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From: Gloria Frazier <>
Subject: [ILMONTGO] Mt. Olive is in Macoupin County - Firley research
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 22:55:31 -0500


Walshville in Montgomery Co is 6 miles east of Mt Olive in Macoupin Co. I
garantee it.<g>

I have the cemetery listings for Mt. Olive and I can't find him for any of
the Mt Olive cemeteries. He may be unmarked.

Myra, I did find a son of Frank Firley in Benld City Cem. Benld is about 5
miles northwest of Mt Olive.
FIRLEY, Louis s/o Frank 2 May 1869 - 8 Jun 1951 m. 4 Dec 1892 w/Ida J.
(ZIMMERMAN) 3 Sep 1870 - 27 Sep 1959

Myra said she had maybe part of the obit and was going to contact the Mt
Olive newspaper for the full obit. The Mt Olive Herald newspaper is on
microfilm at the local library, just for Myra's information.
MT. OLIVE PUBLIC LIBRARY
111 W. Main
Mt. Olive, IL 62069
Phone: 217/999-7311
Fax: 217/999-7311
Director: Janice Thimsen
Hours:
Mon. and Wed. 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
Tue. and Fri. 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Closed Thurs
Sat. 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

This library has the Mt. Olive Herald on microfilm from 1892 through 1989,
History of Macoupin County 1763-1879; Story of Macoupin County 1829-1979;
Pictorial and Biographical History of Macoupin County, 1911; and History of
New Douglas 1860-1987 are part of the collection. They have several books
on the life and speeches and letters of Mother Jones.

Mt Olive would have been the closest newspaper but an obit could have run
in Staunton Macoupin Co and Litchfield Montgomery Co.

I did a search for Firley in the phone dir for all of IL. I didn't find any
in the area, so if the following people had children they may have been
girls and there could still be Firleys in the area. This is a wild guess.

Social Security Death Index
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
WILLIAM P FIRLEY 21 Dec 1904 06 May 1992 62056 (Litchfield,
<http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/IL/Montgomery>Montgomery, IL)(none
specified)343-09-2881Illinois
BETTY FIRLEY 23 Apr 1907 08 Aug 1996 (V)62088 (Staunton,
<http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/IL/Macoupin>Macoupin, IL)(none
specified)344-24-0990 Illinois

Gloria

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