Well, I called my Aunt Rachel Techau,87 years old, that lived in Hannibal, Missouri and taught school there for many years.....she said that across the river and up the road a little ways, not right across the river.....there was, not sure if it still is....a little hotel, a little fruit stand, and a couple or three houses....and she thinks that was called East Hannibal, Mo......but she does not think it has been any bigger......now there was a small Denney's resturant that was built there.....I don't know if the 1993 floods wiped it out or not.......... I remember all of this but I had always heard it just called by the junction of the two roads.....I can't remember the name of the junction now.... I talked to my mom who is 85 years old, she said she had never heard of it being called East Hannibal....she had heard it called a junction.....the closest she remembers is Hull, Ill. The area on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River is all flat...and I have always been told it was the old river bottom and that the bluffs were the former banks.....then they built wing dams in the river to channel the water to the center to make it deeper so barge traffic could go through even in the low water months.......I used to have a map of the wing dams, as they are dangerous to pleasure boaters as in low water times they are just below the water surface and a boater can go over them fast and drag the motor on them and wreck....they have boys but you still need to know the river if you are out in it to be safe......it is a mighty river and you have to know how to handle it to be safe....many deaths in it.... In 1993 WGEM TV station in Quincy, Illinois made a tape and sold it of the major flood that year....I do not know if they are still selling it or not, they have a web site so you can email them and ask them.... The flooding of 1993 wiped out West Quincy, Mo. and many small towns, the government made some major decisions......they decided to not rebuild some of the lower level towns, I think not any below 500 or 700 feet above sea level.....and they decided to buy out the farm land and houses close to the Mississippi River and "let the river reclaim the land" rather than paying these people flood disaster money every year to rebuild and refurnish their homes.. Shirley Strosaker > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ellen Elliott" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 6:47 AM > Subject: [MO] Location of HANNIBAL - all in MO or any in IL? Surname: SEEMON > > > > > > I have an obit from 1935 which states an ancester was born in Hannibal > > Illnois in 1856. > > > > My current atlas doesn't show any Hannibal spilling over into Illinois so > it > > seems even > > less likely that it did in 1856. Anyone know of this? > > > > > > Peter SEEMON born October 27, 1856, son of another Peter. > > > > Anyone with any connections, please respond. Thanks. > > > > > > ==== Missouri Mailing List ==== > > To subscribe to MO-ROLLCALL-L: send a message containing > > only the word "subscribe" to > > [email protected] > > > > ============================== > > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > >