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History of Macon Co., Illinois
from its organization to 1876
By
John W. Smith, Esq.
of the Macon County Bar.

Springfield: Rokker's Printing House.
1876

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CHAPTER X. -
Biographical Sketches
of Early Settlers
who came here prior to 1836, and their families, up to the Present time; Births, Marriages, Deaths, etc.
Page 246

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JOSIAH ABRAMS was born in Ohio; moved to Sangamon county in 1822, and to Macon county in 1829; married Nancy Davis.   Of their children -
     LEVI was born July 25, 1808; married Mayon MooreELIZABETH was born in 1810; married Dan. HowellHENRY A. was born Oct. 12, 1812; married Elizabeth PrimmMARIA J. married Burdine Church (dead).  DELILA married A. J. SinclairJEMMIMA married S. R. WheelerJAMES married Louisa JohnsonSUSAN married Felix ButlerFRANCIS M.
CAPT. DAVID L. ALLEN
SAMUEL C. ALLEN
BENJ. AUSTIN was born in Virginia, Mar. 26, 1802, and removed to Macon County in the fall of 1825.  He was a surveyor, and laid out the original town plat of Decatur, and was for a great many years justice of the peace.  He married Margaret Warnick who was born in Tennessee, Feb. 22, 1806.  Of their children -
     JANE was born May 27, 1826; WILLIAM was born Dec. 22, 1828; NANCY C. was born Sept. 15, 1830; PERLINA was born Sept. 5, 1832; died May 3, 1870; LUCINDA was born Sept. 10, 1834; died.  SUSAN was born Nov. 28, 1836; died Mar. 5, 1837.  MARGARET A. was born Feb. 23, 1837; EDMISTON was born Sept. 25, 1839; GEO. W. was born Aug. 21, 1851.
JESSE AUSTIN was born May 3, 1818, in Rutherford county, Tenn., and moved to Macon county in 1831; was married in 1847 to Catharine Faris.  Of their seven children -
     NANCY E. was born July 2, 1848; died 1853.  JOSEPH H. was born Feb. 16, 1850.  ROSETTA A. was born Sept. 14, 1851, and was married to Wm. Getts. Mar. 24, 1870.  WILLIAM I. was born July 16, 1853.  MELLISSA E. was born Aug. 25, 1862.  ELIZABETH  was born Apr. 2, 1865.  MARY J. was born Oct. 3, 1857.
WM. A. AUSTIN was born in Virginia, Apr. 26, 1806, and removed to Macon county in 1828, where he married Eleanor Warnick, who was born in Tennessee, Jan. 23, 1810.  She was a daughter of Wm. Wornick, and came to Macon county in 1825; died Nov. 16, 1853.  Of their children -
     HENRIETTA was born Nov. 18, 1832.  LETTECIA J. was born July 3, 1834; died Sept. 20, 1835.  MAY E. was born May 3, 1836; died June 13, 1840.  JOSEPH was born Oct. 31, 1837.  BENJ. L. was born Nov. 26, 1839.  GEO. W. was born Aug. 21, 1841; died May 15, 1860.  WM. C. was born Jan. 1, 1843.  LOUISA M. was born Aug. 11, 1845; died Aug. 21, 1845.  JOHN A. was born July 19, 1846.  NANCY J. was born Apr. 22, 1949.  LEWIS N. was born Feb. 25, 1851.  THOMAS J. was born Nov. 5, 1853.
     Mr. A. was married a second time, Aug. 12, 1853.  Children by last wife -
     KATE was born Jan. 1861.   ALVIN W. was born Sept. 13, 1863.  MARY E. was born Sept. 4, 1867.  INFANT son was born Sept. 19, 1869; died Sept. 19, 1870.  JAMES M. was born May 4, 1873.
JAMES M. BAKER
NEWTON BAKER
WILLIAM D. BAKER
DAVID BARNWELL was born in South Carolina in 1802, and moved thence to Davidson county, Tenn., where he married Elizabeth Haddick, who was about the same age, and born in Tennessee.  They removed to Illinois in 1833, and first settled in what is now Long Creek township.  Mr. B. died in 1836 or 7, in Fayette county.  Mrs. B. died about 1840, in Macon county.  Of their six children -
     ALFRED A. was born Jan. 30, 1823, in Tennessee; died 1871.  EDWARD A. was born Aug. 30, 1824, in Tennessee; now resides in Cerro Gordo.  RICHARD G. was born Apr. 31, 1828, in Tennessee; resides in Idaho Territory.  ALMIRA C. was born Sept. 3, 1829, in Tennessee; married Orrin Foster, and now resides in LaBette county Kansas.  JOHN B. was born May 19, 1832, in Tennessee; resides in Macon county.  NANCY E. was born about 1834; died in infancy.
ALEXANDER W. BELL
KIRBY BENEDICT
JOHN F. BLANKENSHIP
SAMUEL BRADEN
RICHARD H. BRETT
MICAJAH M. BURKE was born in Kentucky, Apr. 6, 1804 and came to this county in 1834, and married Lucy A. Pasly, who was born in Kentucky, Apr. 21, 1814.  Mr. B. died May 26, 1863.  Of their children -
     JOHN H. was born Mar. 29, 1835.  JAMES W. was born Nov. 21, 1837.  ROBERT Y. was born May 5, 1840.  THOMAS was born Apr. 3, 1843.  DELPHA was born Aug. 9, 1845.  JOSEPH was born Feb. 20, 1848.  LEWIS B. was born Jan. 8, 1851.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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