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- History of St. Clair County Illinois
Abbrev: William R. Padfield Biography from History of St. Clair Co., Ill
Publication: Brink, McDonough & Co., Philadelphia 1881
Text: The following information is from:
History of St. Clair County, Illinois. With Illustrations Descriptive of its Scenery, and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. By Brink, McDonough & Co., Philadelphia.; Corresponding Office, Edwardsville, Ill.; 1881; pp. 349-50
Transcribed by Donnell Wisniewski, from original copy in Belleville Public Library, May, 2001.
Thomas Padfield, was born in Maryland, in the year 1792. In 1793, when he was not yet a year old, the family moved to Kentucky, and settled in Christian county, near Hopkinsville. They were among the early residents of that part of the state. Thos. Padfield was one of the Kentucky soldiers under Gen. Hopkins, in the war of 1812-14. He took part in Harrison's campaign against the Indians, and was present at the battle of Tippecanoe. He came through Illinois as early as 1811, and that year also visited St. Louis.
Mr. (W.R.) Padfield's father was twenty-three years old when the family made their home in Illinois. Soon after his arrival he opened a store at Carlyle - the first one ever in existence in that town. After carrying on this store for three or four years, the goods were made to Union Grove, where Mr. (W.R.) Padfield's father continued the business. Thomas Padfield was married at Carlyle to Temperance Hill, daughter of Major Isaac Hill. She was born in Georgia. Her father, Major Hill, was in the war of 1812, and during that campaign commanded a fort near Greenville, in Bond county. This is the fort near which Tom. Higgins had his celebrated fight with the Indians, and Mr. Padfield's mother was in the fort at the time of the encounter, which was in plain view of the garrison. Major Hill also served in the Black Hawk War.
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