Thomas W Davis wrote: > > Hello - > > I would welcome any research suggestions relative to the following > long-time residents of Monroe County. > > William Stone and Mary Davis, nee Duvall, were married shortly before > 1860, and worked a farm near Columbia, Monroe County. Each had been a > resident of Monroe County for at least ten years prior to the marriage. > Unfortunately, the county has neither a record of their marriage, nor of > their respective deaths: Mary's in 1872, and William's ca 1901. > > The farm/residence apparently was near Centerville, St. Clair Co., as the > 1860 census shows the family living at TINR10W, P.O. Centerville; and the > census of 1870 also shows the family at Centerville. Evenso, the census' > for 1880 and 1900 show the family residing at Columbia, Monroe Co., > > As noted above, Mary died in 1872, and William Stone died at home, of a > heart attack ca 1901, after running to assist a neighbor put out a fire. > Apparently neither death was recorded, as the St. Clair and Monroe county > clerks have no record of the events. > > Given the above story, I wonder if the library at Waterloo maintains an > newspaper/obituary index similar to that maintained by the Belleville > library? In addition, does anyone know what TINR10W meant, when it was > listed at the top of the 1860 census sheet? > > Any related comments would be most welcome > > Tom Davis > Oceanside, CA > > ==== ILMONROE Mailing List ==== > Lutz Marble and Granite Works > Estimates on all work in our line cheerfully furnished upon application. > We carry the highest stock of monuments to select from in Monroe County. > Come in and see them. > Waterloo, Illinois > 1918 Prarie Farmers Directory p. 272 Tom, Just this added tip: "Centerville" --as you note the farm residence-- would probably be what is now Millstadt, St. Clair County, on the map. Citizens of that village (so the story goes) had filed for Centerville as the name of their incorporated village. Centerville was it's original name (you'll still see "Centerville Road" names leading into Millstadt from surrounding towns)-- but the State informed them that there there was already a Centerville [there is currently a Centerville in St. Clair Co., east of Cahokia & west of Belleville--'don't know if that was the Centerville they refer to], so the citizens filed for "Mittlestadt" instead (so many of its residents, by that time, were now of German heritage). Clerks in Springfield, IL, read the handwriting as "Millstadt." And that is how the incorporation papers were filed. As Paul Harvey might say, "so, now you know the rest of the story." :-) --mkClark