Harmonas Alkire

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Cole Shoaf shows that he was born ca 1804 in Bourbon County, KY and died 21 Sept 1896 in Fancy Creek Township, Sangamon County, IL, being buried in the Fancy Creek Cemetery there.

Eddie Maynard found the following biography of Harmonas in the book HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS "Centennial Report,: John Carroll Power, Edwin A. Wilson and Co, Springfield, Illionis, 1876, pages 78 and 79.

Alkire, Harmonas was born in 1804 in Bourbon county, KY. His parents moved when he was quite young, to Pickaway county, O. in 1826 he visited Sangamon County on business for other parties. Returning to Ohio, he went to Lafayeet, Ind. The next year he came to Sangamon county again, on business and was married in Springfield, Dec, 31, 1829, to Martha McLemore. She was born July 10, 1810, in Burke county, N. C. Her parents moved, in 1811, to Knoxville, Tenn., and moved from there to Sangamon County, Ill, arriving Dec. 23, 1828 at Springfield. Soon after marriage M. Alkire returned to Lafayette with hsi wife. They had two children born there, and then moved to Sangamon county, arriving, August 1832, in what is now Fancy Creek township, where they had eight living children....

Harmonas married Martha Matilda McLemore on 31 Dec 1829 in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois. Martha (daughter of Young McLemore and Nancy Ann Plumlee) was born on 10 Jul 1810 in Burke County, North Carolina; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Eddie Maynard found the following biography of Harmonas in the book HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS "Centennial Report,: John Carroll Power, Edwin A. Wilson and Co, Springfield, Illionis, 1876, pages 78 and 79.

Alkire, Harmonas was born in 1804 in Bourbon county, KY. His parents moved when he was quite young, to Pickaway county, O. in 1826 he visited Sangamon County on business for other parties. Returning to Ohio, he went to Lafayeet, Ind. The next year he came to Sangamon county again, on business and was married in Springfield, Dec, 31, 1829, to Martha McLemore. She was born July 10, 1810, in Burke county, N. C. Her parents moved, in 1811, to Knoxville, Tenn., and moved from there to Sangamon County, Ill, arriving Dec. 23, 1828 at Springfield. Soon after marriage M. Alkire returned to Lafayette with hsi wife. They had two children born there, and then moved to Sangamon county, arriving, August 1832, in what is now Fancy Creek township, where they had eight living children....Harmonas Alkire and his wife are living ont he farm where they settled in 1832. It is three miles west of Sherman. He confirms the statement of Washington Crowder that the sudden change took place December 20, 1836, because he entered a piece of land that day, and the papers bear the above date.

1. Mary Ann Alkire was born about 1831 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana; and died.
2. James Young Alkire was born on 3 Feb 1832 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana; and died.
3. Margaret J. Alkire was born on 17 Dec 1833 in Sangamon County, Illinois; and died.
4. Caroline M. Alkire was born on 24 Jan 1835 in Sangamon County, Illinois; and died.
5. William W. Alkire was born on 16 Jul 1837 in Sangamon County, Illinois; and died.
6. Daniel Dickson Alkire was born about 1841 in Sangamon County, Illinois; and died.
7. Albert Harmonas Alkire was born about 1843 in Sangamon County, Illinois; and died.
8. Priscilla E. Alkire was born about 1845 in Sangamon County, Illinois; and died.
9. Martha "Mattie" E. Alkire was born about 1848 in Sangamon County, Illinois; and died.
10. Leander "Lee" Alkire was born about 1854 in Sangamon County, Illinois; died on 5 Jun 1871 in Sangamon County, Illinois.