Hi! In April, 1997 my grandmother Lillian Gertrude MERKLE HEBERT died at the age of 82 years. Before she died she wrote what she intended to only be about 50-page book of recollections. Things she remembered about being a child in the Ashkum-Danforth area, things her parents and grandparents told her, things about raising 9 children in a Catholic household in the Kankakee area, and things Grandpa HEBERT told her about growing up in the Kankakee area. The book ended up being over 200 pages long. Anyways, would it be okay if I occasionally post one of her stories to the list? It probably won't be everyday, but I'll try to post at least one story a week, if I think it might be interesting to the list. Both sets of Grandma's parents were early settlers in Iroquois County, in fact her grandpa MERKLE donated the land that the old MERKLE school was built on, and her father Chris A. MERKLE taught at the school at one time. Grandpa's great-grandparents were from Québec and came to Kankakee County in the middle 1800s. They weren't very prominent in the community, just your average hard-working, religious people. Thanks, Brenda Hébert