-----Original Message----- From: Patterson, Dallas <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 15, 1999 4:37 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [ILPERRY] Partial Patron List We purchased our copy of the book from the Perry County Historical Society. It is reproduced and and also sold by the Higginson Book Co., 148 Washington Street, Post Office Box 778, Salem, MA 01970, <www.higginsonbooks.com>, 508-745-7170. Other early books about Perry County and Southern Illinois are also available as reprints/reproductions. Higginson Book Co. lists the available titles on their Web site. Dallas Patterson [email protected] [email protected] wrote: > > Dear List-members, > Has anyone come across the book : "Combined Histories of Randolph, Monroe and > Perry Counties, With Illustrations " pub. 1883 in Philadelphia, PA by J.L. > McDonough Co. in their research? I am sure I've run across it before but > yesterday at our local library's geneal. sect. I took a closer look....it's > not indexed, so requires a lot of scanning..and found a literal gold-mine of > information in the back...17 pages of the teeniest print I've ever run > across, first divided by the 3 counties, then by Township and Range with > patrons (probably contributors) listed by Name, Post. Ofc., Residence > (usually the Twp. Section), Occupation, Nativity (place of birth), and date > Settled. Many of these people listed not only their names but wife's maiden, > parents and deathdates. > Example under Perry Co.Twp 6 So.-Range 2 W..: House, William, Duquoin, > Sect.19, Farmer and Stock Raiser, Perry Co. IL, 1853 > with Mary Darrington, same P.O. and Sect., Wife of William House, Jackson Co. > IL, 1879 > and House, George, Died Sept.17, 1874, Father of William House, North > Carolina, 1833 > and House, Eloise (nee Grubb), Died Oct.1853, Mother of William House , > Jackson Co. IL, 1844 > The last column, Settled, in some cases was also the birthyear for those > born in that county. So far I've been able to determine my Joseph Campbell > was b. in Caldwell Co., KY and came to Perry Co. in 1838...that neighbors > John Craig, Minerva J. Brown and Hugh Brown also were b. in Caldwell Co. and > came to Perry in 1829 and 1830. Minerva married Joseph's brother-in-law > William Russell Milligan...not sure yet how Hugh is related...but now aware > of a possible connection. This is of course only a partial list so not > everyone is on there, but there are quite a few....looks like about 150 > entries per page. There are quite a few biographies and community histories, > some of them very entertaining, Know this is getting too long but have to > relate this mention of Dr. Conrad Will of Brownsville, Jackson Co., who > practiced in Pinckneyville..."Dr. Will, it is said, was very fond of hunting, > and, for that purpose, kept a pack of hounds, which he would often take > along, when he went to see a patient and stay and hunt until the patient > either got better or died. He was elected to the legislature, sitting at > Vandalia, and to while away leisure hours he took his hounds along with him > to coon-hunt. " Have already copied more than a dozen pages out of this > book and probably will go back for more...even the illustrations are great. > If anyone would like me to check this patron list for an ancestor, you can > contact me. Note: this book is more than 70 years old and is NOT protected > by copyright. Sorry for the length of this message but am really excited by > its possibilities. > [email protected] > > ==== ILPERRY Mailing List ====