schuylernewhome

  SchuylerCounty Family Reunions To submit your familyreunion dates, please contact RobinPetersen.Please include date,location and contact person. Family – Articlesfrom The Rushville Times 2000 Reunion Information Anderson/Vaughn/Estes Baxter Bedenbender Belville 20 August 2000 Billingsley Bollinger 15 July 2000, Holiday Island,Arkansas Bonser Campbell- McNeely Claassen Clayton 30 July 2000 Downs Estes Evans Farwell 2 July 2000 Graham 6 August 2000 Graham Heritage Festival 1 October 2000, Lowell, WestVirginia Grate Greenplate Hightower Huckabey Kelly Kirkham Lashbrook 16 July 2000 Lashbrook Leezer Lenover 27 July 2000, Clark Park,Mt. Sterling Lerch McDonald July 2000, Weinberg-King StatePark, Augusta McWhorter 20 August 2000, Wallace Park,Canton Moore … Read more

  SchuylerCounty Public Schools The history of the publicschools of Schuyler County is coincident with that of the State of Illinois,and it must ever be a source of local pride to know that, at the firstmeeting of the County Commissioners, held on July 7, 1825, plans were madefor the organization of a school district, and by petition the same wasregularly formed two weeks later. The wisdom and foresightof the pioneers of Illinois was shown most clearly in their endeavor toestablish a system of public schools at a time when the cause of populareducation was by no means popular. The foundations … Read more

      CaliforniaGold Rush Experiences     Excerpts from The Way To My Golden Wedding by David R.Hindman, 1908      The first year in the new home was one of greatprosperity, but when we entered the second the interests of the familybecame divided.     This however, did not mar the home pleasures,for one roof still sheltered all. We all sat around the same table andpartook of God’s     bounty, and father was still priest inhis own home. We went to the same house of God and joined with God’s peoplein public worship; our     church connection being with the PresbyterianChurch of Rushville. Thus … Read more

      Preparingfor California      Submittedby Lela Hite [email protected] Excerptfrom “A TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS, MARCH 28TH TO OCTOBER 27TH, 1853”Writtenby Mary Fetter (Hite) Sanford Myfather, Alexander Hite farmed in Illinois in 1852. My brother Abram was22 years old and worked for a neighbor for 12 dollars a month, with roomand board. Abram heard of the the gold in California and asked our fatherto help him outfit a wagon for a trip West. Thefamily decided to all go rather than split up the familly. Alexander askedAbram to wait one year while the whole family got ready to go. Myfather … Read more

     TheManlove Diaries     Submitted by [email protected]  Mark D. Manlove age 23John N. Manlove  age22Two brothers who made theoverland trip to California, were asked to write an account of this tripfifty-five years later. They each wrote in their own style, neither havingmade any notes as he made the journey so long ago. The older brother Jonathanmade the trip at the same time in the same company but was unable at thistime to write, being in poor health. Selma, Calif. Feb. 25, 1904 Dear Niece,    As requestedI will now give you a brief outline of the trip across the … Read more

    OurCalifornia BoysWhatBecame of Them…     Samuel W. Boring TheRushville Times, July 30, 1903Tiredof Life At EightySamuelW. Boring An Old Schuylerite, Commits Suicide at San Jose, Cal. SamuelW. Boring, known to many of the old residents of Schuyler,committedsuicide at San Jose, Cal. on July 12th. Mr. Boring went toCaliforniain 1849 when the discovery of gold started the Illinoissettlerswestward. He was accompanied by John McNeeley, Wm. Louden, DickStevensonand Edward Boring. Mr. Boring did well in the west and becamewealthyand a power in politics. He last visited Rushville about twentyyearsago. The following account of his death was taken from the … Read more

  SchuylerCounty, IllinoisOurCalifornia Boys1849 The SchuylerCitizenWednesday, March 2, 1859 Names of emigrantswho left Schuyler County in 1849 for California, as furnished by J. D.Manlove, Esq., leader of the Company. The company left Rushvilleon the 1st of April and reached Feather river on 22d October.   John Blackford John McNeilly SamuelBoring John G. McHatton Wm. Brickman Elisha Moore John Brickman L. F. Moran Jacob Brickman Thomas McCowan Barton Carrick Augustus Peters Chas. Crampton Marcellus Price Dr. Clarkson Clay Rodgers Samuel Clarkson Abram Ryan William Clarkson Jackson Reno Stoel [?] Cady Mr. Rook James Doyle Mrs. Rook Simon Doyle Thomas Silvers Francis … Read more

  SchuylerCounty, IllinoisOurCalifornia Boys1850 The SchuylerCitizenTuesday, March 8, 1859 List of persons who leftSchuyler County for California by the Overland Route, in 1850. Benj. Appelgate Isaac Asbury Mathew Asbury John Baxter James Broadas Daniel Brown John Barnaby Daniel Berry James Biggs Nathan Brooks Henry Brittal William Burnsides Basil Boen — Bowers Robert Barnaby Andrew Blackley Robert Boyd Thomas Binckley Roslin Bryant — Berry & wife Caleb Cunningham John D. Corrie Mac Colt Washington Curty — Curty Mrs. Carter & dau Henry Coniga Benjamin Colt Eramus Cady H. Cady — Cram — Carr Con. Cameron Stephen Chipman John Coffee Reuben Cady … Read more

  PioneerSettlers  From the time that SchuylerCounty was first visited by civilized men to the date of actual settlementthere elapsed a century and a half, and this period is forever a hiddenmystery, so far as the historian is concerned.  Situated as it wasupon the great natural waterway between the lakes and the Mississippi River,the county was first visited by Louis Joliet and Father Marquette in theirmemorable voyage of exploration in 1673 and, long before the land trailscrossed the prairie, Schuyler’s border land was familiar to the hardy Frenchvoyageurs and the ever-zealous friars, who penetrated deep into the wildernessto carry the … Read more

  ABANDONEDVILLAGES OF SCHUYLER COUNTY This list is excerpted from an articlewritten in 1918 by Howard F. Dyson titled “Old Times In Schuyler” whichwas reprinted in the Centennial Edition of The Rushville Times, October7, 1948. Erie Located on Section 20 in Fredericktownship. “Located on the river, it was the landing place for all the steamboatsthat plied upon the Illinois. Founded about 1834, its history is spannedby a decade, for the great flood of 1844 blasted the hopes of those wholooked upon Erie as the river port for all Schuyler county. But the townwill always live in history, for it was … Read more