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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Whiteside County, Illinois. Official Website Whiteside County was organized in 1836. It was named for General Samuel Whiteside, an Illinois officer in the War of 1812 and Black Hawk War. Adjacent Counties Carroll County Ogle County Lee County Bureau County Henry County Rock Island County Clinton County
Please add those who were born, lived, or died in Rock Island County, Illinois. Rock Island County was formed in 1831 out of Jo Daviess County. It was named for Rock Island, an island in the Mississippi River now known as Arsenal Island. The Rock River (which the Sauk and Meskwaki peoples called Sinnissippi, meaning "rocky waters")[5] flows from Whiteside County and points further east and nor...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lake County, Illinois.= Official Website =The county, which was primarily unsettled prairie and was still home to its native Potawatomi Indians, was created by the Illinois State Legislature in 1839. Adjacent Counties * Kenosha County, Wisc. * McHenry County * Cook County Cities *Highland Park*Highwood*Lake Forest*North Chicago*Park ...
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Knox County, Illinois. Official Website The modern Knox County, Illinois, was organized in 1825 and was named in honor of Henry Knox, the first US Secretary of War. Adjacent Counties Henry County Mercer County Stark County Fulton County Peoria County Warren County Cities & Villages Abingdon Altona East...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carroll County, Illinois. Official Website Carroll County was formed in 1839 out of Jo Daviess County. The county is named for Charles Carroll who signed the Declaration of Independence. Adjacent Counties Stephenson County Ogle County Whiteside County Clinton County, Iowa Jackson County, Iowa Jo Daviess County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ogle County, Illinois.= Official Website =Ogle County was formed in 1836 and named in honor of Captain Joseph Ogle, a veteran of the Revolutionary War who settled in Illinois in 1785. Adjacent Counties * Boone County * DeKalb County * Winnebago County * Lee County * Whiteside County * Carroll County Cities & Villages *Adeline*Byron*Cr...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Christian County, Illinois. Official Website Christian County was formed February 15, 1839 out of Sangamon, Montgomery and Shelby counties. Originally named Dane, it was eventually named for Christian County, Kentucky. Adjacent Counties Macon County Shelby County Montgomery County Sangamon County Cities, Townships, Vi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Shelby County, Illinois. Official Website Shelby County was formed in 1827 and was named in honor of Isaac Shelby, governor of Kentucky and participant in the American Revolutionary War. Adjacent Counties Macon County Moultrie County Coles County Cumberland County Effingham County Fayette County Montgomery County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Coles County, Illinois. Official Website Coles County was organized on December 25, 1830 out of Clark and Edgar counties. It was named after Edward Coles, the second governor of Illinois, from 1822 to 1826. The majority of the American settlers who founded Coles County, Illinois were either from the six New England states, or were...
This project is part of the State of Illinois Portal. This project is for those FROM Illinois and/or their respective Cities, Towns & Counties. Projects on Geni Cities & Towns Aurora Bloomington Champaign Elgin Galesburg Joliet Knoxville Monee
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stephenson County, Illinois. Official Website The land that became Stephenson County was first settled by William Waddams in 1832, who founded Waddams Grove. By 1837, population was sufficient to form Stephenson County. It was named for Colonel Benjamin Stephenson, an official of the Illinois Territory. Adjacent Counties Gree...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Official Website Jo Daviess County was formed in 1827 and was named for Maj. Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, United States District Attorney for Kentucky, who was killed in 1811 at the Battle of Tippecanoe. Maj. Daveiss' name was widely misspelled and locals pronounce it as 'Davis'. Adjacent Counties Carrol...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Chicago, Illinois. This project is in the Cook County, Illinois project. The name "Chicago" is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as "Checagou" was by Robert ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jackson County, Illinois. Official Website Located in the southern portion of Illinois known locally as "Little Egypt", the county was incorporated on January 10, 1816 and named for Andrew Jackson. Adjacent Counties Franklin County Perry County Williamson County Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Perry County, Missouri Ra...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Illinois. Wayne County was formed in 1819 out of Edwards County. It is named after Gen. "Mad Anthony" Wayne, an officer in the Revolutionary War and Northwest Indian War. Adjacent Counties Clay County Richland County Edwards County White County Marion County Jefferson County Hamilton County
This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Cook County, Illinois. Cook County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the second-most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles County, California. As of 2015, the population was 5,238,216. Its county seat is Chicago , the largest city in Illinois and third-most populous city in the United States. More than 4...
Homewood Memorial Gardens is comprised of several older cemeteries and burial grounds. Holland (Mount Holland) Cemetery was the burial place of the early Dutch settlers from nearby South Holland, Illinois and saw its first burials in the late 1850s. The other early cemeteries included Fremont Holbrook Cemetery , Oak Ridge Cemetery , and the Doepp Estate Plot . By the early 1900s all of these ce...
This cemetery is east of US Route 51, Pana, Christian County, Illinois. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marion County, Illinois. Marion County was organized on January 24, 1823 and was named in honor of Revolutionary War Gen. Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox". Adjacent Counties Fayette County Clay County Wayne County Clinton County Washington County Jefferson County Cities, Villages, Townships & Communities Alma | ...
This cemetery is located on 31 Memorial Drive, Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This project is for those buried in Warren Cemetery, Orchardville, Wayne County, Illinois. Find a Grave
Wikipedia =Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university with campuses in Evanston and Chicago in Illinois, United States, as well as Doha, Qatar. Home to twelve schools and colleges, Northwestern offers 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees.Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the City of Evanston is named, and eight other lawye...
Chippiannock has long been considered a Quad Cities Landmark and is the resting place of over 25,000 persons, including some of the Quad Cities most memorable individuals. One can trace the history of the territory, and even the nation, in the inscriptions on the headstones of the adventurers and settlers, rivermen and preachers, statesmen and builders who have left their mark on the territory....
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McDonough County, Illinois.The county was created in 1826 and was named in honor of Thomas Macdonough who defeated a British squadron in the decisive naval Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812. McDonough County was part of the "Military Tract" set aside by Congress for veterans of the War of 1812. Adjacent Counties * Henderson ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rockingham County, North Carolina. Official Website Between 1728 and 1733, the Dan River Valley was surveyed by William Byrd II. He soon thereafter purchased 20,000 acres of the land, attracting prospective farmers. The region's first western settlers came from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia and were of German, Eng...