When William Odum of Williamson County was mustered out of the army after the War of 1812, he was given a mule and a section of land east of the present Cana Church in the southeastern part of the county. Continue reading
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Charles Weston Hay owned a shoe store next to the First National Bank (now Bank of Marion) at 302 Public Square. Continue reading
Charles Weston Hay was born August 3, 1873 in Carbondale where his parents lived on land that had been formerly owned by his great grandfather, William Morrison. Mr. Hay retained this land until Southern Illinois University instituted condemnation proceedings against the land. The “Stone House” was built over the foundation of his birthplace, and the rest of the land became the University Farms. Continue reading
It’s unlikely that when Samuel S. Vick opened his drug store on the square in Marion, Illinois in 1872 that he could have foreseen the coming chain of events. Continue reading
Samuel Smithson Vick was born June 23, 1827, near Nashville, Tennessee, and moved to Russellville, Logan County, Ky., where he married Miss Martha J. Newton, February 6, 1848. Continue reading
