Thanks so much.. they are my Rutledge's! I really appreciate your quick response! Jan Rutledge Roggy Alan Persons wrote: > Rutledge > Nettie E File # > 7905 > Samuel W W Irving Rutledge admin file #4396 > William M Elwie L Rutledge - admin file #6406 > Rosie Jane Oscar W Wing - admin file #10923 > William Irving Oscar W. Wing - admin file # 10924 > Elvie L Melvin S Rutledge - admin file # 11615 > Melvin S. Mabel Wirt Rutledge Exec file # 77-P-106 > Emma Will in Safe > > I don't have the book for Douglas > > Do you kow what in safe means? Can you still get a copy or why is it in > the safe? > > Valorie > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > Henry Co ILGenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhenry/index.html > Henry County Genealogical Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html

Hi, My great great grandfather was Harry Smith from England and he lived in Henry Co. He married Anna Duncan in Kewanee in 1869. Maybe Harry and John were brothers?? Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: Anderson, Sheryll <andersons@nextnetwireless.com> To: <ILHENRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 6:16 AM Subject: RE: [ILHENRY-L] John Smith > No match, I'm afraid. My John Smith came over from England around 1875; born 1839. Sherry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carroll & Sally [mailto:neenee@alltel.net] > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:47 PM > To: ILHENRY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILHENRY-L] John Smith > > > What year was your John Smith born? Did he always live in Henry Co.? I have > 2 John Smith's one born about 1845 the son John Smith Jr about 1870. Both > were in Greene Co. for a while but moved to other areas from time to time. > John Smith Sr's father Aaron came from KY I believe he may have been born > there too. I hate finding Smiths, the only thing worse is Gilmore (the most > comon name in America) and I have both lines merging. > Sally > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > Henry Co ILGenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhenry/index.html > Henry County Genealogical Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > Henry Co ILGenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhenry/index.html > Henry County Genealogical Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html >

List, Did any one catch the article in the The Dispatch Newspaper on Tuesday February 25,? Someone was wanting background information about Warner's Castle. This is what was written: Warner Castle, located about 5 miles north of Orion was built in 1895 by Wilder Williston Warner (1828-1899). Warner was the son of a Boston doctor. He arrived in Rock Island in 1849 and took a job as a teacher there and later in Andover. After a few years, he took his savings and went into farming. His first land purchase in northwest Henry County became the basis for the new town of Warner (some called it Warner Station), which flourished as a railroad stop and commerce center for many years but died out in the Great Depression. At any rate, Warner's fortunes were good, and he ended up with about 1,500 acres, a grain business and several related enterprises. He was a world traveler and evidently had a fascination with castles, so he collected ideas on his travels for his own. It took five years and $80,000 to Build the 17-room Warner Castle with sandstone from Cleveland Quarry near Colona. (The Rock Island County Courthouse and some Arsenal buildings are made of the same stone) The castle has 12-foot ceilings and three huge granite and marble fireplaces. the castle has three floors, and its 60-foot tower offers an impressive view of the countryside. Some say that on a clear day you can see Orion from it. The Castle remained in the family until Warner's son Lawrence, died in 1947. According to an interview when he was 84 years old, Lawrence said the family never referred to their home as Warner Castle, but preferred to call it "The Oaks" The castle is included in the Illinois Historic Landmark Survey. This article has some interest to me because Mr. Warner's wife Olive Washburn is a descendant of mine. I do have some more information on his family if anyone is interested. "Treasure Life" Cindy Collis ccollis@geneseo.net

Rutledge Nettie E File # 7905 Samuel W W Irving Rutledge admin file #4396 William M Elwie L Rutledge - admin file #6406 Rosie Jane Oscar W Wing - admin file #10923 William Irving Oscar W. Wing - admin file # 10924 Elvie L Melvin S Rutledge - admin file # 11615 Melvin S. Mabel Wirt Rutledge Exec file # 77-P-106 Emma Will in Safe I don't have the book for Douglas Do you kow what in safe means? Can you still get a copy or why is it in the safe? Valorie

No match, I'm afraid. My John Smith came over from England around 1875; born 1839. Sherry -----Original Message----- From: Carroll & Sally [mailto:neenee@alltel.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:47 PM To: ILHENRY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ILHENRY-L] John Smith What year was your John Smith born? Did he always live in Henry Co.? I have 2 John Smith's one born about 1845 the son John Smith Jr about 1870. Both were in Greene Co. for a while but moved to other areas from time to time. John Smith Sr's father Aaron came from KY I believe he may have been born there too. I hate finding Smiths, the only thing worse is Gilmore (the most comon name in America) and I have both lines merging. Sally ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== Henry Co ILGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhenry/index.html Henry County Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html

Hi Valorie, When you get time, would you check for Rutledge or Douglas. Jan ASKIN2SP@aol.com wrote: > Valorie, > Could you check your probate book for Mercer? > Pam Mercer Askin > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > Henry Co ILGenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhenry/index.html > Henry County Genealogical Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html > Part of the Henry CoILGenWeb Project

Thank you Valorie. Pam Mercer Askin

What year was your John Smith born? Did he always live in Henry Co.? I have 2 John Smith's one born about 1845 the son John Smith Jr about 1870. Both were in Greene Co. for a while but moved to other areas from time to time. John Smith Sr's father Aaron came from KY I believe he may have been born there too. I hate finding Smiths, the only thing worse is Gilmore (the most comon name in America) and I have both lines merging. Sally

James Wesley Mercer & his wife, Catherine Jones Jessie Mercer & her husband, Blaney Leslie Lola Mae Mercer Margaret Mercer Claude Mercer William E. Mercer Pam Mercer Askin

Pam, Jessie Gdn - George Jones file#915 This is the only name I found. Below are the other first names George Harmon T. John T Milo James R James R Lorene Hill John H John Everett Lena S Roy B Clarence H Valorie

If anyone has the A - E Probate file index book of henry CO., would you mind checking for the following surname: ANTHONY BOUWHUIS died in 1907 in Atkinson. Hans Van Landschoot

Edward N, Monroe adm - Charles L Monroe file # 12195 Charles L Monroe Exec - George B Monroe file 13514 There is a Margaret but no George Ruggle - none listed John C. Mahaffey Admin - Gertrude E Mahaffey file # 4896 Moses Mahaffey Exec - Mose Mahaffey (this is how name spelled) file 3014 Samuel Mahaffey Administrators - Samuel L Mahaffey et al file # 5751 Mose G Mahaffey Execs - Moses G Mahaffey et al file#9955 Eva M. Mahaffey Admin - Roland Mahaffey file #10088 Eliza Maud Mahaffey Consr - Moses G Mahaffey file # 10258 Rolland J Mahaffey Exec - Cora E Mahaffey file #10442 Steven Mahaffey Admin - Joseph Mahaffey file # 74-P-208 Roland R Mahaffey file # 76-P-279 Leon E Mahaffey Will in Safe Anna M Mahaffey Exec - Francis H Kuster file # 85-P-21 William L Mahaffey Will in Safe Mercer - there are 14 so do you have any first names? Valorie

Hi Hans... Did you receive an answer to this question? I have an 1985 directory that has the blocks and the sections shown for the entire town of Atkinson. Please let me know, and if you haven't I'll try and scan it in for you tonight. Jan Hans Van Landschoot wrote: > Hi List > > can someone help me. > *In probate files i have , there's real estate listed in Atkinson in Block 11, lots 11 -12-13-14-15-16-17-18. In which part of Atkinson is this and where can i find a map of Atkinson with these blocks!! > *another one question: The south west quarter of section 28 in township 17, north range east of the fourth principal which lies north of the Chicago Rock island pacific railway and containing 67 acres in henry Co,Illinois.Where exactly is this? > Hans Van Landschoot > Belgium > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > Henry Co ILGenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhenry/index.html > Henry County Genealogical Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html

If anyone has the E - K book, would you mind checking for the following surnames?: any GIPE surname. any KEGEBEIN surname (specifically looking for Emma KEGEBEIN). KRUEGER, Ella - died Sept. 3, 1950 Thank you so much! Shelly

Thanks for your reply Valorie. I didn't want to send you after something that wasn't covered in your book. Would it be possible to check for the following: MONROE, Charles Leroy (AKA "Roy") - died May 8, 1958 MONROE, Edward Niles - died April 14, 1953 MONROE, George - died May 8, 1968 Thank you so much for your kind offer of lookups! Shelly > Shelley, it only says the probate records began being kept in early 1800= > 's. > Henry county was created in 1825 with Fulton county being the parent coun= > ty. It > looks like the index was done about 1995 so anything after that probably = > isn't in > it. > >

This was on another list and I thought it might be of interest to some on this list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Harrison" <samharrison@knology.net> To: <SCSPARTA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:32 PM Subject: RE: [SCSPARTA] War Between the States I don't want to start another War here, but I have to comment ..... I still prefer to call it "The War of Northern Aggression" or "The War of States Rights." It is hard to believe, but in a number of Northern states, free blacks had fewer rights than slaves in the South. Historian Charles Adams reports that Indiana and Ohio prohibited free Negroes from entering the state. Lincoln never spoke against the Illinois law (1853) that barred black people from residing in that state. The Oregon constitution (1859) prohibited blacks from coming into the state, holding property, making contracts or filing a lawsuit. Northern states that permitted black residency did not permit blacks to attend the theater or school, nor could blacks be admitted to hospitals. Alexis De Tocqueville wrote that the Southern people were "much more tolerant and compassionate" toward blacks than were Northerners. In 1862, the North British Review wrote that "free Negroes are treated like lepers" in the North. President Lincoln made it abundantly clear that the Civil War was not about slavery. He invaded the Confederacy in order to maintain the union and the revenue base for his expansionist plans. In 1862, Lincoln wrote a public letter to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union." When Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation as a wartime measure hoping to stir up a slave rebellion in the South (Northern slaves and those in Confederate territory under Union control were not freed), Union General "Fighting Joe" Hooker wrote to Lincoln that "a large element of the army had taken sides against it, declaring that they would never have embarked in the war had they anticipated this action of the government." Pulitzer Prize winner David Herbert Donald documents that Lincoln, "well into his presidency," wanted to solve the "Negro problem" by sending all blacks back to Africa. Lincoln had a colonization scheme for sending blacks to Liberia. This would keep blacks from migrating to the Northern states "where they would compete with white laborers." Lincoln justified his scheme in terms of "restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future." If Lincoln had not been assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, he might have carried off his scheme. The Northern states would have wholeheartedly supported it, and perhaps the defeated Southern states, as well. Lincoln had the power to implement his scheme. He had acquired dictatorial powers early in the war simply by asserting them. He ignored rulings by the chief justice of the Supreme Court, suspended habeas corpus, arrested state legislators and newspaper editors, and exiled a U.S. representative. Indeed, it was his exercise of dictatorial power that caused his assassination. Slaves were brought by European colonists to the South prior to the existence of the United States. Slaves were brought there not because the Confederacy (which did not exist at that time) wished to mistreat blacks, but because there was no labor force to work the fertile agricultural lands. The black slaves brought to North America were captured and sold into slavery by other blacks. The African slave market in Dahomey was operated by blacks. The Southern states emerged from colonies in which slavery was an established institution. As economic historians have noted, slavery was on the way out as a growing population provided a free labor market. Just started back to college at age 57 to get my degree. Kids today think the War was only fought over slavery (Revisionist History & Politically Correct Thinking). Trying to educate them.... The Professors won't. -----Original Message----- From: Don Kelly [mailto:donkelly@grovenet.net] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:10 AM To: SCSPARTA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCSPARTA] War Between the States Civil War is a rather short and more traditional name of that war. Newspapers in the south referred to it as The War of Northern Aggression. That was the name used by my relatives in Arkansas....even after 1975. Newspapers in the north probably used a different name. By any name a half million young lives were snuffed out because Lincoln and the big manufacturing interests in the north wanted monopolies in sales of products in and to politically dominate the southern states. In those respects slavery had little to do with why the war was started. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancie O'Sullivan" <drayton5@earthlink.net> To: <SCSPARTA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:40 AM Subject: [SCSPARTA] War Between the States > > Kenneth, why do you prefer to call it 'Civil War > "? > > nancie > > > > --- Nancie O'Sullivan > > --- drayton5@earthlink.net > > --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. > > > ==== SCSPARTA Mailing List ==== > If you need to unsubscribe send mailto:SCSparta-l-request@rootsweb.com with one word in the bottom of the message: unsubscribe We hope you will join us again soon. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). 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Valorie, Could you check your probate book for Mercer? Pam Mercer Askin

Can someone look in the probate index to see if any Mahaffey's or Glass's are in it. Probably mid 1800's, for the Mahaffey's. Not sure what the years are. Thanks in advance. Rhona Mahaffey-Boyd

Are there any RUGGLES listed in your probate index? Thanks for voluteering for the lookups! DeeDee

Shelley, it only says the probate records began being kept in early 1800's. Henry county was created in 1825 with Fulton county being the parent county. It looks like the index was done about 1995 so anything after that probably isn't in it. Carol, The following Pyles are listed Anna Elizabeth Isaac Joseph T Richard Robert Sarah Della E Harry Robert Thomas H Amanda A Eva Lawrence Raymond William T Harold F. Sr Joseph Nathan Philip W Who are you looking for? Cltiv8tr@aol.com wrote: > Hi Valorie - > > Would it be possible for you to let us know what years this probate index > covers? I tried searching for this answer at the Henry County Gen. Society > page, but it doesn't say. > > Thanks. Ü > Shelly > > > David, my book only includes L-R so hopefully someone else will help you > > out. > > Valorie > > > > David Cooke wrote: > > > > >Hi list, > > >I saw probate files books mentioned in yesterday's posts. I would like to > > >request a lookup. I am looking for members of the Voorhees family who died > > >in Kewanee. Emily Julian and Beatrice. Thanks for your help. > > >David > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > Henry Co ILGenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhenry/index.html > Henry County Genealogical Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html