Hugh Carroll, Fayette County
Hugh Carroll was sent to Vandalia in 1860 with the Brown brothers who were so successful in Vandalia. In 1855 Hugh Carroll had been a...
Eliza, Mary and Charles Toland, DeWitt County
Eliza J. Toland (1873 - 1923) and her siblings first appear in the record in the 1880 census, when she was living in New Jersey with her...
James Lane, Illinois Newspaperman
James Lane (b. 1869) was sent to Illinois in 1882, but had moved far from Illinois in 1888. He was just 19, but had worked on two...
The Early Years
In the first twenty years or so of the annual reports, the names of the children as well as their guardians were not printed in the...
Elizabeth Longmore, Henry County
Elizabeth Longmore Wiley's obituary contained the claim that she had travelled west with her parents as a girl and settled in Kewanee....
