1. Henry Funderburk was born Feb. 18, 1773, in Orange district, S. C. Polly Rape was born in February, 1786, in the same district. They were married and had two children. They then moved to Dickson county, Tenn., where four children were born, and then to St. Clair county, Ill., in 1816. From St. Clair county they moved to what became Sangamon county, arriving in the spring of 1817 or '18 west of Horse creek, near where Daniel G. Jones now resides, in Cotton Hill township. Mr. F. moved in company with William Nelson. They both built cabins and raised crops the year they came. Mr. F. had seven children born in Sangamon county, making a total of thirteen. Mrs. Polly Funderburk died Aug. 1, 1841, and Henry Funderburk died Aug. 14, 1843, both near where they settled in 1818, in Cotton Hill township. [139]