Madison County, Illinois Genealogy and History

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Online Data

Madison County Information

History of the Towns of Madison County

1876 Plat Map

1920 Map of Madison Co

Towns and Cities of Madison County

Sheriff's of Madison

Early History

CENSUS DATA

1830 Census Index

1833 Delinquent Tax List

1870 Mortality Index

1866 Madison County Directory

1882 Businesses

1850 Mortality Index

1882 Patrons - City of Collinsville

MILITARY DATA

Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Madison County

Black Hawk War Soldiers

List of Dead from Captain Newby's Regiment 1847

Muster Roll of Company K, 10th Regiment, 80th ILL

Mexican War Veterans

Vietnam Casulaties

North Alton Confederate Cemetery Burials:

A-D Surnames
E-K Surnames
L-R Surnames
S-Z Surnames

Soldiers and Sailors Home Residents 1887–1916

1929 Honor Roll

Korean War Casulaties

Employees of the Commonwealth Plant of Granite City, IL
serving in the Army Forces as of September 28, 1942

NEWSPAPER STORIES

Edwardsville Intelligence News, 16 January 1953 - "50 years ago"

Obituaries
A-J / K-Z
Updated!!

Explosion of the Powder Magazine in Alton
on June 20, 1840

Index to News Items

Crime Stories

Weather Stories

Probate Announcements

Divorces

Marriage Announcements

Legal Notices

River News Items

Political News Items

Executions

CHURCH RECORDS

Churches of Madison County

Edwardsville Baptist Association
Minutes of the 13th Annual Meeting held in May 1842

CEMETERIES

List of Cemeteries

Alton Cemetery

Bethalto United Methodist Cemetery

Bohnenstiehl Cemetery

Confederate Cemetery Burials
A-D Surnames
E-K Surnames
L-R Surnames
S-Z Surnames

Cook Cemetery

Edwards Cemetery

Frieden's Hoxley Family Cemetery

Krome Cemetery

Langenwalter Cemetery

Lakeview Cemetery

Oakwood Cemetery

Old Holy Cross Lutheran Cemetery

Omphghent Cemetery

Paddock Cemetery

Saint Johns Cemetery
Section 5
Section 6
New St. John Cemetery

Location of Cemetery Granite City

Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery

Schmitt Cemetery

Sugar Creek Cemetery

West Cemetery

Troy
West Cemetery

VITAL RECORDS

Births

Death Certificates

Death Listings

Birth Certificates Y Surnames

Land Claim Definitions

Land Records

Early Marriages of Madison County: 1814-1819

Miscellaneous Marriages

Marriage Notices

Court Records
Index to Wills and Probate Data

EARLY PIONEER DATA

Early Pioneers

McMahan Family Massacre

The 1814 Wood River Massacre
(REAGAN Family)

Grand Jurors of 1814

List of Persons Subject to Road Labor - March 1815

An 1823 Murder in Wood River

First Marriage License

Illinois "Gentle Giant"

The Carriage House

Shurtleff College

Daily Notes 1900's

Disaster at Alton 1893

Shurtleff Teachers

WEATHER STORIES:

"THE TORNADO OF JUNE 1860 -- TORNADO AND CYCLONE OF THE SEVENTIES -- DESTRUCTIVE WIND STORM OF 1896 -- GREAT RIVER FLOODS"

BIOGRAPHIES

John Anderson	S V Crossman	William E Lea	Josias Randle
George F.J. Barnsback	Alexander Crawford	William Lindley	John York Sawyer
Curtis Blakeman	Levi Davis	Moses Long	Daniel Boone Savage
Albert George Blanks	Ninian Edwards	Owen Lovejoy	George W Searcy
Cyrus Frederick Blanke	Gillham Family	William May	Alsey Smart
Richard H Blanke	Arthur Gilman	Mills Family	C. W. Smith
M H Boals	David Gillespie	Arba Nelson	John Smith
James Brown	Joseph Gillespie	J R Newman	W A Smith
Ansel Brown	Matthew Gillespie	Wilbur T Norton	Jacob Spies
John A Bruner	Capt. Benjamin Godfrey	John M. Palmer	Thomas Springer
Rudolph Brunner	Robert A Gray	W W Pearce	James Squire
Justus Bulkley	George Hotz	John M. Peck	Benjamin Stephenson
George Churchill	Roland Ingham	Thomas Perrin	Edward Everett Swain New!
Hemon Cole	T J Irish	Abraham Prickett	Charles Walker
Edward Coles	Nicholas Jarrot	David Prickett	Edward M West
William Hertzog Collins	Samuel Judy	Abner Pyle	Whiteside Family
			John Worden

**Revolutionary War Soldier Moses Long and his descendants who settled in Madison County

Family Letters

Solomon Bauscher to Gerry A. Saylor and Lydia, 1862

Solomon Bauscher to Gerry A. Saylor, Jan. 24, 1861

To Aunt Lydia 14 April, 1902

1858 Parlor/Autograph Book belonging to Nancy Ann Patrick

Letter written by George Churchill to Mr. Swift Eldred

Letters written to Caroline Elizabeth Churchill Bingham

THE GRIMM-HERBST FAMILY

Pictures and Postcards

Annals of Alton, Illinois

MISCELLANEOUS DATA

AN OLD TRAGEDY IN THE STATE PENITENTIARY AT ALTON (Attempted breakout)

School News 1885

School Pictures:

Niedringhaus School

Students of Emerson or McKinley School

Mitchell School

1929 Wanda School
1935 Wanda School

Granite City High School
Class of June 1944

LINKS

Hayner Public Library
Alton, Illinois

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