In Menard Co. the snow was over 4 foot. The thing that was so usually about this particular time period is that the snow stayed on the ground for for a period of three months or more. It commence snowing in December, 1830, and it snowed until the middle of February 1831. Feed was out in the fields. Man could walk on top but a horse would fall through. It snowed every day for two months. In McLean County the height was from 36 inches to over 4 feet. A great deal of stock was frozen to death. Ther deer and wild turkey was almost exterminated. The snow fell it drifted and other snows fell and other drifts were made. In the spring when the snow melted, the face of the country was covered with water. Crops were sown late with a fair crop of wheat harvested; but the corn, which the settlers depended upon most, was bitten by an early frost in the fall. Both of these accounts mentions that wolves were a problem. Joan Black Lund 515 Bonnymeade Champaign, IL 61821-3490 j-lund@uiuc.edu N9SYV - ARES member "My passion is genealogy." http://www.tbox.com/isgs http://www.tbox.com/ccgs http://staff.uiuc.edu/~j-lund/joan.html http://staff.uiuc.edu/~j-lund/ares.html Netscape Instant Message screen name = genejbl Additional e-mail address = genejbl@netscape.com or jblgene@aol.com For the program I use for genealogy see http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/