Gloria I do thank you for sharing your time and energy to do this search for Frank Firley. As the rest of my family lives in Madison County (and I do have all the cemetery records for Madison County), your checking the Macoupin cemetery records for me is such a big help. The record of Frank's son Louis and his wife is a big surprise. I have been in contact now with the librarian at the Mt. Olive Public Library and my letter and check are in the mail. Perhaps this will have my answers. Thanks, too, for the links to the other websites. Kind regards, Myra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gloria Frazier" <glofra@earthlink.net> To: <ILMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 7:55 PM Subject: [ILMONTGO] Mt. Olive is in Macoupin County - Firley research > Walshville in Montgomery Co is 6 miles east of Mt Olive in Macoupin Co. I > garantee it.<g> > > I have the cemetery listings for Mt. Olive and I can't find him for any of > the Mt Olive cemeteries. He may be unmarked. > > Myra, I did find a son of Frank Firley in Benld City Cem. Benld is about 5 > miles northwest of Mt Olive. > FIRLEY, Louis s/o Frank 2 May 1869 - 8 Jun 1951 m. 4 Dec 1892 w/Ida J. > (ZIMMERMAN) 3 Sep 1870 - 27 Sep 1959 > > Myra said she had maybe part of the obit and was going to contact the Mt > Olive newspaper for the full obit. The Mt Olive Herald newspaper is on > microfilm at the local library, just for Myra's information. > MT. OLIVE PUBLIC LIBRARY > 111 W. Main > Mt. Olive, IL 62069 > Phone: 217/999-7311 > Fax: 217/999-7311 > Director: Janice Thimsen > Hours: > Mon. and Wed. 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. > Tue. and Fri. 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. > Closed Thurs > Sat. 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. > > This library has the Mt. Olive Herald on microfilm from 1892 through 1989, > History of Macoupin County 1763-1879; Story of Macoupin County 1829-1979; > Pictorial and Biographical History of Macoupin County, 1911; and History of > New Douglas 1860-1987 are part of the collection. They have several books > on the life and speeches and letters of Mother Jones. > > Mt Olive would have been the closest newspaper but an obit could have run > in Staunton Macoupin Co and Litchfield Montgomery Co. > > I did a search for Firley in the phone dir for all of IL. I didn't find any > in the area, so if the following people had children they may have been > girls and there could still be Firleys in the area. This is a wild guess. > > Social Security Death Index > http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi > WILLIAM P FIRLEY 21 Dec 1904 06 May 1992 62056 (Litchfield, > <http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/IL/Montgomery>Montgomery, IL)(none > specified)343-09-2881Illinois > BETTY FIRLEY 23 Apr 1907 08 Aug 1996 (V)62088 (Staunton, > <http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/IL/Macoupin>Macoupin, IL)(none > specified)344-24-0990 Illinois > > Gloria > > > ==== ILMONTGO Mailing List ==== > Montgomery Co IL Mail List is for Genealogical research do not send Virus warnings to the list. "Problems with the Montgomery Co IL Mail list contact Tim Casey timcasey59@earthlink.net. > >