Sangamon County, Illinois - The whole text, 1876 (part 24 of 31)

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It was suggested that Mr. Reed go in advance to see what had become of them, and hurry up supplies. la all cases of that kind those remaining were to take care of the families of those detached for the good of all. The two Donner families were in advance of the main body. Walter Herron was with George Donner, and when Mr. Reed overtook them, Herron volunteered to go with him. Having but one horse, they rode by turns. Their provisions gave out, and they traveled for days without food, except wild geese and other game which they occasionally killed on Truckee river. When they reached the Sierra Nevada mountains, Herron wanted to kill the horse, and Mr. Reed persuaded him from it by agreeing to kill him rather than perish with hunger. That afternoon Herron became delirious for want of food. They found Jive beans. Herron ate three of them, and Reed the other two. The next morning they came upon some abandoned wagons, which they ransacked, but failed to find any food. Taking the tar-bucket from one of the wagons, and scraping the tar from the bottom, Mr. Reed discovered a streak of rancid tallow in the bottom, which he made known to Herron, who swallowed a piece about the size of a walnut without giving it a smell. He swallowed a second piece, and wanted more, which Mr. Reed refused to give him, having himself eaten some which made him deathly sick. They soon after descended into Bear river valley, where they found some emigrants in wagons, who gave them food and relieved their sufferings. They there met Mr. Stanton, and two Indians sent by Captain Sutter to aid in carrying provisions. Mr. Reed was so emaciated that Mr. Stanton did not recognize him until they had conversed with each other several minutes. The next morning, Oct. 23, 1846, each party continued their journey. Mr. Reed went on to Captain Sutler's, where he secured thirty horses, one mule and two Indians to aid him in bringing out the sufferers. He was joined by Mr. McCutchen, who had been separated from Mr. Stanton by sickness. With some flour and beef they started to meet the suffering emigrants in the mountains. After weekL- spent in unavailing efforts, they had to return, as men and horses sank out of sight in the snow. It was evident that nothing could be done until spring, the mountaineers all being absent fighting Mexicans, the war with Mexico having commenced the year before, jand the natives of Spanish and Indian blood having expressed a determination to exterminate the Americans.

Snow commenced falling the latter part of October, and caught the whole party, not in a body, but scattered along some distance, the extremes being probably a day's journey apart. The following journal kept by one of the suffei'ers, includes the time from Oct. 31, 1846,10 Mar. i, 1847. This is taken from a copy of the Illinois State Journal of Sept. 16, 1847, and is dated :

Came to this place on the 315! of last month; went into the Pass, the snow so deep we were unable to find the road, and when within three miles from the summit, turned back to this shanty, on Truckey's Lake. Stanton came up one day after we arrived here; we again took our teams and wagons and made another unsuccessful attempt to cross the mountains, as it continued to snow all the time. We now have killed most part of our cattle, having to remain here until next spring, and live on lean meat, without bread or salt. It snowed during the space of eight days, with little intermission, after our arrival, though now clear an'd pleasant, freezing at night; the snow nearly gone from the valleys.

Nov. 21 - Fine morning, wind northwest; twenty-two of our company about starting to cross the mountains this day, including Stanton and his Indians.

Nov. 25 - Cloudy ; looks like the eve of a snow storm ; our mountaineers are to make another trial to-morrow, if fair; froze hard last night.

Dec. i - Still snowing; wind west; snow about six or six and one-half feet deep; very difficult to get wood, and we are completely housed up; our cattle all killed but two or three, and these, with the horses and Stanton's mules, all supposed to be lost in the snow; no hopes of finding them alive.

Dec. 9 - Commenced snowing about eleven o'clock; wind northwest; took in Spitzer yesterday, so weak that he cannot rise without help, caused by starvation. Some have a scant supply of beef; Stanton trying to get some for himself and Indians; not likely to get much. - Dec. 10 - Snowed fast all night, with heavy squalls of wind; continues to snow; now about seven feet in depth.

Dec. 14 - Snows faster than any previous day; Stanton and Graves, with several others, making preparations to cross the mountains on snow shoes; snow eight feet on a level.

Dec. if - Pleasant; Wm. Murphy returned from the mountain party last evening: Bayless Williams died night before last; Milton and Noah started for Donner's eight days ago, not returned yet; think they are lost in the snow.

Dec. 21 - Milton got back last night from Donner's camp; sad news; Jacob Donner, Samuel Shoemaker, Rhinehart and Smith are dead ; the rest of them in a low situation; snowed all night, with a strong southwest wind.

Dec. 23 - Clear to-day; Milton took some of his meat away; all well at their camp. Began this day to read the "Thirty days' Prayers;" Almighty God grant the requests of unworthy sinners!

Dec. 25 - Began to snow yesterday, snowed all night and snows yet, rapidly ; extremely difficult to find wood, offered our prayers to God this, Christmas, morning; the prospect is appalling, but we trust in Him.

Dec. 27 - Cleared off yesterday; continues clear; snow nine feet deep; wood growing scarcer; a tree, when felled, sinks into the snow, and is hard lo be got at.

Dec. ji - Last of the year; may we, with the help of God, spend the coming year better than we have the past, which we propose to do if it be the will of the Almighty to deliver us from our present dreadful situation; Amen. Morning fair, but cloudy; wind east-by-south; looks like another snow storm; snow storms are dreadful to us; the snow at present is very deep.

Jan. i, 1847 - We pray the God of mercy to deliver us from our present calamity, if it be His holy will. Commenced snowing last night, and snows a little yet; provisions getting scant; dug up a hide from under the snow yesterday ; have not commenced on it yet.

Jan. 4 - Fine morning, looks like, spring; Mrs. Reed and Virginia, Milton Elliot and Eliza Williams started a short time ago, with the hope of crossing the mountain; left the children here; it was

Jan. 8 - Very cold this morning ; Mrs. Reed and others came back, could not find their way, on the other side of the mountains; theyjiave nothing but hides to live on. %

Jan. JTJ - Snowing fast; snow higher than the shanty; it must be thirteen feet deep; cannot get wood this morning; it is a dreadful sight for us to look upon.

Jan. 15 - Clear day again; wind northwest; Mrs. Murphy blind; Lanlhron not able to get wood ; has but one axe between him and Kiesburg; it looks like another storm; expecting some account from Sutler's soon.

Jan. 26 - Cleared up yesterday ; to-day fine and pleasant, wind south; in hopes we are done with snow storms; those who went to Slitter's not yet returned; provisions getting scant; people growing weak ; living: on small allowance of

Jan. 28 - Commenced snowing yesterday - still continues to-day. Lewis (Sutler's Indian,) died three day's ago; food growing scarcer; don't have fire enough to cook our hides.

subsisted upon ; she regained two pieces only, the balance they have taken. You may judge from this what our fare is in camp; there is nothing to be had by hunting yet, perhaps there soon will be.

Jan. ji - The sun does not shine out brilliant this morning; froze hard last night; wind northwest. Lanthron Murphy died last night about one o'clock; Mrs. Reed went to Graves' this morning to look after goods.

Feb. 5 - Snowed hard until 12 o'clock last night; many uneasy for fear we shall all perish with hunger; we have but little meat left, and only three hides; Mrs. "Reed has nothing but one hide, and that is on Graves' house; Milton lives there, and likely will keep that; Eddy's child died last night.

Feb. 6 - It snowed faster last night and to-day than it has done this winter before; still continues without intermission; wind southwest; Murphy's folks and Kiesburg say they cannot eat hides; I wish we had enough of them ; Mrs. Eddy is very weak.

Feb. 10 - Beautiful morning; thawing in the sun; Milton Elliot died last night at Murphy's shanty; Mrs. Reed went there this morning to see after his effects; J. Denton trying to borrow meat for Graves; had none to give; they had nothing but hides; all are entirely out of meat; but a little we have ; our hides are nearly all eat up; with God's help spring will soon smile upon us.

Feb. 16 - Commenced to rain last evening, and turned to snow during the night, and continued until morning; weather changeable, sunshine, then light showers of hail, and wind at times. We all feel very unwell; the snow is not getting much less at present.

Feb. 19 - Froze hard last night. Seven men arrived from California yesterday evening with provisions, but left the greater part on the way. To-day it is clear and warm for this region ; some of the men have gone to Donner's camp; they will start back on Monday.

Feb. 22 - The Californians started this morning, twenty-four in number, some in a very weak state; Mrs. Kiesburg started with them, and left Kiesburg here, unable to go; buried Pike's child this morning in the snow; it died two days ago.

Feb. 23 - Froze hard last night; to-day pleasant and thawy - has the appearance of spring, all but the deep snow; wind south-south-east; shot a dog to-day, and dressed his flesh.

Feb. 23 - To-day Mrs. Murphy says the wolves are about to dig up the dead bodies around her shanty, and the nights arc too cold to watch them, but we hear them howl.

Feb. 26 - Hungry times in camp; plenty of hides, but the folks wont eat them; we eat them with tolerable good appetite, thanks be to the Almighty God. Mrs. Murphy said here yesterday, that she thought she would commence on Milton and eat him; I do not think she has done so yet; it is distressing. The Donner's told the California folks, four days ago, that they would commence on the dead people, if they did not succeed that day or the next in finding their cattle, then ten or twelve feet under the snow, and did not know the spot or any where near it; they have done it ere this.

Feb. 28 - One solitary Indian passed by yesterday; came from the lake; had a heavy pack on his back; gave me five or six roots, resembling onions in shape; tasted some like a sweet potato, full of tough little fibres.

Feb. 29 - Ten men arrived this morning from Bear Valley, with provisions. We all leave in two or three days, and cache our goods here. They say the snow will remain until June.

The above mentioned ten men started for the Valley with seventeen of the sufferers; they traveled fifteen miles and a severe snow storm came on ; they left fourteen of the emigrants, the writer of the above journal and his family, and succeeded in getting in but three children. Lieut. Woodworth immediately went to their assistance, but before he reached them the«y had eaten three of their number, who had died from hunger and fatigue; the remainder Lieut. Woodworth's party brought in. April, 1847, the last member of the party was brought to Cap't Suiter's Fort. It is utterly impossible to give any description of the sufferings of the company. Your readers can form some idea of them by perusing the above diary.

The emigrants thus caught in the mountains died, one by one, until thirty-six of the eighty-one who left Independence in the spring with such high hopes, literally starved to death. To make it more intelligible than the journal would indicate, I give the names of those from Sangamon county : -

George Donner and his wife, Mrs. Tamsen Donner; Jacob Donner and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Donner; her son, William Hook, sometimes called William Donner; the three sons of Jacob Donner and wife, Isaac, Lewis and Samuel; four unmarried men, Bayless Williams, Milford Elliott, James Smith and John Denton, making a total of twelve from Sangamon county ivho perisJied from exposure and want of food. For Mr. Elliott's family history, see page 285. For the Donner family history, see page

I do not think it will be agreeable to the surviving members of the bereaved families, neither is it congenial to my feelings, to dwell on the horrors of that dreary winter among the inhospitable mountains. Those who could have given most in detail, were always reticent on that subject. They doubtless would have regarded it as the greatest boon that could have been conferred upon themselves if every recollection of it could ha.ve been erased from their memories. With the exception of the glimpse into the abyss of woe given in the preceding journal, I think it best, now, in this centennial year, after the lapse of the lifetime of one generation, to draw a veil over the horrors of the scene, and only extract such lessons from it as will tend to elevate our common humanity.

Jacob Donner died among the first, if not the first. He was a tender-hearted, conscientious man, and it is attested that his death was caused more by grief at the present and prospective sufferings of his family, than from disease or want of food. George and Jacob Donner were members of the German Prairie Christian church. See 'what Isaac Taylor says about it. The five surviving children of George Donner, and the three surviving children of Jacob Donner and wife, with their descendents, are among the most respected citizens of California. A few words more with reference to Mrs. George Donner. She was a native of New England - Maine, I believe - and was a lady in the highest sense of the word. Some of the citizens of Sangamon county remember her especially on account of her perfect self-control and power to govern. She taught school in the vicinity of Auburn when it was more unusual for a lady to teach than it is now. Some almost full grown, rough, uncouth young men were in her school, and yet she would govern them as thoroughly as though they were children. This selfcontrol seems never to have left her. According to the testimony of Mr. Reed, who, after his own family had been rescued, vis. ted the two camps of the Donners, to find Mrs. Jacob Donner and and Mr. George Donner helpless, and no means of removing them. They were prepared to leave provisions, and a man at each camp to care for the sick, and used every argument to induce Mrs. George Donner to go with them, but with the full knowledge of the probabilities that she would lose her own life she utterly refused, prefering to meet death in the discharge of her duty to her husband rather than save her own life by seeming to abandon him in his hour of peril ; and so she died, as truly a martyr as though she had been burned at the stake.

some of them. Hiram O. Miller proved to be courageous and efficient through all. Milford Elliott could have saved his own life, and having neither wife, children, or any other blood relative among the sufferers, no blame could have been laid to his charge if he had saved himself by pushing through, but he would not abandon helpless women and children, and his life paid the forfeit. The Eddy familyj of Belleville, Illinois, was totally obliterated.

All that is known of C. T. Stanton is that he was from Chicago, Illinois. In my opinion, history does not record the name of a greater hero. It does not appear that he was in any way related, or even acquainted, with one of the sufferers previous to their departure from the States. He aided many of them on their way, and after their calamities came upon them, pushed his way through the mountains and reached Sutler's fort, where he was absolutely safe; but he knew there were men, women and children perishing with cold and hunger, and knowing this, there was no rest for him. He secured supplies of food and mules, enlisted the sympathies of two of the unlettered children of the forest, and all pushed on days and weeks, through storms and snow-drifts, until even the two savages, prompted by him, fell a sacrifice in the cause of humanity. Savages, did I say? I reverently withdraw the word. Their conduct would put to shame thousands who have been reared under the best of Christian influences. There can be no more exalted evidence of humanity than to give one life with the hope of rescuing others from impending death. Mr. Stanton was one of the party of fifteen who attempted to pass out of the mountains, starting Dec. 16, 1846. He was weak and emaciated, as all were, and on the twenty-first of December became snow blind, and that night failed to reach the camp. The whole party lay in camp the next day waiting for him, but he never came. A party of men who went in the mountains the next summer to bring out the goods belonging to the Donner and Graves children, found his bones at the very tree where they left him on the twenty-first of December. They were chewed and broken in small pieces. The only way they could recog- nize them to be Stanton's was by a letter from his sister in one of his pockets, with some tobacco, the latter having prevented the wild beasts from destroying every evidence of identity. There was also a pistol that had been loaned to Stanton by Mr. Fallen, the man who found his remains. No one of those who perished was more sincerely mourned by the survivors than Mr. Stanton. Mr. Reed left this testimony to his worth : " Poor Stanton, who had no relative in the caravan to draw him back, but from the noble disposition he had, and the kind feelings he entertained for myself and family, and another person who had befriended him, induced him to return with provisions, and he lost his life as a noble PHILANTHROPIST. * * * His kindness saved my little ones from starvation."

When we last mentioned James F. Reed, he had been baffled in his attempt to reach the camp of the suffering emigrants, and had returned to Captain Sutter's, where he became satisfied that it would be utterly impossible to do anything more for them until spring. He was advised by Captain Sutter to proceed to Yerba Bueno - now San Francisco - and make his case known to the naval officer in command. Arriving at San Jose, he found the San Francisco side of the bay occupied by Mexicans. Here he joined a company of volunteers, and took part in the battle of Santa Clara; that opened the way to San Francisco. There he was enabled to raise, by voluntary contributions, $ i, ooo in the town and $300 from the sailors in port, with which he purchased supplies, which were placed on board a schooner, in command of midshipman Woodworth, who took all to the mouth of Feather river, where men and horses were procured for carrying relief to the emigrants. On their way to the camp they met a party coming oftt with women and children, among them Mr. Reed's wife and two children, his other two children, Martha and Thomas K., having been left in camp in charge of a Mr. Glover of the rescuing party, who volunteered to stay with and care for them, assuring Mrs. Reed that he was a Free Mason and knew her husband to be such, and that he would rescue her children or die in the attempt. He was as good as his word, protected and cared for the children until they were rescued by their father, and soon all the members of the family were re-united and rejoicing over their great deliverance. Mr. Reed's was the only entire family who left Sangamon county, all the members of which lived to reach their destination, and they did it without any one of them being driven to the necessity of eating human flesh. It seems the more wonderful that they should all have lived through, when their natural protector was separated from them so much of the time. Having in my possession sufficient material to make a more thrilling narrative of facts, than anything that could be drawn from the imagination, I feel how utterly futile this attempt to convey an idea of the sufferings of that company of emigrants has been, but want of space forbids that I should say more, and I am compelled to close.

The scene of the great suffering just described began west of the Great Salt Lake, in a salt desert, and extended hundreds of miles westward, over a succession of mountain ranges, running principally north and south, known as the Sierra Nevada mountains. Localities could not then be described, except by natural boundaries, such as mountains and valleys. The territory then belonged to Mexico, and the suffering and destitution that met the emigrants seemed only a realization of what might reasonably be expected in leaving the land of the Stars and Stripes to come under the sway of the benighted Mexican flag. But the old adage that " the darkest hour is just before the break of day," has been fully realized in this case to those who survived. The war they found in the Sacramento valley, waged by Mexico for the avowed purpose of exterminating the few scattered Americans on the Pacific coast, terminated in that whole region of country being ceded to our government. Then followed the discovery of gold, the influx of Americans, and the organization of the States of California and Oregon, and, a few years later, Nevada. The locality of the closing scene, the camp where the Donners died, is marked by a small body of water among the mountains, now known as Lake Donner, in the western part of the State of Nevada.

Renshaw, Wiley

Ga., and was taken by his parents to Dickson county, Tenn. In 1817, the family moved to Madison county, 111. Martha Nesbitt was born Nov. 8, 1794, near Lexington, Ky., and was taken by her parents in 1797 to Sumner county, Tenn. In 1817 they moved to Madison county, and in 1818 to Bond county, 111. W. P. Renshaw and Martha Nesbitt were married Dec. 31, 1818, in Bond county. They lived in Madison county until one child was born, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Feb. 26, 1821, on the north side of Richland creek, in what is now Cartw right township, where they had seven children.

BARBARA A. H., born Sept. 18, 1829, in Sangamon county, married April 17, 18^6, to Andrew M. Houghton. They had two children. WILEY P. died in his fourth year. ANNIE M. lives with her parents, in Menard county, seven miles north of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHN SINCLAIR, born Dec. 28, 1831, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 17, 1858, to Elizabeth Ogden, who was born May 5, 1835, in Menard county. They have three children, MARTHA J., ABIGAIL L. and MARY A., and reside in Cartwright township, three miles west of Salisbury, Illinois.

GEORGE , M., born Aug. 7, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 22, 1866, to Matilda F. Parker, who was born Sept. 25, 1840, in Robertson county, Tenn. They live at the Renshaw family homestead, near Salisbury, Illinois.

in Feb., 1821. She has now - Sept., 1873 - lived more than fifty-two years within less than two rods of the same spot. It is in Cartwright township, three miles west of Salisbury, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Margaret Renshaw, mother of Wiley P. Renshaw, came to Sangamon county in 1823, bringing seven children. Her daughter, Margaret H., married Michael Davis, has five children, and lives in Menard county. Delilah married Carroll Archer. Sec his name. Mrs. Margaret Renshaw died in August, 1842.

Mrs. Jane Nesbitt, the mother of Mrs. Wiley P. Renshaw, came to Sangamon county about 1826, bringing five children with her. Two years later she moved to Morgan county. In 1844 she came back to Sangamon, and died Feb. 14, 1846. Her daughter, Jane, and son, William, reside near Nemaha, Nebraska.

REISCH, FRANK, was born Jan. 24, 1809, in Baden, Germany. He came to America, landing at New Orleans in the winter of 1832, and traveled over the country until 1836, when he made his home in Beardstown, Illinois. The next year he returned to Germany, and was married Nov., 1837^ to Susan Maurer, who was born Feb. n, 1817, in Germany. In the spring of 1838 Mr. Reisch brought his wife to Beardstown, and from there to Richland creek, in Sangamon county, the same year. They had five children there, and moved to Springfield in 1850, where they had two children. Mr. Reisch engaged in the business of brewing, which he continued until May, 1875, when he sold his brewery to his sons. Of the seven children -

FRA NK, Jun., born Jan. 19, 1842, in Sangamon county, married in Springfield, Oct. 15, 1865, to Anna Hammon, who was born Jan. i, 1845, m Winchester, Scott county, 111. They have three children, CHRISTINA, SUSAN and MARY, and reside in Springfield. Mr. Reisch was elected to represent his ward in the Sangamon county Board of Supervisors for 1871 and '72. He was elected alderman in April, 1873, for three years. He is associated in the brewery business with his brothers George and Joseph, under the firm name of F. Reisch & Bros.,

JOSEPH, born in Cartwright township, Sangamon county, was married in Springfield, April 25, 1876, to Mary Stehlin. They immediately left on a tour to Europe. Joseph Reisch is a member of the firm of Reisch & Bros., brewers.

SUSIE and LEONARD, born in Springfield. The five latter reside with their mother, George being associated with his brothers, Frank and Joseph, in business.

Mr. Frank Reisch, Sen., was instantly killed by a fall from an upper window, August 1 8, 1875. He was in the act of pitching a piece of scantling from the window, when a spike in the timber, unobserved by him, caught in his clothing and drew him out. His widow and children reside in Springfield, Illinois.

RENN, HENRY, was born April 8, 1805, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, came to Sangamon county in the spring of 1840, and bought a farm half a mile east of where Woodside Station now stands. A few years later he returned to Pennsylvania, and married Nancy Smith, who was born August 20, 1807. Their son -

JOHN WESLEY, born Oct. 15, 1847, in Sangamon county, married Jan. 20, 1869, to Laura J. Jones, daughter of Joshua W. Jones. See his name. Mr. and Mrs. Renn have three children, JESSIE A., LAURA S. and EDNA, and now - 1876 - reside on the farm purchased by his father in 1840. It is half a mile east of Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois.,

RHEA, JAMES, was born June 3, 1780, in Greenbrier county, Va., and when a young man, went to Barren county, Ky., where he was married, Nov. 20, 1801, to Rachel JolifF, who was born Oct. 16, 1783. They had ten children in Kentucky, and the family moved to Jefferson county, 111., where one child was born, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving in 1827, in what is now Island Grove township. Of their eleven children -

May. They came with her parents to Sangamon county, had several children, and moved to Mason county, where she died. Mr. May married again, and took their living children to Gentry county, Missouri.

JAMES, Jun., born August 27, 1804, in Kentucky, married in Jefferson county, 111., to Susan Mattix, moved to the vicinity of Little Rock, Ark., and died there in 1840, leaving a widow and three children.

WILLIAM, born March 10, 1807, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Dec. n, 1828, to Susan Foutch, and had twelve children, three of whom died in infancy. William Rhea died Feb. 8, 1860, and his widow lives three miles southwest of Berlin, Illinois.

RICHARD, born Jan. 14, 1809, in Kentucky, married Eliza Rhea. They had three children, and Mr. Rhea died. His widow married William Ethridge, and moved to Iowa.

JOHN, born July 14, 1817, in Barren county, Ky., married Nov. 14, 1839, in Sangamon county, to Julia A. Stark, who was born June 21, 1823, in Rutland, Vermont. They had seven children in Sangamon county. JAMES B., born Nov. 2, 1841, married America Montague, in Sangamon county, and lives near Hamburg, Fremont county, Iowa. STEPHEN E., born Nov. 4, 1843, married Lucy Wilcox, have one child, and live near Berlin, 111. MARY A., born Jan. 6, 1846, married John F. Wilcox. See his name. THOMAS T., born June 10, 1848, married Sallie Williams. They have one child, JOHN \v., and live near Berlin, 111. JOHN H. died in in$mcy. MATH A E., born May 10, 1852, married R. Smith, and reskles near Berlin. ABIGAIL R. died in infancy. John Rhea and his wife live two and one half miles northwest of Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois. - 1874.

Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, 111., to Joseph Pulsifer. They had twins, and Mrs. Pulsifer died. Mr. Pulsifer is believed to have been murdered while on a business trip to St. Louis, as he was never heard of. Their two sons, NEVO and NEVI, are married, and live in Gentry county, Missouri.

MART A., born Oct. 27, 1822, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, 111., -to E. R. Alsbury, had one child, LUCINDA, who married James ShufF. See his name. Mrs. Alsbury died April 28, 1851.

THOMAS F., born July 27, 1824, in Jefferson county, 111., married in Sangamon county, Oct. 3, 1844, to Lucinda Wilcox. They have five children, ELIZA E. and REBECCA, the third and fourth, died young. ANNA L., KATE and LOU live with their parents in New Berlin, Illinois.

James Rhea died Feb. 12, 1843, and his widow died Oct. 28, 1851, both in Sangamon county. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, from Kentucky, under Gen. Harrison; was on Lake Erie, and saw the British vessels brought in after Perry's victory.

Rhodes, Randolph

RHODES, RANDOLPH, was born about 1791, in North Carolina, and when he was a young man, went to Barren county, Ky. He was married in the adjoining county of Greene, in Oct., 1820, to Elizabeth Short. They had three children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1826 on Sugar creek, east of Springfield, where four children were born. In the spring of 1838 Mr. Rhodes moved to southwest Missouri, where two children were born, and returned to Sangamon county in the spring of 1845. In 1849 or '50, he moved to Macoupin county, and die:l there, Dec. 25, 1851, leaving a family near Macoupin station. Of their children -

WILLIAM, born about 1821, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Jemima Center, had three children, and all the family died in Sangamon county.

Laura A., Charles I., Julius

JOHN T., born Nov. 10, 1825, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon countv, March 2, 1848, to Ttlitha M. Vice. They had six living children, MARY E., married Levi King. See his name. LAURA A., CHARLES I., JULIUS

MARY A., born Jan., 1831, in Sangamon county, married, in 1851, to Wm. R. Hammonds. They had six children, and Mr. Hammonds died, leaving his family in Crawford county, Kansas. Two of the children were killed, and two others severely wounded by a tornado, May 22,

Richardson, Lewis

RIGG, SAMUEL, was born in Rutherford county, North Carolina, married there to Nancy Vawters. They had two children, and moved in 1816 to Greenup county, Ky., where six children were born; and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1827. Of their children, the eldest daughter married in Kentucky to Wm. Robinson, came to Sangamon county with her parents, and raised a family of seven daughters.

E WELL, born in North Carolina, married in Sangamon county to Sarah Kelly. They had nine children, and Mrs. Rigg died. Their daughter, NANCY E., married John G. Park. See his name. Ewell Rigg married Mrs. Sarah Darden, whose maiden name was Bradley. They reside at Macomb, Illinois.

JOSEPH R., born in Kentucky, married Julia A. Park, had fifteen children, four of whom died young. JAMES S. married and lives in Moultrie county. The ten, THOMAS E., JOHN E., WILLIAM Z., ROBERT R., LEONARD M., NANCY M., HENRY S., SARAH E., BENJAMIN B. and HARRIET O., live with their parents, near Macomb, Illinois.

RIGGINS, WILLIAM, was born July 28, 1812, in Cape May county, New Jersey, was married Jan. 6, 1834, in Cumberland county, to Martha Mosslander, who was born in that county July 28, 1813. They had one child in Cumberland county, and moved to Cape May county; had one child, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving October, 1838, in what is now Gardner township, where they had one living child. Of their three children -

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 15, 1837, in Cape May county, New Jersey, married in Sangamon county, January, 1859, to James Tripp; have five children, and reside near Greenview, Menard county, Illinois.

MART,\>orn April 24, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 31, 1863, to Franklin H. Wood. They have three children, SEYMOUR, CHARLES and HARRY, and live near Maroa, Macon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Martha Riggins died April, 1844, and William Riggins was married March 6, 1867, to Mrs. Mary Rathsack, whose maiden name was Boehme. She was born Jan. 22, 1827, in Altkloster, Germany. They have two children -

RICKARD, PETER, born in 1787, in London county, Va., was there married to Elizabeth Everhart, who was born in 1790 in the same county. They had one child, and the family moved to Fauquier county, Va., where ten children were born, thence to Sangamon county, 111., arriving at Springfield in the fall of 1830. In the spring of 1831 they moved three miles west of Springfield, and settled in what is now the southeast corner

LEWIS, born Oct. 13, 1806, in Loudon county, Virginia, went to Clark county, Ohio, and was there married to Catharine Wood, a native of Virginia. They moved to Sangamon county, 111., in 1836. In the fall of 1838 they moved to Missouri, and in the fall of 1844 returned to Sangamon county, and nine years later, in the fall of '53, went to Christian county, Illinois. They had nine children - JOHN died in Christian county, aged about twenty-one years. ROBERT, born Feb. 12, 1837, in Sangamon county 111., served in company I, 41 st 111. Inf.,' through the war to suppress the rebellion, was with Sherman in his march to the sea. He was married in Kansas, has three children, and lives in Texas. Mrs. Catharine Rickard died in Christian county, Feb. 18, 1866, and Lewis Rickard was married, March 12, 1868, to Susan Wood, at Springfield, Ohio, and reside there.

CATHARINE, born July 24, 1811, in Fauquier county, Va., was married in Sangamon county, 111., June 4, 1833, to Dr. Jacob M. Earley. See his name. They had two children. GEORGE N., born Feb. 4, 1837, entered the army as assistant surgeon, Nov. i, 1863, and died June 3, 1864, at Vicksburg, just before the surrender of that place. JACOB M., Jun., born Oct. 26, 1838, entered the army April, 1 86 1, as Lieutenant in the first company raised in Petersburg, Illinois. Served three years, and was honorably discharged. He was married, March 27, 1868, to Caroline Lurton, of Delhi, Jersey county, Illinois. He died June 24, 1868, of consumption, in Petersburg, Menard county, Illinois. Dr. J. M. Early was murdered, March n, 1838. See his name. His widow was married Oct. i, 1851, at her father's house, three miles west of Springfield, to George U. Miles. They, have one child, CHARLES, who lost one hand in firing a salute in 1865. He resides with his parents, in Petersburg, Menard county, Illinois. - 1876.

NOAH /!/., born March 20, 1817, in Fauquier county, Va., was married in Sangamon county to Harriet Talbott. They had five living children in Sangamon county. HARRIET E., born Feb. 4, 1839, was married, Oct. 4, 1865, to John Johnson, who was born Nov. 14, 1834, in New York city. They have one child, LAURA R., and reside five miles southwest of Springfield, III. Mr. Johnson has a certificate of the honorable discharge of his grandfather from the Revolutionary army, signed by George Washington. MARY F., born Aug. 16, 1840, was married, May 5, 1869, to Daniel G.Jones. See his name. NOAH M., Jun., born March y, 1845, was married, Dec. 18, 1867, to Mary L. Patteso.:. They have one child, CHARLES M., and reside one mile southwest of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois. GEORGE W., born June 13, 1847, was man"ied, March 16, 1871,10 Mary L. Gray. They have one child, GEORGE T., and reside at Philadelphia, Cass county, Illinois. SARAH L., born Oct. 23, 1848, was married, Oct. 4, 1871, to Aaron C. Reed, and died Sept. 27, 1872. Noah M. Rickard died Jan. 8, 1849, and widow resides with her daughter, Mrs. Johnson. - 1876.

JOHN G., born Oct. 16, 1819, in Fauquier county, Va., raised in Sangamon county, and married July 5, 1859, in Allen county, Kansas, to Elizabeth Broderick, who was born May 21, 1831, in Shelby county, Indiana. Thev had three children in Kansas, CHARLES B., FREDDIE O. and NOAH FRANKLIN. The latter died in infancy. They reside four miles west of Springfield, Illinois.

SIMON P., born Oct. 16, 1821, in Fauquier county, Va., was married in Sangamon county, 111., Nov. 12, 1846, to Sophia J. Earnest. They had seven children, three of whom died under five years. LAURA E., born Sept. 6, 1847, .was married, Oct. 19, 1871, to Edwin Watts. See his name. HELEN M., born* Dec. 6, 1848, was married, May 18, 1871, to Sidney French. They have one child, FLORENCE H., and reside near Frankfort, Ky. THOMAS E., born July 2, 1850, and ALLETTA E. reside

SARAH A., born March 2, 1824, in Fauquier county, Va., was married in Sangamon county, 111., to Richard F. Barrett. See his name. They reside in St. Louis.

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HENRT WASHINGTON, born Jan. i, 1830, in Fauquier county, Va., was married April 4, 1852, in Sangamon county, 111., to Sarah A. Sims. They had seven children; one died in infancy. ELIZABETH L. was married Sept. 26, 1872, to Isaac French, a native of Franklin county, Ky. MINNIE A., LEWIS F., WASHINGTON M., ROBERT I. and GEORGE E. reside with their father. Mrs. Sarah A. Rickard died Dec. 21, 1864, and H. W. Rickard was married June 7, 1866, to Henrietta M. Earnest. They have two children, CATHARINE J. and THOMAS E. H. W. Rickard resides on the farm settled by his father in 1831. It is three miles west of Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois.

RIDDLE, DAVID, was born April 20, 1780, in Mifflin county, Pa. He went to Champaign county, Ohio, in 1807. Mary Hamilton was born in Mason county, about seven miles from Maysville, Ky., March 9, 1786. Her mother died when she was quite young, and she went to Champaign county, Ohio, with some friends, and was there married, about 1808, to David Riddle. Six children were born in Ohio, and the family moved, in 1819, to Washington county, 111., where one child was born, and Mrs. Riddle died there, July n, 1821. David Riddle was married in 1822, to Mrs. Elizabeth Crocker, whose maiden name was Wakefield, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving at Springfield Oct. 14, 1822, and the next day moved to a farm in Williams township. They had two children in Sangamon county. Of his children -

CLARENCE A., and live near Mt. Pulaski. FRANCIS A. enlisted at Springfield, July, 1862, in Co. A, i3Oth 111. Inf., for three years, was promoted to ist Lieut., and acted as Captain, Major and Judge Advocate, and was honorably mustered out of the service in August, 1865. He was married in Jacksonville, 111., to Sarah Gallaher. He is a lawyer, and resides in Chicago. SARAH W. is unmarried, and lives with her father. Mrs. Sarah H. Riddle died, and John Riddle married Martha Archer, who was born May 24, 1819, in Greenville, Bond county, 111. They have one child, NANCY E., who lives with her parents, one mile northeast of Barclay, Sangamon county, 111. John Riddle remembers that when he was a boy the family found that there was a letter in the postoffice, but they had not the money to pay for it. He gathered a load of corn, took it to town, and sold the whole load for ninety-five cents, paid twenty-five cents for the letter, and returned home rejoicing.

JAMES, born April 30, 1811, in Ohio, wast married in Sangamon county to Susan A. Sampson. They had two children. JOHN M. married Sarah M. Woltz. They have one child, CHARLES A., and live one and a half miles north of Barclay, Illinois. DAVID A. lives at DesMoines, Iowa. James Riddle was a soldier from Sangamon county in the Black Hawk war. He died March 4, 1849, and his widow lives with her son, John M. - 1874.

MARGARET, born Sept. 25, 1812, \ in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to vjoseph Dement. He died, leaving a widow and four children in Logan county, Illinois.

ABNER, born Oct. 6, 1814, in Champaign county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Mrs. Mary A. Pickrell, whose maiden name was Elkin. They had one child, HAMILTON R., born Dec. 9, 1841, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. i, 1862, in Co. B, i30th 111. Inf., for three years. He was captured, with Bank's Red river expedition, April 8, 1864, imprisoned at Camp Tyler, Texas, thirteen months, and released in May, 1865. While in prison his regiment was consolidated with the yyth 111. Inf., and he was mustered out as a member of Co. A, of that regiment, June 17, 1865, at Springfield. He was married, Sept. 2, 1868, to Cordelia F. Constant. They have three children, EARL A., ELIZA MAY and WILLIAM

E. Hamilton R. Riddle graduated Feb., 1873, at Rush Medical College, Chicago, and is a practicing physician at Mechanicsburg, 111. Mrs. Mary A. Riddle died, and Abner Riddle married Mai'y J. Clark. They have ten children. RUSSELL O. married Sabra Constant, have two children, MAY o. and LOUELLA, and live half a mile south of Barclay, Sangamon county, 111. MARY J. married Samuel Mc- Cullough, and lives in Kansas. The other eight children reside with their parents, near Ottowa, Kan.

SARAH A., born Sept. 30, 1826, in Sangamon county, married to Rev. Alexander Semple. They have three children, anfl live at Decatur, 111. He is Presiding Elder in the M. E. Church.'

RIDDLE, WILLIAM, was born Sept. i, 1805, in Kentucky. He' is a nephew of David Riddle. At six months of age, he was taken by his parents to Logan county, Ohio. Maxamillia Bousman was born in 1809 in Champaign county, Ohio, where they were married in 1826. They had four living children in Ohio, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving May 31, 1836, in what is now Williams township, where they had five children, and in 1851 moved to Douglas county, Oregon. Of their nine children -

JANE, born April 14, 1828, in Logan county, Ohio, married Jan. 15, 1850, in Sangamon county, to Thomas Wilson, who was born Nov. 4, 1817, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. They have four living children, born in Sangamon county, namely: JANE F., WILLIAM R., JOHN T. and LILLIAS H., and reside two miles southwest of Buffalo Hart station, Sangamon county, Illinois - 1874.

ARl^AMESIA, born Oct. n, 1830, in Sangamon county, married in Feb., 1849, to James P. Chapman, who died, and she married. William H. Merriman. See his name.

ISABELLA, born Jan. 16, 1835, in Ohio, came to Sangamon county with her parents; thence with them to Oregon, and was there married to Israel R. Nicholls. They have eleven children, and reside near North Canyonville, Douglas county, Oregon - 1874.

GEORGE W., born Feb. 22, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Anna Rice, has two children, and live near North Canyonville, Douglas county, Oregon.

J ' O H TN B '.,born in 1845, in Sangamon county, married in Oregon, and his wife and child were drowned while crossing a stream in a wagon. He is living with his second wife in North Canyonville. Oregon.

RICHARDS, ANDREW, was married in Nicholas county, Kentucky, to Mrs. Rosanna Dinsmore, whose maiden name was McCune, a sister to Gavin Mc- Cune. She had one child by her first marriage, and they had five children, all in Nicholas county, Ky. The family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1832, at Rochester, where one child was born. Of all their children -

ROBER7" E., born Sept. 16, 1822, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, April 15, 1845, to Louisa Stokes. They had two children. ANNA died in infancy. AMANDA, born May 3, 1848, died Nov. 6, 1862. Robert E. Richards died Feb. 15, 1848, and his widow lives at the house of her neice, Mrs. L'awson H. Smith. Sec Bcllfamilv,

JOHN A., born August 15, 1824, in Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, March 29, 1846, to Sarah E. Dickerson. They had nine children; three died young. JANE married Scott Clawson, has three children, and lives near Taylorville, Illinois. KATIE M., ELECTA, IDA and EMMA, twins, and JOHN P. live with their parents in Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM M., born "in Nicholas county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, 111., to Mary J. Menara. They had nine children; one died. Wm. M. Richards and family live near Breckenridge, Sangamon countv, Illinois.

BENJAMIN A., born March 3, 1829, in Nicholas county, Ky., was married Oct. 10, 1850, in Sangamon county, to Matilda Hutchings, who was born Feb. 23, 1832, in Rochester, New York. They had ten children; five died young. PHILIP A., WILLIAM T., CHARLES E., LEMUEL C. and MABEL live with their parents. Benj. A. Richards is the proprietor of a book and job printing office in Springfield, II., where he now resides.

ANDREW M., born in Nicholas county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, went to Texas about 1859, married there, has a family, and lives at Wheelock, Robertson county, Texas.

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and was engaged in mercantile business there until April, 1828, when he removed to St. Louis, Mo., and became a clerk in the United States branch bank established there shortly after his arrival. He continued in this position until May, 1835, when he was appointed cashier of the State Bank of Illinois, incorporated in that year, which office he held until the termination of the charter of the bank, and was one of the trustees who finally closed the business of the bank. While engaged in this closing process, and afterwards, he carried on a private banking business on 'his own account, and organized "Clark's Exchange Bank of Springfield," and continued his connection with it until it was discontinued, and all its obligations promptly and fully discharged. In 1866 he, in connection with Charles and William Ridgely - his sons, - J. Taylor Smith, and Lafayette Smith, organized "The Ridgely National Bank of Springfield." He became President, and has continued in this office ever since. He has thus been actively engaged in the banking business constantly for fortyeight years. He has been married twice, and has a family of thirteen adult children living, namely:

RID GEL T, RE DIC KM., was born March 29, 1830, in St. Louis, Mo., and brought by his father (N. H. Ridgely) to Springfield in 1835. He was mari"ietl July i, 1850, to Margaret Aitken, who was born March 6, 1835, in Glasgow, Scotland. They have four living children, JANEY H., ALICE M., REDICK and JOHN A. Redick M. Ridgely was City Treasurer from 1851 to 1853, a member of the Board of Supervisors of Sangamon county for two years, and a member of the City Council four years. He was in the Quartermaster's Department in Springfield from 1861 to 1862, and was in the same department in Memphis, Tenn.,from 1862 to 1865. He is now - 1876 - Superintendent of all the street railroads of Springfield.

RID GELT, CHARLES,\he eldest son of N. H. Ridgely by the second wife, is a native of Springfield; married Jane M. Barrett, and has several children. Charles Ridgely is President of the Springfield Iron Company, Vice-President of the Ridgely National Bank, and resides in Springfield, 111.

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RIDGEWAY, AUSBURN, brother to Samuel, was born in Berkley county, Va., and married in North Carolina to Jane Phelps. They moved to Lincoln county, Ky., from there to Washington county, in the same State, thence to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1828, in Buffalo Hart grove. They raised a large family, and the parents both died in Sangamon county. Of their children we will mention four only -

JOHN, born Feb. 23, 1806, in Lincoln county, Ky., came with his parents to Sangamon county, in 1828, and was married, Feb. 12, 1829, to Sarah Bridges. They had seven children, two of whom died young. MARTHA J., born Jan. 3, 1830, married Charles Eckel, and lives near Ottawa, Kansas. ALFRED A., born March 13, 1834, died in 1857. ADALINE and CAROLINE, twins, born Jan. 17, 1837. ADALINE married Benjamin F. Hill, has six living. children, and reside near Decatur, Illinois. CAROLINE married Henry Lee, and died Nov. 2, 1864, near Illiopolis. LEVI S., born Sept. 29, 1839, married Rhoda Fletcher. He died, August 2, 1868, in Sangamon county, leaving a widow and four children, who live near Decatur, 111. John Ridgeway died Oct. 28, 1858, and his widow married Jonathan Constant. See his name.

PATTERSON, born Nov. 19, 1813, in Lincoln county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Nancy Huddleston, who died, leaving two children, and he married Mrs. Rhoda J. Walker, whose maiden name was Withrow. They have one child, and live in Cooper township, Sangamon county.

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RIDGEWAY, SAMUEL, was born May 10, 1777, in Berkley county, Va., and was taken by his parents to the valley of the Yadkin river, North Carolina, when he was quite young. He was there married, about 1799, t.o Elizabeth Caton, who was born August 25, 1775, in Berkley county, Va., also. Shortly after marriage Samuel Ridgeway and wife packed all their worldly goods on one horse, and each rode another. Thus equipped, they set out for Kentucky, and settled near Stanford, the capital of Lincoln county. They had eight children there, and the family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in Nov., 1829, in what is now Clear Lake township, west of the Sangamon river, and five miles northeast of Springfield. Of their children -

CHARLES, born May 18, iSoi, was married in Kentucky to Sally Wilson. They had two children there, and moved to Sangamon county with his parents; lived near Mechanicsburg two years, and returned to his native State. Charles Ridgeway died in 1875, at Danville, Ky., and his family reside there.

PHILIP, born Jan. i, 1806, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to Margaret Henderson. He died, Sept. 8, 1838, leaving a widow and four children, who moved to Hancock county, Illinois.

JOHN, born March 30, 1808, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, and his wife died within six months. He was married again, moved to Missouri, and from there to Oregon in 1845, and died there in 1872, leaving ten children.

SAMUEL L., born April 25, 1813, in Lincoln county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, 111., Aug. 10, 1837, *-° Charlotte A. Stout. Sec Stout family name. They had seven children, and in July, 1872, moved to Maryville, Mo. Of their children, PHILEMON, born May 11, 1839, in Sangamon county, 111., resides in California. ELIZABETH A., born Oct. 17, 1841, died in her third year. OLIVER, born March 23, 1844, m Sangamon county, 111., was married to Emma F. Orr, in Adair county, Mo. They have three children, GEORGE, CHARLOTTE and ARTHUR, and reside in Nodaway county, Mo. SAMUEL L.,Jun., born March 7, 1847, in Sangamon county, 111., was married Dec. 26,1872,10 Laura H.Hamlin. They have one child, SAMUEL L., and reside in Nodaway county, Missouri. See Hamlin name. MARY E., born May n, 1849, was married Jan. n, 1870, to George L. Drennan, of Sangamon county, Illinois. See his name. ARMENIA J., born June 25, 1851, married Sept. 4, 1876, to Edward Headley, of Sangamon county, 111. CHARLOTTE EMMA, born Jan. 9, 1853, and FRANCIS, born March 16, 1855, reside with their parents, in Maryville, Nodaway county, Missouri.

BENJAMIN R., born Feb. 5, 1815, in Lincoln county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county June 13, 1839, to Catharine Rape. They had six children. THOMAS J., born Dec. 10, 1840, married Jane Snodgrass, has two children, and live in Springfield. JOHN B., born April 3, 1846, married Lucy E. Cullom, and live near New City, Sangamon county, 111. ANNA E. married James L. Plummer. They had two children, and Mr. Plummer died April 30, 1871. SAMUEL N. died, aged ten years. NANCY S. died in her sixteenth year. MARTHA F. lives with her parents, near New City , Sangamon county, 111,

LINDSAT, born Jan. 20, 1818, in Lincoln county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county Dec. 7, 1841, to Lucy M. Dawson. They had five children in Sangamon county. SAMUEL F., born Dec. 25, 1842, enlisted Aug. 12, 1862, for three years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf.; served until March 26, 1864, when he was discharged on account of physical disability. He was married Jan. 2, 1868, in Springfield, to Nancy M. Logan. They have -one child, JENNIE MAY, and reside in Springfield, 111. NANCY S., born Aug. 23, 1845, died in infancy. JOHN D., born July 17, 1848, was married Dec. 24, 1872, to Mary li. McVay, who was born April 7, 1852, in Sangamon county. They have one child, CHARLES ALBERT, and reside five miles east of Springfield, 111. BERTRAND D., born Dec. 9, 1849, and CHARLES L., born Dec. 14, 1863, both live with their parents. Lindsay Ridgeway and wife reside five miles east of Springfield, on the farm settled by his father in 1829.

ROBB, DAVID, was born Jan. 24, 1789, in the town of Acworth, N. H, He was there married to Diana Farr, who was born in the same town, May 15, 1791. They had six children in Acworth, and the family moved to West Virginia, and from there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1830, and settled about two miles south of the present town of Breckenridge. Of their children -

DANIEL, born July 12, 1815, in New Hampshire, married in Sangamon county to Jennie Rogers. They have a family, and reside near Nebraska City, Neb.

JOHN, born May 30, 1820, in New Hampshire, raised in Sangamon county, married near St. Joseph, Mo., to Mary E. Broiles, Oct. 15, 1843. They had two children, and came to Sangamon county, where four children were born. Of their six children : MARY J., born August 12, 1844, in Missouri, married Marshall Raines, have four children, and reside near Xenia, Ohio. DAVID, born Jan. 28, 1846, near St. Joseph, Mo., married in

Sangamon county, Nov. 28, 1867, to Ella Gray, have two children, and reside near Breckenridge, 111. ELIZA E., born and died in Sangamon county, aged ten years. PHCEBE, born Oct. 2, 1850, in Sangamon county, married Andrew J. Poffenberger. See his name. WILLIAM, born Jan. 3, 1844, and JOSEPH, born April 28, 1857, live with their mother. John Robb died August 6, 1858, in Sangamon county. His widow married, Dec. 4, 1860, to Abraham Martin. He died in 1863, and she resides one mile west of Breckenridge, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELECTA, born Dec. 9, 1821, in New Hampshire, married in Sangamon county to Joseph Clawson. He died, and she lives near Assumption, Christian county, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born Feb. 10, 1824, in New Hampshire, married in Sangamon county to Helen R. McLean. They have five children, and live near Corydon, Iowa.

MART J., born May 21, 1827, in New Hampshire, married in Sangamon county to Joseph Clawson, had eight children, and she died. Her children live with her sister, Electa, who is their stepmother.

Mrs. Diana Robb died Nov. 4, 1835, and David Robb married Mrs. Elizabeth Graham, whose maiden name was Day. She died in 1856, and David Robb died Nov. 3, 1859, in Sangamon county.

ROBBINS, HIRAM, was born Dec. 26, 1793, in Buncombe county, N. C. His parents moved to Overtoil county, Tenn., thence to Washington county, Ky., and from there to Vincennes, Indiana Territory. At that place he entered the army, and served six months in the war of 1812 with England. The family after the war, moved back to« Tennessee, and from there to Pope county, Illinois, where the father died, and the family moved to Madison county. Hiram Robbins was there married, E ec. 29, 1816, to Elizabeth Dean. They had two children, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving in the summer of 1821 within one mile of where Barclay now stands, and in 1823 moved to what is now Cooper township, where they had six living children. He was a soldier from this county in the

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WILLIAM H., born March i, 1821, in Madison county, 111., raised in Sangamon county, married in Greene county, Aug. u, 1845, to Ann Dodson. She died Aug. 12, 1846. He was married May 14, 1848, to Sarah A. Miller. They had one child, ALICE A., born July 5, 1850, married Benjamin F. Miller, and resides three and one-half miles west of Mechanicsburg, 111. Mrs. S. A. Robbins died in 1852, and Wm. H. Robbins married, Sept. 4, 1856, to Elizabeth Laswell. They have four children, JOHN W., THOMAS LYON, NANCY E. and ANDREW H., and live near Mechanicsburg, Illinois.

JEREMIAH, born Nov. 29, 1821, in Sangamon county. He has been twice married; served three years in Co. H, I I4th 111. Inf., and lives in Cooper township, Sangamon county.

WILSON, born Jan. 3, 1824, in Sangamon county, married, Oct. 25, 1850, to Susan A. Cantril. They had six living children. ANNA M., born Jan. i, 1851, married, Dec. 18, 1871, to George Baker, have two children, and live in Cooper township. MARY E., ALBERT S., MARTHA S., JOSEPH E. and ALLEN L. live with their parents, two and one-half miles west of Mechanicsburg, Illinois. Wilson Robbins served one year, from June, 1846, under Col. E. D. Baker, in the war with Mexico.

MART A., born April 27, 1825, in Sangamon county, married Thomas Simpkins, who died, and she married William Taff. They had one child, THERESA TAFF, who married John Johnson. See his name. Mr. Taff died, and she married Joseph Brown, had one child, and Mr. Brown died, and she married Francis Gough, and she died April, 1862.

Mrs. Elizabeth Robbins died Aug. 17, 1866, and Hiram Robbins was married to Mrs. Merada Gordon. For a third wife he married, Oct. i, 1872, to Mrs. Elizabeth E. White, whose maiden name was Strode. They reside in Cooper, township, Sangamon county, 111.

RpBERTS, EDMUND, was born in 1785, in Farmington, New Hampshire. His ancestors were Welsh, and emigrated to New England before the Revolution. They were members of the society of Friends. Forbidden by their principles to take up arms, they, nevertheless, assisted in that struggle as far as they consistently could, by carrying supplies to the army. The subject of this sketch left New Hampshire when a young man, on horseback, for western Pennsylvania. In 1808 an Indian treaty opened the country between the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers, and as far west as Fort Clark now Peoria, Illinois. Mr. Roberts was one of the first eastern men who settled in that country. Steamboats not being used on the western waters then, he made the voyage down the Ohio river in a flatboat, and in 1810 engaged in merchandizing at St. Genieveve, Missouri, as a member of the firm of Keil, Bisch & Roberts. He afterwards removed to Kaskaskia, 111., where he associated with himself in business, Thomas Mather and James L. Lamb. Mr. Roberts made his trips east on horseback, crossing the Ohio river at Shawneetown, 111., often sleeping on the ground, with a saddle for a pillow. He was always liable to attacks from Indians and once lost his horse by them, compeling him to walk and carry his saddle until he could buy another. He was married, in 1819, at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, to Susan Lamb, a native of Chester county, in the same State. She was a sister to his partner, James L. Lamb. See his name. After prosecuting business for many years at Kaskaskia and Chester, he removed to Springfield, in the same State, in 1832. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts had eight children, three only of whom survive -

GEORGE L., born March 16, 1821, in Kaskaskia, 111., was married in Lebanon, 111., to Virginia E. Horner, a native of the latter place. They had two children in Lebanon, EDMUND and VIR-

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1863, to Harriet E. Smith, who was born Dec. 6, 1840. Mrs. Harriet E. Roberts died Feb. 28, 1866, leaving two children, LUCRETIA B., born Sept. 6, 1864, and JAMES H., Jun., who died in infancy. James H. Roberts was married Nov. 9, 1870, to Mrs. Susan M. Slater, whose maiden name was Lamb. They have one child, MARY T. J. H. Roberts and family reside in Chicago, 111. He is engaged in business at 86 Washington street - Sept., 1876.

Mr. Roberts was a citizen of Illinois when it contained less than twelve thousand inhabitants. In 1829 he was appointed one of the commissioners on the part of the State of Illinois to determine the route for a canal to connect the Illinois river with Lake Michigan, and lay out town sites; Chicago and Ottawa were, two of these towns. Seven years later - 1836 - ground was broken, and the work of constructing the canal commenced. Mr. Roberts was a firm friend of education, having himself been a teacher in his younger days. He was, in the early history of McKendree college, at Lebanon, 111., a member of its board of trustees. His two sons were educated there. In 1846 he visited the Eastern States in the interests of this institution, and was successful in supplying it with funds and teachers. From that to the present time, McKendree college has continued to prosper. In consequence of failing health, he retired from active business about 1836, and passed many of his winters in the south, but continued to make Springfield his home.

Mrs. Susan Roberts died Aug. 4, 1844. She had long been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, loved and revered by all who knew her. In his funeral address on the occasion of her death, Rev. Dr. Akers, describing her influence, said: "She moved among her sisters like the moon among the stars." Her husband never recovered from the shock occasioned by her death, and he died March 28, 1847, both in Springfield, and the remains of both are buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery.

ROBISON, EDWARD, born Oct. 1 6, 1781, in London county, Va. In 1787 his parents moved to Nelson county, Ky., and a few years later the family moved to Caldwell county, in the same State, leaving Edward at Bardstown to finish his trade as a hatter. He was married in Caldwell county, March 14, 1809, to Jane Hanley, who was born Feb. 29, 1788, in Pendleton District, South Carolina. They had five children in Kentucky, and moved to Pope county, 111., in 1819, where one child was born. Thence to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov., 1821, near Springfield. After some changes they settled in what is now Gardner township, north of Spring creek, where they had six children. Of all their children -

GEORGE H., born May 9, 1810, in Kentucky; served his country in the Black Hawk war, Mexican war, and about three years in Co. H, loth 111. Cav., in the late rebellion. He died unmarried, Dec., 1873, in Sangamon county.

JOHN H., born Oct. 15, 1811, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to Mary A. Duff. They have three children, GEORGE C., JOHN S.; the latter married Sarah Handley ; MARTHA married Major Moore. J. H. Robison and family reside near Carleton, Yamhill county, Oregon.

DA VI D P., born March 6, 1816, in Caldwell county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Sept. 3, 1836, to Lucy Simms. They had ten children; two died young. LUCINDA J. and EMILY L. died, aged seven years. MARY E. H., or "TIP," born Sept. 25, 1840, was married Sept. 10, 1857, to Thomas A. Sims, who was born Oct. 3, 1835, in Culpepper

CLAUD, and live near Linden, Osage county, Kansas. JULIA, born Oct. 30, 1847, was married to Michael Dolan, who was born Dec. 28, 1845, in Gal way, Ireland. They have three children, JOHN j., ELLEN and T. EDWARD, and live near Berlin, Sangamon county, 111. EDWARD J. married Annie Archer. They have one child, and live in Gardner township. GEORGE J., MARION P., KATIE V., and JAMES T. reside with their parents, five miles southwest of Springfield, Illinois.

ELIZABETH,\>o\K April 21, 1818, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to Richard Hall. They had three children. Mrs. Hall and the youngest child were killed by lightning, April 27, 1845, in Gardner township. This occurred at the house of Mrs. Hall's mother. Three other members of the family were injured seriously at the same time. Of the other two children: WILLIAM E. married Miss Lowery, in DeWitt county. He was a soldier in an Illinois regiment, and died in the army. MELISSA married James Moore. They have six children, two of whom are married, BENTON and CHARLES. James Moore and family live near White Church, Wyandotte county, Kan. Richard Hall was married, in 1847, to Sarah Sanders, of Springfield. They had three children in Sangamon county, and moved to Clinton, Dewitt county, Illinois. Richard Hall died in 1870, near Clinton, and his widow married a Mr. Cobb. They reside near Clinton, Dewitt county, Illinois.

POLLY A., born March 29, 1823, in Sangamon county, married Benjamin Fobes, and died Feb. 24, 1852, leaving one child, SARAH E., who married Jeremiah Messenger, ISov. 21, 1869, and lives in Waverly, Bremer county, Iowa.

SARAH A. married Benjamin Kendall. She died Aug. 28, 1851, from injuries received by a runaway team, on the road to Oregon. She left one child - FANNIE, born Nov. 20, 1850, who married Mr. Henkle, and died, leaving one child, near Corvallis, Oregon.

BARBARA A. married Milo Morris. They had two children - GEORGE H., who lives in Butler county, Missouri. WILLIAM lives near Rushville, Schuyler county, Illinois. Mrs. Morris died Aug. 9, 1851, in Loami township.

BURL1NDER, born April 20, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Joshua W. Short. They had four children. Mrs. Short and one child died. The other three children - JOHN R. died February, 1876. CHARLES E. married Lola Scripture, in 1873. ANNIE M. lives near Lamar station, Nodaway county, Missouri.

Fannie, 'May, Jennie, Uma

Edward Robison died May 15, 1836, and Mrs. Jane Robison died March 12, 1853. He in Sangamon countv, Illinois, and she in Jasper county, Missouri.

Edward Robison was Colonel of a military company, in Kentucky, and was always called Col. Robison. He represented Pope county in the first Legislature of Illinois that assembled at Vandalia. He was justice of the peace twelve or fifteen years in Sangamon county, and solemnized the marriage of James Parkinson and Mahala Earnest, and many others.

ROBISON, JOHN, was born in Virginia, and married in Maryland to Nancy Robbins. They moved to Delaware, where they had four children, and moved to Nicholas county, Ky., where five children were born, and from there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1830, in Buffalo Hart Grove. Of their children -

WILLIAM, born about 1799, in Delaware, married in Nicholas county, Ky., to Mahuldah Tarr, moved to Buffalo Hart Grove, Sangamon county, thence to Madison county, where the parents died, leaving several children.

JOHN W., born about 1803, in Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Lucinda Burns. They had four children, WILLIAM T., born in Sangamon county Aug. 2, 1833, married Dec. 4, 1856, to Julia A. Lunbeck. They had five children; four died under five years. IDA LOU resides with her parents in Springfield. William T. Robison is a clerk in the freight depot of the C. and A. railroad. ELIZABETH M., born April 4, 1835, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 20, 1866, to John Finfrock, who was born July 8, 1833, near Chambersburg, Penn. They have four children, EDGAR H., FRANK E., GRACIE M. and MARY L. Mr. Finfrock enlisted July, 1862, for three years, in Co. I, 1 1 4th 111. Inf.; served until Aug., 1865, when he was honorably discharged. They live three-quarters of a mile north of Buffalo Hart station. MARY J., born April 20, 1837, in Sangamon county, married Sept. n, 1864, to Joseph W. Martin, who was born Nov. 16, 1838, in Ohio county, Kentucky. They have four children, JESSE w., WILLIAM H., LENA F. and ROBERT F., and live one-half mile north of Buffalo Hart station. JOHN F., born June 20, 1839, in Sangamon county, enlisted July, 1862, for three years, in Co. I, 1 14th ill. Inf.; served until Aug., 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was married March 20, 1867, to Eliza A. Guthrie. They have two children, IVA E. and a babe, and live in Atlanta, Illinois. John W. Robison was killed by lightning at one o'clock on the morning of August 28, 1840, three and a half miles northeast of Buffalo Hart Grove. He was sitting at the bedside of, and was fanning his sick mother, who died two days later. His widow married Sept. 20, 1848,

MART, born and married in Kentucky, to Alexander James. They came to Illinois with her parents, in 1830, but settled in Shelby county. Mr. James died there in the fall of 1871. His widow resides with her son, WILLIAM JAMES who is married, has seven children, and lives near Shelbyville, Illinois.

GEORGE, born in Nicholas county, Ky., came to Sangamon county with his parents, in 1830, married, in 1841, to Caroline Snyder. She died, in 1860, leaving five children. He married Mrs. Jane

ELEANOR J., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Phineas Jordan, had four children, and he died. She married James Hibbs, had one child, and Mrs. Hibbs died in Logan county, Illinois.

ROBINSON, JAMES T., was born Jan. 21, 1808, at New Malton, Yorkshire, England. Of his ancestors, Thomas Robinson, merchant of Malton, England, died Oct. 23, 1779, aged sixty-eight years. His son, Marmaduke, died April 28, 1797, aged seventy-nine. His son, William Barton Robinson, married Alice Blackburn. They had four children. Their two youngest were James T. and Barton, sketches of whom are herewith given. James T. came to New York in 1829, traveled through the Eastern States and Canada, and came to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in December, 1830, in Buffalo Hart Grove, just in time to witness the "deep snow." He bought land there, and was married Oct. 10, 1832, to Minerva Starr. They had five children in Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM B., born May 29, 1838, enlisted July 25, 1862, for three years, in Co. I, H4th 111. Inf. He was captured at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864, was taken to Anderson ville prison, entering about the i8th of June; remained three months; taken to Savannah, thence to Millen; back to Savannah, and from there to Florence, South Carolina, where he remained three months, and on the approach of Sherman's army was removed to Goldsboro', North Carolina, where he was paroled Feb. 2-", 1865; released at Wilmington the next day, and honorably discharged at Springfield May 30, 1865. He was married Feb. 21, 1867, to Arminta Burns. They have two children, JOHN B. and ALICE CAREY, and reside two miles north of Buffalo, Sangamon county, Illinois - 1874.

JOHN B., born Nov. 21, 1839, enlisted at Spi'ingfield July, 1861, in what became Co. B, nth Mo. Inf., for three years. He was killed in battle at luka, Miss., Sept. 19, 1862, and buried on the field.

CHARLES, born Sept. 25, 1845, raised in Sangamon county, spent three years, 1870, '71 and '72, in Oregon, is unmarried, and lives with his mother.

Mr. Robinson had business east, and in the spring of 1831 he embarked on the steamboat Talisman, in the Sangamon river, near Springfield, and went as far as St. Louis on that boat, and from there to Pittsburg on another boat, and over the Allegheny mountains, by stage, to Philadelphia. The Talisman was the only steamboat that ever ascended the Sangamon river.

ROBINSON, BARTON, was born May 19, 1819, at New Mai ton, Yorkshire, England; studied medicine and graduated with the degree of M. D., in London. He came to America, and joined his brother, James T., at Buffalo Hart Grove, in Dec., 1831. He was married in Sangamon county, May, 1833, to Mahala Barber. They had two living children in Sangamon county, and in the year 1836 Dr. Robinson and Jabez Capps laid out the town of Mt. Pulaski, 111. He moved there, and continued in the practice of medicine. They had two living children in Mt. Pulaski, and in 1858 moved to Lynn countv, Kansas, taking their four sons with them, namely -

William Blackburn and Alice Southington were married Nov. 30, 1725. They were both of Sneaton, England. They had five children. Their fourth child, John, born at Sneaton, Dec. 15, 1733, O. S.. married Oct. 6, 1763, N. S., at Malton, to Bertha Turner. Their fifth child, Alice Blackburn, married William Barton Robinson, at Malton. The names of two of their sons, James T. and Barton, head the preceding sketches.

ROBINSON, WM., R., was born about 1776, in England. When he was ten or twelve years old, his parents came to America, and settled in Virginia. When he attained to manhood he went to Blount county, Tenn., and was there married, in 1808, to Sarah Witcher. They had five children in Tennessee, and moved to Barren county, Ky., where six children were born, and then moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in what is now Williams township, in 1836. One of their children only resides in Sangamon county -

Robinson, Mrs. Ann

ROBINSON, MRS. ANN, whose maiden name was Norris, was born May 5, 1779, in Harford county, Maryland. She was married there, in 1805, to Richard Robinson, a native of the same county. They had two children, and Mr. Robinson died in Baltimore, Nov. 5, 1811. Mrs. Robinson, with two sisters, Temperance Norris, born May 4, 1775, and Elizabeth, born March 22, 1777, and Mrs. Robinson's two children, moved to Springfield, 111., arriving in March, 1835. Of her two children -

ARNOLD R., born Dec. 10, 1807, in Baltimore, Md., came to Springfield, 111., in 1835, was married at Jacksonville, 111., March 19, 1840, to Eliza Robison, who was born July 4, 1822, in the city of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson reside in Springfield, 111. A. R. Robinson has been for many years an active Free Mason and Odd Fellow, having taken all the degrees in both orders, and always holding some official position. He is Secretary of St. Paul's Lodge of Masons, No. 500; is Grand Tyler of the Grand Chapter, and Grand Council of the State of Illinois. He has been six years in the employ of the- United States Government as Custodian of the U. S. Court House and Postoffice, in Springfield, Illinois.

Mrs. Ann Robinson died July 30, 1860, in Springfield, Illinois. Of her two sisters who came with her - Temperance died Feb. 4, 1849, and Elizabeth died Dec 20, 1872, both in Springfield, Illinois.

Robinson, Mrs. Mary

ROBINSON, MRS. MARY, whose maiden name was Mayhew, was born Sept. 9, 1786, at Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Zenas Robinson was born Aug. i, 1782, in Falmouth, Mass. They were married Sept. 14, 1814, at Cincinnati, O., and had one child there. Mr. Robinson took his family to Big Bone Lick, Boone county, Ky., where he was fulfilling a building contract, and one child was born there. They returned to Hamilton county, O., and had one child near Carthage. Mr. Robinson moved in 1825 to Grand Gulf, Miss., and died there Nov. 8, 1828 or '9. His widow and children returned to Cincinnati to her parents. She remained there until 1836, when she removed, in company with her daughter

BENJAMIN S., born July 24, 1815, in Cincinnati, O. He studied medicine and attended lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, session of 1839 and '40, and came to Sangamon county, arriving Nov. 3, 1840, at the house of his mother and sister on Spring creek, having taken his last cigar and last glass of intoxicating drink that day in Springfield. Dr. Robinson was married May 20, 1846, to Sophronia Earnest. 'They had six living children. HELEN F., born March 23, 1849, married September 26, 1872, to Alexander L. Patteson. They have one child, HELEN A., and live two miles southwest of Curran, Sangamon county, 111. LOUISA, born Sept. 7, 1852, MARY ALLETTA, born April 17, 1854, A. MAYHEW, born June 28, 1856, LIZZIE E., born May 9, 1858, and FREDERICK A., born Jan. 5, 1867. The five latter reside with their parents, two and a quarter miles northeast of Curran, Sangamon county, 111.

Dr. B. S. Robinson commenced practice in 1841, within two miles of where he now resides. He is now (Nov. 22, 1873,) the oldest practitioner in Sangamon county.

Rodgers, Robert

RODGERS, ROBERT B., born Aug. I, 1793, in Westmoreland county, Pa. Catharine A. Huggins was born Feb. ir, 1800, in Liverpool, Perry county, Pa. They were married and had eight children in Pennsylvania, and moved to Medina county, O., where one child was born, and from there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the spring of 1837 m what is now Clear Lake township, east of the river, where two children were born. Of their twelve children -

LUCETTA, born Jan. i, 1814, in Dauphin county, Pa., married in Wooster, O., to Charles McClure. She died there in 1844, leaving three children,

THOMAS, born April 5, 1816, in Perry county, Pa., married in Sangamon county, to Catharine Hazlitt. They had seven children; two died young. LUCETTA is married, and lives in Iowa. ALFRED, MARY C., LOUISA and THOMAS, Jun., live with their mother. Thomas Rodgers died in 1852, and his widow and children live one and a half miles north of Riverton, 111.

REBECCA, born May 30, 1821, in Dauphin county, Pa., married in Sangamon county to James Morton. They have eight living children. THOMAS married Sarah Smith, and lives near Sadoris, 111. AMANDA married Avery Constant, and lives near Williamsville, 111. MARY C. married James W. Wilson. See his name. CAROLINE married Jefferson Yocom. See his name. JOSEPHINE, LUCY J., ANN R. and JAMES W., live with their parents. James Morton and wife reside near Sadoris, Champaign county, 111 - 1874.

AMANDA, born Aug. 17, 1826, in Dauphin county, Pa., married Dec. n, 1845, m Sangamon county, to William Steele, who was born April 2, 1821, in Carlisle, Ky. They had six children. ELIZABETH C. married Charles Wilkison, who was born Nov. 6, 1838, in Stark county, O. They have two children, WILLIAM and JOSEPHINE, and live in Riverton, 111. Mr. Wilkison served three months - from April, 1861 - in the I3th Ohio Inf. He enlisted at Springfield, Feb. 2, 1865, for one year, in Co. I, 7th 111. Cav., served until Nov. 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. JOHN H., born Feb. 19, 1846, enlisted Feb. 2, 1865, for one year, in Co. I, 7th 111. Cav., served until Nov. 4, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was married to Euphemia Wilson. They have two children, and live in Riverton, 111. ROBERT F. married Emily R. Mann, and live in Riverton. HARRIET married John Wood, and died Nov. 20, 1873, having been married but three weeks. GEORGANA married Benjamin F. Flagg in Sangamon county, and lives in Muskegon, Mich. ALFARETTA lives with her mother. William Steele enlisted for three years in 1863, in

MART,\)ovK Nov. 17, 1827, in Dauphin county, Pa., married in Sangamon county to J. C. Harris. She had eight children, and died in Christian county, 111. Robert B. Harris, the last one of her children, was scalded to death at Riverton, Dec. 22, 1873.

JOHN, born July 9, 1830, in Dauphin county, Pa., raised in Sangamon county, enlisted at Springfield, September, 1861, for three years, in Co. A, 3d 111. Cav., served full term, and was honorably discharged at Springfield, September, 1864. He was married Oct. 9, 1865, at Riverton, to Mrs. Nancy J. Harsh, whose maiden name was Kinder. She was born Dec. 4, 1844, in Wythe county, Va. They have three children, IDAHO, PARLEY and ASA, and reside two miles southeast of Illiopolis, 111. - 1874.

RICHARD, born June 5, 1836, near Wooster, Medina county, O., married Dec. 25, 1867, in Sangamon county, to Mary A. Major. They have two living children, LOUIS and BYRON, and live in Riverton, 111.

SAMUEL D., born Nov. 28, 1838, in Sangamon county, enlisted July 25, 1862, for three years, in Co. I, H4th 111. Inf., served until May 14, 1863, when he was honorably discharged on account of physical disability. He was married Dec. 7, 1865, to Emma Yocom. They have two living children, LEONA and ELLEN MAUD, and reside in Riverton, Sangamon county, 111. - 1874.

Rogers, Jotham

ROGERS, JOTHAM S., was born June 25, 1816, in Bangor, Maine, came to Springfield, 111., in 1837, and was married to Mary A. Benham, who died without children in 1843. Mr. Rogers was married May 27, 1848, to Sarah

MART LOUISA, born July 14, 1850, in Springfield, married, May 2, 1868, to Josiah P. Kent, and had one child. Mrs. Kent married the second time, May 29, 1873, to John Hunter. See the Elder family. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter moved, in 1875, from DesMoines, Iowa, to Washington, D. C.

ROLL, JACOB C., was born April 4, 1782, at Springfield, Essex county, N. J. Sarah Pierson was born July 23, 1786, in the siime town. They were there married, Oct. 9, 1810. One child was born in New Jersey, and the family moved, in 1813, to Cincinnati, Ohio, where they had one living child. In the summer of 1825, Mr. Roll loaded a keel boat at Cincinnati with family stores and merchandise. He went down the Ohio to its mouth, and when he had ascended the Mississippi river about thirty miles, his boat sunk. By that accident he lost the principal part of his goods. Securing what he could from the wreck, he continued to ascend the rivers, and reached Sangamo, in Sangamon county, Oct. 10, 1825. There, in connection with Ebenezer Brighain, he commenced merchandising, and at the same time began to improve some land. One eighty acre lot that he broke and fenced, foiled some other man, who was evil disposed, and his fences were destroyed, hay burned and other depredations committed, but the parties who did it all passed away, and he enjoyed the land peaceably for many years after. Of the two children brought to Sangamon county -

PIERSON, born July 31, 1811, in Springfield, N. J., married in Sangamon county, Oct. 12, 1837, to Rachel Carman, who was born Feb. 19, 1814, in New York or Pennsylvania. They had two living children - AMELIA H., born in Sangamon county, March 29, 1838, married, June 7, 1855, to Henry Shoemaker. They had seven children, CHARLES p.,

Sarah, Christopher, Mary, Catha

RINE, JACOB and MARGARET A., and reside in Gardner township, six miles northwest of Springfield, Illinois. MARY M., born Nov. 10, 1839, in Sangamon -county, married, March 3, 1859, to James Moyer, who was born Sept. 19, 1838, in Lancaster county, Penn. They have four children, SARAH E., CATHARINE, MARY and DRUZILLA, and reside in Gardner township, north of the river. Mrs. Rachel Roll died Oct. 19, 1841, and Pierson Roll was married, May 8, 1845, to Catharine Spencer. They had thirteen children, four of whom died young. Of the other nine - MARGARET A., born Aug. 17, 1846, married, April 29, 1863, to Joshua Jones, who was born Dec. 20, 1840, in Franklin county, Ohio. They had four children, WILLIAM p., JAMES B., WILLARD M. and PERCY MELVILLE; the latter died, aged two years. Mr. and Mrs. Jones live east of the river, in Salisbury township, Sangamon county, 111. SARAH P., born Sept. 19, 1848, married, May 24, 1866, to William J. Schroyer, who was born Jan. 7, 1836, in Fayette county, Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Schroyer live with her parents. JACOB C. and JAMES B. live with their parents. PHCEBE D. married, Jan. 18, 1876, to John E. Roll, son of Alpheus Roll. See his name. ROMOLD, JUDY, WILLIAM N. and JOHN S.; the four latter live with their parents. Pierson Roll and family reside north of the Sangamon river, six miles northwest of Springfield, Illinois.

ROLL, WILLIAM, was born near Springfield, Essex county, N. J. He engaged in school teaching at Green Village, Morris county, and was there married, Feb. 9, 1809, to Mary Eddy, who was born Feb. 18, 1793. They had eight children, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving June 7, 1830, at the house of his great-uncle, Jacob C. Roll, near the town of Sangamo, and a few weeks later moved into the town, where they had one child. Of their nine children -

Early Set1Lers Of

ANN P., born August 11, 1810, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county, to Alfred Riley. They had four children; one died, aged fifteen. WILLIAM, born April n, 1835, is married, and lives in* Springfield, 111. LUTHER, born Oct. 10, 1836, is married, and lives in Springfield, 111. HARRIET lives with her mother. Alfred Riley was run over by a team in the streets of Springfield, and after two days' suffering, died Nov. 23, 1870. His widow lives in Springfield, Illinois.

PHEBE L., born March i, 1812, in New Jersey, married Thomas S. Edwards, who died in Bureau county. She lives with her brother, John E. Roll.

JOHN E., born June 9, 1814, at Green Village, N. J. came to Sangamon county June y, 1830, married Jan. 31, 1839, to Harriet Vandyke, who was born Jan. 29, 1815, in New York City. They had three living children in Springfield. WILLIAM V., born November 6, 1839, FRANK P., born March 7, 1852, and JOHN L., born June 25, 1854, all live with their parents. In coming to Sangamon county J. E. Roll walked from St. Louis, with Clawson Lacy and Alfred Riley. While the family lived in Sangarno, Abraham Lincoln built the boat spoken of in his biography. He began in March, 1831, just as the deep snow went off. Mr. Roll made the pins for putting the boat together. They made a canoe to go with the boat as a yawl. John Seaman and Walters Carman got into it to take the first ride. It upset with them, and floated away while they took refuge in a tree. Lincoln saved them by swimming to the tree with a log, having a long rope attached. After getting all on it, those on shore drew it in. J. E. Roll learned the trade of a plasterer and brick mason, and for thirty years followed the business of building and dealing in real estate, having built about one hundred houses, on his own account, in Springfield. He has been in the boot and shoe trade for the last seventeen years. J. E. Roll and family reside in Springfield, Illinois.

MART C., born Nov. 29, 1816, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county, May 2, 1840, to John Bagby. They have four children, and lives near Marion Centre, Kansas.

ELIZABETH W., born April 22, 1819, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county to Isaac H. Smith, who was born either in North or South Carolina, and died in 1851, in Springfield, leaving a widow and five children. Of their children: WILLIAM married Esther R. Brokaw, have three living children, ADA, LIDA and LILLIE, and live in Mason City, 111. JOHN was killed by a passing train on a railroad, in childhood. ELIZA P., born July 26, 1848, married George E. Mott. See his name. Their son, HARRY w., died Aug. 27, 1876, aged six years and five months. JAMES and EDWARD live in Springfield. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Smith resides in Springfield, Illinois.

SARAH, married in Sangamon county to William P. Short, had seven children; three died young. WILLIAM died in the Union army. William P. Short and family reside near Teheran, Mason county, Illinois.

NANCT, born March 13, 1828, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county to Jeremiah Riggins, have five living children, and reside in Mason City, Illinois.

ALP HE US P., born Sept. 17, 1830, in Sangarno, Sangamon county, 111., married in Mason county to Mary Mosslander. They have four children. Their son, JOHN E., was married Jan. 18, 1876, in Sangamon county, to Phoebe D. Roll, daughter of Pierson Roll. See his name. John E. Roll and wife live near Teheran, 111. The other three children live with their parents. Alpheus P. Roll and family reside near Teheran, Mason county, Illinois.

RpSS, MRS. NANCY, was born in 1777, in Essex county, N. J. Her maiden name was Dunn. Her father, Jeremiah Dunn, was captain of a company of New Jersey rangers in the Revolutionary army, and was killed July 28, 1778, at the head of his company, at the battle of Monmouth, N. J. He left a widow with one son and three daughters. The widow never married, although she survived her husband sixty years. Their daughter Nancy, whose name heads this sketch, was married in 1795 to William Ross, who was born in the same county, Feb. 14, 1769. They were married in Essex county, had six children there, and, in 1813, moved to Cinci nati, O., where seven children were born. William Ross died there of cholera, Nov. 18, 1832. Mrs. Nancy Ross moved with some of her children to Sangamon c ^unty, 111., arriving in the fall of 1839 in Round Prairie, four miles east of Springfield, and the next year moved to what is now Cooper township. Seven of her children died young. Of the other six -

HETJ^Y, born in 1796 in New Jersey, married in Cincinnati, O., to Jonathan L. Cory, who died near Natchez, Miss., while there on business. He left one child, WILLIAM ROSS CORY, born March 18, 1823, in Cincinnati, and came to Sangamon county with one of his uncles previous to 1840, and was married in Springfield to Icy Isabel Deck. They had four children, three of whom died under eight years. WILLIAM R., Jun., born Jan. 16, 1847, in Sangamon county, married Sept. 12, 1875, to Annetta Deyo. William R. Cory, Jun., is a teacher, and resides in Rochester, 111. Mrs. Icy I. Cory died in 1855, and Mr. Cory was married Sept. 22, 1859, to Christiana Clements, who was born July 22, 1836,111 Montgomery county, Md. They have five living chihlren, JOHN A., ANNIE i., ALICE A., ELLA L. and CLARA H. William Ross Cory resides in Springfield, 111. Mrs. Hetty Cory married in Cincinnati to Martin H. Flagg, and moved to Springfield in 1838. They had five children ; twins died young; one lives in Cincinnati and two in Minnesota. Mr. Flagg died in 1843 *n Springfield, and his widow went to Cincinnati and died of cholera, July 3, 1849.

NANCY, born about 1800 in New Jersey, married in Cincinnati, in 1817, to Bennajh English, born near Philadelphia, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. He died in Cincinnati in 1837, leavmg a widow and two children. They came to Sangamon county in 1840. AFFALINDA married John Tunnicliffe, and lives in St. Louis. BENNAJH married

WILLIAM R., born Oct. 3. 1809, in Rahway, Essex county, N. J., married in Cincinnati, O., May 18, 1834, to Ann Flagg. They had two children born in Cincinnati, and moved to Springfield, 111., in 1838, and from there to Cooper township, where Mrs. Ross died, Feb. 18,1844. Mr. Ross was married Dec. 28, 1845, to Mary E. Crowl. They had six children. Of his children - LAURETTA, born April 13, 1835, in Cincinnati, married in Sangamon county, Dec. 15, 1851, to Henry O. Stafford". They had four children; two died young, and Mrs. Stafford died Dec. 7, 1859. Of her two children, ORLANDO c. lives with his father in Decatur; LAURETTA A. resides with her grandfather Ross. ADELIA, born in Cincinnati, died in Sangamon county May 22, 1854, in her seventeenth year. By the second marriage - GEORGE R., MORDECAI V. and JOSEPH H., live with their parents. William R. Ross and family reside three miles east of Rochester, Sangamon county, 111.

ANDRE W J., born March 8, 1815, in Cincinnati, was married in Sangamon county June n, 1843, to Elizabeth Lord, who died Nov. 26, 1865, leaving five children, WILLIM R. ANDRDW J., Jun., LOUISA J., JESSE E. and HENRY H. A. J. Ross married Oct. 10, 1868, in St. Louis, to Mi's. Elizabeth Viler, whose maiden name was Ford. They have three children, RICHARD M., MILES M. and MILTON R., and reside three miles north of Berry station, or Clarksville, Sangamon county, 111.

CHARLOTTE Z>., born in 1816, in Cincinnati, married there to W. H. Morris, raised a family, came to Sangamon county on a visit, and died suddenly at the house of her brother, William R. Ross, Aug. 8, 1871. Her remains were taken back for interment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, O.

LOUISA y., born in Cincinnati, married in Sangamon county, 111., to Milton Ross. He died Aug. 20, 1845, an^ h's widow resides three and three-quarter miles east of Rochester.

husband (William Ross) were removed from Catharine street Cemetery, Cincinnati, by their son, William R., and deposited by her side in Cooper township, in 1870.