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Vital Records

Marriages

Births, Deaths, Marriages of the Best Family

Deaths

Obits

Cemeteries- listed by Township.

1850 Mortality Schedule

Divorces

Church Records

Round Prairie Church & Baptisms

Indians

Census Records

Land Patents

Year Books

 

 

Military Information

Newspaper
Articles

Illinois Soldier's & Sailors Home & Widows' Home

Roster of Co. K, 122nd Regiment
Ill. Vol. Infantry

Macoupin Volunteers from the 97th Illinois Infantry

 


 

Townships / Towns / City Histories
They contain the names of the first settlers, first born/died/married in each township.

Bird 

Bunker Hill

Barr

Brushy Mound

Brighton

Chesterfield

Dorchester
Wilsonville

Girard

Gillespie

Honey Point

Nilwood

N. Palmyra

S. Palmyra

Shipman

Scottsville

Virden

Western Mound

Hilyard
Centerville
Plainview

Cahokia

Shaw's Point

North Otter

South Otter

Woodburn

White City

Township Map
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Newspaper Articles/Stories

Vera Ruffini's Best Narrative

First & Only Legal Execution
Execution of Lester Kahl

First Naturalization

First Will Upon Record

News Article-
first permanent resident of Staunton, Il

First Divorce-Aug 1831

Stores of Macoupin County

Historical Tidbits of Macoupin County
Origin of Macoupin Name

Story of Butler School

Photo Album
- Life was simple then; Mid-Illinois 1800's-1900's

Country Life
Originally on the property of the old Weeks Farm

More Articles

Courthouse History

Post Offices

County Name

Other Tidbits

  • Photos of Macoupin People and Places
  • Macoupin County,Illinois Monuments & Memorials
  • County Resources
  • Lynching in Macoupin County
  • UNGERGROUND RAILROAD in Macoupin County
  • Pictorial Site of Gillespie

  • Biographical Sketches

     

    Misc Bio's

     

    Henry Voge

    John M. Ahrens

    John  O'Neal

    August Seivers

    William B. Roberts

    James Hayes

    Josias R. Ripley

    J.H.Arnett

    Alexander Shultz

    John Dews

    Joseph Borough

    Henry W. Behrens

    Robert Whiteley


    Miscellaneous

    Interesting facts about Macoupin

     

    Brick Walls


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