Helen Longbons was a lifelong piano teacher in Marion and tutored literally hundreds of piano students in her home at 514 E. Everett St. Helen was born August 5, 1901 to Mamie Bundy and Edward Longbons. Continue reading
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The following is a series of articles appearing in the Marion Daily Republican involving the murder of Cecil Jenkins in May 1970, one of a number of unsolved cold cases in Marion, Illinois. Continue reading
Sgt. Major Raymond Jones traveled 9,700 miles from Vietnam to supervise a benefit barbeque in the tradition of his father, the late John W. Jones, a member of the Marion Lion’s club which sponsored the event. Continue reading
Though technically not a Marion citizen, it would be remiss not to recount the life of John A. Logan. He was a Williamson County Circuit Clerk, prosecuting attorney, practicing lawyer in the County courthouse and an influential civil war military leader and political figure in the Democratic party of this county for decades and therefore shaped the course of Marion, Illinois and Williamson County history. Continue reading
“I was born in Petersburg, Boone County, Missouri, on the 15th day of August, 1838. The town in which I was born is no more, but in its stead there has arisen the present flourishing town of Sturgeon. I am of Irish-French descent; my mother’s maiden name being La Fontaine, my father’s that of Cunningham. My father was Captain John M. Cunningham. My mother’s maiden name was Elizabeth Hicks La Fontaine. Continue reading
