CEMETERIES
of
Gallatin
County, Illinois
&
A History of the County
Volume
2
INTENDED FOR PERSONAL
GENEALOGY AID
NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE
Thanks to the Miner family for making them available on line.
by
Glen
Miner
First Printed 1979
Second Printing with
some corrections
and additions 1984
Click on the link for the
part you want or All of Book 2.
Read Glen Miners comments
below (page 0)
There
are many SURNAMES in parts 2 and 3 but there is no index.
Use
your browser search feature to search for your names.
UNOFFICIAL CONTENTS
(Not in printed book)
Introduction and Explanation page 0 below
Cemetery Inscriptions pages 1 36
Markers found since
publication of
Vol. 2 in 1979, not in index page 36B
SURNAME Index of pages 1 36 of this book pages 110 - 113
Gallatin Co. Court Proceedings, Shawneetown
Illinois Territory General
Order Book
1813 1818 pages 37 39
A little history from Glen pages
40 46
Actions taken by Governing body of Gallatin
from 1813 1820 pages 47 61
Records from Gallatin Co. Commissioners
Record Book of 1850s pages 62 70
Village of Equality Minute Book 18311853 pages 71 76
Towns, Postoffices and other places with
names in Gallatin Co. pages 77 78
Businesses, Ads, and Newspapers of
early Gallatin Co. pages 79 109
page 0
AN INTRODUCTION TO
THE CONTENTS OF VOL. ONE & TWO, GALLATIN COUNTY, ILLINOIS
CEMETERIES, BY GLEN
MINER.
Volume
1, published in 1973 contains a short history of the county as well as
inscriptions from its some 90 cemeteries, surviving in the 1950s, along with
their approximate locations. The abandoned ones were complete. The more than
6,000 inscriptions are indexed by surname. It also contains the indexed names
of the county's that landowners who bought U.S. Govt. land from the U.S. land
office located in Shawneetown after 1814, Township of entree also shown.
Volume
2 of Gallatin County, Ill, Cemeteries and a History of the County also by Glen
Miner of Ridgway Ill. Contains a map of Gallatin County and some of the
adjoining counties, made by Professor Campbell about 1869.
Pages
1 to 36 contain inscriptions from cemeteries not completed in vol. 1. Those
supplements are, Palestine #1 & 2 in or near Omaha, New Zion. Hazel Ridge,
Adkin or Bethlehem, Barnett or Kedron, Hogan, Oak Grove at Cottonwood, Reid
Hill, Callicott or Harrelson, Kanady, McGehee, Jackson near Ridgway, St.
Joseph, Old Cottonwood, Perkins, Zion or Brick Church Cemetery, Elmwood and
Poplar. The following are in adjoining counties but near the Gallatin County
Line. Dutton, Mathews, McPherson (also sometimes called Black or Love) and
Russell Cemeteries in Hardin County. Jones and Colbert are in S.E. part of
Saline County and Keasler or Newman and Davis or Wolfe are in S.E. corner or
Hamilton County. All surnames are also indexed for these cemeteries.
Pages
37‑38 & 39 contain names of jurors, plaintiffs and defendants etc
mentioned in county court proceedings 1813 to 1816 when Gallatin contained all
or part of 8 neighboring counties of today. The rest of the 108 pages are given
to a general history of the county, its towns, crossroad communities and trade
centers. These include how and where many of the first roads were laid out,
many items from territorial and county records including administration of
estates from 1813 to 1820, abbreviated items from the minute book of Village of
Equality from 1831 to 1853, county records of the 1850s, many old news paper items
and advertisers, New Market and other country store licensees and also several
pages of early area pictures. Completed Dec. 18‑1978 and preparing
manuscripts for reprint on 3‑21‑1984.
I
wish to thank those who have preserved and contributed material and
information, which I have used in this book. A few of these are the record
keepers in our county courthouse, Jack Blackard of Omaha, George McLain of
Equality, our county newspapers of the past and present, those who wrote
stories for the Shawneetown and also the recent Equality sesquicentennial, Mrs.
Mattie Sanks and her son David, the Fillingim Family, Horace G. Brown former
county school superintendent, the descendants of the Smith Family of New
Market, descendants of the Crawford Family and Elbert E. Lamb for his 80 page
story on this area also my grandparents and many others long deceased have left
stories.
Often a
parent or a grandparent of long ago who started to school here or began their
romance there, added their bit to local history. Mrs. Sanks, now dec'd as is
Mr. Blackard and McLain, attended school in old Equality Ct. house.
I
realize I am much better at the collection of history than the writing of it
but I also realize that a collection is of no value unless passed on to those
who might enjoy it. I have made an effort to eliminate errors but I am sure
there are some, which can't be blamed on the dim and yellowed records or the
weathered cemetery markers.
Soon
after publication of Vol. 1, of Gallatin County, Ill., Cemeteries in 1973 I was
told, I had missed one. It was said to be in government forestland about 3 mi.
S.W. of Old Shawneetown and within sight of the Ohio. Thanks to Mr. Sidney,
Pindell for the copy of inscriptions, which he brought me after accidentally
finding this cem. A large marble mkr for Josiah Lambert b 5‑5‑1812
d 12‑12‑1855. A few ft. away Sarah d 4‑12‑1851 at 16,
w/o D. Franklin, an M.L. on footstone.
He
was unable to read 3 others. In 1850 Rivers Lambert entered 240 acres in
Sections 14 & 23 and died in 1852 and Josiah was administrator of estate.
There has recently been charges made of illegal digs in adjoining Indian cem.
Addendum or
Supplement to cemeteries of Gallatin County Ill. Vol.2