HAMRICH GA AL 1815-1881

"Captain John C. Hamrick was a military man when the Creek & Seminole War broke out in Ala. He raised a Company of volunteres and joined Gen. Andrew Jackson. They defeated the indians at Horseshoe Bend and Emucfaw. They drove the few remaining ones into Fla. then marched overland to New Orleans where defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans on Jan. 8, 1815. They killed Gen Packenham and two thousand men. They then marched to Tenn. cutting the trail as they went, whitch is known as Jackson Trail.

"Captain Hamrick then went back to Milledgeville, Ga. where he lived until 1820. he inherited a large number of slaves. He took his family and his slaves and migrated to Ala. and settled on river-bottom which proved to be unheathfful. He then moved to Miss. (early in 1836) where he lived until he died Sept. 1, 1856. 

"Thomas Jefferson Hamrick (the first born son) inhearited about 15 slaves and moved to the east side of Okatibbee (creek) and lived there until 1857 when he bought the Hamrick Planation one mile east of Collinsville.

"There he died in 1881 and was beried in the Hamrick Cementary.

"One of his brothers lived in Isney, Ala. for a number of years. (My great grandfather) His dedecendents are around Waynesboro, MS and the Western part of Ala."

That note was written by Mrs McPhael who lived in Collinville. That is where Capt. John and others died.

Contributed by: HENRY HAMRICK hehamrick@cybertron.com
By way of: spice3@juno.com (Susan S. Buckley)