Robert E. McKinney was born December 26, 1902 in Crainville, Illinois. McKinney who was active in school affairs and followed in his father’s footsteps as County Superintendent of Williamson County schools spent 44 years in teaching and supervising duties. Continue reading
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Firemen From Area Fight Fire
Fire this morning caused extensive damage to the Eagles Hall building, 612 ½ N. Market, but an intensive firefighting effort prevented the blaze from spreading.
Carl Armes, Eagles secretary, estimated the damage at about $40,000. Continue reading
It’s hard enough to imagine going down into a coal mine to work equipped only with a carbide lamp strapped to your head, but imagine what it’s like to spend over a day crawling around in a pitch black mine trying to find your way out without any light at all. That is exactly what a Marion man experienced in 1937. Continue reading
The cause of a Saturday fire that heavily damaged the Jackson & Grey Insurance Company building at 413 N. Market Street in Marion remains under investigation by the state fire marshal’s office and Marion Fire Department.
No injuries were reported from the blaze, which took about 2 1/2 hours to put out. Marion firefighters were assisted by other local departments. Continue reading
Last Two Veterans of Civil War Living In Marion Recall Days of War Period In South
G. W. Ingels, 88, and Phil Johnson, 100-year Old Colored Veteran, Are Survivors In Marion
Memorial Day in Marion in 1937 finds the thinning ranks of Civil War veterans has dwindled to two Union soldiers, one of them a white man who shouldered a gun at the age of 15 years and the other a colored man who at the age of 17 went away to war from a Kentucky plantation with the echo of the slave-driver’s lash and the cries of beaten human beings echoing in his ears. Continue reading