Thanks Mary. I had Christopher Columbus s/o James R. Sweetin and Mary Ann Kirk. Is this correct? I see the Sweetin/Harmon marriage here: Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900 SWEETEN, CHRISTOPHER HARMON, ALLIE 1882-10-14 006/0115 00000133 JEFFERSON According to the 1900 census Alice T. Sweetin stakes she has given birth to 3 children with 2 living. Sandy On 1/10/2011 6:57 AM, [1]zandz@juno.com wrote: This story is well known in the Southern Illinois area. The parents of Wilford are Christopher Columbus "Lum" SWEETIN and Allice I. HARMON. I have one sister for him, Bertha SWEETIN, who married (1) Ed WILLS and (2) Alex BUMPUS. Mary ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Sandy Bauer [2]<sandy@whalen-family.org> To: [3]ilfrankl@rootsweb.com, [4]iljeffer@rootsweb.com Subject: [ILJEFFER] Wilford Sweetin murder Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:58:37 -0700 Sweetin Researchers I was recently given a copy of newspaper clippings about a double murder by poisoning in 1924. Anyone else heard about this? I believe this is the family in the census below based upon the newspaper description which I've transcribed below the census info. Anyone know who Wilford Sweetin's parents are? 1920 census Spring Garden Twp, Jefferson Co, IL - 3 Jan 1920 34/34 Sweetin, Williford Head M W 35 M IL IL IL Elsie M. Wife F W 27 M IL IL IL Byford L. Son M W 9 S IL IL IL Stanton H. Son M W 8 S IL IL IL Harry L. Son M W 3 S IL IL IL First newspaper clipping starts with: By Peter Levins "Water!" whispered the dying man. "Please....water!" Wilford Sweetin's comely wife, Elsie, haggard from loss of sleep, jumped up, but the Rev. Lawrence High gently restrained her. "You Stay with him," he said. "I'll get you some water, Brother Will." Outside a dog barked as a car stopped in front of the Sweetin bungalow in the little town of Ina, ILL. Grave-faced neighbors, fellow coal miners, halted their pacing to watch Dr. Sullivan enter the brightly lighted house. It was the night of July 28, 1924. "Ah, Doctor," the minister greeted, "you are back sooner than we expected." Dr. Sullivan nodded. "Can you see any change in his condition?" "Unfortunately, no." The doctor sat down by his patient, who was breathing heavily, every muscle straining. Will had taken ill just six days before. Dr. Sullivan had diagnosed it as ptomaine poisoning. Nothing to worry about, he had said. Now Will was dying. Dr. Sullivan turned to Mr. Hight and nodded gravely. The minister motioned to the three Sweetin boys -- Byford, 14, Stanton, 13, and Harry Lee, 8 -- who were sitting in the next room. They ranged themselves by the foot of the bed. "We must pray," said the minister. He summoned Mrs. Eva Miller, a cousin of Mrs. Sweetin. All knelt. The heavy breathing ceased, the figure relaxed. The Reverend High prayed on, the soft words of supplication falling swiftly from his lips. The doctor left. The sorrowing watchers in the street dispersed. One by one the neighbors' lights went out. "It is God's will," the minister told Elsie Sweetin. "Try to bear up." The strain had been too much for the wife and mother. Friends and relatives had to take over the household duties and funeral arrangements. Mr. Hight and his portly wife, Anna, proved towers of strength. Sad-faced Elsie Sweetin recuperated enough to attend the funeral. She wept with the others when the minister delivered his sermon at the grave. "I am unworthy to preach the sermon over the body of this good man," he began. "I stand in the place of the Apostle St. John, who said, "Let not they heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would not have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." "I tell you as St. John did that you must believe in me when I say that in my father's house are many mansions and by my conversion of Brother Sweetin a place has been prepared there for him. "I NEVER wanted to come to Ina, Friends, but something drew me on, kept drawing me on. I never knew what it was, not until the day I met this good woman who lies cold in death before us here now. Then it came over me just as the great light that called me to the service of God came over me and I knew I was sent here to convert him to the true faith. "Brother Sweetin was an unbeliever in Jesus Christ and God, and I was sent here that he might be redeemed and that I might redeem him." Mr. Hight paused dramatically, gazed from one solemn face to another, then cried triumphantly: "But I saved his soul, Friends! I sat by his bedside as he lay dying. I found the good fight -- and won! I moved his soul for God and he is now in the eternal light of the gracious countenance of Our Lord!" Thus Will Sweetin passed on, and thus he was buried. Illustrated by SEMOUR BALL [separate photos of Elsie Sweetin and Rev. Lawrence Hight] More newspaper clippings continue to tell the story as follows: That summer Mrs. Sweetin often visited the Hights and was on hand when Mrs. Hight, mother of a son, 14, and two daughters, 16 and n23, fell ill of what seemed to be ptomaine posioning. As in the case of Will Sweetin, no sort of medicine helped her; she grew steadily worse. Mr. Hight circuit rider with four churches in that section of southern Illinois, asked his followers to pray that his good wife's life be spared. On occasion he knelt by her bedside and uttered fervent appeals to the Almighty. "O God in They infinite mercy," he sobbed, "can You not intervene and spare this woman who is so dear to me, and so precious to her children? Spare her, God, spare her!" Sometimes Elsie Sweetin knelt too. The sick woman suffered. She gasped for water. On Sept. 12 her breathing ceased. "Anna! Anna!" the husband cried. He flung himself across the bed. .... A small town everyone knows everyone else's business. Ina was a small town. Among the Sweetin-Hight neighbors, it became common knowledge that Elsie Sweetin, one of the best-looking women in the parish, was in love with the minister. He had apparently begun to exert a powerful emotional influence upon the miner's wife months before Will's death. One neighbor said that on occasion he had seen Mr. Hight signal to the Sweetin home from the vantage point of a pile of railroad ties. "Elsie just couldn't seem to see enough of him," said the informant. "Where was she when Mr. Hight was holding that camp meeting at Bonnie a few weeks ago? Why, she was living in a cottage right beside his! An poor Will dead only a month!" Will had taken ill at a church social. The minister had come to see him every day during his illness. He'd sat with the sick man the last two nights of his life. Will had kept crying for water. Mr. Hight had brought him water. Mr. High? Such a pious man? ..... Gossip. The talk reached the ears of Druggist John E. Webster, whose store was in near-by Benton. He recalled selling Arsenic to the Reverend Hight some time early in the summer. For rats, the parson had explained. The rats had become a terrific nuisance at his place. Webster got out his poison register, which Hight had been required to sign at the time of the purchase. Here it was, Lawrence Hight, July 22. July 22! Why, that was the very day that Wilford Sweetin had taken sick! Webster phone Sheriff Grant Holcomb who called on State's Attorney Frank G. Thompson. The latter decided at once to have the body of Anna Hight exhumed and examined. Six days after Mrs. Hight's death, Dr. William D. McNally of Chicago reported arsenic in the body. Hight was arrested on suspicion at the home of his married daughter at Tamaroa. He insisted he had purchased the poison to kill rats, and had used for that purpose. "We found a box of rough-on-rats in the parsonage," Thompson told him. "You hadn't used it all. Why did you buy arsenic when you already had rat poison in the house?" "I insist I bought the arsenic for the rats." Locked in the Jefferson County Jail at Mt. Vernon, 12 miles south of Ina, he told reported "I am just as close to Heaven in jail as I am out of it." All this is the result of totally false gossip. I never talked to Mrs. Sweetin alone." Meanwhile, the body of Will Sweetin was being exhumed. The town seethed with the news. The doctor who examined Wilford Sweetin's exhumed boy reported: "Have found very large quantity of arsenic in the stomach contents. Further analysis will be made andn report sent as soon as possible." Feeling mounted. Mr. Hight began to lose his pious calm. >From the window of his cell he could see men in the street -- brawny, rough-clad fellows. They had been friends of Will Sweetin. But the minister lifted his hands in horror at the accusations of his inquisitors. How could they bring such a charge as homicide against him? At 4 a.m., Sept. 22, he admitted that he had fed his wife poison "to relieve her pain." "To relieve what pain?" Thompson asked him. "She had been ill. She weighed 210 pounds and she was in pain." "From what?" "Ptomaine poisoning." He signed a statement to that effect, the signed a second statement reading: "On Sunday morning, July 27, 1924, at the home of Wilford Sweetin, I placed some poison in a glass and gave it to Wilford Sweetin, who drank it. I did it to ease his pain. Elsie Sweetin knew nothing of this." Crowds congregated at the jail. They wanted to take Mr. Hight out into the country. Sheriff Holcomb swore in special deputies, who took up posts around the building. "What is going on?" Hight asked a turnkey. "They want you" the attendant answered. "No, no! They would not do this!" "Oh, yes they would," the man said, "if we'd let them." "Call the sheriff! Tell him I want protection! Tell him to take me away from here!" Presently the sheriff arrived. The prisoner threw himself on his knees before him. "I didn't do it alone -- she helped me!" he all but wailed. "I killed my wife, yes -- but she -- Elsie -- she killed Will!" Mrs. Sweetin would not substantiate his story of a murder agreement. "If Will was murdered," she calmly stated, "then the minister must have done it. He is behaving like a coward." She admitted to reporters that she had fallen in love with Lawrence Hight. Will had been devoted to her, but what he had to give her in the way of worldly goods had not been enough. She had begun to work out at the age of 11, and had married Will Sweetin when she was 15. Pastor Hight came to town, and she went to him f or advice. She thought he was a good man. She withheld nothing in her confession of unhappiness. "I told him of my husband's want of affection." she continued. "I told him that Will was working too hard in the mines. I told him Will was neglecting me. I thought that Pastor Hight would suggest some spiritual remedy -- some cure through prayer. He was kind and sympathetic. He won my confidence from the start." She thought his love had been only spiritual. "Please believe that my own heart was pure!" she cried. "I did not know then that the heart I received in return was sinful." Hight also had something to say. "There is a lesson in all this," he said. "Marriages must have emotion as a basis or there is no happiness. Had I met and married Mrs. Sweetin first, our lives would have been unutterably happy. But she married a cold, indifferent man and I married that kind of woman. God forgive me!" Mrs. Sweetin eventually won an acquittal - in a second trial-- while Hight went to prison for life. 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Joyce Marie Davis, 44, of Davenport, Iowa, formerly of Mt. Vernon, passed away Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, at her home. Services are under the direction of the Jackson Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon.

Maurice Dial Williams, 85, of Bonnie, died Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, at St. Mary's Good Samaritan Regional Health Center in Mt. Vernon. He was born on Feb. 20, 1925, in Elk Prairie Township in Jefferson County, the son of Burton and Josie (Reynolds) Williams. He married Evelyn June Mendenhall on Feb. 1, 1952, in Piggott, Ark., and she preceded him in death on Aug. 29, 2010. He was an Army Veteran, serving in World War II in the Medical Corps. Maurice worked for Autolite in Mt. Vernon for several years. He was also a farmer and owned Williams TV Towers in Bonnie starting in 1953. He was a member of Elk Prairie Christian Church. Mr. Williams is survived by a son, Malvern Williams of Bonnie; a daughter, Lora Joy Williams of Bonnie; and a brother, Waymon Williams and wife Betty of Bonnie. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Johnston Funeral Home in Ina with Bro. Albert Hampton officiating. Burial will follow in South Hickory Hill Cemetery in Bonnie. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

PICKET, JOHN H HOPPER, LYDIA 1861-11-14 002/0211 JEFFERSON PICKET, JOHN M TONEY, MARTHA JANE 1867-06-23 003/00000095 JEFFERSON PICKETT, JOHN M CARDELA, WEAVER 1877-02-18 006/0088 00000050 JEFFERSON PICKETT, John Sarah Elkins 29 Dec 1901 JCI JONES, JOHN PRIEKET, MARY M 1890-09-14 006/0059 JEFFERSON (On this marriage record, she says she will be 25 her next birthday and gives her parents as John PICKETT and ______TONEY. She was born in April so this would make her birthdate 1866 so maybe Lydia HOPPER was her mother.) Cora was born 1880 and her mother is Cordelia McADOO. ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "BLS" <elvis500@frontier.com> To: <iljeffer@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:45:47 -0600 who was the parents of Mary m PICKETT JONES The obit says she and Cora were half sisters, I have them full sisters ----- Original Message ----- From: <zandz@juno.com> To: <ILJEFFER@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 3:19 PM Subject: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 > Mt. Vernon Register News - Wednesday - 04 Jan 1956 > > Mrs. Cora RUNNELS of RFD 1, Dix, died at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday at Jefferson > Memorial Hospital. She was 75y2m11d of age. Mrs. RUNNELS was born > November 22, 1880, at Ina, the daughter of John and Cordelia PICKETT. > > She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Dicey MILLER; 7 sons, Enos and Carl > of Mt. Vernon; Harl, Lonnie, and Onnie of St. Louis; Carson of Ferguson, > MO; and Lawrence of Mattoon; one brother, Andy PICKETT of Tuscola; 2 half > brothers, Irvin PICKETT of Ina and Osie PICKETT of West Frankfort; one > half sister, Mrs. Mary JONES of Alton; 25 grandchildren and 8 > great-grandchildren. > > She was a member of the Pentecostal Church at Boyd where services will be. > Burial will be in Kirk Cemetery at Ina. The body will lie in state at the > Osborn Funeral Home in Dix after 2 pm Thursday. > > ____________________________________________________________ > Globe Life Insurance > $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a269a94d9ca310eest03duc > > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: > www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a80536aa52af7210st01duc

Sweetin Researchers I was recently given a copy of newspaper clippings about a double murder by poisoning in 1924. Anyone else heard about this? I believe this is the family in the census below based upon the newspaper description which I've transcribed below the census info. Anyone know who Wilford Sweetin's parents are? 1920 census Spring Garden Twp, Jefferson Co, IL - 3 Jan 1920 34/34 Sweetin, Williford Head M W 35 M IL IL IL Elsie M. Wife F W 27 M IL IL IL Byford L. Son M W 9 S IL IL IL Stanton H. Son M W 8 S IL IL IL Harry L. Son M W 3 S IL IL IL First newspaper clipping starts with: By Peter Levins "Water!" whispered the dying man. "Please....water!" Wilford Sweetin's comely wife, Elsie, haggard from loss of sleep, jumped up, but the Rev. Lawrence High gently restrained her. "You Stay with him," he said. "I'll get you some water, Brother Will." Outside a dog barked as a car stopped in front of the Sweetin bungalow in the little town of Ina, ILL. Grave-faced neighbors, fellow coal miners, halted their pacing to watch Dr. Sullivan enter the brightly lighted house. It was the night of July 28, 1924. "Ah, Doctor," the minister greeted, "you are back sooner than we expected." Dr. Sullivan nodded. "Can you see any change in his condition?" "Unfortunately, no." The doctor sat down by his patient, who was breathing heavily, every muscle straining. Will had taken ill just six days before. Dr. Sullivan had diagnosed it as ptomaine poisoning. Nothing to worry about, he had said. Now Will was dying. Dr. Sullivan turned to Mr. Hight and nodded gravely. The minister motioned to the three Sweetin boys -- Byford, 14, Stanton, 13, and Harry Lee, 8 -- who were sitting in the next room. They ranged themselves by the foot of the bed. "We must pray," said the minister. He summoned Mrs. Eva Miller, a cousin of Mrs. Sweetin. All knelt. The heavy breathing ceased, the figure relaxed. The Reverend High prayed on, the soft words of supplication falling swiftly from his lips. The doctor left. The sorrowing watchers in the street dispersed. One by one the neighbors' lights went out. "It is God's will," the minister told Elsie Sweetin. "Try to bear up." The strain had been too much for the wife and mother. Friends and relatives had to take over the household duties and funeral arrangements. Mr. Hight and his portly wife, Anna, proved towers of strength. Sad-faced Elsie Sweetin recuperated enough to attend the funeral. She wept with the others when the minister delivered his sermon at the grave. "I am unworthy to preach the sermon over the body of this good man," he began. "I stand in the place of the Apostle St. John, who said, "Let not they heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would not have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." "I tell you as St. John did that you must believe in me when I say that in my father's house are many mansions and by my conversion of Brother Sweetin a place has been prepared there for him. "I NEVER wanted to come to Ina, Friends, but something drew me on, kept drawing me on. I never knew what it was, not until the day I met this good woman who lies cold in death before us here now. Then it came over me just as the great light that called me to the service of God came over me and I knew I was sent here to convert him to the true faith. "Brother Sweetin was an unbeliever in Jesus Christ and God, and I was sent here that he might be redeemed and that I might redeem him." Mr. Hight paused dramatically, gazed from one solemn face to another, then cried triumphantly: "But I saved his soul, Friends! I sat by his bedside as he lay dying. I found the good fight -- and won! I moved his soul for God and he is now in the eternal light of the gracious countenance of Our Lord!" Thus Will Sweetin passed on, and thus he was buried. Illustrated by SEMOUR BALL [separate photos of Elsie Sweetin and Rev. Lawrence Hight] More newspaper clippings continue to tell the story as follows: That summer Mrs. Sweetin often visited the Hights and was on hand when Mrs. Hight, mother of a son, 14, and two daughters, 16 and n23, fell ill of what seemed to be ptomaine posioning. As in the case of Will Sweetin, no sort of medicine helped her; she grew steadily worse. Mr. Hight circuit rider with four churches in that section of southern Illinois, asked his followers to pray that his good wife's life be spared. On occasion he knelt by her bedside and uttered fervent appeals to the Almighty. "O God in They infinite mercy," he sobbed, "can You not intervene and spare this woman who is so dear to me, and so precious to her children? Spare her, God, spare her!" Sometimes Elsie Sweetin knelt too. The sick woman suffered. She gasped for water. On Sept. 12 her breathing ceased. "Anna! Anna!" the husband cried. He flung himself across the bed. .... A small town everyone knows everyone else's business. Ina was a small town. Among the Sweetin-Hight neighbors, it became common knowledge that Elsie Sweetin, one of the best-looking women in the parish, was in love with the minister. He had apparently begun to exert a powerful emotional influence upon the miner's wife months before Will's death. One neighbor said that on occasion he had seen Mr. Hight signal to the Sweetin home from the vantage point of a pile of railroad ties. "Elsie just couldn't seem to see enough of him," said the informant. "Where was she when Mr. Hight was holding that camp meeting at Bonnie a few weeks ago? Why, she was living in a cottage right beside his! An poor Will dead only a month!" Will had taken ill at a church social. The minister had come to see him every day during his illness. He'd sat with the sick man the last two nights of his life. Will had kept crying for water. Mr. Hight had brought him water. Mr. High? Such a pious man? ..... Gossip. The talk reached the ears of Druggist John E. Webster, whose store was in near-by Benton. He recalled selling Arsenic to the Reverend Hight some time early in the summer. For rats, the parson had explained. The rats had become a terrific nuisance at his place. Webster got out his poison register, which Hight had been required to sign at the time of the purchase. Here it was, Lawrence Hight, July 22. July 22! Why, that was the very day that Wilford Sweetin had taken sick! Webster phone Sheriff Grant Holcomb who called on State's Attorney Frank G. Thompson. The latter decided at once to have the body of Anna Hight exhumed and examined. Six days after Mrs. Hight's death, Dr. William D. McNally of Chicago reported arsenic in the body. Hight was arrested on suspicion at the home of his married daughter at Tamaroa. He insisted he had purchased the poison to kill rats, and had used for that purpose. "We found a box of rough-on-rats in the parsonage," Thompson told him. "You hadn't used it all. Why did you buy arsenic when you already had rat poison in the house?" "I insist I bought the arsenic for the rats." Locked in the Jefferson County Jail at Mt. Vernon, 12 miles south of Ina, he told reported "I am just as close to Heaven in jail as I am out of it." All this is the result of totally false gossip. I never talked to Mrs. Sweetin alone." Meanwhile, the body of Will Sweetin was being exhumed. The town seethed with the news. The doctor who examined Wilford Sweetin's exhumed boy reported: "Have found very large quantity of arsenic in the stomach contents. Further analysis will be made andn report sent as soon as possible." Feeling mounted. Mr. Hight began to lose his pious calm. From the window of his cell he could see men in the street -- brawny, rough-clad fellows. They had been friends of Will Sweetin. But the minister lifted his hands in horror at the accusations of his inquisitors. How could they bring such a charge as homicide against him? At 4 a.m., Sept. 22, he admitted that he had fed his wife poison "to relieve her pain." "To relieve what pain?" Thompson asked him. "She had been ill. She weighed 210 pounds and she was in pain." "From what?" "Ptomaine poisoning." He signed a statement to that effect, the signed a second statement reading: "On Sunday morning, July 27, 1924, at the home of Wilford Sweetin, I placed some poison in a glass and gave it to Wilford Sweetin, who drank it. I did it to ease his pain. Elsie Sweetin knew nothing of this." Crowds congregated at the jail. They wanted to take Mr. Hight out into the country. Sheriff Holcomb swore in special deputies, who took up posts around the building. "What is going on?" Hight asked a turnkey. "They want you" the attendant answered. "No, no! They would not do this!" "Oh, yes they would," the man said, "if we'd let them." "Call the sheriff! Tell him I want protection! Tell him to take me away from here!" Presently the sheriff arrived. The prisoner threw himself on his knees before him. "I didn't do it alone -- she helped me!" he all but wailed. "I killed my wife, yes -- but she -- Elsie -- she killed Will!" Mrs. Sweetin would not substantiate his story of a murder agreement. "If Will was murdered," she calmly stated, "then the minister must have done it. He is behaving like a coward." She admitted to reporters that she had fallen in love with Lawrence Hight. Will had been devoted to her, but what he had to give her in the way of worldly goods had not been enough. She had begun to work out at the age of 11, and had married Will Sweetin when she was 15. Pastor Hight came to town, and she went to him f or advice. She thought he was a good man. She withheld nothing in her confession of unhappiness. "I told him of my husband's want of affection." she continued. "I told him that Will was working too hard in the mines. I told him Will was neglecting me. I thought that Pastor Hight would suggest some spiritual remedy -- some cure through prayer. He was kind and sympathetic. He won my confidence from the start." She thought his love had been only spiritual. "Please believe that my own heart was pure!" she cried. "I did not know then that the heart I received in return was sinful." Hight also had something to say. "There is a lesson in all this," he said. "Marriages must have emotion as a basis or there is no happiness. Had I met and married Mrs. Sweetin first, our lives would have been unutterably happy. But she married a cold, indifferent man and I married that kind of woman. God forgive me!" Mrs. Sweetin eventually won an acquittal - in a second trial-- while Hight went to prison for life. THE AMERICAN WEEKLY

Thank you Betty..........I figured that we had to have multiple marriages involved, especially after Mary posted John's marriages. So Cora must be the d/o Barnett Alexander McADOO & Sarah MERRITT. Wow!! Thanks!! In a message dated 1/9/2011 10:04:32 P.M. Central Standard Time, elvis500@frontier.com writes: John A PICKETT was married four times to Sarah Ellen ELKINS, Lydia HOPPER, Martha TONEY and Cordelia McADOO and trying to figure out which kids belong to what mother I just sat down tonight and wrote Aunt Judy Sink a long letter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheldon Jones" <srjones@pcisys.net> To: <iljeffer@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 >I believe Mary M PICKETT (mar. John JONES) is d/o John and Martha Jane >TONEY > (I also have Ella who mar. John Whitfield WILLIS as a full sibling of > Mary); > Cora I believe is d/o John and Cordelia C McADOO ... > John also married Lydia HOPPER and Sarah Ellen ELKINS... > > Kay - yes, I believe John is s/o James Haskell PICKETT and Mary "Polly" > BARNETT > > -SRJ > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: iljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iljeffer- >> bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of BLS >> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 7:46 PM >> To: iljeffer@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 >> >> who was the parents of Mary m PICKETT JONES The obit says she and Cora >> were >> half sisters, I have them full sisters >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <zandz@juno.com> >> To: <ILJEFFER@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 3:19 PM >> Subject: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 >> >> >> > Mt. Vernon Register News - Wednesday - 04 Jan 1956 >> > >> > Mrs. Cora RUNNELS of RFD 1, Dix, died at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday at >> > Jefferson >> > Memorial Hospital. She was 75y2m11d of age. Mrs. RUNNELS was born >> > November 22, 1880, at Ina, the daughter of John and Cordelia PICKETT. >> > >> > She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Dicey MILLER; 7 sons, Enos and > Carl >> > of Mt. Vernon; Harl, Lonnie, and Onnie of St. Louis; Carson of >> > Ferguson, >> > MO; and Lawrence of Mattoon; one brother, Andy PICKETT of Tuscola; 2 >> half >> > brothers, Irvin PICKETT of Ina and Osie PICKETT of West Frankfort; one >> > half sister, Mrs. Mary JONES of Alton; 25 grandchildren and 8 >> > great-grandchildren. >> > >> > She was a member of the Pentecostal Church at Boyd where services will >> be. >> > Burial will be in Kirk Cemetery at Ina. The body will lie in state at > the >> > Osborn Funeral Home in Dix after 2 pm Thursday. >> > >> > >> __________________________________________________________ >> __ >> > Globe Life Insurance >> > $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. >> > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a269a94d9ca310eest03duc >> > >> > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: >> > www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> >> Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: >> www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILJEFFER- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >> the subject and the body of the message > > > > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: > www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This was meant to go private Sorry about that ----- Original Message ----- From: "BLS" <elvis500@frontier.com> To: <iljeffer@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 10:04 PM Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 > John A PICKETT was married four times to Sarah Ellen ELKINS, Lydia HOPPER, > Martha TONEY and Cordelia McADOO and trying to figure out which kids > belong > to what mother > > I just sat down tonight and wrote Aunt Judy Sink a long letter > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sheldon Jones" <srjones@pcisys.net> > To: <iljeffer@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:54 PM > Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 > > >>I believe Mary M PICKETT (mar. John JONES) is d/o John and Martha Jane >>TONEY >> (I also have Ella who mar. John Whitfield WILLIS as a full sibling of >> Mary); >> Cora I believe is d/o John and Cordelia C McADOO ... >> John also married Lydia HOPPER and Sarah Ellen ELKINS... >> >> Kay - yes, I believe John is s/o James Haskell PICKETT and Mary "Polly" >> BARNETT >> >> -SRJ >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: iljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iljeffer- >>> bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of BLS >>> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 7:46 PM >>> To: iljeffer@rootsweb.com >>> Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 >>> >>> who was the parents of Mary m PICKETT JONES The obit says she and Cora >>> were >>> half sisters, I have them full sisters >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: <zandz@juno.com> >>> To: <ILJEFFER@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 3:19 PM >>> Subject: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 >>> >>> >>> > Mt. Vernon Register News - Wednesday - 04 Jan 1956 >>> > >>> > Mrs. Cora RUNNELS of RFD 1, Dix, died at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday at >>> > Jefferson >>> > Memorial Hospital. She was 75y2m11d of age. Mrs. RUNNELS was born >>> > November 22, 1880, at Ina, the daughter of John and Cordelia PICKETT. >>> > >>> > She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Dicey MILLER; 7 sons, Enos and >> Carl >>> > of Mt. Vernon; Harl, Lonnie, and Onnie of St. Louis; Carson of >>> > Ferguson, >>> > MO; and Lawrence of Mattoon; one brother, Andy PICKETT of Tuscola; 2 >>> half >>> > brothers, Irvin PICKETT of Ina and Osie PICKETT of West Frankfort; one >>> > half sister, Mrs. Mary JONES of Alton; 25 grandchildren and 8 >>> > great-grandchildren. >>> > >>> > She was a member of the Pentecostal Church at Boyd where services will >>> be. >>> > Burial will be in Kirk Cemetery at Ina. The body will lie in state at >> the >>> > Osborn Funeral Home in Dix after 2 pm Thursday. >>> > >>> > >>> __________________________________________________________ >>> __ >>> > Globe Life Insurance >>> > $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. >>> > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a269a94d9ca310eest03duc >>> > >>> > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: >>> > www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net >>> > ------------------------------- >>> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> > ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> > >>> >>> >>> Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: >>> www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILJEFFER- >>> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >>> the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: >> www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: > www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

John A PICKETT was married four times to Sarah Ellen ELKINS, Lydia HOPPER, Martha TONEY and Cordelia McADOO and trying to figure out which kids belong to what mother I just sat down tonight and wrote Aunt Judy Sink a long letter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheldon Jones" <srjones@pcisys.net> To: <iljeffer@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 >I believe Mary M PICKETT (mar. John JONES) is d/o John and Martha Jane >TONEY > (I also have Ella who mar. John Whitfield WILLIS as a full sibling of > Mary); > Cora I believe is d/o John and Cordelia C McADOO ... > John also married Lydia HOPPER and Sarah Ellen ELKINS... > > Kay - yes, I believe John is s/o James Haskell PICKETT and Mary "Polly" > BARNETT > > -SRJ > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: iljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iljeffer- >> bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of BLS >> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 7:46 PM >> To: iljeffer@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 >> >> who was the parents of Mary m PICKETT JONES The obit says she and Cora >> were >> half sisters, I have them full sisters >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <zandz@juno.com> >> To: <ILJEFFER@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 3:19 PM >> Subject: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 >> >> >> > Mt. Vernon Register News - Wednesday - 04 Jan 1956 >> > >> > Mrs. Cora RUNNELS of RFD 1, Dix, died at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday at >> > Jefferson >> > Memorial Hospital. She was 75y2m11d of age. Mrs. RUNNELS was born >> > November 22, 1880, at Ina, the daughter of John and Cordelia PICKETT. >> > >> > She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Dicey MILLER; 7 sons, Enos and > Carl >> > of Mt. Vernon; Harl, Lonnie, and Onnie of St. Louis; Carson of >> > Ferguson, >> > MO; and Lawrence of Mattoon; one brother, Andy PICKETT of Tuscola; 2 >> half >> > brothers, Irvin PICKETT of Ina and Osie PICKETT of West Frankfort; one >> > half sister, Mrs. Mary JONES of Alton; 25 grandchildren and 8 >> > great-grandchildren. >> > >> > She was a member of the Pentecostal Church at Boyd where services will >> be. >> > Burial will be in Kirk Cemetery at Ina. The body will lie in state at > the >> > Osborn Funeral Home in Dix after 2 pm Thursday. >> > >> > >> __________________________________________________________ >> __ >> > Globe Life Insurance >> > $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. >> > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a269a94d9ca310eest03duc >> > >> > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: >> > www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> >> Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: >> www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILJEFFER- >> request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >> the subject and the body of the message > > > > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: > www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

James Henry RUNNELS s/o R. Marion RUNNELS/REYNOLDS and ? SULSER/SULCER 1/m Emaline Jane PAGE 11 June 1868 JCI (d/o Wm R PAGE and Elizabeth Jane DUNCAN) 2/m Miranda E BOOK GIBSON 17 Feb 1892 Dodds Twp., JCI d/o Henry BOOK and Mary? HARVILLE? (Mary - have you talked with Shirley RUNNELS CHANEY recently ? -- this is her family) Per Shirley, "James Henry was raised by William KIRK - he was taken to southern IL by a man named "Kar(r?)" and Kar(r) died 2 weeks later. " James and Emaline had: Wm Asbury, Ida May, James Monroe, Mary Elizabeth, Ellehue/Elihu, and Adeline (I don't the three by Miranda...) -SRJ > -----Original Message----- > From: iljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iljeffer- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of zandz@juno.com > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 2:42 PM > To: ILJEFFER@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of J. H. and Bessie Runnels 1907 > > Mt. Vernon, IL Daily Register - Tuesday - 10 Dec 1907 > > J. H. RUNNELS was born at Chattanooga, TN on 15 Dec 1846 and died 03 Dec > 1907. He professed faith in Christ 25 years ago and lived a life that showed he > not only professed but possessed faith in Christ, "Being justified by faith he > had peace with God." > > He was married to Miss E. J. PAGE in 1865; to this union were born six > children. He was married a second time to Mrs. M. E. GIBSON, in 1892; to this > union were born three children. > > He leaves a wife, six children and many friends to mourn his absence > ********************************************************** > ********************** > > Bessie RUNNELS, daughter of J. H. and M. E. RUNNELS, was born 29 October > 1893, and departed this life 05 Dec 1907, age 14y1m6d. Bessie was ill for > some time, but bore her illness with much patience, striving always to be a > patient and obedient child; she was ever submissive to God's Will. > > She leaves a mother, four sisters and four brothers, with a host of friends to > mourn her loss. Her vacant place can not be filled in the hearts of her > friends. > ...

Mt. Vernon, IL Register News - Tuesday - 15 Oct 1974 Harl M. "Rick" RUNNELS, 66, of St. Louis, MO, a former resident of Mt. Vernon, died Thursday in St. Louis. He was buried Monday in St. Louis. Mr. RUNNELS was born and raised in Mt. Vernon. Mr. RUNNELS is survived by his wife, Cecelia (WEDIG) RUNNELS, St. Louis, MO; five daughters, Jeannette BRENNER, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Dolores BENNER, St. Louis, MO; Carol Ann KELLEY, St. Louis, MO; Loretta GARRISON, Boyd; and Mary BROWN, St. Louis, MO; three brothers, Enos and Onnie, both of Mt. Vernon, and Carl, of Oroville, Calif; his father-in-law, grandfather, brother-in-law and a cousin. ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a2dc1ec423aac254st02duc

Mt. Vernon, IL Daily Register - Tuesday - 10 Dec 1907 J. H. RUNNELS was born at Chattanooga, TN on 15 Dec 1846 and died 03 Dec 1907. He professed faith in Christ 25 years ago and lived a life that showed he not only professed but possessed faith in Christ, "Being justified by faith he had peace with God." He was married to Miss E. J. PAGE in 1865; to this union were born six children. He was married a second time to Mrs. M. E. GIBSON, in 1892; to this union were born three children. He leaves a wife, six children and many friends to mourn his absence ******************************************************************************** Bessie RUNNELS, daughter of J. H. and M. E. RUNNELS, was born 29 October 1893, and departed this life 05 Dec 1907, age 14y1m6d. Bessie was ill for some time, but bore her illness with much patience, striving always to be a patient and obedient child; she was ever submissive to God's Will. She leaves a mother, four sisters and four brothers, with a host of friends to mourn her loss. Her vacant place can not be filled in the hearts of her friends. ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a2c158b203a71d5fst06duc

Mt. Vernon, IL Register News - Thursday - 04 Jun 1942 James M. RUNNELS, 69, died at his home in Boyd at 1 pm today after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 pm at the Pentecostal Church in Boyd of which he was a member. Burial will be at Kirk Cemetery near Ina. The body will remain at the Osborn Funeral Home in Dix until shortly before the funeral hour. Mr. RUNNELS was married to Cora PICKETT in 1901. She survives him along with seven sons and one daughter. The sons are Ennes of Fairfield; Harl, Lonnie and Onnie, Carson and Carl, of St. Louis; and Lawrence E. of Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. The daughter is Dicie MILLER of Mt. Vernon. Lonnie and Onnie are twins, as are Carson and Carl. Also surviving is one brother W. A. RUNNELS, Mt. Vernon. He had been a farmer for several years but prior to that worked 22 years at the Mt. Vernon Car Manufacturing Company. He was the son of the late James Henry and Emmeline (PAGE) RUNNELS, and was born March 31, 1873 in Spring Garden Township. ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a28bfb9784a320b9st04duc

Mt. Vernon Register News - Wednesday - 04 Jan 1956 Mrs. Cora RUNNELS of RFD 1, Dix, died at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday at Jefferson Memorial Hospital. She was 75y2m11d of age. Mrs. RUNNELS was born November 22, 1880, at Ina, the daughter of John and Cordelia PICKETT. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Dicey MILLER; 7 sons, Enos and Carl of Mt. Vernon; Harl, Lonnie, and Onnie of St. Louis; Carson of Ferguson, MO; and Lawrence of Mattoon; one brother, Andy PICKETT of Tuscola; 2 half brothers, Irvin PICKETT of Ina and Osie PICKETT of West Frankfort; one half sister, Mrs. Mary JONES of Alton; 25 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. She was a member of the Pentecostal Church at Boyd where services will be. Burial will be in Kirk Cemetery at Ina. The body will lie in state at the Osborn Funeral Home in Dix after 2 pm Thursday. ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a269a94d9ca310eest03duc

I have Mary M "Mollie" PICKETT JONES as being b. 24 Apr "1868" JCI John JONES bur. Knowles Cem., SG, JCI - he d. 1913 (his stone has b. 1844 - but his parents didn't marry until 01 Jan 1845 JC... hummm...) I don't have when Mary d. or where or where bur. -SRJ > -----Original Message----- > From: iljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iljeffer- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of zandz@juno.com > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 8:41 PM > To: iljeffer@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 > > PICKET, JOHN H HOPPER, LYDIA 1861-11-14 002/0211 > JEFFERSON > PICKET, JOHN M TONEY, MARTHA JANE 1867-06-23 > 003/00000095 JEFFERSON > PICKETT, JOHN M CARDELA, WEAVER 1877-02-18 006/0088 > 00000050 JEFFERSON > PICKETT, John Sarah Elkins 29 Dec 1901 JCI > > > JONES, JOHN PRIEKET, MARY M 1890-09-14 006/0059 > JEFFERSON > (On this marriage record, she says she will be 25 her next birthday and gives > her parents as John PICKETT and ______TONEY. She was born in April so this > would make her birthdate 1866 so maybe Lydia HOPPER was her mother.) > > Cora was born 1880 and her mother is Cordelia McADOO. > ...

I believe Mary M PICKETT (mar. John JONES) is d/o John and Martha Jane TONEY (I also have Ella who mar. John Whitfield WILLIS as a full sibling of Mary); Cora I believe is d/o John and Cordelia C McADOO ... John also married Lydia HOPPER and Sarah Ellen ELKINS... Kay - yes, I believe John is s/o James Haskell PICKETT and Mary "Polly" BARNETT -SRJ > -----Original Message----- > From: iljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iljeffer- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of BLS > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 7:46 PM > To: iljeffer@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 > > who was the parents of Mary m PICKETT JONES The obit says she and Cora > were > half sisters, I have them full sisters > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <zandz@juno.com> > To: <ILJEFFER@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 3:19 PM > Subject: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 > > > > Mt. Vernon Register News - Wednesday - 04 Jan 1956 > > > > Mrs. Cora RUNNELS of RFD 1, Dix, died at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday at Jefferson > > Memorial Hospital. She was 75y2m11d of age. Mrs. RUNNELS was born > > November 22, 1880, at Ina, the daughter of John and Cordelia PICKETT. > > > > She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Dicey MILLER; 7 sons, Enos and Carl > > of Mt. Vernon; Harl, Lonnie, and Onnie of St. Louis; Carson of Ferguson, > > MO; and Lawrence of Mattoon; one brother, Andy PICKETT of Tuscola; 2 > half > > brothers, Irvin PICKETT of Ina and Osie PICKETT of West Frankfort; one > > half sister, Mrs. Mary JONES of Alton; 25 grandchildren and 8 > > great-grandchildren. > > > > She was a member of the Pentecostal Church at Boyd where services will > be. > > Burial will be in Kirk Cemetery at Ina. The body will lie in state at the > > Osborn Funeral Home in Dix after 2 pm Thursday. > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > __ > > Globe Life Insurance > > $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a269a94d9ca310eest03duc > > > > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: > > www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: > www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILJEFFER- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message

who was the parents of Mary m PICKETT JONES The obit says she and Cora were half sisters, I have them full sisters ----- Original Message ----- From: <zandz@juno.com> To: <ILJEFFER@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 3:19 PM Subject: [ILJEFFER] Obituary of Cora Runnels 1956 > Mt. Vernon Register News - Wednesday - 04 Jan 1956 > > Mrs. Cora RUNNELS of RFD 1, Dix, died at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday at Jefferson > Memorial Hospital. She was 75y2m11d of age. Mrs. RUNNELS was born > November 22, 1880, at Ina, the daughter of John and Cordelia PICKETT. > > She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Dicey MILLER; 7 sons, Enos and Carl > of Mt. Vernon; Harl, Lonnie, and Onnie of St. Louis; Carson of Ferguson, > MO; and Lawrence of Mattoon; one brother, Andy PICKETT of Tuscola; 2 half > brothers, Irvin PICKETT of Ina and Osie PICKETT of West Frankfort; one > half sister, Mrs. Mary JONES of Alton; 25 grandchildren and 8 > great-grandchildren. > > She was a member of the Pentecostal Church at Boyd where services will be. > Burial will be in Kirk Cemetery at Ina. The body will lie in state at the > Osborn Funeral Home in Dix after 2 pm Thursday. > > ____________________________________________________________ > Globe Life Insurance > $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a269a94d9ca310eest03duc > > Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: > www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Does anyone know if this John PICKETT is s/o James H, & Mary "Polly" BARNETT PICKETT? THanls Kay6 In a message dated 1/9/2011 3:21:29 P.M. Central Standard Time, zandz@juno.com writes: Mt. Vernon Register News - Wednesday - 04 Jan 1956 Mrs. Cora RUNNELS of RFD 1, Dix, died at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday at Jefferson Memorial Hospital. She was 75y2m11d of age. Mrs. RUNNELS was born November 22, 1880, at Ina, the daughter of John and Cordelia PICKETT. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Dicey MILLER; 7 sons, Enos and Carl of Mt. Vernon; Harl, Lonnie, and Onnie of St. Louis; Carson of Ferguson, MO; and Lawrence of Mattoon; one brother, Andy PICKETT of Tuscola; 2 half brothers, Irvin PICKETT of Ina and Osie PICKETT of West Frankfort; one half sister, Mrs. Mary JONES of Alton; 25 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. She was a member of the Pentecostal Church at Boyd where services will be. Burial will be in Kirk Cemetery at Ina. The body will lie in state at the Osborn Funeral Home in Dix after 2 pm Thursday. ____________________________________________________________ Globe Life Insurance $1* Buys $50,000 Life Insurance. Adults or Children. No Medical Exam. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4d2a269a94d9ca310eest03duc Visit the Jefferson County ILGenWeb site at: www.jefferson.ilgenweb.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dorothy Florence McKay, 86, of Scheller passed away 10:58 p.m. Friday, January 7, 2011 at Nature Trail Healthcare Center in Mt. Vernon. Dorothy was born October 23, 1924 in Scheller, a daughter of Theodore and Verna (Klingler) Witges. She married Alva McKay on July 14, 1956, in St.Louis; He survives in Scheller. She was a member of St. Barbara's Catholic Church in Scheller. Dorothy was a homemaker on the family farm. She enjoyed bowling, traveling, gardening and quilting. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. Mrs. McKay is survived by her husband, Alva McKay of Scheller; two sons, Ron McKay and wife Donna of Ashley and Keith McKay and wife Karen of Pleasanton, California; one daughter, Gail and husband Jeff Allison of North Augusta, South Carolina; two brothers, Leo Witges and wife Helen and Charles Witges both of Scheller; one sister, Alice Radake of Affton, Mo.; four sisters-in-law, Hilda Witges, Eloyce Barnhart, Joyce Jones and Gladys and husband Al Meader; three brothers-in-law, Ray McKay and wife Leone, Eugene McKay and wife Cathy and Glen McKay; 9 grandchildren, Brad Allison and fiancé Stephanie Gay, Mallory and husband Phillip Westbrook, Tate McKay, Tierney McKay, Alva McKay, Trent McKay, Colin McKay, Lucy Proudfoot and Mollie McKay ; and also several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Richard Witges and Leonard Witges; and a sister, Hilda Kowalski. Mass of Christian burial will be held 9 a.m. Wednesday January 12, 2011 at St. Barbara's Catholic Church in Scheller, with the Father Jean-Marie Mondji officiating. Burial will follow at Maple Hill Cemetery in Sesser. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Newell Funeral Home in Waltonville. For those wishing, memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association or the St. Barbara's Catholic Church and will be accepted at Newell Funeral Home in Waltonville. Newell Funeral Home in Waltonville has been entrusted with arrangements and you may call 618-279-7272 for more information.

Joyce was born on September 26, 1942 in Fordsville, Kentucky a daughter of Raphael D. and Beatrice (Brooks) Magan. She married Steven L. Jett Sr. on April 21, 1962 in Evansville, Indiana; He survives in Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Jett worked as a beautician, but most of all was a loving mother and grandmother. She was a member of the Immanuel Baptist Church in Owensboro, Kentucky. Joyce is survived by her husband, Steven L. Jett Sr. of Mt. Vernon; son, Darren E. Jett and special friend Tiah Smith of Belleville; brother, Stephen L. Magan Sr. and wife Sandra of Owensboro, Kentucky; sister, Judy and husband William Renfrow of Owensboro, Kentucky; two grandchildren, Dylan Jett and Brianna Jett both of Mt. Vernon; five nieces and nephews, Rex Renfrow, Raymond Renfrow, Stephanie Magan, Michael B. Magan and Stephen L. Magan Jr.; and also by many special friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, son, Steven L. Jett Jr. and a brother Alex Terrell Magan. Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, January 12, 2011 in the Chapel at Mt. Vernon Memorial Gardens with Pastor David Hocker officiating; Entombment will follow. Visitation will be held from 5 until 8 pm Tuesday at Newell Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon. For those wishing, memorials may be made to Susan G. Komen for the Cure and will be accepted at the funeral home. For more information call Newell Funeral Home at 618-246-0100

Looking for information on the PERRYMAN'S that lived in the Pleasant Hill area of Franklin County, Illinois. Some of them are probably buried in Pleasant Valley in Saline Co Il. they are probably related to the AUTEN'S. SWEET'S, KNIGHT'S and others from that area