Early Exploration

The Indians

First Settlements in Tazewell County

Early Settlers of Tazewell County

Tazewell County Established

The First Steamboat

The Deep Snow of 1830

The Sudden Freeze of 1836

The Prairies of Illinois

Prairie Fires

The First Tazewell County Seat

The First Tazewell County Court House

The First Tazewell County Jail

The Tazewell County Court House at Tremont

Crimes, Trials, and Executions

The Underground Railroad

Pioneer Life

Log Cabins

Milling of Grain

Wolves

Bee Hunting

Manners and Customs

Education

Markets

Chills, Fever, and Illinois Shakes

Women’s Work

Pleasures of Pioneer Life

Tazewell County Bar: Lawyers & Judges

Tremont Colony

The Pottowatomie Indians

Tazewell County Officials

Tazewell County Newspapers

Railroads in Tazewell County

The War of 1812

The Black Hawk War

The Civil War

Tazewell County Volunteers

Included is biographical information for 667 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): Ackerman * Adams * Ail * Albright * Alfs * Allen * Allensworth * Alphonso * Ames * Andrews * Anthony * Appleton * Arnold * Ary * Atkinson * Aubray * Auld * Bacon * Bailey * Baird * Baker * Ball * Barger * Barnard * Barnes * Bates * Bayler * Beahler * Beal * Beanchamp * Beaver * Beck * Beezley * Beimfohr * Belsly * Bemis * Benford * Bennett * Benson * Bequeaith * Bergen * Berket * Bever * Birkey * Birky * Black * Blair * Blanchard * Boening * Boucher * Bowlsby * Bowyer * Boyer * Boyle * Bradley * Brenneman * Brigg * Briggs * Brigham * Brower * Brown * Brownlee * Buchele * Buckley * Burgess * Burhans * Burlingame * Burns * Burt * Butterweck * Byers * Callaway * Cameron * Capps * Carter * Chaffer * Champion * Cheshier * Claton * Clemens * Cline * Cobleigh * Coddington * Collins * Conibear * Connell * Cooper * Copes * Corey * Cornwell * Crabb * Crandall * Crane * Crawford * Crihfield * Crisp * Crooks * Crosby * Crothers * Culbertson * Cummings * Cunningham * Curtis * Dalbey * Damm * Danforth * Darah * Darling * Davis * De Vries * Dehority * Denhart * Dennis * Deyo * Dissman * Dodds * Donalson * Donley * Dougherty * Dunham * Dunnington * Durham * Edmiston * Eidmann * Ely * Engel * Evans * Eversole * Ewing * Fanning * Fehrmann * Ferner * Field * Fifer * Finks * Fisher * Fitch * Flegel * Flynn * Ford * Frazee * Frederick * Freeman * Frey * Fuld * Fuller * Gainer * Gaither * Garlick * Geiger * Gibson * Gilchrist * Giles * Gilmer * Glassgow * Glebe * Glotfelter * Goad * Golden * Gongloff * Goodyear * Gorin * Gorman * Gray * Greeley * Greigg * Grenard * Griesemer * Griffith * Gulick * Gunnell * Gunthert * Guth * Haas * Haines * Hall * Hamm * Hammer * Hammond * Handsaker * Harbaugh * Harkey * Harlow * Harms * Harrington * Harris * Harvey * Hatch * Hauter * Hawkins * Hawley * Hay * Haypenny * Hays * Heilmann * Heiple * Heisel * Herget * Herndon * Herrmann * Hess * Hicks * Hieronymus * Hill * Hippen * Hittle * Hochstettler * Hodge * Hodgson * Hodson * Hoehley * Hoffman * Hollywood * Holmes * Hook * Hoover * Hopkins * Hornish * Horton * Hudson * Huguet * Hukiel * Humbert * Huxtable * Imig * Ingersoll * Intzi * Ireland * Irwin * Jackson * Jenkins * Jenks * John * Johns * Johnson * Jones * Joyslin * Judy * Kampf * Kastens * Kelso * Kepcha * Keyser * Kilby * King * Kingman * Kingsbury * Kinsey * Knott * Kraeger * Kuhl * Lackland * Landes * Larimore * Latham * Lawrentz * Lawton * Leonard * Lilly * Lindsey * Linn * Livingston * Lorenson * Lowman * Lowry * Loyd * Lucas * Luft * Luppe * Luppen * Luter * Lutz * Lux * Magee * Mahle * Marshall * Martin * Matthews * Mauker * Maurer * Maus * May * McCain * McCarthy * McClintock * McClure * McDougal * McDowell * McFall * McIntosh * McKinstry * McLean * McMullen * Meeker * Merchant * Merkee * Merriam * Meyers * Miars * Miles * Miller * Minch * Minier * Mitchell * Moloney * Montgomery * Mooberry * Moore * Morrisey * Morse * Moschel * Mount * Mountjoy * Murphy * Myers * Naffziger * Nave * Nichols * Nofsinger * Oesterley * Ogden * Olt * Oltmanns * Orendorff * Orth * Oswald * Page * Pallister * Parker * Patten * Pautz * Percy * Peters * PettyJohn * Peyne * Phillips * Pinckard * Pinkham * Portman * Powell * Preston * Prettyman * Priddy * Probasco * Prunty * Pugh * Purdy * Puterbaugh * Quigg * Quisenberry * Railsback * Ramige * Rankin * Rapp * Reardon * Redlon * Reiling * Reuling * Rich * Richardson * Rickman * Rider * Ringwald * Roach * Roberts * Robison * Rodecker * Roe * Roehm * Roelffson * Roles * Rollings * Roos * Ropp * Ross * Rowell * Rundle * Runyon * Rupert * Ryan * Salee * Saltonstall * Sampson * Sands * Sanford * Sawyer * Sayr * Scarborough * Schaefer * Schafer * Schaumleffle * Schertz * Schradzki * Schreck * Schulte * Schureman * Schurman * Scott * Seiwell * Shaefer * Shannon * Shauholtzer * Shaw * Shay * Sheets * Shreeve * Shreve * Shurtleff * Smiley * Smith * Snedeker * Snyder * Sonnemann * Sparks * Speece * Sperry * Spriggs * Stafford * Stalter * Steinmetz * Stephens * Sterling * Stevens * Stewart * Stockert * Stoehr * Stormer * Strawbridge * Strickfaden * Stroud * Strubler * Stubbs * Stuckey * Studyvin * Sullivan * Sutton * Sweitzer * Switzer * Talbot * Tarbell * Teft * Thompson * Tinney * Tobias * Tollinger * Tomm * Towne * Trimble * Trout * Turner * Upham * Urish * Van Deusen * Van Dorn * Van Orstrand * Varney * Vaughn * Vawter * Verry * Voelpel * Volk * Voupel * Wagenseller * Wagner * Walker * Warner * Warren * Washburn * Watkins * Watson * Waughop * Weeks * Weirick * Weiss * Westerman * Weyhrich * Whisler * White * Wileman * Williams * Wilson * Wolford * Wood * Woodrow * Woodruff * Woods * Woolf * Wooters * Work * Worstall * Wynd * Yale * Yontz * Youle * Young * Zehr * Zimmerman * Zinger * Zinser * Zumwalt  *

About this book:
This book is divided into four basic sections
The History of Illinois (170 pages)
The History of Tazewell County including biographical information for 667 individuals and families (521 pages)
Tazewell County Civil War Volunteers (33 pages)
Digest of Illinois State Laws (52 pages)

Section Two of two, all on one CD: The 1929 Plat Map Book of Tazewell County, Illinois
The 1929 edition of the Tazewell County, Illinois Plat Map Book by Brock & Company, Chicago, 59 pages features full color, large scale maps that show the location of thousands of farms by the name of the owner. Includes 92 photos of individuals and buildings.  Cities, Towns, and Villages street maps also included: Arlington, Circleville, Cloverdale, Crandall, Deer Creek, Delavan, Dillon, East Peoria, Gardena, Green Valley, Groveland, Hilltop Manor, Hopedale, Lilly, Mackinaw, Minier, Morton, Parkland, Pekin, South Pekin, Tremont, Washington, Wesley, Winkel

Tazewell County is located in central Illinois and bordered by: McLean County, Illinois * Logan County, Illinois * Mason County, Illinois * Fulton County, Illinois * Peoria County, Illinois * and Woodford County, Illinois * (click on highlighted county names for a complete description)

Both books on this CD are in Adobe Acrobat pdf format and requires the free Acrobat Reader program to view. You probably already have this program on your computer but if not, a free copy of the program is included on the CD. This book on CD is designed to look just like a regular book and is bookmarked to move easily and quickly from one section another. This CD was designed by, and is available exclusively from Hearthstone Legacy Publications.

Fully searchable - find any name or location instantly!

The cost for this CD containing all of the information described above is only $9.95 plus shipping, or only $6.95 as a digital download. A large amount of history and genealogy information for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of the History of Tazewell County, Illinois from its earliest settlement up to 1879.

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