Thomas Jefferson “Jeff” Binkley, was born January 12, 1850 in Cheatham County, Tennessee in the Cumberland mountains about twenty miles from Nashville to Asa Binkley and Millie Durard. Continue reading
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Joseph Fozard was a native of Yorkshire, England, born at Batley January 15, 1853, to Martin Fozard and Sarah Mortimer. His father was a woolen manufacturer in England, and went to work at the same business on coming to this country, about 1859. He settled in New Jersey about the beginning of the Civil War and brought up his son to the same trade. Continue reading
“They were called “hard roads” and they were a rarity in Illinois in the first two decades of the century, but Marion was a center of a movement to get Egypt out of the mud. Continue reading
Harry L. Crisp 1901-1975
Harry L. Crisp, Sr. was born at Aiken, Illinois in Franklin County on December 25, 1901 to Charles Crisp and Laura (Burns) Crisp. Continue reading
The following is a series of articles appearing in the Marion Daily Republican involving the murder of Cecil Jenkins in May 1970, one of a number of unsolved cold cases in Marion, Illinois. Continue reading