Macon County Biographies T Thompson, M. B.    Traughber, Henry    Traughber, Rev. Daniel    Travis, Allen    Travis, Finis    Travis, Harvey    Travis, James    Travis, John    Travis, Thomas    Turpin, Edmund    Turpin, Mattison    Turpin, William    M. B. Thompson, Tenth States Attorney. -- Mr. Thompson was born in 1833, in Vigo County, Indiana, and came to Illinois in 1856, and settled in Urbana, Champaign County. He was elected state's attorney in 1868, for the seventeenth judicial circuit, of which Macon County formed a part at that time. Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 56. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards. HENRY TRAUGHBER [ed., was born] January 9, 1803, in Logan County, Ky.; came to Illinois in November, 1825; staid there until 1829; then came to Macon County, and was married to Nancy Smith, who was born in Tennessee, and died in August, 1863. Of their children -- Robert S., born September 2, 1830; died February 8, 1863; married Elizabeth Bell.  David, born September 2, 1832; died in infancy.  C., born April 3, 1833; married V. C. Whitehouse.  E. M. E., born about 1843; married Wm. Cox; dead.  M. J. C. married D. P. During. M. R. died in 1868. Caroline married Kitt__________; died in 1874. Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 287. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards. Rev. DANIEL TRAUGHBER was born in Logan County, Ky., in May, 1800, and came to Illinois in 1837 or '8, and settled on Big Creek, in Mt. Zion township. He married Mary Banks, in Kentucky, by whom he had four children -- Elizabeth married Robert Lansden, Wilson County, Kansas. Gabrella married Robert Foster, Wilson County, Kansas. Henry married in Wilson County, Kansas. Mr. T. married a second time to Elizabeth Foster, by whom the following children were born -- Cyrus lives at Ottawa, Kansas. Mr. T. married a third time to Eliza Smalley, by whom the following children were born -- Mary A. married John Edwards; lives in Wilson County, Kansas. Daniel B.; dead. Harris lives in Wilson County, Kansas. Mr. T. moved to Fredonia, Kan., in 1872, and now resides there. Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 287. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards. ALLEN TRAVIS was born May 18, 1789, in York District, South Carolina [ed., probably York County, South Carolina]. In 1805 his father removed with the family to Livingston County, Ky., where Allen was married, October 5, 1820, to Margaret Campbell, who was born March 5, 1801. They removed to Wayne County, Illinois, perhaps in the spring of 1821, and to Macon County in March, 1829, in company with his brothers Finis and Thomas, James D. Campbell, Andrew and John Davidson. Mrs. Travis died some five or six years ago. Of their children -- John B. was born January 9, 1823, in Wayne County, Illinois. James D. C. was born March 7, 1825, in Wayne County, Illinois. Presly A. was born April 24, 1827, in Wayne County, Illinois. Rebecca was born February 24, 1829, in Sangamon County, Ill. Wm. H. was born March 30, 1831, in Macon County, Ill. Elizabeth J. was born May 23, 1834, in Macon County, III.; died January 5, 1863. Samuel H. was born September 14, 1836, in Macon County. Ill.; died January 9, 1863. Ulysses D. was born March 5, 1839, in Macon County, Ill.; died April 27, 1863. Margaret Z. was born February 3, 1841, in Macon County, Illinois. Thomas C. was born March 23, 1844, in Macon County, Ill. Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 288. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards. FINIS TRAVIS was born in Kentucky, in 1810, in what is now Crittenden County, and was married in 1840 to Nancy J. Foster, who was then the widow of Wm. Foster, maiden name Bell. She died, and he married a second time to Nancy Mahollen. Both are now dead. Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 288. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards. HARVEY TRAVIS was born in Wayne County, Illinois, in 1823, and removed with the family to Macon County in 1830. In 1851 he married Elizabeth Cox, who died in 1862, and he married a second time to Harriet M. F. Campbell; now resides in Decatur. Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 288. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards. James Travis, Twelfth Sheriff. -- Was born in Kentucky about 1810. He removed to Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and thence to Macon County, where he was elected sheriff in 1868, and served for one term. In 1873 he removed to Grand Rapids, Michigan. His present residence unknown. Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 54. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards. JOHN TRAVIS was born in South Carolina in 1768, where he married Rebecca Travis, born in South Carolina in 1777. He died in Wayne County, Illinois, in 1824, and Mrs. T. in Macon County, in 1850. Their children were Allen, Thomas, Finis and Harvey, mentioned elsewhere. Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 287. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards. THOMAS TRAVIS was born in South Carolina, and was married before removing to Illinois, to Sarah Davidson, and settled one and a half miles northwest of Mt. Zion, Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 288. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards. EDMUND TURPIN was born in 1811. The two brothers [ed., William and Mattison] are stIll residents of the county. Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 288. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards MATTISON TURPIN was born in 1813, and came to Macon County with his brother, William. Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 288. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards. WM. TURPIN was born in Grayson County, Ky., in 1809, and came to Macon County in 1831, and settled on Big Creek. Smith, J. W. (1876). History of Macon County, Illinois, from its organization to 1876. Springfield, Ill: Rokker's Printing House. P. 288. Transcribed and annotated by Judy Rosella Edwards. HOME ©2008 Genealogy Trails