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 82 ANDERSON, JAMES, was born in 1784 in Botetourt county, Va. NANCY FLETCHER was born in 1786, in Rockbridge county, Va. They were married in 1802, and had two children in Virginia. They moved, in 1808, to Kentucky, where they had three children, and in 1813 moved to Indiana, where one child was born. They moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1820, and settled in what is now Ball township. Of their six children -- ROBERT N., born in Virginia, married, in Sangamon county. to REBECCA WILSON, who died, and he married CLARISSA WOODS, moved to Wisconsin and both died there. MARGARET L., born March 28, 1806, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to WILLIAM DRENNAN. (see his name.) JOB F., born in Kentucky, died unmarried at 55 years of age. JOHN N., born in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, married in Arkansas, and died there. NANCY, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to JOHN CALDWELL, and died in Texas. REBECCA, born in Indiana, raised in Sangamon county, went to Arkansas, married and died there. JAMES ANDERSON died in 1828 and his widow died in 1845, both in Sangamon county. ==========================================================================