Hancock County Indian Mounds

Pioneers and Pioneer Life

Early Exploration of Hancock County

Hancock County Created

The Mormon Period (137 pages in this section)

Forts Johnson and Edwards

Hancock County Judges and Lawyers

The Underground Railroad

Schools of Higher Education in Hancock County

Hancock County Poor Farm

Old Land-Marks in Hancock County

The Civil War and Hancock County

List of Casualties

Included is biographical information for 793 families including each of the following family surnames: (many thousands of additional family surnames are also mentioned throughout the book text and within these family biographies): Abbott * Abernethy * Adams * Akin * Albers * Aldrich * Aleshire * Allen * Allton * Alphin * Alston * Altheide * Alvord * Anderson * Andrews * Antrim * Applebee * Ash * Atkins * Atkinson * Austin * Avery * Ayers * Bacon * Bailey * Bainter * Baker * Baldwin * Balfour * Barber * Barnard * Barnes * Barr * Barth * Bartholomew * Bauer * Baxter * Bean * Bechtold * Belknap * Bennett * Bernethy * Berry * Bettisworth * Beyler * Bidamon * Bidwell * Bird * Black * Blair * Blake * Bliesner * Bliss * Bolton * Boman * Booz * Boston * Boswell * Botts * Boude * Boyd * Bradshaw * Branden * Brant * Brault * Bray * Braymer * Bride * Brinkmann * Bristow * Brockett * Brown * Browning * Bruckman * Brumback * Bryan * Buckeft * Bull * Bullock * Burbridge * Burdett * Burmeister * Burt * Burton * Busing * Butler * Byler * Cacheux * Calkins * Callahan * Campbell * Cannon * Capron * Carey * Carlin * Carlton * Carrier * Carter * Cassell * Cate * Catlin * Chambers * Chandler * Chittenden * Clair * Claycomb * Clemens * Cochran * Coleman * Comer * Comstock * Corey * Cornell * Couchman * Coulson * Cox * Crabill * Crain * Cramberg * Craven * Crawford * Crea * Crenshaw * Crossland * Crouch * Crow * Crum * Crump * Currens * Curry * Cushman * Cutler * Dadant * Dallam * Damron * Datin * Davidson * Davis * Daw * DeHart * Denny * Dickinson * Dietrich * Dill * Disse * Dixon * Dodge * Dorman * Dorothy * Doty * Doughty * Du Sowchet * Duffy * Duvall * Earl * Easterday * Eckles * Edwards * Eells * Egan * Egbers * Elliott * Ellis * Ellison * Everett * Ewell * Ewing * Farren * Felgar * Ferris * Figley * Finch * Fleming * Fletcher * Flynn * Follin * Fonda * Ford * Fosdyck * Foutch * Frakes * Frazer * Frederick * Freeman * Fuller * Fulmer * Garard * Gardner * Garner * Garwood * Gash * 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Peebler * Pennock * Perkins * Perrin * Peyton * Phillippi * Pickens * Pitney * Pitt * Place * Pocock * Potts * Pray * Prentice * Printy * Puntenny * Quinby * Rampley * Ramply * Ramsey * Rand * Randolph * Rankin * Reed * Reger * Regnier * Reimbold * Rhea * Richard * Richardson * Rieman * Riggins * Ringland * Ritchey * Robbins * Roberts * Robertson * Robinson * Robison * Rockwell * Roesler * Rogers * Rohrbough * Rohrer * Rollosson * Rook * Rose * Rosenboom * Rowland * Rucker * Ruggles * Russell * Sackman * Safford * Samons * Sample * Sapp * Schaefer * Schramm * Scofield * Scott * Seager * Seaton * Sharp * Shipe * Sholl * Shoup * Shultz * Siepel * Simmons * Simpson * Sincle * Singleton * Slater * Sleater * Sleight * Smales * Smith * Snyder * Somerville * Sowers * Spangler * Sperry * Spitler * Staples * Stark * Steele * Stephen * Stephens * Stevens * Stevenson * Stewart * Stockton * Stokes * Strader * Stratton * Sullivan * Sutton * Swanson * Swartz * Swisegood * Talbott * Tandy * Tarr * 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Hancock County is located in west central Illinois and bordered by: Adams County, Illinois * Schuyler County, Illinois * McDonough County, Illinois * Henderson County, Illinois * Lee County, Iowa * Clark County, Missouri * and Lewis County, Missouri * (click on highlighted counties for a full description)

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