A colony of about fifty persons
left Lexington, McLean County for St. Edward’s
Neb., recently, intending to make that place their home. They consist
of the families of H. M. Harney, R. T. Wilson, Jacob Hiser, Frank Wait,
Charles Dawson and Charles Kemp. They occupied one
passenger coach and took with them in a special train six carloads of household
goods, stock, implements, etc.
Edwardsville Intelligencer (Edwardsville, Illinois) March 6 1889
Transcribed
and Contributed by: Nancy
Piper
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