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and buried, but no clue led to the discovery of the assassins until about eighteen months afterward, when the gentleman whose wife had been rescued on riding into Petersburg discovered Mr. Williams' horse hitched in the outskirts of the town, which he immediately recognized. He went into town and gave information of his dis- covery, when the officers and citizens placed persons to watch the horse and see who should come after it. Toward evening two men came to where the horses were fastened and one of them took this horse and the other another one near by. They were both arrested, and the gentleman's wife was sent for, who on sight recognized and identified them as the two men who had attempted to violate her person and from whom the deceased had rescued her. They were tried and convicted of the murder of H. Williams and were both hung in Petersburg, but before execution they confessed the murder. They said they killed Mr. Williams because he assaulted them and res- cued the woman, and also for his horse and his money. The horse and his watch were all that was recovered. After his death his wife went back to her relatives in Granville, N. C., and took her son, John Williams, with her. She subsequently married Mr. John Bobbit, by whom she had 2 sons, Archibald and Clai- borne. The Hon. Archibald Williams, late of Quincy, Ill., was named after the first. Arch Bobbit died while young. Claiborne Bobbit about 1857 was living in the extreme southern part of Tennessee.
John Williams, son of Hukey Williams, was born Sept 19, 1764, in Brunswick county, Va. After his father's death, and while an infant, he was taken by his mother to Granville county, N. C. He was raised by his uncle, Roger Jones, with whom he lived and clerked in his store until her marriage. He was married to Amelia Gill, in Franklin county, N. C., at her father's residence, on Nov. 15, 1787, and in the same year emigrated and settled in Lincoln county, Ky., where he resided until his oldest children were born. He then moved to Montgomery county, Ky., where all his other chil- dren were born, and where he remained until the spring of 1831, when he moved to Adams county, Ill., where he remained until his death, which took place Oct. 11, 1833, from the fever and ague. When he came to Illinois he intended settling in Hancock county, but was induced not to do so on account of the Black Hawk war. He never was a very stout man, but never had a gray hair or lost a tooth. His hair was curly and black as jet. He was a man of great sobriety, strict order and piety, having been nearly all his life a very zealous and exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was aged 72 years and 22 days at his death. His wife, Amelia, the daughter of Joseph Gill, was born in Franklin county, May 28, 1772. She died at the residence of her daughter, Amelia Thompson, in New Hartford, Pike county, in the summer or fall of 1852. Her mother's name was Owens before marriage. The Gills and Owens were all of Welsh descent. The following is an account of the children of John and Amelia Williams:
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Joseph Gill Williams, born in Lincoln county, Ky., Jan. 9, 1789. He died Feb. 18, 1857, of rheumatism, on Licking river, near the month of Beaver creek, in Bath county, Ky., since which most all of his children have departed this life. Wesley Williams, born in Lincoln county, Ky., on March 24, 1792; died at the residence of his daughter, Isabel C. Spangler. He came to Illinois about the year 1823, first settling in Quincy, Ill., and afterward coming to Hancock county at its first organization, in 1825 or 1826. Aug. 14, 1829, he was appointed the first Clerk of the Circuit Court by the Hon. Richard M. Young, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit. The first Courts were held at Montebello, the site of which is a few miles above the city of Hamilton. When Carthage was made the county-seat, in 1835, he moved and settled there. He continued to reside there for many years, and at one time was the incumbent of most of the county offices. He was married twice; first to Elizabeth Ayres, in Bourbon county, Ky., April 2, 1816, and second to Ruth Scoby, June 9, 1831. Sarah Jones Williams, born in Lincoln county, Ky., Dec. 11, 1793; married Jesse Steel, and died in Adams county in 1851. John A. Williams, born in Montgomery county, Ky., Nov. 15, 1795; married Miss Ann Alphrey in 1826, and removed to Adams county, Ill., near Liberty, where he died, in 1845, from the effects of a fall from a house being raised. Francis T. Williams was born Sept. 20, 1797; now deceased. Amelia Williams was born July 15, 1799; married Thomas Thompsen in Quincy, Ill., in the fall of 1831, and is now deceased. Archibald Williams was born June 10, 1801, and was married to Miss Nancy Kemp; died at his residence in Quincy Ill, Sept. 21, 1863. Isabel Williams was born March 27, 1803, and died Dec. 10, 1827, in Kentucky. Robert R. Williams was born May 5, 1805, and died Ang. 22, 1841, in Quincy, Ill. Ann G. Williams was born Sept. 6, 1808, and was married to John Manier Dec. 18, 1828; died at her home in Mt. Sterling, Ky., Sept. 16, 1863. William Thomas Williams was born April 10, 1810, and is still living, near Mt. Vernon, Ills. George W. Williams was born Ang. 11, 1812, and is still living, near Quincy, Ill.
Wesley Williams, son of John and Amelia Williams, had 8 children, as follows: Eli H. Williams, born June 18, 1817; now re- siding in Carthage, Ill. Samuel Otis Williams, born Aug. 20, 1819, and died in Carthage, Nov. 28, 1844. John N. Williams was born Nov. 7, 1821. Mary A. Williams was born May 5, 1824; died May 14, 1840. Isabel Cutler Williams was born Ang. 22, 1832, and was married to Samuel L. Spangler Sept. 26, 1850. Wesley C. Williams was born Aug. 12, 1833, and was married to Miss Mary C. Morse June 6, 1860. Olive Catharine Williams was born June 7, 1835, and married to Henry S. Baker, July 16, 1857. Henry Clay Williams was born July 5, 1837, and died Sept. 5, 1839.
Judge Wesley Williams was one of the earliest and most re- spected pioneer settlers of this county. He was born in Lincoln county, Ky., March 24, 1792, and was the second child of John and
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Amelia (Gill) Williams, who were married in Franklin county, N. C., Nov. 15, 1787, and immediately settled in Lincoln county, Ky., where they resided until 1794, when they removed to Montgomery county in that State. They had a family of 12 children, most of whom settled at an early day in Adams county, Ill.
Our subject served one campaign in the war with Great Britain, and also in some of the Indian wars with Gen. Harrison; he also filled many offices of trust and honor. While in Kentucky he was elected and commissioned as an Ensign of the 14th regiment, July 17, 1818, and was commissioned Captain of the 71st regiment Nov. 6, 1821, by Gov. John Adair. July 2, 1824, he was commis- sioned Lieutenant of the 34th regiment. In 1825 or 1826 he came to Illinois, locating at Quincy Sept. 6, 1827. He was com- missioned one of the first Justices of the Peace of Adams county, by Gov. Ninian Edwards.
Upon the organization of this county (Hancock) he removed to Montebello, where the first Courts were held. He was appointed the first Circuit Clerk, Oct. 27, 1829, which office he held till 1841. The first Circuit Court was held at the house of James White, Esq., at the head of the Lower or Des Moines Rapids. He also was ap- pointed the first Clerk of the County Commissioners' Court, and filled that office until 1837. He was also Judge of Probate from Nov. 21, 1829, to April, 1836; was appointed Recorder of the county Nov. 21, 1829, and re-appointed Jan. 15, 1831, and held the office till 1838; was commissioned Notary Public Jan. 18, 1831; May 13, 1833, he was appointed Postmaster at Carthage, by Wm. T. Barry, then Postmaster-General; in 1835 he was elected Recorder, the office having then been made elective; in 1853 he was elected Justice of the Peace for Carthage precinct, and in 1854 re-elected; in June, 1857, he was elected Police Magistrate of Carthage, which office he held until about 1868, when he removed to Elvaston. When Carthage was made the county-seat he moved to that place, and attended the first Circuit Court, held June 4, 1833. He soon afterward purchased several lots here and built the first house erected in Carthage; it was located on the north side of the Public Square near the present postoffice. His son, Wesley C., born Aug. 12, 1833, was the first white child born in the town.
Besides devoting so much of his time to the service of the pub- lic, Judge Williams was at different times extensively interested in and identified with the business interests of the county. He built and operated the old Crooked creek mill near the bridge on the Macomb road; also engaged in mercantile business at Carthage, and followed farming to some extent.
He was married April 2, 1816, in Bourbon county, Ky., to Elizabeth Ayers, and they had 4 children: Eli H., of Carthage; S. O., now deceased; John W., of Kentucky; and Mary E., de- ceased. His second marriage was to Mrs. Ruth Scoby, June 9, 1831, in this county, and they had also + children: Isabel, now the wife of Samuel C. Spangler; Wesley C., Olive C., now the
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wife of Henry S. Baker; and Henry C., who died in infancy Sept. 5, 1839.
Judge Williams died at his son-in-law's, Sam'l L. Spangler, May 12, 1870. In all the public offices which he filled he showed great competency and ability, and won many friends by his integrity. He was of a lively and genial disposition and possessed great conversational powers. His great mental capacity fitted him for almost any position. For many years he was a member of the Methodist Church. As in his private life and business relations, so he was in religion, free from all ostentation. He was also a member of the Masonic order, and was buried with full Masonic honors.
Wesley Cutler Williams, second son of Wesley W. and Ruth (Scoby) Williams, now re. ides on sec. 15, Prairie tp. He received his early education at the common subscription schools of this county ; in 1852, when about 19 years of age, he went to California, overland, leaving here March 7 and arriving Sept. 12 at Colusa and Red Bluff, Cal. When near Humboldt he bought two ponies for another man and himself, and in company with another of the train, struek ont for themselves. While camping out one night the In- dians stole their ponies. On waking in the morning and finding them gone, they commenced looking around for them. Mr. Williams was the only man who had a revolver, and one of the party asked him for it, saying he would go and look for water, leaving him in a small patch of sage brush. Soon hearing a hallooing, he looked over the brush and saw his two comrades eliased by 12 Indians. He fell in with the others and ran, expecting to be overtaken and killed every minute. Mr. W. says he tried to pray, and the only thing he could think of to say was, "Now I lay me down to sleep!" They finally outran the Indians, and footed the rest of the distance, some 300 miles. While in California he was engaged nearly all the time in the freighting business, in which he was quite successful. In 1859 he returned to this county. and June 6, 1859, he married Miss Mary E. Moore, daughter of Andrew Moore, an old settler in this county, who located in Bear Creek tp., in 1835. He and his wife now reside in Marion county.
The subject of this sketeh has principally been engaged in farm- ing and raising and dealing in stock. In politics he is a Democrat. He served as Supervisor of Bear Creek tp., in 1871-'2, and in the town of Carthage in 1873 ; in the spring of 1880 he was elected to that office in the tp. where he now resides. The first time he was eleeted on an independent ticket, but the last two times on the Democratie.
Mr. and Mrs. W. have a family of 4 children, all boys : Homer G., born July 13, 1863 ; John W .. Nov. 18, 1865; Archibald, March 21, 1868 ; and Robert, Sept. 20, 1873. The first child, Hebe, born Sept. 14. 1861, died the 30th of the same month, and Edward, born Dec. 2, 1869, died Aug. 11, 1870.
Mr. Williams, like his father, is eminently respected by all, not
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only for his business integrity, but for his social qualities and con- versational powers, as is proven br his being elected as Supervisor in a Republican township, where they voted for the man and not the " party."
As one of Hancock county's substantial and representative citi- zens, we present Mr. Williams' portrait in this volume.
George Wille, farmer. sec. 30: P. O .. Elvaston; was born in Car- uga county. N. Y., in 1830. In 1842 he came to this county with his parents. Lorenzo and Lucy A. (Lowry) Wills. both natives of the same State. They settled in Carthage tp., and in 1846 moved to Prairie. and located one mile east of Elvaston. His house was open for entertainment to travelers. and was the first hotel in the place. He was widely known throughout the county, and highly esteemed by all who knew him. Both died at this place. The subject of this sketch was married in 1851. to Martha. daughter of Thomas Bedo, of Anderson county. He erected his present residence in 1868, and is largely and successfully engaged in farming. His farm of one-half of sections 31 and 32 is valned at $40 per acre. He also has a farm of 160 acres in Montebello tp., and 20 acres in Bear Creek. His educational advantages were very limited, and his success is entirely due to his industry and economy. He is a mem- ber of the Town Board. and is a well-known and highly-respected citizen.
William L. Whittlesey. County-Honse Superintendent, was born in Butler county. O .. in 1837. and is a son of Samuel and Rosanna (Lewis) Whittlesey. who emigrated to Illinois in 1850 and located in Adams county, where Mrs. W. died Feb. 3, 1864. The same year Mr. W. and children came to this county, where they resided until his death. Jan. 15. 1875. The subject of this sketch was married in 1863 to Miss Mahala Prather. a native of Indiana. and of their 5 children 3 are living: Sarah E .. James E. and Ida B. Mr. W. was elected to his present position in 1877. which he has filled to the highest degree of satisfaction. Politically he has always been a stalwart Democrat, and endorses the principles of that party. The family are members of the M. E. Church.
OFFICIALS.
The Supervisors. Clerks, Assessors and Collectors who have served or are now serving Prairie township are about as follows:
SUPERVISORS.
Wm. N. McCall.
1555
David Mack .. 1866
Dennis Smith.
1858
William A. Patterson. 150.
Lorenzo Wells.
1859
Bord Braden .. .. 196S
Wm. N. McCall
1861
Wm. R. Hamilton 15:0
Lorenzo Wells ..
1862
J. R. Miller. . 18:5
Wm. N. McCall. 1863
Saml. P. MMcGaw. 1576
Elmore J. Rohrbough.
1804
Wm. H. Moore. 18:9
Wm. N. McCall.
1865
W. C. Williams. 1:20
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CLERKS.
Ebenezer Rand.
1855
John Ashlock 1869
T. B. Wallace ..
185:
John R. Karr.
18:0
James S. Miller.
1858
Hugh Markey 1873
Wm. M. Ewing
1860
J. H. Lemon
18:4
Ebenezer Rand.
1862
J. S. Spangler.
18:5
James M. McCall.
1863
M. H. Cochran. 1876
T. G. Moore ..
1865
John J. Randlemon
John B. Henry.
1866
M. H. Cochran ..
Wm. N. McCall.
186S
Washington Enlow
1880
ASSESSORS.
D. W. McCall.
1855
John R. Miller 186S
Henry Davi
1856
John Ashlock
1870
Thomas Gill.
1558
David Miller. 1871
D. W. McCall.
1859
Wm. N. McCall. 18:2
James S. Miller
1860
James Tweed. 1874
Charles Abbott.
1861
E. J. Rohrbongh. 1875
D. W. McCall.
1862
J. S. Spangler. . 18:6
Wm. R. Hamilton.
1863
Thomas G. Moore.
Joseph Miner
1864
James Tweed.
1878
G W. Zern.
1865
John L. Rand.
1880
Wm. Rohrbough
1866
COLLECTORS.
Thomas P. Gill.
1855
Wm. A. Moore.
1868
D. C. Miller.
1856
Thomas McFarland.
1869
Wm. N. McCall
1858
A. J. Moore.
1870
Orlan Abbott
1859
Isaac Roseberry 1871
Thomas T. Gill.
1860
Henry S Batchelder. 1873
Wm. Rohrbough.
1861
A. J. Moore.
1974
Wm. N. McCall.
1862
S. P. McGaw.
1575
J. W. Ewing.
1863
Thomas McFarland.
1576
Wm. A. Moore.
1864
Wilson M. Wetzel.
1877
E. J. Rohrbough.
1865
Thomas J. Ruddell. 1878
A. E. Boude. .
1866
George S. Walker.
1550
James Tweed
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MONTEBELLO TOWNSHIP.
This township, numbered 5-8, was probably named for Monte Bello, in France (now the practice to write it Montebello). Who had the honor of naming it, we do not know. There were French- men about the fort and along the river when the village on the rapids received this cognomen, but none of its proprietors were French. It was laid out in 1832 by Luther Whitney and William Vance, on the southwest of sec. 18, the place now owned by C. F. Darnell, two miles above the present site of Hamilton.
This township, containing the settlements of John Waggonner, Luther Whitney, Rich and Cheney and others of the period pre- ceding organization, may be called one of the oldest settled in the county. Who made the actual first settlement in the township, may now never be known; but we can learn of none earlier than that of Mr. Waggonner in 1824. There were several in it, however, before organization (1829), settled along the river and on its contiguous bluffs. Among them, we can recall the names, besides Messrs. Waggonner, Whitney and Cheney, of Win. Vance, Isaac R. Camp- bell, John Johnson and Hazen Bedell. Among those of a later period are Oliver and Cyrus Felt, Samuel Steele, John Gordon, John Cochran, A. P. Cochran, Abram Smith, Enoch D. Brown, Frederick Loring, James and Mathew Gray, Dr. Adolphus Allen, Homer Brown, Ebenezer Carrier, H. R. Dickinson, Bryant Bart- lett, Austin Wardwell, Gen. R. F. Smith and others.
Messrs. O. and C. Felt, with Major Wm. Smith, of La Harpe, came to the county with a stock of goods; and while the latter went to Crooked Creek with a portion, the two brothers established on the rapids at Montebello. The elder Felt died a few years after- ward, and Cyrus continued the business. The County Court was held there for several terms, and at that day Montebello was one of the most important points in the county, rivalling Venus at the head of the rapids, and competing with her for the county-seat. It is now dead and vacated.
We have above mentioned the men of the township previous to organization. Others are also worthy of mention. Of these was Isaac Newton Waggonner. His name stands on the record of the Hancock County Pioneers' Association, as (at that date) the earliest living settler in the county. Isaac N. was a youth of about 15 in 1824, when his father settled on the homestead at Riverside. He soon took to the water, first as assistant on the keel-boats, then running the river, and as a pilot to steer them, under Captain James White (whose daughter he married), and afterward for many years on steamers plying between St. Louis and the lead
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mines of Galena and Dubuque. He was first pilot apprentice with Capt. Throckmorton (name of boat not recollected), and afterward with the same officer, on the celebrated Warrior and was on that vessel at the time of the capture of Black Hawk on the upper Mississippi.
Mr. W. was a pilot on the river almost continuously, sometimes as part owner of the boat he steered, for many years; and he knew as much of the Mississippi sloughs and bluffs, and sand-bars, whirlpools, snags and eddies, and how to manage a steamer in all the vicissitudes of river navigation, as perhaps any other man who ran its waters.
Later in life he left the river and devoted himself to the duties of his farm and the care of a steam mill and shipping house at Riverside. He was a remarkably quiet and unostentatious man, firm in his convictions, and respected by all his neighbors. He died Jan. 27, 1877, aged about 68 years.
Hamilton is now the only town in the township, including Oak- wood, a separate survey, but united by act of incorporation. It lies at the foot of the rapids, opposite Keokuk, Iowa, between which, across the Mississippi river, lies the great iron railroad and wagon bridge. It was laid out in 1852, by Bryant Bartlett, Wm. R. Hamilton, Powers Ritchey, Henry R. Dickinson, Sanford Faught, Henry Davis and George Edmunds, Jr. The late Artois Hamilton, of Carthage, was an active proprietor, but we find the record uses the name of his son, William R., who was then a young man. Samuel Gordon, residing at the place, was also inter- ested, having furnished a portion of the land, but his name does not appear of record. In the Hamilton Dollar Monthly of June, 1873, is a notice of the origin of this town, which we reproduce in part in this place:
" The eight or ten square miles of territory-embracing bluff, river-buttom, slough, hill and dale, woodland and sand-ridge- lying opposite Keokuk, the "Gate " of Iowa, is dignified by act of General Assembly with the title of city-the CITY OF HAM- ILTON.
People abroad might very naturally conclude that it received its name, as all the other twenty odd Hamiltons in the U. S. did, from Alexander Hamilton, one of the Fathers of the Republic; but it did not.
"There is a legend that runneth in this wise: That in the years of the dim past, in the beginning of the embryo city that was to rival the then thriving village across the water, a conclave of the proprietors was held to give the bantling a name. Of these pro- prietors we can only now name the following: Bryant Bartlett, who had supplied much of the hard labor and a good deal of the gas; Henry R. Dickinson, also a hard worker on the foundation of the city; Samuel Gordon, who had resided on the spot, as child and man, from the time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, and who furnished a goodly portion of the land;
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and Artois Hamilton, of Carthage, who was supposed to hold pretty considerable sized money-bags. Money, 'the root of all evil.' is also considered the root of some good, and in this case was regarded as the 'one thing needful,' so it was decided to give the new town the name of the holder of the aforesaid money-bags, in the hope that the honor might induce him to . shell out.' Of course other names were presented and duly disenssed,-as . Bart- lett.' 'Gordon,' ' Rapids City,' . East Keokuk,' etc., etc. But the question of finance outweighed all others, and it received the name it now bears.
" And Mr. H. did 'shell out' for a time, and commendable efforts were made by all concerned to build up a city. But the fates were against them, and a contrary decree had gone forth. The city would not come. They planned, they strove, they gassed ; they planted stakes, they run streets and alleys, they laid out wharves and dykes. In their very desperation they invoked the aid of the Commonwealth, and its august representatives at Springfield came to their aid, and passed an act compelling it to be a city at any rate,-for, said they, the people will come to it afterward. But with an unpardonable lack of discernment and hard common sense, the people still stay away-congregate in other places. And so he of the money-bags, long ago seeing how things were going,-or standing still, rather,-shook the dust off his feet and left in disgust, and the city which once knew him so well, now knows him no more.
"But, seriously, there was a wrong committed. The place should have been called ' Bartlett.' In Mr. Bartlett's fertile brain it was first conceived. He originated the thought. He labored hard, in and out of season, to put it on its legs; not always wisely, perhaps, but with a zeal that knew no abatement, an energy that never flagged, and a conviction that seemed prophetic. He struggled against difficulties; indeed he overcame difficulties that would have disheartened many other men. It was the object of his affections and the burden of his thoughts for twenty years; and they failed in duty to him when they gave it the name of another. We are not aware that he ever aspired to the honor, or desired such a result. Certain it is that he labored as zealously after the naming as before, and for long years continued to cherish the hope of his earlier days. But even his faith at length gave ont, and he, too, pulled up his stakes and planted them in another field."
Oakwood was laid out in June, 1855, by John Morse, Thomas J. Potts and T. Dewitt Carey. It lies a half mile east, and now comprises the third ward of Hamilton.
Hamilton was incorporated into a city in 1859.
Besides originating the city of Hamilton, Messrs. Bartlett and Dickinson, by their untiring zeal and energy, in conjunction with Henry W. Sample, Esq., of Keokuk, and others, succeeded in es- tablishing a steam ferry between the two points. At that time the
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whole river bottom was covered with dense timber and fallen trees; and numerous sloughs and sand-hars rendered the construc- tion of a road across and a landing place at the shore, a matter of great difficulty. These were gradually made to disappear, at great labor and cost; and when the bridge was built and the ferry sus- pended, a crooked dyke was left, which has since been taken and improved by the bridge company, as an approach to the bridge.
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