Posted on: Hancock Co. Il Bios Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/HancockBios?read=13 Surname: Boston, Cannon, Kimbrough, McMinimy, Munson, Schroader ------------------------- "Country Jake" wrote news of Oak Grove: The writer had performed the wedding ceremony for Jerry Munson, Sr., of Joetta, and Mrs. Milly Schroader, of Bowen. "This was our ninth wedding in the several branches of this family in a period of fifty years. Mr. Munson reminded us that in the old Berea log school house we taught him his alphabet 52 years ago. The first wedding we remember in Hancock county was, I think, 62 years ago in East Carthage. The parties were Thomas J. Kimbrough and Minerva Boston. John H. Kimbrough, of Carthage, is a son. Mrs. Kimbrough has three sisters living in this city also, Mrs. A. P. Cannon, Mrs. John McMinimy and Nancy, unmarried. John Booth, J. P., performed the ceremony. Uncle George and Aunt Mahala Boston gave their daughter a royal dinner; all the neighbors were invited. The double log cabin was brim full and the dinner was wonderful." Hancock County Historical Society Carthage, Illinois Siegfried XIX Page 123 - ----------------------------- Note: Date of article is unknown, but the article must have been written before May 1916 since the three sisters mentioned above were still alive in May of 1916. - ----------------------------- Link: Bryant Genealogy Web Page URL: <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bryant>