Francis Marion Goodall (a.k.a. Frank) was born in Williamson County November 5, 1839, the year Williamson County became separate from Franklin. He was reared on a farm just southeast of Marion and spent his life in this County. Continue reading
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Coal miners rode the electric line to get to work and school children watched plays like “Peck’s Bad Boy” at an opera house on Union Street. Continue reading
DeWitt Talmage Hartwell is descended from a long and distinguished citizenship of Williamson County, where his family forms a thread of the pioneer fabric of Southern Illinois. Continue reading
At the first term of the county commissioners’ court, held in October, 1839, John Davis was granted a license “to retail spirituous liquors at his house in the town of Marion,” Continue reading
With the demise of the Goodall Hotel on March 4, 1941, a large hole thereafter presented itself on the Marion public square. Continue reading
