1955 - This is Knox County - Illinois Ancestors

first iieads of families who settled m Knox County. Theunmarried emigrants who did not 'keep uouse' were JesseD. Gum, Matthew D. Coy, Helen liilton, Andrew Osborn, TnomasMcKee, Alexander Osborne and James Reynolds." In July, 1829, tlie first marriage ceremonies were performedby Philip Hash, a justice of the peace, the couples beingFielden Hash and Miss Elizabeth Razor and Alexander Osborneand Miss Hendricks. The happy parties were compel letlto obtain the licenses from Lewistown in Fulton County, andall were married upon the same day. In January, 1829, thefirst white child was born, tiie offspring of Zephaniah Gum.and June Gum. On the 9th of January, 1829, the first deathoccurred, that of a young man named Philip Nance, aged 17years . . . His friends were compelled to use the lumber ofan old wagon-box in the construction of a ruae coffin forthe remains. "GENERAL HENRY KNOXAs has already been noted, Knox County was named afterGeneral Henry Knox of the Revolutionary War. A native ofBoston, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1750, HenryKnox early took an interest in military tactics and readmany books on the subject. At the outbreak of the AmericanRevolution he fought at Bunker Hill and later planned anartillery encirclement of Boston which forced the Britishto evacuate that city.For this service, he won the confidence of General