The following article is found in The Herald and Torch Light Newspaper, Hagerstown, Maryland December 19, 1877. It tells of a group of Ogle County, IL residents who returned by train to visit their families in Washington County, MD where they were originally from. The names read like a census of Beaver Creek/Smoketown. Hope this helps someone. Ho for Hagerstown! --Last Tuesday was a lively day among the "Washington Co." folks who reside in this vicinity. By the enterprise of D.L. Miller and W.S. Knowlton, General Traveling Agent of the Baltimore & Ohio R.R., a car of that road was in waiting at the depot for the excursionists to Hagerstown, labeled "For the Pike," and though the morning was stormy and disagreeable, a crowd had gathered to see them off. The following is a list of those from this vicinity who took the train here: John T. Alsip, Andrew Brown, John H. Bowers, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bowers, Albert Bowers, M. Bowers, Alice Bowers, Ida Bowers, Ella Bowers, David Beard, George Cox, W.M. Cox, David D. Cox, Frank Cox, Jacob Cox, Mattie S. Cox, Jane A. Cox, Sarah Detrow, Albert Funk, D.K. Haupt, Charles Hockensmith, John Hockensmith, Thos. M. Kaylor, John S. Lantz, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob McKenzie, D.W. Muck, Elizabeth Muck, J.H. Rock, Mahlon Stouffer, Mr. Hettie Welty, Florence Welty, G.F. Winter, Mrs. Sarah Win! ter, Florence Welty, G.F. Winter, Mrs. Sarah Winders and five children, John Yessler and Henry Ziegenfuss. At Dixon the following additional passengers were received: Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Dupey, Minnie Dupey, Mr. and Mrs. N. Bittner, Ida Bittner, Frank Bittner, John Morrison, Mary Morrison, Amos Troutman, Lewis Troutman, John Uhl, Emma Uhl, and Hiram Will, in all 56 jolly people. The party were accompanied to Chicago by Messrs. Knowlton and Miller, who saw them off on the evening train, and they are now without doubt safe at their old homes.--Ogle County Press. Cindy Hoffman