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In a message dated 8/10/1999 9:48:49 AM Central Daylight Time, ILMCDONO-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > TOOSOONOLD@aol.com Terry, Your offer is great!! If you could check this for me I would be grateful. It may be my great great grandfather. I haven't found anything else on him as yet: William Dupuy (or Dupoy) married Milly ? Aug. 1858 Thanks! Sandy Moshier

Haven't posted this in a while, so I thought it would be timely. I have all the McDonough County Marriage Books put out by the M.C.G.S. I will volunteer to do look-ups, as long as you know and provide me with approximately the year. Terry Moore Brandon, FL

John Cochran & Susan Gates 27 May 1842 by J. Chapman Jonas Lindsay & Sarah Jane Cochrain issued 26 February 1855 Alexander Cochran & Sabra J. Davidson 22 March 1855 by John R. Evans John Hill & Elmira A. Cochran 14 June 1859 by C. Leavenworth John Lindsay & Mary Cochran 16 December 1862 by J. M. Chase Hugh O'Neal & Bridget Cochran 30 June 1865 by J. Larmer James L. Cochran & Frances E. Hagarty 8 May 1866 by J. H. Nesbitt Thomas Cochran & Hannah M. Hartman 15 May 1867 by P. Warner John Jenkins & Mary C. Cockran 30 October 1870 by C. R. Hume Zachary T. Twyman & Maggie I. Cochrane 10 October 1872 by H. K. McComb Benjamin Spicer & Mary J. Cochrane 30 March 1873 by J. C. McClelland William H. Rush & Mattie A. Cochran 28 October 1875 by I. T. Whitemore James A. Cochran & Maggie V. Cruser 13 January 1876 by T. H. Hench Fletcher McDonald & Mattie Cochran 16 March 1876 by I. T. Whitemore Alexander Fulton & Mrs. Margaret Cochran 20 June 1877 by G. W. Mapes Joseph Jacobey & Mrs. Martha E. Cochran 5 March 1879 by G. W. Mapes Warren B. Clisby & Mary Cochran 20 July 1880 by S. T. Davis Eugene F. Beal & Mary Elizabeth Cochran 24 November 1881 at bride's parents Benjamin P. Levingston & Maggie A. Cochran 30 September 1885 in Good Hope Thomas Cochran & Ella A. Brown 23 September 1886 at Wm. Eckersly's Benjamin F. Cochran & Alma Laura Grigg 23 February 1892 at Walnut Grove Clovis A. Cochrane & Clara May Davidson 30 March 1892 at Tennessee Robert J. Cochran & Ella B. Lowe 15 March 1893 at Macomb John F. Cochran & Mattie Tandy 23 December 1898 at Fandon Edmond W. Cochrum & Jessie Mae Zook 9 October 1899 at Bushnell Edward C. Cochran & Harriet Maloney 27 December 1899 at Macomb ___________________________________________________________________ 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.

Pinkney T. Walker & Maria Beaty 11 February by C. Leavenworth Orion F. Walker & Elizabeth J. Beaty 23 September 1858 by J. W. Carter William James Beaty & Sarah Angeline Vail 28 December 1865 by P. B. Cordell Rufus McMullen & Laura Beaty 25 August 1873 by J. C. Reynolds Leslie Beaty & Emma Andews 4 July 1889 in Macomb W. J. Beaty & Mary E. Griffin 9 December 1891 in Macomb R. A. Parson & Mrs. J. R. Beaty 5 December 1894 in Macomb William I. Prugh & Bertha Beatty 26 May 1899 in Industry ___________________________________________________________________ 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.

Mayne this will help someone out. John Quincy Adams & Susan Bacon 7 March 1841 by M. Frazee William Adams & Lucretia Wheeler 4 May 1854 by T. Roach Charles Wheeler & Mrs. Jane Adams 24 February 1859 by Wm. H. Oglesbee Abram Edie & Eliza Adams 28 August 1861 by E. P. Livingston Clayton T. Pelly & Martha A. Adams 30 November 1863 by H. C. Mullan Caleb Swayze & Sophia Adams 18 January 1866 by E. P. Livingston Omes G. W. Adams & Eliza J. Compton 22 May 1870 by J. L. Towner Charles E. Adams & Charity A. Medaris 18 October 1871 by R. T. McMahon John W. Adams & Mary A. Conner 28 December 1871 by L. S. Wallace Peyton T. Carson & Priscilla J. Adams 27 February 1873 by H. C. Mullen John S. Welch & Fanny Adams 1 January 1874 by J. Wyckoff Albert Adams & Nancy Chockley 14 March 1875 by J. L. Towner Newton Adams & Laurie B. Shaw 16 January 1876 by J. E. Taylor Andrew W. Dunlap & Nannie Adams 24 January 1877 by H. C. Littleton John William Adams & Mary Jane Shroder 24 March 1878 by E. Askew John J. Adams & Alice A. Hastie 12 September 1878 by J. Moore James W. Armstrong & Martha S. Adams 10 December 1879 by S. H. Parvin Charles L. Adams & Mamie Corcoran 10 September 1883 in Bushnell G. W. Albertson & Mrs. Jennie Adams 6 February 1885 in Good Hope Spencer A. Walker & Nellie Adams 11 November 1886 in Good Hope Samuel O. Adams & Arabella B. Wilson 1 January 1890 in Bushnell James Adams & Mattie Heller 18 October 1891 in Adair Charles Wilson & Laura Adams 12 March 1894 in Macomb Ira W. Adams & Mamie Van Winkle 22 March 1894 at Bedford Church Parsonage Oscar J. Geltmacher & Mattie Adams 24 December 1895 in Prairie City James Eddie Ross & Della Peene Adams 6 February 1896 in Bushnell Robert Curtis Graves & Zella Adams 6 February 1896 in Bushnell David J. Adams & Mar Keener 18 March 1897 in Good Hope Guy E. Lusk & Minnie Adams 12 June 1897 in Macomb Charles E. Foster & Alice M. Adams 14 October 1897 in Macomb George G. Adams & Lillie Duncan 21 October 1897 in Prairie City Frank Moon and Emma Adams 16 January 1898 in Colchester ___________________________________________________________________ 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.

I am looking for the obituary of Elizabeth Gossage (Gorsage) Belville. I believe she died in McDonough County. Date of death is Jan. 23, 1906. She was first married to James Belville, and after he died she married George P. Belville. He lived with his daughter in Roseville after the death Elizabeth. Can anyone tell me where Elizabeth is buried? Thanks.

In search of the WATSON name in McDonough County. I posted a few months ago and now have the marriage license and data on the couple Claude H. Cully of Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill married Marie M. Watson of Scotland Twp, McDonough County Ill on June 26 1924, by R. H. Stock ___ (could be Stocking), a Minister in the M.E. Church in the Brides home in Scotland Twp. Further information states that Claude H. Cully was 26 (so his birth was in 1898-1899) and he was a teacher. Marie was 24 (so her birth would be 1900-1901), her parents were James Watson and Anna J. Murry or Murray. The Minister had bad penmanship. Their witnesses were Lucille Watson (possibly a sister) and Paul B. Scott. Looking for any bits of information on this Watson family. They were my great Aunt and Uncle and Claude died before 1958. Cheri Courson clc@rnet.com Quincy, Illinois

[William Henry Anderson lived in McDonough Co. in the 1870's. He was the son of James Anderson. William's first wife was Amanda Melvina Hainline, daughter of John Dunford Hainline.] MANY MOURN PASSING OF LATE OGDEN MAN Services Held Wednesday for Wm. Henry Anderson. Interment Made at Glenwood Cemetery Funeral services for the late Wm. Henry Anderson were held on Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 at the late residence in Ogden conducted by the Rev. Morris of the Primitive Methodist church of Angus. In these services, he was assisted by Rev. W. C. Tyrrell, Rev. Chas. Davis and Rev. Roy Nelson of Boone. The singers for the services were from the Primitive Methodist Church of Fraser and Mrs. E. G. Carlson and Mrs. Thomas Walker of Ogden who sang "Gates Ajar." The pallbearers were members of the local union No. 2433, United Mine Workers of America, and were: Messrs Chas. Gallager, Albert Schrader, Tom Walker, Andrew Johnson, Andrew Bowman, and Ed Lindholm. Interment in Glenwood cemetery at Ogden. His Life Sketch William Henry Anderson was born in Castle Eden, Durham county, England, November 29, 1848 and died at his home in Ogden, Iowa, January 24, 1925 at the age of 76 years one month and 25 days. He leaves to mourn his loss, his wife and six sons, James L. of Macomb, Ill., William of Florence, Colo., Thomas, Johnnie and Albert of Ogden, Iowa, Edward of Fraser, Iowa and one daughter Mrs. Agnes Beaumont of Maysville, Mo., and 25 grandchildren. Also two sisters Mrs. J. W. Jopling of High Bridge, Iowa and Mrs. F. E. Spooner of Los Angeles, Calif. He was a miner most of his life having labored in the coal mines about 66 years and retired because of failing health about a year before his death. [James Anderson was William Anderson's father. He lived in McDonough Co. in the 1870's and 1880's.] FUNERAL NOTICE DIED - In Centerville, Iowa, at 3:00 o'clock a. m. February 16th, 1893, JAMES ANDERSON, aged 66 years and 7 months. Funeral will take place from residence of F. E. Spooner, in the east part of the city, at 2:00 p.m. Friday, February 17th. All friends are invited.

[This isn't really an obit, but it's all I have for my great-grandfather - George Fentem. George was the son of John W. Fentem and Nancy Bernetta McCord. He was born January 12, 1877 and died December 1922. Elmer Swanson was George's brother-in-law and Orville Swanson is Elmer's son.] GEORGE FENTEM KILLED IN MINE HUGE ROCK GAVE WAY KILLING HIM INSTANTLY Was Working with His Son-In-Law Ebert Gibb in "Drift" Mine Near Ragtown George Fentem, aged about 45, well known resident of north of Colchester, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon shortly after ?? o'clock when an immense rock in the "drift mine" in which he was working with his son-in-law, Ebert Gibb, gave way crushing his body. Mr. Gibb and Elmer Swanson and son, Orville, who were working in a different part of the same mine worked for more than an hour before they could get the lifeless body from under the huge rock which weighed considerably more than a ton. Coroner S.B. Russler conducted an inquest last evening, the jury composed of Thos. Cooper, ??ther Stone, Frank Williams, Henry Wagle, Ben Kipling and Thos. Kipling returned the verdict that death was caused by an incident in a mine. Thought It Was Solid The mine in which Mr. Fentem was working had its entrance on the Eli Hillyer farm but ran back under the Fentem farm probably ??0 yards. The immense rock which roofed part of the room in which Mr. Fentem was working had been tested by tapping and ?? it sounded solid it was that ?? both men that there was little to fear from it. One side of the rock had been propped and they were of the opinion that it being solid before this would easily hold it up. Mr. Fentem was digging the coal and Mr. Gibb was wheeling it out of the mine. The latter had the cart of coal just about loaded when the rock came down completely burying the body of Mr. Fentem. The two Mr. Swansons ??? from the mine of the same entrance which ran back into the Hillyer land and the three of them had a very difficult time getting the body out. The body was later taken to the home only a short distance away and it was found that numerous bones of his body were broken and his entire body practically crushed. Deceased was one of the most highly respected residents of the vicinity of Colchester and his death brings sincere sorrow to ?? many friends as well as relatives. He is survived by his widow and the following sons and daughters: Mrs. Golda Gibb, Damon, Marlin, Cecil and Audrey.

[Vera Marie Yard Sly was the daughter of Job Yard, Jr. and Sarah Webster. She died on January 02, 1919.] Sly. Mrs. Roy Sly died at the Holmes hospital last night at 12:10 o'clock aged 30 years, 7 months and 23 days. Funeral services will be held in the Methodist church, this city, Friday forenoon at 11 o'clock. Burial in Oakwood. Deceased, whose maiden name was Vera Marie Yard, was born May 28, 1888, and has always been a resident of his vicinity. She was married on June 4, 1914, to Roy Sly, who with two small children, Ira, aged 3 years, and William Alton, 1 year, survive. She is also survived by her mother, Mrs. Job Yard of Emmet township, and three sisters, Mrs. E. E. Argenbright and Mrs. Frank Kenneth of Hire township and Mrs. Louis Anderson of this city. Death was caused by blood poisoning, the result of picking a pimple on her lip, after an illness of ten days. She was take to the Holmes hospital last Friday evening.

Does anyone recognize this family and want to share info? JOHN BYERLY married SARAH MAGERS (daughter of Elza and Elizabeth Magers) in Macomb IL on Feb 9, 1881. John Byerly was the son of JACOB BYERLY and BERTIE SHATZ BYERLY, immigrants from Austria. John had been married previously and was a widower with one son, Frank. John and Sarah had children: Harry, Blaine, Clyde, Ruby, Roy. Harry, Blaine, and their step-brother Frank, all died in a diptheria epidemic in Illinois; the family then moved to Greene Co, Iowa (with Sarah's brother) and finally settled in So. Dakota. Any connections, please e-mail me. Thanks. Mona Sarratt Knight

Does anyone recognize this family line? I would like to share info if you do: LEVI DERTINGER married in Prairie City, IL, July 24, 1879 to ANNA MAGERS (daughter of Elza and Elizabeth Magers). Levi and Anna had children: Fred (b. 1880), Blanch (b. 1886), Oscar (b. 1891), and Mabel (b. 1893). Fred married Effie ?? in McDonough Co. and appears in the 1920 census there; Fred and Effie had a daughter Florence D. Dertinger (who died perhaps in Washington state in 1996). Fred and Effie are both buried in the Glade Cemetary, McDonough Co., I'm told. Oscar Dertinger was in the Peoria State Hospital at age 28 by 1920; why? Would like to share any info you may have. Thanks.

[Job Yard is the son of Job Yard, Sr. and Frances Chorley (her second husband was Simeon Atkinson. Job, Jr. was born May 01, 1838 in Emmet Township and died on April 03, 1915, also in Emmet Township.] Yard Job Yard, one of McDonough county's well known citizens died about 9 o'clock this morning at his home in Emmet township after a long illness. His death was due to a complicated ailment. His age was 76 years, 10 months and 2 days. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Deceased was born in Mcdonough county May 1, 1836 and continued his residence in this county until the time of his death. He was of English parentage, his father and mother, Job and Frances Chorley Yard being natives of Somersetshire, Southwestern England. He was married in 1873 to Sarah Webster, who survives. When the Civil war waged he became a member of Co. I, 124th Ill. Infantry and served until the close of the war. He leaves besides his wife the following children: I. W. Yard, Montana; Mrs. Lewis Anderson, Macomb; Mrs. Etta Argenbright, Macomb; Mrs. Frank Kennett, Iowa; Lewis Yard, Macomb. He is also survived by two half brothers, Will and J. R. Adkinson, both residents of Emmet township. Mr. Yard was a man of high moral character and stood high in the esteem of his friends. His long extended life was replete with usefulness, not only to his immediate family but to his fellowmen, and he was esteemed for his courtesy, gentleness of manner and for his high moral character and purposeful aim in life. In his death the family have lost a kind and indulgent father, the community in which he resided a splendid neighbor and county a good and useful citizen.

Colchester Woman Dies At Mackinaw Mrs. Fairozina Maude Yard of Colchester, formerly of Macomb, died about 9:00 p.m. yesterday at Oak Knoll sanitarium at Mackinaw, Ill., where she had been a patient for the past two months. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p. m. Saturday at the Dodsworth Funeral home here. Interment will be at Oakwood cemetery. Rev. Lee Maynard of Camp Point will officiate. Mrs. Yard was born October 21, 1879, near Rushville, and was the eldest daughter of Lewis M. and Sarah (Hightower) Logan. As a child she suffered a strike of paralysis from which she never fully recovered. She moved with her family to a farm near Colmar in 1889 and attended North Colmar school for five years. In 1894 they moved to Macomb, where she attended high school and the Meyer and Miller Normal school. Mrs. Yard was one of the first nurses to enter training at the Phelps hospital. She was married March 12, 1902, to John Wm. Yard and lived in Montana for 17 years, returning to Illinois in 1919. Surviving are the following ten children: Winnie Mae Robinson, Harold and Erval Yard, Peoria; Clifford L. Yard and Jobe Alvin Yard, New York; Revy A. Yard, East Peoria; Virgie E.Hupfer, Burlington, Ia.; Sarah Lucille Wilson, Monmouth; Duane Yard, Colchester; Garnet Yard, serving in the army overseas. She also leaves the following five brothers and sisters: Herman Logan, Vancouver, Wash.; Everett Logan, Spokane, Wash.; Mrs. Olive Lofgren, Paris, Tex.; Mrs. Verna Duggan, Long Beach, Calif.; Mrs. Edith Lewis, Lewistown, Mont. [Here's the obit for her husband, John William Yard] Former Colchester Man Dead At Age 79 John William Yard, 79, retired farmer and former Colchester resident, died this morning at the St. Francis Hospital in Burlington, Iowa, after a four month illness. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Yard was born March 2, 1875, to Jobe and Sarah Webster Yard in Colchester. Later he lived in Colchester and E. Peoria before moving to Burlington. He married Fairozina Maude Logan, who died Aug. 1, 1944. Yard is survived by ten children, Mrs. Winnie Robinson, Mountain View, Mo., Clifford Yard, Millerville, Pa., Revey Yard. E. Peoria, Jobe Yard, New York, N. Y., Harold Yard, E. Peoria, LeRoy Ervall Yard, Peoria, Mrs. Virgie Hupfer, Burlington, Mrs. Leroy Wilson, Galesburg, Duane Yard, Colchester, and Garnet Yard, Peoria; one brother, Lou Yard, Blandinsville, and one sister, Mrs. Frank Kenneth, Blandinsville. Also surviving are 14 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Friends may call at the Dodsworth - Piper Chapel after five o'clock tonight.

[Thomas Calvin Yard was the son of Job Yard and Frances Chorley. He died on November 01, 1923 in McDonough Co.] McDONOUGH PIONEER DEAD THOS. C. YARD PASSES AWAY AGED 93 YEARS. Came to This County In 1832 When But a Child - Prominent And Prosperous Farmer Thos. C. Yard passed away at his home on East Carrol street at 8:45 this morning as a result of a complicated ailment from which he has been sick for some weeks, lacking but one month of being 93 years of age. With the death of Mr. Yard another and among the last of the pioneers of the county, passes on. Born in Connecticut While Mr. Yard was born in Connecticut, at Stamford, Dec. 4, 1830, he was the son of English parents, who themselves were emigrants to this country, his father, Job Yard, being a native of Sommersetshire as was also his mother, Frances Chorley Yard. As was the custom of the time to make a considerable fuss over a christening, he was taken to New York City where he was christened in the Old Trinity Church, one of the historic places in New York. At the age of two years his parents came to this county and located, and since that period he has been identified with the life of this county, that being his home from that time on. His parents came by water the mode of travel most used in those days, coming down the Ohio river and up the Mississippi to Warsaw which at that time was a prominent trading point and port. Debarking, they loaded their goods in a wagon pulled by oxen and came to this county locating on the farm in Emmet township now owned by the heirs of Job Yard, his brother, and occupied at present by Mrs. Sarah Yard. The hardships of the pioneer were undergone and while Thomas was then but a child he took to work early as was the custom in those days. His father lived but six years after he arrived in this county and although worked diligently had but 40 acres of land cleared and under cultivation at that time, so difficult was the work. The conditions of the pioneers marked the boyhood of Mr. Yard. He worked early and late, subsisted on the frugal meals of the pioneers and built for himself a constitution that stood the ravages of disease for nearly 93 years. His boyhood, like the description given by Lincoln of his boyhood, was :"the short and simple annals of the poor." But while not blessed with a quantity of the world's goods in boyhood he possessed a will and trained to frugality that meant more to his later success in life that abundant mean Dec. 28, 1854 he was united in marriage to Louis Phelphs, daughter of the late Lenander Phelphs, a man well known among the pioneers and the man who built the first bridge over the Crooked creek, north of this city, and which stood for years as monument to his workmanship. They went to housekeeping at once on a farm in Emmet township which has ever since been known as the Thos. Yard homestead. Mr. Phelphs was one of the first members of the presbyterian church of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Yard attached themselves to this denomination. On that homestead, where they spent the major portion of their lives, twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Yard, only four of whom. Mrs. Chas. Yard, Dr. Edmond, Truman and Mrs. John Ledgerwood, all of Macomb, survive. The Yard homestead at the start combined but 56 acres but good management, frugality, and hard work, combined to the end that when he quit farming a few years ago he possessed 730 acres of land and the homestead had increased from 56 acres to 210. Mr. Yard did not depend on the land alone to furnish the competence for his farm work. He raised stock and studied stock. He profited by his mistakes and the mistakes of others in handling stock and became an excellent judge. He also bought and shipped stock and possessed a business acumen that acquired for him a large competence. But the wanderlust struck him at one time. He tired of the farm and thought there was to be big money in the Golden West and set forth. It was the time when the plains were crossed by wagons and Mr. Yard make the trip in 1863. He stopped in Carson City for some time and then went on the California. He was not pleased with the west, however, as a place of locating and returned home, making the trip, by way of the Isthmus of Panama, as there was no canal at that time. From there he took a boat to New York City and returned to his home in this country. With the exception of this trip west he resided on his farm for 41 years to the day. He left on Dec. 28, 1895. the anniversary of his marriage and went to California again with wife for five months stay. He returned to this city and located in the brick house on East Carrol street where they resided ever since, and where his aged wife awaits the call which will allow her to join her husband. Mr. Yard was an ardent Republican all of his life and gave of his time an energy for the party cause he espoused. His friends and neighbors recognized his more than average mentality and his ability to analyze a question and believed in his arguments on a question discussed. He was a man whose honestly was never questioned and enjoyed the confidence of everyone who knew him. A few months ago, realizing that he had not much longer to remain here as the natural trend of life as he had already far passed the age given mortal man, he disposed of a large amount of his property, dividing it among his children, reserving for himself and his wife all that would be necessary for their care and comfort for the rest of their days. All of this had been accumulated by the toil and hard work of himself and wife during their almost 75 years of companionship. No eulogy is necessary in his death for his life stands before all as a monument of honesty, frugality and Christian living. The funeral services will be held from the First Presbyterian church at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Rodgers. Interment in the mausoleum in Oakwood abbey.

[Ethel Agnes Hainline was the daughter of John Quincey Hainline and Sarah Ellen Briggs.] HAINLINE - Ethel Agnes, the oldest child and only daughter of Quincy and Sarah Hainline, of Hire township, McDonough county, Illinois, died at their home Monday, December 11th, 1893, at 6 o'clock a.m. Ethel was born on the 26th day of February, 1875, and was 18 years, 6 months and 15 days when she died. She lived all her life in the house where she died. In her fifteenth year she professed religion and joined the United Brethren church. She was a girl of extra energy lin the line of getting an education, and before she was old enough to teach, had been examined for and received a teacher's certificate, standing a grade that would have been creditable for one much her senior.She taught two terms and engaged for another, her school to begin on the very day she died. She attended the teacher's term of Macomb Normal College which closed about the middle of August, and a week later went with her parents and brother a week to the World's Fair, returning on Monday "feeling so tired" as she told them, just two weeks before she died. She at once took her bed on getting home and never arose from it. That tired feeling was only the percurser of that terrible disease, typhoid fever, that was soon running with fatal riot through the poor girls veins, each day with less strength and vitality to combat its ravages. And Monday morning as the sunrise set all the eastern horizon aglow, the spirit went out to that home of the soul in the skies, and vanquished body entered in to the peaceful rest of death. Funeral services were held at Willow Grove church near where she died, and of which in life she was the organist. Rev. Weigle, pastor, preaching the funeral discourse. Children who had expected to be her pupils on that day, instead come by the coffin with timid step and gazed on the dead form of their young "school Miss." The flag at the school house near by hung at half-staff. Six young ladies, her companions in life, bore the coffin to the hearse and the long procession took its slow way to the Blandinsville cemetery where the body was laid to its final earthly sleep; the day being not only the burial day of their daughter, but the wedding anniversary of the parents as well. It was a sad wedding anniversary.

Hi all, I'll just post what I have (obituary-wise) here - a couple every day or so. Kathy [This is James Lewis Anderson, son of William Henry Anderson and Amanda Melvina Hainline. He died February 04, 1966 in Macomb.] J. Lewis Anderson, 90, Of Macomb, Dies J. Lewis Anderson, 90, a retired mail carrier of 503 S. Johnson St., died about 5:35 p. m. Thursday at McDonough District Hospital where he had been a patient since Jan. 1 when he fell and sustained a fracture of his hip. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. The Rev. Richard Newhall will conduct the ervices. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Mr. Anderson was born Jan. 14, 1875 at Sciota, the son of William and Amanda Hainline Anderson. He had resided his entire lifetime in McDonough County, moving to Macomb in 1903. He served as a mail carrier on Route 1, after accepting the position as carrier in 1903. He served 31 years as a carrier before retiring in 1934. He was a member of the Macomb Methodist Church and the National Association of Retired Civil Employees. He married Frances Yard Oct. 15, 1904. She died in 1948. Surviving are two daughters, Miss Winona Anderson of Macomb and Mrs. Mildred Fentem of Palos Heights, a son, Wendell Anderson of Chicago, three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; two half brothers, Edward of pilot Mound, Iowa, And Johnny of Boone, Iowa and a half-sister, Mrs. Agnes Neff of St. Joseph, Mo. Three half brothers, Tom, Albert and William, and a sister, Margaret, died previously.

I have some obituaries that were found in my great-aunt's house after her death. I believe that they were saved by her mother (my great-grandmother). Is anyone interested? Kathy

In a message dated 7/26/99 7:37:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, llathrop@Prodigy.net writes: << Is anyone interested? >> I am, for Serven, Morris or Hinkle