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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History
of
Sangamon County, Illinois
Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships,
Educational,
Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits
of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of
Representative Citizens.
HISTORY OF ILLINOIS
Embracing Accounts of the Pre-Historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and
Political and Military History
- ILLUSTRATED -
Publ. Chicago:
Interstate Publishing Company
1881.
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GEO. W. BAILEY
was born on a farm near Rogersville, Hawkins county,
Tennessee, Mar. 12,1823. He lived therewith his father
until nearly twenty-one years of age, when he was married to
Miss Louisa A. Jones, in 1841. She was born in
Tennessee, and was a daughter of Elisha Jones
and Nancy Harmon. Mrs.
Bailey died in 1851. When twenty-two years of age,
Mr. Bailey enlisted in the Mexican War, under
Colonel McClernand, in the Fifth Tennessee
Infantry, and at the close of the war, in 1848, he came to
Illinois, and settled in Rochester township, Sangamon
county, where he remained twelve years, when he moved on the
farm where he now resides in Salisbury township. In
1860, he built a saw-mill here on the creek, which he ran
fifteen years. He then ran a portable mill three
years, farmed two years. In 1879, took charge as a
partner and superintendent of Primm's saw and grist-mill in
Menard county, where he is still engaged. He was
married to Eliza E. Sexton, Aug. 21, 1852. She
was born in North Carolina, and was a daughter of Thos.
Sexton and Rena Sykes. Mr. and Mrs.
Bailey had six children, five living, viz.: Thos. D.,
John J., Mary E., Chas. W., and Vashti Bailey.
Mrs. Bailey was a member of the United
Brethren Church. She died October, 1871. Mr.
Bailey was married to his present wife. Miss
Haley E. Cantrall, Oct. 9, 1872. She was born in
Sangamon county, Illinois, and was a daughter of Joshua
M. Cantrall and Sallie Cantrall. Mr. and
Mrs. Bailey have one child, viz., Sarah A. Bailey.
Mr. Geo. Bailey raised Company H, One Hundred and
Fourteenth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, in 1862; was
appointed captain of this company. He has held the
position of justice of the peace since 1861, a position he
still retains. He has held many other township
offices. He is at present school director in his
township.
In politics, he is a Democrat. Mr. Bailey
has his farm of one hundred and two acres, on which he
resides, all under good cultivation. His father,
Thomas Bailey, was born in Hawkins county,
Tennessee. He was a farmer, and died in 1831.
His wife, Melvina Moore, was born in
Tennessee. She was a member of the Baptist Church and the
mother of six children, three living. She died in
1862.
Source: History of Sangamon Co., IL - publ. 1881 -
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WILLIAM BATTERTON,
post office, Salisbury, was born in Kentucky Dec. 14, 1801.
His father, Amos Batterton, was born in Loudon
county, Virginia, 1781. His mother, Nancy Batterton,
was born in North Carolina, 1784. They were married in
Kentucky, and were the parents of the following named
children: David, Nelson, Anderson,
William, Polly, Levi, Susan,
Priscilla and Enoch George. Of whom
David, Nelson, Polly, Anderson,
Susan and Priscilla are now deceased.
Father and mother both died in 1834.
Wm. Batterton came to Sangamon county in
1818, and was married Jan. 1, 1833, to Eliza Gaines,
daughter of Richard and Amy Gaines, who came from
Virginia to this county in 1822. They had thirteen
children, viz: Madison, born Oct. 20, 1833; John,
born Jan. 8, 1835, died Sept. 7, 1835; Richard, born
July 19, 1836; Amy, born Feb. 19, 1838; Robert,
born August 4, 1839, died August 13, 1868; May, born
Feb. 27, 1841, died July 6, 1844; Henry C., born Nov.
6, 1843; Mildred P., born May 4, 1846; Maria,
born Oct. 3, 1848; Sarah Eliza, born Mar. 19,
1851; Charlotte, born Jan. 29, 1853; George M.,
born May 19, 1854. Mr. B. owns two hundred
acres of land, valued at $50 an acre. His sons,
Robert and Madison, were members of the One
Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
His educational advantages were such as the subscription
schools of his day afforded.
Source: History of Sangamon Co., IL - publ. 1881 -
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PHILO BEERS was born in
1793, in Woodbury, Connecticut. When he was about
fifteen years old he was put to live with an elder brother,
probably on account of the death of his parents. They
could not agree, and he ran away, and was gone twelve or
thirteen years, without his relatives hearing from him.
During his ramblings he become acquainted with Dr.
Joseph Bennett Stillman, who introduced him to
his mother and sisters, at Morganfield, Kentucky. Mr.
Beers always said that he made up his mind, on their
first acquaintance, to have Miss Martha
Stillman for a wife. The Stillman family
moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, and Mr. Beers
went to Carlyle, Clinton county, same State. He was
first elected a justice of the peace, and after serving for
a time, was elected to represent Clinton county in the
legislature of Illinois, when it assembled in Vandalia.
While residing at Carlyle he was married in Sangamon county,
on the farm of John Poorman. In response
to a letter of inquiry, the author of this book received
from the clerk of Madison county, Illinois, a reply, in
which it is stated that a license was issued at
Edwardsville, Oct. 27, 1820, for the marriage of Philo
Beers and Martha Stillman; that it was
returned, endorsed by Elder Stephen England,
with the statement that he had solemnized the marriage, Nov.
2, 1820. The clerk also stated that it was the two
hundred and seventy-ninth license issued from that office.
They are believed to have been the first couple married
north of the Sangamon river in the State of Illinois;
certainly the first in what is now Sangamon county.
The first marriage under a license from Sangamon county was
between Wm. Moss and Margaret
Sims, April, 1821.
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