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From: "Jo Ann McGhee" <>
Subject: Silkwood Inn - established in 1828
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:03:06 -0400

Most of the front page of the Benton Evening News, Benton, IL, Wed. 31 Mar
2004 issue is devoted to a photo and an article, about the Silkwood Inn, in
Mulkeytown, operated by the Mulkeytown Area Historical Society . Members of
the West Franklin Historic District and Genealogy Society hope to include
the structure with their organization. The photo and article is by Mona
SANDEFUR. The Silkwood INN was established in 1828; it was purchased in
1995, and volunteers have worked countless hours doing repair work. A state
grant on Oct. 7, 2000 of $46,000 partially repaired the old gymnasium, but
still a work in progress.

Excerpts, and some information included in this article:
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The genealogy room is lined with bookshelves from floor to ceiling,
containing resource material, compiled books of family history, census and
cemetery records, yearbooks, books, magazines and newsletters.

Photocopies of cemetery records are in filing cabinets for future reference.
Ranging from Mulkeytown Cem. to St. Andrews Church Cemetery, to Franklin Co.
cemetery listings for Cook, Greenwood, Mulkeytown, Naylor, Old Mulkey,
Reid-Kirkpatrick, Silkwood, and Ward resting places. St. Mary's Orthodox
Cemetery, Miner's Cemetery, and The Sacred Heart and St. Aloysius Catholic
Cemetery; Harrison Cemetery in Christopher.

Death records from 1976 - 1993 from the former Union, Russell, and Busch
Funeral Home in Christopher.

Yearbooks date back to at least 1920.

Books include "Indiana Magazine of History", the "New England Genealogy
Rigister", the "Genealogical Society of Southern Illinois", the "Ozark
Mountaineer" and "Springhouse Magazine"

Franklin Co. marriage records dating to 1916. Pope Co. marriage records;
Perry Co. census information; "History of Jackson Co."; school records;
the "Family Tree Maker Mazazine" and "The Genealogical Helper".

Operating solely on donations, the WFHD sells compilations, including
"Mulkeytown Grade School 1928-35", which includes reports to superintendents
of schools; "Souvenirs of Christopher, a Supplement to the Christopher News"
dated 1907; Compilation by Evan L. SWAIN, "I Lived There", who now lives in
Thompsonville; "A Legacy of Laughter" by Linda Raye Wetzel SETTLE; and
"Descendants of Lazarus and Eli WEBB Families"

Contributions are always welcomed and may be mailed to the West Franklin
Historical District, P.O. Box 601, Mulkeytown, IL 62865. All workers are
volunteers, they operate soley on donations. The historical society is open
from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Mondays and from 9 a.m. until noon on Saturdays.
For more information, call (618) 724-2445.

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