Crawford County, Illinois Welcome to the Crawford County Illinois Genealogy Trails Website, dedicated to the Genealogy and History of Clark County, Illinois. This site is available for adoption Many thanks to Kevin Ortman for all his hard work on this site. This county is currently in need of a county host. If you would be interested in adopting Clark County for Genealogy Trails, please review our Volunteer Information page and then contact Kim Don't want to host a county, but still want to help? You can! Join our Transcription Team! Check it out! If you are in need of research assistance or if you have research questions and you cannot locate what you're looking for through this website, please refer to the Illinois Genealogy Trails Research Help page. If You have any information you'd like posted or transcribed: family histories and genealogies, biographies, births, marriages, deaths, obituaries, bible, cemetery and census data, county and town histories, newspapers, family, group or class pictures, old postcards, &c., please Send it to US About Crawford County Crawford County was established December 31, 1816 (Territorial Laws, 1815 16, p. 21), formed from Edwards County, Illinois Territory.  Sometimes known as "Great Crawford County", its area extended from the Wabash to the middle of Illinois, and from its present southern border almost to the Canadian border. Townships in Crawford County: Licking Prairie Hutsonville Oblong Robinson Lamotte Martin Honey Creek Montgomery Large towns include: Hutsonville Palestine Robinson Stoy Oblong Flat Rock   Other Towns (past and present) include: Annapolis Bellair Bird Chauncey Crawfordsville Dogwood Duncansville Gordon Green Brier Hardinville Heathsville Kibbie, Landes Morea New Hebron Oil Center Oil Grove Pierceburg Porterville Port Jackson Richwoods Riddleville Russellville  Trimble   Villas West Union West York     Lawrence & Richland Counties lie to the south, the state of Indiana lies to the east, Clark County lies to the north, and Jasper County lies to the west Census Data 1818 Crawford County Census - Complete!!! Servitude and Emancipation Records from the 1818 and 1820 Census Document showing Residents of Palestine in 1826 1850 Federal census Excerpts 1850 Mortality 1860 Federal Census Excerpts (Higgins surname only so far) 1870 Federal Census Excerpts 1880 Federal Census Excerpts 1900 Federal Census Excerpts 1920 Federal Census Excerpts Cemeteries Names and Locations (from GNIS) Cemetery Listings Vital Records (Deaths, Births, Marriages) Deaths Marriages Schools 1911 Annapolis Grade School Class Picture School near Porterville Unknown School Class- 1928 Military Revolutionary War Burials Residents at Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Home & Illinois Soldiers' Widows' Home Crawford County Soldiers Listed in the Illinois Roll of Honor Civil War Soldiers' Burials WW II Casualties Korean War Casualties Vietnam War Casualties Newspapers Published Administrative Notices (Estate Settlement, Chancery to Divorce, Sheriff Sale notices, etc.) Newspaper Stories concerning Crawford county residents. First female execution in the state of Illinois! "Grandma" Canada celebrates 100th Birthday - 1932 Early History Gleanings from the Newton Press Obituaries "Grandma" Deborah Canada Caughey, William Carrie Grace Cobb Lawrence White Biographies and Family Histories Canada Family Caughey, William & Eliza Ann Hill, Alva Hill, Charles M. Holaday, Henry Rains, Simpson Miscellaneous Online Data Queries SEARCH OUR SITES Important Addresses Crawford County Clerk 1 Courthouse Square Robinson, IL 62454 (618) 546-1212 or 618-544-2590 Website Crawford County Circuit Court Clerk's Office 1 Courthouse Square Robinson, IL 62454 618-544-3512 Website Crawford County Historical Society P.O. Box 554 Robinson, Il 62454 Telephone: (618) 544-3087 E-Mail Website  All the cemeteries were gleaned in the 1970s and an every name index is online at the Hist. Soc. web site. The index gives name, township, name of cem. and page #. Send this info to the Hist. Soc. and they will copy the transcription for a nominal fee. Robinson Public Library 606 North Jefferson Street Robinson, IL 62454 Phone: 618-544-2917; FAX: 618-544-7172 Their research policy: *Due to a small staff, we can only do specific research if a date is included. For example, if you would like an obituary, we would need to know the date of death. * [Their fee for a basic search is $5 plus charges for copies] Visit the Illinois Genealogy Trails websites for the counties surrounding Crawford: Illinois Counties: Jasper Clark Richland Lawrence Indiana Counties:   Knox Sullivan County Selection Map See which other counties we have online at the Main Illinois Trails Page, you will find much more data, including: Military Data Census Data Illinois State Data  Illinois Events Help for your Illinois Research Illinois Trails Volunteer Information Copyright and Disclaimer The information contained on the pages of this site is free for your personal use, however the original data remains copyrighted by the individual contributors.  The particular compilation  of the data in the format presented herein is copyrighted for use by Genealogy Trails History and Genealogy.  As such, this data is not to be used for profit, or for presentation elsewhere without express permission of the owner. 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