This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Plainfield social notes mix guest visits and obits
Plainfield residents host and visit over many weeks with guests from Joliet Rock Island Lawrenceville and Chicago. The community records a death funeral and multiple illness updates including Catherine Cryder burial at Aux Sable and several family health notes.
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Minnie Simmons
Chicago
Joseph Brockway
G. H. Overman
J. H. Smiley
Laura Flagg
Elizabeth Hyland
L. B. Overman
Orin Little
Lawrenceville
Ill
Floyd Hensel
Fritz
Hal Melville
Helen
Dorothy
Rock Island
Amanda Harris
Joliet
Herbert Cowell
Catherine Jean Cryder
John Cryder
Silver Cross Hospital
John Jr
Robert
Helen Lucena
Constance
Fred C. Barnes
Washburn
R. A. Barnes
Anna Short
Cryder
Congregational Church
L. J. Kennedy
Aux Sable
Earl Allan
Ft. Atkinson
Wis
Allan
F. J. Thomas
Elmer Green
Margaret and
Elmor
Grenada
Margaret Green
Jacqueline Floray
Nancy Brown
C. M. Brown
Douglas M. Faust
L. P. Schell
Wisconsin
Floyd A. Worst
West
Mary
Nancy Phelps
St. Josephs’ Hospital
William Bunting
Beverly Bunting
Wheaton
Fred Herath
Raymond Beebe Sr
Billings’ Memorial Hospital
Charles Peterson
Stanton Proctor
Rudolph Esser