Allen Boles was born on December 13, 1865 to Henry Boles and Nancy Jane Franklin in Southern Township in the vicinity of Pulley’s Mill. The 1870 federal census located Allen living in this location at the age of five in his parent’s home with five siblings and his father working as a farmer.
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For over 120 years the brick building located at 1200 Tower Square, now known to us as “Little Nashville”, has been referred to as the “Jones building” due to the fact the name “Jones” is prominently displayed on its front exterior. Attempts to figure out who Jones was has gone thwarted in the past but has now been answered.
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Information extracted from the legends of Sanborn Insurance maps indicates the status of Marion’s fire protection status and the state of Marion’s water supply were it to be called into action for fighting fires. This map series ranges from 1886 till 1946. If there wasn’t a lot of change in the town, the maps were updated from the last one issued, and the 1946 map is an update of the 1937 map. To see the full maps, see Sanborn Maps of Marion.
(Compiled by Sam Lattuca 2/21/2024)
John Milton Norman, who went by Milton, was born August 11, 1870 to Ananias Norman & Eunice Delany Lee. At the time of his birth, the 1870 census revealed that the family was living near Sulphur Springs in what is now the area around Creal Springs. At the time of the census, his father was working as a carpenter and Milton had 6 siblings.
By the 1880 census, Milton was living with his parents in Marion and had 5 siblings.
In July 1895, an unmarried Milton was working as a carpenter and paid Joab Goodall $100 for Lot 5, Block 10 of Joab Goodall’s 1st Addition to Marion where he would go one to build a large two story home at 704 N. Van Buren St.
Continue readingIt has long been suspected that DeYoung Street got its name from a family, but no DeYoung family has ever been found in census records or directories here in Marion. Marion resident, James Emery, who owns property on DeYoung Street recently found the answer located in an Abstract of Title related to his property.
It seems that on March 25, 1899, Teunis DeYoung (pronounced “tennis”) and his wife Cordelia of South Holland, Illinois, a Dutch suburb of Chicago, contracted with Joab Goodall who then owned the property to buy five parcels of land for the sum of $10,000 amounting to 144 acres. They paid $5,000 down and spread out the remaining $5,000 into six promissory notes at 6% interest to be paid yearly until 1904.
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