Sangamon County, Illinois - The whole text, 1876 (part 21 of 31)

MOFFITT, GEORGE, was born about 1780, in Augusta county, Va., was married to Rebecca Gilkison, had two children there, and then moved to Fayette county, Ky., where six children were born. The family moved to Christian county, Ky., and from there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in what is now Ball township in 1829. Of their children -

SALL Y, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to David Black. They had six children, and Mr. Black died in 1857. His widow lives with her son GEORGE, who married in St. Clair county to Lavina Broom. They have six children, and live near Blue Mound, Macon county, Illinois.

GEORGE, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Mahala Peters, moved to Jefferson county, Iowa, and died, leaving a widow and three children there.

JAMES and EM1LT, and George Moffitt died in 1860, in Jefferson county, Iowa. His widow lives with her son James, in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. - 1874.

MOFFITT, THOMAS, was born April 13, 1797, in that part of Montgomery, which is now Bath county, Ky., and came to Springfield, 111., Nov. 14, 1826. He was married Jan. 22, 1829, in Morgan county, 111., to Eliza A. Gatton, who was born July 26, 1810, in Kentucky, also. They had eight children in Springfield, four of whom died young. Of the other four -

THOMAS G., born Nov. 3, 1839, in Springfield, and was clerk in the office of the Auditor of State four and a half years. He enlisted in 1861, in Co. A, 7th 111. Inf., was commissioned Lieutenant, promoted to Adjutant of the regiment, and died March 29, 1862, in Springfield.

Mrs. Eliza A. Moffitt died, Nov. 11, 1867, and Mr. Moffitt resides in Springfield. He is in his eightieth year, and bereft of all his children, and finally of his wife.

Thomas Moffitt taught school when he came to Springfield, devoting all the time at his command to the study of law, and was licensed to practice in 1828 or '9. He was Orderly Sergeant in a company from Sangamon county in the Winnebago war of 1827, and in 1832 was captain of a company in the Black Hawk war. He served two years as county commissioner, and from 1843 served as Judge of the Probate Court. Under the constitution of 1848, he was elected County Judge for four years. He has for many years been

MOORE, CHARLES, came from one of the Southern States, built a cotton gin at the east side of Buffalo Hart Grove, in 1823 or '4, ran it for several years, and then moved farther north. He had been a Revolutionary soldier, and while going to draw a pension, the stage upset, and' caused his death.

MOORE, ENOCH, was born March 26, 1802, near Waterloo, in what is now Monroe county, but then St. Clair county, 111. His parents settled there about 1781. His father, John Moore, was a brother of General James B. Moorie - they were natives of Virginia - and hils mother a sister of General J. B. Whitesides; - she was a native of South Carolina; each of whom were influential men in the early history of Illinois, Enoch Moore was married near Waterloo. Illinois,, Sept. 10, 1833, to Charlotte Sherman, w"ho was born August 10, 1804, in one of 'the eastern States, and came to Illinois when quite young. They ha i three children, two of whom died in infancy. Of the third -

HESTER A., born Nov. i, 1834, was married in Springfield, Nov. 20, 1854, to J. N. Underwood, a native of Illinois. Mrs. Underwood died Nov. 4, 1855, at Bloomington, 111. Mr. Underwood was editorially connected with one of the Bloomington papers. He has since married, but his residence is not known. - Mrs. Charlotte Moore died April 2 1839, at Vandalia, 111. Enoch Moore was married near Richmond, Kv., March 31, 1845, t° Matilda Wakefield, who was a native of Massachusetts.

Enoch Moore lived in Alton a short time after his first marriage, then moved to Vandalia, where he was employed as clerk in the office of the State Treasurer. When the records were removed to Springfield, in 1839, he came with them and was engaged principally in the Fund Commissioner's office, through all the changes of administration. His strict integrity, unfeigned conscientiousness, humility and consistent Christian deportment, was so apparent that no political partisan ever felt justified in displacing him, and he continued to the end of his life in connection with some one of the State offices. His careful and methodical busi- ness habits led to the detection of the spurious indebtedness issued in the name of the Fund Commissioners, to the amount of hundreds and thousands of dollars, many years after it took place. He also discovered the fraudulent re-issue of canal bonds by Governor Matteson.

Mrs. Matilda Moore died March 23, 1863, in Springfield. Enoch Moore died March 28, 1876, in Chicago, while undergoing an operation for cataract of the eye. His remains were brought to Springfield, and buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery. The only surviving member of the family is their daughter -

CHARLOTTE M., who was born in Springfield, and now - 1876 - resides in her native city. She has been an energetic and efficient laborer in city missionary work, temperance and prison reform.

Enoch Moore will be remembered by all who visited the State House during the thirty-six years he spent there, by his stature. He was but four feet two inches high, yet his body was so fully developed that in a sitting posture he looked quite as large as the average of mankind. His weight was about one hundred and seventy pounds when in ordinary health. The deficiency was in the length of his lower limbs. He leaves a sister, Mrs. Hester A. Allyn, residing at the corner of Third and Monroe streets, Springfield. Her husband, Rev. Norman Allyn, was a traveling preacher in the Southern Illinois Conference M. E. church, at the time of his death, at Bunker Hill, 111., in March, 1864.

MOORE, JOHN, was born Apr. 20, 1796, in Shoreham, Vermont. He came to Springfield, 111., and was married Aug. 9, 1823, to Mrs. Elizabeth Hawley, whose maiden name was Mc- Murdy- They had four children in Springfield, and moved to Schuyler county about 1835, where one child was born. Of their children -

JOHN L., born July 5, 1824, is understood to have been the first male child born in Springfield. He was married in Schuyler county Jan. 3, 1855, to Jemima J. Doyle. He died in the latter county March 14, 1864, leaving a widow and five children, who now live in Rushville, Illinois.

SARAH E., born March 17, 1826, in Springfield, was married in Schuyler county, 111., to Rev. George F. Davis, of the Presbyterian church. They reside at Casey, Clarke county, Illinois.

MART E., born Oct. 22, 1830, in Springfield, has been a teacher for many years, and resides with her relatives, partly, in Springfield, Illinois.

HENRY P., born Jan. 7, 1833, in Springfield, was brought up in Schuyler county, and married in Logan county, 111., to Jennie Bock. They have two children, and live near Elkhart, Illinois.

CARRIE P., born Nov. 25, 1835, in Schuyler county. She and her sister, Mary E., were educated at Normal for the profession of teaching. She resides in Springfield.

Moore, Bushnell

MOORE, BUSHNELL B., was born Jan. 6, 1801, in Shoreham, Vt. Melissa Northrope was born Jan. 30, 1803, in the same town. They were there married Jan. 7, 1824. Mr. Moore had previously established himself in business at Hopkinton, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. They had two living children there, and the family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving July, 1836, in what is now Gardner township. Of their children -

MARIA L., born June 29, 1828, at Hopkinton, New York, married in Sangamon county May 15, 1849, to Eben Dutch. He was born Oct. 18, 1819, in Augusta, Maine. They had four children in Sangamon county. FLORENCE MAY is a teacher in the public schools, and resides at Farmingdale. FREDERICK and WINTHRbP live with their uncle, Henry S. Dutch, in Oxford, Johnson county, Iowa. RALPH E. lives at Farmingdale, 111. Eben Dutch died Aug. 29, 1864, in Sangamon county, and his widow died in 1876, near Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MOORE, JOHN B., was born July ii, 1803, in Warren county, N. J. Rachel L. McCarty was born Feb. 7, 1812, in Morris county, N. J. They were married in the latter county, Dec. 8, 1831, and had four children there. They moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving July 28, 1838, in what is now Gardner township, where one child was born. Of the five children -

ELIJAH V., born Sept. 19, 1832, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county to Margaret Jones. They had two children, JOHIJ B. and ANN E. Elijah V. Moore enlisted August 5, 1861, in Co. C, 2d 111. Art., was appointed Sergeant Major, and promoted to ist Lieutenant, April 20, 1862. He was killed at the second battle of Fort Donelson, Feb. 5, 1863. His widow and children live one mile east of Bradfordton, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MOSES H., born Feb. 28, 1834, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county, Feb. 24, 1870, to Lenora Crowder, who was born March 14, 1852, in Mis. souri. They have one child, ANN E. and live one mile east of Bradfordton Sangamon county, Illinois.

DELIA F.,born Feb. 5, 1836, in New Jersey, married Dec. i, 1870, to Isaac Gregory. See his name. They have one child, FANNIE, and live near Blue Mound, Macon county, Illinois.

JOHN B., Jun., born Dec. 14, 1837, in New Jersey, and raised in Sangamon county. He engaged in freighting over the plains from Nebraska City to Denver, and died March 21, 1864, on Platte river, one hundred and eighty miles east of Denver, and twenty miles from Julesburg.

JULIA A., born Dec. 23, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Nov. n, 1858, to William H. Miller, General Superintendent of C. and A. telegraph line. She had one chilcl, MARY R., and Mrs. Miller died Nov. 16, 1871, at Bellefountaine, Ohio.

six children in Virginia, and then moved, in 1815, to Bath county, Ky., where two children were born. After a residence of twenty -one years in Kentucky, Mr. Moore moved his family to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in what is now Auburn township, in the fall of 1836, and four years .later moved to Ball township. Of their children -

MORRISON M., born in Bath county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Crow. They have eight children - JOSEPH M. lives in Minnesota. JOHN H. and CHARLES live with their parents. MARGARET A. married William D. Nuckolls. See his name. GEORGE L., WILLIAM D., ASA B. and SARAH E., live with their parents, on the farm where his father settled in 1840. It is two miles south of Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JAMES IV., born in Virginia, married Mary A. Walker, who died, and he married Virginia Lane, and is a practicing attorney in Washington City, D. C.

MORGAN, CHARLES, was born Sept. 5, 1781, in Hampshire county, Va. His parents moved to Fleming county, Ky., in 1793. Charles Morgan and Elizabeth Constant were there married in 1807, and had four children in Kentucky. The family moved in March, 1814, to Clermont county, Ohio, where they had four living children, and then moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in Oct., 1826, in what is now Mechanicsburg township, where two children were born. Of their ten children -

JA COB, born May 20, 1808, in Fleming county, Kj., married in Sangamon county May 17, 1832, to Susan Correll. They had three living children. JOSEPHUS, born March 30, 1833, is unmarried, and resides five and a half miles northwest of Illiopolis, 111. MINERVA, born Nov. 8, 1834, died April 3, 1854. CAROLINE, born July 21, 1837, mar' ried George W. Hesser. See his name. Mrs. Susan Morgan died Oct. 15, 1848, and Jacob Morgan was married Nov. 22, 1855, to Mrs. Mary A. Wilson, whose maiden name was Stickel. She was born April 16, 1825, in York county, Penn. They have four children, LUELLA, SELINA B., ANNA M. and CHARLES W. Mrs. Morgan has one son by her first ma riage, ANDREA S. WILSON, born Mar. 23, 1847, in Macon county, 111., married in Bloomington, 111., to Mary Hamilton; had one child, and resides in Washington, Kansas. He has represented Washington county in the Kansas Legislature two terms, and is now - 1874 - Judge of the Twelfth judicial district in that State. Jacob Morgan resides two and a half miles west of Mcchanicsburg, Illinois.

JOHN C., born May 19, 1812, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county Jan. 28, 1836, to Elizabeth Bridges. They had eight children in Sangamon county. MARTHA E., born June 23, 1837, died Oct. 6, 1857. LAVINA J., born Feb. 19, 1839, married Oct., 1857, to Zenas Crawford. They have five children, MARTHA E., CHARLES and live near Princeton, Franklin county, Kansas. CHARLES W., born Nov. n, 1841. enlisted July, 1861, for three years, in Co. I, 41 st 111. Inf. He was killed at Fort Donelson Feb. 15, 1862. His remains were brought home and interred near Mechanicsburg. SARAH A., born Feb. 21, 1844, married July 22, 1865, to Victor Bechtel. He served three years, from July, 1861, in Co. I, 4ist 111. Inf.

and live near Ottawa, Kansas. NORMAN C., born Sept. 23, 1846, married Aug. 31, 1871, to Emily Peak, have one child, JOHN T., and live near Richmond, Kansas. AARON T., born July 22, 1849, died Jan. 12, 1865. FIDELIA ADALINE, born July 5, 1852, and RUTH EMELINE,born July 10, 1854, reside with their parents, three miles southwest of Illiopolis, Illinois - 1874.

DANIEL, born Feb. 28, 1813, in Fleming county, Ky, married in Sangamon county Jan. 9, 1834, to Melinda Morgan. They had seven children; one died in infancy. ELIZA, J., born Dec. 31, 1834, married Aug. 26, 1858, to Jeremiah Kelly, have two children, and live in Madison, Greenwood county, Kansas. MARY, born Nov. 22, 1836, married Dec. 6, 1860, to James Lockhart, and died July 14, 1861. FRANKLIN B , born March 14, 1839, married Oct. 13, 1870, to Margaret A. Ficklin, had one child, FRANKLIN, and live two and a half miles west of Mechanicsburg. WILLIAM W., born Nov. 24, 1841, married Jan. 12, 1868, to Emily A. Patterson, have one living child, EDGAR, and live three and a half miles west of Mechanicsburg. ERSKINE, born June 3, 1849, and EMMA A., born May 12, 1854, reside with their parents, two and a half miles each from Mechanicsburg, Dawson and Buffalo - 1874.

AARON, born March 3, 1816, in Clermont county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county Jan. 12, 1837, to Matilda A. McDaniel, whose maiden name was Shinkle. They had eleven children, four of whom died under seven years. Of the other seven - MARIA L-, born April 26, 1840, married George H. Grabendich, had one child, WILLIAM R., and Mr. G. enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. C, married Robert Alls, and died, leaving I24th Illinois Infantry. He was wounded at Vicksburg, June 26, and died June 27, 1863. Mrs. Grabendich one child, CHARLKS A. MINERVA E., born Nov. 30, 1844, married James Moore, have two children, and live two and a half miles west of Mechanicsburg. CHARLES W., born June 30, 1849, married Matilda Moon, have one child, and lives three miles northwest of Me-

James R., Elijah A., Laura A.

CHARLES W., born May 23, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 15, 1850, to Elizabeth E. Deny, who was born Oct. 26, 1830, in Loudon county, Va. They had eleven children, five of whom, GEORGE E., JOHN R., WILLIAM A., CORDELIA S. and EMMA F., died under six years of age. MINERVA J., born Dec. 28, 1851, married March 9, 1871, to Benjamin Cox, have two children, EVELINE and ALVA, and live three miles north of Illiopolis. JAMES R., ELIJAH A., LAURA A., LUELLA L. and CHARLES A. reside with their parents, in Macon county, three and a half miles northeast of Illiopolis, Illinois.

Charles F., Viola E., Edwin

JAMES A., born March 13, 1834, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 14, 1856, to Sarah A. Lee, who was born iviarch 15, 1841, in Gallatin county, Ohio. They had seven children. The first, second and fifth, HENRIETTA, IDA E. and HENRY L., died under four years. CHARLES F., VIOLA E., EDWIN O. and MELVIN A. reside with their parents, in Macon county, four miles northeast of Illiopolis, Illinois.

MORGAN, DANIEL, brother to Charles, was born March 10, 1785, near Warm Springs, Hampshire county, Va., and was taken by his parents, in 1793,10 Fleming county, Ky. Marv S. Woods was born June 17, 1786, in Burke county, N. C., and was taken by her parents to Wilkes county, in the same State. In the fall of 1794 they moved to Clark county, Ky., and in 179910 Chillicothe, Ohio, and in 1801 to Fleming county, Ky. Her* father, Andrew Woods, was born in Pennsylvania, taken by his parents to South Carolina, and was Captain ol a company from that State, and served nine months in the war for Independence. He died March 26, 1803, in Fleming county, Ky. Daniel Morgan and Mary S. Woods were married Oct. 24, 1810, in Kentucky, and had three chil dren there. They moved to Monroe county, Indiana, in 1822, where one child was born, and then moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Nov. 21, 1828, in what is now Mechanicsburg township. Of their five children -

MAHALA C., born July 19, 1824, in Fleming county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, June 29, 1854, to Rev. James B. Houts, who was born May 31, 1817, in Salem, Livingston county, Ky. They had two children, MARY F. and MINERVA L. Rev. J. B. Houts died Nov. 10, 1872, at Myersville, Vermilion county, 111. At the time of his death he was filling his 33d appointment as circuit preacher in the M. E. church. His widow and daughters reside in Springfield, Illinois.

WILLIAM H., born June 26, 1826, in Monroe county, Indiana, is unmarried, and resides one mile west of Mechanicsburg, adjoining the farm on which his parents settled in 1828. He remembers going with his father to a water mill on the Sangamon river, and that th .- mill was roofed by first covering it with logs and slabs, and earth was thrown on that. Weeds were growing on top of the mill, which he thought was very strange.

Daniel Morgan was a sold er from Fleming county, Ky., in the war with England, from Aug., 1812, to March, 1813. He died in Sangamon county, Sept. 6, 1866, and his widow resides with her son, William H. She draws a pension for the services of her husband in the war of 1812.

Elizabeth Butler, whose maiden name was Bell. She was born in 1773, in Maryland. They had seven children in Hamilton county, Ohio, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., about 1822, and settled south of Spring creek, in what is now Gardner township. Of their children -

E VAN, born in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Ditson, had five children, and he died August 15, 1834. His widow married M. S. Skidmore, and lives near Hamburg, Fremont county, Iowa.

ELIZABETH, married in Ohio to John Bartlow, came with her parents to Sangamon county, and moved to Schuyler county, 111., about 1830, where they both died, leaving seven children.

MARTHA, married in Ohio to John Moffatt, came to Sangamon county, and died, leaving two children, who are married, and reside near Decatur,. Illinois.

JOHN, born Jan. 19, 1806, near Cincinnati, Ohio, came to Sangamon ^county, in 1822, and married, Feb. 24, 1*825, *° Gamely Duff. They had twelve children, in Sangamon county. WILLIAM H., born Jan. 9, 1826, married Emily Robinson, had one child, Edward W., born Sept. 17, 1851, resides in Gardner township. Mrs. Emily Morgan died, March 28, 1852, and Mr. M. married Mrs. Elmira King, whose maiden name was Bradley. They started to Kansas, and he died Nov. 10,1867, at Rockport, Missouri. His widow lives in Wilson county, Kansas. FINIS E., born Oct. 21, 1827, married Elizabeth Day. They have five living children, and live at Clinton, Illinois. JOS1AH B., born Nov. 26, 1829, married Mary A. Reed, have four children, and live near Neodesha, Wilson county, Kansas. MARY A., born Oct. 17, 1831, married Edward C. Sackett, and died at her mother's. Mr. S. was a Union soldier, and lives near Carrollton, 111. AMANDA J., born Sept. 30, 1833, married Alfred Moulton, and died, in 1864, leaving two children. ELIZA A., born May 31, 1835, married, Oct. 28, 1850, to John Hardin, and has five children, JUI.IET,

CAMEI.Y F., MARGARET K., IDA and EDWARD i.. Mr. Hardin has not been heard of for eight or nine years - supposed to be dead. JOHN F., born May 13, 1837, lives with his mother. CAM ELY F.

died in her eighteen year. GREEN B. died in his seventeenth year. URIAH, LYMAN T. and RUFUS M. live with their mother. John Morgan died Dec. 25, 1856, and his widow resides - 1874 - one and one-half miles south of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.

RUTH, born near Cincinnati, Ohio, married in Sangamon county to DeLos Brown. They had three children, and he died, near Sidney, Fremont county, Iowa. His widow and child live there.

MORRIS, ACHILLES, a cousin to Bishop Morris, of the M. E. church, was born in Kanawha county, West Virginia, married there, and came with his family to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the tall of 1826, in what is now Loami township. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war, and was afterwards elected as one of the representatives of Sangamon county in the State legislature. He raised a company in the vicinity of Loami, of which he became Captian, in the 4th 111. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, and died of disease at Camargo, Mexico, in 1847. He left a widow and eleven children in Sangamon county. His eldest son -

JONATHAN, was born July 21, 1825, in Kanawha county, Va., married in Sangamon county, Jan. 23, 1846, to Martha E. Meacham. He enlisted in the company of which his father was Captain, int he 4th 111. Inf. He was promoted to Major of the regiment in Mexico, and was one of the party that captured Santa Anna's cork leg. Served to the close of the Mexican war. Mr. and Mrs. Morris had nine children; four died under three years. Of the other five: NANCY married John Goldsmith, who is editor of the Waverly Times, and resides there. - 1874. EDOM D., DOUGLAS, RICHARD N. and WILLIS GRANT live with their mother in Waverly. Jonathan Morris raised a company in Waverlv, in 1 86 1, and was commissioned Captain of Co. - , I4th 111. Inf. He was promoted to Major of the regiment. After eighteen months service a horse fell with him and crushed an ancle, in consequence of which he resigned Sept., 1862, and died suddenly at Waverly, Nov. 12, 1871.

MORRIS, WILLIAM D., brother to Bishop Thomas A. Morris, was born in Cabell county, West Va. He was married there, and brought his family to Sangamon county in the fall of 1825, and settled on Lick creek, in what is1 now Loami township. His daughter Melissa married William Heredith. See his name.

MORRIS, JOHN, was born and married in Cabell county, West Va., and moved, in company with his brother, William D., to Sangamon county in the fall of 1825, settled on Lick creek, and raised a family there. He was a preacher in the anti-mission or predestinarian Baptist church. His brother, Win. D., was a member of the same church. They were brothers to Bishop Morris, of the M. E. church. John Morris is dead, and has no representative in the county.

MORSE, JAMES M., was born Feb. 4, 1807, in Newburyport, Mass. He was married April 7, 1831, in West Newbury, to Sarah C. Sawyer, who was born there, Nov. 25, 1807. He moved, in 1831, to Vandalia, 111., where they had three children. Mr. Morse was employed in the office of the Secretary of State, and when the State government was removed to Springfield, in July, 1839, he came with it. They had three children in Springfield; one died in infancy. Of their five children -

SARAH E., born Feb. 13, 1836, in Vandalia, 111., married June 4, 1857, in Springfield, to Joseph E. Woods. They had two children - ANNIE died in infancy. SARAH C. lives with her father. Mrs. Woods died July 9, 1860. Mr. Woods married again, and is living in Springfield, Illinois.

HARRIET M., born March 9, 1839, in Vandalia, married, Sept. 24, 1857, to William T. Church. They had three children, ALLIE and ANNIE died young. JULIA G. lives with her grandfather Morse. Mrs. Church died, Dec. 9, 1873, at Elkhart, 111., and was buried at Oak Ridge.

ELLEN F., born Aug. 2, 1841, in Springfield, married Feb. 20, 1862, to Daniel Winters, who was born in Chambersburg, Penn., Jan. 30, 1832, and came to Springfield in 1851. They had four children - CHARLES E. and JAMES B. live with their parents. MARY C. and LILIAN M. died young. NELLIE is the babe. Mr. Winters is in business, and lives in Springfield.

Anna B., Charles E., John B.

CHARLES E., born Nov. i, 1844, in Springfield, married, March 10, 1868, in Logan county, to Ellen E. Long. They have five children, JAMES H., ANNA B., CHARLES E., JOHN B. and a boy babe. Mr. Morse is engaged in farming, near Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois.

Mrs. Sarah C. Morse died July 28, 1848, in Springfield, and James M. Morse was married in Springfield, Oct. 30, 1850, to Emma M. Holton, who was born in 1814, at Danbury, Conn. They had four children -

JAMES Wm., born Sept. 3, 1853, in Springfield, married Sept. 17, 1872, to Alice B. Schmutz, a native of Bloomington, 111. They have two children, FLORENCE B. and ETHEL G., and reside in Springfield, Illinois.

James M. Morse was in the office of the Secretary of State when the office was held by A. P. Fields, Stephen A. Douglas, Lyman Trumbull and Thompson Campbell. From 1846 to 1852 Mr. Morse was Assessor and Treasurer of Jiangamon county, and for fifteen years was Public Administrator of the county. He is now retired from business, and resides in Springfield, Illinois.

When the seat of government was moved from Vandalia to Springfield, James M. Morse came with A. P. Fields, Secretary of State, in whose department he was employed. They were accompanied by Levi Davis, Auditor of Public Accounts, with his clerk, Wm. S. Pren- tiss, now Presiding Elder in the M. E. church; John D. Whitesides, State Treasurer, and Enoch Moore, his clerk; William Walters, Public Printer, and Charles H. Lanphier, his assistant. From 1842 to 1844 Mr. Morse was engaged in rewriting the Territorial records; and during that time roomed with Enoch Moore at the State house. ' A friendship was thus cemented that could only end with their lives.

MOSTELLER, CHRISTOPHER, was born in Buncombe county, North Carolina, went to Butler county, Ohio, when a young man; and was there married to Phoebe Sackett. They had two children in that county, and moved to Union county, Ind., where they had two children; returned to Butler county, Ohio, and from there came to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the spring of 1830, in what i« now Salisbury township. Of their children -

THOMAS, born Oct. 8, 1807, in Butler county, Ohio, was married in Franklin county, Ind., July 21, 1827, to Charlotte Morris. They moved with his parents to Ohio, where they had two children, and came in the spring of 1830 to Sangamon county, where six children were born. Of their eight children -

. PHCEBE A. died, aged fifteen years. ALICE J., born Nov. 29, 1829, in Butler county, Ohio, was married Dec. 4, 1845, to Job Davenport. See his name. DORCAS, born Feb. 14, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Dr. Francis T. Antle. They had four children: HARRIET died in 1874; THOMAS p., IONA o. and MARY ELLA live with their parents, in Petersburg, 111. JAMES, born Dec. 5, 1833, in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1862, in Co. F, H4th 111. Inf., for three years, and died of disease, near V icksburg, Miss., Sept. 1 8, 1863. His remains were buried at the Baptist cemetery in Cart'.vnght township. EDWARD C., born June 22, 1841, in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1861 in Co. A, loth 111. Cav., for three years,

1 and was discharged on account of physical disability. He was married in Kansas to Love B. Holladay. She died, and E. C. Mosteller was married again in Iowa, and has one child. He studied medicine, and attended one course of lectures at Rush Medical College, Chicago, 111., graduated at the Eclectic

Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, and is practicing his profession at Adelphia, Polk county, Iowa. MARTIN S., born April 21, 1843, in Sangamon county, was married Oct. 4, 1864, to Sarah M. Antle, in Petersburg. They had four children: FRANKIE H. died April 7, 1869, in Macon county, 111.; FREDDIE F., ALBERT A. and MAUD M. live with their parents. M. S. Mosteller is a graduate of the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a practicing physician at Pleasant Plains, 111. JOHN H. A., born April 21, 1847, 'n Sangamon county, enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. F, n.j.th 111. Inf., and was discharged on account of physical disability in Aug., 1863. He re-enlisted in 1864 in Co. D, 33d 111. Inf.; served to the close of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged in 1865. He lives at Tallula, Menard county, 111. ELIZA W., born June 19, 1852, was married in Petersburg, to Thomas Davis. He is a telegraph operator, and lives at Vandalia, Audrain county, Mo. Mrs. Charlotte Mosteller died March 2, 1865, and Thomas Mosteller lives now - 1876 - at Pleasant Plains. He remembers being present on Richland creek when Abraham Lincoln was waiting to make a speech. Josiah Grady said: "Lincoln, they have the story in circulation that you are a Deist." Mr. Lincoln immediately answered: "That is not so: my father was an old Baptist, and taught me to believe in the Christian religion, and I do believe in it as much as anybody; but I confess I have no religion."

DORCAS, born June 15, 1810, in Butler county, Ohio, was married Sept. 18, 1835, i'1 Illinois, to Benjamin Mc- Elwain. They are without family, and live in Petersburg, Menard county, Illinois.

AARON A, born May, 1820, in Union county, Indiana, was married in 184^ in Sangamon county, 111., to Emily Campbell. They had six children. JANE, born in 1846, was married to Thomas Gorrell. They are without family, and live in Crawford county, Kansas. GEORGE W., born in 1848, married Mary Lindsay. They have two living children, and live in Crawford county, Kansas. LOUIS, born in 1850, is unmarried, and lives in Kansas. ANN, born in 1853, died, aged ten years. JOHN C., born in 1856, is unmarried, and lives in Kansas. LAURA, born in 1861, died, aged two years. A. P. Mosteller moved to Kansas in 1861, where Mrs. Emily Mosteller died Dec. 8, 1872. A. P. Mosteller was married Feb. 8, 1874, to Mrs. Mary Hooper, and lives at Osage mission, Neosho county, Kansas.

GEORGE S., born Nov. 9, 1822, in Fianklin county, Ind., was married in Mason county, 111., Nov., 1856, to Martha Simmons, who died without family in March, 1858. G. S. Mosteller was married Nov., 1860, to Roxana Reese. They have three living children, FRANK, MARY and IDA, and live at Forest City, Mason county, Illinois.

REBECCA, born Oct. 16, 1827, in Butler county, Ohio, was married Aug. 2, 1849, in Illinois, to Thomas A. Gibson. They had two children. GEORGE L , born Oct., 1850, lives with his parents. JOHN died in his ninth year. T. A. Gibson and family live in Forest City, Illinois.

Christopher Mosteller died in 1844, and his widow married Rev. John Aiitle. She died August, 1863; both in Salisbury, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MOTT, JAMES, was born Nov. 27, 1803, in Kent county, England, and came to America in 1821, landing in New York. He went to Sacketts Harbor, learned cabinet making, and was married there, Jan. 9, 1830, to Amanda M. Brown, who was born March 18, 1813, at Woodstock, Vermont. They had three children; two died there, and they moved, in 1834, to Cleveland, Ohio. They went from there to St. Louis by water, thence to Jacksonville, 111., in a wagon, and after visiting some relatives in Cass county, came to Springfield, arriving Jan. i, 1836, where one child was born, and in 1838 moved to Menard county, near Petersburg, thence to Athens, Feb. 20, 1843, where twelve children were born, nine of whom died under five years of age. Of the other five -

JAMES W., born July 19, 1833, at Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., partly brought up in Springfield, was married near Athens, April 18, 1856, to Millie J. Hurt, who died June 24, 1857. J. W. Mott was married May 15, 1859, to Mrs. Mary A. Holland, whose maiden name was

England. Thev had eight children, ALLEN, EDGAR, AGNES, MARGARET, JAMES, CHARLES, MILAM and EUGENE. Mrs. Mott died Nov. 19, 1872, and J. W. Mott resides in Athens, ^angamon county, 111. - 1874.

GEORG^E E., born July 25, 1836, in Springfield, was married there April 19, 1865, to Eliza P. Smith, a native of the same place. They have three children, WILLIAM R., HARRY W. and LAURA E., and live at 635, north 5th street, Springfield.

James Mott died Sept. 24, 1873. His widow lives at Athens, Meuard county, Illinois. Mr. Mott was associate Judge of Menard county one term of four years.

MOURER, WILLIAM, was born about 1807, in Berkley county, Va. His parents emigrated to Muskingum county, Ohio, where his father died. In In 1823 or '4 he went to Washington county, Maryland, where he was married Dec. 12, 1833, to Jane I. Ensminger, who was born May 8, 1815, in that county. Thev had one child in Maryland, and moved to Springfield, 111., arriving in the fall of 1836, where they had four children. Of their five children -

GEORGE W., born Oct. 29, 1834, in Washington county, Maryland, and brought up in Sangamon county, Illinois. He enlisted in Springfield, Aug. 27, 1862, for three years, in Co. E, H4thlll. Inf. At the organization of the regiment, he was promoted to Quarter-Master, and was with the regiment until after the battle of Nashville, in Dec., 1864, when he was honorably mustered out on account of physical disability. He is now a farmer, and resides with his mother, five and onehalf miles southeast of Springfield, 111. 4

Margaret E., Maryland

Mr. William Mourer formed a partnership with Benjamin Ferguson, as carpenters and builders, soon after coming to Springfield. Their first work was the building of the American Hotel, at the southeast corner of Adams and Sixth streets; when finished, the finest hotel in the State of Illinois. They were contractors for part of the work on the State House, then in course of construction, now the Sangamon county Court House. After the death of Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Mourer continued in the business for about seventeen years. In 1850 he took the contract, and built the north and south porticos to the State House. He bought a farm, and moved in the spring of 1853 to Woodside township. While discharging the duties of grand juror, he was taken violently ill, of pneumonia, and died in Springfield, June 10, 1867. His widow resides five and one-half miles south of Springfield, on the farm where they settled in 1853.

MOWRY, JOHN H., born Feb. 26, ^829, in Charleston, S. C. Accompanied his father to Chicago in 1836, came to Springfield, 111., in 1839, and learned the carpenter's trade. In 1856 he was elected Sheriff of Mason county, but resigned, after serving fifteen months, to avoid hanging a man convicted of murder. He was married, Jan. 2, 1858, in Dixon, Lee county, 111., to Martha Grimm, who was born March 6, 1832, at Harpers Ferry, Va. They have six children living, ANN E., IDA E., ELEANOR A, MART, HARRIET and GRACE. During the rebellion 'j. H. Mowry was employed in the mechanical department of the government at Camps Yates and Butler,' near Springfield, and being ordered to Camp Douglas, at Chicago, mdved his family to that city. He was also engaged at Camp Fry, and at the arsenal at Rock Island, and on the public works at Wilmington, Delaware, in 1863 and '64. In 1866 he made a twoyears tour through England and the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. He lost all his property in the great Chicago fire, Oct. 9, 1871. In July, 1874, he took charge as first foreman of the addition to the State prison of Michigan, then in course of construction. He remained - 68

MULKEY, JESSE H., was born in Dec., 1818, in Kentucky or Tennessee, married Nancy Simpson, a sister to Wm. Simpson, and came to Richland creek, Sangamon county, in 1829, and one year later moved to DeWitt county. He died Oct., 1858, and she died April 5, 1872 - both in DeWitt county, leaving a large family. Their son -

SAMUEL W., born March i, 1828 in Tennessee, married July 2, 1865, to Almarinda Harrold, and was married the second time, Dec. i, 1869, to Mrs. Elizabeth B. Combs, whose maiden name was Foster, a half-sister to Mrs. Hannah F. Stubbs. S. W. Mulkey enlisted July, 1861, in Co. F. 4151 111. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably discharged, August i, 1864, at Springfield. He lives four miles east of Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois.

M Y E RS, HEN R Y C., was born Dec. 6, 1817, in Chambersburg, Pa., and came to Springfield, 111., in 1838. In 1841 he went to Boone county, Mo., and was there married in 1843 to Eleanor D. Robards, a native of Lexington, Ky. Mr. Myers moved back to Springfield, 111., where they had three children, one of whom died young -

FRANKLIN, born August 5, 1847, in Howard county, Missouri, was trained to the mercantile business by his father, and became his successor. ' He is now engaged in miscellaneous merchandising in Springfield, Illinois.

Henry C. Myers was first in the grocery trade, changed to confectionery, and from 1861 to 1865 was sutler at Camp Butler. After the close of the rebellion he engaged in general merchandising, and died Jan. 24, 1871. Mrs. Eleanor D. Myers and her two children reside in Springfield, Illinois.

N A VE, HEN R Y, was born Sept. 22, 1812, in Carter county, Tenn. Margaret C. Bowers was born Sept. 12, 1812, in the same county. They were there married, April 9; 1831, had one child, and then moved to Washington county, Ind., where one child was born. Both children died there, MARTHA in her fourth year, and ELIZABETH in infancy. Mr. Nave and his wife moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Sept. 22, 1839, in what is now Fancy Creek township. They reside one and three-quarter miles north of Cantrall, Sangamon county, Illinois. - 1874.

NEAL, DANIEL, was born about 1770, in Bedford county, Va. He was married there to Polly Booth, a native of the same county. They had ten children in Virginia, and moved to Franklin county, Tenn., in the fall of 1808, where one child was born. The family then moved to Bourbon county, Ky., where they had five children, and they moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Nov. 10, 1828, in what is now Chatham township. Of their sixteen children -

FANNY, born in Virginia, married in Kentucky to Barton Darneille, and moved to Sangamon county before her parents. He died in Macon county. His widow died, in 1852, in Chatham township, Sangamon county.

WINS7^ON, born in Virginia, married in Kentucky to Melinda Miller, came to Sangamon county in 1829, moved back about 1839, and died, leaving a large family.

NANCY, born in Virginia, married in Kentucky to Joseph Jackson, and came to Sangamon county with her father, Mr. Jackson died at Galena, and she married John Hodge, who died, and she married Andrew Steele, who was born Feb. 6, 1795, in Davidson county, Tenn. She never had children. They live in Loami township.

STEPHEN B., born Dec. 25, 1808, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Julia A. Wyckoff. They had four children - FIELDING M., born Oct. 29, 1832, married Leah M. Greenwood. They had seven children, JULIA A. died at two years. WILLIAM A., JOHN s., ELIZA A., their parents, four and one-half miles west of Chatham, Illinois. SAMUEL M. enlisted in 1862, in Co. B, nth Mo. Inf., for three years. Served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged. He was married, in 1869, in Sangamon county, to Clarissa Underwood, have three children, and live in Green county, Mo. MAHALA A. married John W. Greening. See his name. WILLIAM

A. enlisted in 1861, in Co. I, i4th 111. Inf., for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran, Jan., 1864; served to the end of the rebellion, was honorably discharged, and lives near Chatham, Illinois. Mrs. Julia A. Neal died, and S. B. Neal married Elizabeth Proctor. They had six children, four of whom, STEPHEN B., Jun., SIMON N., GEORGE W. and MARY JANE, died under fifteen years. HENRY C. enlisted, Aug. 9, 1861, in Co. B, 3Oth 111. Inf., for three years. He was captured at the battle of Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864, and died in Andersonville prison pen about one month later. Mrs. Elizabeth Neal died, and S. B. Neal was married, April 28, 1862, to Mrs. Lucinda W hited, whose maiden name was Bridges. They had one child, EMMA. Stephen

JOHN A., born July 31, 1809, in Franklin county, Tenn. married in Sangamon county, Aug., 1837, to Eliza A. Greening. They had two children. MARY E. married James Jacobs. See his name. CAROLINE married Peyton M. McGinnis. See his name. Mrs. Eliza A. Neal died in 1846, and John A. Neal was married, Jan. 13, 1859, to Mrs. America Darneille, who had previously been Mrs. Gibson, and whose maiden name was Forrest. Mr. Neal was a member of the Sangamon county Board of Supervisors, from 1862 to 1865, and is now a justice of the peace for Chatham township, and resides in Chatham - 1874. John A. Neal is authority for the statement that about three and one-half miles north of the present town of Rochester, five hogs were confined in a snow drift, ahout the fifth of Jan., 1831, and escaped from it the latter part of February, when the snow was going off. They had been nearly two months where it was impossible for them to obtain food. They were skeletons, but afterwards became good hogs.

GEORGE W., born in 1811, in Bourbon county, Ky., came to Sangamon county in 1828. He went to LaFayette county, Mo., was engaged to be married, bought a farm of a man named James Bowman, made one payment on it, and had some money left. He was murdered for the money by Bowman, May 6, 1846. The murderer escaped, was captured two years later, and when within six miles of the county seat, one of the guards carelessly left a pistol in a pocket of his overcoat, which he hung up while partaking of his breakfast. The prisoner watched his opportunity, took the pistol and shot himself dead.

ELIJAH B., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Mary Heredith. They had seven children, four of whom died. GEORGE W. married Carrie Greening, and lives in Chatham township. JOHN and ELIJAH also live in Chatham township. The parents both died in 1853.

. NEAL, JAMES W., was born Sept. 26, 1806, in Bourbon county, Ky., and was married in Nicholas county, Jan. 4, 1827, to Mary Cassity. They had two children in Bourbon county, and moved, in company with her father, to Sangamon county, 111., arriving m the fall of 1830, in what is now Rochester township, where

JAMES H., born Sept. 5, 1838, in Sangamon county, married in Taylorville, Nov. 13, 1866, to Lizzie H. Moore. They had two children, NELLIE and MARY R. The latter died May 8, 1875, aged two years. James W. Neal resides at Lamar, Barton county, Mo. He was elected Treasurer of that county in the fall of 1872, for two years, and is a banker in Lamar.

James W. Neal died June 20, 1870, and his widow resides on the farm where the family settled in 1825, one mile west of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois - 1876.

Neal, Nathaniel

NEAL, NATHANIEL B., was born in Bourbon county, Ky., and came to Sangamon county in 1835 or '6. He was married in 1839 to Sarah A. King. Theyhad one child -

HENRT H., born Sept. 25, 1840, five miles northeast of Springfield. He enlisted April 1 6, 1861, on the first call for 75,000 men, for three months, in Co. F, 9th 111. Inf.; re-enlisted July 28, 1861, same company and regiment, for three years; -served full term, and was honorably discharged, Aug. 25, 1864, at Camp Butler. He was married Oct. 4, 1864, in Spi'ingfield, to Lorena Hill, a granddaughter of Philip Smith. They have four children, IDA B., ALVA, EVA, and a boy babe, and live four miles northwest of Chatham, on the old Starr farm. -1874.

Green, Ky. He enlisted there and served the latter part of the war with Great Britain which began in 1812. He studied law in Bowling Green, and early declai'ed himself opposed to slavery. He was married there in 1821 to Harriet Blakemore. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving at Springfield Nov. 26, 1824, where eight children were born. Of their children -

RICHARD D., born Feb. 22, 1826, in Springfield, married Mrs. Lucy Williams, whose maiden name was Patten. He died, leaving a widow and one child, JULIA C., who reside near Shelbyville, Illinois.

HARRIET B., born Nov. 29, 1830, in Springfield, married Hickison Grubbs, They have five children, FLORA K., NEVILLE C., FRANK P., ED~ WARD and HARRY, and reside in Springfield, Missouri.

SARAH M. married John Dugger. They have four children, JEFFERSON L., RICHARD N., PATTIE M. and WILLIAM, and reside in Carlinville, Illinois.

Gen. Tom M. Neale died Aug. 7, 1840, and his widow died Aug. 27, 1859 both in Springfield, 111. Gen. Neale was a lawyer by profession. He was the highest military officer from Sangamon county in the campaign against the Winnebago Indians in 1827, being the Colonel commanding the four infantry companies. He acted as Justice of the Peace for several years, and united many couples in marriage about the time of the "deep snow." Sometimes the only fee tendered him was a saddle of venison. Col. Neale surveyed and laid out into lots the land that was donated to secure the county seat at Springfield. See page j6. He was three times elected Count)' Surveyor, and held that office at the time of his death. Gen. Neale appointed Abraham .Lincoln his deputy when he was first elected County Surveyor.

NELSON, WILLIAM, came . from St. Clair county with Henry Funderburk, and settled on Horse creek in the spring of 1817, raised a family of seven children, and moved to Texas. His daughter, Nancy, married James Funclerburk. See his name. They live near Taylorville, Illinois.

Nesbitt, Samuel

NESBITT, SAMUEL G., was born August 18, 1808, in what is now Juniata county, Penn. Mary B. Turner was born Sept. 28, 1814, in the same county, and her parents moved into the adjoining county of Mifflin. Samuel G. Nesbitt and Mary B. Turner were there married, June 6, 1833. They had two children in Juniata county, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving June 26, 1837, a*- Springfield, and in a few weeks moved to Mechanicsburg, where one child was born. The family then moved to Decatur, where they had four children, and then moved back to Sangamon county, Clear Lake township, where four children were born. Of all their children -

MARTHA T., born Dec. 9, 1835, in Pennsylvania, was married March 20, 1 86 1, in Sangamon county, to Isaac O. Eyman, who was born May 20, 1837, in St. Clair county, 111. They have five living children, namely: LAURA E., CLARA E., LEWIS E., IDA A. and

WILLIAM CAMERON,\>orn May 8, 1838, at Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, enlisted in Co. E, I45th 111. Inf., and was mustered in, June 9, 1864, as ist Lieutenant, for one hundred days; served full term, and was honorably discharged, Sept. 23, 1864. He was married Feb. 23, 1865. to Sarah C. Bailey, who was born Oct. 14, 1845, in Hawkins county, Tenn. They have three children, CHARLES E., SAMUEL G. and MARY J., and live four miles north of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARGARET R., born Feb. 28, 1840, in Decatur, was married in Sangamon county, Jan. 3, 1867, to James W. Richardson, who was born April 22, 1841, in New Haven, Conn. They have four children, JENNIE B., MARY B., THOMAS and SAMUEL, and live in Clear Lake township, west of Sangamon river and north of Sugar creek. Mr. Richardson enlisted July 18, 1862, in Co. I, 114111 111. Inf., for three years, and served one year in the ranks. He was transferred, March 28, 1864, to the signal corps, and served as such to the end of the rebellion. He was honorably discharged at New Orleans, July 4, 1865.

HELEN M.} born May 8, 1844, in Decatur, raised in Sangamon county, was married in Decatur, Oct. 31, 1865, to John S. Windsor. They have three children, LILLIE B., MARY L. and HELEN M., and live at Mulberry, Clermont county, Ohio. J. S. Windsor was born Sept. 10, 1836, near Cincinnati, Ohio. He enlisted in Co. K, i i6th 111. Inf., and was mustered in, Dec. 30, 1862, as ist Lieutenant, promoted to Captain of Co. E, Jan. 31, 1863; promoted to Major, Sept. 26, 1864, and Lieutenant-Colonel, May 27, 1865. He was mustered out with the regiment, June 7, 1865.

Samuel G. Nesbitt learned the art of printing under Simon Cameron, in Pennsylvania. He was for many years connected with the Illinois State Journal office, but is now giving his attention entirely to farming. While living at Decatur he was elected to represent Macon county in the legislature of 1842. He acted with the Democratic party until 1861, when the rebellion broke out. From that time he acted with the Republican party. He served five years, from 1865 to 1870, as the representative of Clear Lake township in the Sangamon county Board of Supervisors, and now resides two and a half miles southeast of Riverton, Illinois.

NEWCOMER, CHRISTOP H E R, was born in Huntmgton county, Penn., Oct. 9, 1791. Susan Sells was born March 17, 1794, in the same county. They were married July i, 1813, in Franklin county, Ohio, and had five children there. The family moved to Sangamon county. 111., arriving Dec. 9, 1824, in what is now Woodside township, where they had five living children. Of their children -

CHARLES S., born in 1816, in Ohio, raised in Sangamon county, and died June 14, 1839, at the Galena lead mines, where he was engaged in smelting lead.

DOW, born May 26,1832, in Sangamon county, married Nancy M. Fry, who died Feb. 23, 1852, and he married July 4, 1854, to Catharine M. Brunk. They have two living children, CHARLES W. and MARY JOSEPHINE, and live on the farm settled hy Mr. Newcomer's father in 1824, in the southeast corner of Woodside township, seven miles southeast of Springfield, Illinois.

NEWMAN, HENRY, was born Aug. 18, 1787, in Baltimore, Md. In 1795 he was taken by his parents to Knox county, Tenn. During the war of 1812-13-14 with England, he served in three different companies; once for himself and twice in the place of relatives, who had been drafted. He was under Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. Henry Newman was married in Knox county, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1815, to Priscilla Plumlee, who was born May 13, 1791, in Burke county, North Carolina. They had seven children in Tennessee, and moved to Springfield, 111., arriving in Dec., 1828, where they had two living children. Of their nine children -

ELIZABETH E., born Jan. 9, 1817, in Knox county, Tenn., married July 13, 1858, in Springfield, to John Haines. They have one child, CHARLES HENRY, and reside in Cotton Hill township, near New City, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MINER VA W,, born April 29, 1820, in Knox county, Tenn., married April 26, 1839, in Springfield, Illinois, to Henry Teed, who was born in 1818 in Springfield, Mass. They had four children, one of whom was drowned at about fifteen years of age. The otherthree, ALBERT, MINERVA A. and CHARLES, live with their mother in San Francisco, Cal., whither the family went in 1852.

MARTALMIRA, born Feb. 3, 1822, in Knoville, Tenn., married Dec., 1842, in Springfield, 111., to Josiah Moore, a native of Hagarstown, Md. Mr. Moore died in 1857, and she died July, 1858. Their only living child, ANDREW J. Moore, lives in San Antonio, Texas.

JACOB S., born Jan. 6, 1825, in Knoxville, Tenn., raised in Sangamon county, and was assassinated by an unknown hand April 23, 1873, at Springfield, Missouri.

JOHN W., born Jan. u, 1826, in Knoxville, Tenn., raised in Springfield, married in St. Louis, Mo., May 13, 1852, to Caroline M. Field, who was born April 13, 1834, in Auburn, New York. They have three living children, HERBERT S., JOHN B. and ANNA G., and reside in Springfield. Mr. Newman is a member of the firm of Thompson & Newman, planing mill and door, sash and blind factory, Springfield, Illinois.

JOSEPH, PLUMLEE, born Nov. 18, 1827, in Springfield, enlisted in the 4th 111. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, and was killed at the battle of Cerro Gordo, Mexico, in 1847.

MART A., born April 15, 1831, in Springfield, married Nov., 1852, to William Fooshe. They had one living child, JOSEPH P., a machinist, and reside with his mother in Springfield.

NEWSOM, DAVID, was born Dec. 28, 1805, in Greenbrier county, Va. He was the youngest of twelve children, of William and Margaret Newsom, whose maiden name was Spicer. The father was of English and the mother of German parentage, but both born in Virginia. William Newsom died when his son David was seven years old. In his fourteenth year David was thrown upon his own resources, with four dollars in money, some clothes and a limited amount of education. He learned the tanner's trade in Gallipolis, Ohio, but never liked the business. He taught school two years in Meigs county, Ohio, and applied the proceeds in improving his own mind. He returned to Virginia, and was married July 12, 1827, in Monroe county, to Polly Houston. They had one child in Virginia, and in company with his father-inlaw moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Nov. 14, 1828. Mr. Newsom at one time owned and lived on what is now part of Oak Ridge Cemetery, but sold it at a large profit. He then entered land and made a farm near Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Newsom had nine children in

Sangamon county, 111., and in April, 1851, started overland for Oregon. One son was born on the road, and after a journey of six months arrived, Oct., 1851, at the Old Methodist Mission, founded in 1834, about ten miles northwest of the present city of Salem, Oregon. There he received a donation of 325 acres of land, upon which they made a farm, and where one child was born. Three of their children died young. Of the others -

JOHN W., born April 30, 1828, in Monroe county, Va., brought up in Sangamon county, 111., was married Dec. 21, 1865, in Oregon, to Olive Greenwood. They have two living children, MINNIE M. and ROY, and live near Salem, Oregon.

ROBERT L., born Jan. 22, 1832, in Sangamon county, Illinois, was married in 1856, in Hardinsburg, Ky., to Annie Lightfoot. They have five living children, WILLIAM WAVERLY, ALFRED LANDER, PERCY LEE, LUELLA and IRENE. R. L. Newsom is a druggist, and lives in Cloverport, Kentucky.

MARGARET 7., born in Sangamon county, 111., was married in Oregon, May 7, 1854, to Elisha Veazey, and died March 24, 1861, leaving four children, all died young but JAMES M., who lives with his father, near Gervais, Marion county, Oregon.

MART E., born April 2, 1841, in Sangamon county, 111., was married Dec. 23, 1857, in Oregon, to John W. Greenwood. They have four children, ALICE A., FANNIE, JOHN L. and WINNIE, and live near Salem, Marion county, Oregon.

ANN M., born Sept. 25, 1844, in Sangamon county, was married, Dec. 31, 1863, to J. P. Munkers, near Salem, Oregon. They have three living children, FRANK, LENA and IVY, and live near Heppner, Umatilla county, Oregon.

river, on the wagon road to Oregon. He was married Sept. 5, 1875, in Oregon, to Lauretta Williams. They are without family, and live at the homestead, ten miles northeast of Salem, Oregon.

David Newsom and wife are living in Marion county, Oregon, on the farm where they settled, Oct. 29, 1851. Mr. Newsom was always fond of literature, and is extensively known in western Oregon as an able writer on general topics. He was appointed by President Lincoln, Statistician for the Williamette valley, and served with honor until 1870, when he resigned in consequence of advancing years. He is engaged in farming and fruit growing. His address is Salem, Marion county, Ohio.

Nipper, Williamson

NIPPER, WILLIAMSON, was born Sept. 19, 1796, in Virginia. His father moved to Alabama when he was twelve or fifteen years of age, and from there to the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn. He was there married to Nancy Moore She had twins, and the mother and children died. He was then married to Hepsey Gibson, who was born Feb. 14, 1803, in Franklin county, Tenn. They had three children, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1829, about one mile east of the present town of Loami, where six children were born. Of all the children -

ELIZA C., born Oct. 26, 1823, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county, March 19, 1844, to George W. Legrand. He was born March 12, 1823, in Breckenridge county, Ky., and came to Sangamon county in 1843. They had eleven children, six of whom died young. Of the other five: SARAH married Oct. 19, 1867, to R. Wickliffe Price, who was born Feb. 11, 1825, at Georgetown, Ky., have three children, ROBERT w., PHILEMON BIRD and CHARLES w., and live near Loami. Mr. Price is a lawyer. WILLIAMSON A., ROBERT M., 12LSIE M. and LUCY A. live with their parents, five miles west of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

NANCT F., born March 16, 1825, in Tennessee, married Miles Meaciham, in Sangamon county, had four children, and died in Warren county, Illinois.

1835. in Sangamon county, married Mary Staley. They had one child, NANCY M. F., and Mrs. Mary Nipper died. W. M. Nipper married Louisa Cline, who was born Oct. 22, 1840, in Scott county, 111. They have three children, ELMIRA S., PHILIP and JOSEPH W., and live four miles west of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Williamson Nipper died August 24, 1843, and his widow married Daniel Staley, (see his name] and she died Mai'. 8, 1873, both near Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Norred, Richard

was born about 1795 in London county, Va., married in Frederick county, Md., to Elizabeth Jenkins; moved to Ohio, and from there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1836. They had children in Maryland, Ohio and Sangamon county. The parents and most of the children died in Sangamon county. One son, only, lives in the county.

NORRED, MARY A., sister to William and Richard C. Norred, was born ir,i London county, Va., came to Sangamon county, 111., and married John A. Miller. Sec his name.

NORRED, WILLIAM, was born March 9, 1809, in London county, Va. He was married in 1834 in that county to Elizabeth E. Dowdall, who was born there March 9, 1814. They lived in Frederick county, Md., until they had two children, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov. 6, 1838, and settled three miles northeast of Rochester, at the mills of Darling & Baker, where a child was born. Of their three children -

CHARLES H., born Jan. 19, 1842, in Sangamon county. He was a medical student, but laid aside his books in Aug., 1862, and enlisted in Co. - . ii4th 111. Inf. He was placed in charge of a medical dispensary for the regiment, and later, of a hospital, served until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged, attended McDowell College at St. Louis, and graduated there. He was married in Logan county to Elizabeth Dalbey. They have two children, CHARLES ELMER and WILLIAM ASBURY. Dr. Norred commenced practice at Dawson, but removed to Middletown, Logan county, where he now resides.

Mrs. Elizabeth E. Norred died Sept. i, 1843, in Sangamon county, and William Norred was married in 1845, m London county, Va., to Mary Ann Daneil, who was born in that county, April 22, 1820. She died Oct. 21, 1851, leaving one child -

William Norred was married Dec. 18, 1853, in Sangamon county, to Mrs. Martha Dowdall, whose maiden name was Enlow, a native of Washington county, Pa. She has one child by her first marriage, Silas R. Dowdall. Mr. and Mrs. Norred have four children -

Fenton M., Lauretta Sangamon Coujmty

NORRIS, AQUILLA, was born Jan. i, 1776, near Baltimore, Md. He was there married to Eleanor Norris. They had eight children in Maryland, three of whom died young, and Edward, the eldest, died there Aug. 30, 1830, aged nineteen years. The parents, with four children, came to Sangamon county, arriving in Round Prairie, six miles east of Springfield, in April, 1835. Of their four children -

JAMES L., born July 18, 1813, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county, Oct/i7, 1841,10 Sarah E. Cole. They had one living child, PRISCILLA, who married Jesse Estes, has five children, and lives in Winchester, Scott county, Illinois. James L. Norris and wife live near Cotton Hill Postoffice, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHN, born Oct. 17, 1814, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 17, 1841, to Mary W. Cole. The two brothers and sisters were married by the same ceremony. John Norris was a soldier in the Springfield Cadets, was on duty at Nauvoo, in the Mormon war, and was shot dead accidentally, Sept. 28, 1844. His widow married John Fagan. See his name.

Norris, Elizabeth

NORRIS, ELIZABETH, was born March 22, 1776, near Baltimore, Maryland. She was sister to Mrs. Eleanor Norris. She died Dec. 20, 1872, in Springfield, at the house of A. R. Robinson. She was nearly ninety-six years of age, and never married.

NORTH, JOHN, born Nov. 22, 1806, near the village of Bent creek, on James river, Buckingham county, Va. His grandfather, Richard North, was born in England, and trained to the business of a cutler. He came to America, and worked at his business at Bent creek. His wife's maiden name was Thornton, but whether they were married in England or America is unknown to their de- -69 scendants. Their third son, Peter, born in Virginia, was married there to Elizabeth Franklin, a daughter of Robert Franklin, of Campbell county, Va. Peter North was a soldier from Virginia in the war with England in 1812. In 1819 or '20 he moved to Jefferson county, near Dandridge, Tenn., taking with him six children. The second son, John, whose name heads this sketch, was there married, Sept. 22, 1828, to Anna Giger, who was born Nov. 4, 1807, in that county. They came to Sangamon county, III., arriving April 12, 1829, in what is now Cooper township, north of Sangamon river, where they had four living children. Of their children -

BENJ. HOUSTON, born Nov. 19, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 15, 1855, to Minerva A. F. Miller, who was born May 18, 1836, in Loudon county, Va. They have three children, JOHN H., MARY A. and ALMEDA S., and live in Cooper township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

HARVET N., born Jan. 26, 1835, married Nov. 13, 1856, to Sarah E. Prather. They have four children, TONY, EMERY, CLYDE and PETER, and live in Christian county, four miles northeast of Breckenridge, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHN W., born Nov. 9, 1837, in Sangamon county. He enlisted August 7, 1862, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf., for three yeai's, was captured Sept. 20, 1863, at the battle of Chickamauga, taken to Richmond, Va., was one month in Libby prison, thence to Danville, Va., thence to Andersonville, Ga., arriving at that prison pen March 20, 1864, where he remained to Dec., 1864. He was then taken to Charleston, S. C., where he spent six weeks in prison, thence to Florence, S. C., where he was released on parole, and started from Wilmington, N. C., March 4, 1865, for home, via Annapolis, Md., and reached home March 17, 1865, and was honorably discharged. John L. Hesser, relating his prison experience, speaks of John W. North as " a man of peculiar form or stature, six feet four inches in height, two hundred and ten pounds in weight, and a heart in proportion. In Andersonville he generally went by the name of The Infant. He was very kind and obliging to all the sick and weakly souls; never allowed any imposition on those poor, feeble forms who were not able to defend themselves. We lived as two brothers, commingled our sorrows together for eighteen dreary months, never were separated but one night during our imprisonment. * * * Lived through -all the trying and heart-rending scenes of the many kinds of disease and death, where so many more died than lived, astonished that even one could live." John W. North was married March 8, 1866, to Maria McDauiel. They had three children, LOU IDA, ANN ELIZABETH and GERTIE LEE, and live two and a half miles south of Mechanicsburg, Illinois.

Mrs. Anna North died Feb. 24, 1844, and John North was married Sept. 19, 1844, to Susannah Eckel. They had six children; all died under five years. Mrs. Susannah North died July 1,1855, and John North was married Feb. 19, 1856, to Mrs. Amelia Woodruff, who had previously been. Mrs. West, and whose maiden name was Taylor. They had four children, PETER F. died in his second year. ROBERT F., born Mar. 31, 1859, EDWARD E., born Jan. 14, 1861, and PERMELIA A., born Jan. 24, 1864. John North resides on the farm where he settled in 1829, three miles south of Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Illinois.

NORTH, ROBERT, was born in Oct., 1814, in Buckingham county, Va., and taken by his parents to Jefferson county, Tenn., when he was a boy. He came to Sangamon county with his brother, John North, who had been back to Tennessee. They arrived in Sept., 1832, in what is now Cooper township. Robert North was married in Sangamon county March 29, 1838, to America Schmick. She was born Feb. 10, 1816, in Lincoln county, Ky., and came to Sangamon county in company with her mother, brother-in-law - John demons, one brother, two sisters and two nephews, arriving in the fall of 1829, and settled three miles south of Springfield. Robert North and wife had six living children in Sangamon county. Of their children -

They have two children, WILLIAM R. and SUSAN E., and reside two miles southwest of Clarksville, or Berry station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Belle N., James E., Charles

SARAH J., born Nov. 17, i8||, married May 22, 1862, to David C. Herrin. See his name. They had five children, ROBERT E., JAMES W., GEORGE E., DAVID A. and JESSIE LEE; the youngest died Jan. 23, 1875.

ALBERT, born. April 7, 18=54, mar' ried Dec. 31, 1873,10 Mary A. Lord, who was born fan. 10, 1852, in Sangamon county. They live three-fourths of a mile east of Clarksville, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Robert North and wife reside two miles northeast of Berry station or Clarksville, Sangamon county, Illinois. He is one of the most extensive farmers in Sangamon county.

NOTTINGHAM, JONATHAN, was born Sept. 25, 1808, in Cape May county, New Jersey. Clark Nottingham emigrated from England, and settled in Delaware, about 1760. He moved to New Jersey soon after the Revolution, and raised a family. His son Jonathan was Colonel of a New Jersey regiment in the war of 1812. He was there married, and was the father of the subject of this sketch. Jonathan Nottingham number two was married, Jan. 30, 1 83 1 , to Hannah Smith, who was born July 10, 1807, in the same county. Th .-y had four children in New Jersey, and moved to Sangamon countv, Illinois, arriving in Oct., 1837, and stopped south of Richland creek, where they lived two years, and in the spring of 1840 moved to a farm he had purchased, two and one-half miles northwest of Pleasant Plains. Seven children were born in Sangamon county. Of their children -

FRANCIS A., born June 22, 1837, in New Jersey, raised in Sangamon county, went to Pike's Peak, in 1858, and now lives in Mendocino county, California.

ALMARIN, born March 31, 1840, in Sangamon county. Served three years in the ist Oregon Cavalry, and was honorably discharged. He is a stock dealer at Oskaloosa, Kansas.

CLARKE, born Feb. 26, 1842, in Sangamon county, married in Dayton, Ohio, in May, 1873, to Annie Christian, and lives two and one-half miles northwest of Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

Mrs. Hannah Nottingham died July 9, 1850, and Jonathan Nottingham was married, Aug., 1852, in Cape May county, N. J., to Mrs. Mary A. Townsend, whose maiden name was Sutton. Jonathan Nottingham resides on the farm where he settled in 1840, two miles northwest of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.

NUCKOLLS, JAMES, was born Jan. 5, 1777, in Botetourt county, Va., and the family moving to Grayson county, same State, he was there married Jan. 5, 1804, to Janey Swift, who was born March 2, 1781, in that county. They had six children in Virginia, and in

1818 moved to Madison county, Illinois, where they had one child, and moved to what became Sangamon county, arriving in 1820, in what is now Auburn township, where they had one child. Of their children -

CHARLES D., born March 2, 1805, in Grayson county, Va., was married March 10, 1832, in Sangamon county, to Mary Wilson, who was born Jan. 3, 1812, in Buncombe county, N. C. They had eight children in Sangamon county. MARGARET J., born March 19, f833, married Richard Ricks, and both died, leaving one child, MANFORD j. THOMAS J., born Dec. 6,1834, was married Jan. 19, 1871, to Martha A. Brunk. They have three children, LILLY JANE, LUCY M. and GEORGE T; the latter died Feb. 10, 1876. T. J. Nuckolls lives in Auburn township, near where his grandfather settled in 1820. JAMES M., born Dec. 28, 1836, married iNancy Drennan, and died August 24, 1866, leaving one child, LAURA MAY, who lives with her mother. Mrs. Nancy Nuckolls married James M. Bennington. See his name.. JOHN W., born March 30, 1838, married Louisa Pyle. They have three children, MARY M., CHARLES F. and MILLY ANN, and live four miles west of Pawnee, 111. GEORGE W., born April 23, 1843, lives with his mother. MARY E., born Sept. 28, 1845, married William R. Lockridge. See his name. CHARLES Wm., born May 27, 1848, married Margaret J. Moore. They have one child, MINNIE, and live six miles east of Auburn, Illinois. Charles D. Nuckolls was a farmer and builder in early life. In the early settlement of Springfield he was engaged in the leather business. He purchased a lot at the southeast corner of Sixth and Washington streets for twelve dollars, and several years later sold it to Sangamon county for twelve hundred dollars. A court house was built on it, which was occupied as such from -1845 to 1876. Late in life Mr. C. D. NuckolLs studied medicine, and graduated in 1856, at McDowell College, St. Louis, Mo. He practiced several years, and died Nov. 19, 1865. His widow lives four miles east of Aubui'n.

MARY, born Jan. 6, 1809, in Grayson county, Va., was married in Sangamon county, 111., to Alfred Curry, who died, and she married Jesse Elgin. They live in Pana, Illinois.

JOHN,\>orn March 24, 1817, in Grayson county, Va., was married in Sangamon county, 111., to Elizabeth Ricks. They had one child, MYRA J., who died, aged seventeen years. Mrs. Elizabeth Nuckolls died, and John Nuckolls married Adaline Rice, and lives at the family homestead settled by his father in 1820, four miles east of Auburn.

ANN, born August 23, 1822, in Sangamon county, was married there, in 1843, to William Graham. He was drowned in July, 1844, while attempting to cross a stream of water in Christian county. His widow was married July 30, 1849, to Thomas P. Bond, who was born July 11, 1812, in Burton county, N. C., raised in Kentucky, came to Montgomery county, Illinois, in 1835. In 1839, he, in company with G. R. Jernigan and Wm. S. Ricks, circulated a petition, obtained the requisite number of signatures, and Mr. Bond took it to Vandalia, presented it to the legislature, and secured the passage of the law creating Dane county, which was afterwards changed to Christian coiuity. In 1848 he was elected to fill an unexpired term as county clerk, and then to a full term ; was elected in 1868 to an unexpired term as county treasurer, and then to a full term. Thomas P. Bond acquired the title of Col jnel by being elected to that position in the State Militia in 1840. Mr. Bond has two daughters by a former marriage, both married. One resides in Nebraska, the other at Fairplay, Park county, Col.

Mrs. Janey Nuckolls died June 15, 1836, and James Nuckolls died Sept. 15, 1859, both on the farm where they settled in 1820. It is five miles east of Auburn.

NUCKOLLS, JOHN, born March, 1781, in Hanover county, Va., was married March 10, 1809, in Grayson county, Va., to Ann Collins, who was born Dec. II, 1786, in North Carolina. They had ten children, three of whom died young. They moved with five children to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1826, in what is now Auburn township, where his, brother James had settled six years befqre. They had two children in Sangamon county. Of their seven children -

CLARK, born Feb. 22, 1811, in Grayson county, Va., was married in Sangamon county April 30, 1835, to Orlena Shellhouse. Clark Nuckolls died Oct. 5, 1854, in Christian county.

John H., Sarah N., James A.

CHARLES, born Dec. n, 1822, in Grayson county, Va., was married in Sangamon county Aug. 29, 1849, to Cassandra Clayton, who was born Feb. 8, 1832. They had three children, AMANDA E., "M." and EMILY % Mrs. Cassaranda Nuckolls was killed by lightning May 25, 1858. Charles Nuckolls was married Oct. 19, 1858, to Susan Baker, who was born Jan., 1832, in Bertie county, North Carolina, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., in 1850. They have seven children, CHARLES S., JOHN H., SARAH N., JAMES A., LYDIA M., ROBERT J. and WILLIAM W. Charles Nuckolls and family reside near Auburn, Illinois.

John W., James M., Thomas J.

JAMES D., born Dec. 22, 1824, in Grayson county, Va., was married in Sangamon county March 22, 1849, to Lydia Easley. They had six children, JOHN W., JAMES M., THOMAS J., EMMA A., WARHAM E. and CHARLES D. Mrs. Lydia Nuckolls died in Missouri, and J. D. Nuckolls was

JANE, born Jan. 2, 1828, in Sangamon county, was married there March 26, 1846, to James Blount, who was born Aug. 8, 1822, in Tennessee. They had three children: JOHN, born Dec. 25, 1849, in Sangamon county, and JAMES H., born Jan. 22, 1851, in Sangamon county, both live in Edinburg; IDA M., born March 28, 1857, was niarr"ied April 7, 1874, to Thomas Bell, who was born April 5, 1841, in Champaign county, Ohio. They live in Edinburg, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Blount reside in Edinburg, Christian county, Illinois.

John Nuckolls died Aug. 2, 1844, in Sangamon county, and his widow, Mrs. Ann Nuckolls, resides with her children in Ball and Pawnee township. She is in her ninetieth year, and enjoys excellent health - March, 1876.

OG DEN. - Two brothers, John and Joseph Ogden, were born and married in Maryland. John moved to Logan county, Ky., and raised a family there. Several years later, Joseph died in Maryland. John moved the family of his brother Joseph to Grayson county, Ky. John's daughter -

OGDEN, ZACHARIAH, was born Nov. n, 1794, near Frederick City, St. Mary's county, Maryland. His father died there when he was quite young, and his mother moved to Washington county, Kentucky. Zachariah was married, in 1815, in Grayson county, to Elizabeth Peerce. They had six children in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct 13, 1827, in what is now Ball township, where they had five children. Of their children -

JAMES, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Jane Ogden. They had six children in Sangamon county, four of whom died, namely: ELIZABETH, at seventeen; MARY A., at two; SARAH M., in infancy, and ZACHARIAH P., in his thirteenth year. JAMES WM. and JOSEPH RAMES live with their father. Mrs. Jane Ogden died May 28, 1869, and James Ogden lives one and one-quarter miles southwest of Pawnee, Illinois.

' WILLIAM L., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Eliza J. Davis, who died, Jan., 1842, leaving one child. He married Lucy Durbin. They had six children. Mr. Ogden died, May i, 1858, and Mrs. Ogden died, June 9, 1869, and all the children are dead except three. MIRANDA I. lives with her uncle, J. B. Ogden. ELIZABETH A. lives with J. T. Burtle, Sen., and MARGARET M. with her uncle, James Ogden.

JOSEPH B., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Mary E. Brawner. They had five living children. MARY M. married James Shively, has one child, DORA, and lives in Pawnee township. BETTANEY E., JAMES W., ANN E. and SARAH M. live with their parents, one mile southwest of Pawnee, Illinois.

JOHN C., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Minerva J. Clayton. He died, July, 1850, leaving a widow and one child, JAMES HARDIN,. The widow married, and lives in Missouri.

FRANCIS M., born in 1830, in Sangamon county, married Elizabeth Durbin. They had two children, ZACHARIAH and JAMES M. Mrs. Ogden died, and he married Maria Riney, has four children, SUSAN E., EDNA F., GERTRUDE I. and FANNIE B., and livefour miles southeast of Pawnee, Illinois.

Mrs. Elizabeth Ogden died, October 4, 1858, and Zachariah Ogden died Aug. 4, 1869, and were both buried at St. Bernard Catholic church, Sangamon county, Illinois.

O'NEAL, SAMUEL, was born Oct. n, i8n,in Kentucky, and came to Sangamon county, 111., when he was a young man. He married three times, and his wives all died. His son -

JAMES HENRY, disappeared very mysteriously. He left a wife, but no children. After the death of his father, advertisements were kept in the papers for two years, in order to ascertain where he was, that he might obtain his proportion of his father's estate. At the end of that time, his debts were paid from it, and the remainder divided among the other heirs. Samuel O'Neal's daughter -

SARAH, married Jan. 6, 1862, to Charles H. Willison. She died May 8, 1864, leaving one child, MARY E., who lives with her father. He married Sarah J. Henkle. See Jacob Henkle.

OROAN, MICAJAH, was born Sept. 14, 1793, near Nicholasville, Jessamine county, Kentucky. He was married Dec. 1 8, 1817, to Susannah Donner, a sister of George and Jacob Donner. They had five children in Kentucky, one of whom, WILLIAM R., died, at eight years of age. The family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the autumn of 1828, on German Prairie, five miles northeast of Springfield, and in 1829 moved to what is now Auburn township, where they had six living children. Of their children - to Mary Foster. They had five children, MINERVA J., SARAH F., WILLIAM, IDA and LESLIE. Mrs. Mary Organ died, and he married Mrs. Wyatt, whose maiden name was Jacobs. They have one child, EFFIE M., and live in Virden, Illinois.

HEZEKIAH B., born April i, 1825, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Catharine A. Gates. They have three children, DAVID, ANDREW and GEORGE A., and live five miles southwest of Auburn, Illinois.

Charles, William, Micajah

DANIEL F., born April 16, 1829, in Sangamon county, Illinois, married Elizabeth Kossner, have five children, CHARLES, WILLIAM, MICAJAH, ATHA M. and FRANK, and live near Longton, Elk county, Kansas.

JORDANS.,\>orn August 16, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Mai'garet ret C. Wineman, daughter of Philip Wineman. They have two children, IVY JANE and LELIA GRACE. Jordan S. Organ has for several years represented Auburn township in the Board of Supervisors of Sangamon county. He resides two miles south of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

THOMAS H., born Dec. 11, 1834, in Sangamon county, married Hannah J. Brown. They have six children, WALTER, CHARLES S., SUE A., JENNIE M., MILLIE and DAISEY, and reside in Pontiac, Livingston county, Illinois.

OPDYCKE, STACY B., born Jan. i, 1795, at New Castle, New Jersey, learned the trade of a carpenter there, and went to K; skaskia, 111., in 1816, walking nearly the whole distance. He was married in Kaskaskia, April 25, 1833, to Hannah G. Griffith, who was born Feb. u, 1804, in Pennsylvania. She was a daughter of Dr. Thomas Griffith, of Tazewell county, 111., and sister of Mrs. Charlotte Pricket, of Springfield, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Opdycke moved from Kaskaskia, Randolph county, to Chester, in the same county, where they had one child, and from there to Springfield, 111., in 1835, where three children were born, two of whom died young. Of their two children -

OVERSTREET, JOHN, was born in 1784 or '5, in Bedford county, Va. His father, John Overstreet, was born in 1758, in the same county, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary army during the whole seven years war for Independence. In 1783 he was married to Nancy Dabney. They had four children in Bedford county, and moved to Cabell county, West Virginia, and died there. His son, whose name heads this sketch, was married in Cabell county to Susan Roberts. He became a soldier in the war with England, in 1812. While m the army, he heard that his wife had been killed by Indians, and soon after was himself captured by Indians. Not long after his capture the Indians were preparing to burn him alive, and while doing so one of their number offered him such a gross insult that he knocked the savage down and he fell in the fire prepared to burn his victim. This act of brave daring in the face of death, inspired the other Indians with respect, and a feeling that he was too noble to be thus treated, and they saved his life. He was next sold and taken to Canada, where he fell into the hands of white men, with whom he was retained for a few years in rather easy restraint, and by the time he had gained his liberty, he had formed attachments, and married there. One £hild was born, and the wife and child died. Finding himself once more alone in the world, a yearning desire for the scenes of his younger days sprang up, and he returned to Cabell county, Virginia. He paid his first visit to the old cabin where he had spent the years of his early married life. Seeing the smoke curling up from the chimney, he sauntered, half dreamily, to the door, and without having framed any excuse for his visit he knocked at the door, and after a short pause it turned on its rude wooden hinges, and the wife of his youth stood before him! Having long before given him up for dead, his sudden appearance in bodily form was more than she could bear, and she sunk in a swoon. Mr. Overstreet soon discovered that she had another husband, and when she revived, the three held a council. The two husbands agreed to leave it for her to say which should be her husband, each giving his word that if he was rejected, he would go away and offer no annoyance to the favored one. She decided to retain her first love. The rejected husband, true to his word, bade them adieu, disappeared, and they never heard of him again. Mr. and Mrs. Overstreet came to Sangamon county, in 1819, and settled not far from where Athens now stands. A few years later, being a millwright, he built a horse mill at Athens, manufactured flour, loaded a small flat boat, in the Sangamon river, and with two brothers, Jesse G. and David Hurt, floated down the Sangamon into the Illinois, thence to the Mississippi river, and down that stream to New Orleans. The trip was a successful one, but Mr. Overstreet died in New Orleans, in 1835. The two brothers started home, and David died at the mouth of the Ohio river. Jesse G. Hurt, the only survivor, is yet living, and resides in Menard county. He married a niece of Mr. Overstreet. See name of Dabnay Overstreet. Mr. Overstreet was for several years a local preacher in the M. E. church. His widow died in Athens in 1869, in her seventy- fourth year.

Overstreet, Dabney

Bedford county, Va., and married in Greenhrier county to Jennie Rogers. They had seven children in Virginia, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1830, where seven children were born. Of their children, I can give the sketches of two, only -

NELLIE, born in Virginia, married in Illinois to Jesse G. Hurt. They had eleven children, and she died. Mr. Hurt and the children live near Athens, Menard county, Illinois.

JOHN, born Oct. 10, 1819, in Cabell county, West Virginia, married May n, 1839, in Sangamon county, to Rachel Cantrall. They had four living children. LOUISA J., born May n, 1841, in Sangamon county, married Henry F. Shepherd. See his name. JAMES W., born Feb. 5, 1844, married Mrs. Martha E. Dunlap. She had one child by her first marriage, JANE DUNLAP. They had three children, JENNIE, MARY and NELLIE - and live near Cantrall. ELIZABETH A., born June 13, 1848, married Dec. 5, 1866, to Sebastian B. Shepherd. See his name. JOHN T., born Nov. 15, 1851, married Dec. 2f, 1872, to Maggie Brenan, and live in Ford county, Illinois. John Overstreet and wife reside two miles north of Cantrall, Sangamon county, Illinois - 1874.

OWEN, THOMAS J. V., was born July 23, 1824, in Kaskaskia, Illinois. His grandfather, Major Ezra Owen, was born March 17, 1770, in Halifax county, Virginia, we t to Kentucky when a young man, and fought the Indians with Daniel Boons. In 1809, the year the Territorial government was organized, he moved with his family from Kentucky to Kaskaskia, Illinois. His eldest son, Thomas J. V. Owen, born in Kentucky, was married in Kaskaskia, July 15, 1823, to Emeline Hotchkiss. Their eldest son is the one whose name heads this sketch. His brother William, enlisted in Springfield, in 1862, in Co. M, 2d 111. Art., was wounded at Rogerville, Tenn., captured and taken to Libby prison, where he starved to death. His brother, George S , was assassinated in Randolph county in 1864, during the rebellion. His brother, Elias K., entered the U. S. Navy in 1848, was taken from Springfield by Abraham Lincoln, at that time member of congress fiom this district. He is yet in the navy.

He married, in Kaskaskia, to Sarah Jane Riley, and resides in Baltimore, Maryland. - 1875. Thomas J. V. Owen, Sen., was a member of the legislature in 1831, and during that year was appointed Indian agent in Chicago, where he died Oct. 15, 1835. Thomas J. V. Owen, the subject of our sketch, was educated at St. Mary's college, Perry ville, Mo., and came to Springfield, June 4, 1840, where he commenced the study of medicine. He went with Gen. Ford's army to Nauvoo, at the time the Mormon prophet, Smith, was killed, 'in 1844. In 1846 he went to Bloomington, Illinois, and aided in organizing Co. B, 4th Illinois Infantry, was enrolled hospital Steward, and afterwards appointed assistant Surgeon to the regiment. He served the full term of the regiment in Mexico, returned to Springfield, and engaged in the drug business. He was married Aug 15, 1848, in Jacksonville, Illinois, to Mary Eliza Hurst, eldest daughter of William t. Hurst, of that city. They had two children -

WILLIAM H., born Feb. 6, 1852, in Springfield, was married Dec. 17, 1874, in Taylorville, 111., to Jeanette Denton, who was born there, Nov. 10, 1852. They have one child, WILLIAM H., and reside in Taylorville, Illinois.

Thomas J. V. Owen died March 19, 1876, at Decatur, 111. His remains were brought to Springfield, and buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Soon after his death his widow moved to Springfield, Illinois, where she now resides. Mrs. Emeline Owen, the mother of T. J. V. Owen, Jun., lives with his widow, in Springfield.

PARKS, BEAUMONT, was born Jan., 1775, in Norwich, Conn. He was an orphan at twelve years of age, and resolved to educate himself. In order to obtain the means to do so, he began trading with the French Canadians and Indians. He worked his way out, in company with his brother-in-law, Rev.

Mr. Bacon, father of Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. D., of New Haven, Conn., through the rivers and lakes, from Vermont to the region of Georgian Bay and Lake Huron. As winter approached, he commenced building a house with the intention of remaining in it until spring. He was discovered by Col. Dunham, commander of the U. S. Fort, at Michilimacinac. Col. Dunham was astonished at seeing a boy of fourteen or fifteen years preparing to winter alone in that inhospitable region, and enquired what he was aiming to do. On being told by young Parks that he was trying to raise money to defray the expense of an education, Col. Dunham offered him a home in his own family, with the promise of assisting him in his purpose. He accepted the kind proposition, went to the Fort and remained there between three and four years. During that time his savings amounted to about $80. Expressing his determination to set out for College, Col. Dunham sent some friendly Indians to accompany him a portion of the distance. He traveled in a birch canoe through the upper lakes and portions of Canada, and thence east. When he had gone about two-thirds of the distance, he was taken sick with small pox, and was compelled to travel alone until he could find shelter, although he was then in a part of the country more or less settled by white men. At Montreal, a French Canadian took him in and nursed him for nearly a month, until he was able to pursue his journey. His savings were now reduced to about thirty dollars, but his hospitable friend would not receive anything for his trouble. His exhausted condition required the expenditure of more money, and when he arrived at his destination his money had all vanished. Notwithstanding so much time was lost, after a journey of one thousand six hundred miles, he found himself at Dartmouth College, a stranger, and destitute. Yet he boldly knocked at the doors of that institution of learning for admittance. That was about the year 1798. By diligent study while in the family of Col. Dunham, he was enabled to teach the lower branches. He then made arrangements to continue teaching in summer and attend college in the winter, and prosecuted his studies while teaching, so as not to fall behind in his - 70 class. He was thus enabled to defray his expenses, with some aid furnished by Col. Dunham., and in that way went through college on equal terms with Daniel Webster, Levi Woodbury - the latter of whom was his class-mate - and other world-wide celebrities. After passing through college he entered the law office of Judge Slade, of Middlebury, Vt., and in due time was admitted to the bar. He was married in 1811, at Windsor, Vt., to Nancy Conant. He ^ soon acquired a large and lucrative practice, which he held for about ten years, when - however others might think - he became convinced that it was impossible to be a successful lawyer and a thoroughly honest man. That, with other causes, induced him to abandon his practice and move west. He left Vermont, and in August, 1821, landed at Madison, Ind., where he opened an academy for the education of young men, which was one of the earliest institutions of the kind established west of the Allegheny mountains, and probably the first school in the State of Indiana where the Greek and Latin languages were tanght. It was attended by many who have become distinguished at the bar, on the bench, and in the councils of the nation, such as the Hendricks, Sullivans, Brights, Sheets, Cravens, and many others. After ten years success in Madison, he was appointed Professor of languages in the Indiana State University, at Bloomington, and was in that position about seven years. He came to Springfield, 111., in the autumn of 1840, and at once opened a private school or academy, which was generally supported by all the leading citizens, and many of the students have become distinguished in the learned professions, in politics and business. When the city schools of Springfield were organized on the pi'esent plan, he was the first Superintendent, and continued teaching in Springfield for nearly twenty years, when old age caused him to relinquish his chosen field. Mr. and Mrs. Parks had four children in Vermont, one of whom died there, and five in Indiana, one of whom died there. Of the other seven children -

SUSAN, born Dec., 1812, in Vermont, was married Dec. 29, 1832, in Indiana, to John Bennett. They moved to Liberty, Mo., and she died there in March, 1852. Of their children, WARWICK S. went to California about the close of the rebellion, and has not been heard from since. RICHARD married, and died from a wound received in the Kansas troubles. FRORENCE J. was married in 1856 to George Challis. They have several children, and reside in Atchison, Kansas. BEAUMONT J. married in Atchison, Kansas. Himself, his wife and his father moved to Colorado, and reside on a dairy farm. FRANK W. was married near Auburn, Illinois, to Sarah J. Davidson. They have one child, EDITH, and reside near Mt. Liberty, Reno county, Kansas. LILLIE is the youngest of the family.