Sangamon County, Illinois - The whole text, 1876 (part 22 of 31)

NANCY C., born Feb. 5, 1818, in Vermont, was married in Springfield, Jan. 28, 1852, to Rev. Joseph E. McMurray, of the Presbyterian church. They had four children, ALICE B., EDWARD P., THOMAS B. and WALTER S. The latter died young. Rev. Mr. McMurray died Jan. 27, 1868, at Cerro Gordo, Piatt county, 111. His widow and children reside in Auburn, Illinois.

SAMUEL C., born March 25, 1820, in Windsor, Vermont, came to Springfield, 111., in 1840, six months before his parents. He was married Nov. 13, 1853, in Logan county, 111., to Elizabeth A. Turley. They have four children, LULA H., HENRY C., SAMUEL C., Jim., and MARY L. and reside in Lincoln, 111. Samuel C. Parks was appointed, March, 1863, by President Lincoln, Associate Judge of the U. S. Court for the Territory of Idaho. He discharged the duties of the office until May, 1865, when he resigned and returned to Lincoln. He was elected one of the delegates representing the district composed of Logan and Sangamon counties, in the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1870. Judge Parks is now a practicing lawyer at Lincoln, Illinois.

7^HOMAS S., born May 22, 1822, at Madison, Ind., married in Sangamon county, Oct. 23, 1851, to Nancy C. Poley. They have four children. L^TITIA is now (1876) in the second year of her course at Illinois Female College, at Jacksonville. SAMUEL is a clerk in his uncle Isaac Poley's bank, at Auburn. MINNIE and MARY ; all four live with their parents. Thomas S. Parks taught school in SangamoiMxnmty eleven years. He is a farmer,

ELIZA A., born Dec. 15, 1825, at Madison, Indiana, was married in Springfield to Stephen Conkling. She died at Leroy, McLean county, 111., in 1859.

L^TITIA, born Dec. 25, 1835, in Blootnington, Ind., married in Springfield, 111., in 1857, to Dr. Albert H. Lanphear, a native of New York. They have two children, ALBERT MOTT and SAMUEL P., and reside in Atchison, Kansas. Dr. Lanphear is practicing his profession there.

After Professor Beaumont Parks retired from teaching he resided a few years in Springfield, and then determined to spend the remainder of his days in the families of his children. Mrs. Parks died at Cerro Gordo, 111., Sept. u, 1865. Prof. Parks continued active and energetic to the last day of his life, and died April 8, 1870, without an hour of sickness, at the residence of his son, Judge S. C. Parks, in Lincoln, 111., and was buried at that place.

PARK, JOHN, born about 1762, in county Antrim, Ireland. Sarah Mayben was born in Ireland also. They were both brought to America when quite young, without any knowledge of each other. They were married in South Carolina, and had nine children there, one of whom died young. The family moved to that part of Logman county which afterwards became Todd county, Ky., and from there to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Nov. 28, 1828, at Island Grove. Four of their children were married in Kentucky, but all came with them to Sangamon county. Of their children -

THOMAS, born in South Carolina, was married, Jan. 19, 1813, in Kentucky, to Jane Mayben. They had seven children there, and moved, in 1828, to Sangamon county, 111., where one child was born. They moved to Morgan county, III, in 1831. Of all their children - One died young. JOHN J., born Nov. 18, 1814, was married April 4, 1839, in Morgan county, 111., to Jane E. Caldwell, who was born in Nicholas county, Ky. They had seven children in Morgan county, and

- They have two children, Fannie L. and Carrie. C. H. Knapp died in Macon county, in 1867, and his widow was married, Dec. 14, 1869, to John Carder, of Ohio. Thej have one child, Josie E. SARAH A., born Aug. 29, 1844, was married, July i, 1875, to L. R. Tracy. DAVID

SAMUEL c. and WILLIAM M. John J. Park moved to Macon county, near Decattir, April 6, 1864, and his unmarried children reside there with him. HENRY M., born Nov. 29, 1816, in Kentucky, married Nancy Miller, of same State. JAMES A., born Oct. 8, 1818, in Kentucky, is unmarried. ELIJAH M., born Dec. 10, 1820, in Kentucky, married Nancy A. Armstrong, of same State. WILLIAM R., born Aug. 23, 1824, in Kentucky, was married, Nov. 22, 1850, to Nancy E. Graham, who was born June 9, 1828. They have four children, JOHN T., ELMIRA A., WILLIAM R. and JAMES H., and reside near Harristown, Macon county, Illinois. ROBERT Y., born Sept. 20, 1828, in Kentucky, was married to Angeline Scott. SARAH J., born Oct. 8, 1830, in Sangamon county, married William M. Gaddis, of New York. Thomas Park died, March 30, 1852, and Jane Park died Dec. 6, 1873, both in Morgan county, Illinois.

MARY, born in South Carolina, married in Kentucky, April 4, 1816. They had one child, and both died in Sangamon county. Their daughter, SARAH, married A. P. Wyckoff. See his name.

HUGH, born in South Carolina, married in Kentucky, March 25, 1816, to Jane Gibson, moved to Sangamon county, in 1828, and from Sangamon to Macon county, where Hugh Park died, Sept. 28, 1845, leaving four children.

GRJZETTE, born Aug. 26, 1797, in South Carolina, married Joseph McNew, and for a second husband, married in Sangamon county, to John Hudson. See his name.

JAMES, born Dec. 25, 1799, in South Carolina, married April 25, 1820, in Kentucky, to Mary Modrell, who was born June 19, 1800. They had six children in Kentucky, and emigrated with his parents

1821, married in Sangamon county to Demarcus Gibson. They had eight children, four of whom died young. The other four reside with their parents, in Knoxville, Illinois. JOHN G., born July 7,

1822, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, March i, 1855, to Elizabeth Rigg. They had five children, JAMES E., CHARLES F. and SAMUEL H. died young. HENRY A. and JOHN w. reside with their parents, four miles west of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois. HARRIET A., born Sept. 12, 1823, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Allen Short. They have nine children, and live in Marion county, Iowa. ROBERT M., born Dec. 13, 1824, in Kentucky, married Mary Reynolds. They had seven children, and Mrs. Park and six of the children died. He married Elizabeth Bower. They have six children, and live in Macon county, Illinois. MARY L., born Dec. 25, 1825, in Kentucky, married Francis George. They have three children, MARY A., HEPSIBA E. and RACHEL A., and live near Edinburg, Illinois. ELIZABETH H., born Feb. 10, 1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Aug. 6, 1844, to John A. Burton. See his name. Mr. Burton died, and his widow married March 8, 1860, to Wm. S. Morris, who was born June 17, 1829, in Meade county, Ky. They have two children, EMMA L. and DORA L., and live two and one-half miles northwest of Loami, Illinois. JULIA A., born April 17, 1829, in Sangamon county, married James R. Rigg. See his name. THOMAS N., born Feb. 16, 1831, married Mary Fowler. They had two children, and mother and children died. Mr. Park married Sarah E. Hudson. They had two children; one died in infancy. LURENA MAY lives with her father. Mrs. Sarah E. Park died, and Mr. Park married Elizabeth Franklin. They have one child, and reside three miles west of Loami, 111. RACHEL G., born March 9, 1833, married Benjamin W. Burton. See his name. HUGH A., born February 2, 1835, married Elizabeth Turpin. They have four children, WILLIS c., EDWARD M., cir ARLES L. and LINDA P., and reside two miles southwest of Loami, Illinois.

NANCY H., born Jan. 18, 1837, married George W. Hudson. He died, and she married James L. Short. They have one child, HUGH F., and reside in Loami township. JAMES W., born Jan. 24, 1839, married Ma'rtha Hodgerson, and he died in two weeks after marriage. MARTHA E., born July i, 1841, married Young Hodgerson. She died, without children. WILLIAM L., born Oct. 13, 1843, married, Sept. 6, 1866, to Mary Rigg. They have two children, JAMES R. and MARY j., and reside on the farm where his parents settled in 1835, and where he was born, three miles west of Loami, Illinois. James Park died, Oct. 25, 1865, and his widow died, Feb. 7, 1869, both in Loami township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JANE, born in South Carolina, married in Sangamon county to William Earnest, moved to Louisa county, Iowa. He died there, leaving a widow and four children.

JOHN S., born in South Carolina, married in Sangamon county to Mary A. Morrison, moved to Morgan county, brought up seven children, and Mr. Park died, in May, 1847. ^ ^s children - ELVIRA married J. A. Haney, and lives in New Berlin, Illinois.

Mrs. Sarah Park died, Sept. 9, 1853, and John Park died, Sept. 23, 1853, both at the house of their son James, in Sangamon county, Illinois.

PARKES, WILLIAM was born Jan. 29, 1807, at Jonesboro, Washington county, Tenn. He was married April 14, 1830, in Jefferson county, to Polly North, a sister to John and Robert North. She was born about 1810 or '11 in Buckingham county, Va. They had two children in Tennessee, and moved to Posey county, Ind., where one child was born; and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the spring of 1836, in what is now Cooper township. Two years later he went to Mechanicsburg, and in Feb., 1848, moved to Cooper township, south of Sangamon river. They had nine children in Sangamon county; and five of their children died under six years. Of the other seven, all born in Sangamon county -

CAROLINE, born Jan. 12, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Sept. 24, 1857, to Charles Bochme; have five children, and live near Linwood, Butler county, Nebraska.

E VELINE, born Jan. 4, 1841, married Jan. 8, 1863, to J. South; have two children, MATTIE B. and MARY E. She and^he children live with her father.

HENRT, born Jan. 15, 1843, in Mechanicsburg, 111., enlisted Aug., 1862, for three years, in Co. C, H4th 111. Inf.; served until June 29, 1863, when he died at Chickasaw Landing, Tennessee.

Mrs. Polly Parkes died Sept. 12, 1873, and William Parkes was married June 7, 1875, to Mrs. Sarah McMurry, whose maiden name was Enyart. They reside near Berry PostofHce, or Clarksville, Sangamon county, Illinois.

PARKINSON, JAMES, was born Dec. 22, 1805, in Belmont county, Ohio, twelve miles below Wheeling, West Virginia. His parents were from Washit'.gton county, Penn.; and when James was an infant they moved back, across the Virginia Pan Handle, to their home in Pennsylvania, and a few years later, moved to what is now Marshall county, West Virginia, in the Pan Handle. James Parkinson came to Sangamon county, 111., arriving at Springfield in Nov., 1830; just in time for the "deep snow." He returned to Virginia in the spring, and came again to Sangamon county in the fall of 1831. He made his home at the house of David McCoy, on Spring creek, until Nov. 7, 1833, when he was married to Mahala Earnest. They had five living children in Sangamon county, namely -

CLARINDA A., born Jan. 22, 1838, married June 23, 1859, to Thomas B. Petefish, who was born Aug. 7, 1833, in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. They have five children, MARION P., LOTTIE LOU, ELIZABETH M.,MELIN- - DA E. and PEARLIE M., and reside near Belvoir, Douglas county, Kansas.

JOHN J., born Jan. 23, 1840, enlisted in the fall of 1861, for three years, in Co. B, roth 111. Cav. ; served full term, and was honorably discharged in 1864. He was married Nov. 9, 1865, to Augusta Patteson, daughter of Dr. Alex. A. Patteson. They had three children - JOHN L. died, aged four years; and ALEXANDER died in his second year. EARNEST resides with his parents in Gardner township, south of Spring creek, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM H. born Oct. 31, 1842, married Feb. 12, 1808, to Sarah J. Bradford. They have two children, JAMES B. and WlLLIAM W., and reside south of Spring creek, nine miles west of Springfield, Illinois.

James Parkinson and wife reside in Curran township, eight miles west of Springfield, 111. - south of Spring creek, and within one mile of where they were married. This sketch was written at their residence on the evening of Nov. 7, 1873, the fortieth anniversary of their marriage. They had at their table that day all their five children, fourteen of their seventeen living grandchildren - three being in Kansas, - and all their sons and daughters-in-law except Mr. Petefish, of Kansas.

The courtships of George Bryan - see his name - and that of James Parkinson and Mahala Earnest are, so far as I am informed, the two shortest on record. For two years previous to their marriage, Mr. Parkinson "waited on" Miss Earnest. Adopting a custom then quite prevalent, he would start on horseback, call for her, and propose that they go to church, to a wedding, to a social gathering or a dancing party. If she assented, he would take her behind himself on the horse, and set out. If she declined, he would usually spend the day or evening, as the case might be, with her. This was the practice with them for about two years, and I have it from their own lips that the subject of their marriage was never mentioned between them. Finally Mr. P. made up his mind to change the programme. He first, without consulting the lady or any friend of hers, went to Springfield and obtained a license for the marriage of lames Parkinson and Mahala Earnest. He called at her father's house on the morning of Nov. 7, 1833, and told her that he would be there that evening, and wished her to be at home. That was the first time he ever notified her beforehand to expect him. He then departed hurriedly, without giving the slightest intimation of the object of his proposed visit. The next movement was to call on a Justice of the Peace by the name of Robison, and request that officer to meet him the same evening at the house of David McCoy, where Mr. P. boarded. The Esquire wanted to know if it was necessary for him to take any papers or legal forms. Mr. P. replied, as he departed hurriedly, that he had all the papers necessary. The Justice met him at the appointed time and place, when^he was informed that he was expected to solemnize a marriage. 'Squire Robison, Mr. McCoy and Mr. Parkinson set out on horseback, crossing Spring creek from north to south, and arrived about sundown at the residence of Miss Earnest's father, to find the young lady out on the open pi-airie milking the cows. Mr. P. had not intimated to the other gentlemen that he had his courting yet to do. They separated to find hitching places for their horses; and as they did so, Mr. P. went to Miss Earnest and told her that he had come to marry her, and asked if she would have him. She stood, milk pail in hand, and, after a few moment's meditation, said, "Go in the house, and I will be there directly." These were the only words that ever passed between them by way of courtship. She then resumed her milking, and finished it as though nothing unusual had occurred. The father of Miss Earnest was attending to some outdoor work, and Mr. P. approached and told the old gentleman that he had come to marry his daughter, and asked his consent to the union. Mr. Earnest replied that he had no objection to the marriage, but regretted that he had not been notified in time to make suitable preparations for so important an event. Mr. Parkinson said, "I have made all the preparations neces- sary, as I have the license in my pocket, and the 'Squire is here, ready to perform his part." They were married that very evening, and the notes from which this sketch was written were taken in their presence, on the evening of the fortieth anniversary of their wedding.

His reasons for taking such a course were secreted in his own breast for forty years, and were revealed, for the first time, to the writer on the evening of the anniversary above named. I can assure the reader that there was nothing in it calculated to cast the slightest shadow of reproach on the character of either of the parties. It was a method of his own for solving a problem, entirely right in itself, but not such a mode as I should have adopted, for the reason that the courting was too soon over. I would much prefer to prolong so pleasant a pastime. I may divulge his secret if he fails to invite me to his golden wedding Nov. 7, 1883; but if he invites me to help celebrate that day, and treats me as well as he did on the fortieth anniversary, he may retain it forty years longer, if he wishes to.

Mr. Parkinson served as Justice of the Peace twelve years, by successive reelection from 1848. When the township organization was adopted, he was elected the first representative of Curran township in the county Board of Supervisors, and was twice re-elected. Edward Robison was the 'Squire who solemnized the marriage. See his name.

PAINE, ENOCH, was born March 14, 1821, in Kaskaskia, 111. The family moved from there to Macoupin Point, and to Springfield in 1835. ^-ls mother was a daughter of John Grosvenor, a prominent early settler of Kaskaskia. Enoch Paine learned the bookbinding business with Birchall & Johnson. He there helped to bind the work of the last session of the legislature at Vandalia. He continued in the employ of that house until 1859, which in that time changed to Johnson & Bradford. In 1860 Mr. Paine established a bindery for himself, and did the State binding for about ten years, working, at some times, forty hands. Enoch Paine was married in Springfield, March 14, 1843, to Emily Sholta, who was born March 14, 1820, in Edwardsville, 111. They had seven living children, namely -

LUCY A., born Jan. 4, 1847, married Oct. 17, 1871, in Springfield, to A. Judson Gunnell. They have one child, PEARL . J., and reside at Moberly, Mo. He is locomotive engineer on the Northern Missouri Railroad.

ALICE F.} born July 28, 1849, married Oct. 5, 1872, in Springfield, to William Mosely. They have two children, GUY DeFOREST and VIDA P., and reside at Stonington, 111. He is a merchant there.

RUFUS E., born Jan. 11, 1852, married in Springfield, May, 1873, to Emma Pride. They have one child, GRACE, and reside five miles northeast of Springfield, on the farm.

LILLIE £., born Nov. 25, 1854, married June 16, 1873, in Springfield, to John L. Phillips, who was born Aug. i, 1851, in Belleville, 111. Mr. Phillips is foreman in the Journal Job printing department, and resides in Springfield, Illinois.

During the rebellion Mr. Paine had charge of the manufacture of cartridges, working from two hundred and fifty to three hundred operatives. Cartridges made there cost only one-seventh of what they did at other places.

PARRISH, SAMUEL, was born June 22, 1809, in Franklin county, Ohio. He married Sarah Manning. They had three living children in Ohio. The family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1839, in what is now Gardner township, where six children were born. Of their children -

SYNDISA, born Dec. 23, 1831, in Franklin county, Ohio, was married Feb. 26, 1852, in Sangamon county, to William Wilson. They had three children, MARGARET A., MOLLIE, died in her tenth year, and CHARLES. Mr. Wilson died Dec. 18, 1864. His widow married May 31, 1866, to James L. Carman. They have one child, CORA, and reside at Kenny, DeWitt county, 111.--

Dec., 1875. James L. Carman went from Salisbury, and enlisted in 1861, in Co. E, 1 4th 111. Inf., for three years; re-enlisted as a veteran, Jan. 4, 1864, served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged, May 21, 1865.

JAMES, born Dec., 1841, in Sangamon county, enlisted in Co. - . i I4th 111. Inf., in 1862, for three years. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June, 1864, taken to Andersonville prison-pen, where he remained nine or ten months, was released, and died May 15, 1865, at Jacksonville, Florida.

SAMUEL, born May, 1843, in San' gamon county, enlisted in an 111. Art. Co. for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran, and served to the end of the war. He was married in Tennessee to Jane Richardson. Thev have three children, JOSEPH, CHARLES and FLORENCE. Samuel Parrish is Superintendent at the National Cemetery, at Fort Donnelson, Tenn. - 1874.

John S., Frances M., Luella

AMANDA, born Feb., 1845, in Sangamon county, married S. Neff. They had seven children, FRANKLIN E., JOHN S., FRANCES M., LUELLA, ROSCOE C., ANNA M. and another. They reside near Chinkapin Hill, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Sarah Parish died Dec., 1861, and Samuel Parish married Mrs. Mahala Legget. He died May 28, 1873, in Springfield. Mr. P. is believed to have chopped more timber than any other man in Sangamon countv.

PASFIELD:; GEORGE, was born October, 1792, in London, England. His parents came to America when he was a child and settled in Philadelphia, where they both soon died of yellow fever, leaving their son George without a relative in] America. By his own exertions, he obtained a good practical education, and learned a trade which he did not long pursue, and afterwards went to Matanzas, Cuba, as agent for a shipping house. He remained there some time, but the climate not agreeing with him, returned to Philadelphia, where he invested in real estate, and bought an interest in a nail mill. The results were unfortunate. He came to Cincinnati, about 1817, and engaged in shippirig pork and flour from that point and Louisville, on flat boats, for New Orleans. Later he established himself in the grocery business, at Paris, Bourbon county, Ky., and continued packing pork and shipping. He was married in Paris, Jan. 5, 1821, to Mary Forden, sister of John Forde'n. See his name. She was born Oct. 22, 1805, in Hagerstown, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Pasfield moved to Springfield, 111., in the spring of 1821, where one child -

GEORGE, was born Nov. 30, 1831. He studied medecine, and graduated at St. Louis Medical College, in the class of i855-'6. Dr. George Pasfield was married Sept. 19, 1866, at Mechanicsburg, 111., to Hathaway Pickrell. They have two children, EMMA and GEORGE L., and live in Springfield, 111. Dr. Pasfield is not practicing his profession.

George Pasfield was an enterprising and successful merchant, and was a member of the town board of Springfield before the city organization. He was one of the signers of the fifty thousand dollar note to secure the location of the capital at Springfield, and was one of the first to commence business on the State House square, doing much in the way of building to improve the city. He died, Nov. 9, 1869, and his widow lives with her son, Dr. George Pasfield, in Springfield, Illinois.

PATTON, JAMES, born Mch. 17, 1791, in the city of Baltimore, Md. When a child, his parents moved to Stanton, Va., and from there to Clark county, Ky., in 1798. There James was apprenticed to the tanning business, and in 1808 the family moved to Christian county, where he joined them in 1810, having finished his apprenticeship. James* Patton and Polly Husband were there married, April, 1815. They had three children in Kentucky, and moved to what became

WILLIAM M., born March 10, 1816, in Christian county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth A. Moore. They had three children. JAMES W., born Feb. 15, 1840, in Sangamon county, was married there, Dec. 8, 1869, to Francine E. Lanphier. They had three children - LANPHIER M. ftied Sept. 9. 1874. WILLIAM L. and JAMES M. live with their parents. James W. Patton studied law with Hay & Cullom, and was admitted to practice in 1861. He was elected in 1864 to represent Sangamon and Logan counties in the Illinois State Legislature. He has associated with him his brother-in-law, John C. Lanphier, in the practice of law, in Springfield, 111., and resides there. MATHEW, Jun., born Aug. 22, 1841, in Sangamon county, was married June 7, 1876, near Virden, to Barbara A. Ranch. See Ranch family. Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Patton live in Chicago, Illinois. JULIA A., born April 25, 1843, m Sangamon county, was married there, January 5, 1870, to Basil Hill, who was born October 21, 1838, in Vanburensburg, Fayette county, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Hill moved to Missouri, Feb., 1870, and have one child, MATHEW M., born Dec. 28, 1870, and resides in Newtonia, Newton county, Mo. William M. Patton died, Jan. 7, 1848. His widow resides in Auburn township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MA7^HEW, born March 14,1819, in Kentucky, married Feb. i, 1844, in Sangamon county, to Margaret J. McElvain. They had six children, namely : WILLIAM D., born Jan. 23, 1845, 'n Sangamon county, married Adaline M. Black. They had one child, MINNIE F. Mrs. Patton died Jan. 26, 1875, and W. D. Patton was married Feb. 16, 1876, to Caddie A. Jones. He is a druggist, and resides in Auburn, Illinois. MARY E. died, aged three years. ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon county, married James Fletcher. They are without children, and reside three miles southwest of Auburn, 111. JAMES SAMUEL, CHARLES

S. reside with their father. Mrs. Marga- J. Patton died May 2, 1865, and Matthew Patton was married Jan. 23, 1867, to Sarah J. Mackey. They reside in Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Matthew Daniel, Benjamin

DAVID H., born April 19, 1824,111 Sangamon county, was married March 4, 1846, to Susan Organ. They have six children - SUSAN A. married William Moomaw. They have one child, ADA, and live in Auburn township. WILLIAM, born April 21, 1850, in Sangamon county, was married Feb. 4, 1873, to Sarah Jane Savage. They have one child, WILLIE, and live in Auburn, 111. MATTHEW DANIEL, BENJAMIN F., BETTIE O. and MARGARET F. live with their parents. David H. Patton resides on the farm where his father settled in 1820, three miles southeast of Auburn, Illinois.

Mrs. Polly Patton died Feb. 15, 1844, and James Patton was married in 1846 to Mrs. Lettie Nifong, who died Feb. 6, 1856, and he was married Aug. i, 1865, to Mrs. Elizabeth Gregory. She died June 23, 1875, and James Patton resides where he settled in 1820, four miles southeast of Auburn. He has always been known as Col. Patton, a title he acquired in connection with early military training in the county. He established a tannery soon after he settled in the county, and supplied the early settlers with leather for many miles around. The nearest mill to him at the time he settled there was at Edwardsville, sixty miles south. He was in better circumstances than most of the early settlers, and when he saw a family laboring under disadvantages, he interested himself in their welfare, and assisted them in many ways. Noah Mason, of Springfield, speaking of their early experience in the new country, says, "My father found a true friend in the now venerable Col. James Patton, which lasted to the end of his life, and is gratefully remembered by his descendants."

PATRICK, JOHN H., was born Nov. i, 1789, in Clarke county, Ky., married Jane Foster. They had three children, and Mr. Patrick died while on busi ness in the State of Mississippi. His widow married John Armstrong, and they moved, with her three children, in company with her brother, George Foster, to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1827, in what is now Loami township. Of the three Patrick children -

Mrs. Jane "Armstrong died Aug. 27, 1870, in Macon county, Mo. Both her husbands were soldiers in 1812. She drew a pension to the end of her life as the widow of John Armstrong.

PAULEN, DEBOLD, was born March 25, 1800, in the village of Eingenheim, twelve miles nearly north of Strasburg, France, now Germany. He was there married to Margaret Walter, who was born Nov. 11, 1806, in the same province. They had one child in France, and emigrated to America, landing at New Orleans, Feb. 18, 1837. In the fal1 of that year the yellow fever raged as an epidemic in New Orleans. Of the one hundred and sixty-three passengers who came over in the ship with Mr. Paulen, all except thirty died. Mr. Paulen, his wife and child all had the disease, but escaped death. Their money was gone, but they came up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to Beardstown, Illinois, and from there by wagon to Sangamon bounty, arriving April 20, 1838, in what is now the southeast corner of Island Grove, township. They had two children in Sangamon county. Of their three children -

DEBOLD, Jim., born Sept. 11, 1828, in Alsace, France, now Germany, came to Sangamon county in 1838 with his parents, married Jan. 26, 1854, to Alpha C. Rigg, who died without children, Jan. 18, 1856. Mr. Paulen was married Mar. 10, 1857, to Elizabeth McMurry. They have four children, namely: GEORGE R., MARGARET A., JACOB W. and JOHN LEW, and reside two and three-quarter -71

JACOB W., born Sept. 8, 1839, in what is now Curran township, Sangamon county, enlisted in 1862, in Co. B, i3Oth Reg. 111. Inf., was elected 2d Lieut, upon the organization of the company, served in the Vicksburg campaign in the 4th division of i5th Army Corps, was promoted to 1st Lieut, at DeCrow's Point, Texas, Feb. 21, 1864. He was taken prisoner in Gen. Bank's expedition, at the battle of Mansfield, La., April 8, 1864; was fourteen months a prisoner at Tyler, Texas, and released soon after the close of the rebellion. He was commissioned Capt. of Co. E, i3Oth 111. Inf., after the war, for meritorious conduct, and was honorably discharged the latter part of June, 1865. He was married June 18, 1866, to Lucy B. Johnson, who was born near Frankfort, Ky., March 5, 1848. They had three children, namely: BENJ. R. S., born in DeWitt county, 111., July 14, 1869; LAURA E., born June 25, 1871; MINNIE M., born June 2§, 1873. The two iatter near Fredonia, Wilson county, Kan., where Mr. Paulen and family reside.

MART F., born March 26, 1844, in Sangamon county, married in the same county to Ebenezer F. Hatfield, who was born Dec. 8, 1841, in Warren county, O., enlisted Sept. 10, 1861, in Co. A, 4th Ohio Cav., for three years. He was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863, captured, and released ten days later; served his full time, and was honorably discharged. He now draws a. pension. Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield have three children, EDWARD E., CHARLES C. and SILAS G., and reside two miles west of Curran, Illinois.

Mrs. Margaret Paulen died April 7, 1863, in Sangamon county, and her husband resides with, their son, Debold, Jun. Debold Paulen was not out of Sangamon county from the time - he came, in 1838, for thirty-two years. In 1870 he went to visit a brother and sister in Canada, whom he had not seen for forty years. He is now - 1876 - in his seventy-seventh year, teeth all sound, good health, and says he does not know of an ancestor dying under eighty years.

He came to Springfield, 111., in the fall of 1836, and was married, Feb. 27, 1840, to Susannah Stacy. She died July 8, 1842. Mr. Peacock was married, Dec. 3, 1844, to Phoebe Dill. They moved to Plymouth, Hancock county, in 1855, and returned in 1863. They have four living children, namely -

PEASE, ABRAM, born July 22, 1791, in Martha's Vineyard, Dukes county, Mass. The ancestors of this family were from Wales, and came to America more than two hundred years ago, settling in Massachusetts. Abram Pease, whose name heads this sketch, went to the State of New York, when a young man, and was married there. Aug. 18, i Sir, to Orpha Soufhwick. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, from Cayuga county, N. Y. Abram Pease and wife came to Sangamon county with the family of Jesse Southwick, arriving in 1818 in what is now Ball township. They had four children -

Mrs. Orpha Pease died Feb. 22, 1820, in Sangamon county, and Abram Pease was married, June 21, 1827, in Sangamon county, to Dorotha Lathrop, who was born April 12, 1805, in New York. They had one living child -

SHA W, born April 23, 1828, in Sangamon county, was married July 6, 1851, in same county, to Amanda H. Pettus, who was born June 24, 1832, in Nicholas county, Ky., and came to Sangamon county with her father, .Thomas P. Pettus, and her grandfather, George Bryan, of Bryan's station, Ky. Shaw Pease and wife have eight living children. LESLIE T., born Aug. 5, 1852, in Sangamon . county, studied medicine, and was married, May 9, 1875, to Mary L. Halsted, who was born Feb. 7, 1854, in Castile, Wyoming county, N. Y. Dr. Leslie T. Pease is practicing medicine at Blue Mound, Macon county 111., and resides there. Of the other seven children - A.

JUDSON, FRANCIS W., IDA, LUELLA and LINCOLN, were born in Sangamon county, and GEOROE and CHARLES P. were born in Macon county, 111. Hon. Shaw Pease was a farmer in Woodside township, Sangamon county, until 1867, when he removed to the vicinity of Niantic, Macon county, where he now resides. He served one term as member of the Board of Supervisors of Macon county. In Nov., 1874, he was elected to the twenty-ninth district in the State Legislature for two years. Mr. Pease nor either of his sons chew tobacco, drink whisky or use profane language.

PENNY, HIRAM, was born Oct. 5, 1790, in North Carolina, and was taken, when quite young, by his parents to Pope county, Illinois. He was married in Kentucky, opposite where they lived in Illinois, to Catharine McHenry. They had five children in Pope county, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1822, in what is now Cartwright township, where they had four children. Of their children -

ALEXANDER, born March i, 1815, in Pope county, Illinois, married in Sangamon county to Mary Archer. They had one child, WILLIAM H., who enlisted Sept. 18, 1862, for three years, in Co. F, 1 1 4th 111. Inf., was captured at Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864, and was starved to death in Andersonville prison. Alexander Penny married for a second wife, Elizabeth Hennings, and died, in Wilson county, Kansas, in 1870, leaving a widow and one child.

WILLIAM G., born Jan. 5, 1821, married Eleanor Duff, had six children, and he enlisted in an Illinois regiment, and died at Little Rock, Arkansas. His widow died, and his sons live in Webster county, Nebraska.

SOLOMON A., born Sept. 15, 1824, in Sangamon county, married Polly Duncan, had one child, and Mrs. Penny died. He moved to Kansas, married again, and died there.

William Penny, the father of Hiram, was born in 1751, and was captain of a company from North Carolina in the Revolutionary army. He moved to Pope county, 111., and from there to Sangamon county, and died, March 15, 1821, on Richland creek, in what is now Cartwright township. He had two brothers, Solomon and Robert. Solomon married Jane Renshaw, raised a family, and died after leaving the county. Robert raised a family and died. His widow, more than ninety years old, lives with her daughter, Mrs. Abraham Freeman, in Springfield.

PELHAM, JOHN, was born July 14, 1804, in Hamilton county, near Cincinnati, Ohio. Anna M. Judd was born Oct. 20, 1806, in Chenango county, near Oxford, N. Y. In 1818 her parents moved to Westport, Oldham county, Ky., and in 1821 moved to the vicinity of Shawneetown, 111. In 1823 they moved up the Ohio river to Evansville, Ind. John Pelham and Anna M. Judd were there married, Jan. 23, 1827. They soon after went to St. Clair county, 111., thence to Quincy, and from there to Sangamon county, arriving Sept. n, 1827, at Sangamo town. They had seven living children, namely -

JAMES M., born May 5, 1829, married Mrs. Demaris Stone, whose maiden name was Gard. They had three children, ALAMANDA, FRANKLIN and JAMES M. In 1859 James M. Pelham went to Pikes Peak, and from there to California. In 1862 he united with a body of men, styling themselves the "One Hundred Californians." They went in a body from San Francisco to Boston, Mass., and became a Co. of the 2d Mass. Cav. He served full three years, and was honorably discharged, June, 1865. He received a gun shot wound in the Shenandoah Valley. That and exposure so impaired his health that he died, Jan. 14, 1866, near Salisbury, within three miles of where he was born. His widow and children live in Gardner township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM B., born April 18, 1834. He enlisted April, 1861, on the first call for 75,000 men, in the 7th 111. Inf.; served three months, and was honorably discharged August. 1 6, 1 86 1. He enlisted in Co. D, 33d 111. Inf., for three years, was wounded at the battle of Black river bridge, May 17, 1863. , Dec. 31, 1863, he re-enlisted as a veteran, was transferred to the Invalid Corps, and was discharged on account of physical disabilty, in Nov., 1864. He was married June i, 1865, to Elizabeth White. They have four children, and live in Tazewell county, Illinois.

DANIEL C., born Jan. 11,1837, enlisted Aug. 16, 1861, in Co. D, 33d 111. Inf., for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran, Dec. 31, 1863, at Indianola, Texas, served until the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged. He was married Dec. 27, 1866, to Mildred P. Batterton. They have four children, ARTHUR, ADA L., ALBERT and HARRY; the latter died Aug. 10, 1873. D. C. Pelham resides at Salisbury, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELIZA A., born Feb. 6, 1843, mar- Oct. 4, 1866. to Josiah Mitchell. He enlisted for three years, in 1861, in Co. E, i4th 111. Inf., was wouncbed at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6, 1862, and was honorably discharged. He re-enlisted as a veteran Dec., 1863, and \vas4ionorably discharged Nov., 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell have two children, ARTHUR C. and CHARLES O., and live at Tallula, Illinois.

JOHN H., born August 22, 1846, enlisted Feb., 1864, in Co. A., loth 111. Cav., served until Nov., 1865, when he was honorably discharged, at San Antonio, Texas, and resides with his mother at Salisbury, Illinois.

John Pelham died in St. Clair county, July 21, 1850. His widow married Oct. 3, 1867, to Wm. B. Gaines. He died Oct. 21, 1871. She resides at Salisbury, Sangamon county, 111., and is known as Mrs. Pelham. - 1874.

PETER, ZACHARIAH, was born in Amherst county, Virginia. His parents moved, when he was two years old, to Washington county, Ky. He was married near Danville, Ky., to Nancy Spaulding. They had five children in Kentucky, and moved to what afterwards became Sangamon county. 111., arriving Sept., 1818; and finding an empty cabin in what is now Ball township, Mr. Peter moved his family into it. That was the cabin built by Robert Pulliam. in the fall of 1817, the first ever erected in Sangamon connty. Mr. Peter lived there until the spring of 1819, when Mr. Pulliam came with his own family. Mr. Peter then vacated it and built a cabin about three miles further north, on what is now - 1876 - known as the Megredy homestead. They had one child in Sangamon county. Of their six children -

SAMUEL, born in 1808 in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Margaret Pulliam. They had five children, and she died, in Iowa, leaving 'her children there.

JOHN N., born in 1810 in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Emily Waldrup. They had seven children. The living members of the family reside near Butler, Montgomery county, Illinois.

MvlHALA D., born in 1813 in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to George MofFatt. They had five children, and Mr. MofFatt died. She, with some of her children, live in Glasgow, Iowa.

THERZA or (THERESA), born in 1815 in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Brinsley Ball. They had eight children, and Mr. Ball went to California and died there. Mrs. Ball

JAMES M., born in 1819 in Sangamon county, and married Milly A. Peter. They have four children, and live near Mattoon, Moultrie county, Illinois.

PETER CARTWRIGHT, born in Sangamon county. He was a soldier from Sangamon county in the war with Mexico, in 1846 and '7. He went to Washington Territory, where he was married ; went from there to California, and was killed by Indians, leaving a widow and ont; child in California.

Mrs. Margaret Peter died, and Zachariah Peter married Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, whose maiden name was Keyes. She died, and he married Eliza Gordan.

Mr. Peter was one of the three commissioners appointed to organize Sangamon county, and locate the tempory county seat. It was he and William Drennan who wrote their initials on the stake driven in the ground, and marked it Z., P. & D. That was the way the county seat was located, Api'il 10, 1821, and called Springfield. See page 32.

PETTUS, THOMAS P., was born March 31, 1790, in Nicholas county, Ky. He was married there, in 1830, to Mrs. Matilda W. Todd, whose maiden name was Bryan, a daughter of George Bryan. See his name. Mr. and Mrs. Pettus had two children, came to Sangamon county, in 1834, and settled in what is now Woodside township. Of their children -

MORGAN B., born Oct. 2, 1834, in Frankfort, Ky., married in Sangamon county, April 14, 1858, to Abigail Megredy. They have three living children, namely - FRANCES O., M. MALINDA and CHARLES ARCHIBALD. LAURA, the third child, died May n, 1871, aged four years. Mr. Pettus, in

Thomas P. Pettus died April 2, 1852, near Woodside, Sangamon county, and Mrs. Melinda W. Pettus died, Nov. 22, 1872, at the residence of her son, Morgan B. Pettus, in Lincoln, Logan county, Illinois.

PHELPS, ADNA, Sen., was born April 30, 1792, at Hebron, Grafton county, N. H. He was there married to Mary Colburn. They had eight children, all born in New Hampshire, three of whom died in infancy. Some of their children came to Sangamon county before 1840. The parents did not come until July 23, 1844, when they arrived at Loami. Of theif five children -

JONATHAN, born June, 1814, married in Massachusetts to Mrs. Nancy Pease, whose maiden name was Turrell. He was a Universalist preacher. He died Oct. 8, 1862, at Loami. His widow resides with her daughter by her first husband, Mrs. D. S. Lombard, in Springfield.

DA VI D, born Dec., 1815, at Hebron, N. H., came to Loami in 1836 or '7, married Dec. 16, 1838, to Mehetabel Colburn, who died March 7, 1842, and Mr. Phelps was married Jan. 28, 1843, to Fanny Colburn. They had two children; one died in infancy. He went to California in 1849. Their daughter, ELMINA, married A. J. McDonald, and lives at Grass Valley, Nevada county, California. David Phelps was crushed while going through a mine, of which he was part owner, July 6, and died July 8, 1866. His widow married George Hutchinson, and lives in California.

Lillian A., David B., Matilda

ADNA, Jun., born Dec. 28, 1832. at Hebron, N. H., married Nov. 16, 1856, at Loami, to Martha Meigs, who was born Nov. 14, 1840, at an Indian trading post in Iowa. They had eight children, CLARENCE E. and SHERMAN, third and seventh, died in infancy. The other six, LILLIAN A., DAVID B., MATILDA M., LAURA E., VIOLA and DAISY M. live with their parents, three miles' west of Springfield, 111. Adna Phelps

PHILLIPS, MRS. CHARLOTTE, whose maiden name was Smith, a sister to Jonas Smith and Mrs. Ebenezer Colburn. She was born Dec. 18, 1799, in Suffolk county, L. I., New York, married in 1816, at Marietta, Ohio, to Burfit Goldsmith, a native of Maryland. . They had four children, and Mr. G. died in 1837 at Cincinnati. The widow was married in 1838 to Joel D. Phillips. They had one child, and father and child died in 1854, in Tipton county, Ind. All her children are dead except her son, W. H. O. Goldsmith. He was a member of the ist U. S. Dragoons for five years, and served through the war to suppress the rebellion. He is married, and lives in Rush county, Ind. Mrs. Phillips resides with her brother, Jonas Smith, at Loami, Illinois.

PHILLIPS, FRANCIS, was born in 1785, in Maryland. He went to Green county, Ky., and was there married, in 1810, to Mary Duggin, a native of Virginia. They had five children in Kentucky, one of whom died young. The family moved to Sangamon county, arriving in 1829, near Springfield. Of their children -

MOREAU, born May 26, 1811, in Green county, Ky., came with his parents to Sangamon county in 1829, and was in the Black Hawk war in a Sangamon county company in 183 1. He returned to Kentucky, and was married in Green county, in 1836, to Melissa Lee, a native of that county, also. They had nine children in Sangamon county, two of whom died young. F. MORTIMER, born Nov. 7? ^37, married in 1861 to Mattie A. Troxell, a native of Maryland. They have two children, ALICE BELL and WILLIE, and reside in Springfield. THOMAS J., born Dec. 3, 1839, died April, 1871. MOREAU J., born Feb. 16, 1843, and WILLIAM O., born in 1846, reside in Springfield with their parents. CHARLES J., born in 1848, married, Oct. 1873, to Etta Snow, a native of Maine. They have two children, BERTHA and KTTA, and reside in Springfield. MARY, born Sept., 1853, died March, 1873. URIAH EDWIN, born June, 1851, and ROBERT EMMET, born Feb. 8, 1858, reside with their parents, in Springfield. Moreau Phillips was one of the ten young men who went to Nashville, Tenn., to hear Henry Clay make a political speach in 1840. See sketch ivith name of J. H. Mat hen ey.

JEFFERSON, born in 1813, in Green county, Ky., married in Springfield, in 1836, to Elizabeth Dillman, a native of Ohio. They had four children, two of whom died young. WILLIAM A. and FRANCIS reside at Winona, Illinois. Jefferson Phillips died about 1845.

MART, born in 1815, in Green county, Ky., married in Springfield, in 1836, to Stephen G. Ubanks. They had two children - SUSANNAH, born in Petersburg, married there to Theodore S. Rogers. They reside near Zanesville, Montgomery county, 111. MARGARET G., born Oct. 2, 1839, married, Jan. 30, 1860, to Wm. H. Wickersham. They have five children, LILLIE B., NETTIE, MAUDE, OLIVER and CHARLES s. Mr. Wickersham was born March 7, 1836, in Versailles, Ky., learned the business of printing in the State Journal office, went to California, in 1853, returned to Springfield in 1859, enlisted, Aug., 1862, for three years, in Co. C, i24th 111. Inf., served until the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged. He is now engaged in the Journal office. Mrs. Ubanks died in 1845.

WILLIAM, born in 1826, in Green county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married about 1846, in Petersburg, 111., to Margaret White. They had two children, FRANK and JEFFERSON, both living in Petersburg. William Phillips died in 1852, in Petersburg.

Mrs. Mary or Margaret? Phillips died in 1834, in Springfield. Francis Phillips went back to Kentucky, married a Mrs. Lambkin, came to Springfield on business, and was returning to Kentucky when he died on the road.

Francis Phillips was something of a genius. Farming and chair making was his main business, but he would do any kind of a job of painting, plain or ornamental. A hotel sign painted by him for Archer G. Herndon, is remembered by some of the old men, who in their boyhood days regarded it with an awe inspiring reverence that seems not to have left them to the present time. The name of the hotel was the "Indian Queen," and the sign was the painter's idea of that imaginary personage.

PICKRELL, ABEL, was born March 14, 1782, in Loudoii county, Va. His father died when he was quite young, and he was taken by his mother to Fleming county, Ky., about 1793. He went to Montgomery county, in the same State, when a young man, and was there married, in 1804, to Sarah Taylor, who was born Oct. 31, 1784, at a place called Red Stone Fort, Penn. Mr. Pickrell was a soldier in the war of 1812, and went from Montgomery county, Ky. They had six children in that county, and in the fall of iSiS, moved to Shelby county, in the same State, and from there moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1831, in what is now Williams township. Of their children -

JESSE A., born June 13, 1805, in Montgomery county, Ky., came to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the spring of 1828, being the first of the family to come to the county, stopping in what is now Mechanicsburg township. He was married Dec. 18, 1828, in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth Churchill. They had ten living children in Sangamon county. WILLIAM O., born Feb. 27, 1830, in Sangamon county, married near Keokuk, Iowa, to Hannah Reed. They have seven children, IDA M., FANNIE H., JESSE, ELIZABETH, OLLIE and

WALTER F., and reside near Ottawa, Kansas. ABEL GEORGE, born Feb. 19, 1832, in Sangamon county, enlisted July 20, 1861, in Co. C, nth Mo. Inf., for three years, was commissioned Quartermaster of the regular army, July 24, 1862, and mustered out August 15, 1864. He was married Dec. 27, 1864, in Jacksonville, 111., to Emma H. Winn. See Branson family. They have three child- *ren, GORILLA, ALICE and GERTRUDE, and reside one and a half miles south of Lanes- ville, or Wheatfield Postoffice, Sangamon county, 111. MILLER H., bom March 31, 1835, married in Sangamon county to Sophronia Fry. ANN M., born Sept. 14, 1840, married Sept. 25, 1866, to Henry H. Lee, who was born August 10, 1834, in Gallia county, Ohio, and died Aug. 10, iS6y, in Sangamon county. She lives with her parents. MARY V., born Dec. n, 1842, married Sept. 6, 1865, to Samuel T. Rogers. They have one child, ROBERT, and live at El Paso, 111. AMANDA P., born August 31, 1844, married Walter F. Swift, Oct. 13, 1870. She died June 19, 1872, in Ottawa, Kansas. Mr. Swift married March 6, 1874, to Bertha Burkhardt. See her name. JOHN C., born Oct. 27, 1846, enlisted July 26, 1864, for three years, in Co. B, 25th U. S. Inf.; served full time, a portion of it as Orderly on Gen. George H. Thomas' staff. He was honorably discharged July 26, 1867, and died at home, March 25, 1873. BENJAMIN F., born Dec. 10, 1848. M. GERTRUDE, born Dec. 29, 1850, and SALLIE E., born March 6, 1855. The two latter live with their parents. Jesse A. Pickrell and family reside near Lanesville, or Wheatfield Postoffice, Sangamon county, 111. He was among the earliest to introduce improved breeds of cattle, hogs and other stock into Sangamon county, and is one of the most extensive farmers and stock raisers in the county.

WILLIAM S., born March 28, 1807, in Montgomery county, Ky., came to Sangamon county in the fall of 1828, in company with his brother Jesse A., who had returned to Kentucky on a visit. W. S. Pickrell volunteered and served three terms in the Black Hawk war; one term in 1831 and two in 1832. He was Lieutenant, afterwards Major, and Lieutenant-Colonel of militia. He was married near Springfield, June 4, 1833, to Amanda P. Watson. See Watson family. They had ten living children. JAMES H., born March 20, 1834, in Sangamon county, was married Sept. 20, 1860, near Paris, Ky., to Margaret T. Bedford, who was born there, March 4, 18^0. They had seven children; one died in infancy. AMANDA w., ANNA L.,

ZA, born August 20, 1839, was married Dec. 15, 1858, to Harvey N. Edwards, who was born Nov. 9, 1824, in Madison county, N. Y. They reside in Springfield, 111. HATHAWAY, born Nov. 13, 1841, married Dr. George Pasfield. See his name. H. CLAY, born Jan. 27, 1844. LAURA, born Oct. 3, 1846. EMMA, born Jan. n, 1849. WILLIAM, born Feb. 9, 1851. WATSON, born Oct. 4, 1853. ARTHUR, born Dec. 29, 1856. SCOTT, born Sept. 19, 1860. The last seven children reside at the homestead adjoining Mechanicsburg. William S. Pickrell died Feb. 4, 1870, and Mrs. Amanda P. Pickrell died Mar. i, 1876, both on the farm where he settled in 1829. Wm. S. Pickrell entered the land on which Mechanicsburg now stands, laid out the original town, and made two additions afterwards. The first sale of lots took place Nov. 16, 1832. He was one of the most successful farmers and stock raisers of Sangamon county. His sons are all well trained to the same business.

BENJAMIN F., born March 10, 1811, in Montgomery county, Ky., came with his father to Sangamon county, and was married Oct. 5, 1834, to Mary A. ELKIN. They had three children. WILLIAM T., born March 6, 1836, was married in Ottawa, Kansas, to Virginia Whetstone. They have one child OTTOE K., and reside in Ottawa, Kansas. FRANCIS M., born Oct. n, 1837, married near Williamsville, 111., to Mary C. Poorman. They have two children, JOHN and PERCY. ELIZA F., born Jan. 30, 1839, was married May, 1874, in Decatur, 111., to John L. Routt, the present Governor of Colorado. - -January, 1876. They reside in Denver, Colorado. B. F. Pickrell died August 28, 1838, in Sangamon county. His widow married Abner Riddle. Sec his name.

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PIERSON, MOSES, born June 7, 1802, in Warren county, near Lebanon, Ohio. Clarissa Morris was born June 18, 1808, in the same county. They were married, Nov. 3, 1824, and had two living children there. They moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1833, a*- Springfield, and a year or two later settled two and one-half miles northeast of Springfield. They came to the west hoping that Mrs. Pearson's health would be improved, but finding that it was not. They were returning to Ohio, and stopped at Paris, 111., to visit some friends, when Mrs. Pierson suddenly died there, June 9, 1836. Mr. Pierson took his two children to their relatives in Ohio, an.d returned to Sangamon county, where he was married, Oct. 18, 1837, to Harriet Kilbourn, who was born Oct. 18, 1818, near Chillicothe, Ohio. They had nine children in Sangamon county. Of all his children -

DA VID M., born Nov. 12, 1827, near Lebanon, Ohio, was married Dec. 27, 1865, in Sangamon county, to Celestia E. Wilson, who was born Sept. 5, 1839, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. They had two children. LAWRENCE L., the youngest, died in his second year. OILMAN M., born Oct. 9. 1866, resides with his parents, at his grandfather Wilson's, two miles northeast of Springfield.

JOHN G., born Sept. 3, 1840, in Sangarnon county, is unmarried, and resides at the family homestead, two and one-half miles northeast of Springfield.

THEODORE F., born June 7, 1844, enlisted Aug. 5, 1862, for three years, in Co. G, ii4th 111. Inf. He was taken prisoner June, 1864, at the battle of Guntown, Miss., spent four months in Andersonville prison, and taken from there to Savannah Ga., and parolled. On being exchanged he returned to duty, at Benton Barracks, St. .Louis, where he was honorably discharged, July 27, 1865. He was married at iacksonville, 111., Sept. 15, 1874, to Josephine E. Morrison, who was born Nov., 1847, near Naples, Scott county, 111. They reside four miles north of Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illinois.

FRANK, born Sept. 25, 1846, resides four miles north of Illiopolis, Illinois. JOSEPH, born March 22, 1848; EDWARD, born May 13, 1849; JESSIE A., born Jan. 6, 1854, and HARRIET, born Feb. 27, 1857, re~ side at the family homestead, near Springfield, Illinois. *

Mrs. Harriet Pierson died Feb. 18, 1858, and Moses Pierson died Dec. 20, 1860, both on the farm where he settled in 1834 or '5, two and a half miles northeast of Springfield, Illinois.

PIKE, JOHN, was born in Virginia, and when a young man went to Bourbon county, Ky., where he was married to Mary Moon. They had three children in Bourbon county. In the spring of 1828 Mr. Pike started, with his household goods loaded on a wagon made entirely of wood, each wheel being hewn from a solid piece of timber. it was drawn by a yoke of oxen, with one horse in the lead. The wagon was many times taken to pieces and formed into a raft to float the wife, children, and household goods across the unbridged streams. They traveled in that way until they reached Jacksonville. 111. He was not satisfied with the country, and started back to Kentucky. On reaching White river, Ind., they halted, and again started for Illinois. Late in the fall of 1829 they stopped near the South Fork timber, about three miles south of the present town of Rochester. The weather being too cold to travel, and it was too late in the season to build, the family spent that winter in the tent they had used all summer. In the spring of 1830 Mr. Pike had twenty acres under cultivation. He also built a log cabin in the edge of the prairie, and lined it with clap boards. The next winter being the time of the "deep snow," when it fell the wind drifted it around the house until it was almost covered, thus making it very warm. Mr. Pike made rails at twenty-five cents per hundred, until he earned one hundred dollars, with which he entered his first eighty acres of land. That required the making of forty thousand rails. Mr. and Mrs. Pike had three children in Sangamon county. Of their six children -

MIL rrON, born in Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, June 12, 1845, to Martha J. Porterfield. They had three children, and Mrs. Pike died March 25, 1855. He was married July 29, 1857, to Elizabeth M. Brownell. They have eight children, and reside in Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

GEORGE H., born in Kentucky, lived with the family in Sangamon county until he was twenty-one years old. He was married in Bureau county, but if living, his residence is not known.

THOMAS, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Baker, and had two children. He married Mrs. Sarah J. Breckenridge, whose maiden name was Mathews, and lives near Edinburg, Illinois.

ELMIRA J., born in Sangamon county, married Isaac Baker, who died, leaving one child, and she married Samuel Woodrow, has two children, and lives at the place where her parents settled in 1829, three miles south of Rochester, Illinois.

LUCINDA, born Nov. 29, 1833, in Sangamon county, married John F. Jones. They had one child, CHARLES T., who married Missouri Reavis, and lives at Campbellsburg, 111. J. F. Jones died, and his widow married Edward George. See his name.

PIPPIN, JOSEPH, was born April 2, 1782, in Cecil county, Md., and taken by his parents to Russell county, Va. He was there married, Dec. 12, 1812, to Sarah Haines, sister to Christopher Haines. See his name. She was born in Russell county, June 5, 1785. In

August, 1813, they moved to Allen county, Ky., where they had ten children, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov. 10, 1830, in what is now Cotton Hill township, where one child was born. Of their children -

JESSE, born Feb. 11, 1827, in Allen county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, June 25, 1862, to Isabel Craig. She was born August 28, 1840, in Glasgow, Scotland. They had five children; two died under six years. MARY E., JOHN A. and Burgess R. live with their parents, near New City, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Joseph Pippin died August 10, 1873, in his ninety-second year. His widow lives in Cotton Hill township, near where they settled in 1830. Their married life extended over more than sixty years.

PIRKINS, EDWARD, was born March 15, 1791, on the river Yadkin, Wilkes county, North Carolina. His parents moved, when he was quite young, to Adair county, Ky. He was married Aug. 20, 1812, in Campbell county, Tenn., to Anna Pierce, who was born March 28, 1796, in Blount county, Tenn. They made their home in Campbell county, Tenn., until they had four children, and they moved in company with the family of his father-in-law, Rob- ert Pierce, to Madison county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1819. The next spring the two families moved to Sangamon county, arriving in Api'il, 1820, on Richland creek, in what is now Cartwright township, where seven children were born. Of their eleven children -

LEAH, born March 29, 1815, in Campbell county, Tenn., married in Sangamon county, Dec. 16, 1841, to James W. Beekman, who was born Dec. 9, 1816, in Somerset county, N. J. They had five children, all born in Sangamon county. MARY E., born Dec. 7, 1842, died Feb. 4, 1847. CORNELIUS T., born Oct. 16, 1846, died Nov. n, 1867. JANE E. and SARAH L., twins, born Mar. 26, 1850. JANE E. married, Sept. 18, 1872, to, Thomas C. Richardson, had one child, MARY L., who died in infancy. They reside with Mrs. Richardson's father. SARAH . L. married, Oct. 12, 1871, to Winfield S. Caldwell, and reside in Menard county, five miles north of Pleasant Plains. " WILLIAM E., married Jan. i, 1874, to Julia S. Harrison. She died, leaving one child, EDWARD j. Mr. Beekman resides with his father. Mrs. Leah Beekman died, Feb. 21, 1873. James W. Beekman resides three and one-half miles northeast of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELIZA, born Dec. 25, 1816, in Campbell county, Tenn., married in Sangamon county to Edmund Crafton. They had nine children, and Mrs. Crafton died, in 1869, in Springfield.

ROBERT L., born April 29, 1819, in Campbell county, Tenn., married March n, 1841, in Menard county, to Harriet E. Bone, who was born Sept. 10, 1819, near Petersburg. They had five children, two of whom died in infancy. Of the other three - CHARLES R. lives in Curran township, near his father. FRANCES JENNIE, born March 7, 1844, man"ied, Feb. 8, 1866, to John F. Purvines. See his name. THOMAS M. lives in Curran township, near his father. Mrs. Harriet E. Pirkins died Sept. 22, 1851, and R. L. Pirkins was married, Nov. 3, 1853, to Emma M. Dorand, who was born July 15, 1825, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y.

They had one child, HARRIET E., who died, Nov. 16, 1860, in her seventh year. R. L. Pirkins and wife reside in Curran township, seven miles southwest of Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois.

EDWARD RILET, born Sept. 25, 1821, in Sangamon county, married June 16, 1846, to Rachel R. Butler. They had six children in Sangamon county. WILLIAM EDWARD, born March 21, 1849, married, Dec. 16, 1869, to Rose H. Cooper, who was born April 19, 1849. They have two children, ROSE BELLE and NELLIE, and reside five miles southeast of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois. CORDELIA E., born May 23, 1851, married, Oct. 31, 1871, to Wm. H. Little. See his name. He died at Chicago, Aug. 17, 1873, from an accident on the Chicago & Alton railroad, the night before. EMMA L., FANNIE M. and SALLIE B. reside with their parents. JULIA died in her fourth year. E. R. Pirkins lived in Cartwright township, three and one-half miles southwest of Richland station, until he was elected treasurer of Sangamon county, Oct., 1873, for two years, and now - 1876 - resides in Springfield, Illinois.

JOSEPH B.. born May 15, 1824, in Sangamon county, married Aug. 29, 1849, to Melinda A. lies. They had four children, one died in infancy. The other three - ANNIE C. P. married, October 20, 1869, to William E. Morrison. They had one child, JAMES DON, and Mrs. Morrison died, in 1874, at Morrison ville, Christian county, Illinois. JULIA R. and LOUISA M. reside with their father. Mrs. M. A. Pirkins died, Jan. 12, 1857, and J. B. Pirkins was married June 8, 1864, at Nicholasville, Ky., to Ann Mary Price, who was born Jan. 17, 1842, in Woodford county, Ky. They had three children, one of whom died in infancy. JOSEPH B., Jun., and ROBERT L. live with their parents. J. B. Pirkins resides near Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois. He was a member of Co. A, 4th 111. Inf., and served one year in the war with Mexico, under Col. E. D. Baker. He was elected, in Nov., 1858, sheriff of Sangamon county, for two years, and was President of the Sangamon county Agricultural Society, in 1872. He was the first President of the Society as now organized.

WILLIAM F., born Feb. 18, 1827, in Sangamon county, married, April 5, 1860, to Mary Say re. They had three children, viz: CLARENCE F., the second one, died in his second year. ANNIE L. and JENNIE E. reside with their parents, four miles northeast of Richland station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

FRANCIS M., born Nov. 19, 1832, in Sangamon county, went, in the summer of 1862, to California and Oregon, and from there to Idaho. He left Fort Berthold, on the Missouri river, for home, with about twenty others in a boat, and all of them were massacred by Sioux Indians, below that Fort, August 3, 1863.

REBECCA E., born Jan. 24, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 15, 1857, to William H. Wilton, who was born March 31, 1827, at Carlisle, Clinton county, Illinois. They had nine children. ANNA and EMMA, twins, FRANK, NED and HARRY, twins, WILLIE, LIZZIE and ELLA. They reside two and one-half miles north of Richland station, Sangamon county, Illinois, on the farm where her father settled in 1820.

Mrs. Anna Pirkins died Nov. i, 1854, and Mr. Edward Pirkins, now in his 84th year, resides with his children, principally at the farm where he settled in 1820.

Edward Pirkins remembers that when himself and his father-in-law, Mr. Pierce, were looking at the country they were at Island Grove, and Mr. Pierce thought it ought to be called lost grove because there was not more than enough timber for one family, and as one family could not live alone, it would be lost. They went to Richland creek because there was more timber there. Claims were laid to it all before it came into market, and when it was ready for entry the timber land was all taken very soon. It had been a source of great anxiety because there were no pre-emption laws to protect, the settlers, and they felt very much relieved when they had generally secured their homes. This happiness did not last long, for they soon began to worry about how long the timber would last. Mr. Pirkins remembers meeting four or five t)f his neighbors when the timber question came up. He gave it as his opinion, that he would cut the last stick of his timber in twenty years, and he would have to leave the country. One man who had read something about "Peat" or turf, tried to console those present with the thought that before the timber was exhausted a plan would be invented to break the prairie, and they could dry the sod, call it peat and burn it. There is more wood on his land now than when he entered it.

Edward Pirkins took the premium of a gold headed cane, at the Sangamon county Fair, Sept., 1875, for the best equestrianism by aged gentlemen. There were eleven entries, all over sixty years of age. Rev. A. Gross, on behalf of the society, said: "Mr. Pirkins, the committee chosen by the Sangamon county Fair, consider you the most graceful rider, and on behalf of the Society, I present you with this beautiful cane, to which we feel you are justly entitled."

PLAIN, DAVID S., born Feb. 27, 1824, near Greenville, Mechlenburg county, Ky. His mother died when he was two weeks old, and in 1835 ^e was brought to what is now Auburn township, by Samuel Short, who brought him up. David S. Plain was married Sept. 4, 1845, to Eliza Roach, who was born April 14, 1823, in Christian county, Ky. They have ten children -

EMILY J., born Feb. 9, 1847, was married Feb. 26, 1873, to W. A. Lowdermilk, of Auburn township. They have one child, CHARLES O., and re'side in Cass county, Missouri.

MIRANDA, born June 12, 1848, in Sangamon county, 111., was married May n, 1870, to Thomas R. Stroud. They moved to the vicinity of south Carrolton, Ky., but returned August 16, 1875. Thev have two children, ELIZA M. and EDGAR L., and reside in Auburn township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

AMERICA R., born Feb. 24, 1854, was married Dec. 24, 1873, to W. C. Mc- Glothlin, who was born in Green county, 111. They reside in Auburn township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARGARET M.,born May 4, 1864, all in Sangamon county, and the unmarried children reside with their parents, five miles southeast of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

PLANCK, JACOB C.. born Jan. 27, 1804, in Maryland, went, when a boy, to Kentucky, and was married in Flemingsburg, Fleming county, Ky., about 1826, to Mary M. Rogers, who was born there, April 4, 1806. They moved to Springfield, 111., in the autumn of 1826, where they had nine children, one of whom died in infancy, and one aged seven years, Of the other seven -

E ME LINE, born Dec. 4, 1829, in Springfield, was married Dec., 1848, to Walter Davis, a native of Richmond, Virginia. They had four children, three of whom died young. Mr. Davis died Jan. 6. 1861, and Mrs. Davis died Oct. 4, 1863, both in Springfield, Illinois, leaving one child, CLARA, born May 21, 1854. She was married March 25, 1875, to James Hoyt, a native of Williamsburg, New York. They live in Springfield, Illinois.

yULIA y., born July 24, 1832, in Springfield, was married there, Oct. 6, 1852, to Joseph B.! Fosselman, who was born March 4, 1830, in Perry county, Penn. They have two living children, ANNA M. was married Feb. 23, 1876, to Emery Wolgamot. See his name. EDWARD lives with his parents. J. B. Fosselman came to Springfield in 1850, and being an experienced druggist, he engaged in that business, and prosecuted it for ten years, when he changed to the wholesale grocery trade, which he continued thirteen years. He is now in the drug business in Springfield, 111.

WILLIAM H., born Oct. 16, 1835, in Springfield, was married there in 1863, to Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, whose maiden name was Abrams. They have one child, KATIE, and live in St. Louis, Missouri.

AMELIA R, born May 25, 1839, in Springfield, was married Dec. 24, 1860, to Alexander R. Dodds. See his name. They had one child, EVA MAY, and Mr. Dodds died Jan., 1864. Mrs. Amelia R. Dodds and her daughter live in Springfield, Illinois.

CHARLES, born Dec. 10, 1842, in Springfield, was married Dec. i, 1868, to Mrs. Hattie Bailey, whose maiden name was Stevens, a native of Rochester, New York. They live in Holland, Ottawa county, Michigan.

MART E., born Sept. 13, 1849, in Springfield, was married there, Feb. 18, 1865, to James Smith, who was born May 20, 1841, in Vermont. They had one child, LILLIE MAY, and Mr. Smith died No v., 1874, in Sandusky, O. Mrs. Smith and her daughter live in Holland, Ottawa county, Michigan.

PLUNKETT, JOHN H., was born Oct. 3, 1782, in Cabarras county, N. C. Elizabeth Purviance was born March 17, 1785, in the same county. They were married Feb. 19, 1804, and had seven children there. The family then moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in May, 1823, at the north side of Richland creek, in what is now Cartwright township, where, two children were born. Of their nine children -

ROBERT S., born June 15, 1808, in North Carolina, married in Sangamon county, Nov. 5, 1829, to Ruth Combs, who was born in Green county, Ky. They had six living children. MARTHA A., born July 4, 1832, married Wm. Bumgardner, and both died in Ef- fingham county, leaving five children. ASA W., born April 3, 1834, married Jan. 12, 1853, to Nancy J. Willis, who was born July 21, 1831, in Kentucky. They had seven children; two died in infancy, and MARY ETHEL died in her ninth year. ROBERT s., EMMA j., JOHN w. and LILLIE MAY live with their parents, near Pleasant Plains, 111. JASON D., born Jan. i, 1836, was married Mar. 5, 1857,10 Catharine Dunkel. They have four living children, HARLEM o., WILLIAM H., HATTIE c. and RUTH c., and live four miles east of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, 111. RICHARD M., born Dec. 13, 1838, died April 28, 1852. JOHN N., born Sept. 30, 1840, enlisted on the first call for seventy-five thousand men, April, 1861, for three months, in Co. E, 7th 111. Inf., and served full term. He enlisted August 11, 1862, in Co. F, H4th 111. Inf., for three years, served until Oct. 18, 1864, when he was discharged on account of physical disability, by the special order of Abraham Lincoln, on the personal application of his father, who was a soldier in Capt. Lincoln's company, in the Black Hawk war. John N. Plunkett was married August 24, 1865, to Mary C. Sutton, who was born Oct. 22, 1843, They have four children, ITHA E., MINNIE E., MELINDA j and JOHN c., and live one mile west of Salisburv, Sangamon county, 111. REBECCA J., born Oct. 15, 1841, married March 13, 1862, to Amos D. Irwin. See his name. Mrs. Ruth Plunkett died Feb. 23, 1844, and Robert S. Plunkett married Anna Alexander, who died without children, and Mr. Plunkett was married Nov. n, 1850, to Mrs. Marilda Gateley, whose maiden name was Hind. They have two children, LAURA N. and RUTH D., and reside three and a half miles east of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELLEN married Zachariah Wilbourn. They had six children, and moved to the vicinity of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where Mrs. Wilbourn died. Her children are all married, and live in Iowa. Mr. Wilbourn resides near Mt. Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa.

JOHN B., born in 1818, in North Carolina, married in Sangamon county, 111., to Mary Conner. They have six children. Their son, WILLIAM, is married and lives two and a half miles south of Pleasant Plains, 111. John B. Plunkett and family moved to the vicinity of Edina, Sullivan county, Missouri, where they now reside.

J OSEPH M.. born Sept. 6,1820, in North Carolina, married in Sangamon county to Lucy Cone. He died May, 1873, in Petersburg, 111., leaving a widow and three children.

JAMES Z., born Sept. 16, 1822, in North Carolina, married June 15, 1848, in Sangamon county, to Martha A. King. They had five children. MARTHA A., the third child, died in infancy. LUCETTA married William R. Strode. See his name. They live near Bluff City, Nodaway county, Mo. JULIA A., born March 5, 1852, married James R, Lightfoot. See his name. They moved to the vicinity of Marysville, Nodaway county, Mo., and returned to Sangamon county in 1876. LUCY E. and CHARLES live with their parents, near Chinkapin Hill, four miles northwest of Springfield, 111. James L. Plunkett accompanied his father to North Carolina in 1839 or 40, when they brought with them his grandfather, James Plunkett.

BENJAMIN H., born June 15, 1825, in Sangamon county, married Eliza Cone, had eight children, and he died, in Petersburg, in 1868. His widow married Thomas Hobbs. He died, and she lives near Petersburg, Illinois.

SILAS PINK NET, born June 15, 1828, in Sangamon county, married, Feb. 26, 1851, in Menard county, to Salina Keltner, who was born May 14, 1833, in Cass county, 111. They have four living children, CORNELIUS A., JAMES H., EMMA E. and NANCY E., and live three miles east of Pleasant Plains, 111. It is on the farm where he was born.

John H. Plunkett died Feb. 13, 1849, and his widow died May 8, 1858, and both are buried in Cartwright township. He was the eldest son of James Plunkett, who was born Feb. 4, 1767, and his wife, Agnes Huston, born Sept. 19, 1765. She died in North Carolina, Feb. 26. 1838, and her husband came to Sangamon county, in company with their son, John H., whose name heads this sketch, on his return from a visit to North Carolina. James Plunkett died in Sangamon county, in 1841, aged seventy-three years.

POFFENBERGER, CHRISTIAN, was born in Washington county, Md., and was there married to Mary Brantner. They had seven children in Maryland, and moved, in 1826, to Franklin county, near Columbus, O., where four children were born. The family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct., 1839, in Round Prairie, five miles east of Springfield. Of their children -

BARBARA, and a twin that died in infancy, were born in Maryland. She married in Sangamon county to Daniel Price. They have two children, and live in Abingdon, Iowa.

GEORGE W., born Oct. 16, 1817, in Washington county, Md., married in Sangamon county, Feb. 9, 1841,10 Rachel Jones. They have six children born in Sangamon county. JOHN A., born March 4, 1843, married Feb. 4, 1869, to Mary E. Keys. She died March 7, 1871, and he lives with his parents. DANIEL, born July 19, 1846, married Jan. 4, 1870, to Rebecca J. Matthews. They have two children, and live in Cotton Hill township. MARY E., born July 30, 1848, lives with her parents. GEORGE W., Jun., born Feb. 15, 1852, married in 1874 to Belle Fairchild, daughter of Charles Fairchild. See his name. They have one child, and live at the old George Brunk homestead, in the northwest corner of Cotton Hill township. ELIZA A., born April i, 1854, married Sept. 4, 1873, to Luther Osborn Meredith. See his name. EDWIN, born May 22, 1857, lives with his parents. George W. Poffenberger and wife reside two and a half miles west of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

SAMUEL, born in 1819, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county to Louisa Dockum, moved to Iowa in 1846, had one child, and Mrs. P. died. He married Hannah Smith, had two children, and she died. Mr. Poifenberger is married again, and resides near Winterset, Iowa.

SARAH A., born August 20, 1821, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county, Dec. 24, 1840, to Adam Unclebee. They had two children. CHARLES served three years in the 3d 111. Cav. ; married Agnes C. Lake, and she died March 16, 1871. See Lake family. Charles Unclebee is married again, and lives in Cotton Hill township. Adam Unclebee died March 20, 1842, and his widow married John S. Hillman. See his name.

George W., Mary Ann, John

WILLIAM C., born March 22, 1834, in Columbus, Ohio, was married Oct. 29, 1858, in Sangamon county, 111., to Lucinda Safley. They have five children, GEORGE W., MARY ANN, JOHN McC., MAY and WILLIAM D., who live with their parents in Springfield, Illinois.

Christian PofFenberger moved his family to Jefferson county, near Fairfield, Iowa, in 1846. His wife died February, 1853, and he died October, 1857, aged seventy-one years. They both died in Iowa.

POFFENBERGER, WILLIAM, a brother to Christian, was born in Washington county, Md., married there to Elizabeth Harris, moved to Ohio, and to Sangamon county, with his brother in 1839. Their daughter -

ANDRE W J., born in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1864, in Co. A, i45th 111. Inf., for one hundred days, served one hundred and sixty days, and was honorably discharged. He was married Oct. 2i/ 1868, to Phebe Robb. They have two children, WILLIAM and PARSETTA, and live one mile west of

POLEY, JOSEPH, was born Feb. i, 1802, in Logan county, Ky. His father, Charles Poley, or Pouley, was a native of Paris, France, and was educated there with the view of his becoming a preacher in the Lutheran church. When he came to America he abandoned the ministry, married, moved to Logan county, Ky., and brought up a family there. He then moved to Muhlenburgh county, in the same State, where his daughter, Pauline, married John Jacob Rauch. See his name. Joseph Poley, whose name heads this sketch, was married there, Nov. 20, 1825, to Hannah Gossett, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1829 in what is now Auburn township. They had four children -

ELISHA, born Sept. 20, 1826, in Muhlenburgh county, Ky., and married in Sangamon county to Sally Shaver, who died, and he married Mary E. Thrasher. They moved overland, in company with his brother-in-law, Abram Gamble, arriving with their families in Solano county, California, in Sept., 1860. In November, Mr. Poley and Mr. Gamble rode five miles on horseback, without saddles, to vote for Abraham Lincoln. A few years later, Mr. Poley moved back to Auburn, Sangamon county. They have three children - JOSEPH G. and ELBERT, born in California, and HARRY, born in Sangamon county. Elisha Poley is a member of the firm of Poley & Butler, commission merchants, Chicago, Illinois, and now - August, 1876 - expects to 'move his family there, from Auburn, soon.

NANCT C., born March 24, 1828, in Muhlenburgh county, Ky., was married at the homestead in Sangamon county, Oct. 23, 1851, to Thomas S. Parks. See his name.

Mrs. Hannah Poley died in 1832, in Sangamon county, and Joseph Poley was married, Nov. 6, 1834, in the same county, to Frances Gates. See Gates family. They had ten children in Sangamon county.

1863, to Nancy E. Groves, who was born April i, 1843, in Macoupin county, 111. They have three living children, FLORA, ANSON and ORVILLE, and reside four and one-half miles southeast of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MART C., born May 5, 1838 in Sangamon county, was married, June 4, 1857, to Abram Gamble, who was born Dec. 25, 1825, in Carroll county, Ohio. They have three living children, CHARLES E., FANNIE L. and GEORGE A. In 1859 Mr. and Mrs. Gamble moved to Kansas, and in the spring of 1860 they were joined by Elisha Poley with his family and Benjamin F. Poley, and moved overland to California. Mr. and Mrs. Gamble returned to Auburn in 1866. Not enjoying good health here, they started, in the spring of 1867, and crossed the plains to California. They now - 1876 - reside in Napa City, Napa county, California.

1864, to B. O. Foster. They have three children, FLORENCE P., CARRIE A. and FRANK L. Mr. and Mrs. Foster lived several years, in California, but now - 1876 - they reside in Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

1865, in Adams county, Illinois, to Mary C. Wolf, a native of that county. They had four children - LOR.ENA died in infancy. LENA A., GENEVRA and LEWIS ELMORE live with their parents. Isaac J. Poley is a banker in Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois, and resides there.

MATILDA F., born Jan. 10, 1844, in Sangamon county, was married, Nov. 20, 1862, to G. W. Barnett. They have three living children, ADAH F., FREDDIE C. and ARTHUR, and reside near Carlinville, Illinois.

JOSEPH, Jnn., born May 13, 1846, in Sangamon county, was married April 15, 1873, at Liberty, Adams county, Illinois, to Josephine Collins, who was born June 28, 1852, in that county. They have one child, WILMER M., and reside

Joseph Poley died Aug. 17, 1866, and his widow, Mrs. Frances Poley, resides at the family homestead, two and a half miles southeast of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois. Joseph Poley acted as justice of the peace for many years; he was a man whose counsels were often sought by his neighbors. His advice, when followed, always led to the settlement of difficulties without litigation, and in a peaceful and friendly manner. His five sons and five sons-in-law are all, with perhaps one exception, free from the use of tobacco, and all avoid intoxicating drinks. Neither of them was ever charged with an act in violation of law ; and it is averred by one of the sons-inlaw, that, as a logical sequence, they all invariably vote the Republican ticket.

Mr. Poley brought some money with him to the county, but his greatest success was after coming here. He left his heirs the title to three thousand acres of land, two thousand five hundred of it was in one body.

POLLOCK, THOMAS, born April 15, 1812, near Brownsville, Penn. He came to Sangamon county about 1837, an(l was one °f the engineering corps that surveyed and located the Northern Cross railroad, now the Toledo, Wabash and Western railroad. He was married Dec. 5, 1839, to Elizabeth A. Foutch. They had ten children in Sangamon county, three of whom died under seven years -

THOMAS, Jun., born Sept. 22, 1840, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. 12, 1862, for three years, in Co. A, io6th 111. Inf. He was appointed Corporal, promoted to Orderly Sergeant, 2d Lieutenant, and was commissioned ist Lieutenant on his birth day, in 1864. He served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged, August, 1865. He resides with his mother, (1876), near Berlin, Illinois.

SARAH J., born Sept. 17, 1847, in Sangamon county, married Oct. i, 1865, to James H. Malyon, who was born in 1840 in London, England. He was a bugler in the British army, at the siege of Sevastopal, Russia, in 1854, came to America soon after, and to Sangamon county in the fall of 1857. He enlisted August 12, 1861, at Springfield, in Co. D, 26th 111. Inf., for three years. Re-enlisted as a veteran, Jan., 1864, served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged at Springfield, July, 1865. They have four children, LIZLIE J., KITTIE F., HARRY D. and an infant, and live in St. Louis, Missouri. -1873.

POND, BILLIOUS, was born June 26, 1781, in Northbury, now Plymouth, Litchfield county, Conn. Rhoda Orton was born in the same county, April 17, 1786. They were married Oct. 1,1, 1801, in Niagara county, N. Y., and had nine children there. A colony left Potsdam, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and by previous arrangement, through the agency of Mr. Timothy Turner, Mr. Pond joined the colony at Oswego, and acted as its pastor or minister. They arrived Nov. 26, 1832, at old Sangamo town, in Sangamon county, Illinois, and the next spring all moved to the vicinity of the present Farmingdale station. Mr. Pond preached during the winter of 1833 and '4, near Carrolton, Greene county, and in the spring of 1834 returned to his family at Camden, N. Y. He moved his family, bringing all his living children, and arrived July 27, 1837, a^ w^at is now Farmingdale, Sangamon county. Of their children -

MAR VI N B., born Nov. 3, 1807, in New York, married there twice, came to Sangamon county in 1837, and in 1839 moved to Menard, and from there to Mason county, where he died in Ju.y, 1871, leaving a family. His widow's maiden name was Jane Beerup. She lives in Havana, 111.

SAMUEL S., born August 9, 1816, in New York, married Emily Dufer, and she died, leaving three children. He married Mrs. Hester Durrell, whose maiden name was Moore. They have three living children, and reside near Greenview, Menard county.

FRANCIS X., born March 17, 1819, in New York, came to Sangamon county with his parents, married in Galesburg, 111. They have no living children, and reside near Greenview, Menard county.

DA VID B., born July 5, 1822, in New York, married in Sangamon county, March 25, 1845, to Susan Moore. They had five children. - FRANCIS A. fell from a fence and broke his neck, in his third year. Two died in infancy. TRYPHENA S. lives with her father. JOHN E., born August 4, 1851, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 5, 1874, to Alice Buchanan. They have one child, NELLIE E., and live at Greenview, Menard county, Illinois. Mrs. Susan Pond died March 10, 1855, and David B. Pond was married to Mary E. Watson, who was born Jan. i, 1833, in Erie county, N. Y. They reside adjoining Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois, on the east.

Mrs. Rhoda Pond died Oct. 8, 1838, and Rev. Billious Pond was married, Oct., 1839, to Mrs. Melissa Moore, whose maiden name was Northrope. They had one living child -

HENRY S., born Aug. 16, 1841, in Sangamon county, went to Montana Territory, in 1862, and was married there to Delia Kirkpatrick. They have two children, MARY and MAURICE E., and reside in Bannock City, Motana.

POOR, EVAN, was married in Tennessee to Mahala Enochs, a native of that State. They had one child in Tennessee, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1829 at Springfield. One child was born in Sangamon county, and Mrs. Mahala Poor died. Evan Poor was married to Mary Moris. They had one child. Of his three children -

WILLIAM, born Nov. 28, 1827, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county, July 13, 1848, to Elizabeth C. Smith. They had six children - JAMES MADISON, born April 21, 1849, was killed Nov. 1 6, 1862, by a horse that he was riding, falling on and crushing him. MARY C., born Sept. 18, 1852, married April 20, 1871, to William Curtwright, have one child, WILLIAM s., and live near Curran, Illinois. MARTHA J. lives with her parents. MELISSA A. died, March 25, 1871, in her tenth year. JOHN CARROLL and THOMAS M. reside with their parents, one mile north of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois. - JAMES A., born Feb. 8, 1830, in Sangamon county, married, March 12, 1857, to Sarah A. Smith. They had three children, ELLIS A., WILLIAM R. and EMMA M. James A. Poor died Nov. 12, 1867. His widow married, Dec. 24, 1868, to James McCausland, and live one mile north of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Evan Poor died in Springfield, in 1834. Mrs. Mary Poor, after living a widow twenty-seven years, married Rev. Mr. Lynn, a Presbytei'ian minister, and resides near Glasgow, Jefferson county, Iowa - 1874.

PORTER, JOSIAH, was born April 10, 1802, in Chester District, South Carolina. Mr. Porter attended Bourbon Academy and Centre College, Ky., and completed his literary course by graduating at the Indiana State University, at Bloomington, in Sept., 1832. He received his theological education at Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, and was licensed to preach, by Shiloh Presbytery, at Mur« freesboro, Tenn., Oct. 3, 1835. After a few months' missionary labor, in Tennessee, he came to Chatham, Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct. i, 1836. After spending one year with the Chatham and Sugar Creek churches, he went within the bounds of Crawfordsville Presbytery, and was ordained by that Presbytery, at Waveland, in Api'il, 1838. In Nov., 1838, he took charge of the church at Wayneville, Dewitt county, 111., and solemnized the first marriage in that county. In the spring of 1845 ^e returned to Sangamon county, and acted as colporteur, until Jan. i, 1846, when he entered upon the missionary work of supplying the vacant churches of Illinois Presbytery, which was then New School. In the fall of 1846 he became stated supply to Winchester Presbyterian church. In the spring of 1849 he took charge of the Presbyterian church at Chatham, and this has been his home to the present time. In 1851 he took charge of the Spring creek Presbyterian church, for two years, and served the church at Virden one year. He is now without charge - 1874.

MARTHA A. They both reside with their parents, on a farm adjoining Chatham, Sangamon county, 111., on the west. For Mr. Porter's recollection of events connected with the " sudden change," see page 66.

POTTLE, JEREMIAH, was born about 1800, near Camden, Knox county, or Waldo, Waldo county, Maine. When he was twelve years old his parents moved to Bracken county, Ky. Martha McDaniel was born Oct. 13, 1794, near Stroude station, Clark county, Ky. They were married April 2, 1828, in Bracken county, Ky., and had four children there. They then moved to Indianapolis, Ind., where one child was born, and from there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1836, at Buffalo Hart Grove, where one child was born. Of their six children -

DANIEL, born April 12, 1834, in Bracken county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, 111., Feb. 23, 1859, to Mary E. Jones. They had four children, JEREMIAH and HOMER died young. LAURA and STROTHER live with their father. Mrs. Mary E. Pottle died Jan. 24, 1868, and Daniel Pottle was married Nov., 1874, to Sarah E. Ford, and reside three miles east of Buffalo Hart Station. Daniel Pottle served in Co. I, 9th 111. Cav., from Feb., 1865 to Nov. 18, 1865, when he was honorably discharged.

POWER, GEORGE, was born Feb. 18, 1798, in Fayette county, Ky. His father was born in Virginia, and had spent some time in North Carolina before he went to Kentucky. When George was about ten years old, his parents moved to Bath county. He was there married, Feb. 10, 1820, to Nancy Wilcockson. They had one child in Bath county, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1821, -in what is now Fancy Creek township, where one child was born. Of their two children -

WILLIAM £>., born May 2, 1821, in Bath county, Ky., brought by his parents to Sangamon county the same year, and was married, Jan. 6, 1843, to Nancy J. Barnett. They had five children, namely: ARMINTA L., born Oct. 8, 1843, married, March 3, 1869, to Joel Dalbey, who was born August 28, 1829, in Pickaway county, Ohio. They had one child, JENNIE EMELINE. She died in the spring of 1875, and Mr. and Mrs. Dalbey live in Springfield, Illinois. JAMES L., born May 4, 1847, died in infancy. GEORGE D., born May 14, 1851, married, Oct. 25, 1871,10 Eliza J. Dunlap. They have one child, WILLIAM D., Jun., and live near Cantrall, Illinois. MARY E. and WILLIAM E. live with their mother. William D. Power was elected County Judge in 1857, re-elected in 1861, served until March 2, 1863, when he died in office. His widow and children reside in Springfield, Illinois.