George Tryon Jr. (1804 - 1896)

Born 28 Dec 1804 in Barre, Washington, Vermont, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Harriet (Peck) Tryon — married 6 Sep 1836 in Will County, Illinois, United States

Husband of Hannah (Buell) Tryon — married 19 May 1848 in Channahon, Will, Illinois, United States

Descendants

Died 30 May 1896 at age 91 in Channahon, Will, Illinois, United States

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Biography

George was born in 1804 (the date on his headstone). A secondary source has his birth date as 28 Dec 1805. This source says he settled at Channahon in 1833 "immediately after the removal of the Indians" and says his marriage to Hannah Buell as occurring on 19 May 1848 at Channahon.^[1]

Extracts from History of Will County^[2]

Channahon.

Among the earliest settlers in Channahon were … Russell Tryon, George Tryon … (p 264)

George Tryon served on the Board of Supervisors of Channahon for the years 1850–52. (p. 265, also p. 360)

Dr. I. Knapp and George Tryon came together from Vermont, and were the first settlers in the part of the town where they located, now on the beautiful “wide water” made by the canal. (p 265)

CHANNAHON TOWNSHIP. The colony consisted of George and Russell Tryon, who were both single men at the time, and Dr. Ira O. Knapp, his wife and Miss Knapp, a single sister, now the wife of Lyman Foster of Plainfield. Dr. Knapp is a nephew of the Tryons … (p 591)

Dr. Knapp and George Tryon still live upon their original claims; Russell Tryon died about three years after their settlement here. The party stopped first in Plainfield, or Walker’s Grove, and finding the timbered land all claimed in that region started out on a prospecting tour, and came down through the present township of Troy into Channahon, west of the Du Page River, where they selected locations, and returned to Plainfield for the purpose of removing their effects to their claims. In coming back to the place selected, they met with a man named McGill, mentioned as an early settler in Troy Township, who volunteered to come with them and show them eligible points for settlement. Instead of allowing them to go to the west side of the river, where they had selected claims, he conducted them to their present places, and told them the land was far superior to that on the opposite side, a fact that subsequent developments have proved to be true. (p. 592)

"Just who were the first parties to commit matrimony, cannot be now ascertained. Judge Peck's daughters were married very early in the history of the settlement; but whether George Tryon and Miss Peck were the first married in the town is not known, but they were among the first." (p. 595).

Research Note Conerning First Wife

On the basis of the 1850 census where George's household includes Elizabeth Tryon aged 13 and his wife Hannah aged 21, George must have been married previously, and the above quote from the History of Will County says this would have been to an (unnamed in source) daughter of "Judge Peck". By tracing Judge William Peck I found his daughter Harriet, and through her an 1836 marriage record to George Tryon. In the 1840 census the household consisted of four people: one boy under 5 years (Russell Tryon? name based on an undocumented family tree), one girl (Elizabeth Tryon, based on 1850 census) under 5 years, one man of 20 - 29 (George Tryon) and one woman of 20 - 29 (Harriet Peck daughter of Judge William B. Peck and wife of George). An undocumented family tree on Ancestry.com claims that she and George had at least two children: Elizabeth (b abt 1837) and Russell (b abt 1838) Russell does not appear in any further records available online, suggesting he died before 1850 as he does not appear in the 1850 census). Harriet Peck Tryon's death date of about 1849 as given in that family tree is highly questionable. A published genealogy of the Peck family gives her death date as 1846.^[3] It seems quite reasonable to accept the 1846 date, as the informant providing information on this branch of the Peck family to the compiler of the Peck genealogy was Harriet's brother Samuel K. Peck and it fits with George's second marriage occurring in 1847.

Sources

1. ↑ Newcomb, John Bearse (1871) A contribution to the genealogy of the Bearse or Bearss family in America, Elgin, Ill., page 13
2. ↑ Anon. (1878) The History of Will County, Illinois.: containing a history of the county, its cities, towns &c ; a directory of its real estate owners; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; general and local statistics ...history of Illinois ... history of the Northwest .., publ. Wm. LeBaron Jr. & Co, Chicago
3. ↑ Peck, Ira B. (1868) A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Joseph Peck, etc., printed Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, p. 157. Available at https://archive.org

• 1840 US Federal Census; Census Place: Jackson Precinct 1, Will, Illinois; Roll: 73; Page: 377; Image: 1458; Family History Library Film: 0007644 (Ancestry.com) NOTE: 1 male under 5, one male 20 - 29, 1 female under 5, one female 20 - 29. This suggests there was a son born between 1835 and 1840 as well as daughter Elizabeth.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M85W-QTD : 9 November 2014), Geo Tryon, Channahon, Will, Illinois, United States; citing family 95, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "Illinois State Census, 1865," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCKD-DP9 : 15 November 2014), George Tryon, , Channahon, Will, Illinois; citing p. 6, State Library, Springfield; FHL microfilm 972,766.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVR-B689 : 13 December 2015), George Tryon, ; Burial, Channahon, Will, Illinois, United States of America, Willard Grove Cemetery; citing record ID 27167508, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• George Tryon's Find a Grave Memorial 27167508

Acknowledgements

• Entered by Kay Tryon, Jan 2, 2012