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Went with her parents through the wilderness to Central Kentucky about 1793-1795.
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Migrated to Australia.
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Sallie was actually a cousin of Joseph.
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Was a soldier in the Feceral Army and died in 1862.
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Was in the confederate army,and received a fatal wound at the Battle of Shiloh, in 1862, while bearing the colors of his regiment.
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In the fall of 1836, Joseph Latimer's youngest son, David was seriously ill. He was taken to a doctor in Knoxville who asked that he be left in his care for a few weeks. Seemingly improved in health, his brother-in-law, Major Coy, with the best conveyance obtainable at the time, was sent to bring him home. When well on their homeward journey, the young man complained of feeling faint and asked Major Coy to help him to alight. There, sitting by the roadside, death came quickly and with no one to call upon for help, Major Coy lifted his brother's body into the conveyance and went on alone to the sad home coming.
These are some of the experiences of those early days in Cedar Township. While some were hard and some were sad, the pleasant part predominated for the exuberance and strength of youth was in the newly settled country.
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Served in the French and Indian War and was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. Six sons, older brothers of Joseph, also served in the Revolutionary War, all of them at some time under their father's command. Two, one a Major and one a Captain, died in the defense of Bunker Hill. from "Annals of Knox County"
"He lived at New London in Chesterfield Society, on land which he inherited from his father. He was Colonel of the Third Regiment of Militia in Connecticut at the time of the Revolutionary War.
Jonathan Latimer became a Captain during the early Colonial wars with the French and Indians. In 1775, he was commissioned Major, and following the news of Lexington, the Third Regiment, Connecticut Militia, Infantry under his command marched to Boston. The regiment participated in the battle of Bunker Hill, afterward forming a part of the Continental forces, besieging the British Army in Boston. In October, 1776, he was promoted to Colonel and was assigned the command of the Third Regiment of Connecticut Militia.
Colonel Jonathan Latimer served until the end of the American Revolution. Around 1790, he left Connecticut for Tennessee, which was then still part of North Carolina. Colonel Latimer, his wife, two daughters and seven of his eight living sons settled first on Station Camp Creek in what was to become Sumner County, Tennessee. He later moved to a 640-acre tract of land on the Red River, which he bought October 10, 1797 at a sherrif's sale for ten pounds, ten shillings. He died there leaving a will dated November 13, 1802, which named his wife, Lucretia, his daughter, Hannah, and sons, Charles, Robert, Griswold, and Joseph, and two grandsons, William and Nathaniel. His son, George, had stayed in New London, Connecticut."--"The HISTORY OF MONTVILLE" by Henry A. Baker 1896
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Settled on Section 29 of Cedar township, Knox county, Ill in 1831. He came to Illinois from Robertson county, Tennessee, having gone thither many years before by ox wagon from the family home near New London, Connecticut. As a young boy he had watched the burning of New London by the British and cried because he was not old enough to bear arms.
Joseph and his son George came from Tennessee in 1831 and settled on Section 29 (of Cedar Township). The Methodists organized in 1833, at the house of Joseph Latimer, with the following members: A.D. Swarts and wife, Mr. Finch and wife, Mrs. Jonathan Latimer (Joseph's mother) and Joseph Latimer and wife. For several yars the church existed as a mission, services being held at the homes of the various members and later at school houses, until in time, the denomination had grown strong enough to erect a church at Abingdon.
The first members of the Latimer family to reach here (Cedar Twp, Knox Co, IL) were Joseph and his son George, who came here from Tennessee in 1831, and settled on Section 29. Jonathan Latimer and his father-in-law, Jacob West, settled on Section 28 in the following year. About the same time, his brithers, John C, and Alexander Latimer, his widowed sister, Mrs. Richard Boren, and his brothers-in-law, U. D. Coy and Israel Marshall, settled along the timber, believing, in common with other settlers, that the prairei land was valuless and would never be pre-empted and occupied.