I have some vintage pictures I'd like to have posted on the Johnson Co. website. I'm confused, though. It seems there are at least three different sites for Johnson Co. and only one is current. The addresses on the two sites...one for Tim and one for Rick come back as invalid. Suggestions, please. What site or sites do you all use for Johnson County, research? I don't want to step on any toes. My Best, Harlene

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Below is the link for the Johnson County Genealogical > and Historical Society. http://johnsoncountyil.net/ --- Joan Lerea <jogene@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Thanks to all who responded. Margaret was good > enough to send > wonderful stuff. > > Perhaps someone could post the address of the > Johnson County Genealogical > and Historical Society. > > Joan > > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Johnson Co IL Message Board hosted by Ancestry.com > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.johnson > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Little Egypt Heritage Articles Stories of Southern Illinois © Bill Oliver 12 March 2006 Vol 5 Issue: #10 ISBN: pending Osiyo, Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of Little Egypt, The other day, someone mentioned that I was old enough that stories from my youth are “stories of old”. Well, I guess I am an ancestor to my grandchildren and stories of my youth do go back a bit. Speaking of my youth, I was reading a bit of history about Abraham Lincoln which took me back in time and the adventures I did and did not experience. At a time when I had left from under my parents roof but still much under their influence, I rather wanted to take a summer and float down the Ohio and Mississippi River from old Fort Duquene to New Orleans. Not on a flat boat or raft but in a canoe. Dad didn’t really like that idea and gave me many reasons why I shouldn’t attempt it. Dad was Superman in my eyes – I thought that danger was not a vocabulary word that he recognized. He had a story about jumping out of the upper level of a barn into a hay stack, so I had to try that – it really sounded like fun. It was a long way down to the top of the “stack”, but I closed my eyes and dropped. I guess I should have kept my eyes open to see where I was going. I landed on the stack all right – right on the edge and slid right off that mound like it was greased. What a surprise and since I wasn’t quite prepared for this, I sprained an ankle. Feeling like it would have been just my luck to have found the “needle” in a haystack, I hobbled off to the house for an ice pack. Dad said it was not a good idea for a person to attempt that long a trip by one’s self. About that we agreed, for didn’t “Huck” have “Tom” and/or “Jim”. It really would be better to have someone to share with. So, I made plans, for equipment and food. My idea was to have a maximum of four of us and a minimum of two of us. Plans were made even to avoid staying in “rough” areas by preparations to lash the canoes together and sleeping anchored in the middle of the river. Well, the trip never came to reality. My salesmanship failed to gain partners to join in the adventure. However, way back in April 1828 Abraham Lincoln and a young companion floated down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Indiana to New Orleans on a flatboat. I can imagine them yet passing Fort Massac [or even stopping there]. History, nor any writings of Mr. Lincoln, doesn’t mention whether they “tied” up there or not. In my mind, they would have stopped there, because years earlier a certain George Rogers Clark left there to secure the Illinois Territory from others. He had crossed the swampy terrain that would remind one from northwestern Ohio of the Great Black Swamp. There is no footnote in history to confirm or deny it; still they passed by it. Using a bit of logic, about the timing of this trip and the history of the old northwestern territory, one has to ask the question – was there anything at this point in the river to cause these young men to stop there. For Clark was there in 1778 – fifty years earlier. The old fort had once again been abandoned and this time for a dozen years, or nearly. Massac City would not be platted for another eleven years and Metropolis also hadn’t been established. In 1855, Governor John Reynolds reported that Fort Massac still had strong bastions. So there was still something to see as the young men passed by. Still if they were to land anywhere, they surely would have sought out Shawneetown, as it was a settlement of 200 or more people. Then there is Cave-in-Rock, the infamous den of outlaws. Paducah, Kentucky [then called Pekin] was almost across the river from the Fort. They also soon came to the meeting of these two great waterways and continued their adventure southward to New Orleans. Towhead Island [Barataria Island] might have enticed them to tie up. Young Abraham Lincoln was employed sometimes by James Gentry, the wealthiest man in Pigeon Creek, Indiana. Lincoln had worked for several people including Mr. Gentry. The two lived less than a mile and a half from each other. Mr. Lincoln, at the right mature age of sixteen, operated a ferry boat crossing the Ohio River. During this period of time in his life, Mr. Lincoln established a reputation for physical strength, humor, adroitness and cleverness in reply [repartee], intelligence and reliability. And, at nineteen years of age, Mr. Gentry hired Mr. Lincoln to travel with his son, Allen, on a flatboat loaded with produce to that Cresent City. The two left from Gentry’s Landing on the Ohio near Rockport. With youthful vigor matched only by the Spring of the year they set off to do adventurous things. How, as a youth, I wanted to experience the joy – I possessed the spirit. Dad must have read the same account that I had, for along the way when the two lads had camped for the night they were set upon by a half dozen or more folks with an idea of taking the flatboat from them. Though they were both wounded to a degree, they managed to chase the intruders away. They quickly untied and floated out for fear that the intruders would return, maybe with reinforcements. One can conjure up the dialogs these two young men indulged in from this trip. By June the young men had returned to Indiana. The experiences they had – seeing the exotic beauty of the scenery, seeing the cultural and racial differences that existed, the varied dress of this mix of humanity, and the commercial activity they witnessed – including slavery – had to impress them. In the summer of 1958, the “Pride of Indiana”, a flatboat, stopped at Fort Massac, Illinois during the “reenactment” of the trip mentioned above. The flatboat, 43 by 16 feet, loaded with wheat, flour, grain, tobacco and such, was built by the Rockport, Indiana Jaycees, to make the 13 hundred mile trip to commemorate the trip of 1828. The difference between these two trips down the rivers was that the new “flatboat” had different balance and was powered by two 35-horsepower motors. Oh, yes, and they had a stove and refrigerator operated by gas. The newspaper article was quick to assure the readers that the bunks, however, were as hard as the ones the two young men slept on 130 years earlier. History also doesn’t tell us whether these two slept aboard or camped ashore. Nor does it tell us if they ever traveled at night – called “night-running”. Sure, history doesn’t tell us much more about this adventurous trip down the great rivers. Many possibilities are there, and our minds can conjecture what our hearts desire as if we were one of the participants of the adventure. 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: http://www.deannedurrett.com/codetalkers.html 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

Here is the Hight information associated with the last posting. Mara Descendants of Robert D. Hight 1 Robert D. Hight 1820 - b in Tennessee .. +Eliza McCorkle 1832 - b in Illinois ......... 2 Milton Lycurgis Hight 1851 - 1922 b in Illinois ............. +Kizzie Walker 1860 - 1924 b in Johnson County, Illinois .................... 3 Viola 'Ga-Ga' Hight 1878 - 1951 b in Johnson County, Illinois ........................ +[1] Samuel Jackson Carter 1876 - 1935 b in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois .................... 3 Myrtle Hight 1880 - 1899 b in Johnson County, Illinois ........................ +[1] Samuel Jackson Carter 1876 - 1935 b in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois .................... 3 Robert J. Hight 1885 - 1958 .................... 3 William T. Hight 1889 - 1949 b in Grantsburg, Johnson County, Illinois ........................ +Rilla Griffith ......... 2 Maranda Hight 1849 - ......... 2 Mary E. Hight 1848 - ......... 2 William Hight 1850 - ......... 2 Robert M. Hight 1854 - ......... 2 James F. Hight 1858 - ......... 2 Alonzo Hight 1860 -

Hello I was recently given some new information on some of the families in my file. I have more recent information too. The connection to my family on these lines is through the Carter family. I hope this helps someone. Contact me if you have more information. Thanks Mara Descendants of Robert James Walker 1 Robert James Walker 1821 - b in Kentucky .. +Elizabeth ? 1821 - 1909 b in Tennessee ......... 2 Kizzie Walker 1860 - 1924 b in Johnson County, Illinois ............. +Milton Lycurgis Hight 1851 - 1922 b in Illinois .................... 3 Viola 'Ga-Ga' Hight 1878 - 1951 b in Johnson County, Illinois ........................ +[1] Samuel Jackson Carter 1876 - 1935 b in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois ............................... 4 Mary Christine Carter 1902 - 1996 b in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois ................................... +John Kelly Moeur 1897 - 1934 b in Tempe, Arizona ............................... 4 Samuel Carter, Jr. 1904 - 1970 b in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois ................................... +Dorothy ? .................... 3 Myrtle Hight 1880 - 1899 b in Johnson County, Illinois ........................ +[1] Samuel Jackson Carter 1876 - 1935 b in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois ............................... 4 Myrtle Carter - 1932 ................................... +Sam Peck .................... 3 Robert J. Hight 1885 - 1958 .................... 3 William T. Hight 1889 - 1949 b in Grantsburg, Johnson County, Illinois ........................ +Rilla Griffith ......... 2 Francis Walker 1846 - ......... 2 William Walker 1850 - ......... 2 Louis F. Walker 1853 - ......... 2 Joel Walker 1855 - ......... 2 Permelia Walker 1862 - 1878

Thanks to all who responded. Margaret was good enough to send wonderful stuff. Perhaps someone could post the address of the Johnson County Genealogical and Historical Society. Joan

Thank you, Louise, for the McCready reference.

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Sorry, I found the wrong spelling in some of those references .. Louise ----- Original Message ----- From: <ArnellN@aol.com> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Johnson County IL History and Families > I am researching the McCready family of Belnap around 1860. Any information > would be appreciated. > > _arnelln@aol.com_ (mailto:arnelln@aol.com) > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Do not send Virus warnings to this list. > "Problems with Johnson Co IL Mail List email Tim Casey" > timcasey1@verizon.net > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/276 - Release Date: 3/7/06 > >

A hint might be; in 'Handbook of Old Gallatin County" page 75, "Soon after this however, came a change; a Presbyterian Church was organized in what is now White County, and named the Church of Sharon, the first Presbyterian Church organized in the Territory of Illinois - 1816, and probably in Sept by Rev. James McCready, of Henderson, KY. In this church building B. F. Spielman was ordained and installed its pastor....." In the book, 'Kentucky Obituaries, 1787-1854' page 9, 'Mrs. McCreary, consort of the Rev. James McCreary, of Henderson county, died in January 1809' page 8, 'Green McCreery, son of Elijah McCreery, of Clarke county. Killed in a fall, Friday morning, Aug 29, 1806 age 3 years In Union Co., IL Probate records, page 150, there is a probate for Michael McCreary, Andrew is in ( ) after the name, Michael. died either 15 Dec 1853 or Jan 1, 1854 - a William Gree McCreary, of New Brighton, Beaver Co., PA is mentioned..... In the 1850 census of Saline Co, IL there is a George McCreary, 48 b. KY wife, Eliza 46, b. KY plus some children, says he is a farmer at least it's some clues... Louise

I am researching the McCready family of Belnap around 1860. Any information would be appreciated. _arnelln@aol.com_ (mailto:arnelln@aol.com)

Dear List members, I did reply to Joan regarding the McCabe and O'Keefe families. I sent her scans of the info from the Johnson County book, but the whole file was too large to post to the list. Margaret Reynolds Oliver ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louise Erekson" <lgerekson@bresnan.net> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Johnson County IL History and Families > The book I found McCabe and McKeefe reference was; "Johnson County, > Illinois History and Families" published 1990 by the Johnson County > Historical and Genealogical > Society...... They have monthly genealogy > meetings. On March 12, the speaker is, Edward J. O'Day will speak on, > "Irish in Southern Illinois" - which should be of interested to those of > Irish descent... > > The Newsletters Editor is Tullyne Oliver, > P.O. Box 456 , Norris City, IL 62869-0456 > her e-mail, tullyne2@yahoo.com > Louise > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Louise Erekson" <lgerekson@bresnan.net> > To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:08 AM > Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Johnson County IL History and Families > > >> Joan, there are several references about the McCabe and McKeefe families > in >> the book. >> I don't seem to find my order blank, but I think the book is for sale by >> the Johnson County >> Genealogy and Historical Society... otherwise, I could make a copy for >> you..... IF I were looking for these families, I would be delighted with >> what's in the book!!! >> Louise >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Joan Lerea" <jogene@sbcglobal.net> >> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:04 AM >> Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Johnson County IL History and Families >> >> >> > There have been references to this book a few times. Is there an >> > index? >> > I am interested in OKeefe (or similar spellings) and McCabe...would >> appreciate >> > it if someone could check for those names. >> > >> > Joan >> > >> > >> > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== >> > Visit the Official Johnson Co IL ILGenWeb Site! >> > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljohnso/ >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > No virus found in this incoming message. >> > Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/275 - Release Date: 3/6/06 >> > >> > >> >> >> ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== >> Johnson Co IL Message Board hosted by Ancestry.com >> > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.johnson >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/275 - Release Date: 3/6/06 >> >> > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Johnson Co IL Message Board hosted by Ancestry.com > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.johnson >

Anyone come across this line. My Ancestor Brilly Ann Simmons Married William S. Morris May 2, 1861 Brilly Ann Simmons married Hezekiah Ferrell Nichols April 11 1864. I do not if this William Morris died or they divorced. In looking at the Census in 1860 in Johnson County the Following Morris is listed. Wm Moris age 36 or 26 born in Illinois Mary J. age 33 or 23 born in Illinois Eliza A. age 11 born in Illinois Wm age 9 born in Illinois Alice age 2 or 3 Born in Illinois Walter R. Moris 20 or 30 Born in Illinois Does any one know this line? Has any one located them in 1850?

In the index there are no McCabe or OKeefe surnames listed. Sorry about that. I tried!!! Donnie

The book I found McCabe and McKeefe reference was; "Johnson County, Illinois History and Families" published 1990 by the Johnson County Historical and Genealogical Society...... They have monthly genealogy meetings. On March 12, the speaker is, Edward J. O'Day will speak on, "Irish in Southern Illinois" - which should be of interested to those of Irish descent... The Newsletters Editor is Tullyne Oliver, P.O. Box 456 , Norris City, IL 62869-0456 her e-mail, tullyne2@yahoo.com Louise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louise Erekson" <lgerekson@bresnan.net> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Johnson County IL History and Families > Joan, there are several references about the McCabe and McKeefe families in > the book. > I don't seem to find my order blank, but I think the book is for sale by > the Johnson County > Genealogy and Historical Society... otherwise, I could make a copy for > you..... IF I were looking for these families, I would be delighted with > what's in the book!!! > Louise > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joan Lerea" <jogene@sbcglobal.net> > To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:04 AM > Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Johnson County IL History and Families > > > > There have been references to this book a few times. Is there an index? > > I am interested in OKeefe (or similar spellings) and McCabe...would > appreciate > > it if someone could check for those names. > > > > Joan > > > > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > > Visit the Official Johnson Co IL ILGenWeb Site! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljohnso/ > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/275 - Release Date: 3/6/06 > > > > > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Johnson Co IL Message Board hosted by Ancestry.com > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.johnson > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/275 - Release Date: 3/6/06 > >

Joan, there are several references about the McCabe and McKeefe families in the book. I don't seem to find my order blank, but I think the book is for sale by the Johnson County Genealogy and Historical Society... otherwise, I could make a copy for you..... IF I were looking for these families, I would be delighted with what's in the book!!! Louise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Lerea" <jogene@sbcglobal.net> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:04 AM Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Johnson County IL History and Families > There have been references to this book a few times. Is there an index? > I am interested in OKeefe (or similar spellings) and McCabe...would appreciate > it if someone could check for those names. > > Joan > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Visit the Official Johnson Co IL ILGenWeb Site! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljohnso/ > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/275 - Release Date: 3/6/06 > >

There have been references to this book a few times. Is there an index? I am interested in OKeefe (or similar spellings) and McCabe...would appreciate it if someone could check for those names. Joan

Dear List, The John Calvin Kerley that I have was born abt. 1869 to John McLellan and Sarah Kerley. John McLellan was son of Miles Austin Kerley, and Elizabeth Ford. John Calvin Kerley married Mary Melvina Phillips in 1889. The book, "Johnson County, Illinois, History and Families" done by the Johnson County Historical Society in 1990, has much Kerley info. Margaret Reynolds Oliver (Related to Kerley through Paul Laverne, son of James Clarence, son of John Calvin.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol" <cjohn@tznet.com> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 7:04 AM Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Re: kerley > "That isn't John Calvin Kerley is it????? > > Don't know. The whole listing in the marriage book reads. > KERLEY, John C. living in New Burnside occupation, Farmer, 1st marriage, > age 23, born Pope Co.IL, Father: Stephen KERLEY mother Amanda HARRIS > EMERY, Lyda E. living New Burnside, 1st marriage, age 21, born Henry Co.TN > father: Monroe EMERY, mother: Mary SMITH > > They were married by J. C. CLYMORE, J.P. Witness: James & Monroe EMERY. > > Cheers, Carol > > > > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Johnson Co IL Message Board hosted by Ancestry.com > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.johnson >

"That isn't John Calvin Kerley is it????? Don't know. The whole listing in the marriage book reads. KERLEY, John C. living in New Burnside occupation, Farmer, 1st marriage, age 23, born Pope Co.IL, Father: Stephen KERLEY mother Amanda HARRIS EMERY, Lyda E. living New Burnside, 1st marriage, age 21, born Henry Co.TN father: Monroe EMERY, mother: Mary SMITH They were married by J. C. CLYMORE, J.P. Witness: James & Monroe EMERY. Cheers, Carol