Welcome to Illinois Ancestors Mercer County. I'm your host Wini Caudell. We at Illinois Ancestors like to blend genealogy with a little history. So while you're learning about your ancestors hopefuly you will learn a little about the area where they lived and worked.

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Now Let's Explore Mercer County!

 

Mercer County is named after Hugh Mercer, a physician and general who died from his wounds during the Revolutionary War.He was wounded at the Battle of Franklin.

Mercer was part of the land that Congress had set aside in 1812 as payment to volunteer soldiers for their service in the War of 1812.

Mercer County was founded in 1825 and was formed from unorganized territory near Pike County.

Counties surrounding Mercer are:

Rock Island

Henry

Knox

Henderson

Warren

DeMoines County, Iowa

Louisa County, Iowa

 

MERCER COUNTY LINKS

TOWNS FAMILY GROUPS BRICK WALLS
TOWNSHIP HISTORY NEWS BRIEFS SWEDES IN SWEDONA AND MERCER COUNTY
MERCER COUNTY HISTORY PRAIRIE FARMERS DIRECTORY LIBRARIES AND HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
OBITUARIES CEMETERIES SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HOME RESIDENTS
BIOGRAPHIES CHURCHES MERCER COUNTY ALMSHOUSE
MILITARY SCHOOLS Biographical List
MARRIAGES CODICIL AND OTHER FORMS WOMEN PIONEERS
THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI 1918 ADVERTISEMENTS LINKS
PORTRAITS CEMETERY LOOK UPS DEATH NOTICES
1918 BUSINESS DIRECTORY BREEDERS DIRECTORY 1935 Township Platt Maps
Vitals Records POSTCARDS Codicil and Genealogy Forms
1918 AUTO DIRECTORY 1918 TRACTOR DIRECTORY Mortality Schedules

 

Nadine Holder has a wonderful site on Eliza and New Boston,Mercer County on her site Life Along the Mississippi in the 1800's. It's full of information! HERE

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Penny Postcards: A great site with old postcards from towns and counties around the United States.

Click HERE

 

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Apr. 7, 2008

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Dear Ancestor
Author unknown

Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out  
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care  
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist  
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you  
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse  
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled  
One hundred years ago 
Spreads out among the ones you left 
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew  
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.

 

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