Current Updates to the

Woodford County Site

Thanks to Amy Robbins-Tjaden's hard work, we added burial lists for two new cemeteries: Panther Creek Cemetery in Roanoke, listing 168 ancestors, and the "New" Apostolic Christian Cemetery, also in Roanoke, listing 732 ancestors.  (Yes, there is an "Old" Apostolic Christian Cemetery too, for which we haven't posted any data yet.) These lists, as well as all of the obituaries and headstone pictures on this site are searchable from the search engine on the Home Page.;

Kris Murray contributed four obituaries and Marjorie Welsch contributed an obituary and a photo.

Gale Red, coordinator of the Illinois Confederate Graves project, and our old friend Steve Slaughter, identified several Confederate Army veterans buried in Panther Creek and other Woodford County cemeteries.  Details on their efforts to identify Confederate Veterans buried in Illinois cemeteries are included in the Brick Walls Page.

Amy contributed 22 obituaries, the Panther Creek and New Apostolic Christian Church burial lists, and ten headstone pictures.  If she's not exhausted from typing, she should be.

Many thanks,

Bill 

A Lost 'n Found page was added to aid in identification of some of our ancestors whose names have been forgotten.  So far there are 24 pictures there, and it's still growing. Click here to help us put names to these great pictures.

With special thanks to Marjorie Grebner Welsch, we added the WWI Memorial located in the Eureka Courthouse, which identifies the approximately 1,050 men and women who enlisted for that war in Woodford County.  As far as we know, this is the only such list available on the internet. Click here to locate your WWI Woodford County ancestor.

The St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery page was added which includes a burial list of 358 of our Woodford County ancestors, and a burial list was added to the Clayton township cemetery page which included 363 ancestors.  This brings the data available to Woodford County researchers to 418 obituaries, 364 headstones, and burial lists for 6,495 ancestors.  All of these obituaries, headstones and lists are searchable from the search engine on the Home Page.;

A souvenir history of the Morsetown School, titled "1857 Morsetown 1957,
One Hundred Years" was added to the Schools page. Click here to view the book.
 

Kris Murray contributed three biographies

Amy Robbins-Tjaden contributed a biography.

Amy contributed 2 obituaries, the Clayton township burial list, and the St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery burial list to greatly enrich our data base.

Marie contributed six photographs of the Bailey, Ostler families

Many thanks,

Bill 

You can now browse our list of 26 cemeteries by either Cemetery name, or by Township;

A Secor Cemetery page was added, which includes a burial list of 1,497 of our ancestors.  This brings the data available to Woodford County researchers to 416 obituaries, 364 headstones, and burial lists for 5,774 ancestors.  All of these obituaries, headstones and lists are searchable from the search engine on the Home Page.;

A Morsetown School section was added, which includes a 1932-1933 student picture; and

We have started to add 25th and 50th anniversary photos to the wedding pictures with two donations so far.

Coming soon will be a "Lost 'n Found, but not identified" page to make identifying "unknowns" in our pictures easier.

Marjorie Grebner Welsch contributed 4 Gabetown headstone photos

Pat Ellis contributed two funeral cards which are in the obituary section

Rod Ranney contributed his personal observations on the "Morsetown versus Morris Town" cemetery name with considerable authority, as he grew up near there.

Amy contributed 18 obituaries, 1 obituary photo, 4 headstone pictures and a burial list of 1,497 of our ancestors in Secor Cemetery.

Many thanks,

Bill 

Prior Updates

March-September 2007