During the gloomy years of the Depression, old timers in Marion, Illinois predicted that the city was a “goner” and would soon become a ghost town. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Henry Brown was born in 1858 in northern Illinois. He married his wife Victoria Winters on October 17, 1878 in Peoria County, Illinois. Continue reading
Lilly Curve
Mrs. Ollie Anderson, 1613 West Main Street can look back at what has transpired during the last 79 years from the perspective of the oldest resident of the street where she came to live in 1898. With the exception of one five-year period in another location she has lived on West Main Street since she came to Marion with her parents at the age of five. Continue reading
James Polk Copeland was born September 24, 1845 in Johnson County at Vienna, Illinois to Samuel and Sarah Copeland. Continue reading
Mrs. Minnie Lilley Copeland, operated the Marion Greenhouses on South Court Street for more than 40 years. Continue reading