by RandolphIL | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
H. Elmer McGuire Expires at Farm Home at Age 78 Had Lived in This Community for More Than 50 Years. Funeral Services Held Tuesday. H. Elmer McGuire, for more than fifty years a prominent farmer in this community, died at his farm home a short distance northwest of...
by Pamela Treme | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
Former Mayor of Marissa Dies at Home of His Son William McKee Lyons Passes Away Early Monday; Other Marissa Happenings (By Mrs. H. J. Young) William McKee Lyons, aged and highly-respected Marissa resident, died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lyons, his son, Monday...
by Pamela Treme | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
Centennarian of St. Clair County Dies John R. Lyons, Who Celebrated His Century Birthday Sep 14, Last, Passed Away Last Friday Evening. John R. Lyons, whose one hundredth birthday The Plaindealer publishers helped to celebrate at his home in Marissa September 14,...
by Jane Wiley Boyd | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
Mrs. Josie Blair Hawthorne Dies Following Stroke Prominent Young Matron of Near Blair Had Been Ill for only ten days Mrs. James Hawthorne, well-known and popular young matron of the Blair neighborhood, died at her home near the village last Saturday, May 16th, after...
by Nancy Attey | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
Death of Mrs. E. L. T. Hampton Mrs. E. L. T. Hampton died at the home of her son, George W. Hampton, in this city at an early hour last Friday morning. She had been ill with pneumonia for a week previous to her death. She was 69 years, five months, and seven days of...
by Pamela Treme | Mar 2, 2014 | Newspapers
Card of Thanks. As it would be almost impossible to meet all the kind friends personally and thank them for their many favors and tender considers and sympathy during the long illness and at the funeral of our beloved father William Edmiston, we use The Plaindealer to...
by RandolphIL | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
November 7, 1872 Our Coulterville correspondent furnishes us the following particulars concerning the death of Mr. Z. P. Flower, a citizen of that place, who deliberately ended his life by cutting his own throat with a razor. The circumstances as we were able to learn...
by Marcia Hippard Larson | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
Grim Reaper Calls Another Citizen And Robert J. Carns1 lays down the Burdens And Cares of his life Jan. 18, 1921 Early Tuesday afternoon the word began to spread over town announcing the death of R. J. Carns. (Robert John) He had been sick for some weeks and the end...
by Alyce Beggs | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
The Grim Reaper Plucks A Flower After being sick for over a month little Harvey Wisely Carlock, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Carlock passed away at the home of his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Sturdivant, Friday March 5, 1920. He was born near Pleasant...
by Marcia Hippard Larson | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
Mary Ann Cairns,1 daughter of John and Mary McLaughlin, we born April 10, 1855 at Fairfield, Illinois and died at her home in Coulterville, October 24, 1933 being 78 years, 6 months and 14 days of age. Her father having died early in life, her mother was remarried in...
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