Hi, I've changed the Reply to: to automatically reply to the list. If you wish to send a private message to a post then you need to be aware of this function. This is a test phase only and if it creates problems then I will change it back. Ginger gingerh@intrnet.net

Please contact me if any of these ring a new year bell . . . . REYNOLDS DAVIS LITTON/LYTTON BABB DAVIDSON EVANS FOSTER Happy New Year. Let's hear from Pope Co researchers! I'm Sharon in Massac Co IL

Good Morning, I want to wish every one of you and your families a very happy, healthy, prosperous and productive New Year. Ginger gingerh@intrnet.net

I'd like to wish all of you a wonderful and blessed Christmas. May God bless and keep you and yours this Christmas and throughout the coming year. Ginger gingerh@intrnet.net

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I am looking on information on Richard neely Simmons who lived in Pope County from 1845 to 1861. Hi wife also Rebbeca Morris. Greg Simmons

Can anyone out there in cyberspace help with any of this family?? Thnx.ellen@airmail.net Descendants of Thomas Wesley Crabb 1 Thomas Wesley Crabb b: November 25, 1834 in Giles Co. Tn. d: May 12, 1902 in Pope Co. Il . +Rachel Elizabeth Nutt b: July 28, 1834 in Bedford Co. Tn. d: May 13, 1894 in Pope Co. Il m: October 27, 1853 in Lawrence Co. Tn. Father: Murphy W Nutt Mother: ....... 2 Fountain Murphy Crabb b: August 10, 1854 in Giles Co. Tn. .......... +Margaret J. Hubbard b: 1853 in Hardin Co. IL m: May 04, 1876 in ? Father: Mother: ....... 2 Joseph Franklin Crabb b: March 03, 1856 in Lawrence Co. MO d: October 21, 1928 in Pope Co. Il .......... +Mary Etta Asbell b: October 19, 1859 in Hardin Co. IL d: January 05, 1918 in Pope Co. Il m: December 19, 1878 in Pope Co. Il Father: Mariel Asbell Mother: Sarah Potts ....... 2 James William Howell Crabb b: May 13, 1858 d: September 05, 1869 in Pope Co. Il ....... 2 John Wesley Crabb b: February 19, 1860 in Tishomingo Co. Ms d: November 01, 1946 in Saline Co. Il .......... +Annie Laura Baldwin b: September 30, 1861 d: June 1931 in Pope Co. Il m: September 17, 1882 Father: William Baldwin Mother: Celeste Shaffer ....... 2 Thomas David Crabb b: September 10, 1862 in Tishomingo Co. Ms d: November 11, 1869 in Pope Co. Il ....... 2 Charles Asbery Crabb b: May 19, 1865 in Pope Co. Il d: April 1890 .......... +Agnes A Sturgill b: 1866 d: Abt 1890 m: September 28, 1885 Father: Mother: ....... 2 Jesse Anderson Crabb b: March 31, 1869 in Herod, Il. Pope Co. IL d: August 30, 1939 in Salem, Or .......... +Mollie E. Baldwin b: February 18, 1873 in Pope Co. Il d: May 08, 1899 in Pope Co. Il m: February 23, 1891 Father: Mother: ....... *2nd Wife of Jesse Anderson Crabb: .......... +Ida Bell Walden b: March 10, 1881 in Herod, Il. Pope Co. d: April 24, 1966 in Salem, Or m: November 10, 1901 Father: Mother: ....... 2 Sarah E. Crabb b: September 05, 1869 in Pope Co. Il d: November 27, 1937 in Hardin Co. IL .......... +George Riley Baldwin b: March 24, 1865 in Karbers Ridge, Il d: July 19, 1930 in Hardin Co. IL m: April 10, 1890 Father: William Baldwin Mother: Celest Morris *2nd Wife of Thomas Wesley Crabb: . +Henreitta Travelstead b: January 06, 1845 in Il d: July 25, 1938 in Il m: 1895 in Il Father: Jr Mother: Cynthia Ann Morrison

From our house to yours. May you have a blessed Thanksgiving day. Ginger gingerh@intrnet.net

Hello again, Sorry I left off my e-mail address on the previous post. Wish I could think of a plausible excuse for the oversight, but can't. I can be reached at: mscjwc@gte.net or monjeau@juno.com. Mona Carrico

Hello from Denton, Texas, I have pictures I will send to anyone who may have a family connection or would like to have them. I believe the people were Golconda classmates of my late aunt, Edna Searcy, and probably date from around 1913-1915. (1) a post card photo of Laura Weekly & Alma Lay seated in a buggy; (2) studio portraits of Sylvia Jenkins and Raymond Jenkins; (3) no last names for Gertrude; Frieda; Marie; or Myrtle. Also, portraits of two young men and a young woman with no names. I had thought of sending them to the Library in Golconda, but will try this avenue first. My Pope County families were Blatter, Boos, Butze and Searcy. Grandfather Theo Searcy ran a grocery store in Golconda; the family moved to New Mexico in 1920. Mona Searcy Carrico 2200 Parkside Dr. Denton TX 76201-0728 (940) 382-1471

Parmely is one of my Pope Co., IL family lines. I am having trouble with part of this line and ask other Parmely (Parmley, Parmeley, etc.) reserachers for their help. I have traced my Parmely line as below: Martha M. Parmely b. Dec. 16, 1873 in Pope Co., IL m. George Feezor d. Jan 6, 1921 in Vermilion Co., IL Samuel Parmeley b. Aug. 1851 in IL m. Malinda L. Griffin d. June 30, 1925 in Pope Co., IL Samuel Parmely, Jr. b. Apr. 25, 1826 in IL m. Lucinda Melinda Baker d. May 14, 1884 in Pope Co., IL The "Jr." in Samuel Parmely's (b. 1826) name comes from his gravestone, therefore I assume that his father's name was Samuel Parmely, Sr. This is where I have some problems... In the 1850 Pope Co., IL census there is listed an elderly Samuel Parmley. This Samuel Parmley is 52 yrs. old (born about 1798) and born in Virginia. His wife is listed as Mary Parmley, aged 40, born in Tennessee. I have asssumed that this is the father of my Samuel Parmely, Jr. My problems come, however, when I look over the many biographies on the Parmely line in Pope Co., IL. These biographies make no reference to this Samuel Parmely. There are references the 1st Samuel Parmely (born in VA) to come to Pope Co., IL whose wife is named as Rebecca Hawkins. The main problems is the dates. This Samuel is listed as marrying Rebecca Hawkins in Livingston Co., KY on June 29, 1805. This could not possibly be MY Samuel Parmely because that would means that he married at the age of 7....IMPOSSIBLE. Please help. Dawn dprock@ix.netcom.com

There are two things I'd like to make you aware of: 1st the Good: The Pope County ILGenWeb page has received the Excellence in Genealogy award. I want to thank those of you who have contributed to the pages, it wouldn't have happened without you. 2nd the Bad: This a message sent by Dr. Brian Leverich to the webmasters who host pages at rootsweb. Please read and keep in mind when you contribute something to the Pope Co site. Thanks everybody Ginger gingerh@intrnet.net **********(Start of Brian's Post)********** Hi everyone - I'm sorry to have to do this, but I'm starting to lose a day a week or more to this problem and it's gotta stop. Remember, RootsWeb only has three formal policies but the *first* among them is "No copyrighted material (save with permission or as allowed by Fair Use)". Also remember that for the purpose of policy, RootsWeb takes a conservative view of intellectual property rights. We don't have much use for the "facts can't be copyrighted" truism, because almost everyone who uses that expression doesn't understand what it does and doesn't mean. And even when some material can be legally copied, it may still be morally wrong or invite public relations problems to do so. In particular, RootsWeb generally believes that *anything* published in book form within the last 75 years should not be copied and appear on our servers without the permission of the author or the copyright holder. That *specifically* applies to cemetery transcriptions: if you didn't walk the cemetery yourself and you don't have explicit permission from the person who did, that material should NOT be served from RootsWeb. It's fine for folks to disagree with our policies, but if you do disagree please have the courtesy of using other servers to host material that might violate RootsWeb's policies. If you insist on serving that material from RootsWeb, you're cheating *everyone* else by diverting Karen and me into dealing with legal problems when we should be creating accounts and mailing lists for the community. Thanks for your help with this, B. -- Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com

Good Morning, Thought some of you might be interested in this. Ginger gingerh@intrnet.net ---------- > From: Celia G. Snyder <cgsnyder@uiuc.edu> > To: ILGEN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILGEN-L] Illinois Census Returns of 1820 > Date: Friday, November 14, 1997 9:59 PM > > Hi ILGenWeb Team, > > This came through on a newsletter I receive from Ancestry Online. Thought > you'all might be interested in checking it out. > > Celia > cgsnyder@uiuc.edu > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilchampa > > ----------------------------------------- > Database of the Day (Free for 10 Days!) > Illinois Census Returns of 1820 > > This is a companion work to the 1810 Federal and the 1818 Territorial > censuses published in the Illinois Historical Collections. This > Illinois > state census lists the population by counties in 1820 and contains > notes comparing discrepancies between names as written in the 1818 > Territorial, the 1820 State, and the 1820 Federal censuses. There are > over 25,000 records which indicate the following information: the name > of the head of the family, number of males under 21, number of males > age 21 and up, number of females under 18, and number of females age > 18 and up. > > Bibliography - Pease, Theodore Calvin. Illinois Census Returns of > 1820. Springfield, IL: Trustees of Illinois State Historical Library, > 1934. > > To search this database, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/home/free/today.htm OR > http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search.asp >

I have one Pope County ancestor that I am trying to get more information on -- James Madison HENDLEY who was born in 1844, I believe in Tennessee. He married Frances Luretta CLANAHAN on October 17, 1867 in Pope County. They were my g-grandparents. Their daughter Lula Hendley married my grandfather, Clarence Henry SCHUMACHER (b. 1864), who was the son of Dedrich Schumacher, Jr, and Julia BOOS. This was the second marriage for both Julia and Dedrich. Julia was previously married to William Dyer and Dedrich to Mary Hanna. My grandfather, Clarence, lived in Kankakee County and Jackson County after moving from Pope County as a young man. I grew up in Murphysboro. All of these surnames were well known in Pope County during the mid to late 1880s. Member of these families intermarried with many other PC families. I would appreciate any information anyone can provide on these surnames, especially on James Madison Hendley. Thanks. Jim Doody, Naperville, Illinois doodyj@aol.com

Hi All, I have the Pope County History books, Volumes I & II, and will look up names for anyone. They are not everyname indexed so can only give info on surname used in the articles. So many of my ancestors were in Pope County that I find the Pope web page my favorite place on the Net. I have answered several requests for info from members of the mailing list by personal e-mail so there is more activity than it looks like going on, Ginger. Has anyone heard of Paul H. Worley (unclepaul@worldnet.att.net)? He has a huge database on past residents of Pope County and has helped me out with my surname research. He doesn't have the database on line so would have to answer your requests by snail-mail. Have I missed other people besides Sherry Miller and Cindy Pegg who are doing look-ups? Opal Roberts

I have the 1910 Stonefort, Saline Co, IL Census (from the tapes at the FHC, since no one has ever transcribed this one last time I checked), and I will do lookups from it. I will attempt to at least do an "every name" index for it in the very near future. I am also planning on transcribing it for the Saline Co web site. Stonefort sits on the border of Saline, Pope, and Williamson Counties. Happy Searchin', Sherry Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:33:16 -0800 From: "Opal A. Roberts" <oaroberts@centuryinter.net> Reply-to: oaroberts@centuryinter.net Organization: CENTURYinter.net To: "Pope Co. Mailing list" <ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Look-ups Hi All, I have the Pope County History books, Volumes I & II, and will look up names for anyone. They are not everyname indexed so can only give info on surname used in the articles. So many of my ancestors were in Pope County that I find the Pope web page my favorite place on the Net. I have answered several requests for info from members of the mailing list by personal e-mail so there is more activity than it looks like going on, Ginger. Has anyone heard of Paul H. Worley (unclepaul@worldnet.att.net)? He has a huge database on past residents of Pope County and has helped me out with my surname research. He doesn't have the database on line so would have to answer your requests by snail-mail. Have I missed other people besides Sherry Miller and Cindy Pegg who are doing look-ups? Opal Roberts My home page is: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5186/index.htm My Turberville and Lamunion Genealogy Page is: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/3237 Visit the IRC Friends' web pages at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5690/index.htm Surnames List: TURBERVILLE; TROUBLEFIELD; LAMUNION/MUNYON; CULLUM; REYNOLDS; MITCHELL; FARTHING; ATER; BURLILE; and many more!

Any BOICOURTS who happened to be in Pope County are mine! Here are a few that I know about: BOICOURT, George P. b. 1861 Golconda, Pope Co., IL m. Margaret L. DREIER BOICOURT, Charles Sylvester b. 1870 Golconda, Pope Co., IL m. Mildred JOYNER BOICOURT, John Mathis m. Elsa SMYTHE abt 1839/40 ? m. Elenar M. RICHEY Jan 13, 1842 Pope Co. m Jane Pell PAISLEY June 21, 1857 Pope Co. m Melissa Ann SCRANTON Jan 8, 1873 Pope Co. I have lots of information on John Mathis Boicourt's lineage, but know nothing about the ladies he was married to. Any connections? Hugs from forelorn and tree-damaged Omaha, NE Jean

Hi! I'm researching the Jacob and Christina Wysor Anderson family of Pulaski Co., VA, and found that several of their children's families located in Pope Co. Below is a breakdown of the families with the names of people I need more info on in all caps. I have a lot of info on the Anderson ancestry for anyone interested. children of Jacob and Christina Anderson who went to Pope Co- 1) George Anderson, b ca. 1781 Winchester, VA, died Nov. 12, 1814 in the War of 1812. He never went to Pope Co., but his widow, MARY BURTON, remarried Joseph Skiles/Skyles and went to Pope Co. Children: John, mar. Elizabeth Mullen; JAMES (no further info, I have no record of him in Pope Co.); Elizabeth, mar. Wesley Conley; WILLIAM, mar. MALISSA COSBY; ANNA, mar. JAMES WILLIAMS; ISAAC, mar. 1. ISABELLA BELFORD 2. MISSOURI PARMLEY BRIDGES. 2) MARGARET, born 8 Aug 1785 Winchester, VA, died ? Pope Co. She married 1. JOHN KING who died prior to 1830 in Pope Co. 2. Alexander Gray. Children: Drucilla King, mar. Joseph Butler; ANDERSON KING, mar 1. HAPPY VAUGHN 2. ELIZABETH GALLIMORE; Cynthia King, mar. Archer Hathaway; Alexander Nelson King mar. Permelia Shufflebarger; JOHN W. KING, mar. 1. ELIZABETH SHUFFLEBARGER 2. MARY MCGEE TOMLINSON. 3) MARY, born circa 1787, died circa 1850 Pope Co. She married ABRAHAM SHUFFLEBARGER. Children: Anna, mar. James Bailey; Granville, mar. Lucretia Woolwine; CATHERINE; Lucinda, mar. Samuel Morse; RUSSELL, mar. 4 times; Margaret, mar. John Whiteside; Abraham, mar. Permelia Whiteside; WILLIAM, mar. 1. POLLY JANE MORSE, 2. RHODA ANN MCCORKLE. 4) SUSANNA, born circa 1792, died 1835-1846 Pope Co. She married 1. JAMES THOMPSON, 2. JOHN HUGHES (d. 20 Jul 1835 Pope Co.). Children: Gordon Thompson, mar. 1. Jane Clemens, 2. Louisa Williams; John Thompson, mar Nancy Haven Cecil; CHRISTINA THOMPSON, mar. Lewis Lavender; Isabel Thompson, mar. John Gullett; JACOB A. THOMPSON, mar. MARY SHUFFLEBARGER; PRISCILLA HUGHES, mar. 1. Isaac Shufflebarger, 2. James McDonald; David Hughes, mar. 1. Sarah Ann Kimberlin, 2. Rebecca Douden. 5) Jacob Anderson, born 20 July 1796, died March 30, 1874 Pope Co. He married DRUCILLA (maiden name unknown). Children: DAVID, mar. MARY MCCOOL; Nancy, mar. James Wright; Rachel, mar. William Whiteside; Franklin, mar. Ellen McCool; Mary Jane, mar. Benjamin McCool. Any help with these families would be appreciated! Thanks, Mark

For those of you not already aware of it there is now a search engine for the USGenWeb archives. Check it out. http://searches.rootsweb.com/usgwarch.html Ginger gingerh@intrnet.net

Greetings. I am seeking information on the ancestors of James Madison HENDLEY, who married Frances Luretta CLANAHAN in Pope County on October 17, 1867. Frances Luretta was born in 1849 in Illinois (Pope County?) and James Madison was born in 1844. Lula Hendley, daughter of James and Frances born in 1869 in Pope County, was my grandmother. Lura was married to Clarence Henry Schumacher, who was born in Pope County in 1864. Clarence was the son of Dedrich Schumacher, Jr., and Julia BOOS Dyer SCHUMACHER. All of the families lived in the rural area around Golconda, the Schumachers near Stoney Point School. I would like to hear from anyone who might have information on any of these families, especially the HENDLEY line. Thanks. Jim Doody, Naperville, Illinois doodyj@aol.com