Little Egypt Heritage Articles Stories of Southern Illinois © Bill Oliver 10 September 2006 Vol 5 Issue: #28 ISBN: pending Osiyo, Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of Little Egypt “Volunteer Fire Departments” The person given credit for the establishment of the first volunteer fire department is none other than the versatile publisher of Poor Richard’s Almanac, Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia in 1736. Ben’s ideas were formed at age six as a witness to the 1711 Boston fire. Following the 1676 fire, Boston purchased a “London pumper”. They hired thirteen men, led by Thomas Atkins, to fight fires. Thus, they were the first paid firefighters in the United States. At first fires were fought by “bucket brigades”, where every available person helped fight fires by passing water filled buckets to the site of a fire. In New Amsterdam, fire buckets were made of leather by the Dutch. Then, in some communities, hand pumps were purchased and manned by Engine and Hose companies. After 1711, in fire conscious Boston concerned citizens banded together and formed Mutual Fire Societies. When a fire happened to a member of these Mutual Fire Societies, the members would rush to help battle the blaze. These societies usually had about twenty members. These societies were protective associations, but also became very social. This set a pattern for organized volunteer firefighting groups, which became the backbone of firefighting in the United States, and exists yet today where there are still volunteer fire departments. Like the name implies, the Boston “Mutual” Fire Societies only went to put out fires for “members.” Benjamin Franklin, on the other hand, wanted Philadelphia’s companies/organizations to fight ALL fires, regardless of whose property was burning. In 1736, Ben organized a fire brigade, The Union Fire company, which had thirty members/volunteers, with the first full fledged volunteer firefighter in the United States named Isaac Paschall. The idea caught on and fire brigade companies were formed in Philadelphia with thirty to forty men each. While we are at this place in the story of Volunteer Firefighters, it might be nice to list some of the early famous volunteers: The Father of our County, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin [of course], Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, John Barry, Aaron Burr [there is good in us all], James Buchanan and listed last, but certainly not the least, Millard Fillmore. And, not to leave the ladies out; the first recorded [1818] female volunteer was Molly Williams of New York. [Those interested in Afro-American history should research this lady.] In 1820, Marina Betts volunteered in Pittsburgh. [She used to dump water on bystanders who wouldn’t help fight fires.] San Francisco had a top notch volunteer in Lillie Hitchcock. Before her sixteenth birthday, while watching a brigade that didn’t have enough men to pull the pumper, she grabbed the vacant place and pulled with all her might, while calling out to bystanders, “Come on, you men!! Everyone pull .....” Some cities that had organized brigades also hired “Prowlers”. They would patrol the streets on the “rattle” watch [dark to dawn]. In large cities, the coming of the steam engine signaled the doom of the volunteer fire departments. Men were no longer needed to pass buckets, pump water, and pull the fire fighting apparatus, for horses now pulled the “engines”. History records some very violent reactions to eliminating the “volunteer brigades” as cities hired permanent firemen. However, in smaller communities, such as Aurora, Nebraska, in Hamilton county, might be called “typical” of volunteer fire departments. There the fire department was organized in 1889. In March, four days after a group of citizens met to organize the Aurora fire department, a straw stack caught fire at a local stables. [Great timing.] All matters of forming the fire department were approved before the end of the month. By the 18th of April, the temporary officers were elected to the same positions. The occupations of this first group of firemen included: an insurance man, four printers, a hardware retailer, a butcher, a deputy county clerk, a carpenter, two furniture dealers, and a medical student. One of the furniture dealers also served as the “undertaker”. This company was desolved and a hook and ladder company was formed. The members of the original fire department were given the opportunity to resign and volunteer for the new company. New members were charged two dollars for initiation and dues were ten cents a meeting, with a fine of twenty-five cents for missing a meeting or a fire without an excuse. In August 1893, a fire broke out in a barn near the town depot. The fire department did a great job of running the ten blocks and throwing water in less than fifteen minutes. Well, you might guess that -- the barn and crib were reported in the local paper, as a total loss. This calls for some expanding. “Running” teams were very popular in those early days. The “team” practiced dragging the hose cart a prescribed distance, rolling out the hose, making the connections and having the water flowing in the fastest possible times. These “team” practices were so popular that there were state conventions and competitions and Aurora sent their team. In 1901 the fire department was authorized to buy uniforms of pants, coat and cap, at a cost of $13.50 each. In 1904 an electric light was installed in the office for the secretary. A final anecdote to the Aurora story. In June 1919, the cost of a “brass pole” to be installed so that in the event that the fire alarm sounded during the fire department’s monthly meeting, the firemen could slide down to the truck and shorten the time of arrival at the fire scene. There is no record that the pole was ever ordered. See, I do believe that we all have this type of picture of our wonderful volunteer firemen. I know I do and I’ve seen ours grow from one full time paid “chief” to several full time personnel, two new fire houses, EMT units in each, and “pair” volunteers who show up at fires. And, the social events still bring great crowds of grateful citizens to enjoy pancake suppers, chicken picnics, and/or ice cream socials. e-la-Di-e-das-Di ha-wi nv-wa-do-hi-ya nv-wa-to-hi-ya-da. (May you walk in peace and harmony) and Wado, Bill -=- 977 PostScript: Other sites worth visiting: PostScript: = = = = http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SOIL http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ILMASSAC http

Little Egypt Heritage Articles Stories of Southern Illinois © Bill Oliver 3 September 2006 Vol 5 Issue: #27 ISBN: pending Osiyo, Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of Little Egypt What can you learn from a newspaper article?? [Reference: The Daily Sentinel-Tribune, Bowling Green, Ohio, Friday 7 August 1970, page F-8, column 4] People searching for relatives in Wood County, Ohio often ask me where this or that community located. One recently desired to know where German [town] was. I wrote back and said that I did not know. The name of Germantown is familiar to me. Probably because so many of that ethnic group migrated to areas where I have lived, or where some of my ancestors have stayed awhile. Although she always claimed that she was an OLIVER, Grandma Oliver was of German heritage -- paternally and maternally. Probably few realize that from before the Revolutionary War, the Ulster Irish and German immigrants settled in different communities in Maryland and Southern Pennsylvania. They began to leap frog down the Cumberland Valley toward North and South Carolina before that war. After the Revolutionary War they began to press into Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee. So, back to the original question – about a community called German, Wood county, Ohio. When I answer the question, I have to say that there never was a village or town in Wood county surveyed under that name. Yet that name became attached to Gwynndale as follows. J. J. Gwynn almost built a three story house two miles south of Tontogany. Mr Gwynn, who was from England or Ireland in 1837, did build a three story house, though it was never completely finished. He also attempted to build a corduroy road from Gwynndale to Otsego; that venture failed also. The story goes that failing these two projects he fled, leaving the forrest, the land, and the house to whomever was game enough to next inhabitant it. Dr. Nieblung, the soi disant planter, bought the house and a tract of land in 1845. He tore down the house, using the top as a hen house. The rest he cut in two and sold to Dr. Waitz, who in 1876 occupied it as a dwelling. Dr. Nieblung had followers who came to settle in his “colony” known as Western Germany. They included Ernest Miehe, Guido Marx [later a mayor of Toledo], E.W.E. Koch, Albert and Robert Just, C. Marksheifle, Conrad Bobel and a group of “merry men” or musicians. Though the doctor was wealthy, he somehow lost his fortune, and he developed ague and an aversion to mosquitoes. He left the settlement for St. Louis, Missouri, where he established himself as a physician. His daughter stayed in Plain township becoming the wife of Orrin Tyler. Beers in his History of Wood County relates that there were many stories about the Doctor and his “colonists”. That probably the musicians thought that they could amuse the cows with music. It is reported that the results destroyed the domestic character of the cows and converted them into a herd acting as wild as buffalo. Speaking about music, Tuesday, last, Barb and I attended the final Summer Concert of our Maumee City “Band” on the lawn of the Library [which was the site of the massacre of Kentucky Colonel Dudley’s troops in the Battle of Fort Meigs, War of 1812]. There are huge oak trees on this campus that look old enough to have seen that battle nearly two hundred years ago. The band has an announcer who plays the French Horn, who always pits two March conductors against each other. One, John Phillip Sousa and the other, Karl King. In 1924 John Phillip Sousa wrote the Black Horse Troop [march] for the horse-mounted troops of the Cleveland Natonal Guard. It is a strutting, chatty tune in 6/8 time. And, yes, even in that tempo it is classified as a march. It seems that in 1898, he came to Cleveland to lead this troop to the train station for embarkment to Cuba. When Dad was transferred to Washington, D.C., we all stayed in the Headquarters Marine Barracks, at Eighth and I Streets, where we heard Sousa marches in the morning, Sousa marches at noon, and Sousa marches in the evening. Always sharp, those Marine Band members in their uniforms. Though John Phillip Sousa is popularly called the “March King”, that term was first applied to Karl L. King, another composer of marches. This composer from Ohio wrote marches of many kinds and was the Band Master for the Barnum and Bailey Circus Band. So, what did I learn from a single newspaper article? I learned about a community named Western Germany. The newspaper article called it German; Beers [in The Historical Record of Wood County, Ohio, 1897, Volume 1, page 411, column 1] called it Western Germany. I was reminded of the German heritage in my family and migration patterns of many Irish and German people early in this county. I learned of the location and the circumstances in establishing an area of Wood County. The fate of two of its founders was explained and several early residents were identified. In addition, I learned of a local amusing story involving music, musicians, and live stock, which led me into thinking about the music of two march composers and how one of them affected my family. Not bad for an article of less than 600 words. This week we said our good-byes to a childhood friend of our deceased daughter. She also left a family, with a husband and children. Her parents and us weren’t looking forward to having this as a common bond between us. However, we did say our good wishes for her new journey into the unknown. I’m sure the Great Spirit has brought them together and they are sitting on some cloud watching all of us. Her father said to me that he knew our girls were once again playing together. And, I said that our Sarah was probably still introducing Linda as her “purple” friend. e-la-Di-e-das-Di ha-wi nv-wa-do-hi-ya nv-wa-to-hi-ya-da. (May you walk in peace and harmony) and Wado, Bill -=- PostScript:

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reece Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1089 Message Board Post: Looking for detail if possible on marriage of Alice Reece (possible Kickapoo Indian) married 2/06/1884, to Owen P Brown Johnson County, IL, Vol 2 page 79, license 1012. US military person based in HI is frustrated with the Native American possible connection and would like to discover more on Alice Reece if possible. DNA tests do indicate Native American in line.

Little Egypt Heritage Articles Stories of Southern Illinois © Bill Oliver 27 August 2006 Vol 5 Issue: #26 ISBN: pending Osiyo, Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of Little Egypt Like everyone else who suddenly realizes that s/he is the oldest, or nearly so, member of their family, I have come to realize that there is no one left to ask all the questions that are unanswered. We usually don’t think about not having answers because there was always someone we could ask. When that someone is gone then it is too late and we lament our situation. Recently I tried to find a surviving member of my Dad’s High School class. He graduated in 1928 from Libby High School, in Toledo, Ohio. Well, Dad would be 96 come this November. Back about 1992 or so, Dad went up to, maybe, San Francisco, anyway, “north” from Dana Point to a California version of the Libby Class Reunion. It would have been the 65th anniversary of their graduation. There were eight from his class at that. This is fourteen years later. <sigh> I was hopeful but not expectant and as it so happened I didn’t have any “luck” in that search. My purpose was to find someone [or more] and interview them. It would be a bonus if they knew and remembered him. I next thought about my Mother’s class of 1930 – same school. Well, I haven’t found the Alumni Association as yet. If there are any survivors I will have to do this soon or they also will become “those I could have asked”. My own 50th Class Reunion happened in 2000 some five hundred miles to the east, in a place called Arlington, Virginia. I got a report and there were more there than I imagined. My classmates were some of the early to give their “all” in Korea. They graduated and joined the Marines during the same month. I should have liked to have seen them, though I know we have lived such different lives that we could never regain the relationships we had back then. Forrest Tucker and Shirley Beaty, also graduated from my high school. Mr. Tucker many years before me and Shirley Beaty McLaine graduated two years after me. She was as funny as a high school sophomore as in any of her movies. As it so happens, all avenues seem to lead to “Rome”, or in this case, “lead to” the same subject – seeking friends who we’ve lost contact with. Friends of mine, a retired Professor and his wife spent their time recently at the reunion of his World War II military unit. Upon returning, I learned from them that he desired an obituary of a colleague from a distant city. So through a chain of friends, fellow researchers and modern technology, the obituary was obtained and delivered. The miracle really was in the timing – it took just over an hour. Sunday last, produced a newspaper article where the six remaining, “Lucky Ones,” members of the northwestern Ohio based 37th Division, 148th Infantry, 1st Battalion, Company C “regrouped” in Tiffin, Ohio. Some remaining members think they will all meet again next year, but some wonder. With the youngest of them an octogenarian I can understand the “wonder”. Dad survived World War II and the Korean “Conflict”. He was never classified as “combatant”; however, he did visit the front lines in Korean performing his duties. In my tour of duty with my “Uncle Sam” was on board the USS Iowa, BB-61. I traveled east and the only combat I saw was bringing sailors back to our ship for violations of sobriety and/or local customs. Also, Sunday last, Barb and I attended an AirForce Band Concert in the Park in Waterville, Ohio. At a certain point in the concert, the band played the military hymns of each of the branches of service. As each hymn was played, former members [veterans] from those branches were asked to stand and be recognized. As each rose he was saluted by an Airman who did as well as the actors on the TV program JAG – sharp and snappy! An article appeared in the Johnson County [Illinois] Heritage Journal [vol XVI, Aug 2006, No. 8, page 1] entitled, “An Essay by a Johnson County Boy.” The essay was presumably written by Arthur C. Benson, son of Alonzo G. Benson and Sydney A. Chapman. This made him a grandson of James Monroe Benson and Celinda Slack. This thrilled and excited me, to read these words. I do have to agree with the Societie’s President, Gary Hacker, who said pieces of the essay were missing and, “What a pity someone didn’t take more care to preserve” this piece of family and community history. As stated above, the letter [by deduction] was written by a grandson of James Monroe Benson and that makes it precious to me. James Monroe Benson was my second greatgrandfather’s brother, Charles B. Benson. Charles B. Benson is buried in a military grave in Annapolis, Maryland. He was wounded in the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads, as a member of the 120th Illinois Infantry, in June 1864. He was sent to a hospital in Mississippi and then “paroled”. It took him until December 1864 to reach the military base in Annapolis, where he was placed in the hospital there. He died in early January 1865, never reaching home to wife and family. I don’t know if “Uncle Monroe” Benson ever went to any unit reunions or not, but for sure his brother never had the opportunity. As, I stated before, the essay is priceless to me. It describes the bluffs where Grandma Oliver went on picnics with her family and friends. She and Grandpa Oliver lived with and farmed “Uncle Monroe’s” place where those bluffs were. I’m determined to find those bluffs and visit them one day. I’ll have to get the property description and plot it on a map. If there is any chance, I would like to have a picnic there. I don’t know who said it. “If you don’t know history you don’t know anything. You are like a leaf that doesn’t know that it is part of a tree.” e-la-Di-e-das-Di ha-wi nv-wa-do-hi-ya nv-wa-to-hi-ya-da. (May you walk in peace and harmony) and Wado, Bill -=- PostScript: Other sites worth visiting: PostScript: = = = = http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SOIL http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ILMASSAC http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/state/BillsArticles/LittleEgypt/intro.html

Little Egypt Heritage Articles Stories of Southern Illinois © Bill Oliver 27 August 2006 Vol 5 Issue: #26 ISBN: pending Osiyo, Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of Little Egypt Like everyone else who suddenly realizes that s/he is the oldest, or nearly so, member of their family, I have come to realize that there is no one left to ask all the questions that are unanswered. We usually don’t think about not having answers because there was always someone we could ask. When that someone is gone then it is too late and we lament our situation. Recently I tried to find a surviving member of my Dad’s High School class. He graduated in 1928 from Libby High School, in Toledo, Ohio. Well, Dad would be 96 come this November. Back about 1992 or so, Dad went up to, maybe, San Francisco, anyway, “north” from Dana Point to a California version of the Libby Class Reunion. It would have been the 65th anniversary of their graduation. There were eight from his class at that. This is fourteen years later. <sigh> I was hopeful but not expectant and as it so happened I didn’t have any “luck” in that search. My purpose was to find someone [or more] and interview them. It would be a bonus if they knew and remembered him. I next thought about my Mother’s class of 1930 – same school. Well, I haven’t found the Alumni Association as yet. If there are any survivors I will have to do this soon or they also will become “those I could have asked”. My own 50th Class Reunion happened in 2000 some five hundred miles to the east, in a place called Arlington, Virginia. I got a report and there were more there than I imagined. My classmates were some of the early to give their “all” in Korea. They graduated and joined the Marines during the same month. I should have liked to have seen them, though I know we have lived such different lives that we could never regain the relationships we had back then. Forrest Tucker and Shirley Beaty, also graduated from my high school. Mr. Tucker many years before me and Shirley Beaty McLaine graduated two years after me. She was as funny as a high school sophomore as in any of her movies. As it so happens, all avenues seem to lead to “Rome”, or in this case, “lead to” the same subject – seeking friends who we’ve lost contact with. Friends of mine, a retired Professor and his wife spent their time recently at the reunion of his World War II military unit. Upon returning, I learned from them that he desired an obituary of a colleague from a distant city. So through a chain of friends, fellow researchers and modern technology, the obituary was obtained and delivered. The miracle really was in the timing – it took just over an hour. Sunday last, produced a newspaper article where the six remaining, “Lucky Ones,” members of the northwestern Ohio based 37th Division, 148th Infantry, 1st Battalion, Company C “regrouped” in Tiffin, Ohio. Some remaining members think they will all meet again next year, but some wonder. With the youngest of them an octogenarian I can understand the “wonder”. Dad survived World War II and the Korean “Conflict”. He was never classified as “combatant”; however, he did visit the front lines in Korean performing his duties. In my tour of duty with my “Uncle Sam” was on board the USS Iowa, BB-61. I traveled east and the only combat I saw was bringing sailors back to our ship for violations of sobriety and/or local customs. Also, Sunday last, Barb and I attended an AirForce Band Concert in the Park in Waterville, Ohio. At a certain point in the concert, the band played the military hymns of each of the branches of service. As each hymn was played, former members [veterans] from those branches were asked to stand and be recognized. As each rose he was saluted by an Airman who did as well as the actors on the TV program JAG – sharp and snappy! An article appeared in the Johnson County [Illinois] Heritage Journal [vol XVI, Aug 2006, No. 8, page 1] entitled, “An Essay by a Johnson County Boy.” The essay was presumably written by Arthur C. Benson, son of Alonzo G. Benson and Sydney A. Chapman. This made him a grandson of James Monroe Benson and Celinda Slack. This thrilled and excited me, to read these words. I do have to agree with the Societie’s President, Gary Hacker, who said pieces of the essay were missing and, “What a pity someone didn’t take more care to preserve” this piece of family and community history. As stated above, the letter [by deduction] was written by a grandson of James Monroe Benson and that makes it precious to me. James Monroe Benson was my second greatgrandfather’s brother, Charles B. Benson. Charles B. Benson is buried in a military grave in Annapolis, Maryland. He was wounded in the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads, as a member of the 120th Illinois Infantry, in June 1864. He was sent to a hospital in Mississippi and then “paroled”. It took him until December 1864 to reach the military base in Annapolis, where he was placed in the hospital there. He died in early January 1865, never reaching home to wife and family. I don’t know if “Uncle Monroe” Benson ever went to any unit reunions or not, but for sure his brother never had the opportunity. As, I stated before, the essay is priceless to me. It describes the bluffs where Grandma Oliver went on picnics with her family and friends. She and Grandpa Oliver lived with and farmed “Uncle Monroe’s” place where those bluffs were. I’m determined to find those bluffs and visit them one day. I’ll have to get the property description and plot it on a map. If there is any chance, I would like to have a picnic there. I don’t know who said it. “If you don’t know history you don’t know anything. You are like a leaf that doesn’t know that it is part of a tree.” e-la-Di-e-das-Di ha-wi nv-wa-do-hi-ya nv-wa-to-hi-ya-da. (May you walk in peace and harmony) and Wado, Bill -=- PostScript: Other sites worth visiting: PostScript: = = = = http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SOIL http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ILMASSAC http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/state/BillsArticles/LittleEgypt/intro.html

Nope never done that yet but will have that done. Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bbfritch@aol.com> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 5:06 AM Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Unidentified photos > Thanks for the site, but I thought there once was a page of unidentified > photos?? These were all submitted with names. > > Betty > FL > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Visit the Official Johnson Co IL ILGenWeb Site! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljohnso/ >

Thanks for the site, but I thought there once was a page of unidentified photos?? These were all submitted with names. Betty FL

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/2g.2ADE/1088 Message Board Post: Here is where you can submitt a photo of anything to do with Johnson Co IL. 1.Email:Tim Casey at timcasey5@verizon.net 2.Subject: POST JCI PHOTO 2006 3.Who, What, When, Where give a description of the photo, how they relate to you 4.I need your FIRST AND LAST name and your email address. Remember the photos must have a Johnson Co IL connection. Tim Casey http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljohnso/photo2005/photos2005.html

Where can I find the unidentified photos page? Betty FL

Thanks Greg , I missed that my own email, (grin) I just reloaded all the surnames today. Yours included. Thanks Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Simmons" <gas5812@yahoo.com> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:14 PM Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Re: failure notice > Your email address is not correct > > MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com wrote: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com. > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > > : > 209.86.93.228 does not like recipient. > Remote host said: 550 timcasey5@earthlink.net...User unknown > Giving up on 209.86.93.228. > > --- Below this line is a copy of the message. > > Return-Path: > Received: (qmail 10106 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Aug 2006 01:11:33 -0000 > DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; > s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; > h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content- Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; > b=GmNj4cyP8XuaTKX6A0bgOvh19vHSUM3t9oh48/KA6dx56y6goft4RHL480aHOwoM8m0i7RTgIO 4lR4jiMu3eJp+V8/DT0nvV1VzbgX+pDzn5+BjFO7EDVA6JrlhTmTwSXqOgdvHbUwPD0FnWqWASzo CcZH/Mlx6uxcw8gBjan/s= ; > Message-ID: <20060823011133.10104.qmail@web60418.mail.yahoo.com> > Received: from [4.224.174.68] by web60418.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:11:33 PDT > Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:11:33 -0700 (PDT) > From: Gregory Simmons > Subject: Johnson Co IL Surname Post 2006 > To: timcasey5@earthlink.net > In-Reply-To: > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1547517248-1156295493=:10097" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > --0-1547517248-1156295493=:10097 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Gregory A Simmons gas5812@yahoo.com > > Allard > Kerley > Mahler > Morris > Simmons > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com > --0-1547517248-1156295493=:10097 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Gregory A Simmons gas5812@yahoo.com > > Allard > Kerley > Mahler > Morris > Simmons > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com > > --0-1547517248-1156295493=:10097-- > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Do not send Virus warnings to this list. > "Problems with Johnson Co IL Mail List email Tim Casey" > timcasey1@verizon.net >

Please note that on the webpage, Tim refers us to a different email address to use for sending him our surnames. Like he said, "please follow the directions." :-) Nan Always looking for information on Hezekiah Lavender Lambert, b. TN ca. 1813, d. 1894 Johnson Co., IL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Simmons" <gas5812@yahoo.com> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:14 PM Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Re: failure notice > Your email address is not correct

Your email address is not correct MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com wrote: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. : 209.86.93.228 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 timcasey5@earthlink.net...User unknown Giving up on 209.86.93.228. --- Below this line is a copy of the message. Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10106 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Aug 2006 01:11:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=GmNj4cyP8XuaTKX6A0bgOvh19vHSUM3t9oh48/KA6dx56y6goft4RHL480aHOwoM8m0i7RTgIO4lR4jiMu3eJp+V8/DT0nvV1VzbgX+pDzn5+BjFO7EDVA6JrlhTmTwSXqOgdvHbUwPD0FnWqWASzoCcZH/Mlx6uxcw8gBjan/s= ; Message-ID: <20060823011133.10104.qmail@web60418.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [4.224.174.68] by web60418.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:11:33 PDT Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:11:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregory Simmons Subject: Johnson Co IL Surname Post 2006 To: timcasey5@earthlink.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1547517248-1156295493=:10097" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --0-1547517248-1156295493=:10097 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Gregory A Simmons gas5812@yahoo.com Allard Kerley Mahler Morris Simmons --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-1547517248-1156295493=:10097 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Gregory A Simmons gas5812@yahoo.com Allard Kerley Mahler Morris Simmons --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com --0-1547517248-1156295493=:10097-- --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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/2g.2ADE/1087 Message Board Post: I have updated the surname page at the ILGenWeb Johnson Co IL site. http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljohnso/surnames/surname31204.html There are directions on how to send me your surnames please follow the directions. If you do not see your surnames and you have sent them to me please resend them. Tim Casey

Little Egypt Heritage Articles Stories of Southern Illinois © Bill Oliver 20 August 2006 Vol 5 Issue: #25 ISBN: pending Osiyo, Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of Little Egypt Once in awhile things that I have read seem to jump to the foreground by a chance statement or question. Recently a friend, with quite an expertise in Ohio cemeteries, asked me if a certain cemetery was in Nebraska. She was sure that it was not in Ohio. She was passing the question on to me because a friend of her’s was questioning and he thought it was in Ohio. As it turned out, it was in Nebraska. I knew it was in Nebraska because I had read about it in a judgment handed down recently by the Nebraska Supreme Court. A farmer owned all the land surrounding this cemetery in Platte county. He wanted to use the cemetery as the center of his circular irrigating system. When he was told no by the cemetery authorities he went to court. The court turned him down in his appeal for land use. My friend and I think that her friend, while reading an Ohio newspaper mistook it to mean the cemetery was in Ohio. The name for the Platte cemetery is very common. One can find one in many, many places. Just ask “google” <grin> and you will find that name most anywhere. This got me to thinking how places get named. Some are named for people. Stanton county, Nebraska was first named Izard county in honor of Mark W. Izard of Arkansas. He was the first marshal and second territorial governor of Nebraska. When the War Between the States began he joined the Confederacy. When the Eighth Territorial Legislature convened on 2 January 1862, they changed the name to Stanton, in honor of the Secretary of War. Some places take their name from other places. There are many stories about the giving of Southern Illinois the nickname “Little Egypt”. There are several traditions; however, my favorite is the Biblical one. It goes, when northern farmers needed seed due to drouth [drought] in the north, they traveled south to purchase seed, following the Biblical story that Egypt had storehouses full of grain. Others said that the topography was like that of Egypt. I’m sure that none had ever seen Egypt, so to me the Biblical version is the more likely. Toledo, Ohio, no doubt derives its name from Toledo [Toh-lay-doh], Spain. And, they are “sister” cities today. Local dialects can throw one off. My Grandmother Oliver was born in West Vienna, Johnson county, Illinois. The county seat, Vienna, was a few miles east. For some strange reason, I always heard her say she was from West Byeennie. That’s Bye-enn-nee, Illinois. It wasn’t until I was more than forty years old that I discovered there was no such place and that it was Vienna – like the European city of waltzes. The same is for Cairo, Illinois. The dialect in southern Illinois pronounces it – KAY-row, like the syrup. Back in Stanton county there is a community named Clinton. Probably chosen by settlers from Clinton, Indiana. Indian Creek, no doubt, was named because its banks were used as a campsite by Native Americans. Maskenthine Creek was named for John Maskenthine. He built his home along its course; however, it was named Maskenthine Creek because he was the first to die within the county. Back in Lucas county, Ohio, there is a Swan Creek which runs through Toledo and into the Maumee River. No one I’ve ever talked to has seen a swan in the vicinity of the creek. However, among other notes I have in my files, is a list of animals an early traveler put into his journal. It included swans on Swan Creek. Today, we drive past new housing developments with names that never seem to fit the local. Pine Forest Development. Sugar Creek Homes. Oak Gardens. I’ll bet you could name a few. e-la-Di-e-das-Di ha-wi nv-wa-do-hi-ya nv-wa-to-hi-ya-da. (May you walk in peace and harmony) and Wado, Bill -=- PostScript: Other sites worth visiting: PostScript: = = = = http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SOIL http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ILMASSAC http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/state/BillsArticles/LittleEgypt/intro.html

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/2g.2ADE/1086 Message Board Post: Correction on the photo section. I put the wrong name under one of the photos which I posted. I gave the name as Clarence Almus Waters instead of Clarence ARTHUR Waters. I'm sorry for the confusion this has caused to people. I have asked Tim Casey to fix it.

Olive and others: I have a David Franklin WILHELM who married Sarah E. BEGGS, 6 December 1860 Union County, IL. Are they the parents of the David F. WILHELM who married 30 Nov. 1890? David Franklin WILHELM is the son of John WILHELM, b1799, NC and Mary BOSTON. John WILHELM, b1799, NC is the son of Lewis and Margaret WILHELM. Daniel E. WILHELM, b1833, Roan/Rowan, NC is another son John WILHELM and Mary BOSTON. He married Nancy EVERS, 1853, Pulaski County, IL and then died in the Civil War. They had at least one child, Belinda Jane WILHELM, born 1853, Pulaski County, IL. The widow, Nancy EVERS WILHELM, married 2nd Joel D. HILL, in 1863 and they lived just outside of Karnak on the old WARD land. Much of the above is from "The Biographical Review of Johnson, Massac, Pope, & Hardin Counties, Illinois". If any of you are interested in other sources for this information, please let me know. I am primarily interested in the BEGGS & WARD family research if anyone has something to share. Debbie WARD McArdle Descendent of the John WARD (1810-1862) family of Pulaski County, IL. My WARDs left Karnak about 1925. ----- Original Message ----- From: oliveew606@yahoo.com To: ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 7:13 PM Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Re: Wilhelm connection 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/2g.2ADE/499.2 Message Board Post: Hi, I can tell you about Effie and Fay Wilhelm. They lived in Anna, Illinois. Effie was born Effie Wood 30 Mar 1873 and d.22 July 1950. Her parents were Osborn and Martha Lipe Wood. She married David F. Wilhelm 30 Nov 1890. They were divorced. They had a daughter Fay b.31 Mar 1892 and d.3 Oct 1985. Both buried Anna Cemetery.Effie had a sister Izora who married Lewis Calvin Wilhelm who was a brother of my grandfather John Thomas Wilhelm. Their older brother was William Harter Wilhelm who married Charlotte Anna Bean. Her parents were Matthew and Pamelia Bean. I don't see the name of Sturman at all.Fay worked at the Anna State Hospital and my father was the pharmacist there till 1943. I was born in Anna. My name isn't Kate Reese but Olive Wilhelm. Don't know how the name of Kate Reese got on this connection. Hope this helps. Olive ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== Visit the Official Johnson Co IL ILGenWeb Site! http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljohnso/

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/2g.2ADE/499.2 Message Board Post: Hi, I can tell you about Effie and Fay Wilhelm. They lived in Anna, Illinois. Effie was born Effie Wood 30 Mar 1873 and d.22 July 1950. Her parents were Osborn and Martha Lipe Wood. She married David F. Wilhelm 30 Nov 1890. They were divorced. They had a daughter Fay b.31 Mar 1892 and d.3 Oct 1985. Both buried Anna Cemetery.Effie had a sister Izora who married Lewis Calvin Wilhelm who was a brother of my grandfather John Thomas Wilhelm. Their older brother was William Harter Wilhelm who married Charlotte Anna Bean. Her parents were Matthew and Pamelia Bean. I don't see the name of Sturman at all.Fay worked at the Anna State Hospital and my father was the pharmacist there till 1943. I was born in Anna. My name isn't Kate Reese but Olive Wilhelm. Don't know how the name of Kate Reese got on this connection. Hope this helps. Olive

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/2g.2ADE/933.2 Message Board Post: Hi Tammy, One other thing. Though I don't know exactly where the Wise land is/was, I do know what land in Williamson Co. that the Caldwells and Pittmans owned, and it was right on the border of Williamson & Johnson Counties, Sections 28 and 33. If you look at a map, you will notice a prominent landmark named "Wise Ridge" right near to where the above mentioned property is located, one section southeast in Johnson County. Wise Ridge is just NE of New Burnside. Perhaps this link will work to the topozone webite: http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=37.5998&lon=-88.7714&s=50&size=l&symshow=n&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25 Best, Jim

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/2g.2ADE/933.1 Message Board Post: Hi Tammy, There is a Quit Claim Deed in Williamson County (next county north of Johnson Co.), IL with the following information: A. J. & Elizabeth V Caldwell, ET AL (W B Trammell, Patience R Trammell, William H Wise, Elizabeth V Caldwell, A. J Caldwell) to Curtis P. Wise. Deed Book 8, page 13 - dated and filed in 1874. I don't know how Curtis relates to the others. That's all the notes I made on the deed. There are many deeds for the Caldwell and Pittman families in Williamson Co., which is where they lived for many years before moving to the New Burnside area, I believe, after the Civil War. I'm not aware of anyone researching the other county, so I stopped there yesterday and made a few quick notes on deed transactions. I didn't check for the name Wise other than when it would have shown up with Caldwell, and this is the only one in my notes. I descend from John C. & Martha Ann Caldwell through their daughter Maggie, who married a Mizell. Also, Martha Ann Pittman Caldwell died on March 16, 1903 in New Burnside, IL, based on the information I have from John C. Caldwell's Civil War pension file. I hope this helps just a little bit. Best regards, Jim

Does anyone have additional info on: MATHIS, DAVID - MCGINNIS, SARAH A MRS JOHNSON 12/26/1876 Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1851-1900 Johnson Co. Marriage Book D; Pg. 233 Thanks so much, Harlene Soper Brown Washington State