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Name: janet harkins
E-mail address: jhagjag@aol.com
Comments:I am looking for information on my grandfather, Rollie Hamilton who was born in St. Elmo Feb. 6, 1895 to Christian and Margaretta Lewis Hamilton. I am particularly interested in information about Margaretta. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Thursday, October 30th 2008 - 02:33:30 PM
Name: Melinda Ledbetter Kimball
E-mail address: kimball19@msn.com
Comments:Hello to all the Ledbetters now and then .
Tuesday, October 7th 2008 - 12:45:47 PM
Name: Ruth [Hennon] Sarver- cook
E-mail address: ruthcook152@gmail.com
Tuesday, September 9th 2008 - 06:20:24 PM
Name: Cathy Webb
E-mail address: wbb.cathy@ yahoo.com
Saturday, September 6th 2008 - 08:45:46 PM
Name: C. Robert Delahunt
E-mail address: crobertd@comcast.net
Comments:This is a new email address for me. Still looking for Delahunt,Fulks,Holman,Brazil and allied families. Thank you.
Friday, August 22nd 2008 - 07:25:30 PM
Name: Barbara Mounts
E-mail address: mounts@cox.net
Comments:I am researching the Jerauld family line who lived in Vandalia and Peoria
Illinois.
Thursday, August 14th 2008 - 02:20:18 PM
Name: myra abernathy
E-mail address: abernathymeva@att.net
Comments:seeking information on families of andrew vance and thomas rigdon of st.elmo and howard's bend area 1835-1870.looking for location of county library, court house, etc. nice guestbook.
Sunday, August 10th 2008 - 05:01:51 PM
Name: John Holman
E-mail address: john.holman@furman.edu
Comments:1st Lt./Capt. William Porter Smyth (Smith is a common misspelling) Company G 35th Illinois Regiment. William P. Smyth was my great great grandfather on my mother's side of the family and I am trying to see what records might exist in Vandalia in relation to him both in civilian and military service. So far I have tracked down some information on him online from the muster records, the NPS Civil War Soldier System, and a few sites focused on the 35th with a segment on his specific service in the Civil War. I am a history major so my interest in genealogy and the military history of my family greatly interest me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
John Holman
Greenwood, SC
Thursday, August 7th 2008 - 06:30:24 PM
Name: Catherine Hill
E-mail address: spntosprno@clearwave.com
Comments:Anna Arder married Richard T. Thompson,23 April 1839, The Township of Malahide, District of London, County of Middlesex, Province of Canada. They had a son, Robert W. Thompson, born about 1842 in Ontario, Canada. Richard died in 1843, Caledonia, Canada.

Anna remarried 18 August 1859, St. Clair Co., IL, James Hill, Sr. When did Anna Arder Thompson Hill die, and where is she buried? She may be buried by her son:

Robert W. Thompson married Susan Caroline Varner, 23 Mar. 1867, St. Clair Co., IL. They lived in 1870, Kaskaskia Twp., Fayette Co., IL. They were in Pope Twp., Fayette Co. in 1880. Robert W. Thompson was a Civil War Veteran; he died 6 Feb. 1886, at the age of 38yrs. in Fayette Co., IL. Where is Robert W. Thompson buried; is his mother buried here also?

Robert's children: Anna, James Harvey, Mary Edna, Charles Hugh, Frederick G. & George/(Garfield?) Wendell Thompson.

Robert's wife, Susan Carolina Varner Thompson remarried to Francis "Frank" Brown, 7 April 1887, Fayette Co., IL; they had three children: Effie, John William, & Barbara A. Brown. Francis "Frank" Brown died 1 Sept. 1936 near Patoka, IL, but we do not know when Susan Caroline died, or where. When, and where, did Susan Caroline die,and where is she buried? Any information on these families will be appreciated. Thank you! Catherine Hill, spntosprno@clearwave.com
Monday, August 4th 2008 - 01:43:10 PM
Name: Carolyn Elders
E-mail address: carolyn_elders@epm-apts.com
Comments:Interested in knowing and sharing any information on Donaldson, Hicks, Matthews. Records indicate Hicks from Tenn to Ill. Fillmore area. And Donaldson, NC. to Fillmore, Bingham area. Most buried in Little Hickory Cemetary... where I was reading a obit stating "families and friends were buried 50 feet from the place where they settled in 1829. Talk about getting goose bumps.. I would love to know more... any help?
Sunday, July 20th 2008 - 10:09:42 AM
Name: Carolyn Elders
E-mail address: carolyn_elders@epm-apts.com
Comments:Salutations to all who search for their yesturyears! Isn't it exciting to stand on ground that you know your ancestors settled in years gone by. I was on the very ground that my ancestors, Hicks,Donaldson and Matthews; settled in 1829. Behind Little Hickory Church where many of my family members remember attending church sits Little Hickory Cemetary. How exciting it was to see the frame of the church still standing. Even more exciting was the cemetary that is cleared and well taken care of. We thank you most graciously for keeping the cemetary mowed.
Sunday, July 20th 2008 - 09:41:23 AM
Name: Jack E. Thalman
E-mail address: jthalman@zianet.com
Comments:


info on Daniel Wilder, wife Mary Dunn lived in Shobonier in 1866. My Grandmother Len Lota Wilder was their daughter. They died when Lena was an infant and she was raised by the Lee family
Thursday, May 22nd 2008 - 09:38:17 AM
Name: Kimberly Kelley
E-mail address: kimmiekell@yahoo.com
Comments:Looking for Beanblossom, Kelley, Sexton, and Rench from this area
Wednesday, May 7th 2008 - 11:52:47 AM
Name: catie stech
E-mail address: seeknwelshrose3@yahoo.com
Comments:Evans Family_Vandalia ILlinois

Searching for any new information on Harriett Evan- born 9-1855 Fayeete Co., Il d aft 1920. Family story has it that she was from the Jerimiah Evans line. I haven't proven this one way or another, since there were several Evans lines in Fayette Co., 1800's. She married John w. Frost- 8 Apr 1871 Vandalia, Fayette, Illinois
Tuesday, April 15th 2008 - 11:50:58 PM
Name: Norma Hawkins
E-mail address: HAWKEYE346@aol.com
Comments:Hawkins,Gates,Beach,Moore,Duff
Tuesday, March 18th 2008 - 03:46:42 PM
Name: Larry M. Luster Jr.
E-mail address: larrylusterjr@yahoo.com
Comments:Just thought I might do some research on where my family came from.
Thursday, March 13th 2008 - 02:43:27 PM
Name: Gary L. Swetland
E-mail address: garyswetland@myway.com
Comments:Typed in my last name and this is one of the sites that came up.
Monday, March 10th 2008 - 01:58:07 AM
Name: Robert Esch
E-mail address: kb3css@verizon.net
Comments:Jonathan W. Rogers married Caroline Klinsman on 5 Nov 1868, according to the Fayette County record on file at the County Court house in Vandalia. I have searched for both of them AFTER their marriage, using census reports, death records, etc. at Ancestry.com, and so far have come up empty handed. Caroline was listed as age 2 in the 1850 census for Brush Valley, Indiana County, PA living with her parents William and Salina (Esch) Klinsman. In the 1860 census for La Clede, Fayette Co, Illinois, she is listed as age 12, living with her parents and 4 siblings: Louisa, Jacob, Salina and William. But I have not found Caroline or her husband in any CENSUS record after 1860. If you have any clues on them after 1868, I would be very grateful.
Wednesday, January 30th 2008 - 08:31:18 PM
Name: Michael Shuster
E-mail address: mshuster78@yahoo.com
Comments:I'm looking for more information on my gr-gr-gr grandparents Leonard Peyton and Myrtle Mahon and family. The publications listed for sale on this website doesn't identify how you can purchase them. Any help would be great.

Thanks

Mike
Saturday, January 5th 2008 - 11:04:43 AM
Name: T. Michelle Walker
E-mail address: txmgrads@mac.com
Comments:Hoping to find help locating a relative. Thanks.
Wednesday, January 2nd 2008 - 01:37:45 PM
Name: John Grant
E-mail address: dzhanroz@cebridge.net
Comments:Lots of my ancestors are from Loudon Township, Fayette County, IL.
Friday, December 14th 2007 - 07:30:12 PM
Name: Gary M. Beu
E-mail address: gary@cooldreams.net
Comments:I'm looking for info on my Grandfather MARSHALL SAPP possibly JAMES MARSHALL SAPP born in 1898 theoretically in Farina. My mother MARSHA EVE SAPP (BEU) definitely was born in Farina in 1926. Can't find any info on Marshall.

Thanks for any assistance.

Gary M. Beu
Saturday, November 24th 2007 - 04:47:45 PM
Name: John Grant
E-mail address: dzhanroz@cebridge.net
Comments:Part of my wife's and my lineage includes the Myers, Logue, Reams, McKinnies, Stubblefield, Beck, Byard, Phifer, McKenzie, Grubaugh, Durbin, etc.
Thursday, November 22nd 2007 - 12:04:30 PM
Name: ruth ann evans
E-mail address: missmoore1862@hotmail.com
Comments:I am looking for the death date and burial site of Mary E. Smith Clarkson Galyean who was in the 1880 census in Vernon. Her sons' guardianship hearings were in 1882. So we believe that she died betweewn 1880 and 1882. She first shows up in Fayette County when she married William R. Galyean, ca. 1876. Other Galyeans lived in the area.

Thank you,

Ruth Ann Evans
ggg niece
Sunday, November 18th 2007 - 07:25:28 PM
Name: Carolyn Sigler Schellang
E-mail address: fluffie@mybluelight.com
Comments:I was looking for FISH and DONALDSON families. Orginally they went to IL from TNbefore/during Civil War. Most came back to TN but some stayed up north!
Saturday, November 17th 2007 - 07:08:01 PM
Name: Dale Smith
E-mail address: dsks@applebank.net
Friday, November 9th 2007 - 03:31:23 PM
Name: Dale Smith
E-mail address: dsks@applebank.net
Friday, November 9th 2007 - 03:30:33 PM
Name: K. Price
E-mail address: price53@insightbb.com
Comments:So glad to have found this site, thanks! I am trying to find information for my gr-gr-grandparents who lived in Ramsey, Il. abt. 1840-1850. They were George W. Hovey b. 1805 and his wife Nancy Pierce abt. 1820. I found them in the 1850 Fayette Co. census with their 5 children, but can't figure out what happened to them after that. Nancy was born in Illinois, so I am hoping to maybe locate her parents. Geo. and Nancy were married in 1841 in Shelby Co. So I am guessing she may be from that area. Any help would be deeply appreciated. Thank you!
Monday, October 29th 2007 - 08:38:50 AM
Name: Dawn Dyson
E-mail address: rotenburo@yahoo.com
Sunday, October 28th 2007 - 08:47:52 PM
Name: Catie Stech
E-mail address: seekwelshrose2@aol.com
Comments:Hi Iam trying to find out some information on the Evans family of Vandalia, Illinois. Especially on Jane Evans b 8 Jan., 1801 d 27 Nov., 1851 married May 1822 in Fayette County to Samuel Houston. What I would like to know is this Samuel Houston has always been rumored to be the famous Col. Samuel Houston of the Almo. However, I haven't be able to find any information on this Houston. If there is anything to this old family legend? Could you direct me to source or a person that may be able to help me with this problem?

Thank You,
Catie Stech
Tuesday, October 23rd 2007 - 07:19:47 PM
Name: Candie Rogers
E-mail address: cjr4520@mchsi.com
Comments:I am looking for the grave of William Whitfield Garland. He died Nov. 16, 1935 in Fayette Co. His obituary says he's buried in Bingham Cemetery. Does any one know where it is located? I have never been able to find a listing for it. Any help would be appreciated. Candie
Friday, October 5th 2007 - 10:32:45 PM
Name: frank clark
E-mail address: fredsmith803@hotmail.com
Comments:frank clark
Tuesday, September 18th 2007 - 08:20:10 AM
Name: sherri baker
E-mail address: baker.sherri@sbcglobal.net
Comments:I am researhing Davidson, Cunningham, Hinton, Blankenship
among others. Allen Davidson m. Jane Hinton 2Aug. 1850 in Fayette co., Allen was the son of James Davidson and the grandson of Blane Davidson. Is any one else researching this line?
Sunday, September 16th 2007 - 04:03:17 PM
Name: Patricia A Johnson
E-mail address: busterb8805@msn.com
Comments:I am hoping to find someone that can look up an obituary for Nancy Jane Jenkins. She died in St Elmo, Fayette Co IL on 6 Feb 1914. I am interested in her survivors. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Your site is one of the most attractive I have visited.
Patricia A Johnson, Fort Collins, Colorado
Wednesday, September 12th 2007 - 12:13:58 AM
Name: S Dailey
E-mail address: sdabs@aol.com
Comments:I am researching the Rosenbaum, Daniels and Smith families who all came to Fayette County Illinois in the early 1800's from Tennessee
Sunday, August 12th 2007 - 07:26:19 PM
Name: Linda Keller
E-mail address: vkeller62838@yahoo.com
Comments:
I am looking for the ancestors of William H. Shelton. His wife was Isabel Martin. Wm was born around 1820.
If anyone has information on these two I would be very appreciative.
Friday, August 3rd 2007 - 09:53:51 AM
Name: David Nelson Crockett
E-mail address: cravydocket@hotmail.com
Comments:Researching my family history. Samuel William Rode b 14th May, 1842 in Vandalia, Fayette, Illinois. Two marriages Hannah McAfee 27Feb 1870 - three children William, Mary and Harry.
Remarried Antoinette c Becker 1892 - five children Ralph, Ruth (my grandmother), Annah, Alma and Madeline. Samuel served in the Union Army as a 2nd Lt in the 7th Illinois light cavalry. He was at various times a coachmaker but he died a retired druggist In Florida in 1921 and was buried in Brownstown or perhaps the South Hill Cemetery. If anyone has any information about his grave or other information about his life and family, I would be very grateful. David Crockett Australia
Monday, July 16th 2007 - 08:04:01 PM
Name: Gary L. Feezel
E-mail address: gfeez62@yahoo.com
Comments:Researching my great-grandparents, William H. Feezel & Clara Grace Eyestone Feezel.
Friday, July 13th 2007 - 10:17:52 AM
Name: glenn schmucker
E-mail address: gstipps@yahoo.com
Comments:My mother(Susanna Kaufman(kauffman) was born at Brownstown, IL, March 31, 1895 to the parents of Isaac N. Kaufman and grandparents Noah A Kaufman. Noah and his family moved to the area sometime from 1860s to 1900. Noah moved to the Arthur, IL area to live near his son, Gideon. I know that Gideon owned land in Moultrie County, IL. I am seeking information of where the lived, did they own any land and more details of when they lived in Fayatee county, IL. I'm not sure if the surname had one or two fs. I have seen it spelled both ways. Any help would be appreciated.

glenn Schmucker
Thursday, June 21st 2007 - 02:31:39 AM
Name: C. Robert Delahunt
E-mail address: crobertd@insightbb.com
Comments:I am working on the DELAHUNT, FULKS, HOLMAN, and BRAZLE families. They were in the North East part of Fayette Co. and at Holiday on the County line. The Delahunts are buried at the St. Boneventure cemetery and the Dial Cemetery west of Wrights'corner. The Fulks and Holmans are buried in the Bob Doane/Greenland Cemetery just west of Beecher City, and also in St. Elmo. Valentine and Richard Brazle early were just north of Vandalia in Ramsey Twp.
Would be glad to have any help.
Thank you.
C. Robert Delahut
Tuesday, June 12th 2007 - 06:07:31 PM
Name: Mary Jo Stich
E-mail address: djmjs@aol.com
Comments:Hi! Just dropped by in my quest for the Kinseys, Boyers and other pertinent people.
MJ
Monday, June 4th 2007 - 11:36:29 AM
Name: Sheila Swanberg
E-mail address: rsswanberg@sbcglobal.net
Comments:I am interested in the Oglesby families living in the Vandalia area in the mid 1800's. Archibald Aaron Oglesby married Lovinia Hammel 27 Aug 1874. Oscar Edward Oglesby was born of this marriage 19 Jan 1875. Did Lovinia die in child birth? Was there a twin to Oscar? Any information is appreciated.
Friday, May 25th 2007 - 09:08:51 AM
Name: John Katsinas
E-mail address: jkatsinas@insightbb.com
Comments:I have moved
old address
2208 Barberry Drive
Champaign, IL 61821

new address
1929 Maynard Drive
Champaign, IL 61821

thanks
Friday, May 18th 2007 - 04:34:58 PM
Name: Sandra Jo TRIGG-KARMANN
E-mail address: skarmann@socket.net
Comments:The surnames I'm doing research on in Fayette County, Illinois are,

HINDS/HINES/ BALLARD/ GALYEN/ GALYEAN/ GALLION/ GALION

The time line starts in 1812. Anyone with any information, or doing research on these names, or interested in this research, please contact me.

Thanks,

Sandra Jo TRIGG-KARMANN
Thursday, May 10th 2007 - 08:31:52 AM
Name: Jerry Young
E-mail address: JYoung@AZWildBlue.com
Friday, March 30th 2007 - 08:20:50 AM
Name: Erin Larson
E-mail address: Jerinlars@aol.com
Comments:Searching in Fayette County started my years of love for researching families and history. The library in Vandalia really is fabulous for local research.
In this area, I am working on SEATON HEDGPETH HARRISON HAYES
Monday, March 26th 2007 - 05:59:11 AM
Name: Bonnie Webster
E-mail address: blwokc@msn.com
Comments:Heather Family: Hi, I'm looking for info about my great-grandmother, Lomey Heather (later married Rufus Glover). She was born in Vandalia, Illinois, in 1863 or 1864. She's in the 1880 census, with her family, in Mountain Township, Crawford Co., Arkansas. Her father is listed there as W.H. Heather (middle initial might be something besides "H"), born about 1830 in Indiana; mother is Harriet, born about 1835 in Illinois; children are Lomey, Thomas (born abt 1867), John (b abt 1871), Sarah (b abt 1873), and James (b abt 1879). All the children were born in Ill., except the youngest, who was born in Ark. There are two "boarders" living with them, of whom the husband was also born in Ill. (abt 1835), listed as "A. Browing" (could be Browning or Brown). Lomey's father, W.H(?)'s parents are listed as having been born in Tenn. (his father) and Kentucky (his mother). Lomey's mother's parents are listed as both born in Ill. Lomey married and had all her children in Ark., before her Glover family moved to Oklahoma (she died in 1936). I don't know what became of her parents or siblings, or who her parents' parents were. I hope someone knows more about them, and I'm glad I found this site.
Saturday, March 24th 2007 - 09:08:25 AM
Name: Debra Williams
E-mail address: antiochfarmer@hotmail.com
Comments:I am the great granddaughter of kate Williams.She moved to Ramsey Illinois in 1900.She came with her husband and children on the train from Horsecave Kentucky.She is buried in the Ramsey cemetary with several of her children.My father was Robert D. Williams.He played basketball for Ramsey high in the 50's.My mother was Lula maye Steiling.She was from Shobonier.
Tuesday, March 20th 2007 - 04:41:06 PM
Name: Ella Veritas
E-mail address: ellaveritas@yahoo.com
Saturday, March 10th 2007 - 02:32:43 PM
Name: George L. Hohnsbehn, Jr.
E-mail address: saint69george@msn.com
Comments:Seeking information regarding the Alfred Landers family. He was married to Margaret Melvina Carolina Cline of Tennessee. They were living in Ramsey, Illinois in 1900. They had an adopted daughter, Sarah Eveline, who was born in 1889. According to the 1900 Census they had a seven year old lodger named Ernie Short living with them.
Wednesday, February 28th 2007 - 03:33:14 PM
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