-----Original Message----- From: Don Hughes <Donhughes@email.msn.com> To: Fulton-L@rootsweb <Fulton-L@rootsweb> Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 5:53 PM Subject: Franklin Shoemaker/Shumaker 1880 >My great-grandparents were in Fulton County 1880 census. They were farmers >and possibly he was Christian Church minister. Franklin and Larrona had >children Charles, John, Lillian, Sadie, Henry Milton, and my grandmother >Mary Amanda. John died 1882 so should probably be buried in Bryant area. >The mother Larrona and an infant may also be in a Fulton County Cemetery. I >would appreciate if anyone has any information on this family. Are there >cemetery and school records? Miriam > >

Is there anyone that has access to Marriage records for Fulton County? I am looking for a marriage for Fleming Coppenbarger to Julia circa 1883-1890. Julia could have used Fiske, Malone or Coppenbarger as a surname. They were living in Isabelle Township 1900 Census. I would greatly appreciate any help. Please reply to my E-mail address. Thank you. Earliene Kaelin jeniann@wa.net

Hello Fulton County List Members: I'm real glad to know that there is a list for Fulton County! I was born and raised in nearby Cook Co. (Chicago) and have many roots in Illinois, especially S. Illinois. Several of us cousins are trying to find out about our common IRWIN ancestors. We have seen many Irwin family trees but so far have been unable to attach our ancestors to any of them, i..e. we can't find any documentation citing the names of the their parents. MARY I. IRWIN (or MARY ANN?) Born April 14, 1807, in Chester/Lancaster Co. PA Died 11/24/1891 in Cuba, Fulton Co., IL Married: 1829 to Jesse Kersey Hoar, born 10/21/1798 in Northumberland Co. PA Jesse died 1884 in Fayette Co., IL MARGARET IRWIN ( or ERWIN) Born: Abt 1805 (Chester/Lancaster Co. PA) Died: 1840-1842, either in PA or OH (on the trip West) Married: c.1825 to Thomas Hoar, born 1803, probably Chester Co., PA 1842 Thomas and Margaret moved to Knox Co., OH Thomas died in 1882, Woodston, Rooks, KS SARAH IRWIN (or IRVEN) Born 1801-1805 Married Job Hoar, 1825-1828, or 1831 Job born abt 1805, Chester Co. (Sadsbury) 1846: Moved to Knox Co. OH, Monroe Township. Job died 1880-1885, Fulton Co., IL The husbands of the Irwin sisters were all brothers. The three couples all left Pennsylvania starting in about 1842 for Knox Co., Ohio. In about 1856 the three couples sold their land in Ohio and moved to Fulton Co., IL. In about 1859 Jesse and Mary (Irwin) Hoar moved to Fayette Co., IL. In 1877 Thomas Hoar, having remarried as his wife, Margaret (Irwin) died on the trip West, left IL and moved to Rooks Co, KS. Job and Sarah (Irwin) Hoar are buried in the Cuba, Fulton Co., IL cemetery, as is Mary (Irwin) Hoar. According to family notes, my great grandmother Mary I. Irwin had three brothers: ARCHIBALD, ISAIAH and WASHINGTON. However, it could be that these gentlemen might have been related some other way, or possibly even to a different family entirely. If anybody has any information on any IRWINS who lived in this location around this time, we would be very grateful to hear about it. Thanks a lot for reading this and hope you all have a nice weekend. -Sue

Looking for info on the following family of Charles YOUNG b.8-1869 Peoria, Ill. m.1892/93 to Ida May BREES. They had 4 children: Calvin b.1893, James b.1895, Stella b.1897, Charles b.1899. Ida died 1901. Charles m.7-19-1902 in Breeds to Mary Alice GILLFELLOW (GILLIFILLEN) b.8-31-1886 in Banner, Ill. d. of William GILLFELLOW b.1835/36 Ill. & Allen (possibly ELLEN) WEBB b.1853/54 Ill. Charles & Mary had 4 children: 1.Wilbur Andrew YOUNG b.8-27-1903 Breeds,Ill.d. Canton, Mo. buried in Greenmount Cem. Quincy, ILL. m.Nellie Jean PERCY & Florence GIBSON 2.Elizabeth YOUNG b.4-20-1906 OKla. m. Henry Johnson 3.Mary YOUNG b.8-6-1911 m.Leroy Clark & Roy law 4.Charles YOUNG b.1-16-1917 d.1-16-1917 Any help on this family appreciated. Thank you, Patricia

Hello, I am searching for information on the FORD family of Fulton County. ROBERT FORD, b. March 31, 1838 in Oldham England and Died March 27, 1926, is buried in Cuba Cemetery. He married MARY ANN OKELL, April 6, 1863 in Werneth Parish, Lancastershire, England, daughter of JOHN OKELL. Parents of ROBERT FORD are JOSEPH and ARMINDA ABBY FORD.. Their children were: GEORGE FORD b. July 7, 1862, in England d. May 20, 1951 JAMES FORD b. October 4, 1865 d. October 4, 1951 EDITH FORD b. March 1, 1866 d. February 3, 1889 ROBERT FORD b. February 25, 1871 ELIZA FORD b. November 22, 1872 WILLIAM FORD b. February 22, 1873 MARY ANN FORD b. July 3, 1874 d. January 9, 1956 m. ADAM WILLIAM BEAM

Pat Self wrote: > > > > > > >Does anyone know where the Butterville Cemetery is? I can't find it listed > >in the Fulton County cemeteries but my mother, who is 86, says is around the > >Anderson Lake Area so I beleive that should be Fulton Co. HELP anyone?? > >Thanks > > > >Pat Hi Pat, Are you sure it is Butterville Cemetery!? Just to let you know, I have reviewed my sources and can't find anything on this either ... I hope someone else has been able to help! Due to the location of Anderson Lake I searched Mason County as well and forwarded you messages back to the list(s) in hopes that someone else will see it and get curious as well. Could this Cemetery be a small family plot not listed on record sources??!! Bryan -- Bryan See Results of Record Keeping Survey Visit my Web Page: http://www.gate.net/~bwl/ Let's Link ... You Scratch my Link and I'll Scratch Yours! Web Page Created: March 15, 1997 Web Page Last Updated: April 18, 1998

> > >Does anyone know where the Butterville Cemetery is? I can't find it listed >in the Fulton County cemeteries but my mother, who is 86, says is around the >Anderson Lake Area so I beleive that should be Fulton Co. HELP anyone?? >Thanks > >Pat > > >--WAA19577.896495013/inx.inx.net-- > > >

VSmith1625 wrote: > > Hello, > > I am new to this list and am researching the following names: > > HINDERLITER * HOWERTER * MARKLEY * BAUGHMAN * FORD * BEAM > AYERSMAN * BROWN * GRAY > > Vicki Smith > Dunlap, Illinois I'm also new to the list and have not yet listed my surnames. However, a couple of yours are familiar, namely Beam and Gray. My surnames in Fulton County are mainly Lundry, Matheny, Curfman and Henderson and the history goes something like this: Alexander Lundry, son of Joseph and ? Lundry married Dorcas Henderson, daughter of Nathan T. and Catherine (Larkin(s) Henderson. Their son, David Nelson Lundry married Alta O. Matheny, daughter of David D. and Mary Jane (Curfman) Matheny. There are, of course, many children connected to each generation, and I'll post everything later. But, I do remember that a Lundry girl married a Beam. She died as a result of childbirth, and their son was named "Lundry Beam". I believe he was raised by both sets of grandparents - James Perry and Lonettia (Henderson) Lundry and his Beam grandparents. I also remember a Lundry girl (she may have been a widow and her married name was Lundry) married a Gray. If you think there might be a connection, I would enjoy hearing from you. Linda

Hello, I am looking for information about SARAH C. GRAY (b. August 31, 1863 d. April 29, 1923), wife of F.M. GRAY ( b. October 19, 1853 d. April 9, 1939). These people are buried in Cuba Cemetery. Thank you, Vicki Smith Dunlap, Illinois

Hello, I am new to this list and am researching the following names: HINDERLITER * HOWERTER * MARKLEY * BAUGHMAN * FORD * BEAM AYERSMAN * BROWN * GRAY Vicki Smith Dunlap, Illinois

Looking for family of Thomas and Mary Berry originally from England, found in the 1880 Fulton co., IL census. Children: Wilson, Jabez, Jane, Mary Ann, Walter, Zack. Trying to find Theodore Berry from Fulton Co., born ? after 1880, married Ethel Beulah Barnes. contact iBeDiB@aol.com

I appoligize I did not mean to send my previous message to the whole list. I juat thought I was replying to an inquiry. Marilyn Miller

Hi, I live in Florida, but my heart is in Fulton County with all my ancestors. If anyone is researching : Marquis D. MILLER, born Aug.23, 1810 Clinton Co.,NY; Eli or Merryweather MELVIN, born around 1823-5 Lived in Fayette Co, OH then moved to Illinois...(they married sisters, Martha Ann HUKILL and Elizabeth HUKILL in 1846 in Ohio).; John OLIVER, born in Scotland 1836, coalminer from Marietta, IL, died 1917 Adaline MELVIN, married John OLIVER in 1865 in McDonough County William Henry MILLER, born in Smithfield, IL; married Martha Jane COONS Edward Henry MILLER, postmaster in Marietta, IL until his death in 1929. Henry Waughtel Sr, father of Susannah (Wachtel) WAUGHTEL All 12 children of Henry WAUGHTEL.....8boys, 4 girls;especially Anna Saunders and Sally Pirkle Please contact me if any of my ancestors are in your Tree Regards, Judy Goodwin

Does anyone have the 1880 Census for FULTON Co. that can do a look up for me??? The surname is Coppenbarger, either Thomas R. or Fleming. Also wonder if anyone has marriages circa late 1800's. I am looking for a marriage for Fleming Coppenbarger circa 1884-1887. Thank You for any help you can give. Earliene Kaelin jeniann@wa.net

Hello All: I just wanted to say ... I thought about hosting these two lists awhile back but never got around to it. I am glad someone finally did; you will see me here from time to time for sure. I now live in Florida but I was born in Canton,Fulton,IL and was raised in Havana,Mason,IL. May we all have a happy hunting trip through these two lists. Thank you very much. -- Bryan See Results of Record Keeping Survey Visit my Web Page: http://www.gate.net/~bwl/ Let's Link ... You Scratch my Link and I'll Scratch Yours! Web Page Created: March 15, 1997 Web Page Last Updated: April 18, 1998

Hello, I am sorry about the date. My computer is very old and the battery is dead. It will not keep the correct date. My husband has promised me a new computer for Mothers Day. Hopefully this will come to be. Time will tell. Sorry for the inconvenience. Vicki Smith ---------- > From: A K Noorian <akn@flash.net> > To: vsmith@davesworld.net > Subject: Re: Brown Family Fulton Co. > Date: Sunday, March 19, 2000 8:01 PM > > Please change the date in your messages. It is showing up as 1980 and makes it > difficult for me to find and delete in my email box. >

Hello Everyone, I am posting below an article from the Fulton County Illinois Heritage book that I have: MEMORIES OF BUCKEYE On top of the big Aten Hill south of and looking down on old Spoon River where Putt Creek enters into it, I was born. A tornado had passed through and moved our house off its foundation, leaving its mark on me, because I am still afraid of winds. When the floods came, one could see for miles from the bottom of the hill north to the Budkeye bridge and even farther. It was a beautiful but vicious sight. The farmers would lose their crops that they had worked by the sweat of their brows to put in with horse drawn walking plows, harrows, rollers and planters. These floods crept up to the house just south of Whites Ferry where my parents lived when they were first married. My dad slept on the floor so he would know if the water came into the house. My father was a farmer, and we moved several times. When I was about five years old, we lived across ole Spoon River to the west on top of another big hill. We had to cross the river on a ferry boat. I can remember it as a large raft built of lumber with guard rails on either side. It was approximately 12 feet wide and 30 feet long, constructed to carry a team of horses and a wagon or buggy. By going south, we could go to Smithfield for groceries, etc. There, I remember special things that still stay with me --- pickles in a large wooden kegs, also sugar, flour, beans salt, etc. were weighed and sold by the pound. Meats were cut to order as you bought them. Back to White's Ferry, as it is still known by many people. Many gathered there for fishing, playing cards, swimming, picnicing or just visiting. A small store was there, also. Some still go there to fish, even though the horseweeds are head gigh and mosquitoes sting and bite. Traveling east about a mile is the four corners and the vicinity of Buckeye. We moved there when I was twelve years old. The Buckeye School was a short distance east of the four corners. The Buckeye Church sat on the hill just a short distance west of the now main Spoon River Scenic Drive route from Blyton to Smithfield. It is a beautiful old church needing interested people to repair it for a landmark. A few years ago, some people came and repainted it, put in windows and repaired the steeple. So, it stands and memories still linger for those who loved it. The Buckeye School was of wooden construction just across the hollow west of the church. I only had to cross the road to go to school in that old school there for seventh and eighth grades. Ray Goodell and John Beam were my teachers. They played baseball with us at noon and recesses. A group held Sunday School in that old school house. Later it was moved to the farm west of it, repaired and used for a dance hall. A new brick school house was built. It somehow burned down and a second brick school house was built. Later, it was sold and torn down. Our next move was to my grandfather's farm a fourth of a mile south of those four corners, known as Jennings Four Corners. South of us was a large hill called the Helle Hill. I drove a wagon load of hogs up that hill once for my dad. What did we do in a small vicinity like Buckeye? I helped my dad build fences. We cut our firewiood with me on one end of the cross cut saw. We did farm work, swam and fished in Putt Creek and Spoon River, played cards, helped cook dinners for threshing crews that came in with large steam engines and the threshing machine. Neighbors helped each other. Then, we played in the straw stacks they left. We rode down hills on homemade sleds. I made some of them myslef. Also, we rode grain scoop shovels, rode horses and even cows. I once built a cart and hitched up a calf to drive. He got tired and laid down on the shafts which broke. We did gardening, raised our potatoes which were enough to last the winter. They were kept in caves. We picked and canned blackberries we found in the woods, went to dances and church. My dad drove a team of horses with a democrat, a two-seated, topless, style buggy, to a circus. It took us two hours to drive home that night. Dad sat in the fron seat and whistled all the way home. One time we rode from Smithfield to Canton on the train to visit our aunt and uncle. We butchered our own meat, ground and stuffed sausage, fried out the fat in large black kettles in the yard. I once shot a calf were were to butcher. I have driven all two and four team horse drawn farm implements except the riding corn cultiviator that I tried out and plowed out several hills of corn. I have also helped put up hay with those hay forks used on the hayracks. The hay was pulled into the barn by a rope and pulley with one horse on the other side of the barn. We raised and cut up pumpkins with corn knoves for cows to eat. We had hives of bees that swarmed in summer. We pounded cans and buckets to get the bees to light on a bush or a tree limb. Father put them in a new hove so we had honey to eat. Horse drawn vehicles came by once a week to bour our eggs. A few years later, motor trucks came by for our milk and sold us some groceries. When I was 17 and 18 years old, we went to dances in the old school house, Buckeye School. There I met my husband and was married a year later. In 1922, I moved to Cuba where I have lived since. by Flossie Ford Johnson ---------- > From: Michael Kirchmeier <ccswa@rconnect.com> > To: ILFULTON-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Buckeye Community > Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 6:44 PM > > Does anyone know the significance or the location in Fulton County of the > "Buckeye Community"? I found it referenced on on a death record stating > place of death as the "Buckeye Community". As far as I know the person died > in Smithfield of Cass Township and is buried in Wiley Cemetery. >

Hello, Please find below a short outline of the Gray in my family. He married my great grandmothers sister. I am looking for information about any children that they might have had. Also any info about the family of Sarah C. Brown Gray. My grandfather called her Aunt Cate. Thanks, Vicki Smith Descendants of F. M. Gray 1 F. M. Gray b: October 19, 1858 d: April 09, 1939 in Buried in Cuba Cemetery, Fulton County ... +Sarah C. Brown b: August 31, 1863 d: April 29, 1923 in Buried in Cuba Cemetery, Fulton County ---------- > From: Jlktrees@aol.com > To: ILFULTON-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: GRAY > Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 3:36 PM > > Hi I am a new subscriber. I have just found out that my relative Ogden Gray > was in Fulton Co., in 1860. I would like to contact any descendants of this > family if possible. > > Also I would like to know if there is a genealogical society for Fulton Co., > and if it has a web page so I can see what records are available on line and > otherwise. > > Thanks, Jerilyn > > Jerilyn Lappin Koskan > Cook Co., Illinois > jlktrees@aol.com > > FTM user > > Searching LAPPIN, STATES, LEAK, MITCHELL, DYE, STARKEY, SLUSHER, MONROE, > KIRK, SMITH, DAVIS, GREENE, WADSWORTH, TODD, STARBUCKS, MONTGOMERY, GRAY, > COOK, WILSON, PORTER, and many more. >

Hello, According to my family records, Flossie Ford was born May 5, 1904. The book that she submitted the story to was printed in 1988. She was a cousin to my grandmother. So I imagine the events of this story took place in the early 1900's. Vicki ---------- > From: Dawna111@aol.com > To: vsmith@davesworld.net > Subject: Re: Buckeye Community > Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 10:35 AM > > What year did this occur in?