Sangamon County, Illinois - The whole text, 1876 (part 6 of 31)

JOHN. Mrs. Rosaline Roe died July 30, 1874, at Malvern, Mills county, Iowa. MARIA, born Sept. 21, 1841, married Aug. 3, 1863, to Ephriam Farrington. They have two children, ELSIE and EVA, and reside at Belle Plain, Sumner county, Kan. CHARLES, born April 28, 1846, died Oct. i, 1875, in Denver, Col. MILLIARD F., born Aug. 16, 1850, resides at Niles, Van Buren county, Iowa. ELLA, born Aug. 5, 1853, in Macon county, 111., was married March 31, 1872, to Dr. C. L. Crooks. They had two children,

CLARK and BESSIE, and reside at Cantril, Van Buren county, Iowa. Euclid Broadwell died Feb. 12, 1874, at Niles, and his widow resides there.

Moses Broadwell is said to have built the first brick house in Sangamon county. He died April 10, 1827, and his widow died March 8, 1836, both in Sangamon county, 111., where they settled in 1820.

Brooks, Rev. John F.

BROOKS, REV. JOHN F., was born Dec. 3, 1801, in Oneida county, N. Y. His parents were of New England origin, but emigrated to New York in 1792, when the whole region was a forest, with here and there a small settlement. Mr. Brooks graduated at Hamilton College, in that county, in 1828, and afterwards studied three years in the theological department of Yale college, New Haven, Conn. Be was ordained to the gospel ministry by Oneida Presbytery, in the autumn of 1831, and was married soon after to a daughter of Rev. Joel Bradley. They immediately left for Illinois, under a commission from the American Home Missionary Society. They traveled by canal, lake and stage to Pittsburg, thence by steamboat, down the Ohio river to New Albany, Ind. Any route to Illinois by way of Chicago, in those days, was not to be thought of, as that place was just emerging from the condition of an Indian trading station. At New Albany Rev. Mr. Brooks purchased a horse and " Dearborn," as it was then called, which was a one horse wagon with stationary cover. In this they continued their journey, crossing the Wabash river at Vincennes. After passing a skirt of timber on the west side, they entered the first prairie of Illinois, in the midst of a furious storm. They were far from any house, with only the carriage as a protection, and that in danger of being upset by the gale. They weathered the storm, however, by turning the back of their carriage to it, but the prairie was covered with water, and they could only disern the path by observing where the grass did not rise above the water. They sought a house to dry their garments, and that night arrived at Lawrenceville, where Rev. Mr. B. preached his first sermon in Illinois, the next day being Sabbath. About three days after they arrived at Vandalia, the State capital, having been five weeks on the way from the vicinity of Utica, N. Y.

After visiting several towns and villages, Rev. Mr. Brooks located for the winter at Collinsville, in the southern part of Madison county, preaching, alternately, there and at Belleville. In the spring of 1832 he moved to the latter place, where he continued five years, preaching there, and at several other points in St. Clair and Monroe counties.

About the second year of his residence at Belleville, he and his wife opened a school, which increased so rapidly they employed an assistant. They taught all grades, from A, B, C, to the classics and higher mathematics. Several attended that school, who afterwards entered the halls of legislation, and other departments of public life. In 1837 Mr. Brooks was chosen principal of a Teachers' Seminary, which benevolent individuals were endeavoring to establish in Waverly, Morgan county. He taught there with success, but the general embarrassment of the country, caused by the financial disasters of 1837, compelled a relinquishment of that enterprise. During the time he was teaching he endeavored to preach one sermon every Sabbath, but the double labor induced bronchial affection, from which he has never fully recovered. In 1840 Mr. B. was called to Springfield to take charge of an academy for both sexes, though in different apartments, to be taught in a newr brick edifice erected for that purpose on the west side of Fifth street, between Monroe and Market. Here he continued his labors, with the aid of two assistants, for two years and a half. Many persons now prominent in business or in domestic life, received a portion of their education there. After this he labored for two years under direction of Presbytery supplying vacant churches in this and adjoining counties. His health was now much impaired, and designing light labor, he opened a school for young ladies in a small room near his own house. The applications soon outran the size of the room, which he enlarged, and his wife again assisted him. His school increased, his health improved, and he purchased the property on the corner of Fifth and Edwards streets, re-arranging the two-story frame building internally to suit the purposes of a school. This he opened as a Female Seminary, the Autumn of 1849, with three assistants, and Mrs.

Brooks in charge of the primary department, held in the room he previously occupied. In addition to the usual course, Mr. Brooks added drawing, painting and music; two pianos were introduced, and this is believed to have been the first effort at teaching music in the schools of Springfield. This Seminary prospered for four years, when Mrs. Brooks' health failed, and it became necessary to close the institution. Since her death in 1860, Rev. Mr. Brooks has devoted a large part of his time to hearing classes, and giving private lessons.

He was one of seven young men who banded together, while in their theological course in New Haven, for the estabment of a college in this State. Illinois College, at Jacksonville is the result of their exertions. Mr. Brooks has been one of its trustees from the first.

He relates, as an illustration of the change of times in attending Presbytery in the State since he entered it, that a clergyman in those days must have his horse and saddle as certainly as his Bible and hymn book. The settlements were remote from each other, and a ride of three or four days to a meeting of Presbytery was a common experience. Once, in attending such a meeting, Mr. Brooks traveled in an easterly direction from Bellville, for two or three days, and found a sparse settlement, mostly of log cabins. They had erected a frame church building and roofed it, without siding or floor, with only a few rough boards for seats. The Presbytery opened its sessions, several sermons were preached, the sacrament administered, but rain came on before that body adjourned, and they moved to a private house, with only one room and a small side appartment. At meal time Presbytery adjourned, that the table might be spread, and after evening service, six or seven members lodged in the same room, on beds spread on the floor. People, in sustaining religious worship under such circumstances made as great sacrifices, according to their means as those who build their $50,000 churches do now. At this meeting Mr. Brooks was entertained at a cabin where the only light admitted was through an open door, or one or two sheets of piled paper, in place of glass windows. He met a man, however, in that settlement, from his native town, in - 19

New York, and he had two glass windows, but his neighbors thought him extravagant, and somewhat aristocratic to indulge in such a luxury. Rev. Mr. Brooks resides west side of Fifth, between Edwards and Cook streets, Springfield, Illinois.

BROWN ELL, JOHN, was born Aug. 14, 1800, in Rhode Island. During his infancy his parents moved to Seneca county, N. Y. He came west with the family of William Seely. Mr. B. and the other members of his family came by water to Shawneetown, and from there in wagons, arriving in what is now Ball township, July 5, 1819. John Brownell was married to Nancy Pulliam, in 1821. Of their eleven children born in Sangamon county, two died in infancy. Of the nine living -

WILLIAM, born Dec. 10, 1822, in Sangamon county, was married Jan. 20, 1848, to^ Elizabeth Bridges. They had four living children, and Mrs. B. died, Feb. 17, 1869. Mr. Brownell was married in Sangamon county, Dec. 29, 1869, to Sarah E. Vaughan, who was born Mar. 3, 1840, in Kentucky. Thev had two children. Of the children by his first marriage, MARGARET J., born Nov. 24, 1848, in Sangamon county, was married Nov. 3, 1866, to John M. Sutton, who was born July 29, 1845, in Michigan. They have three living children, WILLIAM

N., DELLA M. and BURTIE E. J. M. Sutton resides in Auburn. JOHN W., MIRANDA I. and COLUMBUS V., and by the second marriage, ORAH V. and EDWARD, reside with their father. William Brownell and family reside in Auburn.

WILSON A'., born Jan. 18, 1825, in Sangamon county, was married May 17, 1855, to Sarah Murphy, a native of Maine. They had two children, ELIZA and SARAH, and Mrs. B. died, Feb., 1859. Wilson K. married Polly A. Lawson. They had four children, who all died. Mrs. Polly Brownell died, and Wilson K. resides in Ball township.

GEORGE W., born July 16, 1827, was married Jan. 20, 1848, in Sangamon county, to Miranda Bridges. They had ten children. MARY ISABEL, born Nov. 5, 1848, was married May 26, 1864, to Henry Willard, who was born in Missouri in 1841. They had two children,

IDA A. and GEORGKTTA. Mr. W. died, and she married May 20, 1869, to Calvin Mc- Clure, who was born in Ohio Feb. 10, 1829. They had one child, GERTRUDE. Mr. McClure died March 15, 1873, and Mrs. McC. married James McCulley, who Was born Aug. 18^ 1848, in Sangamon county. They have one child, ISAAC F., and reside in Chatham township. JOHN I., born June 7, 1850, was married Aug. 27, 1873, to Susanna Graves, who was born Feb.

14, 1849, in Macoupin county. They have one child, CLARENCE H., and reside near Taylorville, 111. WILLIAM W., born Aug. 2, 1852. BEBECCA E., born Jan.

Joseph S., Nanc Y J., George H.

15, 1855, in Sangamon county, was married Nov. 13, 1872, to James Hurst. They have one living child, WILLIAM. MELISSA M., born Jan. 25, 1856, married Nov. 20, 1873, to Isaac Bowls, who was born in Ohio, in Dec., 1852. JOSEPH S., NANC Y J., GEORGE H., VIOLA M. and CHARLES E.; the latter died in infancy. All the other unmarried children reside with their parents, near Taylorville, Christian county, 111.

MARY A., born Dec. 12, 1829, was married March 13, 1849,10 Pleasant Kent, who was born in Ohio. They had twelve children, seven living. One child, ELIZA, married William Miller. They have two children, and reside in Woodside township, Sangamon county.

IRRILDA y., born June 26, 1832, in Sangamon county, was married Feb. 22, 1853, in same county, to L. T. Porterfield, who was born May 16, 1833. They had eight children; two died young. Of the other six, JOHN H., MARIA M., AMANDA^J., FRANCIS L., MARY L. and HATTIE J. L. T. Porterfield died April 26, 1869. His widow and children reside in Auburn, Sangamon county, 111.

Mary M., Eddie F., Hattie T.

ELIZABETH M., born Dec. 9, 1835, in Sangamon county, was married July 29, 1856, in same county, to Milton Pike, who was born June 5, 1823. See his name. They had eight children; one died in infancy. ALICE and LILLIE, twins, born June 5, 1857; Lillie died June 13, 1867, and Alice died April 9, 1872. MARY M., EDDIE F., HATTIE T., FREDDIE B. and MINNIE A. Mr. Pike and family reside in Auburn, Sangamon county, 111.

MARIA L., born July 24, 1838, was married June 2, 1857, m Sangamon county, to Joseph C. Campbell, who was born in Wayne county, 111. He enlisted Sept. 6, 1861, in Co. I, 29th Reg. 111. Vol. Inf., died Sept. 15, 1864. His widow married James Rape, and they reside near Taylorville, 111.

FRANCIS M., born April 3, 1846, in Sangamon county, was married Sept. 4, 1871, in Macoupin county, to Emma Brooks, who was born Jan. 28, 1844, in Kent county, Delaware. They reside in Auburn.

Mrs. Nancy Brownell died Aug. 28, 1856, and John Brownell was married March 29, 1860, to Mrs. Maria L. Watts, whose maiden name was Allen. They reside in Ball township, on land entered bv Mr. Brownell in 1822.

"BROWN, WILLIAM, was born April 19, 1779, in Frederick county, Virginia. The family have a record reaching back through his father, James Brown, born April 19, 1742, O. S., in Spotsylvania county, Va., to his father, James Brown, born April 29, 1708, O. S., in Middlesex county, Va., whose parents emigrated from England. James Brown, the father of the subject of this sketch, emigrated from Virginia to Bourbon county, Ky., in 1784. William Brown was married in 1805, in Fayette county, Ky., to Harriet B. Warfield, who was born March 3, 1788. They had ten children; one died in infancy; all born at the family residence except the eldest, who was born at the Warfield homestead, near Bryan's Station, Fayette county, Ky. William Brown was a successful lawyer, and for several years before leaving Kentucky, his home was a country seat, overlooking the town of Cynthiana, and the valley of the Licking. He led a company of volunteers from Kentucky, in the war of 1812, in which he won the title of Colonel. He represented Harrison county in the Legislature of Kentucky, and later represented his district in Congress. He, in company with his son-in-law, James D. Smith, explored the central region of Illinois, and in 1832 made large purchases of land in and around Island Grove, in San- gamon county. He brought his family the year following, and after providing for the erection of a country residence, made his home in Jacksonville, Morgan county, where, after a brief illness, he died, Oct. 6, 1833. Of their nine children who accompanied them to Illinois, four never resided in Sangamon county, viz: ELISHA W., ELIZA .C. and SARAH If. reside at Boonville, Cooper county, Mo. WILLIAM made Jacksonville his home, brough up a family of children, and died there, after a life full of usefulness and honor, in 1871. Of the other five children -

JAMES N., born Oct. i, 1806, at Bryan's Station, Fayette county, Ky., was married near Cynthiana, Ky., to Polly A. Smith. They had three children in Kentucky, all of whom died in infancy. They moved to Sangamon county, 111., where six children were born, one of whom died in infancv. JAMES N., Jun., born Julv 13, i836;died Feb.' 8, 1851. WILLIAM, born June n, 1839, was married, Oct. 18, 1865, in Covington, Ky., to Sail}- R. Smith, who was born Feb. i, 1847, *n Harrison countv, Kv. They had three children, all of whom died in infancy. Mrs. Sally R. Brown died May 6, 1870,3! Island Grove. Mr. B. resides at the family homestead. CHARLES S., born Oct. n, 1841, was married Jan. i^j, 1874, in Middletown," Butler county, Ohio, to Sarah E. Bonnell, who was born there, May 30, 1843. They reside at the family homestead. BENJ/WARFIELD, born Oct. 10, 1844, resides at the homestead, three miles west of Berlin, Sangamon county. MARY H., born March 19, 1848, and was married Jan. 4, 1872, at Island Grove, to Samuel N. Hitt, who was born Sept. 20, 1834, in Bourbon county, Ky. He enlisted Sept. 21, 1861, at Camp Butler, in the loth 111. Cav., and was elected ist. Lieut., was promoted through all the grades to Col., and was honorably discharged, Dec., 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Col. Hitt had two children; one died in infancy. MARY B. resides with her parents, half a mile east of New Berlin, Sangamon countv. Capt. James N. Bi-own, * Sen., represented Sangamon county in the Legislature of Illinois for the years 1840, '42, '46 and '52. During the session of the last named \ ear he drafted a bill and secured its passage, which led to the organization of the Illinois State Agricultural Society. He was elected its first President, Jan. 5, 1853, and re-elected in 1854. He held, to the day of his death, offices of public trust, but whilst giving much of his time to the State, his love for agriculture was not abated, nor his active duties in her pursuits neglected, and to his sagacity and persistant life-time efforts is Illinois largely indebted for her prominence as a producer of short horn cattle. For more than a third of a century he was a member of the M. E. church, and his active Christian life closed Nov. 16, 1868. His widow, Mrs. Polly A. Brown, died May 18, 1873, both where they settled in 1833. Their remains are interred in Wood Wreath Cemetery.

MARY, born March 3, 1814, was married in 1831, in Kentucky, to Barton S. Wilson. They moved from Jacksonville, 111., to Island Grove, in 1835, and thence, in 1837, *° Boonville, Mo., where Mrs. Wilson died, in 1858, but three children survive her, viz: Mrs. REBECCA Brand, JOSEPH and JOHN, all of whom, with their father, reside in Neosho, Newton county, Missouri.

LLOYD W., born Feb. 22, 1824, in Kentucky, graduated in arts at McKendree College, in 1842, and in medicine, from the University of Maryland. In 1847 he married Rebecca P. Warfield, of Lexington, Ky. He practiced medicine in that city one year, and came to Illinois Dec., 1848, and settled near the town of Berlin, in 1849, practiced medicine there until 1857, when he abandoned his profession for other pursuits, and moved to Boonville, Mo. He returned to IHinois in 1858, and after a brief stav in Jacksonville, settled on his farm at Lost Grove^on the line between Sangamon and Morgan counties. Of Dr. L. W. Brown's ten children, five died in infancv. The others are: HARRIET ,B., born May i, 1852, died July n, 1867, at her grand-father's, (Dr. Warfield) in Lexington, Kv. She is buried in Wood Wreath Cemetery, 111. WILLIAM B., EDWARD F., REBECCA C. and LLOYD W., Jun.

Brown, William

BROWN, WILLIAM B., was horn Feb. 2, 1802, in Greensburg, Green county, Ky. Harriet L. Allen was born Dec. 17, 1804, in the same place. She was a daughter of Col. David Allen, a pioneer from Virginia. He took an active part in the Indian wars of Kentucky. William B. Brown and Harriet L. Allen were married in Greensburg, Dec. 31, 1822. They had five children in Kentucky, and moved to Athens, 111., in Nov., 1833, where they had one child, and Mrs. Brown died Oct. 7, 1835. Wm. B. Brown was married in Athens, June 20, 1837, to Laura B. Buckman. They moved to Sangamo, in Sangamon county, in 1839. They had four living children. Of all his children -

DANIEL C. and DA VID A., twins, were born Sept. 27, 1824, at Greensburg, Ky., and brought by their father to Sangamon county. At fifteen years of age they sawed all the lath used in building the first State House in Springfield, now the Sangamon county Court House.

DANIEL C. then served an apprenticeship to the drug business. He was married June 30, 1852, in Petersburg, to Catharine L. Cowgill. They have three living children, HARRIET CLEMANTINE, JOHN H. and ELIZA B. Daniel C. Brown has been for many years, and is now, a druggist in Springfield.

DA VID A., was reading law with Col. E. D. Baker in 1846, when the war with Mexico commenced. At the suggestion of Mr. Baker, Mr. Brown commenced raising a company. Before it was full, it was consolidated with another part of a company from Logan county, and became Co. I, 4th 111. Inf. Mr. Brown was elected Second Lieutenant. He was with the regiment at the bombardment of Vera Cruz,' and at the battle of Cerro Gordo, April 1 8, 1847. The next day Lieut. Brown was promoted for gallantry, as aid de camp to Col. Baker, then commanding the brigade. On returning from Mexico, Mr. Brown read law in the office of Lincoln & Herndon, and was admitted to the bar. He was then appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court of Menard county, to which office he was afterwards elected, and served in all six years, when he returned to Springfield, and practiced law for six years. He abandoned the practice, and in 1859 engaged extensively in farming at Bates, in this county. He was elected Vice-P:-esident of the State Board of Agriculture, and served four years, eroding Sept., 1870, when he was elected President of the Board for two years. He was appointed by Gov. Beveridge as one of the three Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, March 13, 1873, confirmed by the Senate the same day, and commissioned by the Governor on the I7th of the month. David A. Brown was married Dec. 8, 1852, in Sangamon county, to Eliza J. Smith. They have six living children, SALLIE C., WILLIAM J., HARRIET J. MARY E., JAY T. and CARRIE A., and reside at Bates.

WILLIAM J., born March 23, 1827, in Greensburg, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, was married at Clinton, 111., Nov. 22, 1854,10 Elizabeth M. Smith, and moved soon after to Decatur. They have three living children, HATTIE J., ANNIE and CHRISTOPHER N. In 1862 Wm. J. Brown became Capt. of Co. A, 116 111. Inf. He served through the battles of Chickasaw Bluff, Arkansas Post, and the siege and capture of Vicksburg. Capt. Brown resigned in 1863 on account of physical disability, took a trip to California for recruiting his health, and from that to the present time has been in the drug business in Decatur.

JOHN H., born Feb. 17, 1832, in Greensburg, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married in Decatur, Jan. 2, 1856, to Clara A. Stafford. They had three living children, DANIEL A., HARMON and MARY. John H. Brown was a druggist at Cairo, and was Treasurer of the city while residing there. He removed to Springfield, and continued in the same business, until failure of health induced him to visit California, where he died, at Grass Valley, April n, 1866. His widow married Dr. Justus Townsend, and resides in Springfield.

CHRIS7^OPHER C., born Oct. 21, 1834, at Athens, 111. He was married in Springfield to Bettie J. Stuart. They had three children, ^STUART, EDWARDS and PAUL. Mrs. Bettie J. Brown died March 2, 1869. Part of the buildings now occupied by the Bettie

Stuart Institute had been her home, and the institution was so named in honor of her memory. C. C. Brown was married June 4, 1872, in Chicago, to Mrs. Carrie Farn'sworth, whose maiden name was Owsley. They have one child, ELIZABETH J., and reside in Springfield. Mr. Brown is a member of the law firm of Stuart, Edwards & Brown.

JOEL B., the eldest child of the second wife, was born March 9, 1840, at Sangamo, Sangamon county. He was married Jan. 12, 1865, to Ella S. Saunders. They have one child, BETTIE J. Mr. Brown was in the drug business in Decatur, from 1859 to 1864. He is now a member of the firm of D. & J. B. Brown, booksellers and druggists, in Springfield.

William B. Brown was a merchant in Kentucky, but on coming to Illinois he engaged extensively in land speculations. In connection with others, he took part in laying out many of the important towns in Illinois and Iowa. He died Dec. 14, 1852, in Petersburg, and his widow, Mrs. Laura B. Brown, resides with her daughter, Mrs. Cowgill, in Springfield.

Brown, Rev. John H.

BROWN, REV. JOHN H., D. D., brother to William B. Brown, came to Springfield too late to be included as an early settler. His son, Dwight Brown, is a member of the firm of D. & J. B. Brown, of Springfield. Dr. John H. Brown was Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield for a number of years, and at the time of his death was pastor of a church in Chicago.* He died in Chicago, Feb. 23, 1872, and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery. His widow resides on North Grand Avenue, Springfield.

BROWN, JAMES L., was born Oct. 20, 1786, in South Carolina. He was married there May 28, 1806, to Jane M. Berry, and soon after went to Union county, Ky., where they had eight children, and the family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving, in 1824, in what is

WILLIAM N., born May 25, 1810, in Kentucky, married Sarah Kilgour, who died, and he married Lucinda Ensor, and he died Feb. 19, 1872, in Sangamon county. His widow and six children reside in Montgomery county.

ELIZABETH C., born Dec. 23, 1812, married Enos Darnall. They had six sons, two of whom, JAMES L. and WILLIAM, are deaf and dumb, and were educated at Jacksonville. Mr. Darnall died near Wintersett, Iowa. His family reside there.

BENJAMIN F., born March 28, 1815, in Kentucky, married May 15, 1835, to Susannah Dunlap. They had seven children. MARY C. married George W. McClelland. See his name. ARMINDA M. married Owen G. Allen, and reside in Sullivan county, Mo. JOHN J. married Mary A. Short, have one child, and reside at Heyworth, McLean county. EDNA D. died Feb. r, 1866, aged eighteen years. JAMES T. died Dec. 30, 1865,111 his fifteenth year. ANNA F. married Martin McCoy, and reside in Fancy Creek township. Benjamin F. Brown died Feb. 21, 1866, and his widow resides four miles northwest of Sherman.

BROWN, THOMAS, was born Feb. 4, 1792, in South Carolina. Martha Thaxton was born May 4, 1791, in South Carolina also. They were married there, and moved to Allen county, Ky., where they had five children, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct 7, 1827, in what is now Fancy Creek township, where they had one child. Of their six children -

JEMIMA, born June i, 1811, in Allen county, Ky., married in Sanganion county to Thomas Sales. They had two children. MARGARET married William McClelland. See his name. GEORGE T. married Susannah Gardner. She died, and he married Mrs. Elizabeth Turley, whose maiden name was Cline. They have two children, THOMAS and MARGARET. George T. Sales enlisted in 1861 for three years, in Co. C, 7th III. Inf. He was a Lieutenant, served full term, and was honorably discharged. He lives near Athens, 111. Thomas Sales died, and his widow married Philip Crickmour, who also died. Mrs. Jemima Crickmour now (1874) lives with her sister, Mrs. Tames McClelland.

Aunt Jemima - as she is called by the young people - related to the writer a good joke on herself, which serves to illustrate the manners and customs of the people at the time she come to the country. She says that when the weather was sufficiently warm to admit of it, the young people, upon going to any public meeting, would carry their shoes and stockings until they approached their destination, when they would stop and put them on. As soon as they passed out of view, on leaving, they would again stop, take them off, and carry them home in their hands. This was done in order to make them last as long as possible. She thought it a singular custom ; but after seeing her associates practice it a few times, decided to try it herself. She was then about sixteen years of age. Religious meetings were held at private houses. She started on a Sunday morning to attend a meeting at the house of a neighbor, carrying her shoes and stockings in her hands. A shoil distance from the house she put them on, entered the meeting, and all passed off well until she started on the return, when a young gentleman accosted her at the door, and asked permission to accompany her home. This placed her in a quandary. If she wore her shoes the entire distance, it would wear them out so much earlier; if she stopped and took them off, there was reason to fear it would frighten her beau away. She was not long in deciding to wear the shoes and keep the beau. Economy in that line was thus brought to a sudden termination.

JAMES, born Nov., 1813, in Allen county, Ky. He was married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Scott. They have three children, and live in Kansas. At the time of -the " deep snow " he was but sixteen years old. It became necessary for him to carry a grist to mill on horseback. He found the traveling quite difficult, in consequence of the crust on the snow cutting the legs of his horse. A shawl belonging to some of the female portion of the familv had been wrapped about his person to keep him from freezing. He tore that in two pieces, took off his suspenders, and with them tied a half of the shawl on each of the forward legs of the horse, about where the snow crust would strike them. In that way he was enabled to bring home a supply of breadstuff for the family.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to William Cutwright. She died, leaving one son, DANIEL, who enlisted in the first call for 75,000 men, in 1861, and died m the armv.

ROBERT T., born Aug. 21, 1831, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 28, 1848, to Edna M. Dunlap, who was born Jan. J3, 1832. They had seven children; the eldest died young. THOMAS, born Oct. 10, 1851, married Oct. 23, 1872, to Hattie L. Short, and live in Fancy Creek township. MARY E'., JAMES F., ALEXANDER, MARGERY I., ROBERT U. and JOHN A., live with their mother. Robert T. Brown died Feb. 6, 1866, and his widow lives near Sherman.

children remember that the first corn Mr. Brown raised in the county for sale, was hauled away by Abraham Lincoln, as the hired man of John Taylor, who owned the land where they lived.

BROWN, JAMES M., was born Sept. 28, 1812, in Davidson county, near Nashville, Tenn. He came to Sangamon county, arriving March 31, 1831, at the house of Gen. M. K. Anderson, east of Pleasant Plains. He was married Aug. 7, 1832, to Elizabeth Willis. They had eight living children in Sangamon county. Of their children -

MARTHA J., born Oct. 6, 1833, was married Sept. 14, 1856, to Daniel T. Hughes. They have three living children, ADA, LULIE and ARTHUR, and reside at Greenview, III.

CLARISSA M., born July 18, 1835, was married June 13, 1852,10 J. S. Young, a native of Somerset county, Penn. They have seven living children. JOSEPHINE, born August 23, 1854, was married Nov. 20, 1873, to Charles A. Robinson, a native Michigan. They have one child, GERTRUDE i., and reside near Oak Grove, Seward county, Neb. JEREMIAH S.JAMES M., ROSA B., MARY F. DORA E. and CLARA M., and reside near Valparaiso, Saunders county, Neb.

SARAH E., born Dec. 5, 1837, was married April 20, 1856, to James K. Van- Demark, a native of Ohio. They have one child, ROSA S., and reside near Valparaiso, Neb.

MART y., born Sept. 20, 1841, married George W. Sampson. He died Oct., 1874, near Fail-field, Iowa. Mrs. Sampson and her children, JAMES and NELLIE, reside with her parents.

JOHN H., born Jan. 29, 1846, was married, August 13, 1865, to Adaline K. Adams. He is now (1875) a widower, with three children, CHARLES N., JAMES W. and ZACHEUS K., and resides at Crowder, Saunders county, Neb.

LA VINA F., born Jan. 19, 1854, was married Sept. 25, 1873, to Thomas Broderick. They have one child, and reside near Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOSEPH C., born March 7, 1853, was married, Sept. n, 1873, to Sarah A. Snook. They have one child, THEODORE O., and reside near Crowder, Saunders county, Neb.

BROWN, JOSHUA, was born May 20, 1792, in Davis county, Kv. Nancy Wilcher was born Dec., 1789, in the same county. They were there married, early in 1812. They had three children in Kentucky, and in Nov., 1818, moved to St. Clair county, 111., and from there to what became Sangamon county, arriving April 18, 1819, in what is now Curran township, east of Archer's creek, and south of Spring creek, and later entered one hundred and sixty acres of land south of Spring creek, in Gardner township. They had five children in Sangamon county. Of their eight children -

REZIN D., born May 6, 1813, in Davis county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, 111., May 15, 1834, to Rachel Earnest. Thev had twelve children in Sangamon county. CATHARINE F., born March 7, 1835, was married Nov. 6, 1855, to John Childs, who was born Dec. 25, 1829, in Burlington, N. J. They had ten children, LEONA L., JOSEPH n., NOAH and reside near Warrensburg, Macon county, 111. MARTIN V., born March 4, 1837, the day VanBuren was inaugurated President of the United States. Ho was married Sept. 26, 1869, to Helen M. Cecil. They have one child, and reside near Rose Hill, Henry county, Mo. MARY A., born May 7, 1838, was married Oct., 1857, to James M. Gait. They have eight children, and reside near Palmyra, Otoe county, Neb. CHARLOTTE, born Dec. 19, 1839, marrted Feb. 23, 1864, to Thomas B. Ray. See his name. She died Jan, 9, 1836, leaving one child, CHARLOTTE, who resides with her grand-parents, Brown. JOHN D., born March i, 1842, married Nov. 6, 1867, to Louisa J. Cecil. They have one child, GERTIE, and reside near Mt. Rose, Mo. CHARLES F., born Sept. 14, 1843, died Sept. 30, 1853. PETER, born Atlg, 6, 1845, resides in Alta City Utah. ANNIS, born Aug. 1 6, 1847, ni:in"ied Nov. 10, 1869, to

John Happer. They have two children, HOWARD H. and NELLIE, and reside near Maroa, Macon county, 111. LUANNA, born April 8, 1849, married Oct. 17, 1872, to Frank Leverton, and reside five miles west of Springfield. EDWIN, born May, 1851, died Feb. 5, 1862. CHARLES, born Sept. 16, 1853, resides with his parents. JACOB J., born Jan. 15, 1856, died Jan., 1865. Rezin D. Brown and wife reside in the southeast corner of Cartwright township.

WILLIAM W. was born Feb. 6, 1815, in Kentucky, married in Illinois, Feb. 13, 1844, to Phoebe Poole. They had four living children. CLARINDA J., born Jan. 12, 1845, man"ied William Ankrom, and reside in Curran township. ZILLA A., born July 5, 1848, married Henry Dewall. They have one child, and reside at Falls City/Neb. JOSHUA T., born Feb. 28, 1851, resides in Sacramento, Cal., (now, in 1873). MARY M., born Dec. 23, 1858, resides with her father. Mrs. Phoebe Brown died May 14, 1863, and William W. Brown was married Nov. 16,

1869, to Mrs. Almeda DeLaughta, whose maiden name was Parker. She was born in Livingston pai'ish, near Lake Pontchartrain, La. They reside five miles east of Berlin.

JAMES M,, born Jan. 1820, in Sangamon county, married Abigail Gilison. They had two children in Sangamon county, moved to Iowa, and from there to Portland, Oregon, thence to Silver mountain, California, where he was robbed and murdered, about 1867, leaving a widow and two children.

Z.ILLAH, born Nov. 14, 1821, in Sangamon county, was married, Jan. 12, 1840, to John Hillis, who was born April 30, 1814. They had four living children. JOSHUA W., born April 5, 1843, was married near Mt. Rose, Mason county, in

1870, to Birdie Meleane. They reside in Alma county, Colorado. MARY A., born June 29, 1845, was married April 17, 1870, to Byington Owens. They have two children, and reside in Waynesville, 111. JAMES E. and JOHN R., born Sept., 1849. JAMES E. was married Oct. 24, 1871, to Frances N. Jennings.

They reside in Waynesville, 111. JOHN R. is unmarried and resides in Waynesville. John Hillis died April 30, 1849, and his widow was married Dec. 30, 1856, to James Large. They had two children. Mr. Large died April 18, 1864, and Mrs. Zillah Large and family live in Waynesville, DeWitt county, 111.

JOSHUA M., bprn July, 1825, in Sangamon county, married Elizabeth A. Brown. They had six children, and he died Jan. 7, 1867. His widow married William Mercer, and resides near Hamburg, Iowa.

ELM ORE S., was born in 1827, in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1847, 'n ^e 4th 111. Inf. Served one year in the Mexican war, returned home, and died in 1848.

REUBEN M., was born in Jan. 1829, in Sangamon county, was married Nov. 15, 1850, to Elizabeth J. Archer. They had six children, and Mrs. Brown died, Sept. 20, 1864. Mr. B. married Mrs. Jerusha Smith, whose maiden name was Sturtevant. The family reside in Fredonia, Kansas.

Mrs. Nancy Brown died June 2, 1847, and Joshua Brown was married May u, 1848, to Mrs. Mary Robinson, whose maiden name wasMayhew. She died May 12, 1861, and he died Sept., 1863, on the farm where they settled in 1824.

BROWN, JACOB J., was born August 15, 1781, in Vermont. He was married Feb. 24, 1803, in Hartford, jConn., to Ann Bacon, who was born there, Sept. 19, 1786. They had four children in Hartford, and moved to Green county, Penn., where they had four children, then moved to the State of New York, and from there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1823 or '4, in what is now Gardner township, north of Spring: creek, where they had two children. Of their children -

DEL OS W., born Oct. 28, 1803, in Hartford, Conn., married in Sangamon county, to Ruth Morgan, and had three children. ELIZABETH married Abner Wilkinson, and died. Mr. W. and his children reside in Springfield. D. W. Brown moved, about 1856, to Atchison county, Mo., and from there to Fremont county, Iowa. He died, and his widow and two children reside near Sidnev, Iowa.

JAMES J/., born May 16, 1809, in Connecticut. He was a soldier from Sangamon county, during the Winnebago war, came home sick, and died August 22, 1827.

MARY A., born April 27, 1811, in Connecticut. She was married three times, is now a widow Elliott, and, with two of her children, resides in Grundy county, Mo.

JACOB y., Jun., born March 8, 1825, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 4, 1850, to Emily M. Ralston. They have seven children, and live near Farmingdale.

Bruce, Benjamin

1830. His father died there, of cholera, in 1833. His mother, with six children, moved to Springfield in 1834, and in 1836 moved back to Morgan county, where she was married to George R. McAllister. While she lived in Springfield her son, whose name heads this sketch, was bound to Rev. Joseph Edmondson, of the M. E. Church, and taken to St. Clair county, thence to Bond county. In 1843 ^e went to Memphis, Tenn., and returned to

Springfield in 1852, and was married June 18, 1854, t° Ann Gunn, in Morgan county. He enlisted for three years, Aug." 6, 1862, in Co. H, 114 111. Inf. He was wounded in the right eye at the battle of Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864, recovered, served full term, and was honorably discharged Aug. 3, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce had four children; two died in infancy. SARAH A. died, aged twelve years. WILLIAM T. resides with his parents. Benjamin P. Bruce and wife reside three and a quarter miles northwest of Springfield.

BRUNK, DAVID, was born Dec. 17, 1819, in Ohio, came with his brother George, his mother and stepfather, Thomas Royal, to Sangamon county, in Dec., 1824. He was married Nov. 5, 1833, to Maria Shoup. They had four children in Sangamon county, namely -

JACOB, born Nov. 5, 1834, married Emily J. Mason. They have three children, THOMAS M., CHARLES A. and ELIZABETH M., and live one half mile east of Crow's mill, in Ball township.

ELLEN E. married Walter S. Carpenter. They had three children, CHARLES B. died, aged eight years, JACOB H. at three years. MARIA CATHARINE lives with her parents, in Ball township.

BRUNK, GEORGE, was born Dec. 22, 1804, in Miami county, Ohio. At seventeen years of age he came to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1821. He entered eighty acres of land in what is now Ball township, returned to Ohio, and brought his mother, and stepfather, Thomas Royal, with his brothers and sisters, to Sangamon county, and settled them on the land he had entered, where Dr. Shields now resides. He entered more land, built for himself a hewed log house, and was married Dec. 30, 1827, to Mary Boyd. She- was horn Jan. i,

MART E., born Dec. 17, 1831, married Eugene Owens. They had six children. The third one, JOHN F., died at two years of age. The other five, GEO. B., DANIEL G., EMMA E., ULYSSES GRANT and ARTHUR R. reside with their mother, in Cotton Hill township.

THOMAS ALBERT, born July 30, 1853. He was educated under the guardianship of Philemon Stout, at Shurtleff College, and resides in Ball township.

Mrs. Eliza Brunk died Oct. 4, 1860, and Mr. B. married Dec. 12, 1861, to Emily Talbott. They had two children, viz.: TALBOTT F. and JOSEPH C., who reside with their mother.

George Brunk died Sept. 2, 1868, near where he settled in 1824. His widow married Lindsay H. English, and resides two miles southeast of Springfield.

The first entry of land in Sangamon county was made Nov. 6, 1823, by Israel Archer, being the west half of the northwest quarter of section eight, town fourteen north, range fourteen west. It is in Cotton Hill township, and the Prot. M. E. church stands on a part of it now.

The second entry was made the same day, Nov. 6, by Mason Fowler. It was the east half of the southwest quarter ot section twenty-seven, town fourteen, range four west, and is on Horse creek.

The next day, Nov. 7. Elijah lies, Thomas Cox, John Taylor and Paschal P. Enos, entered the four quarters on which Springfield was laid out. This is

BRYAN, GEORGE, was born Feb. 15, 1758, in North Carolina. He went, or may have been taken by his parents, to Virginia, and from there to Kentucky with Daniel Boone, about 1780. There he either founded, or by his bold daring as a leader, gave the name to a primative fortification called Bryant's Station, in what became Fayette county, Ky., a few miles from where the city of Lexington was afterwards established. %It will be observed that in applying the name to the fortification a letter has been added, making the name Bryant, which is erroneous. There is a tradition preserved by his descendants, that soon after the fort was established, the young women belonging to the families connected with it were washing clothes at a stream of running water on the outside of the stockade. George Bryan and some of the other young men stood guard. Not being apprehensive of danger, they permitted the Indians to place themselves between the girls and the fort. The guard quickly secured a position between the girls and the savages, and a skirmish ensued. After making the way clear, Bryan, in a loud voice, announced that he would marry the girl who would enter the fort first. They all escaped, and he, true to his word, after gaining the consent of the young lady, was married in the fall of 1781 to Elizabeth Ragan, who was born in 1760, in South Carolina. Mr. Bryan always claimed that it was first marriage of a white couple in what became the State of Kentucky. That was before the era of mills in that region of country, and his descendants have handed down the statement, in connection with the wedding festival, that he paid ten dollars for a bushel of corn meal, to make bread for the occasion. They had at least raised one crop, and Mr. Bryan rolled pumpkins into the fort as a substitute for chairs to seat the guests. They had ten or eleven children, four of them sons, and Mrs. Bryan died. Mr. Bryan was married in 1829, to Mrs. Cassandra Miller, who died in Kentucky, in 1833. In 1834^1'. Bryan came to Sangamon county with some of his children and grand-children. Of his children, who came to this county -

NICHOLAS, born March 24, 1794, in Bourbon county, Ky. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was in the battle of New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1815. Soon after the close of the war, and within that year, he was married in his native county to Mary Delay Scott, who was horn there Dec. 24, 1800. They had four children in Kentucky, and came to Sangamon county in 1833, settling in what is now Woodside township. Their son GEO., born in 1818, in Kentucky, married near Elkhart, Logan county, 111., in 1839, moved to Texas and died there, leaving two children. ELIZA C., born Feb. 17, 1820, in Bourbon county, Ky., married July 25, 1837, near Springfield, 111., to James Taylor. See his name. MARY J., born May 22, 1822, in Bourbon county, Ky., married in 1840 in Springfield, 111., to Milton H. Wash. See his name. ROBERT A., born July 13, 1833, in Kentucky, married in Springfield, 111., to Hannah Sperry. She died, and his residence is unknown, but it is somewhere South. Mrs. Mary D. Bryan died Dec. 25, 1843, in Springfield, 111., and Nicholas Bryan was married in 1845 to Adelia Trumbull. They had one child, BRYANAH, and moved to the Pacific coast. Nicholas Bryan died in 1855, in San Jose, Santa Clara county, Cal., leaving his widow and daughter there.

MB LINDA W., born April 11,1797, in Bourbon county, Ky., married there in 1815 to Abraham Todd, who was born in Woodford county, Ky., in 1792. They had three children in Kentucky, and Mr. Todd died. Mrs. Todd married Thomas P. Pettus. See his name. Mr. Pettus and wife, with her three daughters by the first marriage, came to Sangamon county in 1838, and settled near what is now Woodside Station. Of the three children, ELIZA J. TODD, born April 29, 1816, in Woodford county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, April 16, 1840, to Stephen S. Ferrell. They have a family, and reside at Boscobel, Grant county, Wis. MARY A. TODD born Jan. 12, 1819, in Woodford county, Ky., married Aug. 12, 1835, in Sangamon county, to Thomas B. Morris. They have children, and reside near Wyoming, Iowa county, Wis. ANNA MARIA TODD, born Jan. 19, 1823, in Woodford county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to John B.

POLLY, born Aug. 20, 1797, in Bourbon county, Ky., married there to Thomas Jones. See his name. She died in Kentucky, but her family came to Sangamon county.

When George Bryan came to Sangamon county, in 1834, he was in his seventysixth year, but he continued visiting Kentucky, riding each way on horseback, annually for eleven years. He died Nov. 22, 1845, and was buried near Woodside Station, Sangamon county. He was eighty-seven years, nine months and seven days old.

It seems almost incredible that a man who was of sufficient age to have been a soldier in the American Revolution, and who took an active part in the stirring scenes of the frontier settlements in the second State admitted to the American Union, should have become an early settler of Sangamon county, and witnessed some of its earliest strides towards civilization : but the life of George Bryan extended over this long and eventful period. His grandson, William T. Jones, has a great fund of reminiscences of the life of his grandfather Bryan, as he received them from the lips of the venerable patriarch while living. I can only give place to two incidents, both of which occurred in Kentucky.

On one occasion, when the forests were swarming with hostile Indians, Mr. Bryan, with six other men, left the Station for a scouting expedition. Proceeding cautiously, they had gone but two or three miles when the seven white men were fired upon by just twice their number of Indians, who lay in ambush until the white men were very near them. The Indians were good marksmen with bows and arrows, but they had not been sufficiently accustomed to fire-arms to become expert in using them. In their haste they overshot their marks, and never hurt a man. The advantage would then have been decidedly in favor of the whites, but at this juncture three of the latter, supposing there was a large force of Indians, took to flight. The other three, with Bryan at their head, each took to a tree, and commenced firing at the Indians. The fight continued ^the whole day, and as the sun was sinking to rest, it was discovered that there were but two men on each side in fighting condition: the chief on one side, and Bryan on the other, with a single man each. The others were all killed or severely wounded. A parley ensued, which ended in an agreement that the one subordinate on each side should cease hostilities, for the purpose of taking care of the dead and wounded, and that the two leaders should fight until one or the other conquered. Each kept behind a tree, with his gun loaded, while they were parleying, and when ready to renew hostilities, each called the other by every epithet expressing cowardice that they could respectively command, and each dared the other to come out and engage in open combat. As it was growing dark, Bryan put his cap on the end of his ramrod, and moved it from the tree as though he was very cautiously preparing to shoot. The Indian fired at the cap, and finding himself deceived, he ran in a zig-zag course, cautiously looking back until he thought himself at a safe distance, when he took to a tree and began to load his rifle. The moment the chief fired, Bryan sprang from his tree, and, instead of following direct, he ran at an angle of about forty-five degrees from the course of the Indian, and was soon out of the line where the latter expected to see him. Bryan thus had the Indian in plain view, while the latter thought himself secure. As the chief raised both arms to ram down the load, Bryan fired, the ball entering under one arm, it passed out under the other, and he fell dead. His clothes were covered with silver brooches and other ornaments, that were kept in the families of Bryan's descendants for many years.

As the increasing number of the whites convinced the Indians that they must eventually give way, they became less hostile. About this time Bryan and a comrade spent several weeks in hunting, and had taken a large number of skins and furs. While the two were alone in camp, a considerable number of Indians encamped near them ; and very soon two of the Indians came to their camp, and, without the least ceremony, commenced opening and examining the goods belonging to the two white men. Mr. Bryan made up his mind that the result of their winter's work was lost, for if the Indians chose to take their goods, it would be madness to resist with such odds against them. Unknown to Bryan, his partner was an expert in legerdemain, and the thought occurred to him that the Indians might be driven off by some deceptive movement. He asked one of the savages for his butcher knife, and at once went through all the motions of swallowing it. The other Indian handed out his knife, which was swallowed with violent contortions. The two hurried away to their own camp, and soon returned with their chief, who held in his hand a much larger knife, having a very rough buck-horn handle, with a horn spike about three inches long at one side. The white man shook his head, make signs that the knife was too large, that the little horn on the side of the handle would be more than he could swallow. They insisted, and he made signs that he would try. He then indulged in contortions so violent as to bring tears to his eyes; but the knife disappeared. The red men felt of his body, and came so near finding where the knives were hidden, that he thought it would be safer to return them, and commenced casting up and handing each Indian his knife. They, one after another, received their knives, each taking his own very carefully by the point, between the thumb and finger, would smell of it, make a wry face, and throw it on the ground. The three savages withdrew together, leaving their knives where they had fallen, and before morning the whole company, afraid to steal anything else, stole themselves away.

Having said so much about his pioneer life, in which he was brought in contact with wild beasts, savages, and white men unused to the restrains of civilized life as we now enjoy it, would probably lead the reader to infer that he was a rough and harsh man; but such was not the case. He embraced Christianity in early life, and -was one of the most steadfast supporters of the ordinances of religion. He aided in building a Baptist church at Bryan Station, which a grand-daughter of his, now living in Springfield, visited in 1860, and found it still in use. He was a member of that church, and worshipped there as long as he remained in Kentucky. He always held family worship, in which the colored servants were expected to unite.

BRYAN, LARKIN, was born Nov. 2, 1800, in Woodford county, Ky. He was married thei'e in 1820 to Mrs. Harriet Chapman, whose maiden name was Thornberry. They moved to the Missouri lead mines, and from there to Sangamon county, in the fall of 1821, and settled five miles northeast of Springfield. They had seven children in Sangamon county. Of their children -

MART F., born July n, 1824, married Presley Chrisman. She died, leaving her husband and three children near Promise Citv, Wayne county, Iowa.

LARKIN A., born March "3, 1830, married Nov. i, 1860, to Sarah A. Mitchell, who was born April 16, 1842, in Finedon, Northamptonshire, England. They had five childen. HARRIET E. died in her seventh year. JAMES W., JESSIE H., LAVINIA A! and CHARLES W. reside with their parents, near Waverly, 111.

Mrs. Harriet Bryan died April 4, 1862, and Larkin Bryan was married Jan. 14, 1863, to Mrs. Sarah Yeamans, who had previously been Mrs. Britt, and whose maiden name was Wilson. He died two miles north of Springfield, in 1874. His widow resides in Springfield.

Buchanan, Reuben

BUCHANAN, REUBEN, was born March 20, 1809, in Woodford county, Ky. His father moved, in 1819 or '20, to Morgan county, 111. Reuben remained there until 1834, when he came to Sangamon county, settling at Salisbury, where he was married to Barbara Duncan, a step-daughter of Solomon Miller. She was born March 15, 1812, in Cumberland county, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan

Mr. Buchanan moved from Salisbury to Springfield in April, 1847, and was engaged in the grocery business until his death, which occurred Nov. 14, 1861. His widow resides with her son-in-law, Lafayette Smith, in Springfield.

BUCKMAN, JOEL, born Nov. 6, 1790, in Bethel, Vermont. He was the second child of Jeremiah Buckman and Ruth Banister, his wife. They were born in Springfield, Mass; he Sept. n, 1762, and she March 20, 1771. Joel Buckman and Huldah Tilley were married in Vermont, and moved to Potsdam, N. Y., had six children, and Mrs. B. died, Dec. 17, 1828. He was married June 19, 1829, to Hannah Bowker. They had one child, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Sept., 1834, at Old Sangamo. Mrs. Hannah B. died Nov. 6, 1838. Joel Buckman and Sally Watts were married in Sangamon county, March 5, 1839. They had one child. Of all his children -

LE VINIA, born Dec. 22, 1819, in New York, married in Sangamon county, Dec., 1835, to Waters Carman. They had four - children, and she died. He moved to Oregon.

CAL VIN, born Jan. 31, 1822, in New York, married in Sangamon county, Nov. 1843, to Sophia Eastabrook. They have seven children, and reside at Delavan, Tazewell county.

BOLLARD, REUBEN, was born Dec. 22, 1792, in Caroline county, Va. He went to Woodford county, Ky., in 1787, and to Shelby county in 1790. He was there married in 1803, to Elizabeth Gill, who was born Oct. 30, 1779, near Charlestown, Va. They had eight children in Kentucky, four of whom, Eliza, Lucinda, Richard and Nancy J., died there, between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five years. Mrs. Elizabeth Builard died Jan. 6, 1835, and Reuben Builard, with three of his children, came to Sangamon county, arriving in Nov., 1835, in what is now Illiopolis township, one son having come before. Of the four children -

JOHN, born Feb. 10, 1805, in Shelby county, Ky., came to Sangamon county April 6, 1830, and made his home partly at Buffalo Hart Grove and partly in the vicinity of Mechanicsburg, and returned to Kentucky in 1833. Sarah S. Fallis was born Feb. 3, 1812, in St. Louis county, Mo., her parents having moved there from Kentucky. During the war with England the Indians became troublesome, and the family moved back, in 1813, to Henry county, Ky. John Bullard and Sarah S. Fallis were there married, Sept. 4, 1834, and came at once to Sangamon county, where they had ten children. JOHN W., born Oct. 21, 1836, died May 6, 1856. NANCY F.,born May 29, 1838, married April 30, 1873, to Charles Howard, and reside near Neola, Iowa. WILLIAM S., born Jan. 7, 1841. He enlisted August 7, 1862, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf. for three years, was wounded at the battle of Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864, served until the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged. He was married - Dec. 28, 1871, to Elizabeth S. Zane. They have two children, LETHE IRENE and MARY, and reside four and a half miles east of Mechanicsburg. REUBEN S., born August 31, 1842, married Sept. 23, 1873, in Shelbyville, Ky., to Marian Saunders. She was born there, May 8, 1849. They have one child, ANNIE, and reside four and a half miles east of Mechanicsburg, where his father settled in 1834. EDNA E., born April 12, 1844, married Oct. 16, 1867, to Charles C. Radcliflfe, a native of Frederick county, Md. They have three children, NOR A A., AUBRA L. and SALLIE F., and resides in Mechanicsburg. JOSEPHINE, born Dec. 17, 1845, was married at Mechanicsburg, May 27, 1875, to Capt. George Ritchey, and reside in Boonville, Mo. MARY J., born Dec. 17, 1847, died Feb. 14, 1875. WILBER C., born Sept. 19, 1850; JACOB B. born Jan. 20, 1854; HENRY S., born March 18, 1858, all reside with their mother, except WILBUR C., who lives in Decatur. John Bullard died Dec. 26, 1872, and his widow lives in Mechanicsburg.

Francis B., Samuel A., Geo

WES LET, born July 28, 1816, in Shelby county, Ky., married March 23, 1843, in Sangamon county, to Sarah A. Foster, who was born July 18, 1824, in Montgomery county, Ky., and came to Sangamon county on a visit in 1842. Her parents lived, at the time, in Putnam, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. B. had eight sons in Sangamon county. WILLIAM H., born August 16, 1844, enlisted August 4, 1862, for three years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf., was slightly wounded at the battle of Franklin, Tenn. He served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged, June 24, 1865, married in Sangamon county, Sept. 13, 1866, to Abbie P. Baldwin, who was born Nov. 21, 1847, near Monticello, Madison county. They have three children, SARAH L., WESLEY c. and MARY B., and live five miles east of Mechanicsburg. JAMES R. resides (1874) in San Francisco, Cal. JOHN N., FRANCIS B., SAMUEL A., GEO. W., BENJ. F. and SAY A. FOSTER; the six latter live with their father. Mrs. Sarah A. Bullard died Feb. 13, 1861, and Wesley Bullard was married August 6, 1863, m Sangamon county, to Mrs. Elizabeth Holsman, whose maiden name was Kidd. She was born May 7, 1828, in Fluvanna county, Va. Her home was in Circleville, Ohio, but she was on a visit to Sangamon county at the time of her marriage. They have two children, JULIA and ROBERT A., and live four miles

.His father's name was Reuben Bullard. He was in the Revolutionary army as a non-combatant, and lost his life by drinking too freely of cold water while he was over-heated. He made a gun, which he gave to his son, whose name heads this sketch. It is now (1874) in possession of a son of John Bullard - Reuben S. - the fourth generation from the man who made it. The brass plate opposite the lock bears the inscription, R. B., J772- It is a smooth bore ; the barrel is four feet eight inches long, and the whole gun is six feet one inch. An anecdote is related of it, that when the boys of a former generation used the gun, they always hunted in pairs, one to do the shooting and the other to see that the marksman did not get the muzzle beyond the game.

BURCH, JOHN, was born about 1770, in Georgia. He was married in 1800, in Gallatin county, Ky., to Elizabeth Hampton, who was born in 1780, in Loudon county, Va. They had six children in Kentucky, - and Mr. Burch came to Sangamon county in the fall of 1828, with his son-in-law, James McKee. He went back to Kentucky for his family, and died there May 10, 1829. In the fall of that year his family moved to Sangamon county, and settled near Mechanicsburg. Of their six children -

BENJAMIN, born Aug. i, 1803, in Gallatin county, Ky., married in Sangamon to Mary Smith. He died in McLean county in 1863. His widow married James Waite, and lives, in Bloomington.

JANE, born in 1805, in Gallatin county, Ky., married there. Jan. 9, 1828, to James McKee, and came to Illinois in the fall of that year, and settled near Mechanicsburg.

PRESTON H., born in 1807, in Gallatin county, Ky., married in Sangamon county in 1831, to Elizabeth Suter. They had five children in Sangamon county. SARAH E. married William H. Green, and lives at Dubuque, Iowa, with her onlv child, I.ULU. LEVARIAN, born Dec.

m Sangamon county, enlisted at ewport Barracks, April, 1861, in Battery G, 2nd Reg. U. S. Art. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant, was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, and died of his wounds, late in 1863, at Washington City. JAMES M.,born Feb. 18, 1839, in Sangamon county. He graduated at St. Louis Medical College in 1859, and enlisted as a private, June 20, 1861, in Co. C, 8th Mo. Inf.; was promoted in July, '6 1, to Asst. Surg., which he resigned in Aug., 1862, and was commissioned Captain of Co. K, 94th 111. Inf. He resigned that office in Sept., 1863, and was promoted Lieutenant Colonel of the i6th U. S. Colored Troops, at New Orleans, which he resigned at Brazos, Texas, in Sept., 1864. Dr. J. M. Burch was married Oct. 8, 1860, at Bloomington, to Jennie L. McClunn, a native of that city. After the close of the rebellion he practiced medicine at Illiopolis, and died there July 26, 1874, leaving a widow and four children,.

Mrs. Jennie L. Burch and children reside at Bloomington. JOHN S., born July 1840, in Sangamon county, went to California in 1861, and was drowned March 3, 1865, at San Juan, Nicaragua, while on his way home. ELIZA J,, born March, 1842, in Sangamon county, is a teacher at Mt. Sterling. Preston H. Burch enlisted in 1862, at Peoria, in Co. - , io8th 111. Inf., and died of disease at Young's Point, near Vicksburg, Miss., Feb. 1 8, 1863. His widow died at Mt. Sterling, Brown county, 111., Dec., 1865.

ELIZA, born in 1810, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to James Smith. They had one child, MARY, born in Sangamon county, married Oct. 8, 1860, to Dr. Edward Stevens, and reside in Bloomington. James Smith died Sept., 1845, m Springfield, and his widow married Josiah Green. She died Feb., - 1852, and he died July, 1855, both in Mechanicsburg.

WADE S., born Oct. 14, 1815, in Gallatin county, KV., married in Sangamon county Jan. 8, 1845, to Mary E. Young. They had ten children, seven of whom died under seven years. SUSAN B., born July 26, 1850, married Jan. 8, 1868, to James Newton Moreland, who was born Dec. 17, 1840, in Bath county, Ky., served nearly four years - from Aug. i,

1862 - in Co. B, loth Ky. Cav. (Union), and was honorably discharged in 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Moreland live in Illiopolis township. WERTER P., born March n, 1861, and HARRY, born Feb. 10, was born Feb. 2, 1807, in Schwarzenberg, county of Neuremberg, Kingdom of Wurtemberg. He came to America in 1832, and spent two summers in Pennsylvania, and as many winters in Mississippi. He came to Springfield in 1836, and was there married, Aug. 18, 1843, to Mary E. Nagle, who was born June 24, 1827, in Bavaria, Canton Bergzabern. She sailed Oct. 20, 1841, in the ship Oceana. The vessel was wrecked off the island of Jamaica, Dec. 3, 1841. The passengers were all saved, but lost their baggage. They were transferred to another vessel, and arrived at New Orleans Jan. 8, 1842, to find the city in holiday attire in honor of Gen. Jackson's victory over the British, Jan 8, 1815. Her father died in St. Louis, while she was detained by shipwreck. She came on to Springfield, arriving in March, 1842, and joined her sister, Mrs. Catharine Lorch, then and now the wife of Charles Lorch. Mr. and Mrs. Burkhardt had eleven children ; two died under three years, and Charles A. died, aged seven. Of the other eight -

JOHN, born May 20, 1844, enlisted July 4, 1862, for three months, in Co. D, 7oth 111. Vol. Inf., and served five months as a Corporal. He again enlisted March 22, 1864, in Co. G, ii4th 111. Vol. Inf., for three years. He was killed June 10, 1864, at the battle of Guntown, Miss.

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killed by his team running away when Thomas was a child. Elizabeth Ridgeway was born Nov. 25, 1775, in Berkley county, Va. Thomas Burns and Elizabeth Ridgeway were married March 1 1^, 1794, and had one child in Berkley county; and then moved to Washington county, West Va., where they had three children. They then moved to North Carolina, and after a short stay, moved to Jessamine county, Ky., where they had one child, and from there to Clarke county, where they had seven children. The family moved from there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1829, in what is now Mechanicsburg township. Some of their children had preceded them. Of their children -

ROBERT E., born March 28, 1799, in Washington county, West Va., married in Clarke county, Ky., Sept. 15,1825, to Patsy Cass, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct., ,1825, in Buffalo Hart Grove. They were the first of the family to come to the county. They had four children in Sangamon county, two of whom died young. ROBERT FRANKLIN, born Dec. 9, 1830, died July n, 1852. ELIZABETH C., born June 7, 1838, married April 16, 1854, to John T. Constant. See his name. Robert E. Burns and his wife reside at Buffalo Hart Station, very near where they settled in 1825. Mr. Burns had a neighbor, Wm. Bridges, who was a blacksmith and gunsmith. Wm. and Hiram Robbins came to Mr. Bridges to have work done, and he had no coal. They told him that they had seen coal cropping out of the ground in their hunting excursions, and gave him directions so that he could find it. Mr. Burns took his wagon and team, went with Mr. Bridges to the place and 'dug out a load, and found it good for blacksmithing. It was in a ravine about threefourths of a mile northwest of where Barclay now stands. That was in 1826, and was the first coal found in that part of the country. Mr. Burns raised cotton for clothing, and it matured perfectly before the "deep snow" of 1830-31. After that he tried frequently, bringing seed from Tennessee several times, but all his efforts proved to be such failures that the seed ran out and was lost.

ANN T., born May 27, 1801, in West Virginia, married in Kentucky, August 6, 1817, to Abner Enos. See his name. She died there, June 13, 1829.

JOHN /?., born Oct. 19, 1803, in Jessamine county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, April 17, 1828, to Lucy A. Cass. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war. They had twelve children, all born in Sangamon county, three of whom died under five years. MARY J., born Mar. 26, 1831, married Feb. 28, 1847, to J°^n Cass. See his name. THOMAS F., born Jan. 9, 1833, married Sept. 30, 1856, Ursula Greening. Thos. F. Burns enlisted July 25, 1862, in Co. F., ii4th 111. Inf., for three years. Served about one year, and was honorably discharged on account of physical disability. He now resides in Mt. Pulaski. WILLIAM A., born Nov. 28, 1839, married Dec. 24, 1867, to Lucy E. Jones. They have two children, WM. ELMER and IVA MAY, and live near Buffalo Hart Station. MARTHA A., born Feb. 27, 1843, lives with her parents. ARMINTA, born Dec. 30, 1844, married Feb. 21, 1867, to Wm. B. Robinson. See his name. SOPHIA, born Feb. 13, 1849, married Dec^27, 1871, to James F. Hickman. See his name. IVA, born March 18, 1851, married Oct. 25, 1871, to James L. Wright, who was born in Lockmaben, Scotland, and resides in Buffalo Hart township. JOHN T., born Jan. u, 1854, and ROBERT B., born Oct. 26, 1856, live with their parents, one mile south of Buffalo Hart Station.

Mrs. Lucy A. Burns says that they raised cotton in the summer of 1828; that she picked it from the bolls, picked the seed out with her fingers, carded it with hand cards, spun and wove it, and made it up into garments of various kinds. In 1829 they raised a much larger quantity, and had it ginned on a machine owned by William G. Cantrall. They paid toll, or part of the cotton, for ginning, the same as grinding is done by custom mills. When all was done they had eighty pounds of ginned cotton left. She says that after the " deep snow " it never would mature.

EM1L Y, born June 14, 181 1, in Clarke county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Jan. 17, 1830, to Clemmon Strickland. They had three children. The parents and two of the children died. JOSEPH, the only living member of the family, married Emilv Chance, and lives at Buffalo.

REBECCA, born Feb. 16, 1814, in Clarke county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Bennett Wood, a native of Kentucky. They lived in Green county, 111., until they had two children, namely: BAZZLE or BASIL M., born June 16, 1835, in Green county, enlisted July, 1862, for three years, in Co. E., n6th 111. Inf. Served full term and was honorably discharged with the regiment, in 1865. He was married in Sangamon county, Jan. 25, 1866, to Nannie J. Graham, who was born July 4, 1843, in Morgan county. They had two children, FLORA and GRACIE, and Mrs. Wood died, Jan. 6, 1872. Mr. Wood resides one and a quarter miles east of ^Illiopolis, with his father-in-law, Mr. 'Graham. SARAH Wood, born March, 1834, in Green county, married in Sangamon county to John Stall. They have four children, and live at Niantic. Bennett Wood died in Green county, and his widow married James McGee. Mrs. Mc- Gee died in Sangamon county, leaving two children: JOHN T. and WILLIAM R. McGee reside in Williamsville.

J. married and resides in Kansas. PARTHENIA married George Sensbaugh, and lives near Whiterock, Jewell county, Kansas. LOUISA J. married Daniel Redman, and lives near Lone Oak P. O., Bates county, Mo. MAHALA resides with her sister, Louisa J. B. HARDIN

PATST, born Feb. 20, 1819, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Dec. 26, 1837, to Baldwin Harper. They had one child, EVELINE. She married Theophilus Kirwood, and lives near Warrensburg, Macon county. Mr. and Mrs. Harper are both dead.

BURTLE, WILLIAM, born July i, 1780, near Montgomery Court House, Md. His parents moved, when he was a boy, to Washington county, Kv. Sarah Ogden was born in 1786, in St. Mary's county, Md. Her father died when she was a child, and her mother moved, with several children, to Washington county, Ky. William Burtle and Sarah Ogden were there married, about 1805. They had nine children in Kentucky. The family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving October, 1826, in what is now Ball township. Mr. Burtle entered land, and made improvements for a permanent home,, about two hundred yards east of where St. Bernard's Catholic Church now stands, and moved on it in the spring of 1828. Of their nine children -

JOSEPH,\>Qvn. in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Mrs. Maria Miller, whose maiden name was Gatton. They both died in Sangamon county, without children.

JOHN, born in Kentucky, was mar-* ried there to Matilda Simpson. They had two children, one of whom died in infancy. His daughter married, moved to Texas, and died there. John Bnrtle died in Ball township. His widow married, moved to Missouri, and died there.

JAMES, born May 25, 1811, in Kentucky, was married in SangaVnon countv to Elizabeth Gatton. They had six children. JOHN T. married Eliza J. Simpson. They have six children, JAMES R.,

JEROME. Mrs. Eliza J. Burtle died in May, 1875, and John T. Burtle and fami- Iv reside in Ball township, seven miles southeast of Chatham. WILLIAM O. married Mary M. Speak. They have three children, MARIA, OSCAR E. and MARY M., and reside with his mother"*at the family homestead. SARAH E. married John Simpson. Thev had one child, and mother and child died." JOSEPHUS died in his twenty-fourth year. MARY A. died, aged nineteen years. James Burtle died, and his widow resides in Ball township, six and a half miles southeast of Chatham.

THOMAS, born Aug. 12, 1815, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Louisa Simpson. They have four children. JAMES H. married Sarah E. Gatton. They have six living children: LOUISA A and MARY L. (twins), ANNA E.,

Mrs. Sarah E. Burtle died in Sept., 1873, and James H. Burtle resides in Ball township. JOHN T., Jun., married Elizabeth M. Boll. They have three children, EDWARD A., JACOB R. and ANN N., and live in Ball township. MARY A. married Joseph H. Berry. They have five daughters, SARAH L., ELIZA C., MAGGIE A.,

MARY A. and ADA F., and live in Ball township. ELIZA J. married John A. White. They have two children, JOSEPH H. and WILLIAM T., and reside with her father. Mrs. Louisa Burtle died April 2, 1875, and Thomas Burtle resides near St. Bernard's Catholic Church, in Ball township.

BENJAMIN, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Monica Gatton. They have six children living. MARY E. married William R. Greenawait. See his name. The other children reside with their parents, in Pawnee township.

y&WILLIAM, Jun., born Aug. 9, 1822, in Grayson county, Ky., came with his parents to Sangamon county in Oct., 1826, was married Sept. 4, 1856, to Mrs. Elizabeth A. Simpson, whose maiden name was White. Mrs. Burtle had one child by her former marriage, JEROME SIMPSON. Mr. and Mrs. Burtle had two children. IDA F. died March 9, 1875, in her fourteenth year, and CHAS. E. lives with his parents. William Burtle has been a school teacher, Justice of the Peace, and for more than twenty years Treasurer and Collector of Ball township; also a member of the Board of Supervis- ors of Sangamon county. He was also elected President of the Old Settlers' Society, in 1874, for one year. He now lives in Auburn, engaged in mercantile business with his step-son, Jerome Simpson.

William Burtle, Jun., remembers that his father and James Simpson sent a request to St. Louis that a priest visit their neighborhood. Rev. Mr. Dusuaswa came in 1829, and held services at the residence of Joseph Logsdon. That was the first service ever held by a Catholic priest in Sangamon county, and long before any thing of the kind took place in Springfield. William Burtle remembers that there were then but two Catholic families in Springfield. The next services were at the house of Wm. Burtle, Sen., by Rev. Joseph A. Lutz. The next priest to visit them was the Rev. Mr. Van Quickenbon. Services were held at the house of William Burtle, Sen., until 1849, when St. Bernard's Church was built. One edifice was burned, and the present one was built on the same ground. St. Bernard's church is associated with that at Virden in sustaining a priest.

Mrs. William Burtle relates, in a very amusing manner, some of her experience on coming to the county. She had listened to the descriptions of the flowers blooming on the prairies, and made up her mind that it would lend additional charms to those she was acquainted with to cultivate them on the prairie where the wild flowers could grow around them. She came prepared with seeds, and at the proper season armed herself with a hoe and sallied forth to indulge her taste for horticulture on the raw prairie. The romance all vanished at the fir§t blow, as the hoe rebounded without making the slightest impression. Until that time she thought plowing with large ox-teams was overdoing the work, but then became fully satisfied that it was indispensable as a preparation for the cultivation of the soil.

ZACHAR1AH, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth J. Harper. They have five living children, JAMES W:, SARAH E., EDGAR A., MARY M. and ROBERT E., and reside on the farm settled by his father in 1828, about two hundred yards east of St. Bernard's Catholic Church.

1868, and both were buried near St. Bernard's Church. About the time William Burtle, Sen., came to Sangamon county with his family, his father, Benjamin Burtle, came, and after remaining two or three years returned to Kentucky, and died there.

BURTON, EDWARD, was born Oct. 13, 1796, on Roanoke river, Va., and went to Rutherford county, Tenn. He was there married to Frances Hudson, who was born April 10, 1797, in Virginia also. They had five children in Tennessee, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., in 1825 or '6, and settled on Lick creek, in what is now Chatham township, where they had four children. Of their children -

JOHN A., born in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county, Aug. 8, 1844, t° Elizabeth H. Park. He died March n, 1859, leaving two children. MARY F. married July 31, 1861, to William H. H. Harris, who was born July 8, 1841, in Macoupin county. They have three children, ALLIE F., VINETTIE and ZELMIE, and live four miles southwest of Loami. LEONARD F., lives with his sister, Mrs. HaiTis. Mrs. E. H. Burton married Wm. S. Morris. See fark family.

PERMELIA A., born Aug. i, 1826, married Oct. 13, 1840, to Henry Edwards, who was born Jan. 6, 1820, in Garrard county, Ky. He is nephew to his brotherin-law, William Edwards. They had twelve children; nine died under seven years. GEORGE D. died at nineteen. ERVING lives with his parents. RICHARD S. married Margaret E. Adams, have two living children, HENRY p. and ADA M., and live in Talkington township. Henry Edwards and wife reside in Talkington township also (1884).

RICHARD S. married Sarah J. Edwards. He enlisted in an Illinois regiment, and died at home on sick furlough, leaving three children. His widow married, and resides in

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BENJAMIN W. married Rachel G. Park. They have two children, NELSON M. and NANCY E. Mr. Burton died Jan. 4, 1861. His widow and children reside two and three-quarter miles west of Loami (1874).

Edward E. (or D.) Burton died at Girard 111., April 8, 1859, while attending Sangamon Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, to which he was a delegate. Mrs. Margaret Burton died Sept. i, 1859, in Sangamon county.

Butler, Nathan

BUTLER, NATHAN M., born Jan. 30, 1795, in Adair county, Ky. He was married in Green county, to Mary Harding, who was born in 1795, in that county. They made their home in Adair county until they had four children, when they left for the west, and after a detention of seven months in Indiana, arrived, Oct. 7, 1824, in Morgan county, 111., where they had two children. In the spring of 1831 they moved to Sangamon county, and settled on the south side of Island Grove, two miles northeast of where Berlin now stands. Of their six children -

WILLIAM A., born July 23, 1817, in Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, to Mrs. Jane Clark, whose maiden name was Trotter. She was born Feb. 2, 1827, in Ifcdiana, and raised in Sangamon county. Mr. Butler was city Marshal of Springfield in 1861, and '2; is now farming four miles east of Springfield.

STEPHEN H., born Nov. 12, 1818, in Adair county, Ky., brought up in Sangamon county, married in Menard county Feb. 27, 1845. to Nancy J. Coats, who was born Dec. 6, 1825, in Warren county, Ky. They had twelve children; five died under six years. ISAAC E., born Jan. 27, 1846, married Feb. 13, 1873, to Emma J. Clark, and resides five miles east of Springfield. JULIA B., ,born Dec. 4, 1847, married Nov. 6, 1868, to James Simpson. See his name. MARY L., born June 5, 1849, married Joseph Donner. See his name. WILLIAM, born April 12, 1856, JOHN D., born Dec. 5, 1859. IRA and IDA, twins, born July 19, 1861, live with their parents. S. H.

JOSHUA C., born Nov. 26, 1820, in Adair county, Ky., brought up in Sangamon county, married April, 1857, in Jefferson county, Iowa, to Margaret J. Ristine. She died in Springfield in 1859, leaving one child. J. C. Butler was married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Stitt, and has three living children, viz: CHARLES B., born June 6, 1850, married June 14, 1871, in Sangamon county to Ann Owen. They have one child, and live near Virginia, Cass county. MARGARET J., MARY E. and ROBERT L. live with their parents, two and a half miles northeast of Berlin. Joshua C. Butler was a member of Co. A., 4th 111. Inf., and served under Col. E. D. Baker, in the Mexican war, from June, 1846, to June, 1847.

JOHN C, born April, 1825, in Morgan county, 111., enlisted in the same company and regiment with his brother, Joshua C., and was discharged on account of physical disability. He married Frances Brown. They had two children, both of whom died, and Mr. Butler died in Springfield. His widow married John J. Hardin. See his name.

SALL T H., born in Sangamon county, married Edmond E. Butler, of Kentucky. They had one child, and mother and child died at DesMoines, Iowa.

SAMUEL H., born in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1861, for three years, in the loth 111. Cav. Served until Nov., 1864, when he was honorably discharged at San Antonio, Texas. He remained there in the employ of the government and married in March, 1870, to Matilda Ann Blair. They had two children, a son and daughter. He was shot by an assassin, and died in the year 1872 or '3, in Texas.

E. Oglesby. They have three children. He enlisted in 1861, for three years, in the roth 111. Cav., at Springfield. Re-enlisted as a veteran, promoted to First Lieut. Served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged. He resides near Dayton, Cass county, Mo.

Nathan M. Butler died April 4, 1842, in Sangamon county, and his widow died Oct. 14, 1851, in Menard county. N. M. Butler was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was in the battle of New Orleans. He was Col. of a regiment in the Black Hawk war of 1831-32.

BUTLER, WILLIAM, was born Dec. 15, 1797, in Adair^ county, Ky. During the war of 1812 he was selected to carry important dispatches from the Governor of Kentucky to Gen. Harrison, in the field. He traveled on horseback, and made the trip successfully, although he was but fifteen years of age. When a young man he was employed in the iron works of Tennessee, and after that was deputy of the Circuit Clerk for Adair countv, Ky. While thus engaged, he made the acquaintance of a young lawyer, now the venerable Judge Stephen T. Logan, of this city. The friendship thus formed continued through life. Mr. Butler spent a portion of his time as clerk on a steamboat. In 1828 he came to Sangamon county, and purchased a farm in Island Grove. On that farm his father, Elkanah Butler, lived and died. William Butler came to Springfield, and' was soon after appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court, by his early friend, Judge Logan, March 19, 1836, and resigned March 22, 1841. He was appointed, by Gov. Bissell, State Treasurer, August 29, 1859, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation ot State Treasurer Miller. He was elected to the same office in 1860 for two years. William Butler and Elizabeth Rickard were married Dec. 18, 1832. They had three children, namely -

SPEED, born Aug. 7, 1837, in Springfield. He graduated at the Lutheran University in Springfield, in- 1854, studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1860. When the rebellion came upon the country in 1861, Speed Butler was selected by the Governor of Illinois to carry a dispatch to Washington City, asking for an order to remove the United States arms from the Arsenal at St. Louis to Alton, 111. Railroad and telegraphic communication to the Capital was cut off, but he managed to make his way through, obtained the order, and returned in safety. The arms were removed just in time to keep them from falling into the hands of the rebels. Soon after completing that service he was appointed Commissary, with the rank of Captain, but was at once assigned to duty on Gen. Pope's staff, and was with that officer during his campaign in North Missouri, at Island No. 10, &c. In Sept., 1 86 1, he was appointed Major of the 5th' 111. Cav. For gallantry on the battle-field at Farmington, Miss., in June, 1862, he was promoted to Colonel in the regular army ; but still, by permission from Gen. Wool, he remained on duty with Gen. Pope. He shared the fortunes of that officer during the Virginia campaign, as also in Minnesota against the Indians. He served until the close of the rebellion, in 1865.

Col. Speed Butler was married May 26, 1864, in Milwaukee, Wis., to Jeannie McKenzie Arnold, who was born Sept. 4, 1845, *n Poughkeepsie, N. Y. They have three children, ANNIE L., ELIZABETH and ARNOLD W., and live near Springfield, on the southwest.

HENRT WIRT, born Feb. 11, 1840, in Springfield, graduated in 1859 at Brown University, Providence, R. I., and was married May 9, 1867, to Helen McClernand, daughter of Gen. John A. McClernand. She was born irj Springfield, and died April 26, 1870, leaving one child, WILLIAM J. H. W. Butler and son live in Springfield.

Caldwell, William

CALDWELL, WILLIAM, was born Dec. 15, 1779, in Nansemond county, Va. His father, Thomas Caldwell, was born in Ireland, and married there to Betsy Harris, a Welch lady. They emigrated to America, and landed at Charleston, South Carolina, where they remained a short time, and then moved to

Virginia. At the time of Thomas Caldwell's death, he and his wife had a home in the family of the son William. John C. Calhoun was related on the side of his mother to the Caldwell family, and there is the source from which that distinguished statesman obtained his middle name : John Caldwell Calhoun. When William Caldwell was a youth, his parents left Virginia and moved to Jessamine county, Ky. Nancy Roberts was born Sept. 24, 1782, in Goochland county, Va., and when young, went to Jessamine county, Ky. William Caldwell and Nancy Roberts were married Feb. 7, 1804. They had six living children in Jessamine county, and the family moved to Green county, 111., in 1831, and in 1836 moved to Sangamon county, 111., and settled in what is now Auburn township. Of their children -

GEORGE L., born Dec. 6, 1804, in Kentucky, married Sept. 10, 1829, to Polly Roberts. She inherited two negro slaves (a man and woman) from the estate of her father. On May 7, 1830, they took advantage of the absence of Mr. Caldwell, who was Sheriff of the county at the time, and strangled his wife to death with a small cord. They then placed her in a natural position in bed, bandaged her head, and placed such medicines on a stand, within her reach, as she would have been likely to use if she had been indisposed, and left her until it was discovered by other members of the family. The bruises on the neck excited suspicion, and the blacks being charged with the crime, confessed that they had taken her life, hoping by that means to be sent to their former home. The man was an old, trusted carriage servant, an.d forced the woman to assist him. They were tried, and, upon their own confession, convicted and hung. George L. Caldwell was married Sept. 27, 1831, to Eliza McDowell. They had one son, and Mrs. Caldwell died June 18, 1839, and Mr. Caldwell died Sept. 30, 1840. Neither of them ever came to Sangamon county. Their son GEORGE M. CALDWELL is the extensive stock-raiser near Williamsville, in this county.

JOHN, born Jan. 21, 1807, in Kentucky, came to Carrollton, 111., in 1827. He was married there Jan. 23, 1834, to Mary J. Davis. She was born near Danville, Ky., Jan. 16, 1815. When a young lady, she rode on horseback from Danville,

Ky., to Tallahassee, Florida, and returned to Danville, and after a short visit, continued her journey to Carrollton, 111., a distance of at least two thousand miles. John Caldwell and wife had five children, namely: WILLIAM C., born March 15, 1835, married Jan. 14, 1864, to Sarah C. Baucom, who was born Nov. 16, 1840, in Sangamon county, They reside eight miles southwest of Springfield. JANE Y. died in her eleventh year; BETSY in her seventh year; HENRY died in infancy. BENJAMIN F., born Aug. 2, 1848, in Greene county, 111., was married May 27, 1873, to Julia F. Cloyd, who was born March y, 1856, in the southeast corner of Curran township, Sangamon county. Immediately after their marriage they left for New York, via Detroit and Suspension Bridge. At New York took steamer (June 4th) for Queenstown, Ireland, where they landed June 141!!. Passed through Ireland to Belfast; thence to Scotland, down through the centre of England to London; from there through Holland, Belgium and smaller German States, to Berlin, in Prussia; thence to Vienna Exposition, across the Alps into Italy, meeting with the unexpected pleasure of an audience with Pius the IX. Returning, passed through Mt. Cenis tunnel, thence by Geneva to Paris; from Paris back to London, thence to Liverpool, taking steamer for Boston, where they arrived Oct. 6th, same year. Distance traveled in round trip, 14,000 miles. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Caldwell have one child, MARY JANE, who was born March 20, 1874. They reside near Chatham, Sangamon county, 111. John Caldwell died of heart disease j Aug. i, 1863, after a painful illness, and his widow resides eight and a half miles southwest of Springfield, and one and a half miles north of Chatham.

ELIZABETH, born Aug. 17, 1812, married Jan. 12, 1831, to Albert G. Talbott. She died April 29, 1838, leaving three children in Kentucky, namely: - MARY A. married Dr. William Tomlinson. The sons are WILLIAM P. and ALBERT G.Jun.

When he moved from Auburn to Curran township, in 1841, there was not a place for holding religious worship near him. In order to afford temporary accommodations, he constructed his residence in such a manner that it could be used for that purpose. It consisted of a large central room, with three other large rooms opening into it. Plans were laid, before his death, for building a church, and on his death bed he requested that it be called Bethel, which was done, as the Christian Church near where he lived bears that name. Mr. Caldwell was a man of great public spirit all his life. He was Captain of a company from Jessamine county, Ky., in the war of 1812. A younger brother was a member of his company, and was taken prisoner at the battle of the river Raisin. He came near freezing to death while confined in a rail pen in Canada. William Caldwell was Sheriff of Jessamine county, Ky., and represented the county several times in the State Legislature. He represented Sangamon county two terms in the Legislature of Illinois.

CALHOUN, - The origin of the family in America was with Andrew Calhoun, who was born March 27, 1764, in Rye, Ireland. The family record speaks of his birth place as " Heland." That may have been a provincial name, or the original Gaellic name for Ireland. Andrew Calhoun was a near relative of the father of John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina. He came to America about 1792, and made his home in Boston, Mass. March 15, iy9S5 he was married at Chelmsford, Mass., to Martha Chamberlin, who was born at the latter place, Feb. 20, 1 770. She was a descendent of the Puritans. They had eight children, all born in Boston. Their sixth child, JOHN, is the one of whom we wish to speak particularly, but will first brieflv mention his brothers