There are Wilkins buried in Wilson McCord Cemetery in Perry township Pike County,IL, The library should have the first names in their cemetery books. Carol Walsh ----- Original Message ----- From: <cyndis@mchsi.com> To: <ILPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 10:38 PM Subject: [ILPIKE] Pike Press 1899 and 1900 > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Wilkins > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1972 > > Message Board Post: > > i found an excerpt from the PERRY column, the correspondents for each city > in Pike co would put in information for almost every issue. I'm looking > for death info or obit for Thomas Wilkins b. 1818 and Mary Tull Wilkins > b. about 1820, both in OH, but moved to Pike co IL in 1850. I went to > Pittsfield Library and went thru microfilm for hours, i had an approx year > of death...there was no obit...but the paper back then wasn't really in > any organized fashion where obits/ births would be in a specific section. > I looked at Perry column and eventually found a snippet about Prof. J.M. > Wilkins in town for his father Thomas Wilkins' funeral. that was in the > Nov.28, 1900 issue. The librarian told me that obits were usually paid > for in those days by the family..so if the family didn't pay..info would > only possibly be put in as general info by town. this gives me a place to > start...but i thought this info would be helpful as another way to find > info, but it is tedious and time consu! > ming--sometimes there is no other way. I had no other choice, no death > records online or in Pike co courthouse, no obit, no tombstone, not in any > Pike co. cemetery lists...they might have gone back to OHiO to be > buried...but it did mention that the son came home to Perry IL for the > funeral....if anyone has any info please...or any new ideas....please > help...i have lost them. one last thing, while i was going thru the > newspapers, i would copy some of the obits when i found them and some of > the gossip columns if a specific name was mentioned...they are very hard > to read..so i will do my best ...i'm going to try to send names and obits > soon . > > > ==== ILPIKE Mailing List ==== > Visit the Pike Co ILGenWeb site > http://www.PikeCoILGenWeb.org > > >

Thanks, the Wilkins buried in Wilson-McCord are my relation, but no Thomas or Mary Tull Wilkins, their son, daughters,, grandchildren, cousins all there. Their son Milton married Mary Ellen Read, they are buried there along with Rachel Wilkins Mercer, grandsons J.W. Wilkins And Russell Wilkins , even his brother Peter and wife are there...but no Thomas and Mary, -----Original Message----- From: Carol Walsh [mailto:walsh26@frontiernet.net] Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 10:12 PM To: ILPIKE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ILPIKE] Pike Press 1899 and 1900 There are Wilkins buried in Wilson McCord Cemetery in Perry township Pike County,IL, The library should have the first names in their cemetery books. Carol Walsh ----- Original Message ----- From: <cyndis@mchsi.com> To: <ILPIKE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 10:38 PM Subject: [ILPIKE] Pike Press 1899 and 1900 > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Wilkins > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1972 > > Message Board Post: > > i found an excerpt from the PERRY column, the correspondents for each city > in Pike co would put in information for almost every issue. I'm looking > for death info or obit for Thomas Wilkins b. 1818 and Mary Tull Wilkins > b. about 1820, both in OH, but moved to Pike co IL in 1850. I went to > Pittsfield Library and went thru microfilm for hours, i had an approx year > of death...there was no obit...but the paper back then wasn't really in > any organized fashion where obits/ births would be in a specific section. > I looked at Perry column and eventually found a snippet about Prof. J.M. > Wilkins in town for his father Thomas Wilkins' funeral. that was in the > Nov.28, 1900 issue. The librarian told me that obits were usually paid > for in those days by the family..so if the family didn't pay..info would > only possibly be put in as general info by town. this gives me a place to > start...but i thought this info would be helpful as another way to find > info, but it is tedious and time consu! > ming--sometimes there is no other way. I had no other choice, no death > records online or in Pike co courthouse, no obit, no tombstone, not in any > Pike co. cemetery lists...they might have gone back to OHiO to be > buried...but it did mention that the son came home to Perry IL for the > funeral....if anyone has any info please...or any new ideas....please > help...i have lost them. one last thing, while i was going thru the > newspapers, i would copy some of the obits when i found them and some of > the gossip columns if a specific name was mentioned...they are very hard > to read..so i will do my best ...i'm going to try to send names and obits > soon . > > > ==== ILPIKE Mailing List ==== > Visit the Pike Co ILGenWeb site > http://www.PikeCoILGenWeb.org > > > ==== ILPIKE Mailing List ==== Pike Co Maps http://www.PikeCoILGenWeb.org/maps.html