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Whitmore – Miller in Macon County, IL History

June 7, 2011 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Macon County, Illinois History – First Marriage Formed in 1829, the county of Macon in Illinois was where our ancestor John Parlen Whittmore wed Delilah Miller, their’s being the first marriage in Macon on 20 January 1829. John who was born in either Connecticut or Massachusetts was the son of Sarah Parlin and Josiah Whittmore [...]

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Bean Family Civil War Veterans – Iowa

April 4, 2011 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

Bean Family Civil War Veterans – Iowa Richard Lemuel Bean 1808-1869 From the Nashua, Iowa Library: He served in Company C, in the 6th Iowa Cavalry “I do not know the year he moved to Nashua from St. Lawrence County, New York, but it was very probably right after the birth of his son [...]

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John Breedlove Civil War Diary: Deaths 1864

January 2, 2011 by Carol Yates Wilkerson

It’s always a goal of mine to share information I think will be helpful to other genealogists and family historians. My cousin Kathleen and I recently received the gift of a lifetime: a scanned copy of our GG-Grandfather John W. Breedlove’s Civil War diary. As soon as I brought it in from the mailbox I [...]