Alan White, formerly of Carmi, Illinois, while doing research on his family found one of his great grandfathers by the name of Amzi A. White who was born in Connecticut and moved to Illinois about the same time as Marion’s John H. White who is memorialized on this site. Continue reading
Category Archives: People
Sometimes people just don’t end up where you think they will in life. It might be argued that such was the case of 1957 Marion High School graduate Alan D. Kuhn. Continue reading
Quoting a bio taken from the book “Williamson County in the World War 1917-1918”, “America means opportunity,” said Emerson. “An example of this truth is very fittingly proved in the career of Attorney George R. Stone, practicing lawyer of Marion.” Continue reading
Among the citizens of this county who have had much to do with the community’s development from a civic as well as an educational point of view is A. C. Hentz of Marion. Continue reading
Albert Clifton “Cliff” Storme was born In Marion on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1919, the son of Samuel Elbert Storme and Lona (Reeves) Storme. Continue reading