Anderson Macklin “Mack” Garrison was born in Saline County to Thomas Wilkerson Garrison and Sarah Jane Miller on February 10, 1862. In the 1870 federal census, the family was living in Saline County and using the Bankston Post Office. Thomas … Continue reading
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Lee Roy Hudgens was born on December 19, 1885 in Hudgens, Illinois to Zachariah Hudgens and Mary J. Cooksey. Nothing remains of Hudgens, Illinois today but it is located app. 5 miles south of Marion on Hudgens Road where railroad … Continue reading
Cline Vancleve Cunningham was born either in or near Crab Orchard village on December 27, 1873 to James T. Cunningham and Laura Hendrickson. His father, James T., was born in Mississippi and after the death of his father was brought … Continue reading
According to James Winslow Holland’s Illinois death record, he was born in Carbondale, Illinois on November 23, 1866 to Jerome Bryce Holland and Mary Jane Calvert. By the time the 1870 census was taken, the parental family unit of Jerome … Continue reading
Robert Wesley Alsbrook was born in Marion on October 30, 1872 to Stephen Wesley Alsbrook and Sarah Jane Blankenship, the daughter of Isham Blankenship who owned considerable property in West Marion around what would now be the Dairy Queen and … Continue reading