In a message dated 09/23/2000 6:27:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << [email protected] (Dr. Richard Angwin M.A., D. Div.) Richard, I envy you going to Galena. We were there in 1990 interesting, beautiful place. Would go back in a heartbeat. Will try very hard to keep this short, area was beautiful, people delightful, interesting history. Hope you can arrange access to the Galena Library genealogy room, it was locked for our three day stay. Seems they only allow visitors to the genealogy info IF one of the two volunteers can be there! That was disappointing. The court house people were very helpful. We had a wonderful dinner, great visits with 'locals' at the little cafe in Elizabeth. Ask the waitress for directions to Old Log Church Cemetery to see our Ggrandfather William Bevard's sister Eliza Bevard Rodden grave. Sorry I have tucked (LOL genealogy for hid info in files:) the names and addresses of the waitress and a patron at the counter she ask to give us directions. He drew a map on a napkin, then told us to follow him to meet a lady that lived two doors from him that would be kin to us. Mind you this is June 1990 late evening, we were reluctant, he insisted, WOW are we happy. Marion Kirpatrick, probably 90 years old, was sitting on her porch with a neighbor. I introduced us as ggrands of William who died in the Civil War from Galena, and his Eliza Bevard from Peachbottom, PA. m James Rodden, but she died 1870. Marion said " James was my grandfather John's bro.We all wondered why James remarried Margaret Thompson so soon" We felt like we had just a tad of our 120 years of family back. Civil War deaths ripped families apart. That beautiful area with some families still in tack gave us a sense of 'they really were here' You mention long gone towns, Marion told us of the 'Rodden Town' with its own Post Office etc, told us where it was and we saw the old buildings. Hope you have a peak for yours also. Old Log Church Cemetery was a gorgeous place, almost storybook beautiful. Picture like farms in the rolling hill, just a peaceful place. Our William age 30 died Aug 1864 at US Hospital #6, New Albany, IN, tho all IL history has died at Nashville,TN, thru research and VA records we visited his grave with stars and stripes flying on Memorial Day, that was a thrill, his military headstone appeared perfect for the visit of his great grandson a retired US Military Veteran, probably the first family to visit this grave. A proud moment. We put our researched family info into that Galena Library, and Springfield Archives to guide future, to the misinformation in IL history of IL 96th Infantry. Our ggrandmother Ann Eliza Moss Bevard remarried 1866 moved on to Iowa and Kansas,with her children born '61 and 63. There seemed to be little or no family connection thru the years, so our info has come from research: Civil War pension file, court houses, Cemetery books etc and going there. Our Bevard family either died in Galena area or just disappeared after 1869 land sale by gggrand James Bevard. The gggrandmother Mary E Bevard and dtrs Louiza Bevard and Mary J Bevard GAMMON are buried at Rice TWP Prospector Cemetery, we did not get learn that for some years after our Galena visit. Hope your Galena stay is as wonderful as our too short time there. Interesting places and good places to eat and stay, we used a motorhome but ate out. Good Luck, happy trip ENJOY. Don and Dorothy Horn Bevard BEVARD, MOSS, RODDEN, GAMMON