Oliver Hazard Perry Bewley   Occasionally I will find an area of the website where photos were lost in the computer crash and were not re-uploaded to the database.  This is the case with the photos of the Bewley Family.  I apologize to the Bewley family for this oversight.  The pictures are now uploaded and [...]

Daniel Bahan Obituary-1927 From:  Jacksonville Courier, Jacksonville IL    June 30, 1927   Page 6  Column 3 Death Summons Dan Bahan, Sr., Here Wednesday             Former City and County Official Passes Away After Long Illness-Funeral Friday Morning             Daniel Bahan, Sr., a resident of this city since 1882 and who was prominent in both city and county [...]

As with most families we all have our share of unlabeled photographs. Genealogist all know how frustrating this can be and a near impossible problem to fix, especially when dealing with photos from the 1880’s.  Needless to say anyone who could identify these photos has long since passed away.  My only resource for getting these [...]

As promised here is the report from the Cass/Bluegrass Cemetery in Montgomery County, IL.  The Cass Cemetery is located on private property and deep in the woods.  The cemetery is a good ½ to ¾ of a mile hike, it is very overgrown and many of the stones are covered in several inches of soil [...]

            We just returned from Montgomery County, Illinois where we revisited two family cemeteries.  Three years ago we visited the Roberts Cemetery just outside of Honey Bend, IL and the Cass/Bluegrass Cemetery.   When we last visited many of the stones were very weathered, broken or partially buried in the ground.  The weather was also very [...]