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From: "Janice Chastain Lund" <>
Subject: Re: [ILKNOX-L] Info
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:28:18 -0700


Hi again, Rex:

A while back, some gentleman wrote me and told me he was going to send me a
copy of Martha McMurtry Piatt's account of growing up in Knox County,
Henderson, etc. I never heard back from him but I was wondering which
library there in Illinois would have a copy of it. I'd sure like to get my
hands on a copy, being a McMURTRY descendant and all.

Any help you can give would be appreciated!!!

Thanks ....... Jan Lund

-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Cherrington <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [ILKNOX-L] Info


>Jack,
> Chapman's HISTORY OF KNOX COUNTY has accounts of the so-called forts of
>the Blackhawk War era. Also, in the Henry County history published around
>1910 there is an account by Martha McMurtry Piatt which describes some of
>the incidents of the Blackhawk War in the Henderson Grove vicinity. I am
>not sure but it seems that some accounts interchange the names. Fort Lewis
>and Gum's Fort might have been the same. Fort Aggie (sp?) was in Rio Twp.
>Hope this helps.
>Rex
>
>At 02:14 PM 7/26/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>>Looking for info on Gum's Fort, or Henderson creek settlement.
>>Jack
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