Every month since January 2015 we have had a volunteer scour the county funeral home websites and accumulate the current months obituaries so that we can store them in a cumulative file at the historical society. This move was due … Continue reading
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The Williamson County Historical Society was recently awarded a $2,500 grant from the Illinois Humanities COVID-19 Emergency Relief. This program was made possible in part by a grant from Illinois Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois … Continue reading
The indexes to the Williamson County Circuit Clerk’s Probate Book C covering the years 1840 through 1873 and the County Clerk’s Administrator’s Book A covering the years 1849 through 1860 are now available online. The books are notations on cases … Continue reading
The Williamson County Historical Society has been compiling and recently published two books containing the funeral home records of Cosby Funeral Home in Creal Springs covering funerals conducted during the period of July 1962 through December 2000. The books are … Continue reading
Digital Obituaries that fell in the time period of September 2019 through December 2019 have been added to our Master Obituaries index list. … Continue reading