How to get information from an old Illinois newspaper... http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/#NEWSPAPERS [and other spots on the same web site] Newspapers The Library's 4,900 newspaper titles are preserved on nearly 73,000 microfilm reels. As the mandated newspaper repository in Illinois, the Library holds titles from all 102 counties. Many of the newspapers date from the early and mid-nineteenth century, and more than 300 newspapers are currently received through subscription. The Library's newspaper collection has been cataloged through the nationwide program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Researchers may borrow newspapers on microfilm through interlibrary loan. Also see our Newspaper Search Policy. Interlibrary Loan Newspaper microfilm and some books may be borrowed on interlibrary loan. Requests may be made on OCLC or ALA loan request forms. The Library is a member of ILLINET and the Rolling Prairie Library System; holdings information is available through Rolling Prairie Library System online catalog, ILLINET Online, and on OCLC. Photographs, films, microfiche, manuscripts, and Lincoln materials are not available for loan. NEWSPAPER SEARCH POLICY Since our newspapers are not indexed, all search requests must include specific information for a search to be performed. Those specifics include the full name(s), exact date (day, month, and year), and exact location (city and county) of the occurrence. If such information is unavailable and you live in the continental United States, you may borrow newspaper microfilm on interlibrary loan through your local library to do your own research. Each search consists of looking for articles on one occurrence (obituary notice, birth announcement, marriage announcement, etc.) for one person. Each letter must be accompanied by a self addressed, stamped, business sized envelope. Checks and money orders should be made payable to the Illinois State Historical Library. A response will be sent for successful and unsuccessful searches. Do not send a second letter until you have received a response to your first. Illinois Residents: A non refundable copy fee of $1.00 must accompany each letter. Each letter must be limited to no more than two (2) search requests. Non Illinois Residents: A non refundable fee of $10.00 per search must accompany each search request. Each letter is limited to no more than four (4) search requests. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

My father was a social worker and my mother a music teacher at Lincoln School in the early 1960s. Sharon ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

This is a good time to remind folks that such genealogy as Marcia had in Janssen message are perfectly suitable subjects for this list. Please use good judgment in length but the basic details posted here make help find connections. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

That would be Orvil Township, home of Hartsburg and Emden, both very small towns. I would guess they would be covered by the Lincoln paper. I don't think there was a newspaper in either town. Newspapers in the Illinois State Historical Library. [Springfield, Ill.]: Illinois State Historical Library. 1998. This is a publication in the State Library. I fiddled around awhile but was unable to find an online listing. I do know folks have borrowed the newspapers on microfilm through interlibrary loan at their public library or FHC. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

While searching for something else I found this on the Lincoln Developmental Center which might answer some of the questions I've received on this. This is from the listing of the State Archives. RECORD GROUP 254.000 - LINCOLN DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER In 1865 the General Assembly instructed the directors of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb to establish an Experimental School for the Instruction and Training of Idiots and Feeble-Minded Children in the State of Illinois (L. 1865, p. 78). The school was temporarily located in Jacksonville and after a five-year trial period the General Assembly incorporated it as the Illinois Institution for the Education of Feeble-Minded Children (L. 1871, p. 417). As one of the state's permanent charitable institutions, it was to provide care, support, training, and education for mentally deficient children. A three-member board of trustees, appointed by the Governor, exercised general supervision and selected a superintendent to operate the institution. They also were subject to the investigative authority of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities. Appropriations for the acquisition of land and the construction of buildings were made in 1875 but the institution's permanent quarters in Lincoln were not occupied until 1878. In 1877 the institution's name became the Illinois Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children (L. 1877, p. 13). The institution had its own hospital and shops in which inmates manufactured brushes, mattresses, and shoes. Inmates also worked on a nearby farm owned and operated by the institution. In 1909 the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities and the boards of trustees of all state charitable institutions were abolished and executive and administrative control was transferred to the newly created Board of Administration (L. 1909, p. 102). Under the new board the institution became Lincoln State School and Colony. With the passage of the Civil Administrative Code in 1917 the Department of Public Welfare assumed all responsibility for the school and retained control until the creation of the Department of Mental Health in 1961 (L. 1961, p. 2666). The school's name which had been shortened to Lincoln State School in 1953 was again altered to Lincoln Developmental Center in 1975 (P.A. 79-581, p. 1895). Access to some of these records is restricted according to the provisions of the Mental Health Code and the State Records Act of 1957 as amended. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

Thank you Cheryl: I just thought maybe I wasn't doing something right - I usually don't! Mick - Fla clrothwell@mindspring.com wrote: > If someone has a better way to do this I'm listening. >

Cheryl, Good job on your research page...my! you have been busy! Dirk Redmers JANSSEN, born Oct 31, 1855 in Upleward, Ostfriesland, Hannover, Germany, buried -,-,1919 Green Hill Cemetery, San Jose, IL, married Nov 15, 1879 Campen, Ostfriesland to Talke Harms EERTMOED/ERDMUTH/ERTMOET/EERTMOET born Feb. 8, 1860 Campen, Ost., died died Dec 11 1905 Lincoln, Logan, IL, buried Dec 14 Green Hill Cemetery, San Jose. Immigrated 1885 to first Delavan then near Emden, IL Children: Redmer Dirk JANSSEN born Apr 23, 1881, Ostfriesland, died May 16, 1959 IL, married Sophie DANIELS, probably of Logan Co. Both are buried in Green Hill Cemetery. No children Harm Dirk JANSSEN born May 3, 1882 in Upleward, Ost., died Sept 18, 1915 in Rock Falls, IL, married to Henrietta DANIELS (cousin to Sophie) Mar 1, 1910. Four children. Margaretha Dirk JANSSEN born Jun 2, 1891, Logan Co, IL, died May 24, 1910 Logan Co, buried Green Hill Cemetery, married Siebel POPPENGA Dec. 1909 or Jan 1910. Talke Erdmoet's father's name was Harm Janssen EERDMOUT (Erdmoed, etc), born Jun 2, 1826 in Campen, Ostfriesland and a sister named Saarke EERDMOUT born Feb 5, 1867 in Campen. We think they may have immigrated around 1885, as no death record for the father can be found in Ostfriesland, nor marriage or death record for Saarke. Does anyone have any information? Thanks. Marcia Janssen

Excellent job. I just checked mine out, fantastic. Thanks.--Jan clrothwell@mindspring.com wrote: > Things are settling down a bit here, I hope. Have I listed all your names on: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/research.htm > > I think in the mess [mine] of the last six weeks I lost a couple notes and > I want to get the initial Logan ancestors up. If you have a web page of > your genealogy I can add a link to it if you want. > > After we finish this part I am thinking of opening the page to the general > public -- any objections? More folks will see the names that way. We get a > LOT of visitors these days. At that point we may be able add some of those > pesky lines that may not be the initial ancestor to Logan but is a Logan > ancestor. {Don't send them just yet because I'll just lose them. I'll give > you all notice and you can submit them before I make the page public.} I am > afraid it will get out of hand so I am going to leave the requirement up > that it be the initial ancestor but maybe I can make some exceptions. <g> > > Cheryl Rothwell > clrothwell@mindspring.com > > ==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== > What Logan County resouces do you own? Tell us.

Hi, I'm looking for a source for a newspaper obit for my 3rd gr grandfather, Dr Jefferson L SUMMERS, who died 3/22/1876 in Orville Township, Logan Co, Ill. Is there a newspaper obit index avail for that time frame in Logan Co? I would appreciate any help. Thanks, Judy Laros

Hi, Found the following page on German name changes or how the names have evolved over the years : http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6508/NAMES.HTM Thought it might be useful to list members. I have some to add; perhaps you do, too. Penny (Richner) Husler

The name listed is the first ancestor of that surname to arrive in Logan County. They list the name of the husband and the wife including her maiden name when known. We don't have web space to list whole lines, all the collaterals and such. If someone has a better way to do this I'm listening. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

A. E. Church was the founder and owner from 1857 when he arrived in Atlanta, IL till his retirement in 1913. Mr. G. H. Tuttle was his assistant when A. E. Church retired and bought his business, becoming the owner. --- G. H. Tuttle Funeral Home Records, Atlanta, Logan County, Illinois; Copied by Mrs. Kenneth Patterson, Copyright, The Decatur Genealogical Society, printed 1971, reprinted 1981.

Cheryl: Just went to your page, but is there some way to see what and who these submitters are searching for? How do I know if the name is someone in my line without bothering someone through email that doesn't involve them?? Or am I not doing this right. Thanks. You are doing a terrific job. Mick - Fla. clrothwell@mindspring.com wrote: > Things are settling down a bit here, I hope. Have I listed all your names on: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/research.htm >

Mary Ann Kaylor found this among her papers. She thinks it is from the Springfield State Journal-Register, not sure when. The paper is old but not old enough to be placed on the web page. I'll probably abstract some of it for the history page. Cememony honors Logan County's settlement by kidnapped Europeans by Diana Lehmann LINCOLN - Anna Gilham and her family were commemorated here Friday as the first people of European descent to come to Logan County, even though they earn that distinction by being kidnapped. In 1790, Gilham, two of her sons, Clement and Samuel, and an unidentified female child, were abducted from the family's log cabin in Kentucky by a band of Kickapoo Indians. According to historians, the band was headed back to its tribal headquarters along what is now Salt Creek in Logan County when they captured the woman and her children. Historians believe the family was captured to prove the ability of the Kickapoo warriors to take four prisoners and conduct them safely past established settlements to an Indian town. The capture, historians say, was to prove a raiding party's "bravery and sagacity. A text published in the early 1800s by Gov. John Reynolds, "The Pioneer History of Illinois," described in detail the shock James Gilham and his son Isaac received upon arriving home from their daily chores to find the cabin ransacked and the rest of their family missing. According to Reynolds' text, Gilham experienced "a horrible feeling when he discovered his home was ransacked by Indians and his family captured and either killed or doomed to savage bondage." Anna Gilham and her children were forced to walk more than 400 miles across Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois before arriving in Kickapoo Town. According to a 1911 history of Logan County by Judge Lawrence Stringer, Gilham and her children nearly starved to death along the trail. Stringer's history says the Indians refused to hunt near pioneer settlements for fear of detection. Realizing that the woman and her children were starving to death, they sent out a hunting party that brought back a raccoon. "The coon was not dressed in a Parisian style but most of the hair and fur were taken off and some of the contents of the extreme inside were thrown away," according to Stringer's account. "The coon soon was boiled into a nondescript dish ... and the whole assembly of white and red skins got some relief from absolute starvation." The family arrived at Kickapoo Town in late 1790. They were held for ransom for two years. James Gilham sold his farm in Kentucky, and, with Isaac, set out to locate his wife and missing children. Two years later, he was able to ransom his family from Kickapoo Town. The town later was abandoned by the Kickapoo Indians, who were forced to leave Illinois. In 1815, 23 years after the ordeal, the U.S. government deeded 160 acres to Anna Gilham in compensation for the suffering she had undergone. Friday afternoon, a plaque was dedicated denoting the ground of Kickapoo Town and the site of the Gilham family's entry into Logan County. The site is now Lincoln Memorial Park. The Tourism Committee of the Greater Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce organized Friday's ceremonies, which were attended by members of the city council and Logan County Board. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

INTERNET GENEALOGY - WHAT'S GOOD! WHAT'S NOT! . . . AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?! by Bettie Cummings Cook, CG http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/cook.htm Things to think about when using online resources. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

I appreciate the nice words. You are welcome to suggest this to other mailing lists. This mailing list is connected to the Logan County ILGenWeb site. Not all mailing lists are and don't have a web page to do something like this. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com

Could someone tell me what years the Tuttle Funeral Home in Atlanta ILL. was in operation and and the full name of the original owner. Thanks. Lee Gaines

It happens that a close variation of the name Yeakle occurs in the records of the Tuttle funeral home in Atlanta, IL, Logan Co. It appears that coffins were provided for "Mrs. Yakel" on Nov 15, 1865; for "Jas.'s child" on Aug 24, 1866; and for "Levi" on Nov. 14, 1890. Also, under the name "Yazel" or "Yazell", there are four more entries -- "Mrs. Jacob" at Atlanta Jan 22 1889; "Yazell, _____" Apr 8 1875; "Jas." Mar 6, 1879; and for "Jacob" at Atlanta Jan 4 1888, aged 60 years. I also checked for a "Jakel" or "Jaekel" or similar variation with no result. Good luck with your search, paul in bflo

Cheryl, The page looks wonderful. I really appreciate the hard work you put into it. When it is open to the public, I would like to suggest this approach to three other mailing lists that I am on. If that would be ok. My url for my website is www.angelfire.com/sc2/HolbertHollister I submitted David and Grace Mowrey. Thanks again for all your hard work. Roberta Mowrey Hollister > > -----Original Message----- > From: clrothwell@mindspring.com <clrothwell@mindspring.com> > To: ILLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com <ILLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Saturday, September 25, 1999 10:29 AM > Subject: [ILLOGAN] Surnames > > > >Things are settling down a bit here, I hope. Have I listed all your names > on: > > > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/research.htm > > > >I think in the mess [mine] of the last six weeks I lost a couple notes and > >I want to get the initial Logan ancestors up. If you have a web page of > >your genealogy I can add a link to it if you want. > > > >After we finish this part I am thinking of opening the page to the general > >public -- any objections? More folks will see the names that way. We get a > >LOT of visitors these days. At that point we may be able add some of those > >pesky lines that may not be the initial ancestor to Logan but is a Logan > >ancestor. {Don't send them just yet because I'll just lose them. I'll give > >you all notice and you can submit them before I make the page public.} I am > >afraid it will get out of hand so I am going to leave the requirement up > >that it be the initial ancestor but maybe I can make some exceptions. <g> > > > > > > > > > >Cheryl Rothwell > >clrothwell@mindspring.com > > > > > >==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== > >What Logan County resouces do you own? Tell us. > > > > > > ==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== > Logan County is on roll 248 of the 1870 Census. > > > ==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== > What Logan County resouces do you own? Tell us. >

Hi, I am hoping that someone can help me find out more information about the Yeakle family in Logan county around 1911. My grandfather's first marriage was to Walleta Yeakle, the daughter of John Yeakle and Coralen Tillin (sp) in 1911 in Lincoln. Thank you for any information. Sharon mnsajt@aol.com ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.