Family: Harmonas Alkire / Martha Matilda McLemore (F11710)

• Father | Male Harmonas Alkire

  
  

  Born	Abt 1804	Bourbon County, Kentucky
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried
  Married	31 Dec 1829	Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Mother | Female Martha Matilda McLemore

  
  

  Born	10 Jul 1810	Burke County, North Carolina
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried
  Father	Young McLemore | F11707 Group Sheet
  Mother	Nancy Ann Plumlee | F11707 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Female Mary Ann Alkire

  
  

  Born	Abt 1831	Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 2 | Male James Young Alkire

  
  

  Born	3 Feb 1832	Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 3 | Female Margaret J. Alkire

  
  

  Born	17 Dec 1833	Sangamon County, Illinois
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 4 | Female Caroline M. Alkire

  
  

  Born	24 Jan 1835	Sangamon County, Illinois
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 5 | Male William W. Alkire

  
  

  Born	16 Jul 1837	Sangamon County, Illinois
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 6 | Male Daniel Dickson Alkire

  
  

  Born	Abt 1841	Sangamon County, Illinois
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 7 | Male Albert Harmonas Alkire

  
  

  Born	Abt 1843	Sangamon County, Illinois
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 8 | Female Priscilla E. Alkire

  
  

  Born	Abt 1845	Sangamon County, Illinois
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 9 | Female Martha "Mattie" E. Alkire

  
  

  Born	Abt 1848	Sangamon County, Illinois
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 10 | Male Leander "Lee" Alkire

  
  

  Born	Abt 1854	Sangamon County, Illinois
  Died	5 Jun 1871	Sangamon County, Illinois
  Buried

  
  

• Notes

  Married: 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.