This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Vh.2ADE/812.4.1 Message Board Post: There is a listing of the Shelby County marriage of a William W. Sims and a Phoebe Wyatt in 1869 on the web from the Illinois State Archives. Illinois is one off the few states that lists on the Web all the marriages in most of its counties before 1900. Big Springs Township is one of the southern townships of Shelby County. The towns of Cowden and Herrick lie near that township. Herrick, Illinois is a small town in southern Shelby County near the border with Fayette County. Herrick has a website for locating the names of those buried in the many of the cemeteries near Herrick. The Shelby Genealogical Society has a lot of information in its building a block south of the Court House in Shelbyville, ILL. Go there in person and see what you can find!!