The Carthage Gazette says that the most amazing man living in Hancock County is William Garner, who is he age of 94 years, now residing with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Overman at West Point.
Mr. Garner was born in North Carolina in 1794 removed to Kentucky with his parents in 1796, and went to Indiana in 1808, and thence to Morgan County, Illinois, in 1831, remaining there two years, and from thence to Adams County, where he remained about ten years, since which he has lived in Hancock.
He was a ranger in the volunteer service in the War of 1812, stationed on the frontier. He afterwards went to Peoria, and there, in the company of 1,000 men, helped to build forts.
He now draws a pension for his services in that war. Mr. Garner has voted in eighteen presidential elections, and, if he lives until 6 November will vote for Gen. Harrison, having voted for his grandfather in 1836 and 1840.
The Quincy Daily Whig, October 21, 1888, page 12.
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