Introduction Although appropriate care has been taken in the preparation of this index, it is possible that errors do exist. To guide the reader to most effective use of the index, the following is provided: -- If a name is not found upon careful reading of the page indicated, it probably will be found on the page following. -- A name may appear more than once on a page; hence the entire page should be read. -- Titles of rank, position, honor, etc. (Reverend, Colonel, Judge, Mr., Mrs., etc.) have been omitted, except in cases where a given name did not appear; then the title has been used as an aid to identification. The titles "Mrs." Or "miss" have been used where necessary to identify an ambiguous name as feminine. -- Married women have been entered under married name, with the maiden name (when available) in parenthesis. Maiden names also appear in their regular places in the alphabetical listing; they are not accompanied by the married name, as that information is provided in the text. -- When two surnames are divided by a slash, as: Jones/Smith, Mary, this indicates that the mother was married twice, and that the surname of the child is not clarified by the text. -- Variant spellings and printers' errors can be a source of confusion. In this Index they are generally given as the appeared. For this reason it may be helpful to scan the entire index. Marie Rabbitt Fulk, Indexer Winnetka, Illinois, November, 1974 Special recognition is due Mrs. Mary D. Gonnoud for careful preparation of the typescript. Special thanks to Brenda Hamilton Johnson for transcribing the Every-Name Index for the Illinois Trails site Special thanks to Pam Ross for transcribing the biographies for the Illinois Trails site Special thanks to Jeanie Lowe for transcribing the Biography Indexes and Menard County biographies