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From: Alice Gless <>
Subject: [ILKNOX-L] Does Anyone Have 1870 and 1890 Census for Knox County?
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:53:46 -0500


I would appreciate if anyone on this list has a copy of the census for
1870 for Knox County, IL to do a lookup for me. I am looking around
Salem Township and Yates City for Thomas WHITE and his wife Hattie
FETTERS and William EWING and his wife Mary Louise BIRD. Thanks to a
great deal of help I have received already, I extracted all I could
from the 1880 census which helped immensely. Now I would like to
determine what ten years before and ten years after would show.

Also, if anyone has any cemetery records and could look up these names,
I would appreciate that too. I also am trying to find out where in Knox
County anyone with the OSGOOD surname is buried, plus Mary Perry OSGOOD
LANGE. I thought she would have been buried in Nebraska where the
"History of Henry County" says she died, but some very helpful people in
Johnson County did a thorough search of their cemetery records and
failed to come up with Mary's burial place. Willard OSGOOD and Mary
PERRY originally settled in Truro in Knox County. After Willard's
death, Mary remarried a James LANGE and seems to have moved around in
Henry County, such as Bishop Hill and Kewanee.

I went to my local FHC and they have just about all the censuses for
Knox County but the film I had couldn't be read in one instance and in
the second instance, Salem couldn't be read and Yates City was missing
completely.

I plan to drive down to Galesburg as soon as I can and check at the
library there, but if I could get some help in advance, it would cut
down on the number of trips I might have to make because I want to go
through as many publications as I can and that will take a considerable
amount of time.

I would be grateful to anyone who can help me further my research in
this regard. I have made so much headway on my father's side of the
family (still some gaps I want to fill in), but on my mother's side I
have so much to investigate it's almost overwhelming. If someone has
paved the way and is willing to share what they have, it would make
things a lot easier for me.

Alice Gless

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