Charles Weston Hay owned a shoe store next to the First National Bank (now Bank of Marion) at 302 Public Square. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Charles Weston Hay was born August 3, 1873 in Carbondale where his parents lived on land that had been formerly owned by his great grandfather, William Morrison. Mr. Hay retained this land until Southern Illinois University instituted condemnation proceedings against the land. The “Stone House” was built over the foundation of his birthplace, and the rest of the land became the University Farms. Continue reading
Sarilda Jane (Absher) Cline was born in Kentucky on February 16, 1826. She married Jefferson Cline on May 21, 1846. Continue reading
The One Hundred and Tenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was organized at Anna, Illinois by Colonel Thomas R. Casey in September, A.D. 1862 and was mustered into the United States service September 11, 1862 by Captain Washington, of the Sixteenth Regular Infantry. Continue reading
It’s unlikely that when Samuel S. Vick opened his drug store on the square in Marion, Illinois in 1872 that he could have foreseen the coming chain of events. Continue reading
