Elijah Garrison (1788 - 1840)

Born 1788 in Kentucky, USA

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Died 30 Jan 1840 at about age 52 in Pike County, IL

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Birth: 1788 Kentucky, USA Death: Jan. 30, 1840 Pike County Illinois, USA ^[1]

``````````````````````````````````````````````` Detroit township is situated on the Illinois river. To Lewis Allen belongs the honor of being the first settler in the township. He came in 1823 and erected a cabin on Section 31. He was a native of Warren Co, KY, and was born 11 Nov 1794. Garrett Van Deusen, Wm. Meredit and a Mr Morgan, also, were very early settlers in this township. The first birth in the township was a daughter of David and Hannah Mize, who died in infancy, which was also the first death to occur. The first marriage was Robert Cooper to Nancy Rice in 1826, at the residence of Wm. Meredith. The first sermon was preached by Rev Elijah Garrison, a Christian minister, at the house of David Mize in 1826.

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Family links: Parents: Abraham Garrison (1749 - ____) Lydia Wilson Garrison (1750 - ____)

Spouse: Sally Boone Allen Garrison (1789 - 1845)

Children: Elizabeth Garrison Gale (1812 - ____)* Zachariah Allen Garrison (1815 - 1891)* Enoch W Garrison (1818 - 1895)*

Siblings: Elizabeth Garrison Dixon (1774 - 1848)* Joseph Dixon Garrison (1781 - 1850)* Elijah Garrison (1788 - 1840)

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Burial: Green Pond Cemetery Pearl Pike County Illinois, USA

Created by: Sue Macduff:) Record added: Jun 27, 2014 Find A Grave Memorial# 131960261

Montezuma was still a wilderness when Sally Garrison, daughter of Dinah Boone and granddaughter of Jonathan Boone, settled there, with her husband and children in October, 1826. This was two years before William Kenney erected the first log cabin and nine years before the village of Milton was platted by Freeman Tucker. Elijah Garrison married Sally Allen in Kentucky, and was a Christian minister. His first sermon in the new land was preached at the log house of David Mize, in what is now Detroit township, in 1826. Preaching and prayer meetings were held at private houses until better accommodations could be had." Under the leadership of the Garrisons, ministers of the Christian (prevailing) church, and of Sally Garrison's brother, Lewis Allen, the Baptist, a church organization was effected prior to 1828.

Zachariah A. and Enoch W. Garrison, sons of Sally (Allen) Garrison, were typical Boones. The lure of far horizons was in their blood; for them, the untrammeled life of camp and woods had an irresistible appeal. They were grandsons of Dinah Boone, great grandsons of Jonathan Boone, great great grandsons of Squire and Sarah Boone, the parents of Daniel. Zachariah A. Garrison was born in Posey county, Indiana, on the banks of the Wabash, March 29, 1815, Posey county being the southwestern county of Indiana, in the loop made by the junction of the Wabash with the Ohio, and just across the rivers from Kentucky and Illinois. Zachariah and Dinah Boone Allen had dwelt nearby, on the Illinois side of the Wabash, prior to their removal to Pike county, Illinois. Here, on the Illinois side of the river, Jonathan Boone, Dinah's father, had built a mill, and here, according to Enoch Boone, son of the younger Squire, Jonathan Boone about 1808. Elijah and Sally Garrison had, therefore, prior to their removal to Pike county, dwelt in the neighborhood of her grandfather Jonathan Boone's last settlement. Following the Boones to Pike county came others of their Posey county neighbors, and descendants thereof, among them Absalom and Catherine (Anderson) Boren, founders of the Boren family in Montezuma, and later, J. G. Johnson, early proprietor of the Johnson House in Milton, whose parents, Joseph and Esther (Jolly) Johnson, had been Posey county neighbors of the Boones, Allens and Garrisons. He was married in Pike county on January 28, 1834, to Louisiana Davis a daughter of Thomas Davis, died in 1839, and he married on April 22, 1841, his second wife to Miss Cyntha Watters; Cyntha Garrison died January 16, 1853. She had one child Hannah J., who married Orsen Gilbert. His third wife was Lydia Wilson, a native of Ohio. <sup>[3]</sup>

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Birth

Birth:

Date: BET 1780 AND 1790

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1. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=131960261
2. ↑ History of Pike Co, IL, by Charles C Chapman, 1880, pg 427
3. ↑ http://genealogytrails.com/ill/pike/citymontezuma.html
4. ↑ Garrison-1934 was created by Andrea Wood through the import of Andrea Wood Hash Family Tree_2014-07-22.ged on Jul 22, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.

• Duane Dale Franklin, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #1832, Date of Import: Jan 16, 1999., (1995), "Electronic," Date of Import: May 8, 1999.