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Welcome to
Crawford County, Illinois
Genealogy and History
A Part of the Genealogy Trails Group
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Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy
Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical
and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers.
My name is Mark Hill and I am the host
for Crawford County, Illinois.
Contact me to add your data to the site. Please make sure you
observe all copyright rules when submitting data. All data has
been transcribed by host unless otherwise stated.
We can use your help!
More information can be found on the Volunteer Page.
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Dust off your family scrapbooks!
I'm looking for DATA for this site!!!
If you are interested in adding your families' information
to this website,
email me. I'd be happy to help your families'
obituaries, news items and other historical data find a home here at Illinois Genealogy Trails, where it will remain
free for all to view.
I'm looking to add the transcribed data from the vital records, biographies from the county histories as well
as the county history information itself, transcriptions of obituaries, burial data from cemetery trompings and/or
readings, the data from military pensions and other service records; enumerations from census years, any newspaper
gleanings for the family members including birth announcements, marriage announcements, death notices/obits and
anything in between - in short, the data you used to build your family tree
(rather than the tree itself since we don't have the space or manpower to accept gedcoms and trees)
I REGRET THAT I AM UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR
YOU.
ALL DATA IS ADDED TO THE SITE AS WE COME ACROSS IT, SO IF IT IS NOT HERE YET, KEEP CHECKING BACK!
Crawford County was established December 31, 1816 (Territorial Laws, 1815 16, p. 21), formed from Edwards
County, Illinois Territory. Sometimes known as "Great Crawford County", its area extended from the Wabash
to the middle of Illinois, and from its present southern border almost to the Canadian border.
Crawford County was formed in 1816 out of Edwards County. At the time of its formation, it encompassed about one
third of the State, but it was reduced to its present borders by 1831 as it spawned new counties. It was named
in honor of William H. Crawford, from Georgia, who was serving as Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury
at the time. Crawford County was home to several battles between the settlers and Indians... [wikipedia]
The crime committed that resulted in the first woman in Illinois to be hanged was committed in Crawford county
(though she was actually executed in Lawrence County)
Robinson, East side of the square, c. 1918
City
Robinson (county seat)
Villages
* Flat Rock * Hutsonville * Oblong * Palestine * Stoy
Townships
* Honey Creek * Hutsonville * Lamotte * Licking * Martin
* Montgomery * Oblong * Prairie * Robinson * Southwest
Other populated areas, past and present, include:
Annapolis * Bellair * Birds * Chauncey * Crawfordsville * Dogwood * Duncanville * Gordon *
Green Brier * Hardinville * Heathsville * Kibbie * Landes * Morea * New Hebron * Oil Center * Oil Grove
Pierceburg * Porterville * Port Jackson * Richwoods * Riddleville * Russellville * Trimble * Villas
West Union * West York
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Website Updates:
NEW 2020 updates
NEW 2021 updates
NEW 2022 updates
NEW 2023 updates
NEW 2024/2025 updates
JANUARY
2025: Obituary of Roy Vernon Neeley, Geo. F. Ruddell, Mrs.
Beatrice Boyd Lane, John Kaley, Jasper Montgomery, Mary Emiline
McColpin, Alice Jane Reynolds, Mrs. Arch Hall, Clarina Catherine
Hill, J.W. Golden, John Weland, Emma Wood, Thomas Waller & Birth Announcement of Anna Claire Dill;
article of John Weland death, auto accident of Henderson vs.
Hastings; mysterious explosion, Hanby Jones honored story; added
Military page with stories of Charles Surrells, Lyman Daugherty,
Douglas Dewey & George Tilroe; Marriage permits from Jan, 9, 1919
& Jan. 16, 1919; Administrator Notice of Samuel Ford Estate;
Brithday of Miss Florence Fox; Dant-Smith marriage &
Crawford-McGuire marriage; Crime News with Crump Malone, Leona,
Lis & Marion Jenkins;
JANUARY
2024: Obituary of Dora Stratton Wilkin
DECEMBER
2023: New additions to 1870 Census in Honey Creek Township
FEBRUARY
2023: Wallace W. & William Hall obituary, Jacob Floyd obituary; real estate transfers;Isaac
Kirts obituary; King-Hixon marriage; July 12, 1911 Marriage
Permits; John Graham shoots wife then self; John McGrew
accidentally shot
DECEMBER
2022: Complete Robinson Post Office 1860 census
DECEMBER
2021: Crime News: Oscar Brown horse/buggy theft, Baseball Boys
robbed; Jacob Floyd Wilkin obituary, Florence Elizabeth Heck
obituary, Nettie Bandy obituary; July 5, 1911 Marriage Permits; New names added to 1860
Robinson Post Office Census.
NOVEMBER
2021: Marriages of Brockett-White, Miller-Martin,
Patton-Cox, Newlin-Miller, Hurlbert-Stonestreet, Kirk-Skidmore,
Caughey-Kiappel; 1910 Population Numbers, Frank Newlin graduation
story, Real Estate Transfers for June 1911, Marriage Permits for
7/5/1911, Obituaries of Isaac Kurtz, Andrew Grubaugh & John A.
Moore.
MARCH
2021: Schmidt accident, Lewis Taylor barn fire, Arch Hall
accident, John P. Bull obituary, Wm. H. Allison obituary,
Melville Hill honors, Rev. RD Brittain Master of Theology, real
estate transfers
JANUARY
2021: Biographies of Francis M. Adams, Joseph Alexander, &
Sing B. Allen, D.M. Bales, Alma Kirk Leggit obituary, Area gossip news, Wabash
River RHS Near drowning, Real Estate Transfers, Charles Colvin
crime, Oil Refinery Changes Hands, Karl Ruddell graduates,
Mulberry-Mulliken marriage, Marriage Permits, Court Fee Changes
OCTOBER 2020:
New community news, Fires, Obituary of Clara Jane (Pleasant)
Finch
JANUARY 2020: New obituaries,
real estate transfers, marriage permits, gossip news,
miscellaneous news, marriages, accidents, community news and
public notice.
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