GENEALOGY OF HAMILTONS IN ALLEN COUNTY, INDIANA
	Margaret (Hansen) Hamilton, when she was five years old, was kidnapped by Indians and held for several hours until her mother paid the ransom with freshly baked bread. She rode a covered wagon from Grand Island, Nebraska to St. Joseph, Missouri then on a train to Allen County, Indiana when she was sixteen. She outlived the actuarial charts on her life insurance policy and collected her own benefits. Her descendants still live in and around Fort Wayne.

Link to biographical data for the Melvin and Margaret Hamilton family

Fort Wayne has been a good place for Hamiltons to settle and raise our families. We are blessed with the Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection of the Allen County Public Library which is one of the largest repositories of family research materials in the world! We will be posting some of our findings on this site in the near future. Please contact us with your questions and share with us some of your stories and some of your family pictures.

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