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From: "Mary & Gene Guffey" <>
Subject: Re: [ILBOND-L] 138 Pages of Bond County History
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:21:04 -0500


I, too, would like a copy of the dissertation of Bond County..
Please let me know how to go about receiving it.
Mary
----- Original Message -----
From: Walt. Johnson <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [ILBOND-L] 138 Pages of Bond County History


> please ad me to this list as well . I did my dissertation on
> Undersocialized conduct Disorder in Rural Youth, I am sure this would be
> more interesting
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Helen Jackson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 7:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [ILBOND-L] 138 Pages of Bond County History
>
>
> > I would like a copy of the dissertation about Bond County before 1850.
> If
> > we need to get copies of it via snail mail I am more than happy to pay
for
> > it. Thanks for letting us know about it.
> >
> > Helen
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:38 PM
> > Subject: [ILBOND-L] 138 Pages of Bond County History
> >
> >
> > > Thanks to the Illinois State Historical Library in Springfield, which
> > > provided it at a reasonable copying and postage fee, I now have a copy
> of
> > > Hubert Schmidt's 1936 University of Chicago master's dissertation, "An
> > > Economic and Social History of Bond County, Illinois Before 1850."
> > >
> > > It has footnotes, with lots of surnames.
> > >
> > > I am sending a copy to Bob McCollum, who was kind enough to scan the
> > > Historical Society Journal article by Schmidt that is posted on the
> > website,
> > > for his opinion on whether the entire work could be scanned. If
that's
> > just
> > > too much work, and takes up too much server capacity, I will figure
out
> a
> > way
> > > to distribute copies at cost for those would like to have one.
> > >
> > > The material is very readable, and very interesting. I haven't had
time
> > to
> > > read it all, but didn't we have someone who was asking about the File
> > family?
> > > For them, this excerpt might be helpful:
> > >
> > > "The dozens of Files in Bond County today trace their ancestry to one
> > Henry
> > > Phoile, a second generation Hollander, who came to Bond County in 1820
> > from
> > > South Carolina. The clerk at the land office changed the name to
File,
> > > probably by mistake, and the newer name has stuck."
> > >
> > > For those who had questions about divorce records:
> > >
> > > "The bonds of matrimony, once entered into, were not lightly broken.
> From
> > > 1817 to 1850, twenty-four divorces were granted in Bond County, eleven
> > being
> > > to men and fourteen to women. In four other cases men sued for
divorce
> > and
> > > in eight others women, one man and three women being 'repeaters.' In
> > other
> > > words, only thirty-one couples over a period of thirty-four years
> > attempted
> > > legally to break their matrimonial ties. The wives were invariably
> > charged
> > > with adultery; the husbands with adultery or with desertion.. . .In
one
> > case
> > > a wife refused to go ahead with her case even though conditions were
> such
> > > that her husband was later indicted for [fathering a child out of
> > wedlock].
> > > (Footnote citation to John Gilmore and Elizabeth Gilmore.) Toward the
> end
> > of
> > > the period a speeding up of cases where adultery was charged is
> > noticeable.
> > > In a case of 1848, the sheriff served a writ in the morning of the
court
> > day.
> > > The wife was ordered to appear at two o'clock on the same day. She
> > refused
> > > to appear and the divorce was granted in the afternoon. (Footnote
> citation
> > to
> > > John A. Barlow and Mary M. Barlow.)"
> > >
> > > On "Community Life, Recreation and Amusements":
> > >
> > > "Special occasions were celebrated to the full. The sending of the
> > county's
> > > contingent of eighty-five men to the Mexican war on June 19, 1846 was
> such
> > an
> > > instance. One account dwells upon the fine sermon preached to the
boys,
> > the
> > > martial music of the Greenville band, and the giant meal furnished at
a
> > > nearby farm. A different account goes into the details as to the
> hilarity
> > of
> > > the send off, helped by the barbecue of a whole beef and by pails of
> free
> > > whiskey passed around and ladeled out with a dipper by a huge negro.
> > >
> > > "Much more sober and sane were the neighborhood affairs created by
> certain
> > > types of farm work. The wheat harvest was often so arranged that all
> the
> > men
> > > of a neighborhood worked together, taking the fields of grain in the
> order
> > of
> > > their ripening. (Footnote reference to William Gray McCaslin
narrative
> in
> > > the 'Old Settlers' records.) ...House raisings, barn raisings, corn
> > > huskings, etc., combined labor and social activity. (Footnote
reference
> > to
> > > Charles Beneulyn Johnson, 'Illinois in the Fifties,' 1918.)
> > >
> > >
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