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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 2012
Page
1
Elong A Logan Museum researcher Jones uncovers a line of Civil War veterans in Pinckneyville City Cemetery known as the Long Grave. Most headstones show Feb 15 1862 linked to Fort Donelson Tennessee, with inconsistencies and unrecorded details noted.
Mike Jones of the Gen John A Logan Museum seeks information on the Long Grave in Murphysboro. Mitchell Feltmeyer, Pinckneyville City Cemetery sexton, notes the 19th century block holds Civil War soldiers buried in a planned row. Memorial Day service continues. bodies believed at site with no burial dates known.
Pulaski man Michael D. Thompkins, 25, is held on a 2 million dollar bond on first degree murder and home invasion charges after a weekend deadly home invasion that killed Jackie La Shaun Blake and injured Jessica R. Horn. State police, Metropolis and Joppa police and several agencies investigated the case.
John A Logan College plans two new business degree tracks starting January 2013. One combines law enforcement with computer technology and includes a computer forensics program to train students to pursue jobs in law offices corporations or with independent security professionals. The board approved the plan in a February meeting and it has been sent to the Illinois Community College Board for approval.
Historian Linda Banks of the Herrin City Library received a 1920s photograph of The Italian King Umbert Band, a 31 member Rome Club group linked to Herrin s Italian community. Louis Frankel of Brooklyn found it at a Massachusetts transfer station and alerted Herrin s chamber before contacting Banks.
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