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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.



PRICKETT, DAVID, was born Sept. 21, 1800, in Franklin county, Georgia, and came to Edwardsville, Madison county, Ill., in 1816. He graduated in the law department of Transylvania University, at Lexington, Ky., in his twenty-first year, and was admitted to practice at Edwardsville, Nov. 15, 1821. He was Judge of the probate court of Madison county, and in 1826 was elected to the General Assembly of Illinois, at Vandalia. In 1831 he was aid-de-camp to Gen. John D. Whitesides, in the Black Hawk war. David Prickett was married Jan. 24, 1834, at Tremont, Tazewell county, Ill., to Charlotte G. Griffith, who was born May 9, 1806, in Chester county, Penn. She was a sister to Mrs. Hannah G. Opkycke, and daughter of Dr. Thomas Griffith, of Tremont, who was formerly of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Prickett moved to Springfield, Ill., in 1835. They had five children, all born in Springfield. Susan, the youngest, died in infancy. Of the other four--

CHRISTINA G., resides in Springfield, with her mother.

THOMAS G., born in Springfield, was elected city attorney three times, was elected alderman from the third ward, is now--1876--a member of the city council, is a practicing lawyer, and resides with his mother in Springfield, Illinois.

GIBSON R. and HANNAH O. live with their mother.

David Prickett died March, 1847, and Mrs. Charlotte G. Prickett resides in Springfield, Illinois.

Hon. David Prickett was the first reporter to the Supreme Court of Illinois, having been appointed to that office as soon as it was created. He was elected, by the General Assembly, State's Attorney for the judicial circuit of Illinois in 1837. In 1840 he was Treasurer of the Board of Commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. In 1842 he was appointed a director of the State Bank of Illinois, on behalf of the State. He was assistant clerk of the House of Representatives of Illinois at the time of his death. He was a man whose integrity was above suspicion, very geniai, rich in anecdote, addicted to witticisms, frequently pointing them against himself. Every public man of Illinois knew him to speak kindly of him.



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