Pat, a very large 'Bama Thank You for your efforts. I do a lot of surfing for genealogy info and the Knox County page is one of the best in the country... Regards, Jim Ferris

I want to say thank you to the whole list for their kind remarks. I am hoping that with Bob in charge that I will get more time to transcribe information. This is also one of the nicest and most helpful lists that I am on, helpful, on topic and no flame wars and I am on some lists that are always erupting. I would like to ask people on the list to start submitting biographies, obituaries or other Knox county information that they might have. So many of the people who have written are people who have already sent great information, but I know there is lots more. So keep up the great list and I will try and do more typing now that Bob has taken over so much of the web work. Pat Pat Thomas Post Office Box 885 Winona, Minnesota 55987-0885 1-507-452-8290 mailto:ptthomas@hbci.com Knox County, Illinois USGENWEB Assistant CC http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilknox/knindex.htm

----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Thomas To: ILKNOX-L@rootsweb.com Sent: January 08, 2001 07:32 PM Subject: [ILKNOX-L] Thank you I want to say thank you to the whole list for their kind remarks. I am hoping that with Bob in charge that I will get more time to transcribe information. This is also one of the nicest and most helpful lists that I am on, helpful, on topic and no flame wars and I am on some lists that are always erupting. I would like to ask people on the list to start submitting biographies, obituaries or other Knox county information that they might have. So many of the people who have written are people who have already sent great information, but I know there is lots more. So keep up the great list and I will try and do more typing now that Bob has taken over so much of the web work. Pat Pat Thomas Post Office Box 885 Winona, Minnesota 55987-0885 1-507-452-8290 mailto:ptthomas@hbci.com Knox County, Illinois USGENWEB Assistant CC http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilknox/knindex.htm

CHESNEY, Mons Iron molder, son of Charles Frederick and Catherine (Soldwin), was born in Sweden, Oct. 24, 1822. His early life was spent on the farm, and his education was obtained in the common schools of Sweden. He learned the tailor's trade and followed it for sixteen years. He came to this country and settled in Victoria, Knox County, in 1852. He married Ellen Peterson July 4, 1856, by whom he has had five children, four of whom, 2 sons and 2 daughters, are living. He removed to Galesburg where he now lives, in 1863. He has been a member of the Lutheran Church for over forty years. CHESNEY, John E. Wagon and carriage maker, Abingdon, he is the son of Thomas and hannah (Mitchell) Chesney of Maryland. He was born in Hartford County, Maryland in April 1815. He was educated in common schools in Indiana, and learned his trade with his father. He came to Abingdon April 21, 1842. He was married to Hannah J. Swartz June 6, 1844, and the second time to Eliza E. Foster Dec. 21, 1854. He is a member of the M. E. Church and Class Leader. Republican in politics. CHESNEY, Mrs. J. H., residence Abingdon CHILD, Erastus Son of Charles and Clarissa Child of Connecticut, he was born Oct. 4, 1817 in Exeter, N. Y. His early life was spent on the farm. thinking to become a public speaker he entered Oneida Institute, New York, graduating in 1841; that not proving satisfactory, and after teaching school for a long time, he settled down as a mechanic, still clinging in some form to books and the press. He has been a regular newspaper correspondent for twelve years, and was the Oneida correspondent for the Galesburg Republican from the first, and since for the Republican-Register. He also deals in the Simmons sash supporter. He was married April 29, 1846 to Rachel Foster of Whitestown, NY. Of their children Sarah E. is now the wife of F. B. Webb, Bedford, IA; Charles F. met his death by scalding when young, and Julia I. is with her parents. He came to Oneida in 1855. He was a radical Abolitionist, and is now Republican. Postoffice, Oneida. Joan