Phineas Bronson and John Montgomery were Revolutionary War veterans who lived and died in Princeville, Illinois. Bronson was born in Enfield, Connecticut on Nov. 9, 1764, served in the 3rd Company of the 2nd Regiment under Major Benjamin Walbridge, married Isabelle Wright in 1786, moved to Norton Center, Ohio in 1793, and had nine children, one of whom died in infancy. In 1841, his family traveled overland by wagon, leaving Ohio on Sept. 13th and arriving in Princeville on Oct. 5th, and he died on Oct. 24, 1845 in Peoria County, Illinois. Montgomery was born in Orange County, North Carolina on Aug. 5, 1764, served in the 7th regiment of the Virginia line, last served under Captain John Snoddy, and was discharged in 1782. He married Susanna Porter in 1785 and moved to land called a corn right given by the Virginia Government sometime between 1790 and 1795. After his first wife, the mother of eight of his children, died in 1802, he married Elizabeth Harris two years later and they had two children together. In 1835, John and Elizabeth moved to Princeville with their daughter Sarah, her husband George, and their two children, and John died on January 26, 1845 in Peoria County, Illinois. Both men are buried in Section A of the Princeville Township Cemetery.