Williamson County Illinois Historical Society

Centennial Souvenirs

WCHS is looking for your help. Some of you are familiar with Pioneer Daughters of Williamson Co, a group that was created to help with the 1939 Centennial of Williamson Co. We have the applications of those that submitted their genealogy to become a member and have those applications transcribed into a book. There were also Pioneer Sons of Williamson Co., group that was created. We do have one application that was given to us but no others. This was also a large group but other than the officers we have no listing of members. If your family member has an application that we could have a copy of or any reference to being a member of the Pioneer Sons we would be interested in the information.

Mortgage Record books 14 through 20 have recently been indexed and added to our Master Mortgage Record Index. The records tend to range from 1910 to 1921.

WCHS has been blessed with many visitors thru the past years for tours of the museum, researchers looking for relatives or publishers working on their books. Last year we mounted a map of the United States and have pins for visitors and members. I have been going thru the visitor logs and have to go thru a couple more but, as of Oct 2022 beginning in July, 2014 we have had visitors from the following countries. We have also had emails from Italy and United Kingdom searching for family. Continue reading →