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SwtoH, P. G. Barron, now paitmattar, and! Albort (Sioux) RogtnEarly Settler Describes Du QuoinBy W. E. ATKINSMy great-grandfather came to jllinois when it was a teMtory. We settled in Randolph county Jn the year 18]0.He drove a freight wagon between Kaskaskla and Shawnee-town until the steamboats began going up the Mississippi. One of his stops was Du Quoin, and one was at the Yellow Banks. e$st of Pinckncyvllle, a trading post'run by a man by the name of Bates.My grandfather came to Perrj county somewhere in the 50*s and worked for Hawkins Ozburn. My father worked for Ozburn during the Civil War and lived practically all of his lift in Perry county*I remember coming into Du Quoin from the west. The Louis Wells property looks just as it did 60 years ago, but the barn has been torn down.tWhere Franklin street comes west to Wells street was a two-story brick building known as the Burgess property. From thereon, there were no other buildingsup to West Main street, and the next buildings were just east of Fred Alabastro’s service station.Coming on east on Main street, the Schlepcr building was there*and some other buildings whichwere there before my recollection. The old freight office looks just about the same, and just east of the depot, where Dirler Furniture store is now, there was an old frame building. John L, Ragland ran a saloon on the south side of Main street.Joe Solomon had a clothing store and the .Kimmel Hardware store was then under the name of Kimmel Onstott. Over on the north side was the Post Office and about where Lancaster's store is there was a blacksmith shop run by L, C. Zoeckier and KraftWhere Davis service station is■located, J. H. Gregory had a feed store and Farm Implement store.Going south on Washington, south of the railroad track, where Varnum Service station is now, was a creamery. Where Loyd Rees' store is, the road turned east foi two blocks and then south. This was the road leading to old Du Quoin and at the end of the “S curve, where they moved that house on the Miller property, stood an . old square house.The next place was the Me Clure home where the police stat(1tion is now. South at it was where Jacob Nevill lived, and at the south line of the fairground^ you turned east past the Orin Rosi place on the south side, Farther east, 3-4 of a mile, was the Les Ross farm, which is now in the fairgrounds.East one half mile from the Ross farm, you turned south and one half mile farther you came to the Joe Peck* farm. South of the Peck's, Mrs. Plum lee's farm is located, just north of route 14, leading into Old Du Quoin.In Du Quoin, north of Washington In the vicinity at the Marshall Browning Hospital was a picnic ground. I was there one time as r. boy to attend a reunion. North of town on route 51, just south of the wye, was the McElvain farm, which was settled by a man by the name of David Mead*. I, W. Brown lives on the farm and there is a cemetery on the place and one tombstone has the inscription Mary Meade died 1830.On the south is the John A. Bowlin farm where he settled, and northwest of Du Quoin, in the vicinity of Cherry Lake, a man by the name of Cenith Lipe settled. There is a cemetery on
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Du Quoin Evening Call
Du Quoin, Illinois, US
Sat, Sep 19, 1953
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