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OVERBY, DRURY, farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 8, P.O. Greenfield, born Aug. 31, 1814; his father, Nicholas Overby, was born March 2, 1776, in Virginia; was married to Elizabeth McKiney, a native of North Carolina; the family lived in Tennessee till December, 1829, then emigrated to Illinois, and stopped in Sangamon Co., near Springfield, and rented land; made a crop the Summer before the deep snow; was in the war of 1812; was at New Orleans at the time of the battle there, but was sick at the time, and did not participate in the battle; died in Illinois, September 6, 1857, at the age of eighty-two; his wife died in 1841 in Greene County. The subject of this sketch was married Dec. 24, 1835, to Sallie Scott, the daughter of Welcome and Elizabeth Scott, was born March 22, 1815; have nine children, seven living: Louisa J., born Oct. 7, 1836; Martha L., born June 8, 1838; Julia A., born July 5, 1840; Mississippi, born April 8, 1843; Elizabeth V., born Dec. 7, 1845, died Oct. 5, 1865; Louisiana, born April 17, 1848; Henry E., born Dec. 3, 1853; Lenda J., born Aug. 3, 1856; William T., born Dec. 25, 1860. Mr. Overby, at the age of twenty, entered land from the Government, entering 40 acres at a time, till he accumulated 140 acres, which he still owns.