This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Gg.2ADI/452.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes, the library is currently under major renovation but open to the public. The first floor only is open, but that is where the newspaper archive and the census microfilms are kept. For other family history related information I would suggest checking their on-line catalog first. If the books are not located on the first floor, you have to put in a request for them, and wait for them to be brought to you. Only the south entrance is open. Parking for visitors can be hard to find, and will be more so once students begin arriving for fall semester in about 2 weeks. Be prepared to walk a ways from where you have to park to get to the library. There are very nice new microfilm readers and printers now, which are great for copying obits.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Gg.2ADI/452.1.1 Message Board Post: Can any one go to the libraries at SIU and do research for their own family ? I don't live far from Corbondale so could go down it they are opened to the public.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Gg.2ADI/452.2 Message Board Post: I have a copy of Bertha M. Casey's death certificate. Her age is given as 37 born 1888. Married. Died March 18, 1925. Husband's name looks like "H. Casey" Handwriting is very poor...her father is a Pickering or so it seems. Mother's maiden name is given as Mary C. Marshall. Cause of death ..."crused to death in a cyclone". Informant was Mary C. Pickering...of Gorham If you'd like a copy let me know via email

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Gg.2ADI/452.1 Message Board Post: It is unlikely there would be an obit for tornado deaths, but there were lists of the dead reported and descriptions of what happened. Have you seen the many articles in the newspapers at the time of the tornado that are posted here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/jackson/jacksonnews.html ? You might find something on your individual in these. If not, and if you would like the newspaper checked for an obit, I provide this service for a fee. I go to Morris Library's newspaper archive at SIU Carbondale. For more information, please contact me directly at timjuli@earthlink.net.

Hello, My new book, "The Bloody Vendetta of Southern Illinois" is now finished and going to the printers Monday. It's an expanded and updated edition of Milo Erwin's writings on the Vendetta published in 1876 as part of his larger "History of Williamson County, Illinois." I've taken Erwin's chapters on criminals and the Bloody Vendetta and added additional materials on the Ku Klux Klan activities, trials that he didn't cover, and the trials and murders that took place after he wrote his book, or took place later in the 19th Century by the next generation of some of the families involved in the Vendetta. The new book is a 6 x 9 trade paperback with 240 pages that's roughly half Erwin's 1876 account and half new material, including some connections between the murders and Klan activitities never before seen in print. Although Erwin wrote about the events as part of his history on Williamson County many of the killings and trials actually took place in Jackson County and the Klan seemed to have been led out of Franklin County. The major families involved included the Sisney, Henderson and Russell families on one side and the Crain, Bulliner and Hinchcliff families on the other side. Other individuals implicated in the violence included Samuel Musick, Allen Baker, James Norris, Timothy Cagle, William Spence, Wesley Council, David Pleasant, and Gordon "Texas Jack" Clifford. Victims of the Klan included the Vancil, Carter and Maddox families in particular. The book also lists members of the Klan arrested and tried as well as others who attended some of the public meetings. It also covers how the Franklin County sheriff used "lead poisoning" as a means to rid the county of the Klan as part of a successful attempt to infiltrate the Klan and set up an ambush. Because I tried to tie up some of the loose ends and provided additional information that Erwin left there are also chapters on the Aiken Gang which terrorized the region during the Civil War and the hiliariously inept Jennings Gang of Oklahoma whose leaders grew up in Marion during the Vendetta. The book is fully indexed, and includes hundreds of names. This spate of violence mostly in the decade following the Civil War in the early to mid 1870s is best remembered as the first chapter in Paul Angle's Bloody Williamson. If you enjoy reading about the region's sordid past and the efforts by local leaders to clean up the region, you should enjoy this book. The book is priced at $14.95 and I'm doing a PRE-ORDER SPECIAL for orders made before August 18 (which is when I expect the books to be ready). Any PRE-ORDER will receive FREE SHIPPING and I'll cover the sales tax for Illinois residents. To order securely online go to www.IllinoisHistory.com/books/bloodyvendetta.html. You can also order with a check or money order made out to IllinoisHistory.com and sent through the mail to this address: IllinoisHistory.com PO Box 1142 Marion IL 62959 All books purchased from me will be autographed and dated. Sincerely, Jon Musgrave IllinoisHistory.com

Bertha May (Pickering) CASEY was buried at Goodbread cemetery in Grand Tower. http://www.tomshawcross.blogspot.com http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shawcross&id=I53 ----- Original Message ----- From: <geardley@mail.win.org> To: <ILJACKSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 6:39 PM Subject: [ILJACKSON] OBIT > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Casey > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Gg.2ADI/452 > > Message Board Post: > > I would like to know how I could go about getting an OBIT for Bertha Casey > killed in the Tarnado of 1925 . She lived in Gorham . Thaks for any help. > > > > > > ==== ILJACKSO Mailing List ==== > Illinois Regional Archives Depositories (IRAD) records available for > Jackson County, IL - > http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/irad/jackson.html > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Casey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Gg.2ADI/452 Message Board Post: I would like to know how I could go about getting an OBIT for Bertha Casey killed in the Tarnado of 1925 . She lived in Gorham . Thaks for any help.

Jackson County IL Archives News.....North And West End Of City Are Hardest Hit In Terrific Storm On Wed., Fire Also Damaging March 21, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Riseling riseling@insightbb.com July 30, 2006, 4:15 pm The Daily Independent Newspaper, Murphysboro, IL March 21, 1925 PUBLICATION RESUMED This is the first issue of the Daily Republican-Era to make its appearance since the tornado struck Murphysboro Wednesday afternoon. We have been eager to supply our readers and friends with a paper for the past two days, but were unable to resume work at this office until ten o'clock this morning due to the fact that we have been without power until that hour. This edition has been hurriedly published with a much reduced force at work today. However, a sincere effort has been made to secure only reliable news and data concerning the storm and its effects. North And West End Of City Are Hardest Hit In Terrific Storm On Wed., Fire Also Damaging Death and destruction such as the human imagination cannot picture, flashed from the sky at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and within three minutes Murphysboro lay devastated in the wake of the worst cyclone (unreadable), a loss of life that has appalled the nation and more than a thousand maimed. Within five minutes while torrents of rain fell, tongues of flame leaped upward from a score of points in the wreckage from west of the Mobile & Ohio to the northeast section near Illinois avenue and Seventh street. A strange rapidly shifting wind scattered the flames fiery tongues north up the levee, east up Walnut street, from Walnut to the Maryland. Before dark there was an unbroken line of fire extending from Seventeenth and Walnut north and northeast to Seventh street north of Illinois avenue, about a mile and a half, and fire appeared certain to destroy what was left in the business district in the east part of town. Dynamite and the combined desperate fighting of the fire pumpers from Cairo, Murphysboro, Carbondale, Anna, Ziegler, Benton and Herrin finally got the upper hand, hours into the night, but Thursday found the subdued and sullen semicircle of flames. A pumper from East St. Louis rolling in at 4 a.m. Thursday and stood by ready and willing. The $10,000 la France pumper of the Herrin department was a charred ruin where it was caught in the alley east of the Maryland and destroyed. As citizens unhurt rushed up to the wreckage of schools, Shoe factory, M & O shops, and other big buildings they met injured children and workmen, and some unhurt, coming out, and the rescue work was on. Many persons downtown were watching an evil looking black-green cloud in the north, and some looked to the southwest from whence cyclones come. There they saw stratas of air currents, spreading in different directions, then milling, and those who had seen one knew a cyclone was right onto Murphysboro, two minutes later the twisting demon, driving white clouds down to the earth, was sweeping across Walnut street in the business district. As the writer turned the First National Bank corner he saw it driving across Walnut far out toward Twenty-second. Attempting to reach this office, he raced to Twelfth, watching the twisting demon hurl tin roofing, telephone, telegraph and electric poles across Walnut. As he reached the RATHGEBER building the big pole at the corner crashed its mass of live wires down in front of him and the Tower and big bell on the city hall just behind him crashed to the sidewalk and street. He entered the RATHGEBER store and noted that it was 2:30. Hardly more than two minutes did the main fury last, but for another minute things crashed about outside. Emerging into heavy rain it was seen that Walnut was a mass of tangled wires, poles, automobiles, roofing, etc. On finding an opening in the wires at the alley west of Thirteenth, the reporter ducked through and ran north. Someone shouted, "The school fell on the children, the Logan school." A race through clogged alleys and streets, then across to Fourteenth, and came into view a stream of school children running from the terror, then the old Logan school wreckage. A few men and several frantic mothers looking for their children. The numbers grew. The east half down stairs had held up the wreckage from above and most of the pupils there got out, many bleeding. Up the brick pile on the south some men were digging children from under the brick on the second story floor. Most of them, at the start were able to climb down assisted by two men each, a few had to be carried. Then a dead pupil, two, three, four. There Police Chief Joe BOSTON found his little daughter, dead. From up there the workers could see the fire fiend in twenty different places. By that time the crowd had grown. The reporter ran to his own home, then to where other dead ones might have been caught, dying in wreckage. This run went to Lucier street, thence to South Fourteenth, thence on the way to the high school. At Nineteenth a friend said he had seen a relative safe two blocks from the school. Just one of many mistakes. The boy was dead in the high school. Nineteenth into the horrible devastation, to the Mobile & Ohio shops which had fallen in on the workmen, then caught fire. Several dead already had been taken out, others had to be rescued dying, and some terribly injured. To the west was the wreckage of the Longfellow school where workers were busy. Up to this time it had been impossible for vehicles to traverse the streets. Rescuers placed badly injured on wrecked doors, anything, and carried them, often a mile, to downtown and a doctor. Over there all that was left of the Reliance mill was the two round, steel elevators, father to the north, ruins of the Anchor ice plant, Standard oil, Blue Grass Creamery. Along the levee fire was eating fallen buildings, including the two Borgsmiller wholesale houses there and the Blue Front hotel. The M & O passenger station was unroofed, father south the shoe factory, the third floor blown in on the workmen there. To the west as far as the edge of the city scarcely half a dozen houses standing. To the north as far as the city limits none-just a solid mass of splintered, shattered homes. The fires were gaining. Men were clearing a narrow way in some streets but when the fire trucks got out after the debris had been cleared away from in front of the city hall, there was no water pressure. It was learned that the roof and part of the walls of the new power house had fallen in. injuring workmen and allowing all steam to escape. Two hours later steam had been gotten up in the old power house and water was being pumped into the mains, direct from the river. Meanwhile it had been learned that every school in the city had been hit. The Logan and the Longfellow worst of all. Many died in their wreckage. The Lincoln was badly damaged The Washington unroofed and part of the walls torn, the Douglas damaged, St. Andrews partly unroofed, the roof falling in the yard where 350 children played two minutes before. There only two were hurt--slightly scratched from broken window glass. None was hurt at the Washington. The old assembly at the high school and the new gym roofs and part of the upper walls had fallen in, carrying death and injury. Bernard SHELEY was the first to die there, knocked unconscious and passing away in five minutes. Miss Frances HAMMER died two or three hours later. Wounded, injured, maimed, everywhere. In all these places and in ruins of the homes. Ambulances, trucks and autos for the same purpose, began scurrying to and fro, dashing about where narrow passages had been cleared. The hospital filled to overflowing, emergency hospitals were established at the Presbyterian church, the K.C., Odd Fellows and other halls opened to the homeless. Men and women worked fast and hard. The rattle of ambulance bells and the honk of horns became continuous as they sped out and brought in more and more injured. Murphysboro doctors did the best they could until the world at once came to the aid of Murphysboro. From St. Louis all the way to Murphysboro, the M & O and I. C. gathered doctors and nurses and workers and the accommodation trains. From then on they kept coming from Chicago, from Quincy, and from many towns. Carbondale doctors had gone to DeSoto, which had been almost wiped out and where many were dead and injured. Later it was learned that Gorham had been more completely wiped out. Bush, West Frankfort and Parrish had suffered. Volunteers workers arrived. The state and nation were in line and Thursday, all day long, the rescue work went on, and all night. Then all day and all night Friday, and on Saturday they were still bringing in the dead and wounded. And acres and acres of homes had burned after having been razed by the cyclone. Many more acres of debris had not been raked for the victims. It may be two or three weeks before every bit of wreckage has been made to reveal what lies beneath. Friday a few funerals occurred, a few bodies were sent away for burial and many graves were dug. Saturday many graves were being made and hearses were busy all day--trips out to St. Andrew's cemetery and Tower Grove. Undertakers and volunteers of this city, undertakers and embalmers from elsewhere, labored without rest from Wednesday till Saturday, bringing in the injured, getting the dead, helping hundreds look for their missing--many of whom were found in one morgue or another, and today burying their dead. And it was found that of all the devastation, none could exceed that of the North Eleventh and Ninth over to the northwest limits of the city where not a building remains and where the death toll was awful and the injured hundreds. Additional Comments: Widely considered the most devastating and powerful tornado in American history, the Great Tri-State Tornado ripped through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925. In its 219-mile-long wake it left four completely destroyed towns, six severely damaged ones, 15,000 destroyed homes, and 2,000 injured. Most significantly, 695 people were killed, a record for a single tornado. 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Jackson County IL Archives News.....Citizens Now Rebuilding Murphysboro: 208 Dead - 1200 Injured March 21, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Riseling riseling@insightbb.com July 29, 2006, 2:18 am The Daily Independent Newspaper, Murphysboro, IL March 21, 1925 The citizens of Murphysboro are of one heart and aim in their desire and determination to rebuild Murphysboro and accomplish that goal at the very earliest possible moment and confidence prevails. The citizenry is looking forward to the complete reconstruction of Murphysboro and all seem to be determined to do all in their power to assist in that task. Friday morning a large group of interested townsmen gathered at the Elks' Club, and took inventory of the situation. At that meeting, it was unanimously voted that a public memorial funeral service be held in Murphysboro on Sunday afternoon at the court house square. It was the unanimous opinion that our dead should be buried with the utmost respect, and that, as it was next to impossible to have a separate service for all, that a public service would be a fitting and honored way in which none would be denied proper funeral rites. All ministers and priests will take part in the funeral service. Gov. Len SMALL made a hurried trip to Murphysboro and was present at the meeting in the Elks Club. He spoke to those assembled, and told of the willing assistance which the state government stood ready to give, and pledged the entire resources of the state to Murphysboro's relief. State representative Elbert WALLER also spoke before the meeting, and stated that whatever way in which he could serve Murphysboro he would be most glad to act. He told of a conversation which he had with legislators from Chicago, and told those men that they would be for any state legislation which might be introduced for the benefit of Murphysboro in her time of need. Isaac K. LEVY, prominent local attorney, who is chairman of the relief committee then called upon local men in the audience to speak whatever they had on their minds. Attorney LEVY then spoke himself, and was eloquent in his praise of the noble work which had been done, and was most optimistic in his opinion and belief that Murphysboro would come out of the disaster a bigger and better city than ever before. Among the speeches made by local men, the works of Chas. L. RITTER stood out most prominently because of their wisdom and optimism. Mr. RITTER closed very earnestly by declaring that he would willingly give his life to rebuilding and reconstruction of Murphysboro. It was reported at the meeting that the relief work had been very ably and wonderfully taken care of, and that the relief organization was functioning perfectly. Attorney LEVY then stated that he thought it fitting that a general statement should be made to the world from Murphysboro telling of the situation. He put his opinion to a motion which carried unanimously. Mr. LEVY then read the following statement which he had prepared. It was accepted without correction and praised for its clearness and correctness. The statement follows: We feel greatly confident to the general public for the wonderful assistance that is being rendered to our city and are deeply grateful and thankful for everything that is being done for us. We have our work well organized. With the assistance that is now being given we are able to care for our injured and for our people. Nothing is being overlooked, in providing proper and decent burial for our dead. Everyone is responding nobly in their endeavor to relieve our present suffering and needs. A city, after all, is not constituted by its buildings, it is made up by its people. We have a wonderful citizenship and a great people. We are united and are cooperating in every way. We are ideally located and are rich in resources. And while we greatly deplore our great loss, yet we feel this is no time for tears. We are bound and certain to arise from our present situation, a greater and bigger city than we ever were. We are distressed, but are greatly encouraged, and a city that has the spirit that we possess is bound to succeed. If the public will continue to render the assistance they are now giving, we will be able to care for our injured and our people. May God bless you all for everything you are doing for us. Isaac K. LEVY During the course of the meeting, Chairman LEVY, who was made general chairman, and superintendent of all relief work immediately after the storm, stated that the different phases of relief work have been divided into separate departments, and that a chairman had been provided for each branch. He announced the following department heads: Bert DAVIS and C. E. WHITE, clean up; Scout Executive E. H. TRYON and Rev. LLOYD, charge of all committees; R. E. EDWARDS, leader of clean-up; Chas. F. CHAPMAN, registrar of dead and wounded; William ARBEITER, director of transportation; Dr. R. A. CARTER, director of doctors; Jos. H. DAVIS, in charge of supplies. Before adjournment of the meeting, Robert E. EDWARDS announced that he had much floor space in his large building on Eleventh street, and that he could store the household goods for about two hundred families there, and would be glad to do so free for anybody who applied. Principal M. N. TODD of the high school, stated that he and S. J. SHOMAKER, superintendent of the Murphysboro City Schools, had conferred on the school situation, and that they had decided that part time schools could be opened one week from Monday, and that, therefore, there was no need for parents to worry about their children not having an opportunity to finish their term in this city. Fire Chief Albert HERRING made a very timely and earnest (unreadable) against the use of chimneys which had been damaged during the storm, unless they had been later repaired, and urged that no one leave the house or room which contained a lighted lamp or candle without first extinguishing same before departing. A committee was appointed for the purpose of interviewing the officials of the Mobile & Ohio railroad company for the purpose of getting definite assurance that the splendid M & O railroad shops would be rebuilt in this city. Unofficial rumors are continually in circulation that the shops will remain in Murphysboro. It is logical to believe that they will. The meeting adjoined after having looked into many important matters, and everybody departed feeling confident that Murphysboro would come out of its unfortunate situation a bigger and better city. Reconstruction work Saturday morning could be seen in every direction. People were busy moving away debris, and in protecting their damaged homes from further injury in case of rain. Hundreds of building tradesmen are busy in Murphysboro today, and are being assisted by those whose homes were damaged but not totally destroyed. Work began at the Silica Plant this morning and Chas. JENKINS, local silica official, stated that it was the company's idea to resume operation at the earliest possible moment in order to give local men employment. A persistent story that work will begin almost at once on the hard road between this city and Carbondale has not been verified absolutely by the Daily Republican-Era, but it seems that the information comes from reliable sources. The Brown shoe factory is badly damaged on the third floor especially, and much heavy work will be necessary to recondition the splendid and busy plant. However, many are optimistic in the condition of the shoe factory, because it is believed that the work of repairing that factory will not run into an extended period of time. The spirit of hope, determination and loyalty which seems to be found everywhere in Murphysboro predicts well for the complete come-back of this city after the damaging storm and fire. Everybody seems to be anxious to be at their portion of reconstruction work. Additional Comments: Widely considered the most devastating and powerful tornado in American history, the Great Tri-State Tornado ripped through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925. In its 219-mile-long wake it left four completely destroyed towns, six severely damaged ones, 15,000 destroyed homes, and 2,000 injured. Most significantly, 695 people were killed, a record for a single tornado. 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Mary Elizabeth Craig was born July 27, 1831 in Tennessee. She married Isaiah Green Asbury in 1844 in Murphysboro, IL. Can anyone tell me who her family was? Did they come to Illinois with her? They must have, because she was only 13 when they married. Velda Wittenbrink Moore vlchas@mindspring.com http://www.larrett.com/velda/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrcgs/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/401 - Release Date: 7/26/2006

I have just placed a list of books in the RESOURCE section of my LARRETT webpage below. Just click on the LARRETT and then on RESOURCES and you will see what is there. Velda Wittenbrink Moore vlchas@mindspring.com http://www.larrett.com/velda/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrcgs/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/401 - Release Date: 7/26/2006

Jackson County IL Archives News.....PAIR OF BOYS KEEP SHERIFF FORCES BUSY March 30, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Riseling riseling@insightbb.com July 26, 2006, 9:44 pm The Daily Independent Newspaper, Murphysboro, IL March 30, 1925 The Tri-State Tornado "Bud" BAISDON, of Murphysboro, and Raymond BRICKLEY of Carbondale, both aged 13, are second only to the tornado these days in keeping the sheriff's office on the hop. The boys, jail prisoners, are alleged to have helped themselves to the horse and buddy of Ira BAISDON's at a hitching rack in Murphysboro Saturday night. Next, the lads are alleged to have driven towards Ava and to have stopped as BAISDON's own farm and watered the spotted horse, none of the BAISDONs being at home. Next the boys are alleged to have swapped the buggy for a saddle for the spotted horse. Next to have stolen another horse in the field and borrowed another saddle. Next to have ridden a horse to Ava and into the arms of officers there watching for them. They jumped from their steeds and ran. Citizens caught one. The other returned, saying he would not desert his "buddy." On their way to Murphysboro they jumped out of the car officers were using and ran for it again, finally to be caught a second time. Arrived here they were placed in the corridor around the cells in the county jail. Next they pulled off their shoes and rode the dumb waiter from the second floor of the jail to the first, intent on escaping. Mrs. C. E. WHITE, wife of Sheriff WHITE, heard the racket in the dumb waiter and discovered the boys. Deputies rounded them up again and they languished in the woman's cell of the prison File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/jackson/newspapers/pairofbo179nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb

Jackson County IL Archives Obituaries.....Varnum, Earl March 18, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Riseling riseling@insightbb.com July 26, 2006, 9:41 pm Murphysboro Daily Independent, March 28, 1925 Earl VARNUM, son of Mr. & Mrs. Logan VARNUM passed away March 18th with others who perished in the Longfellow school in the storm. Funeral services were conducted by their pastor Rev. A. F. HAYNES at the home of the SCHNIDERs near Tower Grove cemetery and the body laid to rest in Tower Grove. Earl was the only son of the parents. He was a member of the Centenary church. His going will be greatly missed by his parents who have been stricken by this great loss and by his friends and associates. Our sympathy is with them and the many others who have suffered the loss of loved ones in this general disaster. Additional Comments: Widely considered the most devastating and powerful tornado in American history, the Great Tri-State Tornado ripped through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925. In its 219-mile-long wake it left four completely destroyed towns, six severely damaged ones, 15,000 destroyed homes, and 2,000 injured. Most significantly, 695 people were killed, a record for a single tornado. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/jackson/obits/v/varnum270nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb

Jackson County IL Archives Obituaries.....Wayman, Louis March 18, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Riseling riseling@insightbb.com July 26, 2006, 9:39 pm Murphysboro Daily Independent,March 28, 1925 Louis WAYMAN, young son of Dr. L. R. WAYMAN was one of those who passed away in the recent disaster. Funeral services were conducted by the pastor Rev. A. F. HAYNES at the Centenary parsonage on Thursday March 19th. The sorrowing loved ones will greatly miss the dear bright boy in the home. He was at the school when the disaster occurred. Additional Comments: Widely considered the most devastating and powerful tornado in American history, the Great Tri-State Tornado ripped through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925. In its 219-mile-long wake it left four completely destroyed towns, six severely damaged ones, 15,000 destroyed homes, and 2,000 injured. Most significantly, 695 people were killed, a record for a single tornado. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/jackson/obits/w/wayman269nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb

Jackson County IL Archives Obituaries.....Nausley, Elsie Lee (nee Roberts) March 26, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Riseling riseling@insightbb.com July 26, 2006, 9:37 pm Murphysboro Daily Independent, March 28, 1925 Elsie Lee ROBERTS was born Oct. 15, 1898. She was united in marriage to Ray NAUSLEY May 4, 1918. Three children blessed this union, Dorothy, Albert and Zora Lee. Zora Lee died also as one of the victims of the cyclone with her mother. Mrs. NAUSLEY lingered after the severe injury and passed away Thursday at 11:50 p.m. Mrs. NAUSLEY was a member of the Centenary Methodist church. Besides her children she leaves to mourn her loss bereaved husband, her father Henry ROBERTS, three sisters and a grandmother and two uncles. She was a faithful and devoted member of the church always attending upon its ordination. She was a quiet, modest, beautiful spirit whose influence for good will be missed in church and community. Funeral services were held by the pastor, Rev. A. F. HAYNES. Additional Comments: Widely considered the most devastating and powerful tornado in American history, the Great Tri-State Tornado ripped through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925. In its 219-mile-long wake it left four completely destroyed towns, six severely damaged ones, 15,000 destroyed homes, and 2,000 injured. Most significantly, 695 people were killed, a record for a single tornado. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/jackson/obits/n/nausley268nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb

Jackson County IL Archives Obituaries.....Raynor, Celestia Tryphosa "Lettie" (nee Lincoln) January 30, 1911 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Karima Allison quest@insightbb.com July 26, 2006, 4:05 pm Carbondale Free Press, Carbondale, IL, Jan 31, 1911 Mrs. Lettie RAYNOR, aged 68 years and for many years a resident of Carbondale, died in Chicago Monday after a 3 months' illness with paralysis. Three children survive - Ernie L. RAYNOR and Dewitt RAYNOR, of Chicago, and Mrs. Ralph ALLISON of Murphysboro. Deceased was a daughter of the late Lewis LINCOLN, who died here a few years ago. About three years ago she moved to Chicago, where she lived with her son, Dewitt, until suffering a stroke of paralysis three months ago, since which time she had been in a hospital in Chicago. The funeral arrangements have not been learned here. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/jackson/obits/r/raynor267nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb

Jackson County IL Archives News.....The Tri-State Tornado - Revised List Of Dead: Total Dead Listed At 198 March 23, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Riseling riseling@insightbb.com July 26, 2006, 3:29 pm The Daily Independent Newspaper, Murphysboro, IL March 23, 1925 J. G. ANDREWS T. E. ARBERRY G. S. BANDY Clara BAILEY Millard BAKER, Jr. (at Holden Hospital, Carbondale) Mrs. George BAKER Albert BAKER Frank BAROLI Joe BARONI Minnie BECK Mrs. Geo. BERGER Child of John BERGER John BERRA E. J. BJIK Mayme BICK Mrs. Wallace BLACKLOCK Bert BLACKWOOD James BLEDSOE DAN BOUCHER (not D.L.) Evelyn BOSTON Martha BOWERMAN Mrs. Mary BRANDON John J. BREWER Alice BROWN Foster BROWN Joe Henry BROWN, 3, colored Mrs. Lou BROWN, 53, colored Freeman BRYAN John BRYAN Angeline BUCHHOLZ Jerry CALLAHAN's child Albert CALLAHAN's child Elizabeth CARNER Howard CARR, buried at Oakdale cemetery _____ CLEMENTS Willis COCHRAN William COCHRAN Ethel COFFER John COGDALL Constant COMTE Helen May COOK (child) Joe CORRENTI's child Mrs. Mary CORRENTI Fred CRISTLER's baby boy D. E. DARBY Mary DAVIS Mary DeLUCA Gratia DeLUCA John DeWITT Henrietta DITZLER Charles DUKES, 60 years Arthur DUNN Round EASON child David ELLIS Louis ETHERTON Mrs. James FLEMING Son of James FLEMING Mrs. L. E. FILE Arthur FLATT Dr. FORSHEE's son-in-law Mrs. J. W. GIBSON Alworth GREGORY Mrs. Ed GRIFFITH Louis GUOLDONI Josue GUY, colored J. B. HABERMEHL Ben HABERMEHL Son of L. B. HAGLER Barbara HALL (at Holden Hospital) Mrs. Mart HALLIDAY Frances HAMMER S. M. HANEY, Meridian, Mississippi J. G. HARRIS E. C. HARRIS' boy L. C. HARRISON, Jr. Ernest HARDWIG Mrs. August HASSEBROCK Irvin HASSEBROCK Edna HAYS Jimmy HAYS' baby Joe HENRY Mrs. Mollie HIGGINS Ernie A. HINCHCLIFF Jas. HOLLOWAY, 6, colored Mrs. HUGGINS Wm. HUNZIKER Mayme HUPPERT Pearl HUPPERT Robert ICENOGLE (at Holden Hospital) Marjorie INGRAM Aldencliff ISOM Dolph ISOM, colored Lorene JACKSON Luthena JAMES Mrs. Edgar JONES, colored J. A. JAMES Sam KEARNS Mrs. KELLY, colored Frank KEOUGH H. S. KOONTZ Herbert LENNINGTON Claud LIPE Ivan LIPE Campbell LIPE Mrs. Anna LOY Thomas LOY Charles LOY Mary MAINARD Mrs. Jas. MARTIN James MARTIN and children Peter, John, Maybelle, Mandelena Ben McALLISTER Victor McBRIDE Orin McBRIDE Robert McCORD's child Jerry M. MIFFLIN Mrs. Louis MILLER Louis MILLER Joe MOORE John MORGAN's baby girl Zora Lee NAUSLEY, daughter of Ray Mrs. Ray NAUSLEY W. E. NEAL Mrs. Chas. NOLTE James O'GOOCH, Salina, Kansas B. A. ORLAND Della PATE Phoebe PELLEY Allen PENROD O. L. PERKINS Mrs. Joe PIERON Columbus PIERSON's child Luella PILTZ Robert PILTZ Mrs. Thomas RAINS Hugh REEDER Paul ROBERTS Mrs. Sam RODMAN Mr. RUSHING, age 80 Earl RUSSELL Mrs. Letha SAMPSON Mrs. John SCHIRA and three children Josephine SCHIRO Tressy SCHMALLERBERGER Elizabeth SCHOLLE Mrs. S. E. SHAW, mother of W. G. SHAW druggist Bernard SHELEY Mr. & Mrs. O. S. SILVEY Mrs. SLATER, colored Bertha Frances SIMON Mrs. Charles SMITH Ernest SMITH Evelyn SMITH James SMITH Mrs. SPEILAZO Mrs. Ardell SPANGLER and child Wm. SPURLAZZIE Dorris STEVENSON Robert STEPHENSON Elmer C. STIVER Benny Franklin STIVER Cooper STOUT Sadie STRATTAN Tony STRATTON, colored Two STRIBAIT boys John SWAFFORD Louis THEISS Arabella THEISS Mrs. Leshe THIS Isabelle THIS Granda THORNTON Octavia TREMBLY Mildred TUCKER Anna TURNER, colored Earl VARNUM W. E. VARNUM Mr. VERNER and three children Major VERBAL and wife Junior WADE, colored boy J. J. WAGNER Joseph WAGNER Dr. L. R. WAYMAN's son Mrs. Mildred WHITE Frank WHITTINGTON Mrs. Ahra WILL _____ WILLIS, child Additional Comments: Widely considered the most devastating and powerful tornado in American history, the Great Tri-State Tornado ripped through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925. In its 219-mile-long wake it left four completely destroyed towns, six severely damaged ones, 15,000 destroyed homes, and 2,000 injured. Most significantly, 695 people were killed, a record for a single tornado. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/jackson/newspapers/thetrist178nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 4.5 Kb

Jackson County IL Archives News.....GORHAM, ILL DEATH LIST REACHES 32 - The Tri-State Tornado March 23, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Riseling riseling@insightbb.com July 26, 2006, 3:23 pm The Daily Independent Newspaper, Murphysboro, IL March 23, 1925 Gorham, 12 miles southwest of Murphysboro with a population of 800, was the first town to go in the greatest cyclone that ever swept Illinois. The storm crossed the Mississippi river at 2:30 p.m. at Lake Ditch. Citizens claim the width of destruction was three fourths of a mile. Gorham was near the center of destruction. Not more than two dwellings were left standing. The large school building is a total wreck. Out of an enrollment of 175 pupils only six were killed, but many wounded, one dying since the storm. There were 7 teachers at the school, 4 grade teachers and 3 high school teachers. Gorham will rebuild, bigger and better than ever. There were 32 dead, and 80 wounded at Gorham. Forty-nine wounded were sent to Cairo, 14 to St. Louis and 20 left in town and taken to country homes. The following is a list of the dead at Gorham: Ruben CRAIN and wife, Ollie Jane CRAIN, wife of C. CRAIN Mrs. Mary MOSCHENROSE an 3 children, Edward, Andrew and Laila Miss Sally INCHCLIFF, daughter of Isaac INCHCLIFF Joel Robert DUNN Martin COLE Mildred Marie NEEDHAM, infant Lafayette NEEDHAM William FONCREE Opal ROSENBERGER Margaret BROWN Lawrence GALE Mrs. William REEDER Charles BARTON Gus REEDER Gerald CROSS, 5 years old Della CROSS Harve BEAN Sarah BEAN Corley GORDON Mrs. Geo. TOMMER Mrs. Kate WHITE Bertha CASEY Murry ASBURY Margaret BOULTON Mrs. Kate NOLAN Mr. Richard JOHNSON Those killed in the county between Gorham and Murphysboro: At A. B. SCHOFFIELD place where everything was destroyed except a part of one house, John ENGRIM, 62 years old; 7 month old baby girl baby of John ENGRIM; and 5 year old son of John ENGRIM later died. At the BOUDET farm: Freeman BRYAN At the COCHRAN farm: Will COCHRAN At the VARNER farm: Henry VARNER and two children, and his wife at point of death The injured are: Mrs. John ENGRIM, leg broken Wilma ENGRIM, leg broken Roma ENGRIM, badly hurt Fred EDMONDSON, leg broken Flossie EDMONDSON, leg broken Mrs. A. B. SCHOFFIELD, face cut James NEEDHAM, many bruises Additional Comments: Widely considered the most devastating and powerful tornado in American history, the Great Tri-State Tornado ripped through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925. In its 219-mile-long wake it left four completely destroyed towns, six severely damaged ones, 15,000 destroyed homes, and 2,000 injured. Most significantly, 695 people were killed, a record for a single tornado. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/jackson/newspapers/gorhamil177nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb

Jackson County IL Archives News.....The Tri-State Tornado - Deaths and Injuries March 23, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Riseling riseling@insightbb.com July 26, 2006, 3:19 pm The Daily Independent Newspaper, Murphysboro, IL March 23, 1925 38 MOST SERIOUSLY INJURED Here is listed thirty-eight storm victims, the most seriously injured or suffering injuries of a nature such as could be better treated in a metropolitan hospital. These injured were placed in Barnes hospital, St. Louis, Frank WHITTINGTON died en route and his body ordered consigned to the Red Cross here for burial, relatives being fundless after the storm. Ed WHITTINGTON Elery GROB Luella FLEMING Mrs. RAY Geo. J. BOWERMAN Elsie RATHBERT Simpson HALL Mattie LIVELY Mrs. Troy HANEY Grant YOUNG Laura EXOM Elmus AKIN Thelma TAVEGGIA Ernest RUBLE J. H. CRISLER Mrs. W. F. VARNUM Mrs. F. W. SCHMALLENBERGER Pauline PURDY Mrs. Miles BAGWELL Emma STANFIELD Edna HAYES Hattie WINTERS Louis ETHERTON J. H. STAPLES Yoonue WAGNER Leon WAGNER Lawrence WEBER Marsh SMITH Mrs. C. SHOOD Mrs. LOWDEN BAILEY (boy) Miss STANFIELD Lewis TURNER Gertrude DEWILLE Beulah THORNTON Eugene THIS Mattie BROWN Frank WHITTINGTON MISSING The following persons are missing since Wednesday. If you know their whereabouts notify the Independent. If there are members of your family missing notify the Independent for listing in this column. Dorothy LAUNIUS, wife of G. L. LAUNIUS Anna LONG, sistger of Chrissy HALDAMAN COOPER STOUT RITES TUESDAY Funeral rites for Cooper STOUT, storm victim who died Sunday, will be conducted Tuesday at 1:00 o'clock. The service at Tower Grove Cemetery will occur about 3:00 o'clock. Additional Comments: Widely considered the most devastating and powerful tornado in American history, the Great Tri-State Tornado ripped through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925. In its 219-mile-long wake it left four completely destroyed towns, six severely damaged ones, 15,000 destroyed homes, and 2,000 injured. Most significantly, 695 people were killed, a record for a single tornado. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/jackson/newspapers/thetrist176nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb

Alexander-Jackson County IL Archives Obituaries.....Lincoln, Catherine Francis (nee Turner) Smith April 14, 1911 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Karima Allison quest@insightbb.com July 26, 2006, 12:22 pm Cairo (IL) Evening Citizen, April 14-15, 1911 Mrs. Catherine LINCOLN is seriously ill at the home of her daughter on Twenty-fifth street. [The Cairo Evening Citizen, Friday April 14, 1911, personals section] ================ Old Resident Of Cairo Died This Morning Mrs. Catherine SMITH, Mother of E. A. SMITH Passed Away. Mrs. Catherine Frances SMITH died this morning at 11 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. M. GUION, who resides with her daughter Mrs. George FARRIN at 722 Twenty-fifth street. Mrs. SMITH was taken with an attack of grip a week ago Tuesday which developed into bronchitis resulting in her death. Mrs. SMITH who was nearly 79 years old was born in Brantford, Canada and has lived in Cairo since 1859. She was married twice, her first husband being George SMITH, after whose death she married Louis Lincoln who is also deceased. She was the mother of thirteen children, of whom four are living, Mrs. A. M. GUION, Messrs. E. A. SMITH and Cyrus SMITH of Cairo and William SMITH of Denver, Colo. She also leaves surviving her a sister Mrs. Eliza WORKMAN of Brantford, Canada, a brother Robert TURNER of Toronto, Canada and a brother Frank TURNER who lives in California. The average ages of these three is something over 69 years. The funeral will probably be held from the house Sunday afternoon, although definite arrangements have not been made as yet. [The Cairo Evening Citizen, Friday April 14, 1911, next page] ============================= FUNERAL SUNDAY LINCOLN--Died, at 11 a.m. Friday April 14, 1911, after a brief illness, Mrs. Catherine Frances LINCOLN, aged 79 years. Funeral services will be held at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Geo. M. FARRIN, 722 Twenty-fifth street at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 16, Rev. E. A. deRosset of the Church of the Redeemer officiating. Special train from Fourteenth street at 2:45 p.m. Interment at Villa Ridge Cemetery. [The Cairo Evening Citizen, Friday April 15, 1911] Additional Comments: Lewis LINCOLN and Catherine (TURNER) SMITH were married on 4 December 1866, in Cairo, Alexander Co., IL. Catherine's first husband, George SMITH, was a prosperous businessman in Cairo. He died in 1864, leaving Catherine with seven children. After their marriage, Lewis and Catherine LINCOLN lived in Carbondale, Jackson Co., IL, where twin sons, Lewis Logan LINCOLN and Bishop Grant LINCOLN, were born to them on 6 Sep 1868. They apparently moved to Cairo sometime between 1868 and 1870, where a third son, Staats Taylor LINCOLN, was born on 12 September 1870. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/alexander/obits/l/lincoln26gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb