In Memoriam - Joe Boone

Joe Marshall Boone

Born: April 27, 1956, Fairfield, Wayne Co., IL

Died: May 23, 2025, Fairfield, Wayne Co., IL

Married: September 10, 1974 Barbara Robertson  

No children

Ahnentafel:

1. Joe Boone b. 1956, d. 2025

2. Olen Boone b. 1918, d. 2009

3. Mary Katherine Vaughan, b. 1927, d. 1992

Joe Marshall Boone, 69, of Fairfield, passed away at 9:33 am on Friday, May 23, 2025 at his home.

Joe was born on April 27, 1956 in Fairfield, IL to Olen and Mary (Vaughan) Boone. He graduated from Merriam Grade School, Fairfield Community High School and Frontier Community College, earning his associate in science degree. On September 10, 1974, he maried the love of his life, Barbara (Robertson) Boone, in Trenton, TN.

Book Purge - Illinois

Clay County Genealogical Society. Clay Roots, Vol. XXI, Louisville, IL: Clay County Genealogical Society, 2010.

p. 64 5 generation chart of Mary Ann Bryan translated as ahnentafel

1. Mary Ann Bryan, b. 13 Dec 1923 Clay Co., IL, d. [FindaGrave indicates burial in Ingraham Cemetery] md. 12 Aug. 1945 Champaign, IL Garland Walter Heinrich Poehler

2. Norva Cassel Bryan b. 9 Apr 1887 Clay Co., IL, d. 13 Dec. 1971 Bible Grove Twp., Clay Co., IL, md. 12 Dec. 1906 Clay Co., IL

3. Anna Colborn b. 30 Aug. 1886 Richland Co., IL, d. 23 June 1975 Clay Co., IL

4. Wesley Ingraham Bryan b. 14 Aug. 1852 Bible Grove Twp., Clay Co. Il, d. 16 Oct. 1925 Clay Co., IL md. 22 Aug 1875 Clay Co., IL

5. Catherine Isabel Smith b. 21 Apr 1858 Clay Co., IL, d. 13 Jan 1931 Clay Co., IL

6. Thomas Jefferson Colborn b. 10 Mar 1852 Richland Co., IL, d. 11 Apr 1923 Richland Co., IL md. 19 Nov. 1877 Richland Co., IL

Book Purge - Capon Valley, Vol. II, Part 2

Pugh, Maud. Capon Valley: Its Pioneers & Their Descendants 1698 to 1940, Vol. II, Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, Inc., 2000.  Originally printed in 1946.

p. 281 Brills, Confederate Veterans

Company K, Captain Pyles, 18th Virginia Cavalry:

• Joseph Brill
• Isaac Brill
• L.S. Brill
• W.P. Brill
• L.P. Brill

Company E, 24rd Virginia Cavalry, J. Mort, Captain - Harrison Brill

Company D, 11th Virginia Cavalry, E.H. McDonald, Captain - Mathias Brill killed at Darksville

Company B, 18th Virginia Cavalry, George W. Stump, Captain: 

• Joseph Brill
• John H. Brill
• Morgan Brill, killed
• perhaps others not reported

Book Purge - Capon Valley, Vol. II, Part 1

Capon Bridge, West Virginia

Pugh, Maud. Capon Valley: Its Pioneers & Their Descendants 1698 to 1940, Vol. II, Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, Inc., 2000.  Originally printed in 1946.

p. 20 Fort Edwards: This fort was built by Joseph Edwards on his 400-acre ract, lying on both sides of Capon River, where Capon Bridge now [p. 21] stands. It was completed in or before the year 1748. It stood about one-half mile below where the old North Western Turnpike at a later date crossed Capon near a ferryboat crossing.

This Fort, located on the west side of the river, enclosed a never-failing spring of water, the same spring used by the family of Mr. Fenton Riley at this time, who lives north of and near Capon Bridge High School.

Fort Edwards must have been large, considering that it was for some years the only safe shelter from the Indians nearer than Wincheser and, it is thought, saved nearly all the families then in the whole Capon Valley from slaughter during the early Indian warfare. 

The 400 acres was willed by Edwards to Samuel and Jesse Pugh, his grandson, the latter being the great grandfather of Mr. Amos L. Pugh, and he former the reputed founder of Capon Bridge, Settlement "the Ferry" - Mary Edwards, daughter of Joseph Edwards, married Robert Pugh, father of Samuel and Jessie. They, Robert and Mary, were later parents of ten other children, twelve in all. 

Book Purge - Capon Valley Vol. I

Pugh, Maud. Capon Valley: Its Pioneers & Their Descendants, 1698 to 1940, Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, 1995.  Originally published in 1948. 

p. 21 Hampshire County, Now, West Virginia, This division of the Old Dominion was first Spottsylvania County, 1720 to 1734, then Orange County, 1734 to 1738. In the year 1738 the portion of Orange County, Virginia, west of the Blue Ridge, was made into two counties, Augusta and Frederick, since there were already many settlements there.  Frederick county embraced the lower, or northern part of Shenandoah Valley with Winchester as the county seat, and Augusta, the southern or pper, with Staunton as the county seat.  This division embraced the whole Northwest Territory which extended to the Mississippi River and from this Hampshire, the oldest county in West Virginia, was chiefly formed in 1754, in pursuance of an Article passed by the General Assembly on December 13, 1753, and then included Hardy, Mineral, Grant counties, parts of Morgan and Pendleton, Hardy, being cut off from it in 1785, and Mineral soon after the Civil War, and Grant from that fourteen days later, 1866.

Hampshire is now a part of the Eastern Pan Handle of West Virginia. It contains 640 square miles and

Book Purge - The Story of Winchester in Virginia

Morton, Frederic. The Story of Winchester in Virginia: The Oldest Town in the Shenandoah Valley, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2001.  First published in 1925.

p. 22 The business quarter of Winchester lies in the basin of the little stream known as Town Run. It is therefore depressed, but the gradual improvement of the streets and lots has made it almost level throughout. In every direction is slightly rising ground; For Hill in the north, Church Hill in the east, Potato Hill in the south and Academy Hil and Powell's Ridge in the west. But these elevations are gentle in ascent, and are broadtopped belts of tableland rather than tre hills. Even the tower of the Handley schol does not rise high enough to permit a quite satisfactory examination of the field of view. . . . 

Running twenty miles southward, a little more than twenty miles northward, and a similar distance east and west, lies the Lower Shenandoah Valley, as distinguished from the Middle Valley between Strasburg and Harrisonburg.  To speak accurately, it is not a true valley, but a long and relatively narrow plain, separated by the narrow rampart of the Blue Ridge from the plain of Piedmont Virginia. The watercourses around Winchester are not tributaries of the Shenandoah, bu turn directly to the Potomac.

[Shenandoah River flows from southwest to northeast entering the Potomac River at Harper's Ferry, WV.  The "upper river" is in the south, the "lower river" is in the north.]

p. 31 [Lord Fairfax owned land around Winchester and gave out 99 year leases which allowed him to

Book Purge - They Called Stafford Home

Eby, Jerrilyn. They Called Stafford Home: The Development of Stafford County, Virginia, from 1600 until 1865, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1997.

p. xiv Stafford County Timeline [abstracted]

• 1608 John Smith explores and maps river and creeks of Stafford
• 1620 Indians destroy English trading post at Marlborough
• 1646-47 Giles & Margaret Brent settle at mouth of Aquia Creek
• 1650 Sandstone quarries open on Aquia Creek, 50 acres set aside for Aquia town
• 1662 Potomac Parish formed from Washington Parish (Westmoreland County)
• 1662-63 Assembly orders road built from Aquia to Passapatanzy
• 1662-64 Potomac Church built
• Potomac Parish divided into Upper Parish and Lower Parish
• 1664 first court meets in Stafford
• 1668 John Waugh becomes rector of parish
• Brent's Mill built
• 1676 Nathanile Bacon led planters against Gov. Berkeley and burned Jamestown
• 1680 Upper Parish becomes known as Stafford Parrish
• Act of Parliament establishes Marlborough as official port town
• 1686-87 George Brent, Nicholas Hayward, Richard Foote & William Bristow purchase land for

Book Purge - The Land that is Pulaski County, Virginia - Part II

Smith, Conway. The Land that is Pulaski County, 2nd edition, Pulaski, VA: Pulaski County Library Board, 1981.

p. 144 In 1790 Wythe County was formed from a part of Montgomery. The land that was to become Pulaski County now lay in both Montgomery and Wythe. 

Montgomery's county seat was moved from Fort Chiswell to Hans Meadows. Some two years later the village was renamed Christiansburg. The conty seat of Wythe County, shortly after its establishment, became known as Evansham - now Wytheville. . . . 

The line between Montgomery and Wythe was run by Gordon Cloyd, son of Joseph Cloyd of Back Creek. Montgomery court records show that on 6 June 1792 he was allowed 20 pounds for running the line. . . .

p. 148 The most lucrative occupations in southwestern Virginia during the late 1700s were land speculation, farming, surveying and merchandising. Joseph Cloyd's family on Back Creek became involved in all these pursuits. The Cloyds were rapidly becoming the largest landowners in the area. And, as we have seen, Joseph's son Gordon became county surveyor of Montgomery County. In 1792 Joseph Cloyd, with his three sons, Gordon, Thomas and David, launched a new venture - merchandising. 

Book Purge - The Land that is Pulaski County, Virginia - Part I

Smith, Conway. The Land that is Pulaski County, 2nd edition, Pulaski, VA: Pulaski County Library Board, 1981.

p. 1 1738-1769 - Pulaski County Area a Part of Augusta County:

Augusta County was taken from Orange County in 1738; but due to the unsettled state of the territory the first county court did not convene until 9 December 1745. When the first settlers came into the New River Valley, the territory was a part of the County of Augusta. The boundaries of this huge county were ill defined. Based on the original British claim to the western empire, then being challenged by the French, Augusta County might have been considered as extending from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Pacific. The county seat of this vast area was Stuanton - and Staunton remains the county seat of present-day Augusta.

1770-1772 - Pulaski County Area a Part of Botetourt County: 

The Botetour County Court was organized 13 February 1770. Botetourt, carved out of Augusta County, was also a sizeable county. The western border of the county was the Mississippi River.

Book Purge - History of Scott County, Virginia

Locataion of Scott County

Addington, Robert. History of Scott County, Virginia, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2002. 

Originally published in 1932.

p. 1 Some Important Dates in Scott County History

• 1749-50 - Dr. Thomas Walker and companions visit Cumberland Gap and adjacent regions.
• 1763 - Treaty in which France gave up to England all claim to the mainland east of the Mississippi River. 
• 1769 - Danile Boone passes through Big Moccasin Gap on his way to Kentucky.
• Uriah Stone, Casper Mansker, John Rains, and Abraham & Isaac Bledsoe pass through Big Moccasin Gap to Kentucky. 
• Thomas McCulloch made the first settlement within the territory of Scott County near Fort Houston, on Big Moccasin Creek.
• 1770 - The Long Hunters pass through Big Moccasin Gap on hunting expeditions.
• Peter Livingston settled on the North Fork of the Holston at the mouth of Livingston Creek.
• 1771 - Silas Enyart settled on Little Moccasin Creek.
• 1772 - James Green settled near the mouth of Stony Creek.
• Patrick Porter settled on the west side of Fall Creek, near Osborne's Ford.

Book Purge - Kentucky / North Carolina

Theiss, Nancy. Oldham County Live at the River's Edge, Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010.

Richard Taylor

p. 10 Commodore Richard Taylor was certainly one of the most distinguished pioneers and early citizens of Oldham County. Born in Orange County, Virginia, the commodore married twice and had six sons and five daughters. Taylor was comissioned as a captain in the navy during the Revolutionary War in 1775. He was wounded twice, in the knee and thigh, and retired from active duty in 1781. His vessel, the Tartar, was engaged in battle with an English schooner when he received his first wound (the thing). In November 1781, he was commondore of the Patriot in another battle with an English cruiser just outside Chesapeake Bay. The following description of the battle scene was written by Mr. ANderson, who worked with Commodore Taylor and collected historical records, according to Lucien Rule's Pioneering in Masonry:

The sea was calm and the breeze insufficient to manipulate his vessel. Captain Taylor, therefore, determined to attack the Englishmen in open boas and board and capture her by a hand to hand fight. As his boats approached the enemy, they were the target for volley after volley from the guns of the British, but without damage to any of them. The American seamen were enthusiastic and felt that victory was within their grasp, when one of Captain Taylor's sailors, making mock of the British fire, exclaimed, "Why don't you elevate your mettle?"  This hint to elevate the

Book Purge - History of Shelby County, Kentucky

Willis, George. History of Shelby County, Kentucky, Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, 1993.

p. 35 Note - Up until the Civil War many old residents dated all happenings from "the night the stars fell." The meteoric shower which so startled all the people of this section and the State at large and so terrorized not alone the superstitious and uninformed, occurred in 1831. [November 12-13, 1833]. The old fashion blacks left over from the Civil War, when in care of the juvenile whites wound up their grave yard stories around the kitchen fireplace in the late evenings with tales of the "night the stars fell." Mr. L.C. Willis, the veteran lawyer, during the famous campaign of 1896 when all the "fixed" stars of deocracy seemed "slipping used to refer to the Carlisle's, Lindsays's, et al, as the "Pleiades," and then tell the story of the mountaineer, who on the  "night the stars fell,' rushed out in his night clothes, found his wife on her knees in front of their little cabin, and after viewing the awful phenomenon called to her, "Pray Ol' WOman, pray hard. I'll step around back, and if the seven stars has slipped, we're gone to hell, shore."  That the phenomenon was general throughout the State is further evidenced by a stroy that Judge Lawrence Anderson, of Graves County, quotes his grandfather, a county physician as elling. The latter

Book Purge - A History of Rowan County, North Carolina

Rumple, Jethro. A History of Rowan County, North Carolina . . . Salisbury,  NC, J.J. Bruner, 1881.

p. 43 - But the Scotch-Irish were probably the most numerous and the leading people of the settlement. The old records of the Court here show names of many of these old families, some of then now extinct . . . 

But along with these Scotch-Irish immigrants, and settling side by side with them there came settlers of another nationaliy to whom Rowan is no less indebted for her material wealth and prosperity. These were the Germans, or as they were familiarly called the "Pennsylvania Dutch." They were of course not of Dutch or Holland extraction, but Germans from the Palatinate, and from Hesse Cassel, Hesse Homburg, Darmstadt, and the general region of the upper and middle Rhine. Prominent among these for its history and the number of emigrants is the Palatinate or "Pfalz" as it is called in the maps of Germany.  This counry lies on the western banks of the Rhine, below Strasburg, and along the eastern boundaries of France. This beautiful land is watered by numerous small streams, the tributaries of the Rhine, and is divided by a range of mountains, the Haardts, running from north to south. Manheim and Speyer (Spires) are the two principal cities, situated on the Rhine, while Neustadt, Anweiler, Zweibrucken, Leiningen, are among its towns.  The Province was ther theater of many bloody [p.44] 

In Memoriam - Tim Wolfe

Timothy M. Wolfe

Born: October 10, 1960, Fairfield, Wayne Co., IL

Died: November 9, 2024, St. Louis, MO

Buried: cremated, Maple Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, IL

Married: Marilee Scott, June 28, 1995

Child:

Alicia md. Kevin Thompson

1. Timothy Wolfe

2. Bernard Wolfe 1925-2014

3. Thelma Hardy 1930-2004

4. Lot Wolfe 1898-1973

5. Lavada Ferguson 1902-1985

6. George Hardy 1901-1980

7. Willa Scott 1904-1996

8. Lewis J. Wolfe 1871-1919

9. Rosetta McDowell 1873-1968

In Memoriam - Eula Erkmann

Eula Faye (Huffstutler) Erkmann

Born: March 24, 1939, McLeansboro, Hamilton Co., IL

Died: September 26, 2024, Nixa, Christian Co., MO

Buried: cremated

Married: John Robert Erkmann, March 31, 1957

Children: 

Cheryl Janey

In Memoriam - Ivan Holler

Ivan Edward Holler

Born: Oct. 10, 1930, Wayne Co., IL

Died: June 24, 2024, Fairfield, Wayne Co., IL

Buried: Brush Creek Cemetery, Clay County, Illinois

Married: Oct. 22, 1949, Bonnie Lathrop, First United Methodist Church, Wayne City, IL

Children:

Jackie md. Phil Hogue

• Rachael Hogue md. Darren Guttman
• Conner Guttman
• Aden Guttman
• Jennifer Hogue

Dennis md. 1) Pamela Teeter, 2) Judith Sabbert

• Ryan md. Mary Jo Spreitzer
• Nora 

In Memoriam - Lois Cherry

Lois Mae (Meeks) Cherry 

Born: May 16, 1933, Barnhill, Wayne Co., IL

Died: June 6, 2024, Carmi, White Co., IL

Buried: June 10, 2024, Barnhill Cemetery, Barnhill, Wayne Co., IL

Married: (--?--) Cherry

Children:

Mark Cherry, Sr. md. Debbie (--?--)

Brenda Lefever

Monica Tomblinson

Brian Cherry md. Sherri (--?--)

Ahnentafel: 

1. Lois Mae (Meeks) Cherry 1933-2024

2. Casper Otto Meeks 1886-1945

3. Margaret Francis Atteberry 1890-1979

4. Benjamin Hardin Meeks 1838-1931

5. Amanda Belangee 1865-1941

In Memoriam - Ronnie Shelton

Ronald Eldon Shelton

Born: October 11, 1940, Paxton, Ford Co., IL

Died: April 17, 2024, Mt. Vernon, Jefferson Co., IL 

Burial: April 20, 2024 Farnsworth / Mt. Zion Cemetery, Wayne Co., IL

Married 1) Elaine Savage, May 13, 1961, 2) Carol Huchcraft, June 6, 1982

Children:

Debra md. 1) Joe Tannahill, 2) Roy Tannahill, 3) Darrell Blakely

• Jacqueline Tannahill md. Steve Withrow
• Nickolas Tannahill md. Maria (--?--)

Scott Shelton md. 1) Yvonne Herreld, 2) Catherine Spradlin

• Matthew

Gurley Notebook, Part 1

Johnston County, NC Courthouse

Chapman, Blanche. Wills & Administrations of Southampton County, Virginia 1749-1800, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., In. 1980

• Edwards, Elizabeth of Nottoway Parish. Leg. - son Micah; son Joseph; daughter Patty; son William; daughter Ann; daughter Patience; son Benjamin; daughter Martha Edwards. Exs., sons Thomas & William Edwards. D. Dec. 31, 1761, R Jan. 14, 1762. Wit: George Gurley, Jr., Mary Gurley, Mary Peden, p. 418
• Gurley, Nicholas of the Parish of Nottoway. Leg. - son Benjamin; son Nicholas; son William; wife Ann. Exs., friends George Gurley, Jr. & Joseph Cobb. D. April 23, 1761. R. March 11, 1762. Wit: George Gurley, Sr., Mary Gurley Jr., Thomas Edwards, p. 439.
• Gurley, Benjamin. Estate appraised by John Drake, Nathan Vasser & Thomas Edwards. R. May 13, 1762 p. 465.
• Gurley, Nicholas. Estate appraised by John Drake, Nathan Vasser & Thomas Edwards. R. May 13, 1762, p. 467.
• Edwards, Elizabeth. Estate appraised by Henry Thomas, William Thomas & Benjamin Williams. R. May 13, 1762, p. 475.
• Edwards, Benjamin. Leg. - to all my sisters and brothers; to mother; brother William; brother Thomas; brother John. Exs: brothers Thomas & John Edwards. D. George Gurley, Jr., Mary Gurley, Mary Peden, p. 489.
• Gurley, Benjamin. Account estate audited by Micajah Edwards & Joseph Cobb. R. May 13, 1762,

Notebook - Indiana #3 Part 2

Bolding, James. 1850 Census Washington County, Indiana, Salem, IN: Washington County Historical Society, 1991.

210 Galbraith, John 39 IN farmer

• Mary 30 IN
• Cynthia A. 17 IN
• William H. 15 IN
• Samuel A. 13 IN
• Mary A. 11 IN
• David J. 8 IN
• Francis M. 5 IN
• Elizabeth J. 1 IN

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Hulen, Carol. Daviess County, Indiana 1850 Census & Marriages 1817-1849, Bicknell, IN: Hulen, nd.

213/213 Wilson, Alexander 37 m farmer 200 KY

• Lurana 35 f KY
• William 16 m IN