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ILLINOIS FAMILY ROOTS (and beyond)

HEMPHILL - TAYLOR - PALLETT - SMITH - MCCLUN - SCOTT - MAGILL
  MANN - COOPER - LAYER - SCHWER - RINGEISEN - WEBER -

PAGES OF PHOTOS:
Taylor Album - identified and unidentified "Taylor" photos, mostly from Jim and Laura in CT
New  Hemphill Box - a few old unidentified "Hemphill" photos and a 1930s letter
Hemphill Album - a few Hemphill photos
Parents and Grand parents - gravestones, dates, photos
Great Grandparents - Illinois tombstones!
Great Great Grandparents  -  more Illinois roots

SCANNED HEMPHILL Research Letters:
Doc #1    Letter from W. Dwight Pierce to Cousin Minnie (Hemphill Nowland) 8/12/44
                 with transcribed Hemphill data
Doc #2    Letter from Paul H. McCalla to Chester Hemphill 8/31/1948 (2 pages plus fill in form)
Doc #3    Letter from Chester A. Hemphill to Paul H. McCalla 9/4/1948;
                 Letter from McCalla to Chester 9/1/1948
Doc #4    Letter from Paul H. McCalla to C.A. Hemphill 9/11/1948 (2 pages with 2 pages of forms)
Doc #5    Letter from Paul H. McCalla to C.A. Hemphill 9/21/1948 (3 pages)
Doc #6    Letter from Paul H. McCalla to Chester A Hemphill 10/11/1948
               with Chester A. Hemphill-Jeannette McClun Taylor page 2
Hemphill Family G records
Hemphill Family F records


Great grandmother Mary Pallett Taylor? 1854-1944
photo from Taylor family album,
(thanks to Jim and Laura, CT)

1919-1976
Robt Chester HEMPHILL

1893-1968
Chester AbramHEMPHILL 
Jeannette TAYLOR
1890-1964
1855-1906
William James HEMPHILL
Ida SMITH 
1959-1902
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1848-1932
John W TAYLOR 
Mary PALLETT
1854-1944
1826-1901
Robt M HEMPHILL 
Martha SMITH 
1835-1883
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1815-1893
Abraham SMITH 
Mary SCOTT 
1823-1890
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1816 (SCOT)-1902
Robert C TAYLOR 
Janet CUNNINGHAM
1824 (SCOT)-1910
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1818-1873
Wm M PALLETT 
Rachel McCLUN 1826-1857
d 1856 (IRE)
William HEMPHILL 
Jane McAFEE 1786-1872
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1782 (IRE)-1855
William SCOTT 
Nancy MAGILL 1803-1842
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William SMITH
Sarah 
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~1770-1819
Robert TAYLOR 
Miza McCOIG 1780-1845
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John CUNNINGHAM d1838
Helene d 1832 (SCOT)
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Abraham PALLETT
Leticia
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1798-1950
Robt Kile McCLUN
Leah SENSENEY 1805-1897
m. Ronda Layer MANN
1921-2003
1891-1958 
Art S. MANN 
Mona Schwer 
1894-1975
1858-1945
Fred MANN 
Carrie COOPER 1864-1939
 
 
 

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1865-1934
Louis SCHWER 
Catherine LAYER 1866-1940
 

1824-1911
John MANN
Eliza Marie BLOOM 1829-1907 
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1828-1915
William COOPER 
Lorinda BROWN 1829-1900
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1819(GER) -1886
August W SCHWER 
Catherine HOMEIER
1820(GER)-1904
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1836(GER)-1903
Charles LAYER 
Katharine RINGEISEN
1842 (GER)-1895 
1789-1867
Alexander MANN 
Maria BUMPUS
1804-1890
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1800-1877
Major David BLOOM
Polly Ann RUTTY 1799-1854
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1800-1875
John COOPER
Lydia PERRY 1807-1854
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1785-by1840
Johann Freidrich SCHWER
Katherine Engle MOLLER
1794-1855
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1798-1839(GER)
Christian LAYER 
Anna Maria Wolf 
1806-1872(GER)
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1811(GER)-1858
Johann Jacob RINGEISEN
Katherina WEBER 1815(GER)-1899

CEMETERIES - Illinois

HEMPHILL/SMITH:      Diamond Grove & Antioch, Morgan Co., IL;
SMITH (Tom, Mary):     Oak Ridge, Sangamon Co. IL
TAYLOR:                       Karr, Cass County, IL
PALLETT:                     Bethel Church, Pleasant Plains, Sangamon Co., IL; Wesley Chapel, Ursa Twp, Adams Co., IL
McCLUN                       Evergreen, Bloomington, IL
SCOTT/MAGILL          Scott-Magill, Morgan Co., IL

MANN/BLOOM:           Bloom Cemetery, north of Kankakee IL; Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee, IL
LAYER:                         Wenger and Gilman Cemeteries, Gilman, Iroquois Co., IL  also Onarga
SCHWER:                    Flesher Cemetery, Crescent City, Iroquois Co., IL
RINGEISEN:                 Hollands Grove, Tazewell Co., IL; Ridgeville Twp Cem, Iroquois Co. IL; Roberts,
 

MOM'S Side includes - Art Mann & Mona Schwer (children: Peggy, Ronda, Mona Ray); Fred Mann & Carrie Cooper (Art, Bertha); Harold Troup & Theresa Schwer (Betty, Bill); Ann White Ferris; Lewis Schwer & Katherine/Kate Layer (Pat/Katherine, Mona, Theresa/Trix); Charles Layer& Katherina Ringeisen (Kate, Billy, Charlie/Carl, Frank); Eliza M Bloom & John Mann (Fred....); John David Layer & Augusta Baker; David Layer and Justena Becker; Emerson Scholer & Peggy Mann (Peter, Todd, Craig); William Troup & Mary Beth; Harold Troup & Trix Schwer (Katherine and William); Ron Caffin & Mona Ray Mann (Randy); William August Schwer & Ellen/Engel Sophia Honieiyer

DAD'S Side includes - Robert C Hemphill & Ronda Hemphill (Jeanne, Stuart, Scott, Jamie); Chester Hemphill &Jeannette Taylor (Bob, Mary, Bill); Mary Hemphill & Tom C Smith; William Hemphill &Ida Smith (Chester, Norma); Robert M Hemphill & Martha Smith; Harold Beaver & Ruth Taylor (Edward); Bill Hemphill & Patsy Blaker (Jim, Bob); Stuart Hemphill & Gail (Hayley, Noel) & Karen Olson (Timo); Scott Hemphill & Jane Meagher (Bobby, Kevin, Andy); Jamie Hemphill & Katherine Doll (Lyndsay, Peggy); Rev William Pallett & Rachel McClun (Mary, Georgianna); Abraham Smith & Mary Scott (Ophelia, Ida, Charles, Katie, Sallie...)