St.Charles has a great historical society, they have been very gracious. the address is Two East main Street. Phone 630-584-6967 ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert W. Fay <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 8:00 AM Subject: [ILKANE] Rice Fay & Elijah Fay in Kane County, 1833-1900 > Dear ILKANE subscribers, > > I am doing research projects on three brothers, Rice Fay, Elijah Fay, and > Harrison K Fay who migrated from New England in the 1830's to northern > Illinois and Wisconsin, prepatory to putting up webpages on each one at > http://fayfamily.org, and am looking for sources and suggestions for further > information. > > Rice Fay in particular is assoiciated with the early history of Kane county. > This is what I know so far and it may not be 100% accurate yet. > > Rice Fay founded Fayville in about 1833 located on section 3 of St Charles > township. He was also postmaster there and was among the founders of the > Baptist church there. He built the large stone dwelling that was later > occuppied by the Keating family. > > What are the best sources for information on these activities.....old maps, > original documents, early histories etc. Is there any historical society etc > that is open on weekends that I should use. > > Rice Fay apparently moved to Elgin in about 1853......but I have no > information on him there. I don't know when he died, who his descendants > were etc yet. Any ideas for weekend sources for this information? > > Brother Elijah Fay moved a lot, and is much harder to trace. According to > the 1840 census he was in Burnett township, Dodge county Wisconsin. > According to the history of a Baptist church in Racine Wisconsin he was in > Racine and founded a church there in 1840. According to a third source, > which is known to contain errors, Elijah moved by his brother Rice in ELgin > (or St Charles) in 1840. I definitely have Elijah voting in the election in > Kane county in 1846. > > I have an enormous amount of information on Elijah before 1840, but have > little after his move to Wisconsin in 1837, and some of it is contradictory. > > Suggestions or information on him would be helpful. > > For anyone that may be interested in this family, there was a third brother > Harrison K Fay who was the first pioneer settler of Mount Pleasant township, > Racine county, Wisconsin, and subsequently owned a lumber company in > northern Wisconsin. > > Any ideas, sugestions, or comments anyone? > > Thanks, > Bob Fay > Sturtevant, Wisconsin > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > ==== ILKANE Mailing List ==== > Software and hardware for this list are provided courtesy of RootsWeb. > RootsWeb accepts donations in any amount at any time. See how you > can help at: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >