
White County, IL School Pictures
GOSSETT SCHOOL
1894

Contributed to Genealogy Trails
by
Nancy Lambert
nlambert@pdnt.com
Nancy says: "This picture belonged to my husband's aunt. The two people noted in the
picture are Fannie Heck (Mom) and Nellie Heck the daughters of Robert Franklin and Messalina Ross Heck. They are
descendants of Patrick and
Minerva Barbee Ross and John Wesley and Mariah Gears Heck, early settlers of Moore's Prairie in Jefferson County
and Belle Rive - it seems the
families moved back and forth between Gallatin, Saline, White, Hamilton and Jefferson County in those early years.
This picture was in the possession
of Vivian Elliott Wilson until she passed them on to me at her death."