Please reply to Julie if anyone has information. Yea, my family didn't talk about the ggggrandfather who murdered someone during the CW period - everyone thot he was killed in the CW. Newspaper articles showed different. Drunken fight. Might try to find some newpapers on microfilm. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/address.htm#newspapers You can order these newspaper films thru interlibrary loan from below IL State His Library at your library and see if you can find an obit or an article about his death. http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/generes.htm#NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM At this LDS Library Catalog site: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchcatalog.asp copy and paste the following url in and you will find all microfilm you can order at your nearest LDS History Center on Rock Island County, lots of em. (yep, it will copy and paste into your browser window) http://www.familysearch.org/fhlc/supermainframeset.asp?display=local itydetails&subject=199278&subject_disp=Illinois,_Rock_Island&columns =*,180,0 gf From: JulieBskt@aol.com Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:33:47 EDT Subject: Re: [ILROCKIS-L] cemetery office address To: glofra@townsqr.com X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows sub 11 I would also be interested in knowing the address....and how old the cemetery is....if the burials go back to 1870? I am looking for the burial of my gg grandfather, Pierce B. Bissell who died...according to family history,...about 1870....burial place unknown. He owned land in Hampton Township as a land grant purchaser in 1839...sold the land and moved to Joliet in 1850...and then the family moved back to Hampton about 1853. Pierce was listed in the 1860 census as head of household...but occupation was now a peddlar instead of a cooper.. and..he was listed as "insane due to religious excitement... ..In addition, .while they had had children almost each year or so of their marriage, his wife, only 30 years of age in 1853...did not have another child after their return to Rock Island and Pierce never owned land in his name again after their return. I have wondered if Pierce was really living there...or if the peddlar occupation was just a good excuse for him to ~not be at home~. However, other family members don't want to hear that idea. It seems pretty logical to me. Most of the rest of the family all pulled up and moved to western Iowa about 1874, including Pierce's wife, Sarah (Van Boskirk/Van Buskirk). His oldest son, Richard , did name one of his children Samuel Pierce Bissell, so it doesn't appear that there was an estrangement between father and children...but maybe they were shielded from the real truth. Any ideas out there for possible burial sites for Pierce....or how I should next proceed? Members of my family have searched for Pierce's grave site... his parentage or sibblings, for years....all with no luck. I welcome all suggestions. Julie Bissell Tupker