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Name What was it? Ablepsy Blindness Ague Malarial Fever American plague Yellow fever Anasarca General massive edema Aphonia Laryngitis Aphtha Infant disease “thrush” Apoplexy Paralysis from stroke Asphycsia/Asphicsia Cyanotic ( lack of oxygen ) Atrophy Wasting away Bad Blood Syphilis Bilious fever Typhoid, malaria, hepatitis or high temperature and bile emesis Biliousness Jaundice from liver disease Black plague or death Bubonic plague Black fever Acute infection with high temperature and dark red skin lesions, high mortality rate Black pox Black Small pox Black vomit Vomiting black blood due to ulcers or yellow fever Blackwater fever Dark urine with high temperature … Read more

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    TheBaptist ChurchLittleton   The Baptist ChurchBy John Knowles The Baptist Church in thevillage of Littleton, was organized in 1849. A number of the members ofthe Rushville Baptist Church lived in the neighborhood, and it was thoughtdesirable to plant a Baptist Church in the village. Seventeen members weregranted letters from the Rushville Church, and Littleton Baptist Churchbecame a fixed face; has remained such ever since, and is to-day a flourishingchurch of some one hundred and fifty or one hundred and sixty members,and a large and interesting Sabbath-school.  Source: The Combined Historyof Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois, 1882Transcribed by Carol … Read more

    TheBaptist Church   By John Knowles An examination of the recordsshows that the origin of what afterwards became the Rushville Baptist Churchwas on this wise:– At a meeting of the SpoonRiver Association, held with Salem Church, in Fulton county, Illinois,a resolution was adopted declaring non-fellowship with all Baptists whowere engaged in mission, Bible, tract, Sunday-school, or temperance effort. A number of members presentdeeming this action a violation not only of their rights as individuals,but also as being in direct conflict with Baptist teaching and usage, andas tending to destroy if carried into effect, the individual independenceof the churches–a … Read more

A Fading Image Schuyler County’s Second CourthouseBuilt about 1880

    BrownCounty Methodist Episcopal Church    By Wm. W. Bower, M. D.,PH.D The territory now includedin Brown county, Illinois, was formerly not only included in Schuyler county,but was also with Schuyler county, included by the Illinois Annual Conferenceof the Methodist Episcopal Church in Peoria circuit, before there wereany settlements in this territory; afterwards Atlas circuit, and next Spoonerriver circuit, which circuits included all of the territory between theIllinois and Mississippi rivers, from their junction as far north as toSpoon river, in Fulton county, and previously to include Peoria. And althoughsome of the preachers appointed to this circuit by the … Read more

    CamdenChristian Church    THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHBy William Fowler The first preaching thatwas done by the ministers of the Church of Christ was in 1840, or nearthat time, by James McHatton, and the next by D. P. Henderson. In 1859Thomas Butler held a meeting and organized a congregation of 14 members.Not being able to support a minister they held social or Lord’s Day meetings.B. Pwatt was the first added to this small group of disciples. In the fall of 1866 ElderHenry Smither of Rushville, held a meeting that lasted for two or threeweeks, assisted by A. H. Rice, the … Read more

  TheChristian Church It was in 1829 thatthe first service of this denomination was held in Schuyler County, andthe minister was Elder James Hughes, who was on his way to Missouri fromOhio. He stopped at the home of Benjamin Chadsey, one of the prominentearly settlers, and was eagerly welcomed.  Services were held at Mr.Chadsey’s home, two and a half miles northeast of Rushville, and whileno attempt was made to found a church, the members of that denominationwere brought closely together and  looked forward to the time whenthey could have a place of worship in accordance with their beliefs. In 1830, … Read more

    TheBaptist Church    Baptists Built First ChurchThis City 1837 The exact date of the firstservices of the Baptist church in Schuyler county was never chronicledin any issue of The Times, but the ministers of that faith were early inthe field and had reached Rushville in the latter 1820’s. A division ofthe church in this early day tended to disorganize the evangelistic work,and the effects of it were felt in Schuyler county. On October 20, 1832, a BaptistChurch of Christ, called Concord, was organized, and there were 23 Schuylercounty persons who signed the constitution and articles of faith. ElderJohn … Read more

  BaptistChurch Just when the first services ofthe Baptist Church were held in Schuyler County is not a matter of record,but the ministers of that faith were early in the field and had reachedRushville in the latter ‘twenties. A division of the church at this earlyday tended to disorganize the evangelistic work and the effects of it werefelt in this county. On October 20, 1832, a Baptist Church ofChrist called Concord, was organized, and there were twenty-three personsin Schuyler who signed the constitution and articles of faith. Elder JohnLogan was called as pastor and he served until 1836 when he … Read more