<< From: Bonnie Gilson <bgilson@cox.net> To: ILMCLEAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ILMCLEAN-L] Monarch, McLean, IL?? Does anyone know of a town called "Monarch" in McLean County? This page, http://www.livgenmi.com/atilm.htm shows a town by this name on the 1895 map. I'm looking for the census on Ancestry for Monarch but I don't see it in the 1870, 1880, 1900 or 1910 scans. A relative was living there according to a 1902 probate record... Any suggestions about finding the census? Was the town renamed? Was it actually in another county? Best wishes, Bonnie >> hi, Sorry for the delay in replying, been a hectic weekend... From <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/illinoygenealogy/myhomepage/tv.html">Illinois Family History Research: Place Names of the Northeast 25 Counties</A> are the following place names listed under McLean County: Monarch-, temporary name of Sabina; now Sabina (PO established when changed from Sabina 01Mar1881-15Mar1918 when changed back to Monarch, now Sabina) Sabina-, temporarily Monarch; West Twp; IC RR (PO 30Dec1878-01Mar1881 when changed to Monarch, now Sabina) RFD Arrowsmith happy hunting dennis "Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all are gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cockcrow." -- G M Trevelyan