by RandolphIL | Aug 22, 2018 | Biographies
George Fisher (Adam, Sebastian) was the fourth son of Adam and Christina Fisher of Hampshire County, Va., and the eldest of the three minor sons named in Adam’s will. He came of age about three years after his father’s death, and a court record shows that...
by RandolphIL | Mar 1, 2014 | Genealogy, Biographies
Most of the listings here, are with the permission of the Randolph County Genealogical Society Quarterly publication of “The Trails” and others who have donated their information. Adair, Captain William M. Allen, Seth Aronowski, Joseph Ballard, Cornhill...
by Mildred T. Kent | Mar 1, 2014 | Genealogy
Thurston Thomas married on Kaskaskia Island 21 November 1818, to Elizabeth Evans b. VA. Their three sons and two daughters were: Plummer Thomas b. ca1821 on Kaskaskia Island, d. 1875 Steeles Mill Twp, Randolph County, married on 2 Feb 1841 to Mary Ann Dobbs b. GA....
by David McKelvey | Mar 1, 2014 | Biographies
Samuel Wylie – It was a beautiful location and appealed to the Rev. Samuel Wylie to such an extent that when a town was laid out, he called it Eden. It was here that the Rev. Wylie, who had been sent to the Kaskaskia region as a missionary in 1817, helped in...
by Carolyn Whitaker | Mar 1, 2014 | Biographies
The ranks of the legal profession are largely recruited from among farmers’ ambitious sons. Such an one was Warren N. Wilson. He was born February 8, 1821, on the present site of the village of Baldwin. His parents were James and Jennie Wilson, (nee McBride.) They...
by David McKelvey | Mar 1, 2014 | Biographies
James White came to the vicinity of the present town of Steeleville about 1808 and settled in the west half of section 17, near where the Steeleville and Chester road crosses Mary’s River. He would thus appear to be the third settler in the area.
by David McKelvey | Mar 1, 2014 | Biographies
Robert Tindall – Another early settler who believed a gristmill would prove profitable was Robert Tindall who began construction of one on Tindall Creek about four miles northeast of Chester in 1802. Floods washed away the mill before its completion, and...
by Carolyn Whitaker | Mar 1, 2014 | Biographies
At the close of the year 1804 another important colony reached the Irish settlement, among which were Absalom Cox, Archibald Thompson, James Thompson, Robert McDonald, and William McBride. Archibald Thompson was a man of excellent character. In 1812 he moved to a farm...
by David McKelvey | Mar 1, 2014 | Biographies
Levi Teale and James Curry were hunting, when night overtook them, they stopped at a house, newly built by David Pagan. During that night, they were attacked by Indians. Teale wished to surrender, but Curry chose to fight. The Indians helped to decide the matter when...
by David McKelvey | Mar 1, 2014 | Biographies
John Steele – When John Steele came to the site of Steeleville and settled in 1807, he brought with him several sons. One of Steele’s sons, George, built a gristmill powered by oxen. Georgetown, Steele’s Mills, or as it was later known,...
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