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From: "Marna Scott" <>
Subject: [ILKNOX-L] St. Augustine, IL
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 22:44:38 -0500
References: <MFMBM0096OUDxTcg2yW0000ce76@mfmbm009.myfamilycorp.local>


Hi:

I was not from St. Augustine, but from Galesburg, IL.

However, I do not know whether it was a general store or not, but I had a
first cousin, once removed, that owned a store there for many years. The
store was named Mills and Son. It was started by Will Mills and the son was
Glenn Mills. Glenn had an only daughter named Gertrude who married a
Colburn.

- Marna Jeanne (Mills) Scott -

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Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 11:19 AM
Subject: [ILKNOX-L] Re: Martin Family 1850 census


> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
>
> Surnames: Martin, Palmer
> Classification: Query
>
> Message Board URL:
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> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4g.2ADE/1174.1.1.2
>
> Message Board Post:
>
> I noted your messages about your family around St. Augustine which is dear
to my heart also. My gr-grandfather ran the general store there from
1909-1935. I checked the 1850 census and find a Martin household in Fulton
Co with a daughter Martha.
>
> Deerfield township (that is a little south of St. Augustine)
> The top of page says Town of Deerfield. If it was a town it is not on map
now, possibly just meant "township".
>
> Thomas Martin 27 or 29, farmer b. KY
> Mary 24, b. Penn
> Martha 4, b. IL
> John S. 2, b. IL
> Elizabeth 3 months, b. IL
>
> The Illinois marriage index shows a later marriage 1-16-1868 in Fulton Co
for a Thomas to Margaret W. Landis. So his wife may have died or it could be
another Thomas, there were 2 Thomas Martins in Fulton Co in 1850.
>
> I see a marriage for a Martha Martin to Lewis Palmer 7-8-1858. If that is
the same Martha she would have been quite young at time of marriage.
Therefore even though the parents would not normally be listed on license
there may be a signature somewhere allowing the minor to marry. And of
course sometime ages were incorrect on the census.
>
>

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