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From: "Beverly Taylor" <>
Subject: Re: [ILBOND-L] Obits
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:26:38 -0800


Walt, Just give me a web site for those kind of records and I'll be in "hog
heaven", but out here in WA it's kind of hard finding that dusty drawer or
record even. If you know of a site, just point me, please. Thanks, Bev



----- Original Message -----
From: Walt Johnson <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ILBOND-L] Obits


> you may have some luck looking into church records as many churches back
> then kept records of births, death, etc. in a sort of journal. The
answers
> you seek may be in a dusty old book in a bottom drawer of a pastors study
.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Beverly Taylor <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 11:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [ILBOND-L] Obits
>
>
> > Hi Mary,
> >
> > I know how to order the newspapers to do the lookup, but how to find the
> > date of death and where buried is the hard part. Are those cemetery
> record
> > books available anywhere. I know that the Keeles and perhaps the Stones
> had
> > family plots, but where and who is in them is my question. Thanks,
> > Bev in WA
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mary Collins <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 1:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ILBOND-L] Obits
> >
> >
> > > If you wish, you can do your own lookups for obituaries. You can have
> > your library order microfilms of Illinois newspapers. The address below
> is
> > searchable. You can't look up your person, but you can look up Bond
> County
> > and see what newspapers are available for the date of death of your
> > ancestor. There should be an address somewhere on that website for
> > ordering. You don't have to live in Illinois to order them, but your
> > library must order them, and they must be used in the library.
> > >
> > > http://www.library.uiuc.edu/techserv/inp/database/search_form.asp
> > >
> > > I do have the two obits that you wanted, however. They are from
> the
> > Bond County Genealogical Society News, the quarterly of the genealogical
> > society. It's a great quarterly and worth the price of membership.
> > >
> > > "Mrs. F.W. Shoptaw, died at her home in Mulberry Grove, March 31,
1913.
> > She is survived by her husband and several step-children. Burial was at
> > Mulberry Grove Cemetery." B.C.G.S. News, Winter, 1992, p. 36
> > >
> > > "nancy Hill Ingram, an old resident of Mulberry Grove, died March 17,
> > 1908. Mrs. Ingram was maried almost fifty years ago to John Ingram, who
> > survives her. Mr. and Mrs. Ingram were the parents of seven children,
two
> > girls and five boys of whom only one is living, William Ingram of
Mulberry
> > Grove. She is survived by one brother and one sister and a half-sister,
> all
> > residents of Mulberry Grove. Burial was in Mulberry Grove Cemetery."
> > B.C.G.S. News, Winter, 1989, p. 8.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <>
> > > To: <>
> > > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 2:39 PM
> > > Subject: [ILBOND-L] Obits
> > >
> > >
> > > > Greetings List Members,
> > > > I have a copy of the Cemeteries of Bond County, Book III. Toward
the
> > end
> > > > of the book is a section entitled "Burials From Obituaries". Where
> > would
> > > > I write to get a copy of some of the obituaries?
> > > > Specifically, I'm looking for Mrs. G. W. Shoptaw March 31, 1913 and
> > Nancy
> > > > Hill Ingram w/o John March 17, 1908.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help you can send my way.
> > > >
> > > > Carole Shoptaw in North Carolina
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>

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