EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY -

EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power
These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.

PIPPIN, JOSEPH, was born April 2, 1782, in Cecil county, Md., and taken by his parents to Russell county Va. He was there married Dec. 12, 1812, to Sarah Haines, sister to Christopher Haines. See his name. She was born in Russell county, June 5, 1785. In August, 1813, they moved to Allen county, Ky., where they had ten children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 10, 1830, in what is now Cotton Hill township, where one child was born. Of their children:

MARGARET, married to John Ashford, and died, leaving a family in Kentucky.

TELITHA, born Sept. 29, 1815, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to James A. Snodgrass. See his name.

MARY, born in Kentucky, and died in Sangamon county, aged twenty years.

CHRISTOPHER, born Oct. 12, 1819, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, Feb. 14, 1848.

MARTHA A., born April 11, 1821 and

JOHN L., born March 10, 1823, in Kentucky and both live with their parents.

WILLIAM, died under five years.

JESSE, born Feb. 11, 1827, in Allen county Ky., married in Sangamon county, June 25, 1862, to Isabel Craig. She was born August 28, 1840 in Glasgow, Scotland. They had five children; two died under six years. MARY E., JOHN A. and BURGESS R., live with their parents near New City, Sangamon county, Illinois

CATHARINE, born Feb. 14, 1829, married Jackson Ryan. She died Jan. 7, 1849.

NANCY A., born Feb. 11, 1830, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to John Benjamin.

MELINDA F., born March 5, 1833, in Sangamon county, married John Allen, and she died Sept. 2, 1865.

Joseph Pippin died August 10, 1873, in his ninety-second year. His widow lives in Cotton Hill township, near where they settle din 1830. their married life extended over more than sixty years.