Sangamon County, Illinois - The whole text, 1876 (part 9 of 31)

LTDIA J., born July 19, 1845, m Springfield, was married there, March 17, 1868, to George L. Dingle. G. L. Dingle wa* a soldier in an Illinois regiment, and did his part in aiding to suppress the rebellion. He is now deputy Postmaster at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and lives there.

CONNELLY, JOHN, was born in 1794, in the District of Columbia. Ann Wetherell was born Feb. 20, 1800, in the District of Columbia, also. They were there married and had ten children. The family moved to Springfield, 111., in 1837. Mr. Connelly was Register of the United States Land Office, in Springfield, during the administration of President Pierce, and part of the administration of President Buchanan. He also, at various times, filled a number of local offices. I have the history of but two of his children. His daughter -

GEORGE 7?., born Jan. 18, 1822, in the District of Columbia, was married in Springfield, 111., Jan. 27, 1845, to Susan E. Conant. They had three living children, namely: JOHN L., born March 18, 1846, in Springfield, graduated at the Rush Medical College of Chicago. He was married Sept. 3, 1842, at Harristown, 111., to Nannie Bedford. They had one child, MAGGIE P., who died young. Dr. J. L. Connelly resides at Harristown, Macon county, 111., and is engaged in the practice of his profession there. GEORGE S., born Feb. 8, 1849, in Springfield, married Sept. 15, 1870, in his native city, to Mary Thomas, who was born Dec. 30, 1850, in Springfield, 111. They have two children, ALICE MAY and LILLIE E. George S. Connelly resides in Springfield, and is engaged in merchandising. LILLIE E., born Sept. 2, 1851, in Springfield, married

Sept. 19, 1871, to Columbus M. Lloyd, who was born March 6, 1849, near Wabash, Wabash county, Ind. They live near Dawson, Sangamon county, 111. George R. Connelly died of cholera, in Springfield, June 9, 1854. His widow married Charles Dougherty, Jun. See his name.

CONSTANT, JACOB, brother to John, who was the grandfather of Rezin H. He was also the brother of Isaac and Thomas, and was born about 1765, in Virginia. Eleanor Clinkenbcard was born about 1769, in Virginia, also. They were there married, and soon after moved on pack horses - that being the only way goods could be transported at that time through that mountainous country - to Fleming county, Ky. They had fourteen children in that county, and in 1814 moved to Clermont countv, Ohio, where they had two children. The family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving* Oct. 26, 1826, in what is now Mechanicsburg township. Of their children -

JOHN, born in Fleming county, Ky., went back from Ohio to Kentucky, and there married Margaret Wood. They came in company with his father to Sangamon county in 1826, where they had five children, and moved to Pike countv, thence to northwest Missouri, where the living children now reside. The parents are both dead.

WILLIAM, born in Kentucky, went back from Ohio and married Rhoda Planck. They never came to Illinois, but he died, leaving one child, JOHN CON. STANT, who resides near Felicity, Clermont county, Ohio.

MARY, born in Kentucky, married in Ohio to Thomas Jones. They had ten children, and Mrs. Jones died. The living members of the family reside in and near Mt. Olivet, Clermont countv, O.

ISAAC, born Nov. 17, 1794, in Fleming county, Ky., was married June 29, 1823, in Clarke county, Ky., to Nancy Peebles, who was born Sept. 13, 1794, in that county. They had two children in Kentucky, joined his parents in Clermont county, Ohio, and came with them to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of

1826 in what is now Mechanicsburg township, where they had two children, and moved to what is now Logan county, where they had two children, and from there to Buffalo Hart grove, in Sangamon county, and had one child. They moved, in 1857, to Dawson. Of their children, RACHEL, born in Clarke county, Ky., March 29, 1824, married John Billington. See his name. JACOB, born August 17, 1826, in Clarke county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, May

16, 1850, to Lillias Wilson, who was born May 15, 1825, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. They had seven children, three of whom died young, and HELEN MARY died Oct. 3, 1872. the very day she was thirteen years old. NANCY j., WILLIAM E. and JAMES H.,live with their parents, adjoining Dawson on the east. MARGARET J., born July 15, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 26, 1850, to James Deavers. They have six children, and live near Mt. Pulaski. WILLIAM R., born April 13, 1832, in Sangamon county, married in 1852 to Jane Wilson, who was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. They had seven children in Sangamon county, and Mrs. Constant died May 7, 1864. Mr. C. was married in Dawson to Hattie Grabendich. They have two children, and live in Lawrence, Kansas. MARY A., born June

17, 1834, in Logan county, 111., married Oct. 17, 1871, at Dawson. to Alfred Rape. See his name. SARAH E., born Dec. 17, 1836, in Logan county, married Sept. 14, 1856, to Horatio M. Van Winkle, who was born Feb. I, 1834, in Shelby countv, 111. They have one child, LILLIAS E., and live in Dawson. Mr. Van Winkle enlisted August 15, 1862, in Co. C, 1 241)1 111. Inf., for three years; served full term exactly, and was honorably discharged August 15, 1865, at Chicago/ MARTHA E., born April 19, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 6, 1869, to John £>. Clinkenbeard, who was born Dec. 8, 1822, in Clarke county, Ky. They have two children, ISAAC and NANCY E., and live three miles southwest of Illiopolis. Mr. C. has two living children by a former wife, JOHN w. and MARY E. Isaac Constant died June 27, 1865, and his widowresides at Dawson.

child died in Ohio. She came to Sangamon county, married John Rutherford, had four children, and the parents both died. Their son, JOHN T. Rutherford, was a soldier in an Illinois regiment, and died in the army. MARGARET married Matt. Noonan, and resides in Sangamon county. ALEXANDER is married and lives in Champaign county.

JACOB, born Jan. 7, 1805, in Fleming county, Kentucky, married June 4, 1829, m Sangamon county, to Permelia Crocker. They had six children, two of whom died young. The other four, JAMES H. M., born March 4, 1830, married Catharine Blankenship. have four children. He was a soldier in a Sangamon county regiment. DAVID C., born Jan. 28, 1833, married in Texas to Annetta Snow. They are teaching among the Indians. THOMAS S., born July 2, 1835, married in Mt. Pulaski to Sarah Cass, daughter of Ninian Cass. MARY L., born Sept 25, 1839, married John Rinker: had one child, ANNETTA s. Mr. Rinker enlisted in 1861, in 3Oth 111. Inf., and died near Vicksburg, in 1863. Mrs. Permelia Constant died Feb. 17, 18^.7, and Jacob Constant was married June 25, 1847, m St. Clair county, to Mrs. Celia Talbott, whose maiden name was Wakefield. They had four children. CHARLES A. married Sarah Horn, had one child, and live near Dawson. HARRIET E. and PERMELIA O., SARAH F. died at eleven years. Mrs. C. had two children by her first husband, THOMAS and MARY E. TALBOTT. The latterdied in her fourteenth year. Jacob Constant and his wife reside one and a half miles southwest of Dawson.

BENJAMIN, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Matilda Lakin, had seven children, and Mr. Constant died in 1855. Two of his sons, JOHN W. and NORMAN A. were Union soldiers from Greene county, and both died in the army. His widow resides in Macoupin county.

JONATHAN, born Sept. 30, 1809, in Fleming county, Ky., came to Sangamon county in 1826, married May 19, 1836, to Mary Elder. They had five children, two of whom died young. Of the other three, GEORGE W., born June 7, 1837, married July 23, 1857, in Springfield, to Sarah Kent; have three living children, JOHN D., LYDIA F., NETTIE B. - the third child, IDA j., died in her fourth year. George W. Constant resides two and a half miles southwest of Illiopolis. JOHN W., born Sept. 22, 1839, married in Springfield, Jan. 30, 1865, to Clarissa G. Ingels. They have four children, MATTIE F., HARRY, MARY P. and

WILLIE, and reside two and a half miles northeast of Illiopolis. SAMUEL W., born July, 1843, enlisted August 17, 1861, in Co. H, 30th 111. Inf., for three years, was captured at the battle of Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864, was two months in Andersonville prison, exchanged Sept. 19, 1864, and honorably discharged on the 27th of the same month. He was married in Sangamon county, Dec. 24, 1867, to MaryJ. Semple. They have one child, NELLIE D., and reside in Macon county, near Illiopolis. Mrs. Mary Constant died Sept., 1847, and Jonathan Constant was married Nov. 26, 1848, to Lavina Crocker. They had two children. MARY B., born Sept. 17, 1851, married June 6, 1872, to Squire Campbell, and died Nov. 19, 1872. LEWIS ALLEN, born Dec. 7, 1853, resides with his father. Mrs. Lavina Constant died August 26, 1858, and Jonathan Constant married Dec. 20, 1860, to Mrs. Sarah Ridgeway, whose maiden name was Bridges. They reside three miles northwest of Mechanicsburg.

NELSON, born in Clermont county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Walker. They have five children, and reside near Farmer City, DeWitt county, 111.

Jacob Constant died Sept. 21, 1828, and Mrs. Eleanor Constant died Sept. 4, 1835, both in Mechanicsburg township, near where they settled in 1826.

Con'Stant, Thomas

CON'STANT, THOMAS, brother of Isaac, aUo of John, who was grandfather of Rezin H., was born Aug. 14, 1796, in Virginia. He was married June 17, 1796, in Kentucky, to Margery Ed- monson. They had seven children in Kentucky, and moved to Xenia, Ohio. From there they moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1820 in what is now Fancy creek township. Of all their children -

JOHN, born May 9, 1797, in Clarke county, Ky., married in Springfield, 111., to Man- Latham, daughter of Judge Latham. They had four living children, and Mrs. Mary Constant died May 3, 1841. Mr. C. was married to Elizabeth Singleton. They had two children. Ot the children by his first marriage, JAMES T. went to California, and died there. The other three were GARRETT, MARY and MARIA L. The children by the second marriage were JULIA and JOHN. Mr. Constant died, and his widow and children reside in Springfield. ELIZABETH E., born June 14, 1799, in Clarke county, Ky.. was married in Xenia, Ohio, to William F. Elkin. See his name.

ARCHIBALD E., born May 10, 1801, in Clarke county, Ky., married in Springfield, 111., to Maria Latham, daughter of Judge Latham. They had five children; two died young. MARGERY is teaching in the Bettie Stuart Institute, in Springfield. MARY married Temple Elliott. See his name. KATIE resides among her friends. Mr. Constant came to Sangamon county in 1819, settling on Wolf creek; afterwards moved to Springfield, and purchased a quantity of land in what is now the Third ward, and known as Constant's addition. He was a Major in the Black Hawk war, from Sangamon county. He moved to Elkhart, Logan county, about 1863. Mrs. Maria Constant died there Nov. 13, 1868, and Archibald E. Constant died in Elkhart, Jan. 19, 1875. WILLIAM, born May, 1803, in Clarke county, Ky. He was a physician, and was married in Sangamon county to Phoebe Johnson. She died, leaving three children. Dr. Constant was married in Jeffersonville, Ind., and had two children, KATIE and JOHN. Dr. William Constant died in 1865.

NATHAN E., born April 8, 180^, in Clarke county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county to Sarah Dement. Mrs. Sarah Constant died, and he was married August 25, 1843, to Mary M. Stewart, daughter of James Stewart. See his name. They had three children. WILLIAM F. married Elizabeth A. Lake. They have one child, and reside two miles west of Williamsville. NATHAN E., Jun., enlisted August, 1862, for three years, in Co. G, 1 1 4th 111. Vol. Inf. He was captured at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June n, 1864, taken to Andersonville prison, where he remained three months. After that to several other prisons, to evade the Union army, then back to Andersonville. From there to Florida, and guarded in the woods until April 28, 1865, and released at the close of the rebellion. He had the usual experience of prisoners in the south. He and seven others cooked all their rations the first three months at Andersonville, in half a canteen. Sometimes he would give a day's rations for a chew of tobacco, and not a very large chew at that. He says woi'ds cannot describe the suffering that was endured by the Union soldiers in southern prisons. Robbery and murder prevailed among the prisoners until they found it necessary to organize a court and a regular jury, convicted six of their number and hung them. He says Wirz allowed them to go outside to hold the trial (of course guarding them), and furnished the lumber for the gallows. Mr. C. says that although ten years have elapsed since he was in that den of horrors, when he is not well the most dainty food smells to him like Andersonville prison rations. One blanket was all they were allowed for eight men. Nathan E. Constant, Jun., was married, after his return from the army, to Amanda Morton. They have three children, FANNIE E., WILLIAM and FRANK, and reside three miles west of Williamsville. Nathan E. Constant, Sen., died August 25, 1843, and his widow married Miletus W. Ellis. See his name.

ISAAC, born April 5, 1809, in Clarke county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, 111., Feb. 14, 1835, to Lucinda Merriman, daughter of Reuben Merriman, (now residing in Oregon). They had eight children. LAVINIA, born March 12, 1834, in Sangamon county, was married in Jackson county, Oregon,

April, 1854, to Dr. Jesse Robinson. They have four living children, EDWARD c., CHESTER L., THOMAS and MARY A., and reside in Oakland, Cal. WILLIAM T., born Nov. 2, 1836, in Sangamon county, 111., was married in Oregon, April 3, 1862, to Jessie Bledsoe. He died August 4, 1867, leaving a widow and three children, ISAAC, WILLIAM T. and JULIA B., in Jackson county, Oregon. ELIZABETH M., born Jan. 2, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Jan. i, 1856, in Jackson county, Oregon, to William T. Leever. They have seven living children, w. CONSTANT,

Lavinia, Ida, Edmonson M., Julian D.

THOMAS s. and ADA, and reside in Jackson county, Oregon. JULIA A., born Sept. 17, 1841, in Sangamon county, was married in Oregon, Dec. 5, 1861, to W. A. Owen. They have five living children, EUDORA, MINNIE, MABEL c., GLENN and WILLIAM, and all reside in Jacksonville, Oregon. MARGERY E., born Feb. 5, 1845, in Sangamon county, was married to Constantine Magruder, April 22, 1875. They reside at Central Point, Jackson county, Oregon. ELIZA A., born Oct. 20, 1851, in Sangamon county, 111., died March 3, 1866, in Jackson county, Oregon. Isaac Constant was in the Black Hawk war from Sangamon county. He went to Oregon in 1849, took a claim under the homestead law, and returned to Illinois in 1850, disposed of his nroperty, and with his family and some of his neighbors, emigrated to Oregon in 1852. They were among the first families who settled there. After they arrived, Mr. Constant had to go two hundred miles with pack animals, for provisions. The valley was teeming with Indians, but he lived to see them all pass away, and surrounded by a large circle of friends, he resides near Jacksonville, Jackson county, Oregon.

MAR THA, born August 23, i8ii,in Xenia, Ohio, was married in Sangamon county, 111., to William S. Stone. They had three children; one died in infancy. Of the other two, ELLEN, born in April, 1837, 's unmarried. MARGERY, born March, 1838, was married in 1855 to Thomas Smith, of Independence, Mo. They have t%vo living children. Mrs. Martha Stone died in St. Louis, Mo., in March, 1854. Mr. Stone died in Independence, Mo., in 1870.

ADALINE, born March 28, 1813, in Xenia, Ohio, was married in Sangamon county, 111., March 25, 1835, to James D. Allen. Of their children, MARTHA, born Jan. 6, 1836, was married in Greensburg, Ky., Oct. 31, 1854, to George L. Harris. They have three children living,

George L. Harris enlisted in the 6th Kansas Cav. Reg., and was killed July 29, 1864, at the battle of Fort Smith, Ark. Mrs. Harris was married March 21, 1873, in Shawnee, Kansas, to James Sharp. They reside in Shawnee. JULIA J.. born Jan. 19, 1841, in Shawnee, Kansas, was married Dec. 10, 1856, in Independence, Mo., to Joseph F. Hagan. He was drowned in the Missouri river July 15, 1860. His widow married Wolf Bachrach, of Kansas City, August 9, 1865. They have one daughter living. Mrs. Julia Bachrach died in Kansas City, Mo., June 2, 1872. HATTIE, born August 19, 1844, died March 13,1868. EMILY F., born Nov. i, 1848, was married in Shawnee. Kansas, Jan. 27, 1875, to James T. Gillespie. They have one child, and reside in Shawnee. THOMAS, born Jan. 12, 1838, died July 21, 1845. Mr. and Mrs. Allen reside at Shawnee, Kansas, where they have lived for nineteen years.

CONSTANT, REZIN H., was born July 8, 1809, in Clarke county, Ky. His grandfather (John Constant) was shot in the thigh by an Indian while he was with a surveying party in Kentucky. He lived fifteen years after, but it finally caused his death. His son Jacob was the father of Rezin H. Neither this John nor Jacob ever came to Sangamon county. Rezin H. was married in his native county, July 27, 1830, to Abigail D. Constant. On the 9th of September following they started west with the family of his fatherin-law - who was also his uncle, Isaac Constant - and arrived in Springfield Oct. 7, 1830, just in time to experience all the hardships connected with the " deep snow. " R. H. Constant enlisted at Springfield, June 10, 1832,111 Capt. Jesse Claywell's company, Col. James Collins' regiment, and Gen. James D. Henry's Brigade of 111. Vol. Inf. He was commissioned Lieut., and was in the battle of Wisconsin, and commanded his company at the battle of Bad Axe, August 5, 1832, which terminated the Black Hawk war. Mr. Constant was one of the representatives of Sangamon county in the legislature of Illinois for 1846 and '47. They had eight children in Sangamon county, namely -

SARAH A., born Jan. n, 1831, married in Sangamon county to Henry B. Grubb. They have five children, RICHARD, CATHARINE, ROBERT, GEORGE and HARLAND, and live in Springfield.

James R., Frank, Lucian L.

ALFRED S., born August 19, 1836, married in Sangamon county to Mary E. Wilson. They have four living children, JAMES R., FRANK, LUCIAN L. and HARRY W. Alfred S. Constant enlisted July 25, 1862, in Co. I, i I4th 111. Inf., for three years. Served until Jan. 16, 1863, when he was discharged on account of physical disability. He resides near Barclay.

GEORGE M., born Jan. 31, 1844, enlisted at Springfield, June, 1862, for three months, in the 7oth 111. Vol. Inf. Served full time, and was honorably discharged with the regiment. He was married to Margaret E. Bates. They have two

Mrs. Abigail D. Constant died August 1 1, 1846, and Rezin H. Constant was married Sept. 27, 1847,10 Mrs. Mary L. Harbert, whose maiden name was Halbert. They had three children -

CONSTANT, JOHN/ bom Sept. 13,1781, in a fort or picketed station in Clarke county, Ky. He was married March 1 1 , 1802, to Susan Edminston, who was born»July 27, 1783. They had eleven children in Clarke county, Ky., three of whom died young, and the family moved in company with Robert Cass and family to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct. 7, 1826, at Buffalo Hart Grove. Of their eight children -

MIRIAM, born Dec. 6, 1802, married in Kentucky, August 25, 1825, to Nathaniel Massey, and came with her parents to Sangamon county. They had one child, SUSAN, that died at fourteen years. Mrs. Massey married John Sinclair. See his name, with the C or r ell family.

JOHN W., born Oct. 29, 1804, in Clarke county, Ky., married there, Aug. i, 1826, to Lucinda Cass, and moved to Sangamon county with his father in the fall of that year. Thev had four children : ARMINTA J., born 'August 6, 1827, in Sangamon county, married Horace B. Enos. See his name. JOHN T., born Feb. 13, 1830, married April 16, 1854, to Elizabeth C. Burns. They had six children, two of whom died under three years. MATTIE s., ROBERT F., EMMA M. and CORA K. reside with their parents at Buffalo Hart Station. ZACARIAH, born August i, 1832, died Oct. 31, 1856. WM. R., born Sept. 26, 1833, enlisted

August, 1862, for three years, in Co. A., 73d 111. Inf. He had two fingers shot from his right hand at the battle of Stone's river. Served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged with his regiment. He was married March 14, 1867, to Mary A. Perry. They have two children, and reside near Sabetha, Nemaha county, Kan. Mrs. Lucinda Constant died Feb. 23, 1836. and John W. Constant was married March 22, 1838, to Susan Grove. They had one child, ADAM H., born April 26, 1839, enlisted July 26, 1862, in Co. I, i i4th 111. Inf., for three years. Served full term, and was honorably discharged August 8, 1865. He was married August 26, 1862, (one month after he enlisted), to Mary F. Greening. They had three children. ULYSSES GKANT died young. ALFRED H. and GERSHOM K. live with their parents, three miles east of Buffalo Hart Station. John W. Constant died August 29, 1838, eight months before the birth of his son, Adam H. His widow resides with her son, Adam H.

JACOB D., born Oct. 15, 1807, in Clarke county, Ky., married April 4, 1832, in Sangamon county, to Sarah Correll. They had four living children. LOUISA J., born Feb. 18, 1833, married Geoi'ge McDaniel. See his name. MARY E., born August 8, 1834, died March 23, 1851. HARRIET L., born Dec. 31, 1835, tlied Mav 26, 1855. SUSAN, born June 20, 1837, marriefi Augustus Bruce; had three children. HELEN died in her third year. ADELAIDE and WILLIAM reside with their parents, at Corinne, Box Elder county, Utah. Mrs. Sarah Constant died Feb. 8, 1842, and Jacob D. Constant married Hannah Garretson. They had two children. ANN E., born Sept. 20, 1844, married Eleazer Tuttle, have two children, and live in Atlanta. THOMAS, born Jan. 19, 1846, lives with Robert McDaniel. Jacob D. Constant died Oct. 19, 1846, and Mrs. Hannah Constant died Oct. 22, 1850, both in Buffalo Hart Grove.

HARRIET L., born "Dec. 22, 1811, in Clarke county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Aug. 13, 1829, to Isaac L. Skinner. They had one child, SALLY, born Jan. 10, 1831, (in time of the " deep snow.") She went to Clark county, Ky., on a visit, and was there married, Feb. 6, 1851, to Henry Hall. They had two children. Mrs. Hall died May 29, 1860, at Kankakee. BELLE and ISAAC N. Hall reside with their father at Momence, Kankakee county, 111. Isaac L. Skinner went to Kentucky to visit his father, and died there Aug. 26, 1831. His widow married in Sangamon county, Nov. H, 1838, to James W. Langston. See his name.

WILL I AM A., born Jan. 29, 1816, in Clarke county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, March, 1842, to Mary A. Starr. They had seven children. JOHN E., born March 29, 1843, enlisted at Springfield, 111., July 20, 1861, for three years, in what became Co. B, nth Mo. Inf.; reenlisted as a veteran in same company and regiment, Jan. i, 1864, and was honorably discharged Jan. 15, 1866. He was married Jan. 15, 1871, to Hester F. King, have one child, EARL, and live near Buffalo* Hart station. HARRISON CLAY, born Sept. 14, 1844, married Nov. 12, 1867, to Mary E. Enos. They have one child, CHARLES EDWARD, and reside one mile east of Buffalo Hart station. ALLEN S., born Aug. 7, 1846, enlisted May 3, 1864, in Co. I, 1 33d 111. Inf., for one hundred days, and was drowned July, 1864, at Rock Island, while bathing in the Mississippi river. EMMA, born Aug. 12, 1848, ALICE, born Dec. i, 1850, reside with their mother. HARVEY, born July 14, 1853, died Oct. 9, 1860. WILLIAM T., born Oct. 13, 1855, resides with his mother. William A. Constant died Aug. 15, 1855, and his widow married March, 1857, to Casper Byerline. They have two children, CHARLES F. and NOAH, and reside one mile east of Buffalo Hart station.

CONSTANT, ISAAC, brothcr of Thomas, Abigail, John and Jacob. Hewas born April 3, 1789, in Clarke county, Ky.; was married July 4, 1811, in the same county, to Amy Dean. They had eight children in Kentucky, one of whom

GEORGE W., born Oct. 23, 1818, in Clarke county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, 111., Nov. 26, 1840, to Martha B. Stewart. They had three children in Sangamon county. WILLIAM S. married Parthenia Bates. They have one child, and live two miles northwest of Williamsville. JAMES H. married Mary Keagle. They have two living children, WILLIAM and LUCY, and live two and a half miles northwest of Williamsville. MARY A. married March 29, 1871, to James H. Groves, and reside two miles east of Williamsville. Mrs. Martha B. Constant died June i, 1850. G. W. Constant was married Oct. 7, 1852, to Mary W. Stapleford. She was born in Milford, Kent county, Del., and came to Springfield Oct. 14, 1836, in company with her brother-in-law, Benjamin S. Clements, who was the first Mayor of Springfield. George W. Constant and wife reside at Williamsville.

A VERT G., born June 8, 1821, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Louisa Fisher. They had six children. JULIA, the third child, married James Bates. See his name. ELLEN and ALBERT died young. CHARLES A. lives .in Springfield. ISAAC F. and A VERY live with their mother. Averv G. Constant died March 6, 1858, and his widow resides at Williamsville.

COOPER, A M BROSE, brother to Meredith, was born Dec. 18, 1796, in Botetourt county, Va., and taken by his parents to Smith county, Tenn., where he was married to Mary Kilbraith. They had two children in Tenn., and in 1821 moved to St. Clair county, 111., where they had one child, and moved to Sangamon county in the fall of 1823, and settled two miles east of the present town -of Sherman, where they had one child. Of their four children -

HUGH L., born in Tennessee, and married in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth Taylor. They moved to Iowa, where he died, leaving a widow and five children. One of them married and remained in Iowa. The mother and four children moved to Piatt county, 111. Two of the sons married there, and moved to Kansas. The widow and two children live in Piatt county.

WILLIAM, born in Tennessee, raised in Sangamon county, went to California, and was married there to Sarah Ide. He came back to Sangamon county, and after a stay of some years, started on his return to California with his family. He died at sea, one day's sail from New Orleans, leaving a widow and two children. ANN E. is married and lives at Lebanon, Linn county, Oregon. ALICE and her mother reside at Red Bluff, Tehama county, Cal.

MEREDITH C., born May 29, 1824, in Sangamon county, married in 1846 to Frances A. Chapman. They have five children, and live in Williams township.

Mrs. Mary Cooper died Oct. 17, 1827. Ambrose Cooper was a soldier from Sangamon county in the Black Hawk war, in 1831, and when the campaign was over he went to the Galena lead mines, remaining until the spring of 1832, where he enlisted in another campaign against the Indians, and was in the battles that finally subdued them. He returned to Sangamon countv, and was married in April, 1836, to Eliza Wilson. They had seven children, four of whom died young.

STEPHEN L., born May 6, 1840, in Sangamon county, enlisted in Springfield, July 20, 1861, for three years, in what became Co. B, nth Mo. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged Aug.

i, 1864. He was married Oct. 11, 1865, to Rebecca Summers, who was born Nov. 5, 1842, in Bracken county, Ky. They have two children, RUFUS and ALVEY, and live near Dawson.

HENRY, born Aug. 12, 1842, enlisted in Springfield July 20, 1861, in what became Co. B, nth Mo. Inf., for three years; re-enlisted as a veteran January, 1864, and was honorably discharged Jan. 20, 1866, and resides with his parents.

COOPER, MEDEDITH,born April 7, 1792, in Botetourt county, Va. His parents moved to Smith county, Tenn., when he was a young man. Polly Witcher was born July 21, 1794, in Cocke county, Tenn., and her parents moved to Smith county when she was but fifteen years of age. Meredith Cooper and Polly Witcher were there married, June 16, 1812. In September of that year Mr. Cooper enlisted for three months in a Tennessee regiment, and served four months against the Indians in Alabama, who were the allies of the British government, with whom we were then at war. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper had two children in Tennessee. In the spring of 1817 Mr. Cooper went to St. Clair county, 111., raised a crop, and returning, brought his family in the fall of that year. The moving was done on two horses, as there were no wagon roads; and if there had been, they were unable to own a wagon. As a specimen of real life at that time, I give the statement of Mrs. Cooper, now quite aged, that she rode one horse, carried a child in her arms, and with a feather bed lashed to the saddle behind, wended her way, while her husband carried the other child, with all the household goods and farm implements he could put on the other horse. Three of their children were born in St. Clair county. The fame of the rich soil of the San-ga-ma country was known in St. Clair county, and Mr. and Mrs. Cooper resolved to emigrate thither. This time they put all their worldly goods and five children in an ox-cart, and arrived in the autumn of 1823 in what is now called Fancy Creek township, near the present - 29

JAMES W., born Sept. 16, 1816, in Tennessee, was married in Sangamon county to Zarilda Taylor. They had four children. MELISSA married Charles Wood. They have one child, and live near Edinburg, 111. PRISCILLA married James Wright. They have four children, and live near Riverton. JAS. M. married Ellen McGinnis. They have two children, and live three miles southeast of Williamsville. AMBROSE died Jan. 27, 1874, in Williams township. James W. Cooper went to Texas, hoping to improve his health, and died there in 1853. His widow died the next year in Sangamon county.

MARGARET y.,born Sept. i, 1820, in St. Clair county, was married in Sangamon county to George W. Yocom. See his name. Three of their children, NETTIE, CLARA and MINNIE, died in the winter of 1876.

MARY, born July 28, 1822, in St. Clair county, was married in Sangamon county, 111., Jan. 30, 1851, to John Wilson, who was born Feb. i, 1821, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. They have three children, ANN, JAMES M. and THOMAS H., and reside one and a half miles east of Riverton.

NANCY, born May 7, 1825, in Sangamon county, married John Keagle. They have seven children. CHARLOTTE married Nathan Hussy. See his name. SIDNEY married Samuel Smith. She died, leaving one child, LETITIA, who married Silas Skinner and died. JOSEPH, SUSAN, HARLAN P. and HARRISA B., reside with their parents in Logan county, 111.

REBECCA, born Aug. u, 1827, in Sangamon county, married James Mills. She died Oct., 1871, in Sangamon county. James Mills died in the spring of 1874, in Moultrie county. Of their children: MARY F. married Samuel Harsh, and resides near Sullivan. LOUISA and

J., John M., Augusta, George

AMBROSE, born Sept. 13, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Dorothy Keagle. They have five children, MARY J., JOHN M., AUGUSTA, GEORGE E. L. and JAMES W., and reside near Brownsville, Mo.

DA VID D., born August 10, 1831, in Sangamon county, ma.rried Juliet Withrow. They have seven children, SUSIE, JAMES A., DOUGLAS, LEE, AUGUSTA and EUGENE, and reside one and a half miles east of Sherman.

ROBERT, born July 8, 1834, in Sangamon county, was married Feb. 9, 1869, to Lavina Garner, who was born in Washington county, Indiana. They live near Sherman, Sangamon county, 111.

MEREDITH, Jun., born Sept. u, 1836, in Sangamon county, was married in March, 1873, to Mrs. Emma Jones, whose maiden- name was Watson. They have one child, ANNA LEONORA, and reside in east St. Louis, 111.

LOUISA, born Feb. 3, 1839, in Sangamon county, was married Dec. 26, 1855, to Isaac M. Raynolds, who was born in Pike county, Ohio. They have five children, CHARLES M.JAMES A., POLLY E., EDWIN S. and BERTHA M., and reside one and a half miles east of Sherman. The place was for many years a trading post for the Indians, and from about 1832 to 1856 was the family homestead of the Coopers. Some of the younger members of the family i-emember a visit to their house by Abraham Lincoln on business. A large back log had just been put on. It was cut from the fork of a tree, and one limb projected quite a distance up the chimney. The children were greatly amused to witness Mr. Lincoln's interest in trying to determine how they brought it through the door and put it in the fireplace. Meredith Cooper, Sen., died Nov. i, 1870, in Williams township, and his widow resides with their daughter, Mrs. Raynolds.

COOPER, JOHN, born in 1772, married in South Carolina, ai.d seven of his children were born there. He moved with his family to Jefferson county, Tenn Some of his children preceded him to Sangamon county. He came with his wife Elizabeth, and remaining children, about 1822, to what is now Cooper township. Nine daughters and three sons came to Sangamon county. The following are the names of the daughters, with the surnames of the men they married -

BETST, Moffit: NANCY, Smith; MART, Smith; LTD I A, Moore; RACHEL, Bragg; FANNY, Dickerson; LUCY, Mathews; EDITH, Saunders; and SUSANNAH, Keagle.

COOPER, EP HRI AM, brother to Rev. John and Jacob Cooper. He was born about 1802. in Jefferson county, Tenn., came to Illinois when a young man, married, raised a family in Christian county, and died there Feb. 20, 1847.

COOPER, JOHN, was born June 3, 1794, in South Carolina, and was taken bv his parents to Jefferson county, Tenn., where he was married to Susannah Peyton, had one child, JULIA G., and Mrs. Cooper died. Mr. Cooper was married in the same county to Susannah Giger, who was born Sept. 26, 1795, had two children in Tennessee, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving April 2, 1820, and settled two miles north of where Rochester now stands and one year later moved to what is now Cooper township, south of the Sangamon river. They had nine children in Sangamon county. Of all his children -

JULIA G., born Feb. i, 1814, married in Sangamon county to John Weicli. He died in 1840, leaving three children. JOHN <C. died, aged seventeen. WILLIAM H. married Harriet Cooper. He enlisted in 1861 in Co. C, 27th 111. Inf., for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran Jan. i, 1864, and was severely wounded. He died January, 1870, and Mrs. Welch died later. They left two children. JAMES S. WELCH is a practicing physician at Sullivan, Moultrie county, 111. Mrs. Julia G. Welch married Chesley Dickerson. They had one child. SUSANXAH married David Clark, and resides at Breckenridge. Chesley Dickerson died in 1846, and Mrs. Julia G. Dickerson married Daniel D. Johnson. See his name. They i-eside near Breckenridge.

PATRICK, born June 29, 1826, in Sangamon county, married Elizabeth Firey, have four children, JOHN H., JACOB P., MARY E. and LAURA B., and reside near Edinburg, Christian county, 111.

JAMES M., born Aug. 3, 1828, in Sangamon county, married April, 1851, to Mary A. Sutcliffe. They had three children, and all died under five years. Mrs. Cooper died Dec. 29, 1858. James M. Cooper was married Feb. 14, 1860, at Rochester, to Susan Stier, who was born May 19, 1833, in Harrison county, Va. They had four children, EMELINE F., IDA B., JAMES F. and MARY MAUD, and reside in Cooper township, fives miles east of Rochester, on a part of the farm where his parents settled in 1821, and where Mr. Cooper was born.

JOHN S., born Aug. 14, 1836, in Sangamon county, married to Minerva Ross, who was born in Ohio They have three children, AMY, SARAH ELIZA and ANNIE, and reside at Shelbyville, Illinois.

1860, both in Cooper township. He was a local minister in the M. E. church, and preached almost as regularly as the ministers in the traveling connection. He solemnized the marriage of many couple among the early settlers. He was a justice of the peace and one of the county commissioners for many years, and when the township organization was affected his name was given to the township in

COOPER, JACOB, was born Dec. 18, 1800, in Jefferson county, Tenn., was married there to Anna Walden. One child was born in Tennessee, and they came to Sangamon county, 111., with his brother, Rev. John Cooper, in 1819. Their second child was born in Sangamon county. One child died, and Mrs. Anna Cooper died Feb. 22, 1830. Jacob Cooper was married to Jane Kelly, daughter of William Kelly, of Springfield. They had five children. Of his children -

JOHN WESLETvfas born Dec. 18, 1822, in Sangamon county ; went to Missouri when grown, and married there to Anna Waldron. He died there, leaving a widow and two children.

WILLIAM JAMEISON, born Jan. 4, 1844, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 7, 1865, to Mattie S. West, of Rochester. They have two children, NORA BELL and MATTIE. Mrs. Mattie Cooper died April 25, 1873, and Wm. J. Cooper married Dec. 31, 1874, *x> Leonora O'Leary, of East. St. Louis. W. J. Cooper resides two miles south of Rochester.

COOK, ELI, was born Nov. 4, 1809, in Butler county, Ohio, and married there, April 7, 1829. to Sarah Jones, who was born Feb. 2, 1809, in Preble county, Ohio. They moved to Indiana, and from there to Effingham county, 111., thence to Springfield, in 1837. Of their nine children, two died young, and of the other seven -

E ME LINE, born March 7, 1832, in Indiana, was married in Springfield, July 4, 1850, to William Morgan. Their only child, FRANKLIN, is a printer, and lives in Springfield. She married for a second time, April 22, 1857, to John Fuller. They have one child, CLARENCE. Mrs. Emeline Fuller is now a widow, and lives in Springfield.

AD ALINED born Sept. 6, 1833, in Efringham county, 111., was married in Springfield, Oct. 28, 1850, to George Fessenden, a native of Boston, Mass. They have three children. ASA, a telegraph operator, lives in Springfield, 111. JULIA and ISABEL, the two latter reside with their mother, in Chicago.

H. FRANKLIN, born Sept. 14, 1836, in Butler county, Ohio, was married in Springfield, Dec. 23, '1858, to Lucinda Parker, adopted daughter of J. E. Roll. They had one living child, LEONARD, and Mrs. Lucinda Cook died Sept. 10, 1864. Mr. Cook was married in Springfield, Aug. i, 1872, to Rebecca E. Baird, a native of New Jersey. H. Franklin Cook is a commercial traveler, with residence in Springfield.

MART E., born May 20, 1833, in Sangamon county, was married in Springfield, Sept. 24, 1863, to Charles H. Edmands, who was born in Charlestown, Mass., Jan. 10, 1832. They had six children; four died young. FREDERICK D. and GEORGE A. reside with their parents, in Springfield, 111. Hr. Edmands is a manufacturer and dealer in stoves and tinware.

^ JULIA R., born Dec. 16, 1839, in Springfield, was married Feb. 21, 1861, to James Gormley, of New Jersey. They have three children, DORA, MAY and AUSTIN, and live in Virginia City, Montana.

Mr. Eli Cook was a hatter by trade, and followed that business in Springfield. He was Mayor of the city three terms, in 1846, '47 and '48. In 1849 he left for the Pacific coast, and died in Nevada City,

CORRELL, LEVI, was born June 22, 1767, in New Jersey. When a young man he went to Kentucky, and was married Nov. 6, 1794, in Bath county, to Mary Hicklin. They had eleven children, four of whom died young. Of the other seven -

HUGH, born July 6, 1804, in Harrison county, Ky. He was married May 2, 1826, in that county, to Mary Y. Sinclair. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1830 in what is now Mechanicsburg township, where they had four children. Of their six children, ELIZABETH, born May 9, 1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Robert P. McDaniel. See his name. He died, and she married James H. McDaniel. See his name. CYRUS, born July 16, 1829, in Kentucky, came with his parents to Sangamon county, married at Concord, Morgan county, to Mary Brown. Cyrus Correll died Dec. 23, 1868, in Sangamon county, leaving one child, CORA, residing with her mother, who is the wife of Pierce Kiser, and lives in Mechanicsburg. CORDELIA, born Feb. 23, 1833, in Sangamon county, married Feb. 18, 1858, to John M. Carpenter, who was born March 26, 1829, in Butler county, O., and came to Sangamon county in 1850. They have three children, WINFORD H., DORA B. and MINNIE c., and reside three and a half miles northeast of Buffalo. DAVID, born March 29, 1836, in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and resides two and a half miles south of Dawson. STEPHEN, born May 12, 1838, in Sangamon county, married March 12, 1868, to Ann M. Semple, who was born Dec. 29, 1846, in Ireland. They have two children, WILLIE and MARY D., and reside two and a half miles south of Dawson, at the family homestead. MARY, born Sept. 7, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Mar., 1864, to Jesse Wheelin. Mr. Wheelin died Feb. i, 1871, and Mrs. W. died Aug. 21, 1871. Their only living child, CYRUSE., born July

8, 1865, in Sangamon county, resides at the family homestead, two and a half miles south of Dawson. Hugh Correll died June I, 1854, and his widow died Sept. 7, 1874, both where they settled in 1832, on the farm two and a half miles south of Dawson.

MARTHA, born March 13, 1806, in Kentucky, married Hugh McDonald. They had five children and moved to Texas, where Mr. McDonald and two sons, JAMES and THOMAS, and a daughter, MARTHA, died. Mrs. Martha McDonald returned, and died in Sangamon county. MARY E. married Mr. Glider, and lives in Decatur, Texas. SUSAN died at Quincy 111., September, 1875. ANNA resides with her uncle, Thomas Correll.

THOMAS, born Jan. 18, 1808, in Harrison county, Ky. He was there married. Oct. 7, 1830, to Sally McDaniel. (She was born Aug. 28, i8n,in Clarke county, Ky.) They moved immediately after they were married to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1830111 Mechanicsburg township, where they had eight children. Of their children, M. MARGARET, born July 13, 1832, married Edwin Tomlin. See his name. WILLIAM FLETCHER, born Oct. 16,1833, married Feb. 25, 1868, to E. Fannie Purviance. They have two children, FRANK and KATE, and reside in Macon county, 111., two and a half miles southeast of Illiopolis. D. SIMPSON, born Sept. 3, 1835, married Feb. 25, 1874, to Lizzie Peclen, who was born Oct. 19, 1855, in Morgan county, O. They live two miles south of Illinois. WARNER H., born May i, 1837, married Dec. 20, 1866, to Anna Simpson, who died in 1867, and he married March, 1871, to Lizzie St. Clair. They have three children, THOMAS, SAMUEL and ESSIE MAY, and live near Pleasant Plains, 111. CORNELIUS, born May 19, 1839, married March 12, 1863, to Carrie A. Cass. She was born Dec., 1845, and was a daughter of William Riley Cass. They had two children, FLORA c. and VIRGIL, and Mrs. Correll died April i, 1866. Mr. Correll was married Nov. 16, 1869, to Lidie N. Davies, in Philadelphia. She was born there May 30, 1843, of Scotch and English parents, and graduated in 1865 in one of the institutions of learning in her native city. They had three children, FANNY MARY, JESSIE

NEWTON and HEBER WILBER; the latter died in infancy, and Mrs. Lidie N. Correll died March 23, 1874. Cornelius Correll is a graduate in the Law department of Michigan University, Ann Arbor. He is now a member of the firm of Correll & Co., druggists, Springfield. JOHN, born June 5, 1841, resides with his parents. LEVI S., born Aug. 14, 1843. He is a graduate of the Medical department of Ann Arbor University, Michigan. He is member of the firm of Correll & Co., composed of the brothers Cornelius, John and Levi S., druggists, Springfield. Levi S. was'married July 8, 1874, in Springfield, to Lou Freeman. They reside in Springfield. FANNIE, born August 22, 1846, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 29, 1869, to Isaac Funk. They have two children, ARTHUR and MABEL; the latter died in infancy. They reside at Funk's Grove, near Shirley, McLean county. Thomas Correll and his wife reside within one mile of where they settled in 1830. It is two and a half miles southeast of Dawson.

Thomas Correll says* that he raised a crop of corn in Kentucky, during the summer of 1830, and sold it for $75.00 He spent $5 oo in getting married, and brought the remaining $70.00 with him. He fed his father's stock during the winter of 1830 and '31, (being the winter of the " deep snow,") for which he received $30, making an even $100. With that money he came to Springfield and entered his first eighty acres of land. Having secured his land, he had not a cent of money to pay a hotel bill, and a man by the name of Constant hearing him relate his situation, kept him over night and trusted him for it. The ferryman at the Sangamon river took him over on the same terms, and that was the way he laid the foundation for his home. When they commenced keeping house they had neither a table nor chair. He made a shelf on the wall, and from that the first meal was taken standing. His wife's uncle, Henry McDaniel, was with them, and he praised her cooking, to keep her courage up. Mr. Correll, during the summer of 1831, rode eight miles to help David Riddle harvest his wheat, and returned home every night. He received sixty-two and a half cents per day for his labor. The first wheat he raised for himself he harvested with a reap hook, or sickle, tramped it out with horses, hauled it to St. Louis, one hundred miles, and sold it for fifty cents per bushel. As he accumulated some money, he bought fat hogs, and drove them to St. Louis. One year he made some money, and feeling liberal, he overpaid some of the men who helped him. The next year he lost all, and was thirty-seven and a half cents short in money to pay his hired help. One of those who had been overpaid by him the year before, would not suffer any reduction, and he had to raise the money in some other way. He thought that was not very encouraging, but his success in life since, makes the contrast very striking.

Mrs. Mary H. Correll died July TO, 1816, in Kentucky, and Levi Correll was married July 17, 1817, to Mrs. Elizabeth Sinclair, whose maiden name was Phillips. She was born July 27, 1807, in Northumberland county, Va. Her father died when she was quite young, and her mother, with her son and daughter, moved to Harrison county, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Correll had two children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1830, in what is now Mechanicsburg township. Of their two children -

WILLIAM, born August 16, 1818, in Harrison county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Dec. 7, 1848, to Permelia A. Simpson. They had three children. CYRUS died in infancy. HENRY OWEN married Ada Elkin, and lives near Mechanicsburg. MARY EVA lives with her parents, three miles west of Mechanicsburg. William Correll says that himself and his half-brother, John Sinclair, broke forty acres of prairie in 1831, northeast of the old state house square, in Springfield. It included the land where Everybody's Mill, the jail, Opera House and Journal office now stand.

ELIZA, born Dec., 1821, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Talbott Lyon. They had four children, and Mr. Lyon and all the children died. Mrs. Lyon married in Sangamon county to

JOHN Sinclair, born in 1808, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Mrs. Miriam Massey, whose maiden name was Constant. They had several children, and the parents and all except two of the children are dead. Their daughter, Miriam, married Narcissus Rivaud, and reside at Kankakee. John Sinclair, Jun., went to South America, married a Spanish lady, and resides there.

COUNCIL, DAVID G., was born Jan. 15, 1817, in Montgomery county, Tenn. Came to what is now Christian county, 111.; then to Sangamon county in the autumn of 1830. He came to Springfield in 1838, where he was married March 28, 1839, to Mary J. Donaldson, who was born in Kentucky in 1818. They had seven children, namely -

LOUISA, born May 14, 1841, was married Dec. 28, 1865, to Jacob S. Wright, who was born June n, 1841, in Owen county, Ind. They have one child, CHARLIE. Jacob S. Wright came to Springfield in August, 1866. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812; was wounded in the head during an engagement with the Indians, and but for the interposition of Tecumseh would have been killed. He was made prisoner, taken to Sandusky, and retained there until exchanged. J. S. Wright enlisted at Lincoln, 111., as a private, in Co. E, yth 111. Inf.; served three months, and re-enlisted in 1862 in Co. H, io6th 111. Inf.; was at the siege and capture of Vicksburg, and in the expedition and capture of Little Rock, Ark.; served full time, and was honorably discharged in 1865, at Springfield, 111., where he now lives.

WILLIAM M., born Feb. 8, 1843, in Springfield, was married Jan. 5, 1864, to Mary E. Huffman, who was born May n, 1845, m Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Mary E. Council died Sept. 2, 1871, leaving two children, MINNIE and ARTHUR, who reside with their father. William M.

Council was married June 9, 1875, in .Springfield, to Jennie Barkley, who was born Sept. i, 1841, in Lafayette, Christian county, Ky. W. M. Council lives in Springfield.

ffAMES, born Feb. 9, 1845, '" Springfield, 111., was married there, April 30, 1860, to Alsinda A. Shawn, who was born Sept. 4, 1848, in Newark, Ohio. She is a niece of Judge Shawn, of Menard county. They have two children, FRANK A. and FLORENCE A. James Council is a contractor and builder, ;iml resides in Springfield, 111.

DA \'ID G., Jun., born Dec. 2, 1846, in Springfield, was married there, July 15, 1868, to Mrs. Jennie Kimble, whose maiden name was Richmond. She was born in 1846, in Painesville, O. Thev have one child, OLIVE L., and live in Springfield, 111.

MART E., born June 15, 1851, in Springfield, was married there, August 12, 1869, to Thomas D. Hirst, who was born June 7, 1836, in Loudon county Va. Thev have two children, EDDIE L. and HARRY E. T. D. Hirst is running a plaining mill in Clinton, 111., and lives there.

When D. G. Council came to Illinois, he left five sisters in Tennessee, whom he completely lost sight of. He accidentally heard that one sister had moved to Marion county, 111. He visited her family, and after the close of the rebellion he visited his old home in Tennessee. He found his sisters still residing there with their families. Some of their sons had been in the Union army, and others had joined the rebels. One of his nephews from Christian county, 111., was a prisioner at one time, and guarded by another nephew. (The boys were own cousins.) Two of those who went in the rebel army were killed or died in the service, and the remainder were doing well, and still resided in Tennessee. D. G. Council was the pioneer of stair building in Springfield, and foreman for Hannan & Ragsdale in their extensive contracts. He died in Springfield, 111., August 28, 1875, and his widow resides in the citv.

COUNCIL, WILLIAM, born Oct. i, 1791, near Tarboro, Edgecomb county, N. C. He was a brother to Hardy Council. About 1800 the family moved to Tennessee, thence to Barren county, Ky., and from there to White county, 111. William Council was there married, Nov., 1819, to Mary Graves, who was born June 15, 1802, in East Tennessee. Thev had one child, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1821 north of Springfield, and kept a ferry on Sangamon river near where Carpenter's mill now stands. They had nine children in Sangamon county, namely -

Charles F., Henry N., Flora

GEORGE W., born Jan. 2, 1820, in White county, 111., married Sept. 28, 1843, in Sangamon county, to Jane Mitts. They had eleven children, namely : WILLIAM C., born Oct. 26, 1844, enlisted August, 1862, in Co. C, 114111 111. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably discharged Aug. 3, 186^. He was married April i, 1869, in Illiopolis, to Melissa A. Meredith, who was born June 25, 1849, in Orange county, Ind. She died April 29, 1873. He lives three miles west of Illiopolis. MARY A. married Charles Sweet, have two children, WILLIAM and ANNIE, and live in Topeka, Kan. JOHN M., born June 7, 1851, married Sept. 21, 1871, in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth E. Hay, born June 9, 1850, in Holmes county, O., have two children, FLORA BELLE and ROBERT ARTHUR, and live four miles west of Illiopolis. NELSON L., ELIZABETH, CHARLES F., HENRY N., FLORA M., EMMA E., GEORGE G. and ANNIE J., live with their parents, four miles west of Williamsville.

WILLIAM R., born March 30, 1832-, married March 23, 1871, to Nancy E. Wigginton, and live in Menard county, three and a quarter miles northwest of Williamsville.

NELSON Z., born Jan. 18, 1839, married Mary Lynch. They have seven children, and reside in Menard county, four miles northwest of Williamsville.

HARDT F. M., born Feb. 10, 1841, enlisted August, 1862, in Co. C, U4th 111. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably discharged Aug. 3, 1865. He was married Feb. 10, 1870, to Charity- Ray, who was born in Ohio Jan. 22, 1850. They have one living child, OLIVER P., and reside at the homestead settled by his father in 1821. It is in Fancy Creek township, five miles west of Williamsville.

COUNCIL, HARDY, born Sept. 20, 1793, near Tarboro, N. C., was taken by his parents to Tennessee, thence to Barren county, Ky., and from there to White county, near Carmi, 111. He was there married, in 1818, to Jane Hanna, who was born Feb. 25, 1795, in Kentucky, They moved on horseback the next year to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in August, 1819, in what is now Fancv creek township, preceding his brother William two years. Mrs. Council carried a sack of wheat on the horse she rode, besides many household implements. Mr. Council carried all he could in the way of tools and other articles necessary for farming. He commenced improvements by building a camp or rough cabin. He was unable to obtain a plow, but being anxious to raise some wheat for a beginning, he took a grubbing hoe, or old fashioned mattock, and dug up about one acre and a half, near the junction between prairie and timber, and on the ground thus prepared, sowed the wheat brought by his wife, and raised a good crop. When the land was surveyed and brought into market, there was a line between his cabin and where he raised his crop of wheat. He could only enter one piece, and he chose that with the house on it. The land where the wheat grew was entered bv another person, who never cultivated it, but allowed a growth of young cottonwood trees to start on it, which has made quite a grove, that can be seen for several miles; many of the trees are more than two feet in diameter each. Mr.

Council and Robert McClelland came together, and they cut an ample supply of grass, and stacked it for their horses and cattle. They knew nothing of the danger of prairie fires, and before they were aware of the importance of protecting it, their hay was all burned. They kept their stock alive by cutting down elm trees, so that they could eat the buds. Mr. and Mrs. Council had seven sons born at that place, two of whom died in infancy. Of the other five -

James H., Charles F John W.

JOHN //., born May 19, 1822, married Edna Lake. They have five children, JAMES H., CHARLES F JOHN W. and GEORGE R., the two latter twins, and ANNA F., and reside near where his father settled in 1819, three miles west of Sherman.

WESLEY, born Nov. 21, 1824,- was married April 14, 1853, to Martha A. Wigginton. They had twelve children, nine of whom died under thirteen years, the other three, JOHN, WILLIE and NELLIE reside with their parents in Williamsville.

H., Flora J., David E., George

WILLIAM F., born Jan. 21, 1828, married Rosanna England. They have seven children, MARY F., WILLIAM H., FLORA J., DAVID E., GEORGE A., NORA E. and U. S. GRANT, who reside with their parents in Menard county.

ROBERT, born March 23, 1831, married Ellen Cresee. They have three living children, JOHN W., MABEL and LILLIE M., and reside in Menard county, five miles northwest of Williamsville.

GEORGE W., born August 6, 1834, enlisted Oct. 25, 1862, in Co. B, i3Oth 111. Inf., for three years, was transferred to Co. G, ist New Orleans Vol. Inf., in which he was 2d Lieut. He served in that capacity nearly one year after the close of the war, and was honorably discharged. He was married March 24, 1868, to Olivia L. Miller, who was born Feb. 17, 1851, in West Liberty, O. They have two children. CLIFFORD and IDA E., and reside at the homestead settled by his parents in 1819, in Fancy creek township.

Cowgill, William

Ohio, and was married early in 1832, in Lebanon, to Clemantine Sayre, a native of the same county. They moved in the spring of that year to Springfield, 111., and had five children, namely - glace May 16, 1855, to Margaret D. prigg, who was born Aug. 18, 1833, in Effingham county, 111. They have three children, born in Springfield. WILLIAM C., born March 12, 1858; JOHN ALBERT, Jan. 17, 1860, and DUNCANS., Oct. 6, 1868, all reside with their parents in Springfield. William B. Cowgill is a dealer in real estate.

William M. Cowgill was engaged in mercantile pursuits from 1832 to 1844, in Springfield, when he moved to Petersburg. Mrs. Clemantine S. Cowgill died in 1854, and William M. Cowgill died in 1862, both in Petersburg, Menard , county, 111.

COX, GEORGE, was born in South Carolina, came to Sangamon county with William and Joseph Drennan, in March, 1818, and died in November, 1819. His son, Jesse Cox, lives in Virden.

COX, SAMUEL, uncle to the Hampton brothers. He had two sons, Samuel and Sowell. Sowell owned the farm adjoining Mechanicsburg on the west. The house in which he lived was the only brick house between Decatur and Springfield. They came in 1825, and about 1838 moved to the vicinity of Palmyra, Mo.

CRAFTpN, WILEY, was born Jan. 25, i8oi,in Lunenburgh county, Va., went to Trimble county, Ky., where he was married in 1824 to Agnes Chalfant, who was born in that county about 1801. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved, early in 1831, to Vandalia, 111., where they had one child, and the same year moved to Sangamon county, I linois. They returned, in a short time, to Ken-

WILLIAM P., born May 25, 1826, in Trimble county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, Illinois, married Nov. 28, 1855, in St. Louis, Mo., to Eliza C. Harrison. They have three children, PEYTON L., AGNES E., and WILLIAM P., and reside in Springfield. Wm. P. Crafton was elected Police Magistrate at the Springfield city election, April, 1876.

THOMAS T., born May 27, 1828, in Trimble coimty, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, to Miss Dawson. They have two children, and reside in Atlantic, Cass county, Iowa.

CRAIG, WILLIAM, was born in 1790, in Fayette county, Ky. He was married April 20, 1821, near Stanford, Lincoln county, to Mary P. Swope, who was born there June 20, 1794. In 18?" they moved to Williamson county, ne? Franklin, Tenn., where they had five children. The family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the spring of 1832 in what is now Island Grove township, south of Spring creek, where they had two children. Of their seven children -

MART M., born June 14, 1836, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 11, 1867, to Ammi C. Cheever, who was born Nov. 1 6, 1 825, in Boston, Mass. They have two children, MARY A. and \VILLIS C., and reside at the family homestead, in

CRESSE, GEORGE, was born May 16, 1808, in Cape May county, N. J., came to Springfield, 111., in Aug., 1839. In the spring of 1841 he returned to New Jersey, and was there marrifed, Sept. 2, 1841, to Maria Marcy,who was born Feb. 17, 1823, near Hartford, Conn. He came with his bride back to Sangainon county, arriving Nov. 10, 1841. They moved to Menard county, and had four children. The family moved back to Sangamon county, near Pleasant Plains, in 1857, where they had one child. Of their five children -

Ed Ward M., Ca Tharine L.

Mrs. Maria Cresse died April 22, 1862, and George Cresse, with his two sons and two daughters, reside adjoining Sherman on the northwest. - 1874.

CROCKER, G. W., was born July 29, 1814, in Cheshire county, N. H. He was married February, 1839, in Amhcrst, Mass., to Lois K. Thayer, who was born there in 1814. They moved to Sangamon county in company with his fatherin-law, Asahel Thayer, arriving at Chatham May 19, 1839. They had ten children, five of whom died in infancy and childhood. Of the other five children -

WILLIAM B., born March 9, 1842, in Chatham, enlisted in Co. I, 73d 111. Vol. Inf., was wounded at the battle of Perrvville, and died at Taylorville, 111., Aug. n, 1 86^, aged twenty-three years.

SARAH T., born March 21, 1846,111 Sangamon county, was married Sept. i, 1864, to Dr. B. W. Fox, of Springfield. She died in Taylorville, May 15, 1869, leaving one child, LOIS F., who resides

Mrs. Crocker gives a short account of the Chatham Ladies' Aid Society. It was organized Nov. 21, 1861, and disbanded early in '63. The society was small, but they made three large boxes of bedding and clothing suitable for tent and hospital, besides making up ten webs of domestic for the Springfield Soldiers' Aid Society.

CROW, ROBERT, was born in 1781, in Wythe county, Va. Margaret Kershner was born in 1787, in Augusta county, Va., where they were married, and soon after moved to Christian county, Ky. They had eight children there, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1822, in what is now Auburn township. Of their children -

WILLIAM D., married July 17, 1846, to Julia A. Messick. They had seven children in Sangamon county. MARGARET E. married George E. Stoke, and resides in Ball township. WILLIAM T., JAMES G., ABRAHAM LINCOLN, CHARLES H., PIERBERT A. and ADA M. Wm. D. Crow died April 27, 1869, and his widow and children reside at Crow's mill.

in Sept., 1848, went to California, gold having been discovered there in June, 1848. After spending eighteen years there, he returned to Sangamon county, in 1866, and now resides at the family homestead, in Ball township. - 1874.

CROW, WILLIAM, was born March 5, 1793, in Botetourt county, Va. Three brothers, John, Thomas and Andrew Crow, came from Ireland to America during the Revolutionary war. John was the father of him whose name heads this sketch. John Crow moved to Barren county, Kv., when William was a child. William Crow and Miriam Enyart were married in Cumberland county, Ky., and had one child. In 1819 they moved to Madison county, 111., where he was ordained to preach the gospel by the recognized authorities of the Old School, or Regular Baptist, church. In the fall of 1820 he moved to what is now Salisbury, or Cartwright, township, in Sangamon county, north of Richland creek, where thev had one child, and Mrs. Miriam Crow died, Aug. 7, 1823. William Crow was married in the fall of 1824, in Cumberland county, Ky., to Susan Hall. On his return to Sangamon county, he sold out and settled in what is now the southeast corner of Cass county, where two children were born. Of his four children -

JEROME E., born Sept. 2, 1817, in Cumberland county, Ky., was brought by his parents to Sangamon county, married in Cass county, June 19, 1844, to Eliza J. Brockman. They have five children, two of whom are married, and all live with and near their parents, in the vicinity of Humboldt, Richardson countv, Neb.

REBECCA W., born June 9, 1821, ia Sangamon county, and is believed to have been the first white child born on Richland creek. She was married Oct. 9, 1844, in Cass county, to Washington A. Mitchell, who was born Dec. 21, 1816, in Logan county, Ky. They have five children, WILLIAM I., CHARLES C., JOHN L., ALBERT J. and ANNAH E., and reside in the southeast corner of

JOHN H., born March 14, 1826, in Cass county, married Sarah F. Dillon, of Sangamon county. They have three children, and reside in Tecumseh, Neb. See Dillon family.

MARY A., born Dec. 18, 1828, married August, 1848, in Cass county, to James L. Beggs. They have eight children, three of whom are married, and one of the married daughters resides in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Beggs reside in Ashland.

Mrs. Susan Crow died April n, 1845, in Cass county, and Rev. William Crow died Aug. 22, 1865, at Brownsville, Neb. He preached from the time he came to Sangamon county until about 1860, a ministry of forty years. He was known to all Baptists throughout central Illinois.

CROUCH, DAVID, born Sept. 29, 1814, in Nicholas county, Ky., came to Sangamon county, Rochester township, in August, 1834. He was married March 29, 1835, to Mrs. Clara Ann Stafford, whose maiden name was Gregory. They had five children in Sangamon county -

PR CD A ANN, born Jan. 26, 1837, married March 18, 1858, to John S.Craig, have two children, EMMA L. and MARY L., and live near Morrisonville.

DELIA ANN, born Jan. 25, 1840, married in Sangamon county Jan. 8, 1857, to A. D. Young, born Feb. 28, 1837, m Shelby county, Ky. They have one child, JULIA D., born in Anderson county, Ky., and live one and a quarter miles south of Rochester.

JONATHAN G., born Jan. 18, 1843, married Nov. 26, 1867, to Margaret A. Bell. They have two children, FREDDIE and EDDIE R., and live two miles south of Rochester.

of 1812, and was married Jan. i, 1817, in Washington county, Md., to Mary A. Dillihunt, who was born Feb. 22, 1804, in Kent county> Md. They had ten children in Washington county, Md., three of whom died young. They moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1834, at Springfield, and the next spring moved to what is now Cooper township, south of the Sangamon river, where they had five children. Of their twelve children -

MORDECAI, born July 20, 1820, in Maryland, married December, 1869, in Springfield, to Catharine E. Crowl, a native of Berkley county, Va. They reside four miles southeast of Pawnee, in Christian county. /

UPTON, born Feb. 7, 1822, in Maryland, served one year from June, 1846, in the 4th 111. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, in the Mexican war. He was married in

1850, in Sangamon county, to Sarah E. Taggart. They had one living child, MARY J., born April 22, 1858, married Feb. 10, 1874, in Springfield, to Eugene W. Renshaw, who was born June 25,

1851, in Decatur. He is a grandson of James, who was a brother to Samuel Renshaw. See his name. E. W. Renshaw lives one and a half miles northeast of Berry station. Upton Crowl died March 8, 1872, and his widow resides one and a half miles northeast of Berry, or Clarksville.

JOSEPH F. was raised in Sangamon county, went with his sister (Mrs. Hussey) to Oregon, and was married May, 1853, in Yamhill county, to Julia A. Shortridge. They had nine living children. Eight of their children were born in Oregon. They reside near Nashville, Barton county, Mo.

MIRANDA, born Oct. 18, 1831, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county to Isaac T. Darnall. See his name. He died, and she married, Feb. n, 1873, to George W. Taylor, and live in Cooper township.

VAN BASSETT, born April 8,1836, in Sangamon county, married in same county, Feb. 9, 1864, to Eliza Crowl. They have two children, and live in Christian county, four miles southeast of Pawnee.

HELEN, born May 26, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 24, 1863, to Thomas F. Morris, who was born Nov. 12, 1834, in Clarke county, O. They have two children, MARY LIDA and ISAAC C., and reside in Cooper township, three and a half miles southwest of Mechanicsburg.

MARIA A., born Feb. 14, 1843, in Sangamon county, married May 11, 1867, to Samuel Carper, who was born April 30, 1829, in Shepherdstown, Va. They have three childrenJOSEPH W.JOHN B. and MORDECAI I., and reside at the family homestead where her parents settled in 1835, m Cooper township. It is one and a half miles north of Berry station, or Clarksville.

WILLIAM H., born April 14, 1845, in Sangamon county, married January, 1871, to Ella Miller. They have two children, and reside five miles southeast of Pawnee, in Christian county.

Joseph Crowl died Sept. 8, 1865, in Sangamon county, and his widow now (1874) resides on the farm where they settled in 1835. It is one and a half miles north of Berry station, or Clarksville.

CROSS, ALVIN, was born Oct., 1799, in Madison county, Ky. Margaret Forbes was born June 24, 1802, near Jonesboro, East Tenn. Her parents moved to Madison county, Ky., when she was three months old. In 1816 they moved to Humphreys county, Tenn. Alvin Cross went to that county, also, when he was a young man, and was there married, in Feb., 1818, to Margaret Forbes. They had four children in Tennessee, and moved to Johnson county, 111., where they had one child, and from there to Sangamon county, arriving Jan., 1829, in what is now Auburn township,

SQUIRE, born in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to Mrs. Elizabeth Pike, whose maiden name was Baker. They have three children, and live at Medoc, Jasper county, Mo.

RILET enlisted in an Illinois regiment, at Springfield, for the Mexican war, in 1846, died in the army, and was buried on the Rio Grande in 1847.

JOEL McD., born in 1827 or '8, in Johnson county, 111., raised in Sangamon county, went to California, married, has two children, and lives there.

REBECCA, born in Sangamon county, married John M. Jones, moved to Washington county, Iowa, and died there, leaving seven children. She had a twin mate that died in infancy.

F. MARION, born Dec. 14, 1838, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 16, 1870, to Emily A. Hayden. They have one child, WILLIAM F., and live in Cotton Hill township, four miles north of Pawnee.

LEROT, born in 1840, in Sangamon county, married Jan. 8, 1863, to Candace A. Campbell. They had four children, JOSEPH A. and MINNIE died young. CLARK FORBES and FRANCES BELL reside with their parents, in Ball township, four miles northwest of Pawnee. Leroy had a twin mate that died young.

ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon county, married Sept. 18, 1861, to Benjamin F. Davis, a native of Tazewell county, 111. They have one living child, GEORGE W., and live two and a half miles southeast of Pawnee.

CROWDER, PHILIP, was born May, 1759, near Petersburg, Va. He was married there to Susan Parish. They had five children born there. He then moved, in company with about forty families, to Greene county, Ky. They all moved on pack horses, and camped near each other every night, with armed men standing guard around them, for protection against the Indians. Mrs. Susan Crowder died in 1794 in Kentuckv, and he was there married to Rachel Saunders. She had one child, and died there. Philip Crowder then married Sally Chandler. They had nine children, and moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in Nov., 1830, and settled three and a half miles southwest of Springfield. Of all his children -

REUBEN, born in Virginia, was married to Nancy Michael, and came to Sangamon county in 1825, preceding his father. They had fifteen children; three died young. ELIJAH died, aged twentyone. MARTHA was married in Kentucky to James Robinson, moved to Sangamon county, thence to Macon county. Mr. R. died, and his family reside in Missouri. ELIZABETH married Peter Christian. They had two children, and Mr. C. died. His widow married Andrew Lockwood, and both died. MARY, born November, 1813, in Green county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county Feb. u, 1836, to Benjamin F. Dillard. See his name. MATHEW married Susan Schoolen. They live in Macon county, Mo. THOMAS M., born July 25, 1818, was married July 22, 1840, to Mary J. Dalby. They had seven children; three died young. SARAH A., born Jan. 12, 1842, was married Dec. 22, 1864, to Ole Nelson. They had three children, Mary J., Emma E. and Maggie M., and live near Springfield. HENRY, born June 19, 1844, was married June 8, 1871, to Margaret E. Williams. She died Oct. 3, 1871. He is a practicing physician. AGNES E., born April 6, 1847, was married April 1 3, 1865, to F. C. Arnold. They have two children, Fannie and Alice, and live near San Jose, Mason county, 111. MARY A. born Sept. 3, 1850, was married Feb. 10, 1868, to Thomas W. Miller. They have one child, Anna M. DOUGLAS, WILLIAM A. and JAMES F., live with their parents. Thomas M. Crowder and family reside four miles west of Springfield. GREENBERRY married Sarah Scott, and both died, leaving two children, in Missouri. SUSAN married John Grabeal, who died, and she married Philip Meekum. They reside in Saline county, Mo.

RIAL M., born April 1 1, 1821, in Greene county, Ky., brought up in Sangamon county, was married in Missouri to Angeline Scott. They have seven children. Their daughter, LENORA, married Moses H. Moore. See his name. The other six children, WILLIAM A., MARY j., ISAAC reside with their parents near McKinney, Collin county, Texas. JAMES married Margaret Martin, and died January, 1876, near New Boston, Mo. REUBEN, Jun., went, in 1847, to Washington Territory, married there, and his wife died. He resides near Olympia. AMANDA married John Martin. They had four children, and she died in .Saline county, Mo. CATHARINE married Samuel Casebolt, and live near Miami, Saline county, Mo. Reuben Crowder died Sept. 8, 1835, near Springfield, and his widow married again. She is now a widow, and resides with the family of her son James, near New Boston, Macon county, Mo.

MARTHA, born about 1785, near Petersburg, Va., was married in March, 1805, in Green count v, Ky., to Lewis Walker, a native of Virginia. They had some children in Kentucky, and came to Illinois in 1832, and brought up a large family, some of whom are living in Clark and Coles counties. Their sixth child, JUDIAH, born Dec. 7, 1820, in Green county, Ky., came with her parents to vJlark county, 111., in 1832, and was married there Dec. 3, 1840, to James C. Robinson, who was born Aug. 19, 1823, in Edgar county, 111. They have eight children, all born in Clark county, and the family moved to Springfield in 1869. Of their children, NATHANIEL p., born Jan. 25, 1842, was married in Marshall county, 111., to Miss Benedict. SERENA, born Nov., 1843, married R. S. Briscoe. JAMES p., born May 23, 1845, married Dora Shaw, a daughter of Judge Shaw, of Olney, 111. J. P. Robinson is a lawyer, and resides in Olney. AMANDA, born April 12, 1848, lives with her parents. RICHARD M., born August 6, 1851, is a practicing lawyer in Denver, Col. JENNIE and JUDIAH M. live with their parents in Springfield. Hon. James C. Robinson studied law, and was admitted to the bar, in Marshall, Clarke county, 111., in 1852 or '3. He was elected to Congress from that district in i858-'6o and '62. He was the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1864, but his party being in the minority, he was, not unexpectedly, defeated. He represented in Congress the district in which Springfield is situated, in 1870 and '72. He is now a member of the law firm of Robinson, Knapp & Shutt, of Springfield.

MA THE W, born in Virginia, married Elizabeth Scott. They had five or six children, and she died. He married Jane Laughlin. They had one child, and he died. His family reside in Oskaloosa, Iowa.

HENRT, the only child by Philip Crowder's second marriage, was born in Green county, Ky., went to East Tennessee when a boy, and remained there.

JOHN C., born in Green county, Ky., was married there to Mary Laswell. They had two children there, and came to Sangamon county in 1826, preceding his father four years. Eight children were born in Sangamon county. Of their children, JAMES H., born Dec. 24, 1823, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, April 10, 1849, to Mary A. Wright*, who was born Nov. 7, 1831, in Adair county, Ky., and came to Sangamon county in 1839. They reside three and a half miles southwest of Springfield. SARAH J., born Dec. 12, 1825, in Kentucky, was married Jan., 1850, in Sangamon county, to E. J. Warren. They had seven children, and she died July 17, 1870. Two of her children, JOHN c. was drowned in 1874, THOMAS j. lives in Springfield. The other five reside with their father, near Mount Zion, Macon county, 111. WILLIAM, born June 5, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Mary Wood. They had three children, and he died. NANCY, born Oct. 26, 1830, married John Harris, and died. MARY E., born April 24, 1833, died, aged seventeen years. THOMAS J., born May 28, 1835^ was married June 24, 1856, to Elizabeth F. Wright, and she died Nov., 1872. He resides at Wautiska, Sanders county, Neb., and is a Methodist minister. FRANCES, born May 21, 1838, married Jesse Perkins. They have four children, and live in Williamsville. MARTHA A., born Sept. 25, 1840, married Theophilis Ludlam. They have five children, and live near Decatur. MATILDA, born April 28, 1843, died in her fourth year. CATHARINE A., born Oct. 27, 1845, July 15, 1865, to Alexander H.Wright, and lives in Springfield. Mrs. Mary Crowder died, and J. C. Crowder married Ursula Albans. They had four children; one died in infancy. HENRY C., bvrn April 21, 1855, died April 23, 1876. JOHN J. resides at Jacksonville. JOSEPH W. resides with his brother, James ~H. Mrs. Ursula Crowder died, and J. C. Crowder married Mrs. Elizabeth Cox. They had one child, LUELLA, and J. C. Crowder died April 10, 1863. His widow resides at Berlin.

WILLIAM, born Feb. 11, 1804, in Kentucky, was married there to Mary Fawcett. They had two children, born in Kentucky, and came to Sangamon county in company with his brother-inlaw, Elisha Sanders, in the fall of 1829, where eight children were born. Of their children, ROBERT E. and JOHN, born in Kentucky, both married in Sangamon county, and died. MATILDA, born Dec. 9, 1831, in Sangamon county, was married Oct. 10, 1855, lo J°^ln J« Warren, who was born Nov. 3, 1831, in Shelby county, 111. They have seven living children, MARY A., WILLIAM c.,

ROBERT E. and ISAAC w. Two of the children are married, and reside east of Pawnee. Those that are living and single reside with their parents, near Pawnee. SARAH E. married Hiram White. JAMES M. died unmarried, aged twenty years. WILLIAM C. married Ruth Tillev, and resides in Palmer, 111. AARON V. married Martha Ward, and lives in Christian countv. ANGELINE and BENJAMIN F. died young. STAFFORD and JESSE W. reside with their parents, near Pana.

CHANDLER, born in 1808, in Kentucky, married Lucinda Sanders. They had four children: JOHN married Catharine Stroude. They have three children, and live in Cotton Hill township. Chandler Crowder was drowned in 1839, while attempting to cross Sugar creek to reach his sick family.

HORA T1O, born in Kentucky, came to Sangamon countv in 1829. He married Sallie Woozley. They had two children in Sangamon county. NATHAN W., born Nov. 4, 1833, was married Dec. 28, 1853, to Margaret Todd. They have four children, JOHN H., GEORGE A., HENRY M. and JAMES H., and reside in Pawnee. SARAH J., born Oct. 12, 1835, was married Jan. 28, 1853, to Seth Underwood, who was born June 16, 1829, near Sparta, White county, Tenn. They have seven children, JOHN H., SARAH F., AVERY c., and WILLIE, and reside in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county, 111. Horatio Crowder died about 1835, and his widow married John M. Mathews. See his name. She died Dec. 28, 1850.

WASHINGTON, born July 9, 1813, in Green county, Ky., came with his father to Sangamon county in 1830. He was married Dec. 21, 1836, to Isabel Laughlin. They have seven children: JOHN F., (Dick), born Dec. 25, 1837, married April 12, 1860, to Jane E. Laswell. They had one child, ELM EH K., who died in infancy, and Mrs. C. died May 7, 1863. Mr. C. was married Sept. f2, ~\ 864, to Mary F. McMurry . They had three children, LUELLA H., GKORGIE M. and ESTELLA. Mrs. Mary F. Crowder died June 16, 1873, in Springfield. J. F. Crowder was married June 10, 1874, to Nannie Womack, have one child, CLINTON CARROLL, and live in Pawnee. MARY A. died in her eighth vear. WILLIAM A., born April 16, "1843, married Nov. 30 1865, to Isabel W. Lanterman. They had four living children, and live in Springfield. LUCELIA J. died July 19, 1862, in her eighteenth \ear. SADIE E. and CHARLES W." live with their parents. GEORGE L. died May 11,1870,111 his eleventh vear. Wash-

ALBERT G., born Oct. 16, 1816, in Green county, Ky., came to Sangamon county with his parents in 1830. He was married Dec. 29, 1840, to Sarah A. Bartlett. They had two children born in Sangamon county. MARY J. married W. W. Lapham. They have two children, w. ALF.ERT and MINNIE F., and live at Decatur. FANNIE married John Jamison. He was born Sept. 24, 1834, in Glasgow, Scotland. They have three children, MARY F., SARAH and MARIA L. D. Mr. Jamison resides in Auburn. Albert G. Crowder died in 1847, an<^ ^is widow died in 1848, both in Sangamon county.

Philip Crowder died February, 1844, and his widow died in September following, both in Sangamon county. Philip Crowder was a soldier in the revolution. An elder brother, who had a family, was drafted, and Philip volunteered in his place. It was not long before the close of the war - when he was about sixteen years of age. His son Washington remembers hearing him repeatedly state that he was at the siege of Yorktown, and witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis; that he saw the British commander hand his sword to Washington, and that they wept and embraced each other. Seeing Cornwallis so much affected, Washington said: " Never mind it; this is the fate of war. "

CUTTER. - The origin of the family in the west was with Seth Cutter, who was born in Boston, Mass., about 1760. Family tradition makes him a descendant of a family who came over in the May-x flower in 1620. He was married in Boston to Mary Reed. In 1790 he joined a colony and decided to move west. One account says that his five eldest daughters rebelled, saying they would not go where they were in danger of being devoured by wild beasts or killed by Indians. Another account fails to mention that he had any daughters at the time, which leads to the inference that if such an incident took place, they were sisters, and not daughters. He had but one child (a son) in Massachusetts. The colony went under the protection of the United States army, commanded by Gen. Anthony Wayne, who established a military post where Cincinnati,

O., now stands. Seth Cutter opened a farm which became part of the city. Portions of it are yet in possession of some of his descendants, while other portions, although leased soon after his death (about 1800), the title still remains in the family. Cutter street indicates the locality where he settled. He brought one child - Seth R., of whom we will yet speak more fully - and had three daughters, at what became Cincinnati. Martha, who is believed to have been the first white child born in Cincinnati, became the wife of Abraham Price. Susan married Samuel Foster, of Petersburg, Ky., and Mary married Abraham McFaren. Mrs. Mary Reed Cutter died, and Seth' Cutter married Roxena Shingledecker. They had three children. Abigail married William Bernard, Abijah became a farmer in Hamilton county, and Lorena, born Dec. 9, 1805, married September, 1823, to Nicholas Goshorn. One of their sons, A. T. Goshorn,is now (May, 1876,) Superintendent General of the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. Seth Cutter was killed in Cincinnati about 1800, by the caving in of a well. His son -

SETH R. CUTTER, born Jan. i, 1785, in Boston, Mass., taken by his parents, in 1790, to Cincinnati, Ohio. After the death of his mother, and the second marriage of his father, he left home and went to Grainger county, Tenn., where he was married in June, 1806, to Elizabeth Easley, daughter of William Easley. In December, 1809, he returned with .his family to Cincinnati, where he engaged in the provision trade, mostly in New Orleans and Cuba. He continued in that business about twenty years. They had six children in Cincinnati, and then moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in July, 1828, in what is now Loami township, where they had three children. Of their nine childi'en -

MARTHA A., born Sept. 10, 1821, in Cincinnati, O., married in Sangamon county, January, 1842, to Oliver Diefendorf. See his name. She died six weeks after marriage.

CAROLINE E., born Feb. 13, 1825, in Cincinnati, O., raised in 'Sang.'imon county, and married in her native city to Oliver Diefendorf. See his name.

\VILLIAM F., born Oct. 8, 1828, in Sangamon county. He served from June, 1846, one year in the 4th 111. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, in the war with Mexico. In 1848 he went to California, where he spent several years in mining, and died there of consumption.

JOHN W. married in 1853 to Juliette Greening. They have five children: ALBERT lives with his parents. CAROLINE, born Jan., 1857, was married Jan., 1873, to James Mahanna, has one child, EDITH, and lives near Lake City, 111. ANDREW, LAURA and OLIVER live with their parents. John W. Cutter and wife live near Lake City, Moultrie county, 111.

ELIZA, married March 24, 1857, at Weston, Mo., to Samuel A. Graham, who was born July 19, 1825, at Charlotte, Mecklenburg county, N. C. They have five children, EVA B., MARGARET, OLIVER, MARY, MALCOLM E. and ISABEL, and reside in Springfield, 111. Mr. Graham enlisted in Co. F, Georgia Battallion, Mounted Volunteers, in 1847, and served in the war with Mexico, until June, 1848, when he was honorably discharged, and came to Springfield, 111. In 1863 he was elected to represent Loami township in the Sangamon county Board of Supervisors, and in Nov., 1867, was elected, for two years, Surveyor of Sangamon county.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cutter died Sept., 1835, in Sangamon county, and in May, 1830, Seth R. Cutter married Mary Prosser Wariner, who was born March 18, 1808, in Henrico county, Va. Her parents were married in Virginia. Her mother inherited some slaves, but refused to keep them, and to evade the influence of shivery, moved to this county. Mr. Wariner was

FRANCES A., born Feb. 12, 1837, in Sangamon county, married March 16, 1856, to Abner Bowen. See his name. Mrs. Bowen has some embroidery work done by her mother nearly half a century ago.

Mrs. Mary P. W. Cutter died Feb. n, 1861,, and Seth R. Cutter died Sept. 8, 1869, both at the homestead settled by him in 1828, in Loami township.

Mr. Cutter was engaged in pork packing in Cincinnati with Andrew Heredith. See his name. When they came west they built a steam flouring mill about two miles northwest of Loami. A village called Millville grew up around it. The mill, owners and village have all passed away.

CU M M I NGS, THOMAS, was born about 1800, in Breckenridge county, Ky., married to Margaret Smith, came to Sangamon county, 111., about the time his father-in-law (Thomas Smith) came, in 1822. Thev had eight children, nameiy-

REBECCA J. married John L. Smith. They had nineteen children, all except two of whom are living (1873). They had five sons who were Union soldiers in Illinois regiments. The parents and nearly all their living children live in Logan countv, five miles northeast of Williamsville.

ROBERT, born Sept. 12, 1817, in Washington county, Ky., was brought to Sangamon county when he was about five years old, married Jan. 2, 1840, to Nancy Cloyd. They had six children. THOMAS N. married Sarah B. C. Harrison, have one living child, THOMAS o., and live in Woodside township. MARGARET A. died at two years old. AMANDA E. married Jacob Beam. See his name. MARY J. married Isaac M. Jones, and reside in Woodside township. JOSEPH R. and EMMA S. reside with their parents, one and a half miles northwest of Woodside station.

JOHN T. married Melinda Richardson. She died, and he married Margaret Adams, has five children, and lives in Christian county. He is a traveling minister in the M. E. church.

THOMAS H. married Mrs. Emma West, whose maiden name was Woods. She had two children by her first marriage, and they have three children, and live in Jersey county.

DARNEILLE, JOHN, was born June 8, 1791, in Bourbon county, Ky. He served foui'teen months in the war of 1812-13, half the time as first Lieut., and was then promoted to Captain. Margaret Norton was born Oct. 25, 1793, in Bourbon county, also. They were married there, Feb. 20, 1814, and had three living children in Kentucky. The family moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov., 1819, in what is now Chatham township, first at a place called Turkey Point, and in the spring of 1820, moved further up Lick creek, and made a permanent settlement five miles west of the present town of Chatham, where they had nine living children. Of their children -

BENJAMIN F., born Jan. i, 1819, in Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Dec. 17, 1840, to Mary Jacobs, who was born Oct. i, 1821, in Clarke county, Ky. They had eight living children in Sangamon county ELIZABETH married Samuel C. Sumpter, who was born in Sangamon county.

He enlisted July 20, 1861, at Springfield, for three years, in what became Co. C, nth Mo. Inf. ; reenlisted as a veteran, Jan., 1864, at LaGrange, Tenn., served until Jan. 15, 1866, when he was honorably discharged at St. Louis, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Sumpter have three children, CORA, DORA and HOMER A., and reside five miles west of Chatham. MARGARET C. married James M. Greening. See his name. MARTHA J. married Lee R. Graham. See his name. MARIA F. married John Garvey. See his name. LORINDA J. married Feb., 1875, to Col. John Watson, and live in Auburn. EMMA S. married Dec., 1873, to William Vandoren. See his name. JULIA A. and BENJ. F., Jun., reside with their mother. Benjamin F. Darneille died Dec. 5, 1872, and his widow resides six miles west of Chatham.

Mrs. Darneille relates some incidents both instructive and amusing, of her early married life. She says that when herself and husband went to set up housekeeping, he had but ten dollars. Cooking stoves were not in fashion, but they bought pots, skillets, pans, spoons, knives and forks, etc., thus securing their outfit, and had some money left. Lamps and burning fluids were unknown, and for nearly ten years their only candlesticks were made by taking gourds and cutting off about half the bowl end, so that they would sit upright, and then cutting off the necks and inserting the candles. The first crop of oats Mr. Darnielle raised he hauled thirty bushels to Springfield, and gave the load even for eight yards of calico to make a dress for his wife.

THOMAS J., born Oct. 4, 1820, in Sangamon county, married Martha Mc- Ginnis. They had two living children in Sangamon county. JOHN D., born Nov. 29, 1848, married in Warsaw. Ky., to Jennie Brown, a native of that city, and resides there. They have two children, MELINDA and JAMES w. JAMES W., born in Sangamon county, vSept. 16, 1850, married Oct. 31, 1871, in Belyidere, 111., to Belle Moulton, a native of Minneapolis, Minn. They have one child, MABEL, and reside in Chicago. Mrs. Martha . Darnielle died, and Mr. D. married Mrs. America Gibson, whose maiden name was Forrest. Thos. J. Darnielle died Nov. 21, 1854, in Sangamon county. His widow

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JAMES M., born Jan. 22, 1822, in Sangamon county, married Jan. i, 1852, to Clarrissa Kinney. They have six children, CAROLINE K., MAGGIE H., JOHN H., FLORENCE E., CHAS. A. and JAMES M., Jim., reside with their parents, in Chatham, Sangamon county, 111.

ELIZABETH,\>orn Dec. 10, 1826, in Sangamon county, married Abraham Gish, had two children. Mrs. G. and one of the children died. The other child, BENJAMIN F., resides with his father, in Auburn tomnship.