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From: "Eula Kuhns" <>
Subject: Re: [ILJASPER] Early Forts/Indians
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:33:39 -0800
References: <20010128.203907.-122061.10.bwebb9@juno.com>


I don't know if there were any Jasper Co., but there is a monument in
Clay Co. IL to those who fought in the Black Hawk War, in one of the
Cemeteries near Louisville, I think.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert L Webb" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 6:38 PM
Subject: [ILJASPER] Early Forts/Indians


> Does anyone know whether there were skirmishes or battles with
native
> Indian tribes in Jasper county during the War of 1812 or the
Blackhawk
> war (about 1832)? There is a legend to that effect which has been
passed
> down, but I am wondering if it is a documented part of the county's
> history that there might have been a massacre or early settlers
killed,
> either in Jasper or Crawford counties (Ft. Palestine? perhaps, if
not
> Jasper county)?
> Robert
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