Sangamon County, Illinois - The whole text, 1876 (part 28 of 31)

TAYLOR, ISAAC, born Feb. 9, 1807, in Hart county, Kentucky, came with his father to \Vhite county, and from there to Wayne county, Illinois. He came alone in 1828 to Sangamon county, being the first of the family to arrive. In February, 1829, he went to the Wisconsin lead mines, and returned in September of that year, entered land and made some improvements near where German Prairie Station now stands. He enlisted in 1831 under Captain, now General, Moses K. Anderson, in the Blackhawk war, but their services were not needed. In the spring of 1832 he passed through Blackhawk's army at Dixon, on his way to to the lead mines, and was in great danger, as hostilities commenced soon after. He volunteered at the mines and served until the close of the war, returning home in December, 1832. He was married Feb. 13, 1834, to Sarah M. Elliott, at Springfield, Illinois. They had thirteen children. Of their eleven living children -

Florence, Martha, Georgia

MART J., born Dec. n, 1835, in Sangamon county, was married Feb. 9, 1854, to William H. White. They have seven living children, CHARLES, FLORENCE, MARTHA, GEORGIA, MARY A., EMMA and NELLIE, who live with their parents near Gibson City, Ford county, Illinois.

ZILPHA A., born May 27, 1838, in Sangamon county, was married there in July, 1856, to James S. Halbert. They had two living children, M. ESTELLA and ROSELLA. Mrs. Halbert then married James H. Cartwell. See his name. They have one child, LESLIE G.

Nora

DA VID A., born j"uly 16, 1842, in Sangamon county, was married January, 1866, to Mary C. Constant. She died August 21, 1874, leaving three children,

OTTO, EMMA H. and JIMMIE H., who live at present - 1876 - with their grand-papa Taylor. David A. Taylor lives near Gibson City, Ford county, 111.

JOHN W., born March i, 1848, in Sangamon county, was married Jan. 17, 1872, in Springfield, Illinois, to Lydia A. Claspill, who was born Nov. 5, 1849, at Moore's Hill, Dearborn county, Indiana. They have two children, CLARA MAUD and NELLIE M., and reside on the farm where his father settled in 1830. It is near German Prairie Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ISAAC H., born March 16, 1850, in Sangamon county, graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, February, 1871, and was married Jan. 16, 1872, to Irena Constant. They have one child, PERCY L. Dr. I. H. Taylor is a practicing physician, and resides at Barclay, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JAMES Z., born Feb. 7, 1853, in Sangamon county, and attend lectures at Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, during the winter of 1875 and '76.

Isaac Taylor and family reside one and three-quarter miles west of Dawson, Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr. Taylor says that Jacob Donner and Wife were members of the Christian Church, that then worshipped near German Prairie Station. Mr. Taylor being clerk, gave them letters, by order of the church, when thev left for the Pacific coast, and to the horrible doom that awaited them. His recollection of Jacob Donner is that he was a model Christian gentleman.

TAYLOR, JOHN, was born in Danville, Ky. He came when a young man to Madison county, Illinois, and was there married to Elizabeth Burkhead, who was born near Charleston, South Carolina. They returned to Kentucky, and had three children there, and moved to Edwardsville, Illinois, where they had one child, and from there to what became Sangamon county, arriving in 1819 on Sugar creek, in what is now Ball township, where they had two children, and in 1822 moved to Springfield, where they had two children. When Sangamon county was organized, in 1821, John Taylor was elected sheriff, and by re-elections held the office about six years. He was afterwards appointed receiver of the United States Land Office at Springfield, was one of the original proprietors of the town, and did much in the way of improvements to advance its interests. Of his children -

HANNAH, born Jan. 27, 1811, in Kentucky, was married in Springfield April, 1832, to S. M. Tinsley, a native of Virginia. They had eleven children in Springfield. Mr. Tinsley was for many years one of the leading merchants of the city, and died in 1867. Mrs. Hannah Tinsley died m July, 1869.

MARGARET, born Dec. 28, 1813, in Kentucky, was married Sept. 28, 1829, in Springfield, Illinois, to Edmond Dick Taylor, who was born October 18, 1804, at Lunenburg Court House, V irginia. His father's name was Giles Taylor, and his mother's maiden name was Sina Stokes. They moved to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1806, and two years later to Hopkinsville, in the same State. In 1814 they moved to Gallatin county, Illinois, where Mr. Taylor was tor several years engaged in the manufacture of salt. Edmund D. Taylor came to Springfield in the fall of 1823, and went into general merchandising, with Colonel John Taylor, who afterwards became his father-in-law. In 1832 he was elected to represent Sangamon county in the Illinois Legislature, his opponent being no less a personage than Abraham Lincoln. He can justly boast of being the only man that ever defeated Mr. Lincoln in an election. In 1834 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1835 he resigned his seat in the Senate to accept the appointment from President Jackson as receiver of public moneys in the United States land office in Chicago, and opened the first land sale ever held there, in June, 1835. ^n f°rty days he found himself in possession of $493,000. When he reported it to the Secretary of the Treasury, that officer responded with the exclamation, " Is this not fiction ? " Colonel Taylor's bond was only $30,000. He was for many years actively engaged in politics as a leader in the Democratic party. He has been engaged in banking and land speculations all his life. He lost several thousand dollars in the Chicago fire, but is still very wealthy and full of business. Colonel E. D. Taylor and wife had thirteen children, six only of whom are living. One daughter married S. Snowden Hayes, and lives in Chicago. Colonel Taylor's business is largely in Chicago, but he resides at Mendota, Illinois.

JAMES, born Jan 27, 1814, in Christian county, Kentucky, was brought up in Springfield, Illinois. He was a soldier from Sangamon county in the Blackhawk war. His sister, Mrs. Hurst, remembers that herself and some other school girls went into a bakery and assisted in preparing crackers for the soldiers, at the time her brother went. James Taylor was married in Springfield July 25, 1837, to Eliza C. Bryan, daughter of Nicholas Bryan. See his name. They had six living children, MARY E., born June 14, 1839, in Petersburg, Illinois, married in Springfield June, 25, 1874, to James M. Barclay, a native of Kentucky. They have one child, LOUAN E., and live in Cairo, Illinois, ELIZA B., born Dec. 9, 1841, in Petersburg, Illinois, was married March 19, 1863, in Beardstown, Illinois, to Robert W. Miller, of Sangamon county. They have four children, WINLOCK w., JEAN- and live at Cairo, Illinois. HANNAH T., born Oct. 15, 1843, was married in Springfield April 17, 1867, to James M. Epler. They have three children, ANNIE LOU, HANNAH T. and JAMES T., and live in Jacksonville, Illinois. ANN M., born Oct. i, 1845, in Springfield, lives with her mother. JOHN C., born Nov. 10, 1647, in Bath, Mason county, Illinois, was married in Clinton, Illi lois, Sept. 24, 1873, to Mary Jane Bryan, a native of Pennsylvania. They have one child, JOHN CLAY, and live in Springfield. JAMES S., born August 16, 1855, at Beardstown, Illinois, lives with his mother. James Taylor went to Petersburg soon after marriage, and sold goods there five years. He afterwards moved to Springfield and remained five years, thence to Beardstown, where he was sheriff of Cass county from 1850 to i £>59, and four years circuit clerk. He returned to Springfield in 1863 and acted as deputy shei'ifF one year. He

JANE E., born June 27, 1820, in Sangamon county, was married in Springfield to David Kriegh, a native ot Hagerstown, Maryland. They live in Chicago, Illinois.

Andre

TAYLOR, JOHN, was born Sept. I, 1804, in Tennessee, and when quite young was taken by his parents to Cape Girardeau county, Missouri. Mary Thomas was born Nov. 14, 1799, in Bracken county, Ky. Her parents moved to Lebanon, Ohio, and from there to St. Genevieve county, Mo., and then to Cape Girardeau county. She was there married to Samuel Cupples, had three children, and Mr. Cupples died in 1828. Mrs. Cupples was married March 22, 1834, to John Taylor. They had two children in Cape Girardeau county, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the spring of 1837, we§t of Springfield, and early in 1838 moved to a farm he purchased, in what is now Gardner township, north of Spring creek, where three children were born. Of all her children -

R US ETTA C. Cupples was born Nov. n, 1826, in Missouri, married April 9, 1844, in Sangamon county, to Jesse M. Shepherd. They have three living children, and reside at Baker City, Oregon. He is a practicing attorney, and editor of the Bed Rock Democrat - 1874.

AD ALINE C., born August 8, 1836, in Missouri, married in Sangamon county, March, 1854, to John P. Attix. They have three children, and live near Keosauqua, Iowa.

JOHN W., born August 10, 1842, in Sangamon county, was married Feb. 25, 1864, to Margaret L. Stevenson. They had three children, LOTTIE B., JESSE B. and CLARA L. Mrs. Margaret L. Taylor died July 6, 1872, and John W. Taylor married in 1874 Nancy E. McKinnie. They have one child, WILLIAM, and live near Bradfordton, Sangamon county, 111.

John Taylor died April 22, 1853, in Sangamon county, and his widow resides where they settled in 1838. It is one and three-fourth miles southwest of Bradfordton, Sangamon county, 111.

TAYLOR, JOHN W I C KLIFFE, was born April 21, 1798, in Boone county, Kentucky, nearly opposite Lawrenceburg, Indiana. In 1802 his parents moved to that part of Gallatin which is now Trimble county in the same State, opposite the city of Madison, Indiana. <See sketch of his two sisters, Mrs. Jane E. Elliott, widow of James Elliott, and Mrs. Sally Smith, widow of Joseph Smith. J. Wickliffe Taylor was married June i, 1820, in Tremble county, Kentucky, to Jemima Gray, who was born there Feb. 8, 1804. They had one child there, and moved to Springfield, Illinois, . early in 1833. In April, 1834, they moved to what ia now Cartwright township, ten miles west of Springfield, where they had three children. Of their four children -

WILLIAM //., born August 2, 1838, in Sangamon county. He has spent the last two years in Colorado, and has just returned to Sangamon county, and lives near Wheatfield.

TAYLOR, WILLIAM, was born in Bath county, Kentucky, married there to Mrs. Patrick, and brought his family to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in 1835 in what is now Cotton Hill township. His son -

ED WARD,\>ovn in Bath county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to a daughter of Isaac Martin, who was a brother to Abraham Martin. His daughter, MELISSA, born in Sangamon county, Jan. 8, 1845, mari~ie(3 Sept. 27, 1866, to John W. Wigginton, who was born Jan. 12, 1835, in Trimble county, Kentucky, and came to Sangamon county in 1866. They reside at Breckenridge Sangamon county, Illnois.

TAYLOR, WILLI AM, B., was born Dec. 25, 1800, near Salem, New Jersey. Beulah Smith was born Dec. 19, 1810, in Cape May county, New Jersey. They were married Jan. 4, 1830, in Cape May county, and had three living children in New Jersey. They moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving May 16, 1838, in what is now Gardner township, one and a half miles north of Farmingdale, where they had five children. Of their eight children -

JOHN L., born Oct. 13 1830, in New Jersey, raised in Sangamon county, and started April 4, 1851, to California. He has not been definitely heard fiom by his friends since 1857.

BEULAH ANN., born August 10, 1835, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county, in 1857, *° Isom Bolin. They have six children and live in Sangamon countv, Illinois.

CHARLES, and for a second husband married, August, 1867, to Geo J. Fiddler. They have one child, JACOB BEN., and live in Mason City, Illinois.

ABIGAIL B., born March 20, 1845, in Sangamon county, married April 6, 1865, to Thomas Maylor, and lives near Coyville, Wilson county, Kansas.

William B. Taylor, Sen., died May 26, 1852, and his widow died August 22, 1860, both in Sangamon county. He was related to Nicholas Biddle, who was associated with the first United States bank.

THAYER, JOSEPH, was born June. 30, 1786, at Amherst, Massachusetts. He moved to Springfield, Illinois, in 1834. He is the father of Rev. Erastus W. Thayer, of Chatham, Illinois, and of Edward R. Thayer, one of the oldest merchants of Springfield. Joseph Thayer is in his ninety-first year, and resides in Springfield, Illinois. His brother, Asahel, resides in Waverly, Illinois. His brother, Martin, was the father of William P. Thayer. See his name. Joseph Thayer's brother, Stephen, was the father of Henry Thayer, of Chatham, Illinois. See Huston.

THAYER, ASAHEL, born Feb. 104 1790, in Amherst, Massachusetts, was married May, 1813, to Mary Cannon, of Greenwich, Massachusetts. They had eleven children, five of whom died young. They moved to Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois, May 14, 1839, thence to Morgan -county, Illinois, in 1846. Ot their children -

LOIS K., born in 1814 in Amherst, Massachusetts, was married in February, 1839, to George W. Crooker. See his name. Mrs. Lois Crooker died suddenly at Taylorville, Illinos, July 5, 1876, after the Crooker family sketch was printed. See sketch of G. W. Crooker.

ASAHEL E., born in 1821 in Amherst, was a member of the junior class in Amherst College, when he came to Illinois with his father, began the study of medicine with Dr.J. B. Lewis,of Chatham, and died in his twenty-first year.

EMMA) born in 1832, in Amherst, was married January, 1850, to T. Milton Metcalf. He is now county clerk of Macoupin county. They have an adopted daughter, and reside in Carlinville, Illinois.

Thayer, William

was born March 15, 1815, in Petersburg, Virginia. His father, Martin Thayer,was a native of Amherst, Massachusetts, and when a young man went to Petersburg, Virginia, where he engaged in business, and was there married to Mrs. Mary C. Mason, whose maiden name was Russell. When the subject of this sketch was about seven years old, his mother died, and his father closed his business and returned to Amherst, Massachusetts, where William P. remained until he was fifteen years old, when he went to New York city as clerk in a dry goods house. About a year later his father engaged in the dry goods business in Philadelphia, and William P. joined him there as clerk. In 1835 the latter went to Newville, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and began merchandizing on his own account. He was there married, Jan. 4, 1837, to Mary Huston, who was born in Newville, Jan. 21, 1817. Mr. Thayer closed his business there, and started Jan. 31, 1838, for the west, accomnanied by his wife, babe and servant girl. They traveled in a two-horse wagon, fitted up with a stove, and windows on the sides, so that the family might be comfortable, and also see the country as they passed along. After six months travel and many hair-breadth escapes from icy roads and high water, they arrived in Springfield, Illinois, March 13, 1838, and came very near stalling, with his wagon to the axles in the mud, near the southeast corner of the State House Square. They had seven children in Sangamon county. Of all their children - JAMES H., born Sept. 19, 1837, in

SARAH J., born Sept. 2, 1839,111 Sangamon county, was married Oct. 14, 1857, to Thomas P. Boone, who was born June 27, 1833, in Elton, Todd county, Ky. He is a distant relative of Daniel Boone, the famous hunter and Indian fighter. Mr. and Mrs. Boone had seven children. WILLIE I. died in his seventh year, MARY E. died in infancy, MARTIN R., CHARLES H., FRANK1E P., and HARRY F., live with their parents. The youngest died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Boone reside in Springfield, Illinois.

MARTIN R., born Feb. 27, 1842, was married Sept. 19, 1867, to Harriet Melvin, a native of Beaver county, Pennsylvania. They have three children, MAUD, LILLIAN and RUSSELL, and live in Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

DOLLIE, next to the youngest child, was married in Chatham in September, 1873, to Joseph Hudson, an agent of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, and resides at Chenoa, Illinois.

Mrs. Mary H. Thayer died June 10, 1872, in Chatham, 111., and William P. Thayer, Sen., was married Dec. 31, 1873, in Springfield, to Elizabeth Dresser. See sketch of Re~c. Chas. Dresser and family. Wm. P. Thayer, Sen., is, in connection with his son, Martin R., proprietor of the Chatham flouring mill, and resides in Springfield, 111.

TH AXTO N, J A M ES H., was born Oct. 28, 1823, in Allen county, Kentucky. He came to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1839, in what is now Fancy Creek township. He was married in 1845 *-° Margaret Huffman. They had six living children in Sangamon county, namely -

THOMPSON, JOHN, born March 28, 1783, in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, left Harrisburg in 1802 for Grant county, Kentucky, and was married there January 9, 1810, to Sarah Points, who was born Feb. 12, 1791. They had two children, and Mrs. Sarah Thompson died Feb. 21, 1815. John Thompson was married Nov. 13, 1817, in Montgomery county to Elizabeth Ferguson, who was born June 18, 1791, in that county. They settled in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and had five children there. They returned to Montgomery county, where four children were born, and moved from there to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 8, 1836, near Springfield, and a few weeks later moved to a farm adjoining Mechanicsburg on the west. Of their eleven children -

JAMES, born Nov. 7, 1810, in Kentucky, married a Miss Black and moved to the vicinity of Greencastle, Indiana, in 1835, anfl cuefl there soon after.

HARVET, born Feb. 2, 1820, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was married March 4, 1844, in Sangamon county to Mary B. Hughes, a native of Bourbon county, Kentucky, also. She died in November, 1864. He was married May 6, 1851, to Mary A. Patton, who was born April 9, 1832, in Pike county, Missouri. They had one child, EDWARD P., born Feb. 24, 1852, and Mrs. Mary A. Thompson died. Harvey Thompson was married Sept. 9, 1869, at Pittsfield, Pike countv, Illinois, to Mrs. Ruth A. Hubbard, whose maiden name was Davis, a native of Scott county, Illinois. She had two children by a former marriage, MARY L. and THOMAS J. HUBBARD, who live with their mother. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Thompson reside in Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, 111.

in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, to Margaret Vanderen. They had two children, one of whom died young. ELIZA F. lives with her mother. W. F. Thompson died Sept. 23, 1851, and his widow married Louis Johnson. See his name.

JOSIAH M., born Oct. 11,1822, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, April 13, 1860, to Maggie Munce, who was born Jan. 17, 1837, at Rising Sun, Indiana. They have three children, ELIZA, JOHN A. and THOMAS M., who live with their parents in Mechanicsburg, Illinois.

PRISCILLA M., born April 22, 1824, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to John R. Grove. See his name. John R. Grove died Sept. 20, 1849, and his widow married Rev. Joseph M. Grout, who was born near Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Grout was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Shelbyville, Illinois, and died of cholera, August 7, 1855, &ivm£» his life as a sacrifice in his efforts to relieve the sick. His widow died at Mechanicsburg, Dec. 2, 1855. They left two sons, WILLIAM T.. born March 12, 1853, in Mechanicsburg, Illinois, was married Oct. 20, 1875, in his native place, to Georgie E. Hall, daughter of David S. Hall. See his name. William T. Grout is cashier in Thompson & Bro's bank, and resides in Mechanicsburg, Illinois. JOSEPH M. Grout, born Sept. 21, 1855, m Mechanicsburg, Illinois, was brought up by his aunt, Mrs. Branson, graduated at Illinois College, in Jacksonville, June, 1876, and is now - November, 1876 - a law student in Springfield, Illinois.

ANDREW TODD, born Jan. 30, 1827, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was married Dec. 19, 1850, to Elizabeth C. Grove. Thev have three living children,

Thompson, Robert

THOMPSON, ROBERT B., born March 17, 1795, at Saratoga, N. Y., came to Springfield in the autumn of 1824. He was a carpenter by trade, and found work immediately. It is believed that he nailed on the first shingles, and hung the first panel door in Springfield. He was married Jan. 13, 1825, to Mary Matheny, sister of Noah, Charles, James and Cook. They had ten children, namely:

LUCY M., born August 26, 1826, in Springfield, was married Nov. 12, 1850,10 George Shake. They have four children. GEORGE A. is a dry goods clerk in Palmer, 111. CHARLES L., LUCY M. and ANNA M., the three latter reside with their parents, near Palmer, Christian county, 111.

MEL VINA A., born August 24, 1828, in Springfield, was married there Feb. 14, 1856, to Colby Smith. They have three children, NOAH M., CLARA C. and ALMA L., and reside at Fort Scott, Kansas.

MARTHA C. J., born Aug. 20, 1833, in Springfield, married Sept. 12, 1852, to William F. Hill. They have one child, WILLIAM A., who resides with his parents, near Joplin, Jasper county, Mo.

GEORGE R. S., born Dec. 2, 1835, in Springfield, married Martha T. Miller, and died in January, 1853, leaving one child, GEORGETTA. Mrs. Martha T.Thompson married J. S. Robinette, and resides in Springfield, 111.

CHARLES R., born March 29, 1840, in Knox county, Illinois, married Elizabeth A. Sears, of Humboldt, Kansas. They have seven children, MARY W., HARRISON S., MATILDA, ANNA, MARTHA,CHARLES S., and ALMA, who reside with their parents, near Golden Gate, Chautauqua county, Kansas.

ISABELLA F., born March 29, 1844, in Sangamon county, married B. F. Watts, Nov. 8, 1867. They have three children, ROBERT T., MARY M. and VIOLA I., who reside with their parents, near Palmer, Christian county, 111.

Robert B. Thompson died March 9, 1853, two and a half miles northeast of Chatham, and Mrs. Mary Thompson, died July 30, 1872, in Christian county. Both were buried in Sangamon county, Illinois.

Thompson, Samuel

THOMPSON, SAMUEL M., was born Feb. 12, i8oi,in Davidson county, eighteen miles west of Nashville, Tenn. He educated himself, and, in connection with General Moses K. Anderson, taught a military school, having branches in Davidson and Dickson counties. Mr. Thompson came to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1828 in what is now Cartwright township. He returned to Davidson county, Tennessee, and was married in February, 1831, to Cynthia Mc- Crary. He returned to Sangamon county in the spring of that year. Mr. Thompson volunteered in 1832 for the campaign against the Indians under their chief, Black Hawk. He was in the company of which Abraham Lincoln was Captain, and was elected First Lieutenant at the time the company was organized, on Richland creek. Lincoln was elected Captain at the same time and place. That company united at Beardstown with another from Sangamon county, under Captain Gooding. They were ordered from Beardstown to Rushville, and were consolidated with two other companies to form the 4th Reg. 111. Vols. Lieutenant Thompson was elected Colonel of the Regiment. He was thus promoted over Captain Lincoln. The latter, however, it should be said, was not a candidate for the office of Colonel. The call was for thirty days, expecting the Indians would retreat across the Mississippi river as they had done the year before. The savages did not retreat, and the regiment was out about sixty days without an engagement. It was disbanded and mustered out of service at Ottowa, June, 1832, by Colonel Zachary Taylor, afterwards President of the United States. Colonel S. M. Thompson and wife had one child born in Sangamon county, and moved to Beardstown in the fall of 1832, - 90 where one child was born. In 1836 Colonel T. moved to Burlington, Iowa, where three children were born, all of whom died in infancy. Of the two eldest -

William H., Samuel A., Lida M., Sabina, Mary A., Isaac O.

ALETHIA A., born Feb. 13, 1832, in Sangamon county, Illinois, was married July 31, 1848,511 Monroe county, Iowa, to Isaac Hittle, Dec. 7, 1849,111 Rush county, Indiana. They had eleven children. One died in infancy. CYNTHIA E., born Feb. 5, 1851, was married Feb. 15, 1865,10 John Blnkeley. They reside near Williamsburg, Franklin county, Kansas. CLARISSA A., born May 15, 1853, was married August 12, 1875, to David Horbison, and reside in Howard county, Kansas. WILLIAM H., SAMUEL A., LIDA M., SABINA, MARY A., ISAAC O., JAMES A. and ROSA A., reside with their parents near Hillsdale, Miami county, Kansas.

ZANE E., born May 18, 1834, at Beardstown, Illinois, was married May 4, 1851, at Eddyville, Iowa, to William Briggs, of Ohio. They had seven children, MAHLON S., OLIVE, JULIA, ANNIE, CHARLIE, GEORGE and GRANT. Mr. Briggs lost his life in attempting to rescue his son from a coal bank infected with fire damp. He failed in his efforts, and a third man, who came to their assistance, lost his life. This accident occurred in 1870 or '71. Mrs. Briggs by that calamity was incapacited from taking care of herself and the children reside near Eddyville, Iowa.

Mrs. Cynthia Thompson died in October, 1843, near Burlington, Iowa. Colonel Thompson was married in 1855 in Mahaska county, Iowa, to Mrs. Nancy Waidon, whose maiden name was Sullivan. She was a native of Davidson county, Tennssee, also. They reside iti Osage county, near Williamsburg, Franklin county, Kansas.

Colonel Thompson has always heard that railroad trains were swift, but he was able to keep ahead of them until November 26, 1874, when he entered a car for the first time at Garnet, Kansas, to visit his old friends in Illinois.

THOMAS, Mrs. FRANCES, was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, moved to Kentucky, thence to Missouri, and to Sangamon county in 1837, with her daughter -

T H O R N T O N, WI LLI AM, was born Jan. 17, 1789, in Caroline county, Virginia. He was married Sept. 6, 1808, to Judith P. Thornton, who was born in the same county, June 28, 1788. Soon after they were married they moved, in company with her fathe'r, to Bourbon county, Kentucky, where they had seven children and moved to Harrison county, where two children were born. They moved to Montgomery county in the same State, and from there to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1834, stopping one year in what is now Woodside township, and in 1835 moved on land Mr. Thornton had previously entered, in what is now the town of Chatham. Of their children -

MILDRED R., married in Kentucky to Rev. Dewey Whitney. They came to Sangamon county with her parents, and had two children. Mr. Whitney was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Springfield a few years, when he abandoned the ministry in consequence of failing health, studied medicine, and after practicing at different places in New York, moved to Yazoo county, Mississippi,where he was killed by a fall from a horse in 1856. Their daughter, JULIA O., married Geoiye O. Allen and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. WILLIAM D., married in Brandon, Mississippi, to Mrs. Rebecca Carroll, whose maiden name was Calhoun. They both died leaving one child. Mrs. Mildred R. Whitney died June 17, 1871, at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Allen, in St. Louis, Missouri.

EMMA Z>., married John R. Duryee, and had two children. JOHN W-, married Lucy M. Whitney and lives at Marshalltown, Iowa. MARY L., lives with her mother. Mr. Duryee died Jan. 31, 1860, and his widow and daughter reside in Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois - 1874.

WILLIAM S,, married Jan. i, 1838, to Roxana Lyman, and he died June n, 1838, less than six months after he was married. His widow married Aaron Palmer, moved to Chicago, and died there in 1871.

LUCY D., married Francis Conway Thornton, had two children. He died June 26, 1844, and hi« widow married William K. Hardin. They have three children and live in Virden, Illinois.

Mrs. Judith P. Thornton died Dec. 29, 1851, and Colonel William Thornton died May 7, 1871, both at Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr. Thornton was a Lieutenant in the war of 1812 from Kentucky.

The Misses Thornton remember that on the day of the " sudden change," Dec. 20, 1836, a man by the name of Lucas, who lived about a mile and a half northeast of Chatham, rode to their house. It was raining when he started, and when he had got half the distance the cold wave struck him. His overcoat was frozen to his saddle, his feet frozen in the stirrups, and he so chilled as to be helpless. Their father (Mr. Thornton) had to knock the ice from the stirrups before he could be taken from the horse.

TIPTON, DAVID B., born May 4, 1799, in Blount county, Tennessee, was married there to Rebecca Jones, who was born in 1802 in Carter county, in the same State. Thev had three children in Tennessee, and the family moved in 1837 to Clarke county, Illinois, and a year later moved to Sangamon county, arriving October, 1838, in what is now Chatham township, where they had five children. Of their children -

Temperance, Lewis H., Margaret J., David B., Mary A.

WILLIAM 7., born Oct. i, 1830, in Blount county, Tennessee, married in Sangamon county, Feb. 26, 18^52, to Martha Fordner, who was born March 15, 1833, m Green county, Tennessee. They have seven children, JAMES, TEMPERANCE, LEWIS H., MARGARET J., DAVID B., MARY A.

LA I IN A married John H. Large, who enlisted in Co. B, 3Oth 111. Inf., and died in 1863 in Mississippi. She married Philip Fordner, had three children by each marriage, and lives near Curran, Illinois.

TODD. The first of this family in America came from the north of Ireland, and it is known that they were originally from Scotland. A man by the name of Todd - it is thought that his first name was David - was married in Ireland to Hannah Owen, and came to America, with other members of the family, previous to the American Revolution. They settled at Pequea, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and had three sons, John, Robert and Levi. They were educated by their uncle, parson John Todd, who conducted a literary institution in Virginia. These three brothers emigrated about 1778 or '79 to what became Fayette county, Kentucky. They were all influential men in the Indian wars, and in forming the institutions of that State. The eldest:

John Todd, under commission from Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia, dated Dec. 12, 1778, at Williamsburg, then the capital of the State, was authorized to establish the county of Illinois. He was styled in his commission the County Lieutenant Commandant. As such he organized the county and thus became in fact, though not in name, the first

Governor of Illinois. See page 28. His first act was to issue a proclamation with reference to land titles, June 15, 1779. Nearly three ye:-rs later he had been to Virginia, and on his way back made it convenient to visit his family in Kentucky. While at Lexington, news came that the Indians west of the Ohio river were crossing over into Kentucky. Colonel Todd, as one of the commanders, was slain at the battle of Blue Licks, August 18, 1782.

Robert Todd, the second brother, acquired the title of General in connection with the Indian wars, and later military operations in Kentucky. None of his descendants ever came to Illinois. One daughter became the wife of General William O. Butler, of Carrollton, Kentucky.

Levi Todd, the youngest of the three, was engaged in the early Indian wars in Kentucky, and was a lieutenant under Colonel Clark in the expedition that left Corn Island, opposite Louisville, and captured Fort Gates and the village of Kaskaskia, July 4, 1778. M. Rochebiave, the commander of the fort, was so mortified at his having been surprised and captured without firing a gun, that he would not accept any courtesies from his captors, and was sent under a military guard to Virginia. Lieutenant Levi Todd commanded the squad of soldiers who took the prisoner back. He afterwards acquired the title of General, was clerk of the circuit court of Fayette county, Kentucky, the greater part of his life, and lived and died in Lexington. General Levi Todd's daughter, Hannah, was the mother of Hon. John T. Stuart. See his name. His son, Robert Todd, was the father of Mrs. Ninian W. Edwards, Mrs. Dr. William S. Wallace, Mrs. C. M. Smith and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, all of Springfield, Illinois. One only of his children became an early settler of Sangamon county, of whom the following is a sketch :

TODD, JOHN, was born April 27, 1787, near Lexington, -F ay ette county, Kentucky. He was among the earliest graduates of Transylvania University at Lexington. He next entered the Medical University of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated there. Dr. Todd was married July i, 1813, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Rev.

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John Blair Smith, D. D. She was born April 18, 1793, in Philadelphia. Her mother was a daughter of General Nash, a leader in the American Revolution from Virginia. Dr. Todd was appointed Surgeon General of the Kentucky troops in the war of 1812, and was at the battle and massacre of the River Raisin in Canada, where he was captured. Atter the war he returned to Lexington and practiced there. He was for a short time at Bardstown, Kentucky, and from there, in 1817, moved to Ed wardsville, Illinois. In 1827 he was appointed by President John Quincy Adams, Register of the United States Land Office, at Springfield, and at once moved there. He remained in office until he was removed solely for political reasons, by President Jackson in 1829. Dr. John Todd and wife had six living children. Of their children -

JOHN B. S., born April 4, 1814, in Lexington, Kentucky, came with his parents to Springfield in 1827, and July i, 1833, entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and graduated there July i, 1837. He was assigned to duty as second lieutenant in the 6th U. S. Inf., promoted to first lieutenant, Dec. 25, 1837, and promoted to captain in 1843. After more than eighteen years active service, during which time he was in almost every frontier fort, and served through the Mexican war, Captain Todd resigned his commission Sept. 16, 1856, and entered into mercantile business. In the summer of 1861 he was elected the first Delegate of Dakota in the United States Congress. He was commissioned September 19, 1861, by President Lincoln, Brigadier General of Volunteers, and in 1862 commanded the 6th Division of the Army of the Tennessee. He was re-elected Delegate to Congres- and served until March 4, 1865. He was elected in 1867 to the Territorial Legislature of Dakota, and was Speaker of the House at the session of 1867 and '8. General J. B. S. Todd, then a Captain in the United States army,was married March 25, 1845, at Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Catharine S. Hoffman, a daughter of Colonel William . Hoffman, of the United States army. They had nine children. The second and third both died in infancy. Of the other seven, KATE H., born in 1845, at Fort Gibson, Arkansas, married March,

1869, at Yankton, Dakota to Edward F. Higbee. They have one child, JOHN TODD, and live in Yankton. FANNIE A., born in 1852, at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, was married June, 1873, to J. B. Van Velsor, at Yankton, Dakota, where they now reside. JOHN, born in 1854, at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, married August, 1875, to Mary F. Hughes, at Yankton, Dakota, where they now reside. DANA, born in 1 857, at Springfield, Illinois. M AR Y H., born in 1859, MATILDA C., born in 1861, SOPHIA J., born in 1864, the three latter at Fort Randall, Dakota. General J. B. S. Todd died Jan. 5, 1872, at Yankton, Dakota, and his widow and four minor children reside there.

FRANCIS WALTON, born April 17, 1816, at Bardstown, Nelson county, Kentucky, and brought by his parents to Springfield, Illinois, in 1827. He was educated at Jacksonville, and graduated in medicine at Cincinnati Medical College in 1838. He was appointed surgeon in the United States army while in the City of Mexico, in 1846. In 1849 he went to California, and was married there in March, 1851, to Mrs. L. M. Jackson, nee Bullitt, of Nachitoches, Louisiana. They have no children. Dr. Todd is a member of the California State Board of Health, President of the Stockton Board of Health, and Secretary of San Joaquin County Medical Society. He resides at Stockton, California.

WILLIAM Z., born April 14, 1818, at Edwardsville, Illinois, and brought up in Springfield, where he learned the business of a druggist. He went to California in 1845, before the Mexican war or the discovery of gold and was there when the survivors of the Reed and Donner party arrived; so many of whom starved to death as they were snow-bound in the mountains. William L. Todd was married April 14, 1868, in California, to Mrs. Clarissa J. Pike, whose maiden name was Chase. She was born in 1823 in Duchess county, New York. Mrs. Todd died childless in March, 1874, in Sacramento. Mr. Todd resides at Los Angelos, California.

ELIZABETH J. was born January, 1825, at Edwardsville, Illinois, married in Springfield July 21, 1846, to Harrison J. Grimsley. They had two children. JOHN T., born Feb. 3, 1848, in Springfield, married Dec. 12, 1871, in Summerfield, New

Jersey, to Cornelia Meesler, daughter of Rev. A. Meesler, D.D., pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of that place. They have one child, MARY SWIFT. John T. Grimsley is a partner in the mercantile firm of Herndon & Co., and resides in Springfield, Illinois. WILLIAM L., born March 17, 1852, is a clerk with Herndon & Co., and resides in Springfield, Illinois. H. J. Grimsley died in 1865, and his widow married in January, 1867, to Rev. John H. Brown, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, and later of the Thirty-first Street Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Dr. Brown died Feb. 23, 1872, in Chicago, and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield. His widow resides in Springfield, Illinois.

LOCKWOOD M., born June 17, 1826, in Edwardsville, raised in Springfield, studied medicine and graduated in St. Louis in 1851. He was with Sherman as commissary in his march to the sea. He married Emily Husband, and lives in Virginia City, Montana Territory.

FRANCES vS1., born Dec. 19, 1832,111 Springfield, Illinois, married there Dec. 18, 1849, to Thomas H. Shelby, of Lexington, Kentucky. Mrs. Shelby died in Springfield Feb. i, 1851, leaving one child, JOHN TODD Shelby, born Jan. 25, 1851, in Springfield, Illinois. He was brought up near Lexington, Kentucky, graduated at Princeton College, New Jersey, in the class of 1870, married November 7, 1872, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Lizzie M. Craig. They have one child, THOMAS HART. John T. Shelby is a practicing lawyer in Lexington, Kentucky. Soon after the death of his wife, Thomas H. Shelby, with his infant son returned to Kentucky, and is now an extensive farmer near Lexington. He is a grand son of Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky, and on his mother's side, a grandson of Edmond Bullock, Speaker of the first Kentucky House of Representatives.

Dr. John Todd and wife celebrated their golden wedding July i, 1863. He died Jan. 9, 1865, and she died March 11, 1865, both in Springfield, Illinois. Dr. Todd was a Ruling Elder in the First Presbyterian Church in the city at the time cf his death.

Kentucky, when he was a young man, and was there married to Isabel Whitesides, had six children in Kentucky, moved to St. Clair county, Illinois, thence to Morgan county, and from there to Sangamon county, in what is now Loami township in October, 1823. Of their children - t

JAMES born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and married Elizabeth Mace. They had eight children. SAMUEL was killed by lighting on Spring creek in 1840, aged twenty years. LUCINDA married Arthur Davenport. They have seven children, and reside near Berlin, Sangamon county, 111. MARY A. married Ephraim Shryer. See his name. MARTHA J. married Aaron Van Patton. See his name. KATE or (CATHARINE E.), born August 27, 1828, was married Jan. 8, 1845, in Sangamon county, to William W. Beerup. See his name. They had three living children. SOPHIA, born Feb. 25, 1849, married John K. Shumate, and lives in Springfield, Illinois. ROSETTA, born Sept. 8, 1855, died March 19, 1861. ADALINE, born Dec. 18, 1858, resides with her parents one and one-half miles south of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois. ELIZABETH married Charles Myers. He died leaving a widow and six children at Middletown, Logan county, Illinois. MATILDA married Harris Elliott, has two children, and lives at Middletown. SUSAN married William Douglas. See his name. Mrs. Elizabeth Tolley died in 1838, and James Tolley married America Kelly. They moved to Kansas, and he died there.

Mrs. Isabel Tolley died aged about ninety-six, and John Tolely died, aged about one hundred and six years, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

June 15, 1802, in the same county. They were there married January n, 1821, and had seven children in New Jersey. The family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving October, 1837, in what is now Cartwright township, where five children were born. Of their children -

E ME LINE, born in 1822 in New Jersey, married Samuel Sutton, a native of New Jersey, also. They have three children, HENRIETTA, JOSEPH and CHARLES N., and reside three miles north of Salisbury, Menard county, 111.

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ED WIN, born July 29, 1826, in New Jersey, was married April 5, 1854, in Sangamon county, to M. Margaret Correll. They had nine children. FANNIE, the second, died in infancy. EVA H. was married March 16, 1876, near Pleasant Plains, Illinois, to William Sinclair, of Cass county, Illinois. THOMAS A., CHARLES S., LEE C., SALLIE, JACOB, ANNIE and ISAAC F. The seven latter live with their parents on the farm settled by Mr. Tomlin's father in 1837, and is one and one-fourth miles northwest of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JEREMIAH T., born Oct. 5. 1828, in New Jersey, married Jennie Richmond of the same State. They had four children, and Mrs. Jennie Tomlin died in 1869. J. T. Tomlin was married to Mrs. Belle Newman, whose maiden name was Hall, and moved to Quincy, Illinois.

JAMES S., born Oct. 19, 1834, in New Jersey, married in Sangamon county to Anna Townsend, of New Jersey. They have ten children, and reside near Wichita, Kansas - 1873.

TOMLINSON, ELIZABETH, whose maiden name was Mc- Kinnie, was born in Orange county, on the Shenandoah river, Virginia. She was taken by her parents to Fayette county, Kentucky, and was there married to Elijah Tomlinson, a native of Virginia, also. They had ten children in Fayette county, and Mr. Tomlinson died about 1812. Mrs. Tomlinson with her children came to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1829, three miles northwest of Springfield. Of their children -

LOUISA, born April 16, 1801, in Kentucky, married there to Nathaniel Hurst, and came to Sangamon county in 1829, and died in Springfield many years later.

NICHOLAS, born in Kentucky, married in St. Louis county, Missouri, to Nancy Davis, and came to Sangamon county in 1845. Mrs. T. died leaving seven children, and he married Mrs. Sarah Brady, and both died in Springfield, leaving four children. Their son, Charles Tomlinson, lives in Springfield.

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JAMES M., born May 20, 1809, in Fayette county, Kentucky, came to Sangamon county with his mother in 1829. He spent five years in the lead mines, went to Kentucky, and was married April 30, 1837, in Fayette county, to Louisa Hurst, who was born Jan. i, 1809, in Ohio. They had one child in Kentucky, and came to San- gamon county in 1838, where they had four children. Of their five children, MARTHA E., born Jan. 31, 1838, in Kentucky, married March 6, 1866, to John W. Hurst, has three children, and lives in Galena. ELIJAH and ELISHA T., twins, the former died in infancy. Elisha T. enlisted in November, 1861, in Co. G, loth 111. Cav. for three years, re-enlisted January, 1864, served to the end of the rehellion, was honorably discharged in January, 1866, and lives with his parents. JOHN B. and THOMAS H. B., twins, born July 5, 1841. The former died in infancy. T. H. B. served from August 7, 1862, to the end of the rebellion in Co. I, 7th 111. Inf. He married Mrs. Sarah Shufelt, whose maiden name was Meadow, and lives near Lafayette, Indiana. ANDREW}., born April 16, 1843, enlisted September, 1861, in Co. I, 39th 111. Inf. for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran, was wounded August 16, 1864, at Deep Bottom, Virginia, and died Sept. 14, following, from the amputation of a leg. NICHOLAS B., born June 24, 1845, married Sarah Gillock, have one child, and live in Springfield. James M. Tomlinson and wife reside three miles northwest of Springfield. Mrs. Elizabeth Tomlinson died at the house of her son, James M., Dec. 31, 1850, near Springfield, Illinois.

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TORRENCE, WILLIAM, was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, and married there to Margaret Chambaugh. They had seven children, and Mrs. T. died in that county. Mr. Torrence was married to Celia Sheriff and had two children in Virginia, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1834, in what is now Rochester township, and two years later moved into Cotton Hill township. Two children were born in Sangamon county. Of all his children -

JOHN, born in Hampshire county, Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Sarah Donner, (a sister to George and Jacob Donner.) They had five children. GEORGE is married and lives in Taylorville; SUSAN married Henry Baker and lives near Medoc, Missouri ; MARGARET married Edward Todd, and lives in Springfield; WILLIAM, married, and lives near Atlanta,* Illinois. John Torrence and wife died in Atlanta.

SAMUEL, born May 7, 1819, in Hampshire county, Virginia, was married January 7, 1841, in Sangamon county, to Polly Delay. They had eight children in Sangamon county. GREENBERRY, born Dec. 8, 1842, is proprietor of Cotton Hill mills, formerly the old Breckenridge mill, and lives in Cotton Hill township, Breckenridge postoffice. ELIZA, born May 8, 1844, married H. Peddicord, and died August 15, 1873, leaving three children in Champaign City. CHARLES, born August 22, 1846, married Josephine Peddicord. They have one child and live near Taylorville, Illinois. ELIZABETH, born Sept. 13, 1848, married Edgar Eggleston, and lives near Taylorville, Illinois. JENNIE, born March 22, 1850, married James Shaw. They have one child, and live near Taylorville. JOHN, EMMA and ANNA live with their mother. Samuel Torrence was killed by being thrown from a wagon attached to a runaway team, Sept. 21, 1875. His widow and children live two miles south of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born in Hampshire county, Virginia, came to Sangamon county with his parents and is living with his third wife near Taylorville, Illinois. He has one child by his second marriage.

William Torrence died in 1841 in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county, and his widow married John Davis. He died, and she lives in Taylorville, Illinois.

TORREY, JOSEPH, was born March 25, 1788, in Connecticut, came to Madison county, Illinois, and was there married to Olive Slater. They moved to Sangamon county, and settled on Sugar creek, where she died in 1820. Joseph Torrey returned east and was married Jan. 17, 1828, at Millhury, Mass., to Abigail Sibley, who was born Nov. 29, 1804, in Massachusetts. They had four children there, and moved to Springfield, Illinois, arriving in 1836, where three children were born. Of their seven children two died young.

ELIZA A., born March 2, 1829, in Massachusetts, was married July 3, 1851, in Springfield, Illinois, to John C. Moses. They had two children. ABBIE, born August, 1832, was married in Taylorville, Illinois, to David Hay. They reside at Wichita, Kansas. JOHNC., lives in Taylorville. Mr. Moses died May 16, 1860, and Mrs. Moses resides with her sisters, Mrs. Sattley and Mrs. Rockwell.

ABIGAIL E., borti Sept. 10, 1833, in Massachusetts, was married in Springfield, Illinois, Oct. 7, 1856, to Sylvester Paden. He died August 15, 1860. She was married July 7, 1869, to Humphrey H. Hood. They have one child, HARROLD, and reside in Litchfield, Illinois.

ELLEN,\)orn April 4, [841,1*11 Springfield, was married Dec. 29, 1858, in Taylorville, to Charles V. Rockwell, who was born in Richland county, Ohio. He came to Chicago in 1848, and from there to Decatur, Illinois, in 1850, studied medicine, and attended one course of lectures at St. Louis Medical College. In 1854 he located and practiced medicine at Taylorville. He graduated at St. Louis Medical College in 1858. They have five children, LULU, SUSAN E., GERTRUDE, ESTELLA and GRAC1E A., who reside with their parents at Tavlorville, Illinois.

Joseph Torrey was in the boot and shoe business for a short time, afterwards engaged in hotel keeping, and subsequently n pork packing with James L. Lamb. He died on a farm near Illiopolis, Illinois, Sept. 2, 1845. Mrs. Torrey died in Taylorville, Sept. 10, 1857.

TRAYLER. Three brothers, William, Henry and Archibald Trayler, were born of respectable parents, in Green county, near the line of Adair county, Kentucky. They came to Illinois about 1829. William settled near Greenbush, Warren county, more than one hundred miles northwest of Springfield. Henry married a sister of Eli C. Blankenship, a merchant of Springfield, and settled at Clary's Grove, about twenty miles northwest of Springfield. It was then in Sangamon, but now in Menard county. Archibald was unmarried, and engaged in business in Springfield, as a carpenter and builder, in partnership with Reuben Radford, the latter of whom went out of the business, when Mr. Trayler associated himself with a Mr. Myers, under the firm name of Trayler & Myers. Mr. Trayler owned the lot on which the Episcopal Church now stands, at the corner of Adams and Third streets. He had a dwelling .house there, and Mr. Myers, having a family, kept the house. Mr. Trayler boarded in his own house, with his partner. William Trayler was somewhat given to telling marvelous stories, and a little inclined to boasting. With that exception, the three brothers were sober, industrious and retiring men. For ten or twelve years after coming to the State, nothing occurred in their lives unusual to the settlers in a new country.

It has become a proverb that "truth is stranger than fiction." This w.as never more completely verified than in the events 1 am about to relate, concerning these three brothers, who became victims to the most remarkable case of circumstantial evidence on iccord, one that would, if given in proper terms, be of absorbing interest to the legal profession. I must, from necessity, make my statements as concise as possible. Hon. William Butler, deceased, is my authority for what I have said of the birth and parentage of the brothers. I have gathered all the other information from the older citizens of Springfield, files of the Journal and Register newspapers, and from an elaborate article that first appeared in the Quincy Whig, and copied into the Springfield Journal of April 23, 1846. The latter is principally true, but contains some glaring errors, which, by the aid of men who took part in the proceedings, I have been able to avoid.

A man about fifty years of age, by the name of Archibald Fisher taught school in Monmouth, Warren county, Illinois, and in that vicinity. He also worked at odd jobs when he was not regularly employed. He was unmarried, economical in his habits, and lived in the families of the people wherever his business called him. In that way he had saved a few hundred dollars, and at the beginning of the events I am about to relate was making his home with William Trayler, who was then a widower, with several children.

Mr. Fisher, wishing to enter some land, he and Mr. Trayler started for Springfield together. They set out in a buggy without springs - called a Dearborn wagon - drawn by one horse. On Sunday evening they reached the house of Henry Traylor, and the next day all three came to Springfield, Henry riding on horseback. They arrived about noon, Monday, June i, 1841, and stopped at the house where Archibald Trayler boarded. After dinner the three Traylers and Fisher left the boarding house in company, for the purpose of looking about the town. At supper time the three brothers returned, but Fisher, having stepped aside, as they were passing along a foot path among the trees in the northwestern part of the city, did not appear. After supper all the others went in search of him. One by one they returned, as night approached, but without any tidings of Fisher. The next morning the search was continued, and up to noon was still unsuccessful. William and Henry, having expected to leave early that morning, expressed their intention to abandon the search and start for home. This was objected to on the part of the boarders, because it would leave Fisher without any means of conveyance. They continued to search the - 91 remainder of that day, but at night' William, who evidently felt greatly disappointed at being detained so long, hitched up his buggy and started without the knowledge of his brother, Archie, who, missing him, followed on foot, and overtook him just as he was entering the water at Hickox mill, on Spring creek, near where the O. & M. railroad now crosses. Archie called to William, and remonstrated against his going until the mystery was cleared up. William turned around in the water, and they both returned to Springfield. Notwithstanding all this, William and Henry started for home the next day. The mysterious disappearance had to that time attracted but little attention. Three or four days later, Henry returned to Springfield for the purpose of making a more diligent search, and with his brother, Archie, and some of the boarders, another day was spent, and he returned home. On Friday, June 12, James W. Keyes, the postmaster in Springfield, received a letter from Mr. Tice, the postmaster of Greenbush, Warren county, saying that William Trayler had returned home, and was circulating the report that Fisher, the man who had left there with him for Springfield, was dead, and with something of a boastful manner, stated that Fisher had willed his money to him, and that he had gained about fifteen hundred dollars by it - a much larger sum than Fisher was supposed to possess. Postmaster Tice requested the Springfield postmaster to give him all the information on the subject that he could. The contents of that letter were made public, and the excitement became widespread and intense. Springfield had, only the year before, adopted a city organization, with about two thousand inhabitants. The mayor, William L. May, and Josiah Lamborn, the attorney general of the State, headed the movement to ferret out the mystery. Men were formed into squads, and marched about in all directions, so as to leave no spot unsearched. Examinations were made of wells, and every conceivable place where a body might be concealed. A club was found with some hair attached to it. It was confidently believed that the murder had been committed with that weapon, but it was afterwards demonstrated that the hair was from a cow.

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This search was continued until Saturday afternoon, when it was determined to arrest William and Henry Trayler, and officers started for them on Sunday morning. Henry, being nearest, was brought to Springfield on Monday. The mayor and attorney general took him in hand and used every device to elicit information of the supposed murder, but he protested his innocence of any knowledge on the subject. He was reminded that the circumstantial evidence was so strong that he, with his two brothers, would certainly all be hung, and that the only chance to save his own life was for him to become a witness on the part of the State. He withstood all the pressure until Wednesday, the seventeenth of the month, when, protesting his own innocence, he stated that his brothers, William and Archibald, had murdered Fisher, by hanging him to a tree , without his knowledge at the time,that they had temporarily concealed the body, that immediately preceding the departure of himself and William from Springfield, on the second or third of June, William and Archie communicated the fact to him, and engaged his assistance in making a permanent concealment of the body; that at the time he and William left, ostensibly for home, they did not take the direct road, but, wending their way through the streets, entered the woods at the northwest of the city, and that on approaching, where the body was concealed, he was placed as a sentinel. He then entered into a minute description of the murder, going into the smallest details. He said that his brothers entered a thicket of underbrush, where the body was concealed, placed it in the buggy, moved off with it in the direction of Hickox mill pond on Spring creek, and soon after returned, saying they had put it in a safe place; that Archibald went back to town, and that William and himself found their way to the road, and proceeded to their homes.

Until that disclosure was made, the character of Archibald was such as to repel all suspicion of his complicity in the matter, but he was at once arrested and hurried to jail, which was probably the best thing that could have been done for him, for he was in great personal danger from the infuriated populace. Search then commenced anew for the body. The thicket was found, and indications of a struggle under a small tree, bent over as though the hanging might have been done there. A trail was also visible, as though a body had been dragged to where the tracks of a buggy were to be seen, (ending in the direction of the mill pond, previously spoken of, but could not be traced all the way. At the pond, however, it was found that a buggy had been down into the water and came out again. Hundreds of men were engaged in dragging and fishing for the body. Becoming impatient, the dam was cut down on Thursday morning, the eighteenth of June, and the water drawn off, but no body found.

About noon that day the officers, who had gone to arrest William Trayler, returned with him in custody, accompanied by a gentleman who called himself Dr. Gil more. Then it was ascertained that William Trayler had been arrested at his own house, on Thursday, the sixteenth of the month, and started for Springfield, stopping at Lewiston, Fulton county, for the night. Late in the night Dr. Gilmore arrived there and told the officers that Fisher was alive and at his house; that he had followed them to give the information so that the prisoner might be released without further trouble. The deputy sheriff - James Maxcy - very properly refused to release him on the word ot an entire stranger, and they continued their journey to Springfield.

Dr. Gilmore told the officers that when he heard of the arrest of AVilliam Trayler for the murder of Fisher, he was a few miles from home; that when he returned to his own house he found Fisher there; that he would have taken Fisher with him in pursuit of the officers with the prisoner, but that the state of Fisher's health would not admit of it. The doctor further said that he had known Fisher for several years, and that he was subject to fits of temporary derangement of mind in consequence of an injury to his head, received in early life. The doctor still further stated that Fisher told him that the first he knew after visiting Springfield, he found himself in the vicinity of Peoria. Being nearer to his home than to Springfield, he proceeded at once to Warren county, without the slightest thought of his acts leading to the injury of anv other person. On their arrival at Springfield,

Dr. Gilmore's statement was made public, and at first the people seemed to be struck dumb with astonishment. When the news was communicated to Henry Trayler, in the jail, he, without faltering, reaffirmed his own story about the murder of Fisher. The idea was at once taken up by the crowd that Dr. Gilmore was in collusion with the murderers, and that he had invented that story as a ruse to secure their release and escape. The Doctor was permitted to remain at liberty, but was regarded with strong suspicion. About three o'clock that afternoon Mr. Myers, the partner of Archibald Trayler, started with a two-horse carriage, accompanied by Egbert M. Mallory, to ascertain whether Fisher was alive or not, and if so to bring him back to Springfield.

Without waiting for the return of Myers and Mallory, the Traylers were brought before proper officers for preliminary examination, on the charge of the murder of Archibald Fisher. Henry Trayler was introduced on the part of the State, and on oath testified that his brothers, William and Archibald, had murdered Archibald Fisher, re-affirming all the minutia of his former statements, and at the close bore a rigid cross examination without faltering or exposure. It was also proven by a respectable lady, who was well acquainted with Archie, that on the Monday afternoon of Fisher's disappearance, she saw Archibald Trayler and another man, who she identified as William Trayler, - then present - and still another, answering the description of Fisher, all enter the timber at the northwest of town, and an hour or two later, saw the two former return alone. Many other witnesses were examined, giving a combination of testimony that seemed to weave a net-work ot circumstances about the prisoners, from which it would appear to any other than a legal mind, to be utterly impossible to extricate them. It was also proven that Archibald Trayler had passed an unusual number of pieces of gold coin. The buggy tracks in the mill pond were unexplained, as the prisoners were the only persons who could give any light upon that subject. The evidence of a struggle in the thicket, under the bending tree, where the hanging was supposed to have taken place, was unexplained, although it was afterwards proven that school children had been using the tree as a support to a swing. These and mony other points of evidence, the intricacies of which space forbids that I should follow out, were before the court.

When the prosecution had introduced all their evidence and rested the case, one of the attorneys for the defense, Hon. Stephen T. Logan, arose, and with every eye turned towards him, said that on the part of the defendants, he would introduce a single witness only.

Archibald Fisher, in full life and proper person, was then conducted slowly into the presence of the court. Messrs. Myers, and Mallory had returned late in the evening before - J-une 2ist - with Fisher, and the friends of the prisoners kept him secreted until the proper time. The effect may be imagined, but can not be described. A gentleman who was cognizant of the proceedings from beginning to end, and who is now a judge of one of the courts of Illinois, describing the appearance of one of the prisoners in the court room, says: "Archibald Trayler was as fine looking a man as I ever saw. When his own full brother was testifying that he was a murderer, he stared at him with a look of astonishment, settling into an appearance of stoical indifference, that seemed to say, ' there is no hope of relief, therefore I must calmly endure the worst;' but when the man he was accused of having murdered was led into his presence, he broke down and gave vent to his feelings in "a flood of tears, followed by uncontrollable fits of sobbing and moaning."

By this time it began to dawn on the minds of the people that the threats of death to all three of the brothers had so wrought on the mind of Henry Trayler as to destroy his competency as a witness. A feeling of indignation immediately spnmg.up against May and Lamborn, who had led in the prosecution, and it only lacked a bold leader to mob and hang them. The feeling was so intense that Judge Logan, who had defended the prisoners, felt it his duty to come to the rescue of their prosecutors. He made a pacific speech, in which he exhorted all to abide by the laws. It had the desired effect, and all dispersed without violence.

June 22, 1841, to express sympathy with the brothers, who had passed through that worse than firey ordeal, and particularly with their fellow citizen, Archibald Trayler, whose character had never been tarnished with the slightest shadow of reproach. That sympathy was of little avail. His fine, manly countenance was never again lighted up with a smile. He made some feeble attempts at business, but wandered about, avoiding all society, pined away, and died in less than two years. One who knew him well, says: " If ever a man died of a broken heart it was Archibald Trayler."

Henry Trayler lived several years after the death of his brothers, but was never known to speak of the mournful event after his departure from Springfield at the close of the trial. He died in Menard county, and one of his sons, if not more, are among the most respected citizens of the county. It is said that the three brothers never met after they passed out of the court room.

If the unhappy and afflicted being who was the innocent cause of all the trouble, had wandered away and died on the open prairie, much of which had not then been trod by the foot of man, William and Archibald Trayler would, beyond a reasonable doubt, have been executed as his murderers, and that upon the force of surrounding circumstances and the testimony of their own brother, who would doubtless have become hopelessly insane, caused by threats to make him confess a crime never committed, and afterwards by the appaling effects of his own testimony. The world would probably have looked on and called it retributive justice. Such may and doubtless has been the effect of circumstantial evidence, in cases where the truth was never known.

Thus ended one of the most remarkable affairs of its kind on record. Many points and circumstances connected with the case are yet enshrouded in mystery, and will ever remain so.

TRIMBLE, GEORGE, was born Apil 22, 1814, in Montgomery county, Kentucky. He was married August 23, 1836, to Lydia Shumate, who was born in that county August 15, 1815. They started the next morning after marriage for Sangamon county, Illinois, and arrived in September, 1836, in what is now Curran township. They had six children in Sangamon county, namely:

WILLIAM H., born Dec. 31,1839, married October, 1864, to Nancy A. Gibson. They had two children. JOHN died in infancy, and ANNA E. resides with her father. Mrs. Trimble died Feb. 9, 1869, and Mr. T. was married Oct. 14, 1869, to Helen J. McGraw. They have one child, DORA BELL, and live two miles south of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Lydia Trimble died Dec. 3, 1866, and George Trimble was married Dec. 5, 1867, to Rebecca Drennan. They reside two miles southeast of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.

TROTTER, GEORGE, was born about 1782, in Dunbarton, Scotland. He went to the West Indies about 1801, and came to the United States at thirty years of age. About 1813 he was married in Hartford, Connecticut, to Catharine Imlay, who was born in that city Oct. 29, 1786. Soon after marriage Mr. Trotter went to New York city and engaged in the mercantile business. They had one child, and Mrs Catharine Trotter died there, April i, 1832. Mr. Trotter was married in New York July, 1835, to Mary Ward, a native of Longford, Ireland. They moved to Springfield, 111., arriving in the fall of 1835, where they had three children. Of his four children.

JOHN E., born August 10, 1838, in Springfield, was married Sept. 14, 1865, to Martha L. Slates, who was born July 19, 1844, m Zanesville, Ohio. They had six children, five of whom died young. CLARA A. resides with her parents in Springfield.

E., John E., Louisa S., William

GEORGE W., born Nov. 17, 1840, in -Springfield, was married in his native place to Ellen Tague, who was born August 5, 1841, in Peterborough, Canada. They have seven children, GEORGE T., MARY E., JOHN E., LOUISA S., WILLIAM A., FRANCIS J., and BERTHA C., and live in Springfield. G. W. Trotter has been three years on the police force.

George Trotter was engaged in land speculating from the time he came to Springfield until his death, which took place in May, 1842. His widow resides with her son, John, in Springfield, Illinois.

TROTTER, JAMES, born about 1770, in Culpepper county, Virginia. He was taken by his parents, about 1792, to Bourbon county*, Kentucky, and was there married to Elizabeth Kenny, who was also a native of Virginia. They had eight children born in Bourbon county, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1826, and settled on Round Prairie, four miles east of Springfield. Of their children:

JAMES A'., born Feb. 19, 1799, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, married there March 22, 1823, to Mary A. Daubinspeck, who was born Feb. 24, 1800, in the same county. They had two children, and moved to Rush county, Indiana, where one child was born, thence to Sangamon county, Illinois, in i827,one year later than his father. Six children were born in Sangamon county. Of their nine children, ELIZABETH, born Jan. 2, 1824, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, June 21, 1849, to Stephen Lawyer, a native of Guernsey county, Ohio. They had seven children, four of whom died young. Mr. Lawyer enlisted August 10, 1861, at Anamosa, in what became Co. L, 1st Iowa Cav., and died Nov. 14, 1863, at Little Rock, Arkansas. The three children, ROBERT, ELIZABETH A. and STEPHEN reside with their mother in Clear Lake township. WILLIAM, born March 15, 1825, in Kentucky, enlisted September, 1862, in Co. I, i I4th 111. Inf. for three years, and died of disease March 17, 1863, at Memphis, Tennessee. JANE, born Feb. 2, 1827, in Rush county, Indiana, married Henry R. Clark, had two children, and her second husband is William A. Butler. See his name. NANCY, born Dec. 8, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Feb. 24, 1848, to Hiram Lawyer, who was born Dec. n, 1823, in Guernsey county, Ohio. They had nine children, three of whom died young. AMANDA married Mahlon Geathard, has four children, and lives near Rochester. GEORGE w. resides with his parents. EL-IZA j., married James Burch. WILLIAM T., ADA A. and EVELINE reside with their parents two miles northeast of Sangamon station, on the farm where her parents settled in 1827. JAMES born Jan. 2, 1831, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 24, 1857, to Elizabeth Burch. They had five children. WILLIAM A. died aged two years. PHILEMON, LUETTA, GEORGE and MARY E. reside with their parents two miles northeast of Sangamon station. JULIA A., born April 20, 1833, in Sangamon county, married James Lawyer, and died January, 1864, leaving three children, two of whom reside with their father, near Salisbury, and Charles lives on Round Prairie. MARY, born August 6, 1835, in Sangamon county, married Thomas W. Long. She died leaving one child, EDWARD, who lives with his father in Taylorville. GEORGE, born Dec. 14, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Eliza Brown, who died, and he enlisted August, 1862, in Co. I, i i4th 111. Inf. for three years, served full time and was honorably discharged. He was married Nov. 23, 1864, to Mary E. Griffiths, who. was born Oct. 29, 1846, in Madison county, Indiana. They had one child, JANE, born Nov. 3, 1866. George Trotter died Jan. 21, 1807, of disease contracted in the army. His widow married March 6, 1873, to Burgess Taintor, a native of New York. He has one child by a former marriage, ELLA MAY. Mr. and Mrs. Taintor have one son, and resides two miles north of Springfield, Illinois. CATHARINE, born Jan. 8, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Willis Wilson, has three children, 'and resides in Tazewell county, Illinois. James K. Trotter died Dec. 27, 1839. His widow resides with her son James, on the farm where she and her husband settled in 1827, two miles northeast of Sangamon station, and five miles east of Springfield, Illinois. When James K. Trotter was moving to the country, in 1827, he had to cross the Sangamon river three miles from his father's house. He left his team and family in safe hands and was about to enter a canoe to cross the river when he saw the two dogs his father brought with him the year before, at the time they all moved from Kentucky. These dogs were sitting on the opposite bank apparently waiting for him. He called and they plunged in and swam to meet him with every appearance of pleasure. He took them across in the canoe and then halloed, supposing that his brothers wei'e hunting near by. The dogs paid no attention to his call, but ran back and forth along the road, and in that way conducted him to the house, when he learned that none of the family had been near the river for several days. Three questions naturally suggest themselves: Why were the dogs there? Did they know he was coming? If so, how? Perhaps they could be answered by some writer on the higher life of animals.

JOHN, born about 1800, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, married Isabel Brazzle, and moved to Wisconsin, where the parents died leaving four children, all married.

GEORGE, born June 13, 1809, in Bourbon county, Kentucky. In 1826 he accompanied his parents from Bourbon county to Sangamon countv, Illinois. They settled on Round Prairie. He remained at home ten years. In 1831 he left for the Wisconsin lead mines, worked in them that summer, returning home in the fall. He served in the Black Hawk war, and was married March 24, 1833, in Sangamon county, to Sarah Chilton, who was born Dec. 19, 1816, in Madison county, Illinois. They had two children in vSangamon countv, and in 1836 moved to Stephenson county, locating near what is now Orangeville. Twelve children were born in Stephenson county, three of whom died in infancy. Of their eleven children, THOMAS, born July i, 1834, in Sangamon county, married, and in 1857 emigrated to Missouri, in 1858, was married there to Mrs. Martha Clemens, formerly Miss Myers, who was born in Missouri. They had three children, namely, NANCY, JOHN and GEORGE. Mrs. Martha Trotter died in 1865, and Thomas T. returned to Illinois. He was married in September, 1867, to Mrs. Sarah Seidel, formerly Miss Woodring, of Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1868 he returned to near Barnard,Nodaway county, Missouri, where they still reside. Of his children by the third marriage, namelv: ELIZABETH, born Nov. 7,1835, in Sangamon county, married July 4, 1858, to Joseph Van meter, of Ohio. They had two living children, GEORGE and HENRY,and reside near Oneco,Stephenson county, Illinois. JAMES, born March 27, 1837, in Stephenson county, was married in 1860 to Sarah Riem, a native of Pennsylvania. They Jiad five children,

ARCHIE. He enlisted in the 46th 111. Vet. Vol. Inf. in January, 1864, and served until the close of the war when he was honorably discharged. In 1869 he moved with his family to Nodaway county, Missouri, where they still reside. WILLIAM, born September 19, 1839, in Stephenson county, Illinois, married in December, 1864, to Emily J. Lorch, who was born in 1840 in Springfield, Illinois. In 1865 they moved to Orangeville, where they had three children, WILLIAM, ANNA MAY and MELVIN. In 1875 the family moved to Polo, Ogle county, Illinois, where they now reside. GEORGE, born July 1,1841, in Stephenson county, enlisted August 28, 1861, left home Sept. 10, 1861, served two and a half years, was promoted from the ranks to fife major of the regiment. Re-enlisted Dec. 6, 1863, at Camp Cowan, Miss., came home on a furlough, returned, was struck b\- lightning March 16, 1865, while at Dauphin Island. He reluctantlv returned home May 21, 1865, where he died Mar:h 25, 1866. URANIA, born February 24, 1843, in Stephenson county, married there Oct. i, 1863, to David W. Scott, a native of Ohio, and a graduate of Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College. Is at present practicing medicine, in Buena Vista, Stephenson county, Illinois, where they reside. They have two children, MINNIE and MYRON. MARY A., born Dec. 27, 1844, in Stephenson county, died April II, 1868. MILLARD F., "born May 25, 1850, in Stephenson county, resides with his parents. SARAH J., born May 24, 1852, in .Stephenson county, died December S, 1871. LUCY C., born July 30, 1854, in Stephenson county, married there December 21, 1873, to Woodbury Robey, who was born in the same county. They have one child, LEROV, and reside in Stephenson county. JOHN C., born .Sept. 4, 1857, lives with his parents at Orangeville, Stephenson county, Illinois.

Mrs. Elizabeth Trotter died March 4, 1825, before the family left Kentucky, and James Trotter died Sept. 26, 1839, in Sangamon countv, Illinois.

TROXELL, Mrs. SARAH, whose maiden name was Rouk, was born in Washington county, Maryland, and was there married to Abraham Troxell, a native of the same county. They had ten children in Maryland, and Mr. Troxell died there, March 4, 1824. His widow and some of her children came to Sangamon county in 1836, and the others came later. Of her children -

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 19, 1815, in Washington county, Maryland,was married there to Perry Prather. They had twelve children, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, in iS^o. Of their children, ABRAHAM went to California in March, 1859, and after a few years absence was not heard of until 1875. He now lives in Prescott, Arizona. SARAH E., married Harvey N. North. See his name. RUTH A., married Marshal Sattley. See his name. WASHINGTON B. was a soldier in an Illinois regiment, and aided in suppressing the rebellion. He lives with his mother. WILLIAM D. is in Prescott, Arizona. MARY C. married Jacob C. Miller. See Jus name. KITTURAH, SAMUEL J., ISAAC R., RACHEL F., JEMIMA'j. and JOHN L., the six latter, live with their mother, except Isaac R., who is a telegraph operator. Perry Prather died, and his widow lives four miles east of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

DA VI D, born Jan. 15, 1815, in Washington county, Maryland, came to Sangamon countv, Illinois, in the autumn of 1835, settling in what is now Cooper township. He was married in Macon countv to Lucinda Dickev. They ha 1 two living children, JAMES B., married Harriet Jones, and lives near Argenta, Macon county, Illinois. JOHN was stabbed in the heart, when about fifteen years of age, by a southern refugee, during the time of the rebellion. They were at work together in a field, and although others were near them, the murderer escaped and has never been heard of. The stabbing was done without provocation or warning. Mrs. Lucinda Troxell died Jan. 8, 1875. David Troxell left Argenta March 10, 1874, intending to visit his brother, Peter. Having to pass through Decatur, Illinois, he was seen there the day he left home, and that is the last that is certainly known of him by his relatives. He was a sober, honest and substantial farmer, and his fate is enshrouded in the most profound mystery.

William P., John T-, Grace E.

PETER, born May 2, 1816, in Washington county, Maryland, and came to Sangamon county, arriving October, 1836, in what is now Cooper township, south of Sangamon river. He was married in Sangamon county, Feb. 18, 1841, to Susan Firey. They had twelve children. Abraham died in his eighth year. GRANT E., next to the youngest, died in infancy. MARY E., born Jan. 14, 1844, was married Feb. 23, 186^, to John W. North. See his name. "SARAH E., born Feb. i, 1847, was married Sept. i, 1870, to Henry C. Neer, who was born Jan. 6, 1842, in London county, Virginia, and brought by his parents to Sangamon county in the fall of that year. He enlisted in August, 1862, for three years, in Co. I, i I4th 111. Inf., and was taken prisoner at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864. He was imprisoned, at Andersonville, Georgia, and other places, until April 4, 1865, when he was released, and was honorably discharged May 8, 1865. H. C. Neer and wife live three miles north of Breckenridge, Sangamon county, Illinois. ANNIE was married Feb. 22, 1876, to J. Henry Ross, and live near Breckenridge, Sangamon countv, Illinois. RUTHE., ISAAC H., WILLIAM P., JOHN T-, GRACE E., PHCEBE J. and MARTHA A; the seven latter live with their parents at Edgewood farm, five miles east of Rochester, Sangamon countv, Illinois.

Lucinda A., Eliza J., John W.

JOHN, born July 8, 1819, in Washington county, Maryland, came to Sangamon county in the fall of 1836, and was married Nov. 18, 1857, to Mary S. Firey. They had one child, MARY, who was married August 9, 1876, to Alexander Anderson, and lives in Pana, Illinois. Mrs. Mary S. Troxell died Nov. 16, 1859, and John Troxell was married Nov. 19, 1862, to Cynthia Willy. They have six living children, EVA R., ABRAHAM P., LUCINDA A., ELIZA J., JOHN W. and LUTHER, and reside near Grove City, Christian county, Illinois.

IS A A C came to Sangamon county in 1836, and married Eliza J. Hazlett. They had two children in Sangamon county. WILLIAM was married Nov. 19, 1874, to Jemima P rather. They have one child, DELBERT, and live near Edinburg, Christian county, Illinois. GEORGE was married Nov. 26, 1874, to Annie Foster, and live in Missouri. Mrs. Eliza J. Troxell died in Christian county, Illinois, and Isaac Troxell lives in California.

SARAH, born Jan. i, 1823, in Washington county, Maryland, came to Sangamon county in 1836, and was married in DeWitt county to Ralph Rosencrans. She died November, 1867, leaving one child, SARAH, who married James Powell. They live near DeWitt, DeWitt county, Illinois.

JAMES, born Sept. 16, 1827, in Maryland, came to Sangamon county in 1836, enlisted in 1846 in the 4th 111. Inf-, served one year in the Mexican war, under Colonel E. D. Baker, and died in 1847, m Sangaman county, of disease contracted in the army.

TRUE, Mrs. SUSANNAH, whose maiden name was Williams, was born about 1782 near Richmond, Virginia. Her parents moved to Woodford county, Kentucky, and she was there married to

Ezekiel True. They had eleven children in Kentucky, and moved to Morgan county, Illinois, in 1825, and in 1827 moved to Randolph county, Missouri, where Mr. True died, and Mrs. True, with four of her children, moved to Springfield, Illinois, in 1832. Of their children -

PA TTTT, born in Kentucky, married in Morgan county, Illinois, to Moses Pilcher, and died in 1840 at Springfield. Her son, JEPTHA, resides in Springfield, Illinois.

L UC1NDA was born August 19, 1823, in Woodford county, Kentucky, came to Sangamon county in 1832, married in Springfield Nov. 12, 1843, *-° Willis H. Johnson. He was born Sept. 18, 1818, in Wilson county, Tennessee, and brought up in Davidson county in the same State. He came to Springfield, Illinois, in the spring of 1843. They had nine children. Three died young. WILLIAM T., born Aug. 25, 1844, enlisted February, 1862, in Co. G 5th 111. Cav. for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran in January, 1864, served until November, 1865, and was at the capture of Helena, Arkansas, siege of Vicksburg, and capture of Jackson, Mississippi. He was honorably discharged, and was married May 8, 1867, to Margaret A. Hillman. They have two children, KATIE and ALBERT PALMER. William T. Johnson live in Springfield, Illinois. MARY F., born Feb. 10, 1847, was lllan"ied Feb. 19, 1868, to L. Herbert Spaulding, who was born near Hudson, New York, Aug. 14, 1849, came to Springfield with his father in 1858. They have three children, CLARA L., WILLIE J. and L. DANA, and live in Springfield, 111. GEORGE W., born June 15, 1848, was married Nov. 28, 1872, to Helen Maxon, in Bloomington, Illhiois, and lives there. JOHN M., DRUSILLAJ. and CHARLES H., live with their prrents in Springfield, Illinois. Willis H. Johnson was the pioneer machinist in Springfield, so far as doing all kinds of work to supply the country. He also established the ten hour system, by making a pattern with his own hands, casting a bell, and having it rung at regular hours. That was in 1845 or '4^- JANE, born Feb. 10, 1826, in Kentucky, married in Springfield to George Anderson, who died May 15, 1856, in Springfield, leaving a widow and four children, who now live in Omaha, Nebraska.

TRUMBO, ADAM, was born May 6, 1790, in Bourbon county, Kentucky. Mildreth Foster was born February, 1790, in the same county. They were there married, had ten children, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in November, 1828, about six miles south of Springfield, in what is now Woodside township, where two children were born. Of their children -

HARNESS, born Oct. 9, 1816, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, July 15, 1838, to Elizabeth Hall. Thev had eight children. WILLIAM, born April 10, 1840, died Sept. 14, 1862. SARAH C., born 'Jan. 26, 1843, lives with her parents. JAMES P., born Jan. 27, 1845, married Dec. 25, 1870, to Anna Staley. They have one child, WILLIAM, and live one and onehalf miles west of Chatham, Illinois. JACOB, born July 2, 1848, lives with his parents. M/\RIA L. died at five years of age. HARNESS, Jim., born Nov. 15, 1854, and OSCAR, born Feb. 7, 1856, live with their parents. ANDREW J., born August 25, 1861, died Sept. 23, 1875. Harness Trumbo lives six miles south of Springfield, near where his father, Adam Trumbo, settled in 1828.

ANDREW F., born in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, and married in Missouri to Mary Flernoy, has three children, and lives near Barr's Ridge P. O., California.

REBECCA married Mitchell Graham. See his name. She had one child, REBECCA, who married Mitchell Lawson, and lives near Johnstown, Bates county, Missouri.

ISAAC H., born March 13, 1830, in Sangamon county, married Emma Bridges. They had three children. The secord one, AMANDA J., died, aged seven years. ALMA and ARABELL live with their parents, one mile north of Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

GEORGE W., born Mov. 28, 1832, in Sangamon county, married March 29, 1865, to Mary F. Malone, who was born Feb. 24, 1844, in St. Louis county, Missouri. They had four children, twins, died in infancy. EUGENE L. and ARTHUR A. live with their parents. G. W. Trumbo resides where his parents settled in 1828, and where he was born. It is six miles south of Springfield, Illinois.

Mrs. Mildreth Trumbo died April 20, 1835, and Adam Trumbo married Mrs. Hannah Hall, whose maiden name was Cunningham. He died Oct. 6, 1856, arcl she died January, 1872, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

Turner, Archibald

was born June 11,1750, in Ireland. He was the youngest of twelve children, all the others having died in infancy. He came to America when he was more than thirty years of age, and was married about 1790, on James River, Virginia to Rachel

Virginia, and Mrs. Rachel Turner died July 29, 1818. He moved with his children to the Wabash valley, Indiana, where he was married to Catherine White, also a native of Ireland. They had two children in Indiana, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in 1820 or '21. Of his children -

MARY, born Nov. 8, 1797, in Virginia, married in Indiana to William Harvey, moved to Christian county, Illinois, raised a family, and she died about 1869.

JOHN, born Oct. 7, 1799, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Esther McMurry. They had seven children, and he died. Their son, Archibald Turner, lives in Springfield, Illinois.

ESTHER, born August 21, 1801, in Virginia, married in Indiana to Daniel McCaskill, moved to Brown county, Illinois, where the parents died, leaving a large family. Their son, JOHN, is a physician in Colorado, and their son, ARCHER, is a Methodist preacher.

MARK, born Oct. 3, 1803, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Elvira Bell. They had three children, moved to Decatur, where he died about 1855, and his widow died the next year.

ARCHIBALD, Jun., born July i, 1808, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Lemons, moved to Washington county, Illinois, and died there in 1871. He was a local preacher in the M. E. church.

HUGH, born February, 1816, in Indiana, married in Christian county, Illinois, to Elizabeth Stokes, and had eight children in Sangamon county. DAVID A., born Sept. 28, 1839, married Elizabeth Littrell, had one child, EDWARD, who died, aged seven years. They live near Pawnee, Illinois. JAMES W., born Dec. 20, 1841, married Lutheria Huston, and live six miles west of Springfield, Illinois. SARAH C., born April 14, 1844, married William M. Young, have five children, and live near Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois. GEORGE W., born March 21, 1847, lives near Edinburg, Illinois. ELIZA J., born Feb. 9, 1849, married Nov. 25, 1868, to Charles W. Ewell. See his name. JOHN H., born Jan. 21, 1851. ROBERT, born July, 17, 1853. ELIZABETH, born April 7, 1857, and MARY A., born April 30, 1859, reside at the family homestead, four miles west of Springfield. Illinois. Mrs. Elizabeth Turner died April 7, 1870, and Hugh Turner died Dec. 14, 1872.

JAMES, born Jan. 26, 1818, in Indiana, married Oct. 25, 1848, in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth A. Earnest. They had two children, SALOME O., born Nov. 10, 1849, married Jacob E. Ingalls. See his name. NOAH H., born Nov. 7, 1851, lives with his mother. James Turner died Oct. 22, 1853, and his widow married Henry B. Chambers. See his name,

Archibald Turner died June 29, 1855, aged one hundred and five years and eighteen days. His widow, Mrs Catherine Turner, died May 10, 1870, both near where they settled in 1820 or '21, four miles west of Springfield, Illinois.

Archibald Turner was raised by Presbyterian parents, and was thoroughly trained in the -Westminster Confession of Faith and larger Catechism. He became dissipated in early life, but while living in Indiana he was converted at a camp-meeting, and for the last fifty years of his life was a devoted Christian. Near the close of his pilgrimage of more than a century his memory failed on all current events, but he could repeat correctly passages of the catechism, and the prayers that his mother had taught him in childhood.

T U R P I N, Mrs. ELIZABETH, whose maiden name was Isom, was born about 1775, in Kentucky, and married there to Philip Turpin. They had twelve children, and Mr. Turpin died in Kentucky. Mrs. Elizabeth Turpin, with six of her children, came to Sangamon county in 1831 or '32, and settled two miles southeast of Loami. Of her children -

WOODFORD married in Kentucky, moved to Missouri, and afterwards to Sangamon county. - His son, JAMES M., born May 10, 1848, in Howard county, Missouri, married Charlotte Webb. See Webb family. Mr. Turpin is a merchant in Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARTHA,\>or\\ in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Absalom Stine, had eight children, and he died. The widow and some of her children live in Missouri.

.V. I NCT, born in Kentucky, married Jefferson Back. They had nine children. The parents arc dead. Their daughters, ELIZABETH married George J. Walker. See his name. They live in Loami, Illinois. CAROLINE married D. Rose, and live in Loami, Illinois. MIRANDA married David D. Martin, and resides in Auburn, Illinois. He is a carpenter and builder there.

CHARLES /., born Nov. 28, 1818, in Kentucky, came with his mother to Sangamon county in 1831 or '32, married August n, 1836, to Sarah Jarrett. They had eight children. They moved to Missouri and returned. Some of their children were born in each State. REBECCA A., born August 9, 1837, in Sangamon county, married Aaron Hall, Jun. See his name. WILLIAM A., born August 29, 1839, in Lewis county, Missouri, enlisted August, 1862, for three years, in Co. I, /3d 111. Inf. He died Dec. 26, 1862, at Nashville, Tennessee. His remains were brought home and buried in Sulphur Springs Cemetery, near Loami, Illinois. ELIZABETH, born Feb. 8, 1841, in Missouri, married Hugh A. Park. See his name. JONATHAN J., born July 7, 1842, in Missouri, married in Sangamon county to Sarah E. Cloninger, who was born August 12, 1841, in Cabell county, West Virginia. They have three children, WILLIAM A., CHARLES L. and SARAH M., and reside one and one-half miles southeast of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois. CHARLES L, Jun., born Feb. 24, 1849, enlisted in Co. E, I33d 111. Inf., for one hundred days, and was honorably discharged, with thanks of President Lincoln, Dec. 15, 1864. He was married June 27, 1867, to Eliza Jane Hays, who was born March 24, 1849, in Macoupin county. They reside two and a half miles south of Loami, Illinois. DENNIS, born Sept. 19, 1851, married Dec. 21, 1870, to Caroline F. Hays, who was born May 21, 1853, in Macoupin county, Illinois. They live two miles south of Loami, Illinois. JAMES F., born Sept. n, 1853, lives with his mother - 1874. Charles I. Turpin, Sen., died April i, 1869, in Sangamon county, and Mrs. Sarah Turpin resides one and one-half miles southwest of Loami, Sangamon county. Illinois.

TURLEY, THOMAS J., was born May 7> 1802, in Montgomery county, Kentucky. His parents had fourteen children, seven of each sex, all born in the same county. The parents, with part of their chiildren, came to Logan county, Illinois, about 1823, and there are many of the name in that county, as the whole fourteen children raised families. The eleventh child, being the youngest son, is the one whose name heads this sketch. He came from Logan to Sangamon county, and was married Sept. 27, 1827, to Mary Trotter. They had ten children, all born in Sangamon county. Two died young. Of the other eight children -