Hello Everybody, I need to ask for help ! How should I list this ? In 1915 was Jackson Parish, Louisiana ? Or Jackson Parish, East Feliciana County, Louisiana ? Which is correct for my records ? Thank you for your help ! Tonia

Hello Family, Anyone who is related to this family please contact me directly. Have some information on this family I will share ! Tonia

Seeking info on the parents , siblings and birth place of James William Taylor. He was on the 1860 Williamson CO IL census with son Chester age 1 and wife, Milly Malone Ray Taylor. This family was in Jackson CO IL in 1870 with children, Chester Taylor, William T Taylor, John L Taylor, Winfield Scott Taylor and James Henry Taylor. James William Taylor died in the 1870`s, his wife and children were on the 1880 Williamson CO IL census. All children became coal miners. Many of these family members are burried in the Hurricane Cemetery. Rita

--part1_de.4473da9.263c89ee_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_de.4473da9.263c89ee_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-za01.mx.aol.com (rly-za01.mail.aol.com [172.31.36.97]) by air-za01.mail.aol.com (v70.20) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:11:07 -0400 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [209.85.6.27]) by rly-za01.mx.aol.com (v71.10) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:10:33 -0400 Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA29412; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 06:07:26 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 06:07:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Wed Apr 26 06:07:23 2000 Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Diane Walsh" <[email protected]> Old-To: "ILSTCLAI-L" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:11:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Subject: [ILSTCLAI] NARA proposes increase in pension and land file copies Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1415 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Please read (originally published by Jack Brissee on the APG-L mail list 25 April 2000) The NARA proposal to revamp the system and fees for providing copies of Military Service Records, Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Files, and Pension Application Files has been published in the 25 April 2000 issue of the Federal Register. Public comment is invited and should be directed to NARA Regulation Comment Desk 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Fax: 301 713-7270 The comment period closes on 26 June 2000. NARA prefers that you use either the postal address or fax number to submit our comments rather than e-mail A complete copy of the Federal Register notice is available from the NARA Web site at http://www.nara.gov/nara/fees-pro.html. The proposed Reproduction Fee Schedule covers a number of items, but the the Military Service Records, and the Pension and Bounty-Land Warrants are of the greatest concern to genealogists. NARA proposes three major changes: 1. The NATF Form 80 would be discontinued, to be replaced by two new forms: NATF Form 85 to request both Bounty-Land Warrant application files and Pension files (more than 75 years old), and NATF From 86 to request Military Service Records (more than 75 years old). 2. For all three types of files, NARA would no longer send a selection of pages, but would send the complete file. This would eliminate the two-step process currently used and should be beneficial to most genealogists. 3. The fees for all three types of files would be raised. For Military Service Records the new fee would be $17.00, regardless of the number of pages included in the file. For Bounty-land Warrants the fee would be $17.25, again without regard to the number of pages. For Pension Files the fee would be $40.00, regardless of the number of pages. Finally, the proposal would go into effect on 1 September 2000, if approved. Many genealogists may consider the proposed fees to be excessive. NARA specifically invites comment on the proposed fee schedule. The FGS/NGS Records Preservation and Access Committee urges everyone who wants to comment to carefully read the full proposal before submitting comments. The proposed fees are intended to cover the actual cost of locating, copying and mailing the records, plus 10% as authorized by law, and are based on the average size of the files. NARA states that the average for Military Service Records and Bounty-land Applications is somewhere under 20 pages, while the average for full Pension Files is 105 pages. The FGS/NGS Records Preservation and Access Committee will be looking at the NARA proposal carefully, and will submit comments as appropriate. Individuals who would like to provide input to the Committee's evaluation are welcome to do so but are also encouraged to comment direct to NARA at the address given above. Comments for Committee consideration should be e-mailed to [email protected], or mailed to Federation of Genealogical Societies, Attention: RPAC, PO Box 200940, Austin, TX 78720-0940. In order for the Records Preservation and Access Committee to adequately evaluate such input it must be received by 26 May 2000. 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>And does anyone remember WJPF had Hank Wright, June Janis and Doug Hadley? ------------------- Definitely remember Hank Wright. Asked about him here some months ago, and several peoples' memories were better than mine. Bruce Wms

I remember my parents listening to Hank Wright, but I don't remember the other two. My 1st cousin, Bob Walker (or as the family called him, "Bobby Frank" worked there during high school. He went on to SIU, where he studied music/opera and later moved to Dallas, where he was a TV newscaster. It just so happened that he was there when J.F.K. was assassinated, and so he was thrust onto national television. I remember watching all the detailed coverage and suddenly seeing my cousin talking on televition! I couldn't believe it! He was also seen by ABC and was offered a position in NYC where he worked. I am not sure of his position in the beginning, but he later was the newscaster of ABC syndicated news on the hour every hour from NYC. Karen Barnes > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 12:42 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ILWILLIA] Remember? > > And does anyone remember WJPF had Hank Wright, June Janis and Doug > Hadley? > > Bob

I remember Dee Robb Gas Station in Herrin (or as we said, "Filling Station.") Karen Barnes > -----Original Message----- > From: sharon brown [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 2:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ILWILLIA] Dee and Fern Robbs > > Does anyone from Herrin, IL area remember Fern Robbs? I'd like to find > her > maiden name. > Sharon Robbs

And does anyone remember WJPF had Hank Wright, June Janis and Doug Hadley? Bob

Does anyone from Herrin, IL area remember Fern Robbs? I'd like to find her maiden name. Sharon Robbs

Hello Everyone, The Marion Civic Center (which used to be the old Orpheum theater) burned a few years back, along with the buildings that housed Bainbridge Jewelry & Boatright Electronics. That corner is now bare and awaiting a new Civic Center that is in the works. There is some type of business in the building where Cox's Hardware used to be. The Police Department is now in the old P. N. Hirsch bldg. The Bank of Marion is still in its bldg. I think Zwick's Shoe Store is still there. There are some businesses in most of the other buildings but I am not sure what they are as I am not on the Square very often because I don't live in the immediate vicinity anymore. I am pretty sure that S. Market is still brick, at least some of it. Beth Riley -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Mullins <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, April 24, 2000 11:07 PM Subject: [ILWILLIA] Southern Illinois babble >Okay Bruce, > >Sports generate communications of memories..... all things, sports, wars, >loves, antidotes and reminiscing about days gone by generate history. >Some topics that might be fun... > >Remember when they tore down the Marion Court House? It was hotly contested, >some people wanted to save that old building. I think they were right. It >would have made a beautiful museum. The tower in the Plaza is impressive, >but it's not the face of Marion that I remember. To me it's still the Marion >Square. > >Progress. What a concept! > >Is South Market Street still a brick road? > >What has happened to the Square now? Are there still major stores there. I >remember Grants, Ben Franklin, Bainbridge Jewelers, the Dotty Shop, Hotel >State, Illinois Brokerage, the Bank of Marion and the Gem Cafe and the steak >house. The horror would be that all the stores move out to a mall and >downtown becomes nothing but thrift shops. I always thought that downtown or >uptown should be the heart of a city. > >I haven't lived there since the early 70s but it is still home to me. My >folks were founding families of Williamson County. > >Jerry Mullins >PO Box 733 >Colfax, CA 95713 >(530)346-1022 >Researching: NORMAN/BAKER/SANDERS/THAXTON/MANN/HOPKINS > WADKINS/MULLINS/GROVES/RODDEN/COOK/BLYTHE >My Web Page : www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/6649 >email: [email protected] > > > >

I just read an article in Ancestry.com's newsletter about finding information from county poor house records. Were there any poor houses/farms in Williamson County in the early 1900s? Thanks for your help, Karen Vaughn [email protected] >^,,^<

Re-live the state championships at: http://www.marchmadness.org/records/yearly/index.htm I didn't find Tamms HS, but did find that Herrin reigned in '57, and Mt. Vernon in '49, '50 & '54. -Marcia BA wrote: > > Jerry Mullins' postcards from Egypt got me to thinking about stories and > histories that these could illustrate. That got me to thinking about stories > from Egypt. Does anybody remember, 40 or so years ago, when Tamms High > School won the Illinois state basketball championship? > > Altho I live in Lexington and am a student at U of Kentucky, I detest > basketball. They ram it down your throat here. They eat up Spike Lee movies > about basketball. This sort of fanaticism exists in Indiana, North Carolina, > and on and on. > > Well, there can’t be a better basketball story than Tamms HS beating the > best teams from Chicago, East St Louis and the rest of Illinois. Chicago had > a larger population back then than most of these “basketball” states have > now. And how big was Tamms, Illinois? The number I recall is 300, but I > forgot whether that was the total population or the school enrollment. Some > of those people must still be kicking. I’d like for them to get some mass > attention, and maybe draw some away from Kentucky. > > So it’s not Williamson County. It was only all over the news there. > > Bruce Wms.

Okay Bruce, Sports generate communications of memories..... all things, sports, wars, loves, antidotes and reminiscing about days gone by generate history. Some topics that might be fun... Remember when they tore down the Marion Court House? It was hotly contested, some people wanted to save that old building. I think they were right. It would have made a beautiful museum. The tower in the Plaza is impressive, but it's not the face of Marion that I remember. To me it's still the Marion Square. Progress. What a concept! Is South Market Street still a brick road? What has happened to the Square now? Are there still major stores there. I remember Grants, Ben Franklin, Bainbridge Jewelers, the Dotty Shop, Hotel State, Illinois Brokerage, the Bank of Marion and the Gem Cafe and the steak house. The horror would be that all the stores move out to a mall and downtown becomes nothing but thrift shops. I always thought that downtown or uptown should be the heart of a city. I haven't lived there since the early 70s but it is still home to me. My folks were founding families of Williamson County. Jerry Mullins PO Box 733 Colfax, CA 95713 (530)346-1022 Researching: NORMAN/BAKER/SANDERS/THAXTON/MANN/HOPKINS WADKINS/MULLINS/GROVES/RODDEN/COOK/BLYTHE My Web Page : www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/6649 email: [email protected]

-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] >NO.. dont remember that one, BUT, I do remember, I >believe 1946, In the Benton regional, Mounds and West Frankfort were playing >in the Championship. West Frankfort was #1 in the state, and was seeded to >with the state. Well, WF lost that game >to Mounds,. . . ------------------------ Benton, eh? Remember the Peters triplets in the ’80s? They’re my cousins. Anyway, I think it’s pretty impressive that in the 1940s and ’50s, little hick towns like Mounds, W. Frankfort, Herrin, Cobden and Tamms could put together high-school athletic teams of world class. I mean, if you beat Chicago......most teams in the world never even get close to an opponent that large. Since we never had the numbers, we must have had some tradition of coaching — and sportsmanship, or teamwork or diplomacy, or something. A town of a few hundred could not take on a city of several millions, if physical strength and numbers were all there is to it. Because it has been done by people who probably still live in Egypt, I imagine it may be worthwhile to write down their comments on how it was done. I hope I have not opened a floodgate to sports babble. I was trying to tap some memories from the past, which were made by people that you can probably still talk to. Sports is (are) only an example. There are other aspects of southern Illinois heritage that need to be recorded and passed on. Right now I'd like to have a barrel of apple cider from Cobden or Alto Pass or Eckerd’s. It was Jerry Mullins who got me off on this tangent. If you haven’t visited his postcard site, do. You can right-click on them and send them to people. Save some for yourself, and meditate. Bruce Wms

Hi Bruce, Don't forget the Cobden Appleknocker, 2nd place I believe in the 60's in a very very close final game. Also, Herrin Tigers, 1957... Larry ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Court St is in Marion, of course. I didn't mean to leave that out..

>Bruce.... Remember the Cobden Appleknockers? Now there is another story of >David and Big "G"! --------------------------- No I hadn’t, until you mentioned it, and now it rings a bell. Pretty close to the same time as Tamms, wasn’t it? Suddenly the generation of Davids I was thinking of has doubled in a matter of minutes. Are there local-history newsgroups around Tamms and Cobden? Gotta be, if I found one around Johnston City! So somebody pass the ball, please. I’m only 5-7. Bruce Wms

Bruce.... Remember the Cobden Appleknockers? Now there is another story of David and Big "G"! Jerry Mullins PO Box 733 Colfax, CA 95713 (530)346-1022 Researching: NORMAN/BAKER/SANDERS/THAXTON/MANN/HOPKINS WADKINS/MULLINS/GROVES/RODDEN/COOK/BLYTHE My Web Page : www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/6649 email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: BA <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 5:29 PM Subject: [ILWILLIA] Tamms State Champs > Jerry Mullins' postcards from Egypt got me to thinking about stories and > histories that these could illustrate. That got me to thinking about stories > from Egypt. Does anybody remember, 40 or so years ago, when Tamms High > School won the Illinois state basketball championship? > > Altho I live in Lexington and am a student at U of Kentucky, I detest > basketball. They ram it down your throat here. They eat up Spike Lee movies > about basketball. This sort of fanaticism exists in Indiana, North Carolina, > and on and on. > > Well, there can’t be a better basketball story than Tamms HS beating the > best teams from Chicago, East St Louis and the rest of Illinois. Chicago had > a larger population back then than most of these “basketball” states have > now. And how big was Tamms, Illinois? The number I recall is 300, but I > forgot whether that was the total population or the school enrollment. Some > of those people must still be kicking. I’d like for them to get some mass > attention, and maybe draw some away from Kentucky. > > So it’s not Williamson County. It was only all over the news there. > > Bruce Wms. > > >

Jerry Mullins' postcards from Egypt got me to thinking about stories and histories that these could illustrate. That got me to thinking about stories from Egypt. Does anybody remember, 40 or so years ago, when Tamms High School won the Illinois state basketball championship? Altho I live in Lexington and am a student at U of Kentucky, I detest basketball. They ram it down your throat here. They eat up Spike Lee movies about basketball. This sort of fanaticism exists in Indiana, North Carolina, and on and on. Well, there can’t be a better basketball story than Tamms HS beating the best teams from Chicago, East St Louis and the rest of Illinois. Chicago had a larger population back then than most of these “basketball” states have now. And how big was Tamms, Illinois? The number I recall is 300, but I forgot whether that was the total population or the school enrollment. Some of those people must still be kicking. I’d like for them to get some mass attention, and maybe draw some away from Kentucky. So it’s not Williamson County. It was only all over the news there. Bruce Wms.

Well, I have more family from Williamson Co. that I knew about. My grandparents Dolph and Daisy Waters lived on Court Street from around 1924-1942. My mother, Freeda Waters, went to high school there and opened a beauty shop, also on Court Street. It was over their grocery store (probably Waters Grocery). After my grandparents divorce, Grandmother moved to Pope Co. to live near us. That was probably in 1952. My grandfather, Dolph Waters, lived at Creal Springs from about 1945 until he died in 1971. He owned another grocery store. His daughter, Ida Waters, of course lived there too and attented Marion High School. Grandpa's first cousin was Henry Waters. His wife was Texi, but I don't know her maiden name. They had two daughters, Pauline Spiller and Dorothy Spencer. Dorothy worked at Western Union. Pauline was married to Clyde Spiller and had a beauty shop in her home. Dorothy had a daughter named Linda, born around 1963. Pauline had three children, Susie, Clyda, and Tom Spiller. My dad, Buel Robbs, had two cousins in Herron, Ill. One owned a gas station. They were John and Dee Robbs. Also in Creal Springs was Alex and Matilda Broadway Robbs. I have to think about how I am related to them, but they were my cousins. Alex died in 1932. I think Matilda was sister in law to my great-great-aunt and Alex was a Robbs cousin. If anyone has knowledge of any of these people, I'd love to hear from you.