tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32562095578255895972024-03-05T05:46:34.326-06:00Christian Co., IL. Genealogical & Historical SocietiesCCGShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020590080879818789noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3256209557825589597.post-28328189652435644512014-10-22T10:53:00.002-05:002014-10-22T10:53:17.541-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />CCGShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020590080879818789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3256209557825589597.post-91815323416695892522014-09-12T14:11:00.003-05:002014-09-12T14:11:51.524-05:00<i>Why not spend an evening with CCGS friends at "Wimmer Cemetery near Auburn, IL</i>.<br />
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<br />CCGShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020590080879818789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3256209557825589597.post-1853900346358131282014-08-30T20:32:00.004-05:002014-08-30T20:32:44.230-05:00October/November 2014 Christian County Genealogy Quarterly excerpts.... The upcoming Christian County Genealogy Society Quarterly will be featuring a couple of articles of interest with regard to historical/genealogical occurrences in Christian County in the late 1800's. One will be an overview of the 4/29/1880 article in the Morrisonville Times with regard to the 1880 Tornado and the path of its destruction as well as an article on the much talked about Hell's Half Acre. <br />
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The following are excerpts from those articles..... <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">HELL’S
HALF ACRE: THE HISTORY OF THE LEGENDARY
GHOST TOWN OF CHRISTIAN COUNTY. (1855 TO
1880) <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Much speculation has went around present
day Christian County about the location, history of and the demise of the village
of Half Acre, better known as Hell’s Half Acre.
To the present day little still exists documenting the now ghost town of
Christian County. .....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Half Acre’s reputation
gained its notoriety as being known as Hell’s Half Acre when criminal and unsavory
types of persons took residence in and/or frequented the village, both before
and after the Civil War. In the 8/21/1903 edition of the Decatur Daily Review,
it was reported that during the Civil War, it was rumored to be the
headquarters for a band known as the Knights of the Golden Circle and a known
location to harbor deserters of the Army.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">The article further mentions that an old resident travelling thru Half
Acre was so impressed with the reputation of Hell’s Half Acre and all that he
witnessed that he wrote an article to a Chicago newspaper about the village,
but to date this writer can find no evidence of such an article.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Per an accounting in the 7/28/1927 Breeze
Courier, Major Vandeveer related that the saloon, located on the widely
traveled road, attracted all types of persons with the promise of liquor, women
and gambling; including gamblers, robbers, killers, and deserters from both
sides of the Civil War.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">The village was
known for the types of persons who gathered there as the unsavory persons
frequenting the village would often lay in wait for passersby or ride into
Taylorville causing uneasiness and fear among the travelers and residents of
Taylorville with their unruly actions and shooting sprees.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">“No man was safe on the roadway or dark’ stated
Major Vandeveer.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">Major Vandeveer’s and
the witness referenced in 1903 accounting’s claims that deserters of the Civil
War were known to frequent Half Acre were given credibility by my father’s
finds of the Civil War uniform button.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">This
Civil War button could also have belonged to Edward Bradley himself as Mr.
Bradley’s Civil War Draft Registration was found dated September 10, 1863, but
no other documentation of his actual enlistment, or muster papers could be
found, to actually place him as fighting for either side.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;"> .....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: justify;">To learn more about the location, stories of the occurrences and what a genealogical search found on the owner of Half Acre, contact CCGS for a membership soon so you won't miss out on the rest of the information!!!! </span><br />
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Visited by a Disasterous Cyclone<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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1880, will long be remembered by the residents of Christian County as an epoch
in its history, fraught with desolation, ruin and death. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sunday morning vague rumors were afloat, as to the awful calamity, caused by
the dread cyclone’s resistless march --
too sole verified in all its horrible reality.
On Monday, through the courtesy of Mr. Thos. Smith, a farmer living on
the place of T. J. Hailey of Palmer, Ill., who, in company of others, visited
the scene of the disaster, where on Saturday at 5 o’clock, all nature seemed to
smile with the dawn of a revivifying period, and where home of plenty abounded;
now shorn of adornment, wrecked beyond all possibility of future use. The storm sounds to have gathered in the
south-west and travelled almost a north-eastwardly direction, with but
little deviation from a direct line from
whence it came until eleven miles of a beautiful farming country had been
utterly stripped of building, fruit trees, fences, too, the destruction of years of toil of many a sturdy
tiller of the soil. Leaving in its track
three dead and many wounded, several of whom will probably die; besides stock
of every description, strewn about, and mangled is every inconceivable
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first place in the track of the storm was the home of Mr. Thomas Smith, 4 ½
miles from this place. Summing up,
happily found, no casualties of any great magnitude apparent. Mr. Smith in his delineation, represented the
storm as seen by himself, as gathering in mid air preparatory to the fall
enlarged, and remaining stationary for a few seconds, then with a rush beyond
preparation, swooped down, lifting the house clear off the founodation and
partially turning it about, dropped it some twenty-five feet away; overturning
the kitchen stove and a dish safe, the latter falling upon his little boy of
three years, fortunately doing him no harm.
The outside of the house presents the appearance of having withstood a
siege by a battering ram, the shingles being torn off in many places, while a
great hole in the side of the home, shows plainly that a missile of some weight
found a lodgehole there. Mr. Smith says,
“I tell you boys, it came with a rush; tearing my stable and smoke house into
everlasting giblets -- where they are I do not know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b> To find out more about Hell's Half Acre and if maybe one of your relatives were in the path of the 1880 tornado and the resulting damage, contact us for a membership to obtain the October Christian County Genealogical Society Quaterly! Check us out on our FB page also!!! </b></span></div>
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Lorrie FoorCCGShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020590080879818789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3256209557825589597.post-25849093293984698162014-08-24T18:19:00.001-05:002014-08-25T10:37:31.025-05:00HappenngsThere's a lot happening that you can attend at/or nearby the CC Genealogical Society in the next three months that we'd like to mention them here.<br />
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<b><i><u>August 29-31</u></i></b> friends at <b>'Coal Creek Days'</b> located at the Northeast Corner of The fairgrounds in Pana, IL.<br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">September 28:</i> The CC Genealogical Society and the Assumption Historical Society will present:<br />
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Coming events will be:<br />
<b><i><u>October 4-5:</u></i></b> 'Taylorville & Christian County's <b><a href="http://www.celebrate175.com/">'175th Celebration'</a> </b>Events happening during these two days at the CC Historical Society are posted on the 'Historical Society' tab at the top of this blog<br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">October 16, 7:00pm</i> Friends at the Taylorville Public Library have guest John Hallwas presenting, <b>“Cemeteries and Graves”</b>: American
Historical and Literary Perspectives”. The origin of cemeteries as we know them
today is a complex one that draws on our changing attitudes towards death and
dying over the last two centuries. As Hallwas says of the change in cemeteries
over the years in his book “Here to Stay”: “When the dead resided in a
beautifully kept and spiritually infused place, then death itself seemed less
formidable and frightening.” The IL Humanities Council Road Scholars Program will
sponsor this presentation.<br />
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<b><u><i>October 18-19:</i></u></b> Our friends at Moweaqua's Muddy Water <b>RENDEZVOUS</b><br />
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<br />CCGShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020590080879818789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3256209557825589597.post-23819846540212981812013-09-22T14:28:00.003-05:002013-09-22T14:29:27.153-05:00Cemetery Walk Sept. 29, 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />CCGShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020590080879818789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3256209557825589597.post-41467597245611634592013-09-22T14:13:00.001-05:002013-09-22T14:17:34.211-05:00Cancellation<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We regret to say that the book signing for September 24, 2013 at the Taylorville Public Library with Sue Elmore, author of 'Nameless Indignities' has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This blog will post the rescheduled book signing when a New date has been set.</span>CCGShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020590080879818789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3256209557825589597.post-1181711618371847422013-07-16T10:52:00.000-05:002013-07-16T10:52:25.856-05:00<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
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Taylorville paper, the Breeze-Courier ran this in their Sunday, July 14, 2013
edition - The book signing is tentatively planned at the Taylorville Public
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Local attorney & Civil War Historian <b>Tom Doyle</b> will be speaking on the:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Tom will also bring an up-date on the 'Long' family of Taylorville, IL.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>This Event is made possible by the generosity of the <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Christian County Genealogical Society</span> and is <b>Free to the Public</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A printable PDF of this event is available <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9ieLevS1S39Wk5VbUdXYk9Nc2c/edit?usp=sharing">here</a> for off-line viewing and telling others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is with great
pleasure that I've gotten to correspond with book author Rhonda M. Kohl. About
two years ago she had called the Christian Co. Historical Society asking if we
might have a photo of William Skiles, (a Taylorville, IL. native in which the Society
had published, a now out of print book titled "Letters to Home"), so
that she could use the photo in her new book "Prairie Boys Go To
War". I looked, and yes we did which I copied and sent to her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About the Fifth
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Prairie Boys Go to
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The Civil War in Illinois will be the topic of discussion for a free speaking program sponsored by the CCGS at <b>1:30p.m. on Sunday afternoon, April 15</b> in the Pence building on the grounds of the Christian Co. Historical Society.<br />
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Carlinville author Tom Emery will present the program, which will cover a wide array of topics relating to the Civil War in the Land of Lincoln. The one-hour discussion will include the following subjects:<br />
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<li>Leading figures of the Civil War from Illinois,</li>
<li>Illinois men in key Civil War battles,</li>
<li>Life on the Illinois home front, including divisions between North and South,</li>
<li>Top fighting units from the State of Illinois,</li>
<li>Civil War prisons in Illinois,</li>
<li>The importance of Illinois to the Union effort.</li>
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The program will also include information on Christian County in the Civil War, including some of the top personalities and events from the county during the <i>"war of rebellion"</i>.<br />
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An accomplished speaker and public address announcer, Emery has fourteen book and booklet titles in print, many of which will be available for sale following the discussion. He has been featured in newspapers across Illinois and is currently completing a large-scale print and web history of the Illinois State Library.<br />
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There will be a Chicken Noodle dinner served by the Christian County Historical Society prior to the program. Serving from 11:00a.m. until 1:00p.m.<br />
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<i>Some original documents of Company 'H', 14th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers organized by Captain Andrew Simpson at Taylorville, IL. in th month of May 1861 will be on display.</i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">For the location of the Christian Co., IL. Genealogical Society click on 'Visit our Website' for a link</span></i></div>CCGShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020590080879818789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3256209557825589597.post-57357297558820007332012-03-15T11:16:00.002-05:002012-03-16T07:38:52.991-05:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Tom's talk will be held in the Pence building on the grounds of the Christian County Historical Society & Museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> The Christian Co. Historical Society will be hosting a Chicken & Noodle luncheon from 11:00am to 12:30pm for those who would like to eat before Tom Emery's talk. </span><br />
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