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    1. [ILWOODFORD] Jerome Knapp, wandering brickmaker
    2. Kristy Gravlin
    3. There was an old log house torn down there in Woodford County at one time. My mom saw about it in the paper. We have always wondered if they were able to determine who built the chimney (assuming it was made with bricks.) We don't know how far afield our Jerome Knapp roamed from Perry County, IL. He had a stamp for the bricks he made for chimney building -- jk run together. We heard he built the first real red brick chimney in Missouri so he was a wanderer... in fact, he wandered all the way from VT to IL with his tools carried by his cow. I guess that is why at age 45 he wandered off to the Civil War...adventure seeking. Well, the Battle of Shiloh put an end to his wandering; he is buried at the national cemetery there. Kristy and Syl

    03/21/2002 12:43:50