Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2022 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== 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 Page 80 ALSBURY, REV. CHAS. D., was born Oct. 25, 1817, in Indiana. He came to Sangamon county, Ill., and was mar- ried March 14, 1839, to ANN CORDELIA CLOYD. They had five living children, namely: THOMAS, born Feb. 12, 1840, and died Nov. 6, 1860. ANN, born in 1841 or '2; married April 4, 1861, to JOHN W. ANDERSON. They have four children. CHARLES W., MINNIE A., JOHN C. and MELISSA J., and reside in Woodside township. CAROLINE, married Dec., 1870, to LEANDER L. LITTLE; have one child, and reside in Montgomery county. MARTHA, married Jan. 3, 1867, to JOHN D. SMITH (see his name.) JOHN C., resides with his mother. REV. CHARLES D. ALSBURY was a preacher of the gospel in connection with the Baptist church. He died, and his widow resides one and a half miles northwest of Woodside. ==========================================================================