Welcome to Morgan County, IL History and Genealogy Presented by Illinois Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Illinois is covered under its own Illinois Trails mailing list. MORGAN COUNTY County Courthouse 300 W. State Street Jacksonville, IL 62650-2083 (217) 245-4619 Morgan County was originally part of Madison County. Morgan County was established in 1823. It was named after Daniel Morgan, an early soldier. The first settlers began arriving in Morgan County around 1818 . The present-day counties of Cass and Scott were part of Morgan County until 1837 and 1839. The boundary line with Cass County was originally further north than the current boundary which was established in 1845. View our MAPS section to see the early county divisions. 1830 State Census for Morgan County, which included Cass and Scott Counties. This is "In Progress" - the first 24 pages of the original census are transcribed and online 1837 Voter List was Morgan County at the time, but became Cass County.  (Links to our Cass County site. Hit back to return here) Delinquent Tax Lists 1850 1852  Early Land Sales was Morgan County at the time, but became Cass County.  (Links to our Cass County site. Hit back to return here) MARRIAGES Marriages from September 1895 Newspaper Clippings (Updated!) BIOGRAPHIES Newton Cloud MORTALITY SCHEDULES AND DEATHS 1850 Mortality Schedule 1860 Mortality Schedule Obituary of  Henry L. RIGGS Last survivor of the Black Hawk War Illinois Death Index 1916-1947 Donated by researchers Wills Samuel B. Jones OBITUARY INDEX (Updated!) CHURCH HISTORIES AND RECORDS EBENEZER CHURCH A CHURCH WITH A HISTORY OLD BEREA CHURCH, MORGAN COUNTY, IL History and Membership Listings! MINUTES OF THE CONCORD REGULAR BAPTIST ASSOCIATION 1840 INSTITUTIONS Jacksonville Deaf and Dumb Asylum Includes a short history and census listings from 1870 and 1880 Morgan County Convicts in the Joliet Prison MILITARY REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS BURIED IN MORGAN COUNTY, ILLINOIS REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSIONERS Honor Roll - Burial of Morgan County Military Personnel as of 1929  ILLINOIS PENSIONERS  Revolutionary War Soldier Joseph Summers' Request for Pension Black Hawk War Veterans (1831-1832) Morgan County Residents in the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home (1887–1916) WORLD WAR II CASUALTY LIST ILLINOIS GENEALOGY TRAILS MILITARY DATABASES   LINKS Visit our State Page Our Census Transcriptions Our Transcriptions of State Data Our Military Transcriptions Surrounding County Sites: MENARD -- PIKE -- SANGAMON -- MACOUPIN CASS -- BROWN -- SCOTT -- GREENE   Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters. Morgan County, Illinois Genealogy Trails History Group http://genealogytrails.com/ill/morgan/