The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Collins lying in pools of their own blood with a gunshot thru the temple of each head was the sight that greeted two night policemen who entered the Collins home at 104 North Russell Street about two thirty o’clock Tuesday morning. Continue reading
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Leonard “Leon” Allen Colp was born on a farm in Eight Mile Prairie near Carterville, on January 18, 1881, the son of John H. Colp and Isadora North. His father was a farmer and later a prominent miller.
Educated in the country schools and Carterville grade schools, he passed into the Northern Indiana Normal University at Valparaiso, Indiana, where he prepared himself for the University of Illinois which he entered later and was graduated from in 1904 with the degree of LL.B (Bachelor of Laws Degree). Continue reading
After four days of intensive searching in an abandoned strip-mining area, dotted with mine shafts, caves and water-filled pits, divers recovered the bodies of two Marion brothers Thursday afternoon. Continue reading
William Baker “Babe” Borton was born in Marion, Illinois on August 14, 1888 the son of Reuben Borton and Mattie Simmons. Continue reading
![William Baker \"Babe\" Borton 1888-1954](https://www.mihp.org/wp-content/gallery/babe-borton/babe_borton_1913.jpg "William Baker \\"Babe\\" Borton 1888-1954")
At 9:22 a.m. Tuesday morning, November 25, 1947, the body of Pfc. Jewell Bethel Jr., who lost his life in the Battle of the Belgian Bulge, arrived in Marion for reburial. Bethel was the third of Marion’s World War II dead to be returned home. Continue reading