Bill: Is this actually Diverman or Diveron - there is a Diveron, small farming town close to Springfield. Marilyn - Fla. Bill Hartner wrote: > Posted on: Sangamon County, Il Query Forum > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Sangamon/11937 > > Surname: SYSON > ------------------------- > > I have a 1920 IL, Sanagamon County, Diverman Village, census record for > Albert Syson and Olive Syson. ED 185, sheet 3B. > > Q: Does Diverman Village still exist or has it been absorbed by Springfield > ? > > Q: Albert Syson listed his occup. as Eterbiarian (sp) in the coal mining > industry. Anyone know what an Eterbiarian (sp) does ? > > Also, I am interested in any info for SYSON in IL/IN/MI. > > Thanks, > > Bill Hartner > Austin, Texas > > ==== ILSANGAM Mailing List ==== > Search the Index to the 1904 Sangamon County History at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsangam/histdex.htm

Posted on: Sangamon County, Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Sangamon/11937 Surname: SYSON ------------------------- I have a 1920 IL, Sanagamon County, Diverman Village, census record for Albert Syson and Olive Syson. ED 185, sheet 3B. Q: Does Diverman Village still exist or has it been absorbed by Springfield ? Q: Albert Syson listed his occup. as Eterbiarian (sp) in the coal mining industry. Anyone know what an Eterbiarian (sp) does ? Also, I am interested in any info for SYSON in IL/IN/MI. Thanks, Bill Hartner Austin, Texas

Today my column is at the request of Shirley Treadway, a reader.  She has wondered at the old jewelry items found at auctions, flea markets, antique shops…and the story such a piece could tell.  She asked me to take the questions she had, and then weave a story.  And so I have… The Wedding Band (from the "Sunday Afternoon Rocking" series) 1835 The day Daniel placed the gold band on Jane's finger, she twisted and turned it, gazing with wonder upon it and proud that her husband had kept his word.  They had married in North Carolina and spent the equivalent of their honeymoon traveling through Cumberland Gap and then down the river by flat boat. Well she remembered the evening of the promise, when he took her aside at a brush arbor meeting, and she knew by the determination in his stance and the serious set of his jaw, that he had come to a decision.  "There ain't nothing for me here, Jane.  And I am aiming to leave.  I want you to leave with me.  I have not much to give you, but one day I will have. And when I have made my place, one day I will put a ring on your finger."  And so they had married…without a ring. She made him a promise the day he kept his.  "I will never take it off." 1866 Jane called Tom, her youngest son to her bedside, the day he announced he would be marrying Lavinia.  Well she knew Tom's circumstances…and her own.  "Tom," she told him, "You got five youngins to raise and good it is Lavinia will take your family on.  But I expect you have no money for a ring, and so I want you to hear me out.  I promised your Papa I will never remove this ring while I am yet living, and I will not.  But when I am gone, I am telling you to remove it.  And place it on Lavinia's finger.  You make her a promise, same as your Papa made me.  You have not much to give her, but this ring is a promise you will stick by her same as she has promised to stick by your youngins." 1895 Lavinia stuck by Tom's family. She raised them, and she raised the ones she and Tom brought into the world.  And Tom kept his promise.  He never had a great deal materially to give her, but he stuck by her, same as she stuck by his family.  All of her young years, Martha watched the golden band glinting in the sun, the light of a fire, as Lavinia worked.  She thought as the years passed how strange it was that the band never lost its gleam, its luster…when the hands that wore them told such a different story.  Lavinia's busy hands, the hands the children watched kneading dough, firmly grasping a hoe, determined in their attack of a wash board…slowly changed as the years went on.  They went from smooth and soft, to reddened and rough, and finally the busy hands lay gently clasped, wrinkled and work-worn, on a chest that grew quiet.   Martha put the ring away. 1915 Molly loved to sift through the bits of treasures in Mama's trunk, and sometimes if Mama was not too busy, she would sit beside her and tell her the stories of the treasures.  The pretty blue silk covered box, she told her, was from the pie supper where she met Papa, and the Indian head penny was what her uncle had given her the day she was born.  And the wedding ring that just fit on Molly's thumb was her grandmother's.  "It was my Mama's," Martha told her, "And it was my Papa's mother's before that. It came with a promise each time it was passed, and the day I kept it, I decided on a promise of my own.  It will be passed right on, Molly, and each time the stories of the promises can be told.  It is the story of our family in this place.  One day the ring will be yours."  Molly, raised her bright blue eyes to meet her Mama's, and furrowed her eyebrows in concentration.  "Then, Mama," she proclaimed, "I promise to give it to my own little girl, and tell her all about Samuel and Jane, and the flat boat.  And about Tom and Lavinia, and the poor little children without a mama she raised." 1955 Molly never had children, and so she never kept her promise.  She kept it tucked away and now and then would see it and think perhaps she should tell the story to someone, perhaps Nancy, but somehow that time never evolved.  It was her niece who cleared out the home Molly had known, and distributed first one thing and then another to those she thought could use it, keeping only the things she would find useful herself.  When she came upon the wedding ring, she wondered where it had come from, for Molly had never married. It could not have been Martha's for Martha was buried in hers.  Shrugging her shoulders, Nancy pocketed it and dropped it in her jewelry box, never intending to wear it, but thinking perhaps one day she would have it melted down and something made of it. 1995 With Mother in the nursing home, and it obvious she could never come back home, all Jim knew to do was to clear out her apartment.  The bills at the nursing home were outrageous, and there was no sense wasting what little money she had on utilities and upkeep for something she was not likely to ever return to again.  He saw no reason to upset her with his decision, and so did not tell her of her plans.  He quietly cleared out her belongings, storing some, and selling others.  Her care fund did not swell a great deal with the sales, but enough to help.  She did have some pieces of jewelry that fetched a fair price, and a few that really were worth little, but he sold them as a lump.  He saw no reason not to do so, as he had no wife and no daughters. His brothers assured him the pieces meant nothing to them. Nancy died and never knew her things were not still as she had left them.  She could not have told the story of the ring anyway. 2001 Shirley stood in front of the jewelry case at an antique mall.  A visit to such a place was as much a walk through time as reading a historical novel, she thought…for when she held in her hands the bits and pieces of past lives, she could not help but wonder the stories they could tell.  And so it was, a wedding ring gleamed softly in the light from a nearby window.  And these were the thoughts she had, and the thoughts she wrote to me: "Obviously well worn. Was there really 'romance' in the eyes of both the bride and groom when he slipped it on her finger? How much did it originally cost? Hundreds of minuscule scratches could each tell a story of the original wearer of that gold wedding ring. How old is it, really? Did it remain on her finger when the meals were cooked, biscuit dough was kneaded?  Was it there when clothes were hand washed on an old scrub board? Our great and great-great grandmothers could tell a story, but our imaginations are vivid as we look upon or hold one of these priceless rings. Why do descendants, sometimes, inherit something like this, and sell it at a flea market, or worse yet, throw it away because it may not look like much?" Just a bit of imagining…from both Shirley and myself, jan Copyright ©2001JanPhilpot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (Note: Afternoon Rocking messages are meant to be passed on, meant to be shared...simply share though e-mail as written without alterations...and in entirety

Adrianne, As far as I know at this time there is no connection between Mary Eva Swigart and any of the Hunters I am aware of. Bu tthat might change somewhere along the road. Can you be more specific as to who she married, when and where? Dave H.

Dave, Do you have any information on the the Earnest families? I have a Mary Eva Swigart who married a Hunter. Is that any relation to you? Thank you. Adrianne vidal

Posted on: Sangamon County, Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Sangamon/2012 Surname: Fisher, Hunsaker, Reinbach, Dessau, Hutchison ------------------------- Do not reply to the old e-mail address in this old post. Please note my new e-mail address is bdm3c@mindspring.com I'm still searching for the parents of John B. Fisher and Nancy D. Webb. My father was raised in Loami, as was his father, Richard A. (Allen) Fisher and his father, Hamlet Webb Fisher. Grandpa Richard A. was apparently named after the doctor who delivered him in 1888. Does anyone know of a Dr. Allen?

Posted on: Sangamon County, Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Sangamon/2010 Surname: DOUGLAS, REARDON, WELLS, McPEAK, COBB, POLLOCK, HENDERSON, RECORD ------------------------- Hello I have NO info on this James DOUGLAS except he married my Emma REARDON, born Calhoun Co MI we believe, and they married in August 09, 1868 00003233 is the Lic, no Emma was born 1845-50 and her father was TIMOTHY, no data, her siblings we have found so far; Dennis William Reardon, served Civil War MI, died in Chautauqua Co NY b ca 1842 died June 15, 1884 as a result of his wounds wife was Olive Augusta COBB My G G Grandparents JUSTICE or JUSTUS Reardon,b ca 1836 married to Clara WELLS in Sangamon, April 18, 1866 also probably to a RUTH he died 1893 in CENTRALIA Illinois SILAS Reardon Married to Minnie M POLLOCK and also to Eva Unknown and also to Jennie HENDERSON ALVAH or ALVA Reardon married to Serepta RECORD Alva Reardon Claimed Residence in Calhoun County Enlist Date Enlist Place Enlist Rank Enlist Age 05 August 1861 Marshall, MI Priv 33 Served Michigan Enlisted E Co. 6th Inf Reg. MI disch disability at Camp Williams, LA on 15 October 1862 Source: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers 1861-65 Abbreviation: MIRoster Published by on 1903 Reardon Alva E 6 Michigan H. Art'y Private Private 000545 0034 00001690 JAMES Reardon m to Elizabeth McPEAK I have info to share and would like ANY info on any of these Dee In Chautauqua Co NY

Posted on: Sangamon County, Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Sangamon/2009 Surname: REARDON, WELLS, DOUGLAS ------------------------- Hello I am looking for ANY info on Justice or Justus REARDON, born about 1836 who married in SANGAMON Co Illinois to Clara WELLS April 18, 1866 He served in Sangamon Co in the Civil War, PVT A 4 IL US CAV CON He is the brother of EMMA REARDON born ca 1850 who married same county to James DOUGLAS April 18, 1866 and they are the siblings of another Civil War Soldier who served in Michigan, Dennis William RERDON, my G G Grandfather, and I seek any and all info on these; Justice had a pension granted, and his widow then was named RUTH ; Widow Ruth REARDON this Justice served same company as above; he must have remarried; Ruth A. was a widow in August 24 1893 and filed pension application no 581917 certificate no, 395837 in Illinois Dee in Chautauqua Co NY

Yes. I've checked the Illiopolis website, and got the centenial book. Haven't got to contact Kinehan Rule yet, but hope to soon. I do live in Sangamon County (Spfld). Just hoping to get info that deals with the early settlers who lived there prior to civil war (at least for now). I'm curious as to why so and so settled there, why some moved elsewhere, who married whom, how did the families prosper over the years, what were the farm sizes, what were the family sizes. Some of this I will be able to get from census and land records, but I'm hoping for some personal touch. By way of example, James Hunter and family came to Illiopolis in Dec 1828. I don't know what the weather was like that winter, but I can't imagine coming here to a wilderness with a family at the beginning of winter (hopefully it wasn't like this last Dec), with no home, no town to just run into to pick up something for supper. At this point it looks like they were the second settlers in the township so there were no nearby neighbors. There were some over in Mechanicsburg. Did they intially build a 3 sided cabin as many did, just to get some shelter. How much did they have to have in the way of supplies to get from KY to here and last until they could either get more, live off the land, or grow crops? Do we have any idea how much the ague affected people in this particular part of the county? Was it the same, better or worse than elsewhere? Another early settler, William Bridges, who was originally from South Carolina, settled in Buffalo Hart for a while but then moved to Illiopolis? What was the attraction? What induced him to sell his farm and move, even tho it was only a few miles? I've traced some of the early setter families but not all yet. I wonder what became of them. Who moved on? Why? Where did they go? When did they go? Who went with them or did they go on their own? These are some of the things I'm hoping to find. Not all the answers will be available from records such as birth, marriage, death, land, church, etc. Some of it will be family tales. Thanks, Dave Hunter Nicea@aol.com

The Keplinger pictures and the Miller picture were provided by Larry and are part of the "miracle". The Henderson picture was shared by another list member and not part of the first group.

All online at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/index.html or http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/p2index.html 1879 Greene Co. bios: Hunnicutt (2), Carson More Greene Co. Coroner File Entries thanks to Penny 1881 Sangamon bios: Miller (7) 1891 Sangamon bios: Creighton, Dawson, Graham 1904 Sangamon bio: Desper 1906 Morgan bios: Baptist, Kinman 1912 Sangamon bios: Irwin (2), McConnell, Saner, Sanner, Welch (2), Workman (9) 1915 Cass bio: Milstead Obituaries for Sanner (2) & Mellor (2) And the miracle involves 5 new Keplinger pictures, 1 Miller picture and a picture of D. Pat Henderson. One of our list members has been researching his Keplinger line. A truck driver found a box of old pictures in a trash bin along a Muskogee Oklahoma turnpike. He was familiar with Geneological research and researchers, so retrieved the pictures. In January he posted a note on GenForum about the Keplinger pictures ( several of them had Keplinger names on the back). Larry found the notice, retrieved the pictures and at least the 5 which are identified turned out to be his ancestors. Over 100 years after the pictures were taken in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois - then lost or thrown away along an Oklahoma turnpike all these years later, they've found their way home to family.......a miracle I'd say. He is looking for help in identifying the Miller picture (the name is on the back), but he hasn't been able to discover yet who the man is, though he is probably a relative. Thanks to everyone who has been sharing obituaries, tombstone pictures, family photos, etc. I love having you all participate in helping to make the MAGA web site better and more helpful. Am waiting to see who will share pictures/obits and help determine the next cemetery I redo, adding the additional documentation - everything someone shares means one less picture to take or one less obit to try and find. Enjoy and thanks again to those of you who have been sharing. Shirley

Posted on: Sangamon County, Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Sangamon/2008 Surname: SMITH, PETERS, CUMMINGS, WHITLOCK, DRENNAN, WITHROW ------------------------- Thomas SMITH (1769-1841) born in Amherst Co. VA married Elizabeth PETERS (1772-1852)in KY in 1793. Both died at Sangamon, IL. He was the son of my 4th Gr-Grandparents, Thomas and Juda SMITH, who came to Mercer Co. KY from VA in abt. 1790. Children of Thomas Jr. and Elizabeth PETERS-SMITH were: Margaret Cummings, Richard, Thomas, Hannah Whitlock, John, Ruth Drennan, Mary Withrow,, Sarah, and Samuel. I would appreciate any information on this SMITH family.

Hi, I'm new to this list and was hoping someone might be able to help me. Does anyone have information on the family of Sarah Ferguson who is listed on the 1850 Sangamon County, Illinois census with son Wm. I., age 25, attorney at law? I am trying to determine who her husband was. Could it be Benjamin Ferguson, son of William Ferguson? Benjamin Ferguson was born in Bradford County, Pennsylvania around 1805. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Debi Krych Southlake, Texas Researching Ferguson, Goodlink, Boone, Hornback, Ferriell, Bole

Posted on: Sangamon County, Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Il/Sangamon/2007 Surname: Higginbotham ------------------------- Anyone know where I might find burial records for the cemetery at Pleasant Plains, Sangamon Co IL. My gg grandfather died there in 1863. Is there a church or caretaker address for this cemetery? I hope to find the final resting place of James M. Higginbotham.

Hello, Ms. Kallman: I am a librarian at Mount Prospect Public Library in Mount Prospect, Illinois. We carry the State Journal-Register newspaper. I was able to find Anna M. Kervin's obituary by searching the Archives at the newspaper's Web site (www.sj-r.com). Her obituary appeared in the February 5, 2001 issue. I have a copy made a copy of it. If you could give me a mailing address, I could sent it to you. Best wishes in your searching! Anne Shaughnessy Local History/Genealogy Librarian (and native of Springfield, IL) --- KAKallman <kkallman@doitnow.com> wrote: > If any list member has access to the Springfield > paper in recent weeks, I am looking for my > great-aunt's obituary. She was Ann Kervin, born > 1909, and died in Springfield within the past month, > somewhere around Feb. 1, I believe. Thank you for > any help! > > Sincerely, > Kelly Kallman > > Looking for Sangamon families: Kervin, Kerin, > Rodems, Page, Cloney, Dirksen, Heffernan, McNamara > > > ==== ILSANGAM Mailing List ==== > Visit the Sangamon County Home page! Check out some > of the Calvary Cemetery readings in Springfield. > Send us your ancestors burial place. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsangam/cem-calvary.htm > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Posted on: Sangamon County, Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Il/Sangamon/2003 Surname: Taylor, Halbert ------------------------- I think that I am a descendent of this Isaac Taylor and Mary Halbert. Those names do occur in my family tree. If you'd like to know more, please email me privately. Thanks, Holly

Could you give me the dates on Susan Hendrix and perhaps the names of her parents? I lost 3 different Hendrix families back in PA and OH by 1850 and don't know where they went. Thanks. Jerilyn (clasping at straws) Jerilyn Lappin Koskan Cook Co., Illinois jlktrees@aol.com FTM user BREWER-Daniel Belmont, OH, Northumberland, Indiana and Jefferson, PA DAVIS/DAVIDSON-Marium/Mary b1803 Bucks, PA Mother Rachel Greene DUSATKO-Barbara, Anton late 1800s Butler, NE DYE-William, David, Daniel in Monroe, OH early 1800s. FISHER-Joseph, b abt 1805 OH, last Morgan, OH 1850. Wife Judith Lappin. Children John, Knight, Elizabeth, Thomas, Hannah, Mary, Rachel, Ruth GRAY-Ogden b 1850 Morgan, OH, d Fulton, IL. Children - Ogden, Lafayette, Mary A., Cornelius, Elizabeth, Rachel GREENE-Rachel, b abt 1770, Bucks, PA HANNA-Archibald, d 1793 Westmoreland, PA Children Hugh, William, Hannah, Mary (wed Robert Williams) KIRK-Elizabeth, Quaker, daughter Joseph Kirk/Judith Knight, wed Robert Lappin abt 1790. Chester & Fayette, PA Belmont, OH KOSKAN-Vaclav, b 1850s Czechoslovakia d Butler, NE LAPPIN-PA and OH late 1700s/1800s LEAK/LEEK-MD & Eastern, OH in late 1700s and 1800s MITCHELL-Thomas Mitchell, b 1770s Greene, PA -d Monroe, OH. Daughter Maria wed William Dye. MONROE-Nicholas Monroe, b PA, died Belmont, OH early 1850s. Children Curtis, William, John, Samuel, Mary (Hendershot), Eleanor (Maring), Rebecca (Murphy), Miller, George, Richard. MONTGOMERY-Daniel, d 1842 Vinton, OH Family to Wayne, IL Wife Alice Lappin, Children William, Mariah, John, Elizabeth, Rachel, Letticia, Ruth, Euphemia OATES-Sarah Elizabeth born Lewis, WV, adopted Samuel McCluster - to Decatur, KS Parents supposedly Elizabeth Puffenbarger/Benjamin Oates SLUSHER-Frederick, b PA, lived Monroe, OH, d Wayne, IL SMITH-Aaron 1755/Anna Foster Bucks, PA Children John, Amos, Hannah, Samuel, Charles, Mary STARBUCKS-John and Ann Lappin of Belmont, OH STARKEY - b 1810 PA, wed Belmont, OH TODD - Wm. & Rachel Lappin, d late 1800s Morgan, OH WADSWORTH-Alcinda, Martha, Wm., Rachel, Emily, Ruth b Belmont, OH

If any list member has access to the Springfield paper in recent weeks, I am looking for my great-aunt's obituary. She was Ann Kervin, born 1909, and died in Springfield within the past month, somewhere around Feb. 1, I believe. Thank you for any help! Sincerely, Kelly Kallman Looking for Sangamon families: Kervin, Kerin, Rodems, Page, Cloney, Dirksen, Heffernan, McNamara

Posted on: Sangamon County, Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Sangamon/2002 Surname: Isabella Frame ------------------------- We are trying to trace some of the Frame family from Scotland who lived in Thayer Illinois. Our Great Aunt Isabella Frame married a ? Brown and settled in Thayer. We visited with them in the late 1940's but my memory is dim. It is possible that her sisier Mary Frame who married a ? WSard also lived there. They came over From Scotland around 1888 with some cousinds named Summers. If you have any information let me know thanks

Posted on: Sangamon County, Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Il/Sangamon/2001 Surname: ------------------------- Dear John, Thank you for your information. I did not have a birthdate or burial for Susan Hendrix Taylor. From the information in Findagrave.com are you working on the Taylor family from Sangamon County? Susan Hendrix Taylor's younger brother John Hendrix was born in Sangamon county and married Caroline Taylor. I have some informaiton on this family if you would like it. Thank you again. Barbara