Some old news and some new news. ------------------------------- Macoupin County Genealogical Society CD/DVD of aproximately 479 photos of places in Macoupin County, Nov 2006. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/m_bksale.htm#MCGS Picture CD -------------------------------------- Hale Family of Bunker Hill submitted by Jack Hale, Jr. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/pictures/m_pichal.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Rick Doty and Joan Darr, we have more gravestone pics up: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/cemetery/morrison/index.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/cemetery/behme/index.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/cemetery/chapman/index.htm (I am late getting them up.) ----------------------------------------- Mine #2 at Sawyerville from Daryl Butcher. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/pictures/mine-002.htm ----------------------------------------------------------- Illinois Digital Archives: http://idaillinois.org/ has interviews like the following Daryl found. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Daryl also gave me the urls for transcripts of two interviews done by members of the Oral History Office of Sangamon State University (now University of Illinois at Springfield) Politician Avinere Toigo, son of Italian immigrants, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania January 13, 1902 grew up in Benld. <http://www.uis.edu/archives/memoirs/TOIGO.pdf#search=%22fbi%20raid%20benld%20illinois%22>http://www.uis.edu/archives/memoirs/TOIGO.pdf#search=%22fbi%20raid%20benld%20illinois%22 Frank Fries was born in Clyde's Patch, Illinois on May 1, 1893. In 1904 he moved with his parents to Gillespie, Illinois ard later worked as a coal miner until an injury forced hjm to give up coal mining, born 1930 to 1934 lb. Fries served as sheriff of Macoupin County. He served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1935 to 1936 and represented the 38th Conpessional District in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1941. In January,1942 Mr. Fries became an arbitrator for the coal industry, a position he held until his retirement in 1968. http://www.uis.edu/archives/memoirs/FRIES.pdf#search=%22wickersham%20report%20benld%22 -------------------------------------------------------- Sorta old queries and/or surnames: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/queries/qryindex.htm LEONARD MADISON BANGERT, VANGERT BURCH BURGMANN, CHASTAIN ROBERSON BETTIS, DODD, HART, PITCHFORD BETTIS, CAUDLE, PRATT, REDFERN, ROBERTS, RUYLE, SEATON, SHAW, STEWART BRANDENBURGER, LEE ANDREWS, MEEKS, PRICE TENNIS, TRAVIS, WARBURTON PEEBLES DINKERMANN, GUENTHER, KEMENA, ORTLEPP, PRANGE TALKINGTON ---------------------------------------------------------- Annette Miner loaned school pictures at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/pictures/m_picc05.htm#school-2 Marsha Liston Bradshaw writes, "Boy, 2nd from right, 2nd row from the top is my uncle, Joseph Liston who was born Dec. 1911 and in 1919 or 1920 would have been 8 or 9 years old and in the 2nd or 3rd grade." -------------------------------------------------------------- Descendants of Joseph Liston from Marsha Liston Bradshaw: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/family/liston.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ Submitted obituaries: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/obits/m_obitx.htm MAYERNIK, Martin ll TROVER, Edward Levi DOTY, Benjamin S. FERRIS, Charlotte BECKER, Mina KRUSE, Wilhelmina GEORGE, W. R. COX, Ellen Greene HOMER, Martin FISCHER, Christoff (Christopher) SCHWEPPE, Henry A SHUST,Anna AIMONE, Mary Jane HUNSINGER, Robert Walter HUNSINGER, Henry C CLYDE, Dr. M. S. ---------------------------------------------------------- Benld Cemetery pics donated by Eugene Tresch (surnames Komanetsky & Rolando) http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/cemetery/benldcity/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------- Gloria ------------------ Gloria M. Frazier <[email protected]> Macoupin County ILGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/macoupin.htm