I made a visit to the home of Mary and Clarence De Mattei at 1304 W. Main Street on July 15, 2013. The De Mattei’s purchased the old Ed Stotlar home in 1991 after it had sit unoccupied for two or three decades and after about 10 years of renovation occupied it in 2001. Continue reading
Category Archives: MIHP Website
Notice: The old category “History Timeline” has been changed to “Civic Events”.
My wife and I discovered a set of photos in a Vienna, Illinois antique shop today. The photos had been taken on March 6, 1941 by a Marion newspaper photographer. Continue reading
Margaret Reynolds Oliver, a Reynolds descendant, is seeking a male descendant of John Henry Reynolds and Almira Barham to take DNA test. Continue reading
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