Sources
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Geralyn W. Barry, e-mail of January 22, 2007 8:42 PM, Geralyn Barry. Surety: 3.
4. The obituary for George G. Hamilton from
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ialee/montjourn/1897.htm mentions that his
father was killed in the War of 1812.
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Lee County Iowa GenWeb Project
Articles From MONTROSE, IOWA JOURNAL Transcribed by Connie (Dobson)
Putthoff
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26 February 1897
George G. HAMILTON, funeral services held last Sunday. He was born 25
June 1811, in Warm Springs. Bath County, Virginia. His father was
killed in the War of 1812. He married 5 August 1839 to Sarah C.
JOHNSON. They had three children. Two survive J. D .HAMILTON of
Chicago and MRS. I. C.STEPHENS of this place. He moved to Iowa in 1889
[sic, 1839] to a farm near West Point. His wife died 21 September
1845. In 1846 he married Susan BROWN and had six children which only
one survives; E. I. HAMILTON. She died 14 July 1854 and in 1866 he
married Sarah PENNINGTON, who survives. Moved to Montrose in 1858.
Buried in family plot, Pleasant Ridge Cemetery.
