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CEDAR LINE LEGACY; Recollections and Reflections
A new book by Betty Green Rademacher is a chronological collection of twenty-eight brief vignettes that share her recollections of the first ten years (l935 to 1945) of her childhood in Grassy Township in rural Southern Illinois. Her stories include vivid descriptions of farm life and a way of life that no longer exists. She also writes about the impact of World War II on this rural community. (more…)
Mortgage Record books 14 through 20 have recently been indexed and added to our Master Mortgage Record Index. The records tend to range from 1910 to 1921.
Mortgage books 9 through 13 have now been indexed and added to our Master Mortgage Book index on this site. The records range around the years 1906 to 1910.
WCHS has been blessed with many visitors thru the past years for tours of the museum, researchers looking for relatives or publishers working on their books. Last year we mounted a map of the United States and have pins for visitors and members. I have been going thru the visitor logs and have to go thru a couple more but, as of Oct 2022 beginning in July, 2014 we have had visitors from the following countries. We have also had emails from Italy and United Kingdom searching for family. (more…)
Mortgage Record books 5, 6, 7, and 8 have now been indexed and added to our Master Mortgage Record Index.
At a board meeting of the Williamson County Historical Society held on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022 it was decided that the October general meeting will not be held once again due to the county considered to still be at high risk for co-vid. Normally, a re-election of the board would take place at that meeting, but since we have been unable to hold these meetings, the current board has been frozen in place and board members have held their current positions. Unless, someone is interested in holding a board position, the same thing will occur again this year.
If you desire to hold a board position, contact the society by phone at 618-997-5863 or email wchsmail@yahoo.com and inform us of the position that you seek no later than September 30th, 2022. You must be an existing regular member of the society to qualify. If there are no submissions, the current board will serve again for the coming year of 2023.
Mortgage books 1 through 4 of 48 have now been indexed and added to our Master Mortgage Records index. The vast majority of these books appear to range from ca 1903 through 1906.
Over the last few years, one of our society members, Charla Murphy, has set about pouring through funeral home records. She then compared the records which indicated burial in Herrin Cemetery with actual markers found in the cemetery. Those records that did not tally up are then considered unmarked graves. The indexed list has been added to our Master Cemetery Index under “Herrin Cemetery Unmarked Graves.”
Williamson County Mortgage Record Books U thru Z have been completely indexed now and have been added to our Master Mortgage Record Book Index. Most of these mortgage records tend to run from the last years of the 1800’s into the first two years of the 1900’s. We are now starting to index books 1 thru 48, which will be released in blocks of four books at a time. To view the Master Mortgage Record Book Index, click on this link.