COMBINED 1874 ATLAS, 1891
PLAT BOOK, and 1903 ATLAS of MACON Co IL All in one volume, each
with its own index (18,000 names). Historic plats of each township. Numerous
illustrations of businesses, homes, prominent citizens, etc. Printed on acid free
paper. Hardbound - Indexed - **$60.00 Postage & Handling included
At DGS Library $55.00
PATRON'S BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES from the 20th CENTURY ATLAS OF
MACON CO IL 1903 Genealogical information abstracted from
biographies Soft Cover - 33pp - Indexed - $4.00
BIRTH RECORDS
BIRTH INDEX OF MACON Co IL
1850-1900 Covers Books 1,2,& 3 from County Clerk; gives full
name (sex if no name given), book & page # of original record. Each letter
is in chronological order. Soft Cover - 165pp - Alphabetical - Reprint 2007
(Out of Print)
MACON CO., IL STILLBIRTH RECORD DEC 1877 - OCT
1902 Soft Cover - 162pp - Indexed - $11.00
BUSINESS RECORDS
WABASH HOSPITAL EMPLOYEE LOG - Decatur IL
Gives: Name, Age, Birthplace, Relative or Friends name; Residence; Years Employed; Foremans name; when admitted; and reason.
Soft Cover - 216pp - Every Name Index - $18.00
CEMETERY RECORDS
BOILING SPRINGS CEMETERY - Hickory Pt Twp, Macon Co., IL. Updated
information thru 1998. Includes tombstone inscriptions, lot owners, plat maps
and additional information provided by cemetery sexton. Includes burials through
April, 1998. Soft Cover - 665pp - Every Name index - $25.00
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CEMETERY GUIDE FOR MACON COUNTY, IL List of all
cemeteries by township with legal description & location Soft Cover - 27pp
- Index - $4.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS MACON Co IL Vol I Contains:
Emery, Brown, Hall, Muirhead, Pope, Warnick, Zion, Bethel, Pleasant View, Garver
& Union Cem's. (Austin, Blue Mound, Pleasant View & Whitmore
Twps.) Soft Cover - Indexed - 145pp - $12.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS
MACON Co IL Vol II Contains: Hays Family, Peach Orchard aka Poor
Farm, Cross, Frantz, Peck, Ritchie & Wheeler. (Hickory Point & Oakley
Twps). Soft Cover - 83pp - Indexed - $11.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS
MACON Co IL Vol III Contains: Illini, Long Grove & Macon.
(Illini & South Macon Twps.) Soft Cover - 136pp - Indexed -
$11.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS MACON Co IL VoL IV Contains:
Brown, Chandler, Dunbar, Friends Creek, Long & Long Point. (Niantic &
Maroa Twps) Soft Cover - 157pp - Indexed - $13.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS MACON Co IL Vol V Contains: Florey, North Fork,
Point Pleasant, Ridge aka Krall or Funk, Maroa &
(Long Creek & Maroa Twps.) Soft Cover - 197pp - Indexed -
$12.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS MACON Co IL Vol VI Contains:
Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Decatur, IL. Soft Cover - 144pp - Indexed -
$12.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS MACON Co IL Vol VII
Contains: Mt Gilead, Salem w/some burial records, Walnut Grove & Turpin.
Also history of South Wheatland Twp & sketches from obits in old scrapbook.
(South Wheatland Twp) Soft Cover - 86pp - Indexed - $10.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS MACON Co IL Vol VIII Contains: Mt Zion
Presbyterian, Mt Zion, Gibson aka Drake, Turpin, Harristown, Whitley, Gouge,
Swartz, St Johannes aka St John's Lutheran, Sharon & Spangler. (Mt Zion,
Harristown & Decatur Twps.) Soft Cover - 153pp - Indexed -
$13.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS MACON Co IL Vol IX Contains:
Macon County Memorial Park Cem (Harristown Twp) Soft Cover - 99pp - Indexed -
$10.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS MACON Co IL Vol X Contains:
Greenwood Cemetery - Information taken from the stones. Many remains from other
"old" cemeteries were re-interred here. Oldest stone gives 1811 death date.
(Decatur, Decatur Twp). Soft Cover - 233pp - Indexed - $19.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS MACON Co IL Vol XI Contains: Fairlawn Cemetery
(Decatur, Decatur Twp) Soft Cover - 227pp - Indexed - $19.00
CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS MACON Co IL Vol XII Contains: Graceland Cemetery
(Decatur, Decatur Twp) Soft Cover - 459pp - Indexed - $22.00
GREENWOOD CEMETERY FROM THE SEXTON'S RECORDS Records from the sexton
records listed alphabetically. Many times it gives the date of death and
location of the lot. Soft Cover - 313pp - Alphabetical -
$20.00
FRANTZ CEMETERY: a.k.a. WEST FRANZ - Oakley Township
Reread and updated 2006. Includes a map of the cemetery. Soft Cover - 30pp - alphabetical with section and row listed.$8.00
HAYS, CROSS, PECK, RITCHIE & WHEELER CEMETERIES
Includes pictures of stones for Hays, plat maps for others. (Hickory Point and Oakley Twps) $9.00
HARRISTOWN CEMETERY: RECORDS OF LOTS PURCHASED
1887-1977 Transcribed from the ledger of Wm. O. Housel. List of
purchases, block, lot #'s & plat maps. Soft Cover - 23pp - Indexed -
$5.00
WRIGHT'S GROVE CEMETERY - Maroa Twp, Macon Co., IL (aka Center Ridge, Davis Grove & Emery)
This cemetery has been completely reread and much information has been added.
When the tombstone gave only a year for the death date, research was done to find the complete date of death and this was added to the entry.
Soft Cover - 27pp - Indexed - $6.00
FLOREY CEMETERY - Long Creek Twp, Macon Co., IL
Contains: Maps, Readings, Pictures of all the stones, Obit's & Misc info, Death Records, Military Records and information on some who MAY be buried here.
Soft Cover - 102pp - Indexed $15.00
SHARON CEMETERY (AKA Wykles)- Decatur Twp, Macon Co., IL
Contains, map of cemetery, readings from the stones, pictures of stones, death records, military records, obituaries and other miscellaneous information.
Soft Cover - Indexed - 196pp - $20.00
CENSUS RECORDS
1855 ILLINOIS STATE CENSUS - MACON Co
IL Lists all information contained on the census Soft Cover -
55pp - Indexed - $7.00
U.S. 1830 CENSUS - MACON Co IL
Contains all information contained on the census Soft Cover - 8pp - Indexed -
$5.00
U.S. 1840 CENSUS - MACON Co IL Contains all
information contained on the census Soft Cover - 17pp - Indexed -
$5.00
U.S. 1850 CENSUS - MACON Co IL Contains all vital
information from census Soft Cover - 118pp - Indexed - $12.00
U.S. 1860 CENSUS - MACON Co IL Vol I Contains Decatur Twp plus part of Newburg (Dowling) in Friends Creek Twp
Soft Cover - 234pp - Index - $15.00
U.S. 1860 Census - Macon Co IL Vol II
Includes rest of Newburg plus the other townships
Soft Cover - 194pp - Indexed $15.00
Buy both 1860 Census Volumes for $25.00
U.S. 1870 CENSUS - MACON
Co IL Vol I Contains: Northern Twps of Austin, Friends Creek,
Hickory Point, Illini, Maroa, Oakley & Whitmore. Soft Cover - 279pp -
Indexed - $20.00
U.S. 1870 CENSUS - MACON Co IL Vol II
Contains: Southern Twps of Blue Mound, Harristown, Long Creek, South Macon,
Milam, Mt Zion, Niantic, Pleasant View & South Wheatland Soft Cover -
312pp - Indexed - $20.00
U.S. 1870 CENSUS - MACON Co IL Vol
III Contains: City of Decatur & Decatur Twp Soft Cover -
274pp - Indexed - $20.00
Buy all three 1870 Volumes for $54.00
CHURCH RECORDS
A CHRISTIAN CENTURY 1861-1961. History of Christian Church, Harristown. Many pictures, charter members.
No index, no #s Soft Cover - $5.00
HISTORY OF UNION CHURCH & CEMETERY Located in Whitmore Township
Updated with picture of church and Historical Register Marker Soft Cover - 25pp - Indexed - $5.00
COURT RECORDS
ABSTRACTS of MACON CO IL CIRCUIT COURT RECORDS Bk. A 1831-1839
List of cases heard in Circuit Court, plus lists of jurors.
Soft Cover - 44pp - indexed - $6.00
ABSTRACTS OF MACON Co PROBATE RECORDS
1831-1847 Names appearing in probate records, purchases at
estate sales, and a few sale bills Soft Cover - 39pp - Indexed -
$6.00
ABSTRACTS OF MACON CO IL PROBATE RECORDS 1880-1889 (NEW!!)
Soft Cover - 103pp Indexed - $12.00
INDEX TO PROBATE RECORDS, MACON
Co IL 1830-1960 Transcribed from original in Circuit Clerk's
office. Lists names of deceased with file# plus name of executor or
administrator.
Vol I Surnames A - G Soft Cover -
340pp - Indexed - $17.00
Vol II Surnames H - R
Out of Print
Vol III Surnames S - Z Out of
Print
MACON COUNTY NATURALIZATION RECORDS 1858-1906 New! New!
Soft Cover - 126pp - indexed - $12.00
INDEX to the WILL RECORD BOOKS 1843-1916 Vol 1 Bk A-K
Transcribed from the microfilm
Soft Cover - 62pp - Alphabetical - $10.00
DEATH RECORDS
DEATH INDEX OF MACON Co IL
1877 - 1922 Covers Death Register #1, gives full name, book & page# of
original record. Each letter is in chronological order. Soft Cover - 197pp -
Alphabetical - $17.00
DEATHS & BURIALS OF MACON CO POOR FARM aka Peach Orchard Cemetery Record of Poor Farm residents and
others who died 1902 - April 1927 aka Peach Orchard Cemetery (Hickory Point
Twp.) Soft Cover - 27pp - Indexed - $5.00
FUNERAL HOME BOOKS
BRINTLINGER'S FUNERAL HOME ACCOUNT BOOKS 1887- 1928 Chronological list of
entries in five account books, with notations. Includes person (or estate)
responsible for payment of account, ambulance charges, hearse or funeral car
rentals, embalming charges for other central IL mortuaries etc. (Located
Decatur, IL) Soft Cover - 114pp - Indexed - $10.00
CAPLINGER FUNERAL HOME RECORD, Maroa, IL Covers 20 year period ending approximately 1954. Gives
date and places of birth, death, burial, person responsible for charges,
etc. Soft Cover - 165pp - Indexed - $12.00
FUNERAL HOME RECORDS:
MONSON & WILCOX ACCOUNT BKS 1911-1915 and J.J. MORAN PAYMENT BOOKS
1911-1916(Decatur, IL) Account books include decedent's birth & death
dates, burial place, name & often birthplace of parents. Payment books give
date & page of entry, name & address of deceased and/or person
responsible for the account. Soft Cover - 109pp - separate indices -
$9.00
HISTORY BOOKS and INDICES TO HISTORY BOOKS
INDEX to THE HISTORY OF THE CITY OF DECATUR & MACON Co
IL Original book published 1910 by Nelson. Everyname index with biography's
& portraits noted. Soft Cover - 94pp - $9.00
INDEX to HISTORY OF MACON LODGE #8 A.F. & A.M. 1841-1916 Everyname index to
original book, plus list of illustrations & portraits. Soft Cover - 16pp
- $4.00
INDEX to PAST & PRESENT OF THE CITY OF DECATUR & MACON Co
IL Original book published 1903 by S.J. Clarke. Everyname index
with biography's & portraits noted. Soft Cover - 81pp -
$9.00
INDEX to PORTRAIT and BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF MACON CO
IL Original book published 1893 by Lake City. Everyname index
with biography's & portraits noted. Soft Cover - 64pp -
$7.00
1870 HISTORY OF DECATUR (Macon Co)
IL Originally published in Decatur Republican, Thurs Jan 20,
1870. Contains a brief sketch of the formation of Decatur & Macon Co plus
information on churches, schools, & businesses. Soft Cover - 27pp Indexed -
$6.00
1876 HISTORY OF MACON COUNTY (IL) by Smith
Originally Published by Rokker's Printing
Reprint
Hard Cover - 6x9 - 322pp - Index $20.00
1880 HISTORY OF MACON CO IL
*****AVAILABLE AGAIN **** (2nd Printing by DGS) Original book published
by Brink. Comprehensive history of Macon Co., IL.; Includes twp histories with
early settlers, businesses, churches, military records, 134 biographies, 42pp of
illustrations, 33 portraits and a partial list of patrons. Everyname index of
over 8,000 names. Hardcover - 276pp - Indexed
By Mail **$60.00 Postage & Handling included
At DGS Library $55.00
ANTEBELLUM DECATUR & MACON Co IL 1816-1860
Story of Decatur & Macon Co before the Civil War written by Edith Brockway.
Reprinted by the Macon Co Heritage Committee Inc. Soft Cover - 60pp - $5.00
HISTORY OF MT ZION COMMUNITY
Originally published 1981. This book contains many pictures
of businesses, churches, homes and people.
There is also a list of the heads of household from 1880 census with place born.
New updated version with all-name everyname index Hardcover - 359pp - Indexed
By Mail **$30.00 Postage & Handling included
At DGS Library $25.00
LONG CREEK TOWNSHIP in MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Originally pub in 1932 - Available again in 2008
Added information plus all name index including locations and businesses
Soft Cover - 79pp - $20.00
Click here for more information on this new publication Long Creek History
History of Macon County (IL) 1976, O.T. Banton, Editor Pub by Macon Co Hist Soc
Hard Cover - 6x9 - 555pp - Index - $25.00
LAND RECORDS
ORIGINAL LAND ENTRIES OF MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Copied from original ledger from Macon County Recorder of Deeds office.
Soft Cover - 306pp - Indexed - $15.00
MARRIAGE BOOKS
All marriage books
give: Groom, Bride, Date of Marriage & Official
MARRIAGE RECORDS Vol I 1829-1850 Soft Cover - 48pp - Indexed - $6.00
MARRIAGE RECORDS Vol II 1851-1860 Soft Cover- 81pp - Indexed - $8.00
MARRIAGE RECORDS VOL III 1861-1870 Soft Cover - 131pp - Indexed $13.00
MARRIAGE RECORDS Vol IV 1871-1880 Soft Cover - 152pp - Indexed - $15.00
MARRIAGE RECORDS Vol V 1881-1890 Soft Cover - 164pp - Indexed - $15.00
MARRIAGE RECORDS VoL VI 1891-1900 Soft Cover - 211pp - Indexed - $17.00
MARRIAGE RECORDS Vol VII 1901-1910 Soft Cover - 287pp - Indexed - $18.00
MARRIAGE RECORDS Vol VIII 1911-1920 Soft Cover - 303pp - Indexed $20.00
MARRIAGE RECORDS VOL IX 1921-1925 Soft Cover - 144pp - Indexed $15.00
MILITARY RECORDS
1861/62/63 MACON CO MILITARY CENSUS MILITIA ROLL
Register of men between 18-45 by township. Some give age, nativity, occupation
and units they are serving in. Soft Cover - 170pp - Indexed -
$15.00
HONOR ROLL - from the DECATUR ADVERTISER(Nov 11, 1943) DECATUR,
ILLINOIS List of some of the men and women who served our
country in the armed service in WWII from all walks, trades and profession
connected with schools, business and industries. Soft Cover - 60pp - Indexed
- $8.00
LIST OF CIVIL WAR VETERANS TABLET - FAIRVIEW PARK, DECATUR, MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
A list of Macon Co, IL CW veterans inscribed on monument in Fairview Park,
dedication ceremony transcription, news of reunions, etc. Soft Cover - 58pp -
Indexed - $9.00
MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS HONOR ROLL Burial record
for over 2800 veterans listed alphabetically by cemetery(thru 1955). Information
included (some entries don't contain all): War; rank; unit; date of death;
grave#; lot, block, & section; and if there is a government
headstone. Soft Cover - 88pp - Indexed - $9.00
NEWSPAPERS
OBITS and OTHER EXCERPTS from the Blue Mound Leader
Soft Cover - 62pp - indexed - $10.00
SCHOOL
RURAL SCHOOLS OF MACON Co
IL pub by Macon Co Historical Society. Contains history of
schools of Macon Co; biography's of over 131 schools (most now out of existence)
with numerous photos of schools & classes Soft Cover - 312pp
(NO DISCOUNT)(Currently Out of Print)
INDEX TO RURAL SCHOOLS OF MACON Co
IL pub by DGS. Listing of 8,674 names in book listed
above. Soft Cover - 75pp - Alpha - $5.00
SURNAME
ANCESTOR CHARTS of DGS MEMBERS VOL II Contains
220 charts with many connections to Macon Co plus almost every other state &
some foreign countries. Over 6,500 names in all name - every name index.Women
are listed by both maiden & married names in the index. Soft Cover -
281pp - Indexed - $16.00
ANCESTOR CHARTS of DGS MEMBERS VOL III Contains
178 charts with many connections to Macon Co plus almost every other state. Every name index.
Women are listed by both maiden & married names in the index. Soft Cover - 215pp - Indexed - $16.00
TAX RECORDS
1865-1866 PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXPAYERS OF MACON Co
IL Separate alphabetical list for each year. Gives the name
of the taxpayer and the township in which they were located. Soft Cover -
88pp - Alphabetical - $8.00
1889 & 1891 DELINQUENT TAXC RECORDS MACON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
With no 1890 census available, this book will help place people in Macon County during that time period.
Soft Cover - 104pp - Indexed - $8.00
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