Crystal's Introduction :
News Article From Area Paper, Staunton, Macoupin Co, Illinois:
Love this article! It has a photo of the original Camp log house.
Otherwise, all the new article is included here.
Source: Part of the Baker/Butler Family Collection
NOTE: Elizabeth Butler Camp was my Great-Grandfathers'
daughter.
Her parents: Edmond Butler and Permelia Ann Ensley.
June 15th
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Land Entered in 1819 The land was entered by Telemachus Camp on Aug. 18, 1819. He was the first permanent resident coming into Staunton and the land was the first entry made on the entry books from the auditor of public accounts, of the state to the county recorder. Shortly after that Telemachus Camp built the old homeplace now more than one hundred years old, to replace a log cabin, which was on the place when Richard Wilhelm, who came from Pennsylvania and settled the cabin near the Cahokia Creek, the present Camp homeplace. It is said that Wilhelm lived in the hollow of a sycamore tree, which measured ten feet in the clear while he hewed logs and built a house. The remains of the stump was in evidence until the year 1879 and can be remembered by some of our older citizens. Wilhelm did not like the country and resented the circuit riders of the M.E. Church so he sold his claim to Camp and prepared to leave. He was last heard in Texas.
First Religious Services Telemachus was the Father of Peter L. Camp who died ten years ago and whose widow died last week. The histories speak of him as being a good man, interested in the upbuilding of society and a man well versed in Scripture. There is evidence of Methodist circuit riders traveling through Staunton from the time of the first settlement. However, the first public religion service held in the town of Staunton, was held by James Lemon, a Baptist minister, at the home of Telemachus Camp in 1824. Services were held in private homes until 1825, when logs were made into the first schoolhouse which also was used as a church and town hall. The Baptist Church still is in existence as well as other Protestant churches. The Lutherans established a church her in 1847. St. Paul's Evangelical in 1858 and St. Michael's Catholic Church in 1867.
First Marriage License Soon afterward, came Michael Best, Ephraim Powers, John Kirkpatrick, David Henderschott, B.F. Edwards, John Adams, John Cormack, Roger Snell (Justice of the Peace), and T.P. Hoxsey, recorder. James B. Cowell, Levi Dees, and Stephen G. Hicks who established the first store in 1831. The first marriage license was issued in Carlinville, Illinois and was that of Richard Wall and Lucinda Camp, sister to Peter L. Camp, the marriage having been performed by Samuel Wood, a minister, on January 13, 1831. The late Senator Hampton Wall, was one of the children born to the couple. |