
Jonesboro, IL
Monday, 01 December 1823
Contributed by Jeana Gallagher
Christian Hileman, Eli Littleton, John Treese, Charles Treese, Armistead H. Brown, Lewis Bryant and Daniel Barringer.
Armstead H. Brown returned into court the return of John Bradshaw, Thomas Deen and S. C.? Brown commissioners appointed to serve so much of the road leading from Jonesborough to Golconda as lies between Henry Baringer and the ford of Cash to met beginning at the ford of Cash and running a direct course to A. H. Brown's from thence a strait direction to intersect the old road, which we consider better and nearer than the old one. Signed by we commissioners and it is orale? that John Hughes superior open and work on road and all hands living _____ bounds are redirected to work on road.
Ordered that George Smith in addition to his former list of hands allotted to work the road leading from Jonesborough to Green's Ferry be allotted the following named hands and they are hereby allotted S. Smiley L______, Samuel Hures asked J_____ George Daughters by Charles Daughterty and Sarr__et Welty.
Ordered that Jacob Littleton be allowed and additional list of hands to work under him to met Abner Hunsaker, Benjamin West, James Lerrsler? and they are hereby required to work under S. Littleton.
Ordered that James Brown be allowed four dollars for his attendance on the circuit court.
John Bradshaw one of the commissioners appointed to review a road beginning at or near Concord Meeting House to Brownville returned into court a return that they had marked out the contemplate road beginning at the Johnson County line near Concord Meeting House from thence to William Barton's, thence to Thomas Jones' on the Golconda Road thence north said road to John Bradshaw's from thence to Boyel Billingsly thence with the old Brownsville Road to John Lopes on Drewry's Creek and from thence north the old Brownsville Road to where it intersects with the road leading from Jonesborough to Brownsville near Laymers old horse mill.
Ordered that John Bradshaw be appointed Supervisor of the road leading from the Johnson County line to the road leading from Jonesborough to Brownsville intersecting the said road at Laymer's old horse mill. Commencing at the ford of Cash and working to Boyal Billingly and all the hands living south of the road leading from Jonesborough to Bradstown and all living south of Patterson's old horse mill and John Finney's and living within five miles of road.



Morning Republican, Aug. 23, 1869
A steam barrel factory that turns off from one thousand to twelve hundred barrels per week,
is in full tide of operation in the town of Anna, Union County, Ill.

A BRUTAL MURDER IN UNION COUNTY, ILL.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 13, 1880
Chicago, April 12--A special despatch from Anna, Ill., to the Times says that James M. McIntire, an old and respected citizen of the southeastern portion of Union County, was found dead in a field three-quarters of a mile from his house, with his gun by his side and his hunting knife thrust through his throat. The body was so arranged as to give the impression that he had committed suicide, but on examination it was found he had been shot through the back of the head. An old enemy McIntire was known to have was an uncle, with whom he had quarreled concerning the uncle's wronging the murdered man's daughter.

Correspondence Column
Contributed by Anna Shelton.


KILLED WHEN WRENCH TOUCHES 33,000-VOLT ELECTRIC WIRE
John Adams, 35 years old, Duquoin electrician, was killed at 12:15 a. m.
today when he came in contact with a high tension wire of the Illinois Power
& Light Co., at Sixth and West Main streets, Belleville.
According to his brother, Roy Adams, with whom he was working on a pole,
tightening copper mountings, his wrench touched the wire carrying 33,000
volts from the Keokuk power plant. He fell 30 feet to the ground, suffering
a fractured neck and skull. The body was badly burned and the head of the
wrench was melted away, according to the brother. Work with a pulmotor was abandoned after three hours.
He is survived by his widow and three small children.
(Note by descendent Virginia Adams Pierce: He was an electrician and was only in Belleville for two days. The article fails to mention that John Q. was under pressure to finish a job he was doing as it was 12 midnight. The power to the lines had been turned off while he was working on them. Someone, accidentally and in a hurry to go home, switched the power back on while John Q. had a tool on the line.) --Mr. Adams was originally from Dongola. See Death Certificate.

THREE PERSONS ARE KILLED IN AUTO-TRAIN CRASH AT JONESBORO
ANNA, Ill., Nov.
14-(UP--Authorities today were seeking to identify a child who was one of
three persons killed yesterday when their automobile was
struck by a
northbound Gulf, Mobile and Ohio passenger train at a Jonesboro grade
crossing. The two men killed in the crash were Claud Winn and Hoover
Carter of Jonesboro. All three died in a hospital here shortly after the
collision. Chief Dispatcher Harry Wilson, of the G. M. & O. railroad
division office in
Murphysboro said both crossing signals and
flasher lights were operating at the time of the accident.
--THE DAILY
REGISTER Harrisburg, IL Wednesday, November 14, 1945, contributed by Pat Hardenstine.

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