Forrest, Dennis

Born: 1784-10-25 North Carolina

Died: 1855-07-29 Sangamon County, Illinois

Flourished: 1835-1855 Sangamon County, Illinois

In 1811, Forrest married Elizabeth McClintock in Kentucky. They had eight children there before moving to Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1835. Forrest was a farmer; in 1850, he owned $1,900 worth of real estate.

John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 305-306; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Sangamon County, IL, 158.