Jane... You must have lived in Boody after I left, your last name didn't sound familiar. I moved from there in 1952. I lived in the house that was between Katie Heerdt and Dot Schenck. Dot was my Aunt, my dad's sister. My dad was born in that house. You probably knew my cousins, Ron, Robert and Jan Morey. Frank and Nellie Green ran the post office when I lived there also. My dad's first cousin Helen Conrad and her husband P.E. ran the Nientker's store. I was related to most everyone in Boody at that time. I was back there last year and my cousin Jan and I walked Boody and had a great time remembering our childhood days in that sleepy little town. I also was able to visit with a friend who lived there when I did, Donna [Swarms]. She lives in Decatur now. Charlie Williams sister Ruth Ann married my cousin, Ron Morey. I was a Smith, my dad was Reid Smith, he worked at the elevator in Elwin. At one time when I was about 4 we lived across from the elevator in Elwin but when we were back! there last year I was going to take a picture of the house and all the houses on that side of the road were gone. I don't know what happened to them. I also visited with Dick Bowman when I was back there. I met him on the internet about 4 years ago so it was fun to finally meet him. He knew my cousin jan so she went with us to visit with him. I have a lot of information and pictures of Boody, also the Zion Cem and the Salem Cem. I took pictures of a lot of the tombstones. If I can help you with anything , let me know. Good to meet another Boody-ite. Helen in Idaho > > From: JJJSG@aol.com > Date: 2003/09/16 Tue PM 03:08:39 PDT > To: ILMACON-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ILMACON] Boody connection > > Zion Cemetery is the name of the cemetery in Boody. You can see it as you > are leaving town on Route 48, headed for Blue Mound and Taylorville. It's on > the west line (or right-hand side as you head for Blue Mound.) Ralph and Velma > are buried there. A lot of the Boody/Blue Mound farmers are buried in Hall > Cemetery and Bethel Cemetery. > > There is also a Muirhead, Brown, Pope cemetery in Blue Mound Township > (Boody). These cemeteries are in Volume 1 of the DGS Cemetery Inscription Book. > > The Warnicks are buried in their own cemetery, later named Huddleston > Cemetery. I drove by it not too long ago and there is a new home built on it. I > don't know if there is still access to this small cemetery any more, but it sure > was a hard one to find out in the middle of a field the first time I went > looking. Even sadder is that they don't have good records on its occupants. > Someone walked off with the papers. I have two sibling children from my > gggrandfather buried there, but no record proving it. My greataunt fortunately > remembers the service, even though she was a very young girl. > > Jane Griffin > > > ==== ILMACON Mailing List ==== > Visit the Macon County ILGenWeb page at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacon/ > >