Category Archives: Residential

Marion’s Residential Homes and Living

Warder, William H. 1859-1936, Warder Law Firm, 502 S. Market St.

Posted on by October 24, 2014

William H. Warder 1859-1936
1904 Impromptu Group
William H. Warder home at 502 S. Market St.
Isabella Warder Bundy, died in1883

William H. Warder, legislator, attorney and teacher, was born on August 21, 1859 in Johnson County, Illinois, the second son of Joseph Warder (1810-1887) and Anne T. Kirkham (1822-1890). His mother, Anne, was the daughter of Thomas Kirkham and Elizabeth Pruitt.

Joseph Warder and Ann Thomas Kirkham (1822) were married near the Blue Lick Springs, in Fleming County, Kentucky on Feb 3, 1842. They resided in Flemingsburg for 7 or 8 years and then moved to Maysville, the county seat of Mason County, Kentucky where they lived for about two years. Two children, Elizabeth and Isabell, had been born to them while they resided in Flemingsburg. Continue reading →

Robertson, Martin W. 1839-1906, Merchant and Trustee, 403 E. Main St.

Posted on by June 30, 2014

Martin W. Robertson 1839-1905
Malvina Dunaway Robertson 1846-1916
403 E. Main Street, Marion, Illinois
403 E. Main Street, Marion, Illinois

Martin Wiley Robertson, Marion Trustee and merchant, was the son of Henry Robertson (1775-1845) of Nashville Tennessee and Mary Spiller (1798-1853) of Virginia by way of Tennessee. Mother, Mary, was the daughter of William Spiller and Winifred Benson.

Martin’s father, Henry Robertson, came to this part of Illinois, about 1818, returned to Tennessee, then came back in 1823, and settled three and a half miles northwest of Marion, filing his first land claim in 1836, where he farmed successfully until his death in 1845. Henry bought one of the original lots in Marion when the land for the town went up for sale. Continue reading →

Marion Illinois Properties on the National Register of Historic Places

Posted on by May 15, 2014

Did you know that there are five properties in Williamson County that are currently listed on the National Register of Historic places and all five of them are located in Marion, Illinois? The applications for all five are on file at the Williamson County Historical Society Museum located at 105 S. Van Buren Street, which is one of the five places listed. Continue reading →

1963, South Market Low Rent Elderly Housing Project

Posted on by March 6, 2014

South Market Elderly Housing
South Market Elderly Housing
South Market Elderly Housing
South Market Elderly Housing
South Market Elderly Housing

Planning for an elderly low-rent housing project that was formed as early as 1960 finally came to fruition in 1963 when the Williamson County Housing Authority got approval on 40 units in Herrin for $506,834 and 20 units in Marion for $265,684. By March of 1963, the Marion units were well under way but bad weather and an area-wide carpenter’s strike delayed construction of the units early on. By June the units were reported to be 98 percent complete and by the end of July they underwent preliminary inspection and final touches. Continue reading →