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  RushvilleTownshipCemeteries Tosee a larger version of these pictures, just click on the thumbnail view.    Good Hope Cemetery Good Hope Cemetery   Picture CreditsGood Hope Cemetery – KarlA. Petersen, May 1999 Copyright 1999, 2000 RobinL. W. Petersen; all rights reserved. For personal use only. Commercialuse of the information contained in these pages is strictly prohibitedwithout prior permission. If copied, this copyright must appear with theinformation. Return toRushville Township Index

  RushvilleTownship History O rescue from oblivionthe incidents of the past, and to preserve the names of the hardy few,who in fact were the real instruments of paving the way and making thewild forests habitable, is the object of the historian.  In a littletime the gray hairs of pioneers, who still live as tottering monumentsof the good old times, will be gathered to their fathers; their children,engrossed by the busy transactions of life, will neglect to treasure upthe doings and recollections of the past, and posterity will search invain for land marks and memorials thereof.  How necessary, then, thatno time … Read more

  EarlyDeaths The SchuylerCitizen, December 29, 1858 New!Deaths in Rushville forthe Years 1849 and 1850, by Mr. Samuel Hindman.1849Jan. 15. A girl at tavern–smallpox.Jan. 15. A child of Atha.Feb. 11. Mrs. Alphin Brown.Feb. 20. Mrs. J. Hill.June 2. Rev. T. J. Haswell.June 9. Ellen, a coloredgirl.July 13. A child of Dr.Taylor.Aug. 20. A child of Mr.Osburn.Aug. 27. A child of J. O.Jones.Sep. 15. Mrs. Evans.Sep. 16. A child of H. Evans.Oct. 1. A child of HoraceWitt.Oct. 1. Mrs. George Little.Nov. 11. Mrs. T. P. Parrott.Nov. 22. A child of Dr.Worthington.Nov. 22. Benjamin F. Scripps.Dec. 30. John Johnson.1850Feb. 12. James C. … Read more

  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

  WoodstockTownship History  Woodstock is one of thefractional townships of Schuyler County, Crooked Creek cutting off a portionof the southwest corner, making the township triangular in shape. The areaincluded within the township, however, is equal to those six miles square,for there are frictional additions on the south and west. The land surface of WoodstockTownship is well drained by numerous streams that flow into Crooked Creek,and in consequence the greater portion of the township is rolling, althoughthere is a large area of small prairies lying between. The soil is richand productive, and suited alike for the cultivation of corn and wheat.The … Read more

  PatronList of theHistoryof Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois – 1882   WoodstockTownship NAME POST OFFICE RESIDENCE OCCUPATION NATIVITY YEAR CAMETO COUNTY Bedenbender, J. Henry Ripley Sect. 23 Farmer and Stock Raiser Nassau, Germany 1856 Mary Messersmith Ripley Sect. 23 Wife of J. Henry Bedenbender Dillenburg, Germany 1866 Brody, Eugene Ripley Sect. 26 Farmer and Stock Raiser Arboyo, France 1864 Lucinda Abbott Ripley Sect. 26 Wife of Eugene Brody Brown Co., Ill. 1839 Byers, Henderson Rushville Sect. 36 Farmer and Stock Raiser Schuyler Co., Ill. 1861 Byers, Will Died Feb. 24, ’62 – Father of Henderson Byers Kentucky 1847 Byers, Eleanor … Read more

  WoodstockTownship History  Woodstocktownship, is situated in the extreme southern part of the county, and isone of the finest bodies of broken land in Schuyler. It contains all oftownship 1 North, Range 2 West, lying north and east of Crooked creek,and also that portion of township 1 South, Range 2 West, and township 1North, Range 3 West, that is cut off from Brown county by the course ofCrooked creek. It is rectangular in shape, bounded on the north by Camdenand Buena Vista, east by Bainbridge, and south and west by Brown county.Originally the whole surface was covered with timber, and … Read more

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