.

Archer G. Herndon, Sen., was engaged in mercantile pursuits, from 1825 to 1836, in Springfield, and during that time erected the first regular tavern in town. He was one of the "Long Nine" who were instrumental in having the capital removed from Vandalia to Springfield, having been elected State Senator in 1836. He was receiver of public moneys, from 1842 to 1849, in the Land Office, in Springfield. A. G. Herndon, Sen., died Jan. 3, 1867, and Mrs. Rebecca Herndon

Mrs. Sarah Hesser died Jan. 15, 1825 and Samuel L. Hesser was married Sept. 12, 1826, to Ann Maria Slagle, in Hagerstown, Md. She was born in. that city Oct. 4, 1803, and brought up in Winchester, Va. They had five children in Berry - ville, Frederick county, Va., and the family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving at Springfield June 6, 1836, where they had four living children. Of their nine children -

Franklin P., Sallie M. Charles E., Henry S., Dial

EDMONIA E., born May 31, 1831, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county Feb. 4, 1852, to Dial Davis. She died July 4, 1064, leaving six children - FRANKLIN P., SALLIE M., CHARLES E., HENRY S., DIAL W. - the latter died Nov. 25, 1875 - and CARRIE E. The five living children reside with their father at Mt. Auburn, Christian county, 111.

B.Jesse M.,Homer H., Arthur

GEORGE W^born Sept. 30, 1833,111 Berryville, Va., married in Sangamon county May 15, 1860, to Caroline Morgan. They have five children, BYRON B.JESSE M.,HOMER H., ARTHUR A. and CLARA B., and reside two miles northeast of Wheatfield postoffice, Lanesville, Sangamon county, 111.

JOHN Z., born March 16, 1835, in Virginia, brought up in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, at Camp Butler, for three years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf. He went in as 1st Corporal ; promoted to 5th Sergeant Oct. 25, 1862; promoted to Orderly Sergeant Jan. 8th, and 2d Lieutenant Sept. 17, 1863. He never had a day's sickness or missed a march or battle while in the service, except when he was in prison. He was captured at the battle of Chicamauga, Sept. 20, 1863, and was in different rebel prisons nineteen months, principally at Andersonville. Mr. Hesser says the battlefield was pleasant compared with the gloomy prisons, where starvation, filth, vermin and disease prevailed. He expresses his gratitude that through the whole eighteen months he had one friend who was ever faithful and true, John W. North, of the same company and regiment. See his name. Mr. Hesser says that hy the aid of each other and the will of God, they escaped with their lives. It was not death they dreaded so much as the " thought of staying with those southdown sons of sin, dead or alive." He served full time, and was honorably discharged at the close of the rebellion. He was married in Sangamon county, 111., to Mary J. Crumley. They have one child, SARAH M., and reside two miles east of Riverton, Sangamon county, Illinois.

HENRIETTA C.,born Nov. 6,1836, in Springfield, married Oct. 18, 1859, in Sangamon county to Samuel Pheasant, who was born Nov. 24, 1819, in Washington county, Md. Came to Sangamon county in 1857. They had four children. DANIEL Z. died, aged eight years. HENRIETTA M., WILLIAM L. and SAMUEL E., died under two years. Mr. and Mrs. Pheasant reside one mile south of Buffalo, Sangamon county.

JACOB A., born Nov. 12, 1838, in Springfield, went to Texas in 1859, and there married Maggie Marchbanks. They have one living child, CHARLES, and reside at Corsicana, Nevarro county, Texas.

CHARLES S., born Sept. 3, 1845, in Springfield, married April I, 1873, in Nebraska, to Fannie Stillwell, and reside near York, York county, Neb.

Samuel L. Hesser was one of the eight men who organized the first Masonic Lodge in Springfield. He died Oct. 15, 1871, at Buffalo, Sangamon county, and his widow resides there.

Hesser, Armstead

HESSER, ARMSTEAD N., younger brother to Samuel L., came to Springfield in 1837, raised a family of several children, and himself and wife both died in 1847. Their daughter -

Hickman, William

1813, t° Mary M. Card well, who was born March 18, 1795, in Virginia. They had seven children in Shelby county, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov. 8, 1833, at Springfield, and in the spring of 1834 settled near Mechanicsburg, where one child was born. Of their children -

GEORGE T., born Nov. 8, 1814, in Shelby county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, 111., April 7, 1842, to Elizabeth Lyon, who was born Dec. 21, 1823, in Shelby county, Ky. They had seven children in Sangamon county. WILL AM H., born Sept. 15, 1843, enlisted August 5, 1862, in Co. B, 30th 111. Inf., for three years. He was taken sick in going to the field of conflict, and died Jan. 17, 1863, in military hospital, Memphis, Tennessee. JAMES F. married Sophia C. Burns, and lives in Menard county, near Buffalo Hai't, Sangamon county, 111. MARY E., RICHARD O., CALVIN WESLEY, HENRIETTA and THOMAS C. reside with their parents, five miles southeast of Williamsville.

WILLIAM A., born Oct. 26, 1816, in Shelby county, Ky., was married in Nelson county, Ky., to Burnett Barber, who died, leaving two children. W. A. Hickman married Sue Elsuit. They have one child. William A. Hickman is a practicing physician, and resides at Owensboro, Ky.

JAMES F., born Feb. 14, 1819, in Shelby county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, 111., Nov. 3, 1863, to Sarah E. Bice. They had four children, WILLIAM and ARTHUR, the first and fourth, died under two years. MARY IRENE and GEORGE THOMAS live with their parents, one and a half miles north of Barclay, at the Bice family homestead.

JOHN F., born April 8, 1821, in Shelby county, Ky., was married at Harrodsburg, Ky., to Sally Curry. She had one child, and died, and he married Em-

JULIET A., born March 26, 1825, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, 111., to H. C. Linsley. They have seven children, and live near Grove City, Christian county, 111.

RICHARD O., born Nov. i, 1831, in Shelby county, Ky., brought up in Sangamon county, 111., was married there, August 8, 1872, to Maggie Perill. They have one child. He was, in 1873, Treasurer of Montana Territory, and resides at Virginia City.

SUSAN E., born April 26, 1834, near Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, 111., was married there, June, 1859, to Ambrose J. Sell, who was born Dec., 1827, in Hanover, York county, Penn., and came to Springfield in May, 1851. Mr. and Mrs. Sell have one child, EDWIN A., and reside in Springfield, 111. Mr. Sell is a grocer on north Fifth street.

Mrs. Mary Ann Hickman died Jan. 19, 1843, and William Hickman was married Feb. 14, 1845 to Mrs. Elizabeth Burrell, whose maiden name was Short. William Hickman died Jan. 15, 1874, in Springfield, 111., in his eighty-fourth year. His widow resides on north Seventh street, Springfield, 111.

HIC16OX, ADDISON, was born May^ 1798, in Middlebury, Conn., was a brother to Horace and Virgil. He was married Nov. 10, 1823, in Jefferson county, N. Y., to Rhoda Stanley, who was born March 10, 1803, in that county. They had three living children in New York, and moved to Springfield, 111., in

HARRIET M., born March 18, 1826, in Jefferson county, N. Y., married in Springfield, 111., Jan. i, 1857, to Benjamin F. Haines, who was born March 19, 1824, in Xenia, Ohio, raised in Bloomington,

111., came to Springfield in 1863 or '4, and was engaged in milling until 1873, when he moved to Florida, and engaged in the culture of oranges and lemons. Mr. and Mrs. Haines now reside at Spring Garden, Florida.

EATON R., born Nov. i, 1827, in Jefferson county, N. Y., and raised in Springfield, 111. In 1851, Mr. Hickox went to California, returning in 1857, he t soon after engaged in mercantile business, in Atlanta, 111., where he was married, Aug. 7, 1858, to Sallie B. Mahew, a native of New Jersey. They had three children, ADDISON, RAY and HUGH, and Mrs. Hickox died Dec. i, 1863. Mr. Hickox was married, Sept.' 7, 1864, to Hannah L. Mahew, in Atlanta, and soon after moved to Springfield, where they had one living child, ANNA B., and reside in Springfield. At one time Mr. Hickox was engaged in the milling business with his father. He is now in the grain trade, in connection with the Spring field Elevator. While in Atlanta, he was Postmaster.

ADA A., born Sept. 3, 1830, in Jefferson county, N. Y., married in Springfield, May i, 18*54, to William H. Ames, of St. Louis. Mrs. Ames died Feb. 4, 1855, in Springfield.

MARTIN, born Sept. 14, 1837, in Springfield, married Jan. 25, 1859, in Atlanta, 111., to Mary James, a native of Ohio. They had one son, L. JAMES, and Mrs. Hickox died April 28, 1863. Mr. Hickox and his son reside in Springfield. He is proprietor of the Excelsior flouring mills.

SILAS W., born Aug. 12, 1840, in Sangamon county, enlisted on the first call for 75,000 men, in April, 1861, in Co. I, 7th 111. Inf., served three months, and was honorably discharged. Enlisted in 1862, in Co. M, loth 111. Cav., for three years. He was captured at darks Mills, southeast Missouri, in 1863, forced to take an oath not to go into the service again. Silas W. Hickox was married, June 15, 1864, to Susan F. Keyes. They have three children, WALTER, ELLA and CLARA, and reside in Springfield, 111. S. W. Hickox is a member of the firm of Leggott & Hickox, in the stove and tinware trade.

1867, to Martha Jane Keyes. They have four children, FLORENCE MAY, REED KEYES, HENRIETTA M. and GEORGE L., and reside in Springfield, Illinois.

Addison Hickox went to St. Augustine, Fla., for the benefit of his health, and died there Jan. 10, 1872. His remains were brought' to Springfield, and interred in Oak Ridge Cemetery. His widow, Mrs. Rhoda Hickox, resides in Springfield.

HICKOX, HORACE, brother to Virgil and Addison, was born Oct. 18, 1795, in Middlebury, New Haven county, Conn. He was married in 1817, at Rutland, Jefferson county, N. Y., to Eliza Stanley, who was born Oct. 28, 1799, at Augusta, Oneida county, N. Y. They had five children, three of whom died young. The family moved to Springfield, 111., arriving early in 1836. Of their two children -

VOLNET, born Nov. i, 1835, in Rutland, N. Y., brought up in Springfield, prepared for college by Prof. Beaumont Parks, graduated at Yale College in the class of 1857, and admitted to the practice of law in 1858 at the bar of St. Louis, Mo. Early in the war of the rebellion he was appointed additional aid-de-camp on Gen. McClellan's staff; was mustered out in the spring of 1862. He was reappointed, with the rank of Captain, on Gen. Fremont's staff, and soon after assigned to duty on Gen. Hunter's staff, and wa^ honorably mustered out in January, 1864. From the spring of 1865 to 1866, he was an army correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, In the fall of 1 866 he went to New York, and was sent to the City of Mexico as correspondent of the New York 7^ribune, returning from there in 1867. Volney Hickox was married Oct. i, 1873, at Batavia, Illinois, to Cassandra Browning Moore, who was born at that place, Sept. c^, 1849. They have one child, HART, and reside in Springfield. Mr. Hickox is a practical stenographer.

LELIA, born March n, 1838, in Springfield, married in her native city in 1860 to John Hunter, an attorney of Cincinnati. She died December, 1871, in Springfield.

HICKOX, VIRGIL, was born July 12, 1806, in Jefferson county, New York, his parents having moved there in 1803, from New Haven county, Connecticut. He received a common school education in his native county, and started, August 25, 1828, for the southwest. After a wearisome journey of two months by wagon, he arrived in St. Louis, at that time a city of but 5,500 inhabitants. In one hour after his arrival he was engaged to work as a journeyman carpenter, at one dollar per day. From that time he was busily employed until 1833, when he went to the Galena lead mines, where he spent one year. He then came to Springfield, 111., and opened a store, May 5, 1834, and continued in the mercantile business nearly nineteen years. In 1851 he united with other business men in organizing a company to build a railroad from Alton to Springfield, and continued in the directory until the road was constructed to Joliet, and had charge of the right of way in constructing that much of the present Chicago and St. Louis railroad. From him emanated the law regarding the assessment and taxation of railroad property, which was in force from 1855 to 1872. He withdrew from active connection with the road in May, 1874. In May, 1869, he was appointed by Gov. Palmer to the office of Canal Commissioner, serving two terms of two years each. He was a director of the old State Bank of Illinois, in 1839-40-41. In January, 1874, he became President of the Springfield Savings Bank, and as such continues to manage its business to the present time. He has always been a Democrat in politics, and acted as Chairman of the Democratic State Committee for nearly twenty years. In that capacity he received and still holds the last letter ever dictated by his lifelong personal and political friend, Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, that of May 10, 1861, in which he declared there could be but two parties, that of patriots and traitors, and advised his political friends to lay aside every feeling that would impede united action for the preservation of the Union. Mr. Hickox has some peculiar views with regard to government. He believes that the United States should not own any property except what is necessary for forts and arsenals, and for the transaction of business at the seat of government. He also holds that the whole postal system should be abolished, and that the laws of trade should regulate the transportation of what is called mail matter in the same manner as such laws regulate all other transportation. He thinks that if men and women were as careful to obey the scripture injunction, " six days shalt thou labor," as they are to rest on the seventh, there would be less sufferiug from want.

In Oct., 1839, Mr. Hickox was married in Springfield to Miss Catharine Cabanis, a native of Kentucky. She died Sept. 25, 1875, leaving three sons and three daughters. Mr. Hickox resides in Springfield, in the same house he brought his young wife to, nearly thirty^seven years ago.

HIGGINS,- WILLIAM, was born Sept. 7, 1770, in Virginia. His parents moved to Fayette county, Ky., when he was a young man. He was married there to a Miss Young, who died, and he was married March 2, 1804, in Boone county, Ky., to Mary Moseby, who was born July 10, 1781, in North Carolina. They had twelve living children in Fayette county, Ky., and the family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct. I, 1830, in what is now Woodside township, seven miles south of Springfield. Of their twelve children -

Frank H., Elmer E., Dora B.

BEDFORD, W., born May 6, 1806, in Kentucky : came to Sangamon county with his parents; went back to Kentucky and married Susan Dozier. They had one living child, ROBERT, born Nov. 22, 1835, in Montgomery county, Kentucky; married in Sangamon county Oct. 3, 1860, to Lydia Stair. They have five living children, CHARLES W., FRANK H., ELMER E., DORA B., and CATALINA, and reside in Pawnee. Mrs. Susan Higgins died, and B. W. Higgins was married July 27, 1841, to Marv A. Norris. Of their seven children, ELLEN married John L. Parker, and lives in Cotton Hill township. WILLIAM A. enlisted Aug., 1862, in Co. E, i I4th Illinois Infantry ; served until Feb., 1865, when he was discharged -48 on account of physical disability, and now draws a pension. He was married Dec. 1 6, 1873, to Sarah Durrell, and lives in Palmer. MARTHA S. married John Lockwood,and lives near Oconee. JOEL T., ANNA, BENJAMIN H., and EMMA F. live with their parents in Cotton Hill township.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to James M. Haley, and died, leaving one child, ELEANOR, who married Joseph Lockridge. See his name.

ROBERT 0., born July 4, 1811, in Fayette county, Kentucky; was serving an apprenticeship when his parents came to Sangamon county, and he arrived in 1832. He was married in Franklin, Missouri, to Camilla A. Donaldson, a native of Baltimore, Maryland. They had one child in Missouri, and then moved back to Sangamon county, where they had six living children. EDWIN L., born March 24, 1840, at Boone ville, Missouri, and brought up in Sangamon county; enlisted April 24, 1861, in Company I, 7th Illinois Infantry, for three months; served full term, and was honorably discharged. He enlisted Aug. 21, 1861, for three years in Company K, 33d Illinois Infantry-Normal. He was wounded June 18, 1863, at the siege of Vicksburg. The wound was a remarkable one. A musket ball entered his face below and forward of the right ear, passed over the roof of the mouth, and came out of the left eye. He recovered without totally losing the sight of that eye. He re-enlisted Jan. i, 1864, as a veteran in the same company and regiment. He was promoted through all grades from private, and was commissioned as Captain Nov. 16, 1864, and served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged Dec. 7, 1865. He was appointed by Gov. Palmer, March 24, 1869, Assistant Adjutant General, and was appointed by Gov. Beveridge, Jan. 20, 1873, Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, which he held two years. Gen. E. L. Higgins was married Sept. 7, 1870, to Mrs. Mary J. Hoskins, whose maiden name was Huntington. She was born July 30, 1847, at Geneva, New York. She had one child, Charles H. Hoskins who died July 26, 1874, in his sixth year. Mr. and Mrs. Higgins have one living child, FLORA BELLE, and reside in

Springfield. ALEXANDER D., born Dec. 21, 1844, in Sangamon county, 111., enlisted August 15, 1862, in Co. G, ii4th 111. Inf., served three years, and was honorably discharged, August, 1865. He was married in Springfield, Nov. 29, 1872, to Lizzie Nottingham. They have one living child, RALPH, and live in Springfield. JULIA E. and ROBERT ALONZO live with their parents. EMMA married Justus Graves, and lives at Evanston, 111. FRANK and WALTER L. live with their parents. Robert O. Higgins and wife reside in Springfield, Illinois.

WILLIAM E.y born in Kentucky, went from Sangamon county to Missouri, and from there, in 1849, to California. He was on his way home, and died on shipboard, on the Pacific ocean in 1851.

SINAI MEL VINA, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Thomas J. Haley. They had two children. BENJAMIN H., born in Sangamon county, enlisted May 29, 1861, in% Co. A., 3d 111. Cav., served full term, and was honorably discharged Sept. 5, 1864. He is married, and lives at Palmer, 111. EDWARD enlisted May 10, 1861, in Co. A, 3d 111. Cav., for three years, served until May n, 1864, when he was discharged on account of physical disability, and died, in 1865, at Woodside. T. J. Haley and wife live at Palmer, Christian county, Illinois.

JOEL V., born Oct. 8, 1817, in Fayette county, Ky., came to Sangamon county in 1830, and was married June 16, 1850, to Margaret B. Womack, who was born Nov. 13, 1822, in Butler county, Ky. They had eight living children in Sangamon county, JAMES N., GEORGE B., SINAI M"., J^OEL E., MARY A., ANNIE E., JOHN A. and IDA L., live with their parents on the farm where Mr. Higgins father settled in 1830. The house in which he lives was built by his father in 1831, entirely of black walnut lumber; the frame, doors, door and window casings, sash, weather boarding, shingles, and everything else. It is two stories high, two rooms long, and stands seven miles south of Springfield.

THOMAS W., born March 2, 1819, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Mary Husband, have five children, and live in Bates county, Missouri.

CAROLINE, born July 31, 1823, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, June 24, 1847, to Thomas A. Rogers, who was born June 16, 1822, in Kentucky. They have seven children - ALONZO H., born Aug, 6, 1848, married Eliza Adams, and reside in Cotton Hill township. The other six moved with their parents, in 1873, to the vicinity of Gerard, Crawford county, Kansas.

HIGGINS, WILLIAM, was born April 12, 1774, ift Barren county, Ky. He was married to Elizabeth Downing. She had one child, and died, and he was married, March 6, 1800, to Rosanna Megery, who was born Dec. 18, 1778, in the same county. She had five children, and died there. In 1817 Mr. Higgins moved his family to St. Clair county, 111., and was there married to Rosanna Duncan. He started with his family, in the fall of 1818, to the San-ga-ma country. They stopped, on Sugar creek, with the Drennan's, until Jan. or Feb., 1819, when they moved about fifteen miles north, and built a cabin on the south side of the Sangamon river, above where the Chicago & Alton railroad now crosses. While he was living in camp, before his cabin was completed, himself and wife crossed to the north side of the river on horseback. They were belated, and spent one night in the river bottom, near the mouth of Fancy creek. A few days later Mr. Higgins went to the north side alone, found five bee trees, and killed a panther, which measured nine feet from tip to tip. He went over soon after, accompanied by his wife and two daughters, one of whom is now - 1876 - the wife of David England. These three are believed to have been the first white women who ever crossed to the north of the river, in what is now Sangamon county. Stephen England and his two sons-in-law came on their exploring expedition, and stopped with Mr. Higgins who accompanied them t° the north side, and led the way to the vicinity of where Cantrall now stands, and all four selected sites for improvement. The creek was for several years called, in honor of his having first visited the locality, Higgins creek; since changed to Cantrall's creek. Soon after this, a Mr. Chapman, son-inlaw of Judge Latham, crossed the river and built a cabin on the north side, between where the Chicago & Alton and Oilman, Clinton & Springfield railroads now cross. His wife is thought to have been the fourth white woman on that side of the river. Mr. Chapman established a canoe ferry there, which for three years was the onlv chance for crossing the river. Persons could be taken over safe and dry, animals could swim, and wagons were taken to pieces, and with their loads were carried over, piece by piece. About three years later a boat was first used for a ferry. The latter part of April, 1819, Stephen England, his two sons-in-law, his son David, and two of his daughters crossed over and finished building their houses and planting their crops. Those two daughters of Mr. England were the fifth and sixth women north of the river. One of them, Lucy, was the wife of John Chine. This account was given to me by David England and his wife, who was Margaret Higgins. Of the five children of Wm. Higgins, by his second wife -

INDIANA, born March 24, 1809, in Kentucky, married Wm. Crane, in Sangamon county. She died, leaving one child, JOSEPH A. CRANE, who is now a practicing attorney, in Freeport, Illinois.

William Higgins built a boat, and in 1823 took his goods down the Sangamon, and up the Illinois rivers to a point near Lewiston, and after that built a mill near Canton, 111. He moved from there to the northern part of the State, where he and his third wife died, leaving four children.

HILL, WILLIAM R., was born August 7, 1820, in Jessamine county, Ky. His father, John H. Hill, came with his family to Sangamon county, in Auburn township, Oct. 15, 1836. In 1837 they moved to Christian county. William R. went with the family, and returned to Auburn township when he was about twenty-one years of age. He was there married, Oct. 6, 1858, to Jennie Mason. They have four children -

Hildreth, Harvey

HILLMAN, OLIVER, born May 10, 1785, in Philadelphia, was married July 23, 1807, in that city, to Rachel Smith. They had six children in Philadelphia and New Jersey, and moved with a part of their family to Springfield, 111., arriving in April, 1839. Of their children -

RICHARD S., born July 7, 1808, in New Jersey, was married Aug. 11,1831, in Philadelphia, to Margaret Knorr. They had four children there, two of whom died under three years of age. The family moved to Springfield, 111., in 1840, where two children were born. In 1846 or '7 Mr. Hillman moved to St. Louis, where twins were born, one of whom died young. Of their five living children: MARY C., born July, 1833, in Philadelphia, was married in Sangamon county, 111., to Joseph P. Hesser. They have five children, and live in Bloomington, Illinois. RACHEL S., born Sept. 30, 1835, in Philadelphia, was married Oct. 18, 1855, in Springfield, 111., to Daniel P. Hopping, who was born Feb. 21, 1832, in Morris county, New Jersey. They have five children, JOSEPH

F., Mary E., William P., Herbert P.

He, in connection with Mr. Henry Ridgely, established a planing mill in 1867. It was the first of the kind in Springfield. ELMIRA J., born March n, 1841, in Springfield, 111., was married in 1863 to William Wyatt. They live in Jacksonville, 111. ANN E., born Sept. 7, 1845, in Springfield, 111., married Lewis A. Wood. See his name. MARGARET, born April 3, 1848, in St. Louis. (Her twin mate, Richard, died in his third year.) She was married Jan. 22, 1868, to Francis C. Fessenden. They have four living children, FRANCIS E., Jun., BIRDIE L., GEORGIE and RICHARD p. Mr. Fessenden is a stairbuilder, and resides in Springfield, 111.

Mrs. Margaret Hillman died May 23, 1848, in St. Louis. Richard S. Hillman was married Feb. 8, 1849, m t^iat c'ty> to Mrs. Eliza J. Vinton, whose maiden name was Bell. She died without children, Feb. 15, 1852, at Campbellsville, Ky. R. S. Hillman brought his family back to Springfield, 111., in 1853, and was there married, Dec. 14, 1854, to Ann J. Williamson. Thev had two living children, RICHARD and MARY JANE live with their mother. Richard S. Hillman died May 31, 1862, in Springfield, and his widow married Samuel Yocom. See his name.

Daniel R., Mary E., Sarah J.

JOHN S., born Nov. 29, 1809, in Philadelphia. He was married three times, and all his wives and three children died there. He came to Sangamon county, 111., in 1839 or '40, and was married in the same county to Mrs. Sarah A. Unclesbee, whose maiden name was PofFenberger. They had eleven children, three of whom died under six years. Of the other eight, RICHARD, born Sept. 26, 1843, married Dec. 29, 1874, to Elizabeth J. Rape. They have one child, EARNEST s., and live in Cotton Hill township. MARGARET A., born March 7, 1848, was married May 8, 1867, to William T. Johnson. They have two children, and live in Springfield. He is engineer at the new State house. RACHEL E., born April 20, 1849, was married March 7, 1871, to Isaac Fisher. They have one child, JESSIE, and live near Mt. Pulaski. GEORGE H. lives with his mother. WILLIAM A. married Dec. 15, 1875, to Flora E. Cooper, and lives near Williamsville. DANIEL R., MARY E., SARAH J.,

TOHN L. and LIZZIE, the six unmarried, live with their mother. John S. Hillman died March 22, 1872, and his widow resides in Cotton Hill township, near New City Post-office.

ALLEN^orn Sept. 3, 1811, in Philadelphia, was married there and had two children. He moved to Sangamon county, 111., and died there. His family returned to Philadelphia.

MARY, born August 29, 1813, in Philadelphia, was married there to John Unsworth. Their son, WILLIAM, lives with his third wife in Springfield, 111.

Mrs. Rachel Hillman died March 21, 1842, in Springfield, 111. Oliver Hillman married Mrs. Mary A. Short, and he died March II, 1856, in Sangamon county.

H1NMAN, JOHN B., wasborn Sept. 12, 1804, in Madison county, N. Y., came to Sangamon county, 111., with his uncle, Henry Kinney, Sen., arriving May 6, 1822, in what is now Loami township.' He was married Dec. 25, 1824, to Jane Smith, who was born Dec. n, 1802, on Long Island, N. Y., and came to Sangamon county in Sept., 1822, with her sister, Mrs. Julia Colburn. They had eight children in Sangamon county -

John B., Amos S., Susan A.

EMILY, born March 3, 1826, married, Feb. 5, 1846, to George Dill, who was born June 2, 1825, in Preble county, Ohio. They had eight children - EMMA C. died in her sixth year. HENRY H. married Alice Wilson, have one son, and live in Curran township. SARAH J. married Martin Shelton. See his name. JOHN B., AMOS S., SUSAN A., JULIA M. and GEORGE W., live with their parents, in Chatham township.

NANCY, born Jan. 25, 1832, married Abraham Dill, had five children; one was killed by a runaway team. The other four live with their parents, east of Auburn.

HINSLEY, ALFRED, was born in 1792? m North Carolina. He was there married, in 1819, to Lucy Elkin, who was born April, 1803. They had two children in North Carolina, and moved to Jones county, Ga., where two children were born, from there to Smith county, Tenn., where one child was bqrn. The family moved to White county, 111., and from there to Sangamon county, arriving Nov., 1834, at old Salem, and in 1836 moved to what is Viow Gardner township, where they had one living child. Of their children -

ALFRED N., born Dec. 27, 1826, in Jones county, Ga., married in Sangamon county, July 23, 1851, to Margaret A. Lemmon. Thev have three children, SUSAN A., MILDRED L. and ULICK P., and live at Salisbury.

SARAH, born Dec. 3, 1842, in Menard county, was killed March 7, 1868, at Greenview, 111., by an accident on the Jacksonville branch of the Chicago & Alton railroad.

HOAG, WILLIAM C., was born Aug. 8, 1816, at Oxford, Butler county, Ohio. He came to Sangamon county, 111., arriving at Springfield, Aug., 1836, and was married at Salisbury, Feb. 16, 1837, to Melinda Miller. They had seven living children -

HODGE, RICHARD, born May 19, 1819, in Smithfield, Jefferson county, Virginia, was married April, 1838, to Catharine Divelbiss, in Westmoreland county, Penn. They moved to Springfield in the fall of 1839, and had five living children -

JACOB, born Oct., 1840, was married March 19, 1863, to Elizabeth J. Dennis, who was born June 7, 1844, in Springfield. They have five children, MINNIE, MARGARET, LIZZIE, ABBIE and SALLIE, and live in Springfield. Jacob Hodge is a wagon manufacturer.

NOAH, born Feb. 6, 1842, in Springfield, 111., was married in Jackson, Mississippi, to Miss D. L. O. Johnson. She died Aug. 10, 1874, leaving two children, EDGAR O. and D. L. O., who live with their father. Noah Hodge was Circuit Clerk of Hinds county, Miss., from Sept. 12, 1869, to Jan. 4, 1876. He moved to Akron, Ohio, and was married there, May 1 6, 1876, to Sarah W. Ashmun. Mr. Hodge is a practicing lawyer,* and resides at Akron.

RICHARD, Jun., born June 25, 1846, was married in Springfield, 111., Oct. 21, 1872, to Sallie Pierce. He is a wagonmaker, and lives in Springfield.

KA TE, born Oct. 10, 1851, was married Feb. 8, 1871, in Springfield, 111., to Jonas F. Stuver, who was born May 12, 1846, in Northampton county, Pennsylvania. They have two children, ELSIE E. and, NELLIE E., and live in Akron, Ohio.

Richard Hodge died May 30, 1852, on his way to California. It was his second trip there. Mrs. Catharine Hodge lives with her son, Noah, in Akron, Ohio.

HODGERSON, JOHN, was born in Ireland, and brought to America at ten years old. He was married in Greenbrier county, Va., to Betsy Martin, moved to Cabell county, and from there to Sangamon county, 111., bringing seven children, and settled five miles west of Loami, where two children were born. Mr. Hodgerson died, about 1843, and his widow in 1850 or '51. Their daughter -

REBECCA, married John C. Buchanan. They had seven children. Mr. Buchanan and five of the children died. Mrs. Rebecca Buchanan lives five miles southwest of Springfield.

HOFFMAN, MOSES, was born Nov. 24, 1 798, in Greenbrier county, Va. His parents moved to Clark county, Ohio, when he was a boy. He was married there, Dec. 2, 1823, to Mi's. Rhoda Winn, whose maiden name was Turman. She was born Feb. 14, 1806, near Springfield, Ohio. They had three children there, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov., 1829, in what is now Fancy Creek township, where they had three living children. Of their six children -

MART A., born Dec. 10, 1824, in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county, Sept. 12, 1844, to James W.Dunn. They had seven living children, namely: ALWILDA, RICHARD M.. HENRY C., IDA, MARGARET, JAMES W. and MARY, and live near Corvallis, Benton countv, Oregon.

LEWIS F., born Sept. 21, 1828, in Champaign county, Ohio, was married, Jan. 17, 1861, in Sangamon county, to Hannah A. Gamble, a native of Holmes county, Ohio. They had two living children, LORA and ELMER G., and live at the homestead settled by Mr. Hoffman's parents in 1829; it is six miles north of Springfield.

AMANDA, born Dec. 20, 1832, in Sangamon county, was married, Jan. i, 1850, to John B. Huffman. They have eight children, and reside near Winterset, Iowa.

LUCINDA, born Oct. 3, 1835, in Sangamon county, was married, May 23, 1852, to John L. B. Dunlap. They had four children - CATHARINE married James H. Blue. See his name. CHARLES F., FLORENCE and ELIZA. J. L. B. Dunlap died, June, 1863. His widow and children live two miles north of Cantrall. See his name.

CLARISSA, born Aug. 20, 1840, in Sangamon county, was married, March u,.i858, to Willard R. Shepherd. They had three children; one died in infancy. JENNIE H. and JULIA G. reside with their parents, in Menard county, sixteen miles north of 'Springfield.

Moses Hoffman was a soldier in the Black Hawk war. He died in Sangamon county, June 3, 1842. His widow was married, Feb. 6, 1847, to Solomon Wood. They have one child -

SOLOMON S., was born Feb. 23, 1848, was married April 8, 1868, to Mary J. Wolf, who was born Jan. 8, 1850, near Mansfield, Ohio. They have two children, JOHN W. and CHARLES O., and live one mile south of Sherman. Solomon Wood died April 18, 1848, in Logan county, and his widow resides with her son, Lewis F. Hoffman.

Mrs. Wood remembers that her first husband measured the snow of 1830 and '31, and it was full four feet on a level; she also remembers the steamboat, Talisman, that came up the Sangamon river to Bogues' Mill, or Portland, as it was sometimes called. It was on the south bank of the Sangamon river, about half way between the Chicago & Alton and Gilman, Clinton & Springfield railroad bridges.

taken by his parents to Bath county, Ky. When a young man he went to Maysville and learned the tanning business, and then came to Springfield, 111., arriving in August, 1831. He was sick several weeks, and when he became convalescent was introduced to Levi Cantrall, who he was told, had a tannery in connection with his farm in Fancy Creek township. He engaged to work for Mr. Cantrall, and in Feb., 1832, was married to his daughter, Nancy Cantrall. They had eight living children in Sangamon county, namely -

FANNY, born Dec. 5, 1835, married Oct. 8, 1854, to Thomas R. Claypool. He was born Feb. 19, 1826, in Champaign county, Ohio, came with his parents to what was then Sangamon, but now Menard county, in 1827. They have five living children, IDA M., CLARA B., LEVI B., CHLOE L. and FREDDIE D. Thomas R. Claypool lives adjoining Cantrall on the north.

WILLIAM H. y/.,born Oct. 28, 1840, enlisted August 12, 1862, for three years, in Co. C, ii4th 111. Inf. He was captured at the battle of Guntown, June, 1864, and spent nine months in prison - at Andersonville three months, Charleston six weeks, and the remainder of the time at Florence, S. C. He served his full term, and was honorably discharged July I, 1865; was married Feb. 12, 1867, to Ruth A. Canterbury. They have two children, ALBERT C. and CHARLES T., and live near Cantrall.

BENJAMIN F., born July 8, 1842, married Dec. 28, 1865, to Margaret Hunt, who was born Sept. 30, 1843, in Clarke county, Ohio. They have two children, and live near Cantrall.

LUCINDA, born Feb. 17, 1844, married March i, 1866, to James I. Wood. They had one child, JAMES L, Jun. Mr. Wood died July 2, 1870. His widow lives near Ciintrall.

Mrs. Nancy Holland died, and Turner Holland was married in March, 1852, to Mrs. Hannah Lloyd, whose maiden name was Whitney. They had four living children in Sangamon county.

Turner Holland died March 6, 1866, and his widow died March n, 1866, both at Athens, 111., to which place they had moved a short time before.

HOLLENBACK, ANDREW F., born Jan. 14, 1807, in Great Barrington, Berkshire county, Mass. He came to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov. n, 1830, at Rochester, but a few days before the "deep snow," and remembers that Archibald Sattley and himself gathered corn during the whole winter, and fed sixty head of cattle and fifteen horses. They kept a wagon road open through the fields and each would take a basket and bring the corn to the wagon. He thinks the snow was from four to four and onehalf feet deep. He was married in Rochester, Dec. 30, 1838, to Juliann E. St. Clair, who was born Oct. 9, 1818, in Vermont. They had three children; two died in infancy. Their son -

Mrs. Hollenback died Aug. 29, 1873. Mr. Hollenback was appointed Postmaster at Buffalo, in April, 1870, and holds the office to the present time. A. F. Hollenback was married Feb. 3, 1875, in Joliet, 111., to Mrs. Mary A. Ledyard, whose maiden name was Carpenter. She was born Dec. 18, 1818, in Barre, Orleans county, New York. She has a son, George R. Ledyard, who lives with them, at Buffalo, Sangamon county, 111.

Hoppin, Franklin

HOPPIN, FRANKLIN B., brother to Daniel and Charles T., was born May 18, 1815, in Madison county, N. Y., married there to Sarah McConncll, and had two children there. He moved to Sangamon county,' and settled near

F. B. Hoppin died June, 1866, and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield. His widow resides with her daughter, Mrs. Garland, in Springfield.

The three Hoppin brothers and the Mc- Connell brothers were among the earliest ' wool growers in Sangamon county. They prosecuted the business very extensively, from about 1840 until the close of the rebellion in 1865, when the busines declined for a time.

HOPPI N, CHARLES T., born June 8, 1817, in Madison county, IS. Y., was married there to Eliza McConnell. They had one child and moved to Sangamon county, 111., and settled near Chatham, where his brother Daniel then lived. They had two children in Sangamon county. Of their three 'children -

SARAH L., born in Madison county, New York, married in Sangamon county, 111., to E. F. Richmond. They have two children, CALISTA and CHARLES S., and live in Davenport, Iowa. Mr. Richmond is a lawyer in practice there.

MAR T E., born in Sangamon county, married Allen E. Parmenter, and died March, 1870, in Sangamon county. Mr. Parmenter was born Dec. 30, 1842, in Madison county, New York. See his name in connection with the family of Daniel Hoppin.

Nettie A., Kate L., Florence M., Freddie P., Annie

Mrs. Eliza Hoppin died in Oct., 1852, in Talkington township, and Charles T. Hoppin was married Feb., 1855, in Madison county, N. Y., to Phirietta G. Parmenter. They have seven children born in Sangamon county, GEORGE L., NETTIE A., KATE L., FLORENCE M., FREDDIE P., ANNIE F. and CARRIE P., and reside in Talkington township, seven miles west of Auburn.

with his father, in 1839, and bought land near Chatham. In the fall of 1840 he came out with a flock of five hundred sheep for himself, and about two hundred for Edward F. McConnell. He was one of the earliest and most extensive wool growers in the county, and continued it for many years. Daniel Hoppin and Cordelia Bradley were married, March, 1848, at Chatham. They had three living children -

ANNA E. married Allen E. Parmenter. She died in 1875, in Talkington township. See his name in connection ivith the family of Charles 7\ Hoppin.

HOUSTON, JOHN, born May i, 1770, in Rockingham county, Virginia, was married April 23, 1807, in Augusta county, Va., to Mrs. Jane^ Curry, whose maiden name was Curry. She was born June 29, 1776, in Augusta county, and had one child by her first marriage -

ELIZABETH CURRT, born Mar. 31, 1801, in Augusta- county, Va., was married there to James Curry, Feb. 17, 1817. They had three children in Virginia, and moved to Rush county, Ind., where two children were born, thence to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1841.' Of their five children: ROBERT J., born Nov. 9, 1818, in Virginia, was married March 27, 1839, in Indiana, to Mary Bracken. They had seven children : SARAH j. married David Myers, who died, leaving three children, and she married Wesley Sparks. They have two children, and live near Dawson. AMERICA, died in 1862, aged nineteen years. WILLIAM, born Dec. 25, 1845, lives in Berlin. GEORGE B., THOMAS j., ROBERT w. and JOHN w. reside at the homestead. Mrs. Mary Curry died Jan. 24, 1869, and R. J. Curry was married August 8, 1869, to Sarah French, a native of Onondaga county, New York. They had two children, ESTELLA and COQUILLA. Robert J. Curry died Feb. 23, 1874, suddenly, while waiting at German Prairie station for a train to Springfield. Mrs. Sarah Curry was married August 14, 1875, at

Barclay, to George Whitesides, and reside five miles northeast of Springfield. John Houston and wife had three living children. They moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov. 14, 1828, and on the twenty-eighth of the same month moved to German Prairie, five miles east of Springfield. Their eldest child -

SAMUEL, born Feb. 23, 1813, in Augusta county, Va., was married in Sangamon county, 111., Nov. 7, 1833, to Lucretia Rudder, who was born Sept. 6, 1816, in Bath county, Ky., and came to Sangamon county in the fall of 1830, with her grandfather, Andrew Cartmell. They had ten living children - NANCY J. married Jonathan T. Payne, and died April 8, "1852. MILETUS C. married Eliza W. Miller. JOHN A. enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. I, 114111 111. Inf., was at home on sick furlough, and died May 27, 1865. WILLIAM, T. enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. G, ii4th 111. Inf., served full time, and was honorably discharged in 1865. He was married in Sangamon county, Sept., 1866, to Permelia Churchill. -They have one child, WILLIAM F., and live at Edinburg, 111. CHARLES G. was married in San Francisco, Cal., to Maggie E. Hall. They have three children, and reside in Baltimore, Md. JAMES W. married Frances Nave. They have one child, and live in Springfield, 111. ANNA M. married Alexander Dixon. They have one child, and live five miles east of Springfield. F. EDWARD, GEORGE S. and VIRGIL T., live with their parents. Samuel Houston and wife reside near German Prairie station, on the farm where his father settled in 1828.

HUDSON, JOHN, was born April 25, 1794, in Mecklenberg county, Virginia, and taken by his parents to Cabell county, West Va. John Hudson was a soldier from that county, serving from Sept., 1813, to April, 1814. He was married in Cabell county, Oct. 8, 1814, to Margaret McCray, who was born April

7, 1803, in Rockingham county, Virginia. They had three children in Cabell county, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the autumn of 1826, in what is now Loami township, where they had eight children. Of their children -

YOUNG M., born Sept. 22, 1819, in Cabell county, W. Va., was married in Sangamon county, 111., Oct. 5, 1843, *° Minerva L. Meacham. They had one living child, ELSA JANE, who married Daniel Staley, Jun. See his name. Mrs. M. L. Hudson died Sept. 2, 1851, and Y. M. Hudson was married, Feb. 2, 1853, to Mrs. Jane Webb, whose maiden name was Fowler. They reside in New Berlin.

JANE C, born Aug. 3, 1821, in Cabell county, W. Va., married in Sangamon county to Win. Hodgerson. They have eight children, and live five miles south of Waverly.

WILLIAM E., born Dec. 31, 1824, in Cabell county, W. Va., married in Sangamon county to Harriet Nipper, who died Aug. 31, 1851. Mr. H. married Mary Lacey. They have three children, MARY M., ELLIE K. and LUCINDA A., and live three and one-half miles west of Loami.

JOHN M., born Jan. 4, 1833, married March 29, 1860, to Sarah J. Campbell, have one living child, LUCY E., and live three and one-half miles south of New Berlin.

ANDREW J., born Jan. 23, 1839, married Feb. 20, 1862, to Mary M. Smetters. She was born Aug. 28, 1840, in Ohio. They live three and one-half miles south of New Berlin, in Loami township.

FRANCIS M., born Nov. 14, 1842, in Sangamon county. He enlisted April 16, 1861, (the first man to enlist in Loami township) in Co. G, 7th 111. Inf., on the first call for 75,000 men; served full term, and was honorably discharged. He was elected Coroner of Sangamon county, in 1864. He lives with his father near Loami.

Mrs. Margaret Hudson died Oct. 2, 1854, and John Hudson was married June 21, 1855, to Mrs. Grezelle McNew, whose maiden name was Park. They reside now - 1873 - in Loami township, three and one-half miles west of Loami, and the same distance south of New Berlin.

Mr. John Hudson says that his father and the father Bishop, Thomas A. Morris, lived neighbors, in Cabell county, W. Va. When Thomas A. was a young man, he was a deputy under his brother Edward, who was clerk of Cabell county. While in the office, at Guyandotte, the county seat, Thomas A. attended a Methodist camp meeting there, and was converted. He visited his father soon after and told him he felt it to be his duty to preach the gospel. His father then proposed to give out an appointment for his son in two weeks from that time, with the promise that if he (the father) thought the son could preach, he would tell him so. The appointment was filled, the father listened very attentively, and at the close said to his son: "Well, Tommy, I think that if you don't get the big head, you will make a preacher." That was thought to be an evidence of remarkable liberality on the part of the old gentleman, in view of the fact that he belonged to the anti-mission or predestinarian Baptists.

Mr. Hudson heard that effort of the boy, and the criticisms of the father, and has been familiar with the history of the young preacher through all his progress to the present superanuated Bishop Morris. - 1873. Two brothers of Bishop Morris were early settlers in Sangamon county. See their names.

HUDSON, JOHN, was born Dec. 25, 1 799, on Roanoke river, Virginia. He was taken by his parents to Wilson county, and from there to Rutherford county, Tenn. Nancy Pitts was born April 4, 1805, in Wayne county, N. C. Her father died there, and her mother, with seven children, moved to Rutherford county, Tenn., in the fall of 1815. John Hudson and Nancy Pitts were married in that county, near the junction of east and west Stone's river, Sept. 30, 1824, had two children there, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the

LOUISA P., born July 20, 1825, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to William Herrold, had one child, SARAH J., who married August 2, 1870, to Benjamin Card, a native of England. They have one child, WILLIAM H., and live in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Herrold died, and she married Homer E. Starks. She died, leaving four children. NANCY A. lives with her aunt Edwards. LOUISA M. lives with her grandmother Hudson. JULIA A. and ELLEN T. live with their father, who is married, and resides in Kansas. He served in an Illinois regiment, and was with Sherman in his "march to the sea."

CAROLINE,bovn Feb. 13, 1830,111 Sangamon county, married David Edwards. They have three children. NANCY ^E. married John W. Smith; have three children, MARK c., NELLIE c. and KATIE A., and live in Curran township. VAN GOLTRA and JANE M. M. reside with their parents in Chatham township.

AMERICA A., born Feb. 15, 1832, married Henry R. Burton, and had nine children. MARY F. married William Bell, and died, leaving two children. H. R. Burton enlisted in Dec., 1863, for three years, in Co. H, loth 111. Cav., served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged. He died March 28, 1872, in Brown county. His widow married John Bell, and lives in Chatham.

JOHN H., born Jan. 7, 1836, in Sangamon county, married March 4, 1855, to Elizabeth McLaughlm. She died Jan. 10, 1856, and he was married April 12, 1868, to Charlotte E. Smith, in Milford, Wis. She was born in Fulton county, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1842. They live in Talkington township, eight miles west of Auburn - 1873.

Benjamin Hudson, the father of John Hudson, with his wife, two sons, William and Richard, and his daughter, Susan, came to Sangamon county in 1827. In the fall of 1839 they all moved to Washington county, Iowa.

Mrs. Nancy Pitts, the mother of Mrs. Nancy Hudson and Blaney Pitts, the youngest brother of Mrs. H., came with herself and husband to Sangamon county, and both went to St. Clair county, where the mother died. Blaney Pitts has been twice married, and lives in Marion county.

Mrs. Hudson vividly remembers the privations she endured on coming to the country. The first year they all shook with ague. The next year the "deep snow" came. Their cabin was built with the door outside. One morning they got up and could not open it; the snow was drifted higher that the door. By loud calls they attracted the attention of her father-in-law, who came and shoveled the snow away, and relieved them from their imprisonment. They were for a long time without tea, coffee or sugar, and had to substitute hominy for bread. She thought that if she could only get out of Illinois she would never want anything more, but would be happy the remainder of her mortal life. Four years later herself and husband visited Tennessee. The hills seemed higher - she thought the stone on the land had increased ten fold, and the soil was a deeper red than ever before. Her chief desire Was to return to Illinois, and she has always been satisfied since that time.

Mrs. Hudson, describing a visit to St. Clair county to see her mother, says they traveled in a one-horse carriage over country where it yielded at least forty bushels of green flies to the acre. It was all they could do to save the life of their horse by wrapping it up with bed clothing. After that they laid up in daylight and traveled at night.

HUCKLEBERRY, HENRY, was born about 1779, in Pennsylvania. His parents had just emigrated from Baden, Germany, and soon after his birth they moved to Kentucky, a short distance above Louisville. A few years later, while returning from school, his youngest brother was captured by Indians. The father pursued them, and when about to rescue his boy, an Indian sunk a tomahawk in the boy's head, and threw him from the canoe into the Ohio river. It was near the mouth of a small stream that is called Huckleberry creek to the present time. The family soon after moved to Clark county, Ind. Henry was married there to Susan Wigal. She was born in 1792, in Virginia, and taken by her parents to Clark county. They had ten children in that county, and the family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in Oct., 1833, and settled in what is now Mechanicsbiirg township, where they had one child. Of their children -

ELIZABETH, born Feb. 21, 1810, in Indiana; married there to Blakely Smith. They had two living children, and Mr. Smith died Aug., 1847, at Carlington, Louisiana, while traveling on business. His widow married March 18, 1851, in Sangamon county, to John Langley. They had one child. Of her three children, ANGELINE SMITH married Silas Igo, have seven children, and live in Christian county. HENRY J. SMITH married Aug. 27, 1859, to Nancy

B. LANGLEY married Henry Frampton, have two children, and live near Mechanicsburg. John Langley and wife live four miles south of Dawson, Sangamon county.

JONATHAN, born Feb. 5, 1814, in Clark county, Ind., married in Sangamon county April, 1841, to Luann Mc- Daniel. They had five children. MARY E. died Sept. 22, 1873, in her 3Oth year. MARIA, born June 20, 1846, married James H. McDaniel (son of Jeptha). Mr. McDaniel died Aug. 14, 1870, leaving two children. His widow and children, ALBERT and LESLIE, live with her father. CAROLINE lives with her father. JAMES H. married Lavica Lenville, and lives near Illiopolis. ANN E. lives with her aunt, Mrs. North. Mrs. Luann Huckleberry died Jan. 2, 1855, and Jona-

William H., Benjamin F.

DA VID, born Nov. 5, 1818, in Clarke county, Ind., married Nov. 19, 1848, in Sangamon county, to Almyra Cherry. They have five living children, namely : WILLIAM H., BENJAMIN F., OWENO., ORAH A., and CHARLES I., and live three miles south of Riverton, Sangamon county.

D, 4th 111. Inf., and served from 1846 to 1847, m tb-e war w'th Mexico. He was married Jan. 12, 1851, to Barbara S. Derry, who was born March i, 1834, in London county, Va. They had six children; three died under five years. ALICE

E. married Absalom J. Barracks, have four children, and live near Illiopolis. ALONZO E. and IDA MAY live with their parents, three miles south of Dawson, Sangamon county. John W. Huckleberry enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, for three, years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf. He was captured at Stone's River Jan. i, 1863; was paroled at Richmond, Va., and exchanged at St. Louis; served in the Invalid Corps the rest of his term, and was honorably discharged in 1865.

John H., Florence A., George

CHRISTIANA, born Feb. 4, 1824, in Indiana; married in Sangamon county Nov. 28, 1850, to John R. Williams, who was born July 30, 1824, in Dearborn county, Ind. They have six children, JOHN H., FLORENCE A., GEORGE L., EDGAR H., LUCIUS A., and MELISSA B., and live three miles south of Dawson. John R. Williams served one year, from June, 1846, in Co. D, 4th 111. Inf. in the war with Mexico.

M., Samuel L., Hattie May

ELI L., born April 7, 1829, in Ind., married in Sangamon county Dec. 14, 1856, to Emily H. Derry, who was born Aug. 26, 1840, in London county, Va. They have seven children; three died under five years. The other four, MARY M., SAMUEL L., HATTIE MAY and NORA, live with their parents at Illiopolis. E. L. Huckleberry enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf., for three years; served until Jan. 23, 1863, when he was discharged on account of physical disability.

Henry Huckleberry died March 13, 1859, and his widow died Dec. 31, 1868, both near where they settled in 1833, in the vicinity of Mechanicsburg. Henry Huckleberry was a soldier in the war of 1812. He fought at the battle of Tippecanoe, and it is well attested that he killed the last Indian that was slain at that battle.

HUFFMASTER, WM., was born about 1800, either in Germany or immediately after the arrival of his mother in Virginia, his father having died in Germany. The widow married a man named Sawyers, had two children, and he died, and she married Henry Brown, and moved from St. Clair to Sangamon county, as early as March, 1819, and settled at the north side of Lick creek, in Loami township. William had a sister, Lucinda. They came with Mr. Brown, their stepfather, to Lick creek, and while he went back after another load of goods, HufFmaster cut logs, built a cabin, and had it ready for the family when Mr. Brown returned. He had also made a trough, placed it in the cabin, cut down bee trees, and filled the trough wfth honey. When John Campbell came and settled at the south side of Lick creek, he thought himself the first settler, but hearing the sound of an axe, he went over and found that HufFmaster had been there before him. After more settlers came in, HufFmaster was in the woods with Samuel Harbour, and they found a panther up a tree. Harbour went for a gun, and the panther came down. HufFmaster urged on the dogs, and securing a large club, went to their assistance, and when Harbour returned, to his surprise, found the panther stretched out dead with HufFmaster and the dogs standing around it. HufFmaster's powers of endurance were remarkable. It is well attested that he split 7°° raHs in one day. He was married, about 1821, to Clarissa Smith, who was born in Kentucky, and came with her parents to Sangamon county, about 1820. They had eleven children -

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 8. 1824, married Brice R. Weir, had two children, and she died. Their daughter, SUSAN, married Jesse Dodd, and lives in Chatham township. JANE married Lawrence Underwood, and lives in Loami township.

WILLIAM, Jun., born Dec. 9, 1829, married in 1848 to Emeline Colburn, and had two children. IRA W. lives at Loami. PAUL E. is a member of Co. B, i6th U. S. Inf. - 1873. Mrs. Emeline Huffmaster died in 1854, and he married Achsa Underwood, have several children, and reside near Owanaco, Christian county, Illinois.

DA VID, born Feb. 17, 1831, married Adelia Parker, had one child, and Mrs. Huffmaster died in Sangamon county. Mr. H. started to California overland, in 1856, and lost his life in a singular manner. He was playing with a favorite dog, while holding a gun in his hand. The dog struck the hammer and the gun" went off, lodging the charge in the shoulder of Mr. H., causing his death in a few days. His daughter, LYDIA, is now in California - 1873.

Hughes, Charles

His father, John E manual Hughes, was born March 13, 1767, in Montpellier, France, and married in Baltimore, Md., U. S. A., Oct. 7, 1806, to Juliana S. B. Wiesenthal, who was born in Baltimore, Jan. 12, 1785. Her father was physician to Frederick the Great, of Prussia. Charles F., the subject of this sketch, graduated at St. Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Md., at the age of twenty; studied medicine under Dr. Edrington, in Baltimore, and graduated three years later at Maryland Medical College, Baltimore. His health being impaired, he took a sea voyagfe, immediately after graduating. On their arrival at Guatemala, Central America, they were surprised by the negroes, who were in successful insurrection. They killed all the officers, crew and passengers, except Dr. Hughes and another physician, whose lives they spared solely because they were "medicine men." For seven years he practiced his profession among those savages, watching for an oportunity to escape. He was always under surveillance when vessels - were in port. Finally, while discharging his duties in a hospilal near the landing, he saw an American vessel approaching, and secreted himself among some barrels until the way was clear, when he reached the vessel and returned to his native land. He was married, Sept. 3, 1835, to Sarah J. Chambers, who was born in 1812, in Chestertown, Maryland. She was the daughter of Gen. Campbell Chambers, an officer of the war of 1812. He was born April 2, 1783, and married Jan. 1 8, 1807, to Sarah J. Clarkson, who was born Oct. 18, 1787, in Kent county, Md. Dr. Hughes came to Springfield in 1836, and engaged in the drug business for a short time. For two years he practiced medicine in the different small towns of the county, then resumed the drug business in Springfield. Dr. Hughes and wife had six children, two of whom died young. Of the four living children -

ANNA C., born July 23, 1836, in Baltimore, was married Oct. 31, 1861, in Springfield, 111., to Charles W. Salisch. See his name in connection with the Capps family.

MART E., born Oct. 14, 1838, in Sangamon county, was married Feb. 4, 1861, in Springfield, to Herman H. Abrams, who was born in 1837, in Springfield.

They have four living children, NINA, JOHN, VICTOR and FREDERICK. Mrs. Abrams died Oct. 8, 1874, at Cameron Junction, Missouri, and is buried at Palmyra, Mo. Mr. Abrams and his children reside at the former place.

JOHN C., born Jan. 10, 1841, in Mt. Auburn, Christian county, Illinois, enlisted August 15, 1862, in Co. B, 114111 111. Inf., and was appointed Corporal. He was at the siege and capture of Vicksburg, and in the battle of Jackson, Miss., and was discharged on account of physical disability, Sept. 18, 1863. John C. Hughes was married Feb.- 14, 1865, in Springfield, 111., to Sarah C. Henry, who was born Dec. 19, 1845, near Pleasant Plains, Sangamon countv. They have four living children. BERTHA B., OLIVE I., S. LUCRETIA and KATE. Mr. Hughes has been employed in the book room of the State Journal Company for sixteen years - except the time spent in the army - the last six years as Superintendent of the State printing, is so engaged at the present time - 1876 - and resides in Springfield.

JULIANA B., born Sept. 4, 1843, in Rochester, Sangamon county, 111., was married March 20, 1865, in Palmyra,* Missouri, to Oliver T. Prickett, who was born Feb. 26, 1845, in Fairmont, Virginia. They have two children, RALPH and GUY, and reside at Carbondale, 111.

Dr. Charles F. Hughes was one of the founders of the Episcopal church in Springfield, and was treasurer of the same several years. He died Sept. 2, 1850, and Mrs. Hughes died May 20, 1871 - both in Springfield.

Dr. Hughes was the eldest of three brothers and two sisters, all natives of Baltimore, Md. Andrew W. came to Springfield in 1836, and after a stay of a year or two, returned east and died in 1875, in Washington, D. C. John T. was a Surgeon in the U. S. army, stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. He died in the Island of St. Thomas, in 1848. Maria E. was married in Baltimore to Henry Reigart, and resides there. Sophia J. came to Springfield in 1840, and married Mr. Biersted in 1858. He died in 1860, in Carrollton, 111., and she resides in Baltimore. Mrs. Juliana S. B. Hughes, mother of the above named, came to Springfield with her daughter, Sophia J., in 1840, and died here in 1848.

HUGGINS, JOHN, was born about 1788, in New York, and raised in Greenbrier county, Va., and went to Gallia county, Ohio, when he was a young man. Jane Hazlitt was born about 1797, in Stokes county, N. C., and was taken to Gallia county, Ohio, when she was quite young. They were married, had seven children, and moved to Virginia, where one child was born; thence to Cartelcounty, Ky., where one child was born, and to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1840, in what is now Loami township. Of their children -

HANNAH, born in Ohio, June 5, 1818, married in Sangamon county to James Short, and had two children. Mr. Short went to California, was on his way home, and is believed to have been lost on the ship Central America, about 1855. His widow died July 7, 1871. Their daughter, FANNIE, married Peter Workman. See his name. His wife and two children live with their grandmother Huggins. JAMES A. SHORT lives with his grandmother Huggins, also - 1874.

SARAH, born June 18, 1826, in Ohio; married Jan. ^o, 1852, in Sangamon county, to Ethan A. Bell, who was born July 25, 1829, in Madison county, 111. They have three children, SUSAN J., MARTHA E., and THOMAS B., and reside three and one-half miles west of Loami.

JUNIOR, born June 3, 1837, in Carter county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Lavina Bartlett; had two children, and live near Edinburg, Illinois.

HU MH PREYS, OWEN, was born May 27, 1769, near Humphreysville, now Bryn Mawr, Montgomery county, Penn. his parents moved to Fleming county, Ky., when he was quite young. Mrs. Isabel Keith, whose maiden name was Lee, was born Sept. 7, I771' but whether it was in Virginia or Kentucky is not known. Owen Humphreys and Mrs. Isabel Keith were married in Fleming county, Ky. They had seven child ren born in Fleming and Bath counties, and Mrs. Isabel Humphreys died April 12, 1823, in Bath county. Owen Humphreys, with some of his children, came to Sangamon county, 111 , arriving in the fall of 1828 or 1829, and settled three and a half miles southeast of Springfield, and west of Sugar creek. Of his seven children -

THO-\[AS L., born Jan. 24, 1799, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Bath county, to Sally Foster. They had four living children in Fleming county, and moved to Bath county, where one child was born, and then moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the spring of 1830, three and a half miles southeast of Springfield. Mr. Humphreys being sick that summer, they returned to Bath county, Ky., and came back to Sangamon county in 1844, settling at the same place he occupied in 1830. Some of his children died young, and he brought but three with him to Sangamon county the second time, viz: MARY, born June 6, 1824, near Flemingsburg, Ky.; married March, 1847, in Sangamon county, to George W. Williams, who was born Oct. 27, 1822, at Columbus, Ohio. He is a descendant of Roger Williams, of Rhode Island. Mr. and Mrs. Williams had five children, three of whom died in infancy. LLEWELLYN died in her ninth year. MARY T., born born Jan. i, 1848, in Sangamon county, was married Dec. 28, 1865, to Charles E. Payne. They had four children, all of whom died under four years. Mr. and Mrs. Payne live five miles southwest of Edinburg. Mr. and Mrs. Williams reside five and a half miles southwest of Edinburg, Christian county, 111. MINERVA, born June 12, 1828, in Fleming county, Ky.; died Oct., 1854, in Christian county, 111. CHARLES, born Dec. 8, 1830, in

Bath county, Ky. ; came with his parents to Sangamon county; enlisted Aug. 5, 1861, in Co. C, 2d 111. Light Artillery, for three years. After serving two and a half years, he was commissioned Lieutenant of Co. C, 8th U. S. Colored Artillery, and served eleven months. Charles Humphreys was married March 23, 1865, near Virclen, 111., to Julia Goodrich. They have three children, CHARLES, NELLIE and HATTIE. He is a merchant in Virden, and resides there. Mrs. Sally Humphreys died March 18, 1852, and Thomas Humphreys died Aug., 1855, both in Christian county, Illinois.

CHARLES .F., born June 18, 1801, in Fleming county, Ky. ; never married. He superintended an establishment for producing iron from the ore, in Greenup county, Ky., until his health failed, when he came to Sangamon county, and died at his father's house, Feb. 9, 1831.

ALEXANDER, B. V., born Nov. 27, 1803, in Fleming county, Ky., married Oct., 1827, in Bath county, to Nancy R. Whitecraft. They moved, in a few weeks, to Springfield, 111., arriving Dec., 1827. They had one child born in Springfield, and in 1829 moved to Sugar creek timber, three and a half miles southeast of Springfield, where six children were born. Of their children - JOHN O., born July 18, 1828, in Springfield, is unmarried, and resides seven miles southwest of Edinburg. BENJAMIN F., born Sept. 10, 1830, in Sangamon county, married Oct. it, 1866, in Christian county, to Mrs. Mary J. Martin, whose maiden name was Wood. She was born Jan. 13, 1842, in Montgomery county, Ky. They had one child, and B. F. Humphreys died Nov. 30, 1870. His widow and daughter, IDA, resides at Edinburg, 111. CHARLES F., born Feb. 3, 1833, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. 5, 1861, in Co. C, 2d 111. Light Art. He was promoted through all the grades to First Lieutenant. Served exactly four years, and was honorably discharged at Springfield, 111., Aug. 5, 1865. He was married Jan. 19, 1875, to Jane A. Williams, and reside one-half mile southeast of Rochester, Sangamon county, 111, DAVID C. died in his second year. THOMAS E., born Sept. 29, 1838, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, in Co. E, 114111 111. Inf., for three years. He was color bearer of his regiment, and was wounded

Dec. 1 6, 1864, the second day of the battle of Nashville; recovered, served his full time, and was honorably discharged at the close of the rebellion. He died at the family homestead, in Christian county, 111., Dec. 26, 1868. MARY M. J., born Feb. 29, 1840, in Sangamon county, 111., was married March 3, 1875, to Dr. J. Henry Dickerson, who graduated Feb. 23, 1870, at the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Dickerson and wife reside ten miles northwest of Taylorville, Christian county. See Dr. Dickersoti's name in connection 'with the name of his grandfather, Robert Bell. JOSEPH A., born Jan. 2, 1843, is unmarried, and resides at the family homestead. Alexander B. V. Humphreys was engaged in blacksmithing while he lived in Springfield; but the business of his life was farming, in which he was eminently successful. In March, 1850, he moved with his family to Christian county, seven miles southwest of Edinburg, where Mrs. Nancy R. H. died Feb. 28, 1862, and A. B. V. Humphreys died Oct. 8, 1865.

MART A., born Jan. 17, 1807, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Philetus G. Pierce. They had five children in Sangamon county. ISABEL died young. The family moved in 1851, to the vicinity of Roseburg, Douglas county, Oregon, where Mr. Pierce died, in 1858 or '9, and Mrs. Pierce died Jan., 1872. Their four children, JOHN D., ELIZABETH, CAROLINE and OWEN reside in Oregon.

JOHN D., born Oct. 2, 1809, in Bath county, Ky., married Nov. 8, 1832, in Sangamon county, to Mary McKinnie. They had two children. MIRANDA, born August i, 1833, died in her third year. DAVID, born Dec. 4, 1834, in Sangamon county, married June 9, 1857, to Mary A. Chapman, who was born March 2, 1835, in Devonshire, England. They have three children, JOHN j., MARY A. and MINNIE E., and reside at Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois. He is station agent and postmaster there. John D. Humphreys died in July, 1835, three and a half miles southeast of Springfield, and his widow married John Branson. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born Feb. n, 1812, in Bath county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Willoughby Churchill. See his name. They had four children, and started, in 1850, to Oregon. Mrs. C. died at the Delles, a narrow gorge in Columbia river. The family reside near Harrisburg, Linn county, Oregon.

HUNTER, JAMES, was born August 14, 1778, in London county, Va., and went, when a young man, to Gallatin county, Ky. He was there married to Rachel Scott, who was born Oct. 17, 1783, in Virginia. They had nine children in Gallatin county, and moved to Sangamon county, 111,, arriving Dec., 1828, in what is now Illiopolis township. Of their children -

WILLIAM, born Feb. 17, 1807, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Polly Dickerson. They both died, leaving a large family near Mt. Auburn, Christian county.

JOHN, born Aug. 8, 1811, in Gallatin county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Martha Dickerson, who was born Sept. 25, 1811. They had six children - MARY J., born May 18, 1840, married Harrison P. Hampton. See his name. HUGH L., born Oct. i, 1841, enlisted July 19, 1861, for three years, in Co. I, 41 st 111. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged, Aug. 20, 1864, was married, March 30, 1865, in Sangamon county, to Rose Ann Ream, and lives three and onehalf miles southwest of Illiopolis. RACHEL F., born Feb. 9, 1843, married Nov. 14, 1 86 1, to James Lee, who was born Nov. 16, 1838, in Gallipolis, Ohio. They had five children - HARRIET A. died in infancy. WM. GRANT, FLORENCE, LAURA v. and ALLIE live with their parents, three miles southwest of Illiopolis. SARAH E., born July 4, 1845, married Thomas Sidener, have two children, and live near Rochester. THOMAS S., born Sept. 18, 1847, and ARCHER SCOTT, born Sept. 28, 1852, live in Illiopolis township. Mrs. Martha Hunter

JAMES, Jun., born Feb. 14, 1814, in Gallatin county, Ky., was brought by his parents to Sangamon county, in 1828, and was married in Macon county to Lucinda Warnick. They had one child - SARAH L., born Dec. 25, 1839, married, April 18, 1 86 1, in Springfield, to Sylvanus Dake, who was born Feb. 26, 1834, in Cattaraugus county, N. Y. They had three children - JULIA ANNA died in her second year. CORNELIA F. and OSCAR H., live with their parents in Illiopolis. Mrs. Lucinda Hunter died Dec. 31, 1839, and Mr. Hunter married Rebecca Newell. They had two children, WILLIAM and MARGARET A. They live in .Iowa. James Hunter died in 1845. His widow married a Mr. Feeds.

SALLY, born in 1818, in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, married in Macon county to Joseph Hanks, and had four children. RACHEL married Oct. 26, 1857, to Elijah Gathard, have six children, and live seven miles east of Springfield. MARGARET married Dr. Frank Hall, and died. CELIA married Dr. Frank Hall. See his name. Mr. and Mrs. Hanks died in Macon county.

MARGARET J., born Dec. 26, 1819, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Wm. Freeman, had three children, and the parents died in Macon county.

RACHEL, born April 26, 1822, in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, married Lewis Freeman, had three children, and Mrs. F. died in Macon county. Mr. F. moved to Iowa City, Iowa.

Hunter, Thomas

HUNTER, THOMAS S., was born Feb. 8, 1814, in Hardin county, Ky. His father died in 1818, his mother married Wm. Y. Singleton, and the family came to Sangamon county 111., in the spring of 1837. Mi's. Singleton died in

Hunter, Rebecca

HURST, CHARLES R., was born Sept. 20, 1811, in Philadelphia, Pa. He came to Springfield in March, 1834, and first engaged as clerk with Bell & Tinsley, dry goods merchants, on Jefferson street, between Second and Third, where the Springfield Manufacturing Company's works now stand. He bought out the dry goods business of Joshua F. Speed, and has been in the mercantile business to the present time; now as one of the firm of Hurst & Ruth. Charles R. Hurst was married in Springfield to Ann Taylor, a daughter of Col. John Taylor. They had six living children, all in Springfield -

Charles

Mr. Hurst served the city of Springfield as alderman eight years. He was chairman of the committee on finance during the whole of that time. He also served three years as Waterworks Commissioner.

HUSBAND, HARMON, was born April 10, 1791, in Noi'th Carolina, and taken by his parents to Christian county, Ky. Sarah Pyles was born Nov. 12, 1790, in South Carolina. Her parents moved about 1795, to the vicinity of Mt. Sterling, Ky., and three or four years later moved to Christian county. Harmon Husband and Sarah Pyles were there married in 1811, and had five children in that county. The family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in Oct., 1820, and settled three miles east of the present town of Auburn, where seven children were born. Of their children -

MARTHA, married Wm. M. Snow, and died March 8, 1856, in Carlinville, leaving one child, ENOCH W. SNOW. He lives at the Husband family homestead.

JOHN J|>. A., born Feb. 19, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Jan. 7, 1864, to Ann E. Barrow. They have three children, EFFIE A., MINNIE A. and CLARLES H., and live six miles south of Springfield.

Harmon Husband died Feb. 15, 1848, and Mrs. Sarah Husband resides - 1874 - on the farm where they settled in 1820. It is three miles east of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

HUSTON, MARTHA, was born May 4, 1819, in Cumberland county, Penn. She came to Chatham, May 14, 1839, on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Wm. P. Thayer, and was married in Chatham, Sept. 28, 1843, to Henry Thayer, who was .born July i, 1812, in Boston, Mass., and came to Sangamon county, in April, 1841. They had eight children -

Olive J., E. Ruggles

HUSSEY, NATHAN, was born Sept. 20, 1785, in York county, Penn,; went to Washington county, Va., when a young man. Mary Stewart was born in the latter county Oct. i, 1785. They were there married in 1803, and soon moved to Green county, Ohio, about fourteen miles southeast of Xenia. Seven of their children were born there, and the family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving May 10, 1819, in what is now Fancy Creek township, where two children were born. Of their nine childfpn

MART\v&& married Feb. 27, 1829, to Joseph R. Young. They had three living children in Sangamon county. In 1850 they moved overland to Oregon, with their three children. DAVID died on the summit of the Rocky mountains. MARGARET died soon after their arrival in Oregon. Mr. Young died there in 1855, from the effects of a gun-shot wound, received in the Black Hawk war as a soldier from Sangamon county. His only son, STEPHEN, is married, and practicing medicine at or near McMinville, Oregon. Mrs. Mary Young still resides on her farm near McMinville, Yamhill county, Oregon.

1834, in Sangamon county, 111., to Sarah Yocum. They had seven children, all ' born in Sangamon county, and in 1851 moved overland to Oregon. Of their seven children - NATHAN, born in reside with their parents, three miles south of Williamsville. JACOB Y., born in 1836, in Sangamon county, 111., enlisted Sept., 1861, in Co. A, $2d 111. Inf., for three years; was wounded in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, April, 1862, and was discharged on account of physical disability Sept., 1862. He now draws a pension. He married Sarah Yocum. They have two children, WILLIAM M. and CHARLES H. Jacob Y. Hussey is station agent at Barclay, and resides on a farm near that place. HENRY CLAY, born Feb. 13, 1838, enlisted Sept., 1861, in Co. A, $2(1 111. Inf., for three years, and died of typhoid fever, near Pittsburgh Landing, May, 1862. MARY J., born in Sangamon .county, April 15, 1839, was married in 1856, in Oregon, to Alfred F. Thompson, who was born in McMinn county, Tenn. They have six living children, WILLIAM H., JOHN w., reside two miles northeast of Barclay. WILLIAM F., born Sept. 3, 1841, enlisted Oct. 3, 1864, in Co. B, 30th 111. Inf. In Feb., 1865, that regiment was merged into another, and he became a member of Co. A, 77th 111. Inf. He was honorably discharged Aug. 31, 1865, and was marlied Feb. 14, 1866, to Alice C. Irwin. They have two living children, ALICE M. and WILLIAM H., who reside with their parents in Williamsville, Sangamon county, 111. STEPHEN, born Nov. 28, 1842, enlisted in the same company and regiment with his brother, William H., and was honorably discharged at the same time. He married Mary Darnall. They have three living children, who reside with their parents at Lawndale, Illinois. MARIA E., the youngest child, lost her life in Oregon, in 1860, by her clothes accidentally taking fire while attending a sick friend. Her father's hands were so badly burned in his efforts to extinguish the fire that it made him a cripple for life. %lrs. Sarah Hussey died in 1852, and William S. Hussey was married in Oregon, May, 1855, to Mrs. Jemima Gilbreath, whose maiden name was Thompson, a native of Tennessee. They had two living children in Oregon, and in 1864, Mr. Hussey returned with his family to Sangamon county, 111. Of their two children - JOSEPHINE C. was married in 1872, to Richard W. Barger. They have one child, SARAH, and R. W. Barger is a practicing attorney -at-law, and resides in Des Moines, la. CHARLES A. lives with his parents. Mrs. Jemima Hussey had two children by a former marriage. SARAH C. died in 1865. WILLIAM

D. Lyon, of Pontiac. He is now a merchant in Williamsville. W. S. Hussey was elected Justice of the Peace, in 1858, in Oregon, which office he held until his return to Illinois, when he was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors of Sangamon county, twice, and tendered the office the third time, but declined. William S. Hussey and wife reside in Williamsville, Sangamon county, Illinois.

^O/W//t, born July 18, 1813, in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county, 111., to James Brown, and moved to Oregon in 1850. They have seven children, and reside in McMinnville, Yamhill county, Oregon.

NATHAN, born Dec. 14, 1815, in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county to Sarah Burton. They had five children in Sangamon county, and in 1845 moved to Oregon, where their family was increased to eight children. The mother and three children died, and the father and five children reside near Fort Haskins, Oregon.

STEPHEN, born Oct. 16, 1818, in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county, 111., to Cornelia Crowl. They had five children in Sangamon county, and moved to Oregon, in 1850, where others were born. Mrs. H. and four of their children died there. One of the living children, ELIZABETH, is married to James Peterson, and resides in Portland, Oregon. The other three, with their father, moved to California, where he died.

Mrs. Mary S. Hussey died in Sangamon county June 30, 1841, and Nathan Hussey accompanied two of his children to Oregon, and died there Oct. 29, 1857.

HAMPTON, JAMES P., was born April 17, 1787, in the vicinity of Hampton Roads, Va. In 1790 his parents crossed the Alleghany mountains, and embarking in boats, at Pittsburg, went down the Ohio river. Some families had been massacred a short time before, at Limestone, now Marysville. The Hamptons and their friends intended landing at the same point, but were convinced by the movements of the savages on shore that it would not be safe. They landed further down, and thus saved their lives, but the Indians captured one of their boats with all their stores. Mr. Hampton settled in what became Franklin county, Ky. James P. was a soldier from that county, in the war of i8i2-'i3, under Gen. Harrison. He was married in 1818, in the adjoining county of Woodford, to Sarah Poindexter, who was born in that county, March 24, 1800. They made their home in Franklin county, four miles from Frankfort, until they had five living children. The family moved .to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct., 1829, in what is now Illiopolis township, where they had two living children. Of their seven children -

M., James W., Surrilda E.

WILLIA M H., born July 17, 1821, in Franklin county, Ky., married April 20, 1843, in Sangamon county, to Mary A. Garvey. They had ten children in Sangamon county - EMILY J., ANNIE M., JAMES W., SURRILDA E., FRANKLIN P., HATT1E; LOUISA died in her eighth year ; LAURA, NANCY and ELBIE, the nine living, reside with their parents in Illiopolis township, two miles east of Mechanicsburg.

JOHN S., born Aug. 29, 1824, in Frankfort, Ky., married in Sangamon county, April 29, 1847, to Nancy C. Garvey. They had eight children born in Sangamon county; one died in infancy. MARY E., born Sept. 6, 1848, married March 26, 1872, to John S. Ford, have one child, HORACE N., and live three miles east of Mechanicsburg, in Illiopolis township. ELIZA F., SUSAN B. and SARAH, live with their parents. CHARLES LINCOLN was drowned while bathing, July 27, 1875. ELEANOR and ARTHUR E. reside with their parents. John S. Hampton had one foot amputated in June, 1875. He has acted as a Justice of the peace many years, and part of the time was engaged in merchandizing. He now - 1876 - resides in Illiopolis, Illinois.

MART A., born Aug. 29, 1828, in Franklin county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Aug. 7, 1862, to Simon P. Williams, who was born Sept. 17, 1825, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. They had two children, ROLLIN E. and RENA A., and Mrs. W. died July 19, 1873. Mr. Williams and his children live in Illiopolis.

PRES7 ON B., born Jan. 28, 1831- during the "deep snow" - in Sangamon county, married in Mechanicsburg, March 5, 1857, to Dorothy Rankin, who was born March 25, 1832, in York county, Maine, raised in New Hampshire, and came to Mechanicsburg, April, 1855. They have five children, SHERIDAN, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, JOHN LOGAN, FLORA MAY and JAMES GRANT. Preston B, Hampton enlisted Aug. 4, 1862, for three years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf., served until April 18, 1863, when he was discharged on account of physical disability. He resides in Illiopolis township, five miles east of Mechanicsburg, on the farm where his parents settled in 1829, and where he was born.

HARRISON P., born April 2, 1840, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. 4, 1862, for three years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf., served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged with the regiment, June 24, 1865. He was married March 14, 1867, to Mary J. Hunter. They have two children, EBER and CALLIE, and live in Illiopolis.

Hampton, Samuel

HAMPTON, SAMUEL C., brother to James P., was born about 1791, in Franklin county, Ky. He was there married, in 1819, to Catharine Johnson, a native of Virginia. They had four children in Frankfort, Franklin county, Ky. The eldest, J. Henry, died there. Mr. Hampton moved with his family to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1830, in what is now Mechanicsburg township, where they had one child. Of their four children -

JAMES W., born Oct. 4, 1823, in Frankfort, Ky., married in Springfield to Elizabeth Johnson. They had three children, two of whom died young. JOHN T. is married, and resides in Decatur, 111. Mrs. Elizabeth Hampton died, and James W. Hampton married Ada Baker. They had three living children, FRANK, NETTIE and CHARLES R. James W. Hampton died Oct. 25, 1875, in Springfield, 111. His widow and children live at 817 South Fourth street.

ELIZASETH^orn in 1825, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county in 1842 to Isaac Hart. They had five children, and in 1860 moved to, and are now living at, Ottumwa, Iowa.

SETH COOK, born April 18, 1828, in Frankfort, Ky., was married Sept. 8, 1853, in Springfield, to Mary A. Conant. They had seven children - SETH COOK, Jun., the eldest, and EMERY E., the youngest, died under five years. The other five, HARRY L., L YDIA C., ALBERT S., RUTH M., and RUFUS C. live with their parents. Mr. Hampton has been, from his boyhood, engaged in merchandizing, and is now in that business in Springfield - 1876.

iLES, ELIJAH, was born Mar. 28, 1796,111 what was then Fayette county, Ky., about sixty miles east of Lexington. His grandfather was an Englishman, and his grandmother Welch. Thomas lies, the father of Elijah lies, was born in Chester county, Pa., in 1765, emigrated to Kentucky about the year 1790, married Elizabeth Crockett, a relative of David