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Jacob Warrick
Jacob Warrick (1773–1811)
was an Indiana militia leader.
Jacob Warrick was born at Warrick's
Station, in present-day Greenbrier County, West Virginia, the son of
John Warrick, who fought at the Battle of Point Pleasant, in Lord
Dunmore's War in 1774. Jacob Warrick moved on to Nicholas County,
Kentucky.
In 1795, Warrick married Jane
Montgomery, in Virginia. She was the daughter of Thomas Montgomery, who
settled in Montgomery County, Kentucky in 1793.
The Montgomery family arrived in
Gibson County, Indiana, in 1805, and the Warricks arrived in 1806.
Warrick, together with Thomas Montgomery,
burned the last Native American village in Gibson County in 1807, and
pursued the Natives into Illinois.
Capt. Jacob Warrick commanded a
company in the Indiana militia during Tecumseh's War. He was killed on
November 7, 1811 at the Battle of Tippecanoe. His widow, Jane
Montgomery, died in 1846 in Gibson County, Indiana.
Jacob Warrick is the namesake for
Warrick County, Indiana which was created 30 days after and in the same
month as Gibson County, Indiana.
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