Vandeveer, Aaron

Born: 1785-02-07 Virginia

Died: 1857-04-27 Taylorville, Illinois

Flourished: Sangamon County, Illinois

Alternate name: Vandever

In 1805, Vandeveer married Nancy French in Kentucky. Eventually, they had eleven children together. They moved to Indiana in 1814 and in October 1829, they settled in southeastern Sangamon County, Illinois. Vandeveer was a farmer and a minister in the Regular Baptist Church. In 1836, he ran for state representative from Sangamon County as a Democrat. In 1850, he owned $1,920 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), 738-39; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Sangamon County, IL, 135; List of Members of the Illinois Legislature in 1855; Tabulation of Votes in Sangamon County for State Representatives 1832-1836; Gravestone, Ralston Cemetery, Bulpitt, IL.