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† Source:
History of
the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois
- Centennial Record -
By John Carroll Power
Assisted by his wife,
Mrs. S. A. Power
Under the Auspices of the Old Settlers Society.
Springfield, Ill.:
Edwin A. Wilson & Co.
1876
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CASPER YOUNG was born
June 8, 1798, at Hazellochy, on the river Mayn, Hesse
Darmstadt, Germany. Susan Boll was born in
1802, in the town of Florsheim, in Nassau, on the
opposite side of the Mayn from Hazelloch.
Casper Young and Susan Boll were married at
Florsheim in 1821. They had four children in
Germany and emigrated to America in 1835. They
were seven weeks on the passage from Amsterdam to New
York. Their first stoppage was at Coshocton, Ohio.
From there they went to St. Louis, Missouri, by the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers, and tarried one year in St.
Clair county, Illinois. In the fall of 1837 they
arrived in Sangamon county, in the southeast corner of
Woodside township, where three children were born.
Of their seven children -
MARGARET, born in Germany,
married in Sangamon county to Frank Schick.
They had two children. G. Schick was a
professor in a college in St. Louis. He is a
lawyer. Mrs. Schickdied in Mt. Pulaski,
Illinois.
GARRED, called Charley
- was born Dec. 17, 1825, at Florsheim, Nassau, Germany.
He was married in Sangamon county April 18, 1852, to
Mrs. Sally White, whose maiden name was Gatton,
a daughter of Charles Gatton. She had one
child by her first marriage, MARY ANN, who is now the
wife of Mr. Lyman, of Pana. Mr. and Mrs.
Young had three children, REBECCA, WILLIAM R. and
CATHARINE, and Mrs. Sally Young died Feb. 2,
1863. Mr. Young was married February, 1864,
to Ellen Abell. She died without
children, Nov. 4, 1866. Mr. Young was
married Oct. 1, 1867, at Lebanon, Kentucky, to Maggie
E. Buckman. They reside one and a half miles
north of Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr.
Young has represented Pawnee township several terms
in Sangamon county Board of Supervisors, and is one of
the many successful farmers of Sangamon county.
MARY, born in Germany,
married Henry Harschlier has seven children, and
lives in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.
CATHARINE, born in Germany,
married Frank Schick. They have six
children, and live in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.
MARY EVE, born in Sangamon
county, married Philip Schwigead. They had
two children, and Mr. S. Died. The widow
married Jacob Hundt, and lives in Mt. Pulaski,
Illinois
Casper Young moved
to Mt. Pulaski in 1855. Mrs. Susan Young
died June, 1867. Casper Young died Sept.
27, 1875, both in Mt. Pulaski, Logan county, Ill.
† Source: History
of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois -
Centennial Record - Springfield, Ill.: Edwin A. Wilson &
Co. - 1876 - Page 795 |
EZEKIEL YOUNG was born
about 1795, in Trigg county, Kentucky. He was
married in North Carolina to Sarah Coleman.
They had five children in Kentucky, and moved to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in 1827 on Richland
creek, where one child was born. Two of their
children only are in Sangamon county.
LUCINDA married Samuel Beradon. See
his name.
ARCHIBALD, born April 21, 1828 in Sangamon county,
married Nov. 18, 1850, to Elizabeth Wood, born in
Sangamon county, (sister to Mrs. Wolgamot.)
They had four children: EMMA died January, 1868,
in her fourteenth year. LAURA, died July, 1869, in
her fourteenth year. MARY E. and IDA BELLE, reside
with their parents, near Woodside, Sangamon county,
Illinois
Ezekiel Young died
May, 1853, and his widow died in 1864, both in Cass
county, Illinois.
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Source: History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon
County, Illinois - Centennial Record - Springfield,
Ill.: Edwin A. Wilson & Co. - 1876 - Page 795 |
JAMES YOUNG was born
Dec. 19, 1788, in Wilkes county, North Carolina.
His parents moved to Montgomery county, Kentucky, when
he was a young man. He was there married Feb. 10,
1822, to Lucinda R. Cunning, who was born Aug.
12, 1804, in the same county. They had seven
children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1838 in what is now
Curran township, where three children were born.
Of their children three children were born. Of
their children three died under five years. Of the
other seven -
VIRGINIA, born Jan. 15,
1823, married John P. Lindsay, had six children,
and died May 2, 1850, near Springfield. See his
name in Omissions.
WILBOURN, born Oct. 23, 1824,
is unmarried, and resides at the family homestead near
Curran, Illinois.
ELIZABETH, born Oct. 21,
1826, married Wade Burch. See his name.
JAMES,
was born Aug. 20, 1831, married Catharine Foster,
have eight children, SILAS A., MARGARET,
JAMES M., EUGENE, FRANCIS, ALBERTUS, NANCY and EMMA, and
live near Chatham, Illinois.
SILAS F., born March 1,
1834, is unmarried, and lives in Fayette county,
Illinois.
ANN E., born Oct. 15,
1837, married William B. Greenwood. See
his name. He died and she married Benjamin
Easley. See his name.
MARTHA C., born June
6, 1841, married Feb. 22, 1865, and has three children,
FATIMA, ARTHUR and LEONA MAY, and live with their
mother.
James Young died March 11, 1870, aged eighty-two
years, and his widow resides on the farm where they
settled in 1838, near Curran, Illinois - 1874.
† Source: History
of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois -
Centennial Record - Springfield, Ill.: Edwin A. Wilson &
Co. - 1876 - Page 795 |
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