Boone Family Prominent In History
The piece discusses the Boone family's role in Illinois history, noting land entries by Joseph and Jonathan Boone in 1814, Boone’s Fort in White County, and the millstones used at Boone's mill. It speculates on family holdings and notes the Boone land records may have been double entered as a precaution.
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Ed Joe
Jonathan
Joseph
Joe
Jimmy
Ninian Edwards
Iinois Territory
Albert Gallatin
Treasury
Jefferson
Boone
Tlinois
White County
New Haven
Jonathan Boone
Ilinois
France
Clay Daley
Boone's Mill
Joseph Boone
Carmi
Shawneetown
Daniel Boone
Kentucky
Daniel
Samuel Dagley
Arkansas
TSIS
Thomas Dagley
Sally Boone
Robinson
Posey County
Indiana
Sally
William McHenry
Mississippi
Robinson and North
W. P
Early Hawthorne Township History Overview
Hawthorne Township in White County spans 46 square miles along the Great Wabash River. Early settlers include Aaron Williams and the Williams ferry, McCreery and Dagley families, and the L. and N. Railroad established Hawthorne Station. The Cairo and Vincennes Railroad and Louisville and Nashville Road cross the area, with Deeds from 1818 and 1820, a growing store, a church network led by Rev. McHenry, and a robust school system rising from four teachers in 1862 to 473 pupils by 1882.
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Great Wabash River
Aaron Williams
Nathanial Blackford
Enoch Hargrave
Daniel Winkler
Winkler
Collins
Williams Ferry
Martin H. McCreery
McHenrys
Joneses
Joneses, Lawlers, McCowns
Kuykendalls
Chisms
Cairo and Vincennes
Louisville and Nashville Road
Hawthorne Township
Richard Davis
James R. Brown
Mr. Brown
White County
Hawthorne
L. & N. Railroad
J. R. Jones
G. L. Hanna
Theophilus Parker
Matthew Land
Benjamin S. Land
J. M. Pomeroy
S. B. Sloecumb
Mr. Parker
James M. Jackson
Myerhoff and Bicking
McHenry
Daniel McHenry
Charles Slocumb
Stuart
John Davis
John Fox
Robert Delap
James Hadley
Moorette
Phelps
James Massey
Thomas Files
James McCain
Wm. McHenry
James Johnson
James Walker
James Nawl
James Gibbs
James Miller
Albert Ransom
Joy
G. W. Scowthin
David Elam
J. T. Toole
Wieden
R. H. Monferre
J. A. Baird
John Fields
Henry Rudolph
Luther McHenry
Adolph Mohler
Big Prairie Me
John Hanna
Kentucky
Phe
John Smith
James Porter
Peter Cartwright
John C. Harbinson
John Harris
Charles Slocumble
Thomas Davis
Huckaliah Vrendenburg
Thomas Rice
Josiah Patterson
William Smith
C. Ruddle
Charles Halady
Robert Delkto
William Marity
James W. Carban
Jesse Walker
John Land
John BR. Jones
Joseph P. Stilwell
G. L. Allen
John M. Simpson
W.T. Pomeroy
R. S. Graham
Elvis Stinnett
George G. Kuykendall
J.W. Monical
John W. McHenry
Samson F. Land
B. Small
Alfred Rudolph
E. E. Puntney
Geo. R. Pomroy
Sampson Land
Wm. A. Raglin
Andrew J. Bowen
David Tanquary
H. W. Jones
Thomas Spillman
Allen M. Stumm
Stephen Williams
J. R. Russell
S. B. Slocumb
Theodore Winkler
A. Bromley Edward Knowles
Thomas E. Floyd
James M. Ackman
Epworth Post Office History and Local Change From 1904 to 1955
The article recounts Epworth postal history from Ernest O. Pomeroy’s 1904 route in Hawthorne township to the 1954 closure of the fourth class office. It notes the Jackson and Land families, the Shrum and Reynolds properties, depot removals in 1957, and the shift to Carmi Route 5 in 1955. It also recalls 1848 to 1850 life scenes, early schooling, and rural industry including melon loading and grain elevators.
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W. A. Allen
Ernest O. Pomeroy
George Land
Epworth
Will M. Land
Emma Township
Hawthorne Township
Pomeroy
Eva Shrum
Land
Shrum
Sherman Youngs
Mike Reynolds
Reynolds
Mike
Odis
Buck” Reynolds
Land Bros
Henry and
Thomas Land
Edwin W. Pomeroy
Logan Jackson
Jacksons
James M. Jackson
George Huff
Carmi
Josh
Jone
L. & N. Railroad
W. C. Smith
Tra
Epworth’s Hawthorne origin traced in White County history
Gladys Pomeroy Williams recounts how Epworth grew from Hawthorne, renamed after mail mixups with a Chicago Hawthorne. The old post office opened in 1868 under Theodore Parker, then served by the Jackson family until 1905, with the building later moving to Epworth and becoming a town house after a long lineage of doctors and postmasters.
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Epworth
Hawthorne
Chicago
John Wesley
England
Old Hawthorne
White County
Mill Shoals
Trumbull
Gossett
Crossville
Wabash Station
Maunie
Rattle Snake
Sacramento
Burnt Prairie
Liberty
Emma
Elm Grove
Concord
Carmi
Theodore Parker
James M. Jackson
Patty
Sherman Youngs
Herschel Hunt
Youngs
Harrisburg
Lewis McGowan
George Land
McGowan Place
Thomas Tiek
Jessie Ties
Vo HL Parke
PL CG Gilmer
Dy Gilmer
Zach Bugg
Kamplain
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Helen Hanna
Stevenson
Mr. Hunt
George Philip Hanna
Baby Hick Hanna
Sherman Young
Curt
E. O. Pomeroy
Daddy Myers
Jessie Ramming
Arthur M. Brown
George S. Staley
William Hays
Wabash
John Powell
Raglin Farm
Jesse Birdsong
Tin Hawthorne Township
Shelby County
Sthlecesses
BIG Prairie School
E. 0. Pomeroy
Florence Wylie
Grassy” Dixon
Fred Cook
Oscar Walker
Homer Redman
Sammy Logan
Albert Jackson
Pearl Cook
Myrtle Orman
Pauline Land
Max Redman
Lena Logan
Blanche Land
McIntosh Boy
Trudie Hunt
Christine Walker
Mary Hargraves
Lucy Woerner
Eva Pomeroy
Tom Logan
Edgar Cook
Berry Williams
Ben Land
Carrie Lichtenberger
Mrs. McIntosh
Frank Wylie
Maggie Walker
Lucy Logan
Minnie Orman
Ben Woerner
Mclntosh
Dick Pond
T. V. Walsh
Georgia School
Maude Britton
Chalfant
Division Street
Norris City
Nutrena
By Gladys Pomeroy Williams
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