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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



HAMILTON, GEORGE KNOX, was born August 17, 1798 in Davidson county, Tenn. He came, in company with his father, four brothers and two sisters, to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1819, and settled near what is now Bradford Station. He was married March 5, 1823, to Jane Colman, they had three children, namely -

ROBERT F., born Nov. 15, 1824, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 28, 1847, to Tabitha J. Purvines. They had ten children: two died in infancy. FRANCES A. married Abraham Weir. They have two children, Nellie T. and Frank Milton, and reside one mile east of Pleasant Plains. MARY J. married Andrew Zane. See his name. MARTHA E. married Samuel Ayers. SYLVIA H. died April 3,1 876, in her twenty-second year. CLARA M., WILLIAM L., CORDIA A. and KATIE C. reside with their parents, one and a quarter miles northeast of Pleasant Plains. Mr. Robert F. Hamilton has in his possession documents showing that the Richland Primitive Baptist Church was organized Sept. 16, 1820, by Robert Brayle, moderator, and Simon Lindley, clerk. It was the second church of any kind organized in Sangamon county; the first having been effected May 15, 1820, by Elder Stephen England. See his name.

MARTHA M., born March 28, 1827, in Sangamon county, married Azro Emery, in Crawford county, Mol, had two children, and died. Her husband and children reside in Missouri.

GEORGE K., Jun., born April 11, 1829, after the death of his father, raised in Sangamon county, married in Crawford county, Mo., to Nancy Anderson. They had three living children, and both died in Cartwright township. Of the children - WILLIAM F. is a clerk in Springfield. ELLA J. and THEODOSIA B. live with their grandmother Purvines.

George Knox Hamilton, died Oct. 14, 1828, in Sangamon county, and his widow married Alexander C. Purvines. See his name.

Robert Hamilton, the father of G. K. Hamilton, was born in North Carolina, married in Tennessee, moved to Pope county, Ill., and was one of the early representatives of that county in the State Legislature, came to Sangamon county in 1819, moved to Arkansas a few years later and died there in 1833 or '4. His sons and daughters, all except Geo. Knox left Sangamon county many years ago. Some went to Missouri and three of them from there to Oregon, where two of them have families and now reside.



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