Jeremiah Rice was a pioneer farmer of Southern Illinois, a carpenter and served on the first board of trustees for the city of Marion where his children were born, but before they grew to maturity he moved to Dunklin county, Missouri, to live out his years.
Jeremiah S. “Jerry” Rice was born in November of 1820 in Tennessee.
He married Susan A. Sanders on September 9, 1840 in Williamson County, Illinois. Continue reading
William Harper Phillips, Marion alderman, wagon maker, implement dealer and Confederate officer, was born in Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia in July 1846. He was the son of Robert Allen Phillips (1816-1879) and Caroline Leneve (1825) who married in Mecklenburg County December 21, 1840.
In the 1860 census, William’s father, Robert, was a 43 year old wheelwright with real estate valued at $490. His mother, Caroline, was 38 years old. Everyone in the family was born in Virginia and they were living in Mecklenburg County, Virginia near Clarksville. William was 14 years old, living with his parents and four siblings: Rosalie, Mary, Martha, and Pauline. Loney A. Yancey, 18, may be a relative or an indentured servant and was attending school; James Wiles, 17, an apprentice wheelwright, was also living with the family. Continue reading
When I first set this site up, I didn’t have a way of indexing the numerous categories required to itemize everything related to Marion’s history. Because of that, I was initially forced to sub-categorize everything resulting in a long menu structure that turned out to be problematic causing a crash a month or so ago that took hours to resolve.
Since all categories with any information in them are know indexed, I have changed the primary navigation buttons to call up the indexes of each main category allowing a more precise choice of items and shorter, less problematic menus.
I hope the change is well accepted. On the other hand since its free and I am unpaid, who cares, right?