by Marcia Hippard Larson | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
Lulu May Cairns1 aged 12 years, 9 months and 11 days, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert John Cairns, died December 1, 1904, at the home of her parents in Coulterville. Deceased, while never of robust health, was taken ill quite suddenly and after a few hours of...
by RandolphIL | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
Adaline Kirk, daughter of Mitchel and Rachel Kirk, of Tennessee, was born May 28, 1847. She was united in marriage to Francis Crittenden January 15, 1867. To this union were born nine children, six boys and three girls. One girl died in infancy. Alva, the youngest...
by Pamela Treme | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
William A. Campbell died at Chester, Friday morning, June 9, 1905, aged 57 years, 4 months and 27 days. He was talking with friends on the street when he suddenly fell and expired almost instantly. Heart failure was the cause of death assigned by the coroner’s...
by Pamela Treme | Mar 2, 2014 | Newspapers, Death Records
Killed by the I. C. Fast Train Charles Baird, Farmer Near Sparta, Meets Death on Rail at Coulterville Charles Baird, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Baird, south of town, was run over by the fast train on Illinois Central railroad at Coulterville Wednesday night and...
by Pamela Treme | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
Charles Wesley Adams, one of Sparta’s oldest carpenters, died at 5 o’clock, p. m. Tuesday, August 13, 1912, after only a few days illness, at the age of 61 years, 3 months and 27 days. When Mr. Adams quit his trade he opened a second hand store on Main...
by Pamela Treme | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
Mrs. Anna M. Adams, a native and life long resident of this community, died at 6 o’clock Friday morning after a long illness at the age of 62 years and 22 days. The funeral was held at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Edith Dulle, on West Broadway at 2:30 p. m.,...
by Pamela Treme | Mar 2, 2014 | Obituaries
Sparta News, Sparta, Oct 17, 1918 John Brown Baird, son of the late Samuel P. and Margaret B. (McKee) Baird was born in Oppssumden Prairie, March 13, 1836 and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hugh Wilson, Sparta, October 12, 1918 aged 82 years, 6 months and 29...
by RandolphIL | Mar 1, 2014 | Newspapers, Obituaries, Blacks
6 Jan 1875 Obituary – Mrs. Nancy C. Malone Died, on Monday, December 28, 1874, at Percy, of typhoid fever, Mrs. Nancy C. Malone, in the 38th year of her age. Mrs. Malone was the daughter of the late Judge Campbell, was greatly beloved by a large circle of...
by Carolyn Whitaker | Mar 1, 2014 | Newspapers, Biographies
Matlock and Wassell are the publishers and editors of that recognized leader among Republican journals of southern Illinois, the Chester Tribune. They are both young, energetic, determined men. J. B. Matlack was born in the city of St. Louis, Mo., June 7, 1847. His...
by David McKelvey | Feb 28, 2014 | Newspapers, Biographies, Blacks
This is from the Herald Tribune Newspaper. (reprinted in the Randolph County Genealogy Society’s Quarterly “Trails”) Robert Higgins – enjoying more than local fame as a hunter, moved from the vicinity of Kaskaskia to a place about two miles...
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