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From: "Jim Beckman" <>
Subject: Re: [ILKANE] Rice Fay & Elijah Fay in Kane County, 1833-1900
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:35:04 -0400


Thank you . In the late forties and early fifties I can remember going with
my family to a restaurant in that same general area which could at one time
have been the building that you are researching. Thanks again and good luck
in your search
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert W. Fay <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 3:56 PM
Subject: [ILKANE] Rice Fay & Elijah Fay in Kane County, 1833-1900


> Jim,
>
> I was at the historical museum yesterday looking through probate files.
They
> had a plat map of St Charles township form the 1870's and I was able to
> locate section 3. There may actually be two old buildings that you may
> remember. Hee are the quotes I am primarily working from:
>
> 1. "As early as 1834 the beauty of this location and the evident fertility
> of its soil attracted Rice Fay, a strong enterprising man who settled and
> long resided on Section 3, and subsequently erected thereon the fine
> substantial stone dwelling, since occuppied by the Keating family"
> Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Kane County, Gen JS
> Wilcox, Munsell, Chicago, 1904
>
> 2. "Fayville
> North of town, on the west side near the river bend at Five Islands, Rev.
> Elmore tried to start an industrial school on 300 acres of land. The place
> was called Fayville because Rice Fay had taken a large claim there in
1834,
> The school failed probably because Rev Elmore was years ahead of his time.
> The stone building in which he lived still stands there." The Settlement
and
> Growth of St Charles, Alice Davis undated, unpublished apparently.
>
> To place section 3 in modern terms, it is the area east of Highway 34,
west
> of the river, south of Spring Street, and north of Silver Glen Road. It
also
> includes the very north tip of the east side of the river right at the
bend.
> In the 1870's these lands are plated to Keating, and there were three
> builings shown on the plat.
>
> The Fayville Post Ofice only existed a few years from the 1840's to the
> early 1850's.
>
> Ring any bells anyone?
>
> Bob Fay
>
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Jim Beckman" <>
> Reply-To:
> To:
> Subject: Re: [ILKANE] Rice Fay & Elijah Fay in Kane County, 1833-1900
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:46:44 -0400
>
> Please let me know where the house you describe is located I was born in
> St.Charles and would be interested
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert W. Fay <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 7:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [ILKANE] Rice Fay & Elijah Fay in Kane County, 1833-1900
>
>
> > Hi Patricia,
> >
> > Now that is a good idea! And someone else wrote about the St Charles
> > Historical Society so I am trying to get connected to them to visit
> > tommorrow.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > ----Original Message Follows----
> > From: (Patricia Meyers)
> > Reply-To:
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: [ILKANE] Rice Fay & Elijah Fay in Kane County, 1833-1900
> > Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 22:22:09 -0500 (CDT)
> >
> > Hi, Bob,
> > Doesn't the Federal Archives in Chicago keep some sort of records on
> > postmasters? You may find something there...Pat Meyers, Worth, IL
> >
> >
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