Have any of you tried looking up land records for Illinois at the Bureau of Land Management site online? You can see the "actual" land records!! It's neat! Go to: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ I have even found middle names for the person I was looking for which was an added bonus! Jan Lund -----Original Message----- From: peggy <peggys@davesworld.net> To: ILKNOX-L@rootsweb.com <ILKNOX-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, August 10, 2000 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [ILKNOX-L] Elba Twp # >You'd need to know which Section the land is in, but looking at a >plat map page I photocopied yesterday, it looks like >Township 10 North Range 4 East ....and I'm not sure of the >principal meridian ...although I think it is 3 East. > >If you're looking for land records, try checking with the >County Tax Recorder & seeing when taxes were paid.... >naturally, every county has a "different" way of recording things >(sigh... for every type of record you are looking for, it seems), >but you can learn the land description from the tax bill/record. >~ Peggy > >"Weaver, Judy" wrote: > >> Does anyone know what the land track township number is for ELBA? I hope I >> said that right. >> >> Thanks, >> Judy > >

Is your Jonathan GRIM the son of David and Margaret "Peggy" DEVAULT GRIM who are buried in the Uniontown Cemetery in Salem Twp.? Jonathan GRIM married Anna YOUNGMAN 1 Oct 1857 in Peoria Co. Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jacroing67@aol.com> To: <ILKNOX-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 3:19 PM Subject: [ILKNOX-L] Jonathan GRIM > Good afternoon.....Looking for family of Jonathan GRIM..... in Knox county > in 1850...possibly from the Salem Township area... > > does anyone have a connection with this Jonathan GRIM? > > Thank you for any help or reply. > > Jacqueline > jacroing67@aol.com >

Thanks much for the info

You'd need to know which Section the land is in, but looking at a plat map page I photocopied yesterday, it looks like Township 10 North Range 4 East ....and I'm not sure of the principal meridian ...although I think it is 3 East. If you're looking for land records, try checking with the County Tax Recorder & seeing when taxes were paid.... naturally, every county has a "different" way of recording things (sigh... for every type of record you are looking for, it seems), but you can learn the land description from the tax bill/record. ~ Peggy "Weaver, Judy" wrote: > Does anyone know what the land track township number is for ELBA? I hope I > said that right. > > Thanks, > Judy

1878 Knox Co History, pg. 697 NATION, VICKREY Farmer, P.O. Watage, he is a son of Isaac Nation, a native of Randolph Co. NC. He was born in Barren Co KY on Dec 14 1818. His mother was a native of Halifax Co. VA. He came to Knox Co. in the fall of 1835. His education was somewhat limited, receiving the greater part of it in an old log school-house in Indiana. In Oct 1844 he was married to Rosanna Proe, who died in 1858. They were the parents of 7 children, of whom 4 are living. He was again married on Apr. 3, 1874 to Mary E. Denton. He has been very successful in farming. No Petet bio.

Good afternoon.....Looking for family of Jonathan GRIM..... in Knox county in 1850...possibly from the Salem Township area... does anyone have a connection with this Jonathan GRIM? Thank you for any help or reply. Jacqueline jacroing67@aol.com

Does anyone know what the land track township number is for ELBA? I hope I said that right. Thanks, Judy

Posted on: Knox Co. Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Knox/711 Surname: nation ------------------------- Nancy Amy nation married Lewis Petet, oct. 15, 1836 in Knox county ILL. need infromation on either.

http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/ia/jasper/bios/mdprtpmw.txt VANGILDER, A.; Farmer; Sec. 28; P. O. Prairie City; born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, Feb. 9, 1813. Came to this county in 1864. Has 160 acres of land, valued at $8,000. Held the office of Justice of the Peace, Town Clerk and Secretary of the School Board; member of the M. E. Church. For his first wife, married Rebecca M. PAULEY. She was born in Virginia, Feb. 15, 1813. They had eleven children, five living - Charles P., Joseph, Mary Ann, Nancy and Angeline. For his second wife, married Sarah ANDERSON. She was born in Adams Co., Ohio, June 16, 1821. They have seven living children - Catherine, Sophronia, Cora, Kennie A., Oliver, John, Fletcher and Susie I. Mrs. V. was married to a man of the name EARLY, by whom she had four children, two living - George and Huldah. Mr. V.'s parents emigrated to Indiana; lived there ten years; thence to Knox Co., Ill., where he resided twenty-eight years; was amongst the earliest settlers in Knox Co.; Galesburg was not known when he first went there; did his trading at that time at Knoxville, the county seat at that time; was in the State of Iowa in 1842, at the time of the land sale at Burlington; in 1864, came to Jasper Co. Has a good farm on as fine a prairie as there is in the State.

McGann again http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/sd/biography/memor-cent/mcga an.txt Basford http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/sd/haakon/military/ww1-draft .txt various-Essex http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/henderson/obits/hendobit. txt Walgren http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/sd/biography/kingsbury/v4/wa lgren.txt Rule http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/mt/jefferson/vitals/dru.txt Shoop -Robertson http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/pa/northumberland/bios2/f123 148.txt Steele http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/ak/military/wwi/s3.txt Messenkop-Brenneman http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/bureau/bios/mbrenneman.tx t Barber http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/mi/kent/caledonia/bios/b6160 1.txt Thomas http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/mt/jefferson/vitals/dth.txt Nelson http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/id/shoshone/showwi/nelom.txt Davis http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/id/ada/adawwi/wwiadaD.txt GERHARDT, Helen Elizabeth WHITAKER http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/mo/henry/cemeteries/eng08.tx t Moore-Cameron http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/vermilion/obits/rmoore_ob it.txt Carmody, Frank http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/id/bingham/bngwwi/wwibngCA_C L.txt Storms-Rogers http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/white/storms.txt Johnson http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/nd/slope/newspapr/slconews/1 920.txt Calder http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/sd/biography/kingsbury/v5/ca lder.txt McMillen, McMullen http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/ne/arthur/drf001.txt Curry http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/nv/lander/landraft.txt Edwards,Essex http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/henderson/vitals/hen_mar. txt Dean, Price http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/pa/northumberland/bios2/f401 423.txt Underground RR http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/misc/misc/undrgrnd.txt Bowersox http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/oh/oh-footsteps/2000/apr/v00 -142.txt There is more but try. http://www.rootsweb.com/ put in surname I used Galesburg..then pick USGenWeb Archives remember there is a Galesburg IA MI ND and I think MO

Allen & Spencer http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/lasalle/news/reunion.txt John Knox Richey Clayton http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/schuyler/obits/clayton.tx t various names http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/co/rioblanco/military/ww1/dr aftreg.txt very interesting http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/mo/civilwar/misc/letters/cwl ttrs1.txt not sure this is Galesburg,IL or MO Clyborne http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/sd/biography/doane2/clyborne .txt Pay-Pond http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/sd/biography/memor99/pay.txt various http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/rockisland/war/cw71-d.txt McGann http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/sd/biography/doane2/mcgaan.t xt Burke - Daugherty various warren co. http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/pa/york/desc/kinard.txt Daves http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/warren/obits/daves_obit.t xt Burkett-Lutz http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/pa/huntingdon/xmisc/huntingd onobits18.txt Scudder http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/ny/cattaraugus/biographies/p g020.txt Ward-Olmstead http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/henry/misc/schoolhist.txt Hey this might be one of mine Edward Drummie http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/id/caribou/carwwi/wwicarDreE sn.txt More to come unless someone stops me

Hi Was surfing Rootsweb and found these mentions of Galesburg people. http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/lasalle/obits/swallen.txt BADGER, John J http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/ia/jasper/bios/mdprtpal.txt WHITAKER, Charles Houston Jr http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/mo/henry/cemeteries/eng23.tx t http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/mo/henry/bios/wbio/whitaker. txt LEWIS HEADSTROM http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/henry/bios/heads.txt CRANDAL, G. B., http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/ia/benton/bio/leroy.txt JOHN BAGGALEY http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/sd/biography/doane2/baggaley .txt Charles P. Bascom http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/bureau/bios/cpbascom.txt John C. Ward http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/il/henry/misc/gentwphist.txt England http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/sd/jones/military/ww1-draft. txt More to come

I would like to know if anyone has a cemetery listing for a cemetery in or near Elba. I am looking for the grave of little Samuel Leonard ADAMS d. 1859 in Elba Twp., Knox Co., IL. Thanks much, Judy

Does anyone know if the Methodist Church is still in Elba? Can someone look up the address for me? Thanks so much

Gina, I think this would be too early for the orphan trains. We didn't have any trains in Knox Co. until the last days of 1854. I am of the opinion that the first train into Chicago from the East was after 1850, though close to that date. I associate orphan trains with the last decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hope this is some help. There were some Clarks who settled in Orange Twp and buried at Haynes Cemetery if that is of any help. Rex At 03:29 PM 8/8/2000 EDT, you wrote: >I am looking for information on Charles Clark and his family. They are listed >on the 1850 Knox county census. Listed are Charles, age 32, his wife Jane, >age 25, daughter Sarah age 7, Oren Nelson age 13, Oren's sister Manerva (?) >age 11 and Rauson Clark age 26. I am most interested in the relationship >between the Clark's and the Nelson chidren. I believe that Oren is my ggg >grandfather. Family stories tell of him being an orphan and riding an orphan >train west. Could this be? Any information would be more than I have now!! >Thanks, Gina in Iowa > >

Here are a couple of great sites about the Orphan Trains: Orphan trains of Kansas http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/articles/orphans/ "Beginning in 1854, charitable institutions in New York City began sending orphans on trains to the west to find new families, feeling that the children would fare better out west than on the streets of New York. Orphan trains arrived in Kansas between 1867 and 1930, and some 5000-6000 children were placed in Kansas homes..... ~~~~~~ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan/ The American Experience "In 1853, Brace founded the Children's Aid Society to arrange the trips, raise the money, and obtain the legal permissions needed for relocation. Between 1854 and 1929, more than 100,000 children were sent, via orphan trains, to new homes in rural America. Recognizing the need for labor in the expanding farm country, Brace believed that farmers would welcome homeless children, take them into their homes and treat them as their own. His program would turn out to be a forerunner of modern foster care. " ~~~~ http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/articles/orphans/or_hist.htm The History of the Orphan trains. ~~~~ Linda -----Original Message----- At 03:29 PM 8/8/2000 EDT, you wrote: ....... Family stories tell of him being an orphan and riding an orphan >train west. Could this be? Any information would be more than I have now!! >Thanks, Gina in Iowa > >

I am looking for information on Charles Clark and his family. They are listed on the 1850 Knox county census. Listed are Charles, age 32, his wife Jane, age 25, daughter Sarah age 7, Oren Nelson age 13, Oren's sister Manerva (?) age 11 and Rauson Clark age 26. I am most interested in the relationship between the Clark's and the Nelson chidren. I believe that Oren is my ggg grandfather. Family stories tell of him being an orphan and riding an orphan train west. Could this be? Any information would be more than I have now!! Thanks, Gina in Iowa

8/7/00 Dear Researchers: I would like to correspond w/ anyone who has a GEORGE WILLIAMS or a CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, b ca 1800+or-, or a RUTH WILLIAMS, in their database. My objective is to discover the parents of my gggrandmother, RUTH [or something similar, such as RUHANNA, or possibly RUAMMA, etc] HANNA(H) WILLIAMS. I believe that "RUTH" could have been born in NJ. I know that my ggrandfather, GEORGE CHRISTOPHER b 19 DEC 1846 in Fulton Co IL, was born before she married ROBERT CRAIG BENSON 30 Dec 1851. ROBERT CRAIG B was born in WVA. I believe that RUTH could be a middle name or even another name actually, close to RUTH tho. I know I am stretching my research arms, but I have been searching for her parents for quite a few years, and she is still a complete mystery!! Any help would be appreciated. Any clue or fact will be received w/joy!! So thank you to anyone who may have some information for me. I am Nancy/IL

Posted on: Knox Co. Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Knox/710 Surname: tadie, minehan, gushanas ------------------------- I am looking for any info on these surnames in Knox County

I believe this Wyckoff was a member of the family that settled out in the Ontario area, in 1836. A member of the family still lives on the homestead, should be an Oneida adress and phone number. Perhaps they would be of some assistance. Rex At 09:35 AM 8/5/2000 -0700, you wrote: >At 01:50 AM 8/5/00 -0400, you wrote: >>I am trying to find the music for a piece entitled "Spoon River Waltz" . It >>was written by Edwin Wyckoff. It was written I think in the late >>1880's/90's. ... > > >I didn't find "Spoon River Waltz," but a great place to find old sheet music, >among other interesting and historic things, is: > > http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriptorium/projects.html > >Scroll down to "Historic American Sheet Music." > > >-Frank >Healdsburg, CA > >