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This is my genealogy blog tracing families from the Southern Illinois counties of Wayne, Jefferson, Hamilton, White, Clay, Richland and Lawrence. Come see if we're related and share some information. Search using "revised" for updates to older blog entries. Use the Ahnentafel page to navigate through family lines. Use Research Logs & Other Posts to see other topics.
Monday, August 4, 2025
Book Purge - Genealogies
Friday, August 1, 2025
Book Purge
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Beverley Minster, Yorkshire, England |
Continental Historical Bureau. History of Jefferson County, Illinois 1810-1962, Mt. Vernon, IL: Continental Historical Bureau, 1962.
Pages 2-3 - The admission of the Illinois to the Union occurred December 3, 1818; the County of Jefferson was organized March 26, 1819, a periof of 113 days later. The official beginning of Mt. Vernon took place June 7, 1819, seventy-three days after the organization; it wa only 186 days after the state had officially been admitted to the Union until Mt. Vernon was officially born.
The procedure took place int he following manner: After Illinois became the twenty-first state of the federal union and the legislature was in legal functioning order, an Act of the Legislature was passed March 26, 1819, which created Jefferson County. The Act also provided for five Commissioners to select a permanent seat of justice and to designate it as such. These Commissioners were appointed yb the Legislature instead of the citizens of the county. The five who were authorized wree: Ambrose Maulding, Lewis Barker. James Richardson and Richard Graham.
Pages N4-N5 - New Hope (Webb) Missionary Baptist Church. The exact date this church was organized is not known. It is on record of being ost to the annual Baptist Association in the year 1858. It is presumed the church existed for quite some time previous to this date.
The first minutes on record are of 1862. New Hope had no pastor at that time. Messengers to the
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Book Purge - Vermont
- Brooks, Azariah
- Brooks, Eleazer
- Brooks, Hananiah
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Book Purge - Illinois / Plymouth Colony
Clay County Genealogical Society. Clay Roots, Summer, Louisville, IL: Clay County Genealogical Society, 1997.
Monday, July 21, 2025
Book Purge - Illinois - Clay County
- Hardin, John S. 10/29/1861, unit unknown, Burke, Bible Grove Twp.
Friday, July 18, 2025
Book Purge - Illinois - Clay County
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Oak Mound Cemetery, Clay Co., IL |
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Book Purge - Illinois - Clay County
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Clay County Genealogical Society |
- Carnegie Library 1903
- Ebner Ice & Cold Storage 1903
- City Hall 1904
- Two ward school buildings 1906
- High school 1912
- M.E. Church 1914
- B&O station 1916-17
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Book Purge - Illinois
- Anderson, David S. nw1/4nw1/4, s15, t3, r5, 40 a, Nancy Blackburn n1/2nw, 1/17/1853
- Lucas, Mary C. Spt E1/2, ,NE1/4 s13, t3, r5, 20 a, Silas Brooks, e1/2 ne, 9/19/1837
- Sefton, A.P. nw1/4nw1/4, s13, t3, r5, 40 a, Micajah Brooks, w1/2, nw 6/19/1836
- Aetna Life Insurance Co., se1/4NW1/4, s13, t3, r5, 40 a, Micajah Brooks senw, 1/21/1836
- Sefton, Henry nw1/4sw1/4, s13, t3, r5, 40 a, Elijah Brooks, nwsw, 6/19/1838
- Sefton, D.M. n1/2sw1/4, s13, t3, r5, 20 a, Micajah Brooks nesw, 1/21/1836
- Sefton, Henry ne/14se1/4, s13, t3, r5, 40 a Micajah Brooks e1/2se, 10/22/1839
- Aetna Life Insurance Co. w1/2se1/4, s13, t3, r5, 80 a, Silas Brooks, w1/2se, 9/19/1837
- Sefton, Henry ne14/23/14, s14, t3, r5, 40 a, Elizah Brooks, n1/2se 9/13/1847
- Hendy, Wm. se1/4se1/4 s14, t3, r5, 40 a William Brooks, sese 10/22/1839
- Hendy, J.B. w1/2ne1/4ne1/4, s24, t3, r5, William Brooks, nene 11/21/1837
- Colclasure, J.P. ne1/4nw1/4 s24, 3, r5, Micajah Brooks nw, 10/22/1839
- Colclasure, W.H. se1/4se1/4 s13, t3, r5, 40 a, no patentee
- Howard, Cyrus se1/4sw1/4 s13, t3, r5, 40 a, Richard R. Colclasure, sesw 8/28/1852
Monday, May 26, 2025
In Memoriam - Joe Boone
Friday, May 16, 2025
Book Purge - Illinois
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Book Purge - Capon Valley, Vol. II, Part 2
- Joseph Brill
- Isaac Brill
- L.S. Brill
- W.P. Brill
- L.P. Brill
- Joseph Brill
- John H. Brill
- Morgan Brill, killed
- perhaps others not reported
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Book Purge - Capon Valley, Vol. II, Part 1
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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.
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.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Book Purge - Capon Valley Vol. I
Saturday, April 19, 2025
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.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Book Purge - They Called Stafford Home
- 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
Friday, April 11, 2025
Book Purge - The Land that is Pulaski County, Virginia - Part II
Monday, April 7, 2025
Book Purge - The Land that is Pulaski County, Virginia - Part I
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.
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Book Purge - History of Scott County, Virginia
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Locataion of Scott County |
Addington, Robert. History of Scott County, Virginia, Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2002.
- 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.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Book Purge - Kentucky / North Carolina
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Richard Taylor |
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