Adams County IL Archives Biographies.....Amen, Phillip
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Ted Sanford tsanford@ne.infi.net July 1997


Phillip Amen was born near Baden Baden in the Grand Duchy of Hessen in
1776.  He was a German lutheran and married a girl named Mary.  On 15
Sep 1808, they had a son named Phillip.  In 1830, he married Lana Hagen,
born 21 April 1809 in Hessen.  She was Roamn Catholic but later
converted to her husbands religion.They had four children in Germany who
came to America with them in 1834.  They were George, Issac, and Mary
Amen.  After six weeks at sea, they landed at New Orleans, and the
family came up the Mississippi River to Quincy.  They then moved to
McKee township in the eastern part of the county because there was
plenty of timber, and Phillip was a wagonmaker.  The Amens had 7 more
children - Henry (1840), Francis (1842), John (1846), Katherine (1849),
Joseph (1851), Elizabeth (1839), Melvina (?).   For those interested, I
have histories on most of these children.  In 1849, Phillip Amen sent
for his father and mother to join them.  After landing in New Orleans,
the older Phillip Amen died of cholera, and his wife Mary came on up the
river. In the early 1880s, Phillip and Lana left their farm and moved
into Kellerville.  Lana died on August 8, 1885 and Phillip passed away
on Dec 9, 1886.  One of the children, Katherine, was my great
grandmother, and she married Thomas Jefferson Humphrey in 1867.  They
had five children born in Adams County, but moved on to Lamar County
Texas, and then to Oklahoma.  I have a long and detailed history of the
family up to this date, and would be happy to hear from anyone
interested, or who might know something of the origins of the Humphreys.
Call Ted Sanford at 502-351-2942 or email to Tsanford@ekx.infi.net.


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