My friend and sometime boss, Ben Edgell, being a great deal more computer literate than I created this for me to record the genealogical information my mother, Peggy Clark, and I gathered on our recent trip to Marshall, Clark County, Illinois. I live in Burke, Virginia a suburb of Washington, D.C. and mom lives in Columbia, S.C. We flew out and met in the airport at Indianapolis, which I must say has the LONGEST taxi way of any airport I've ever flown into or out of. It wasn't so bad leaving but going it seriously felt like we landed in Terre Haute and drove the airpplane to Indie.
We got there Saturday, May 5th and left Saturday, May 12th, 2007. We rented a car and drove just under 90 miles to Marshall where we stayed in the historic Archer House, a stagecoach inn built about 1841 by Col. William B. Archer, another ancestor of mine. Abraham Lincoln stayed there many times traveling the circuit as a lawyer.
We were there to go through the cemeteries in Marshall, Livingston, West Union, Walnut Prairie and Martinsville. It was a fabulous experience! Mom was looking for the graves of specific people and I was just looking for anyone I was related to in any way, to find out who I belonged to.
This site, if possible, will contain the photos of every grave we know or think belongs to an ancestor of ours, mostly Corks, Clarks, Randalls/Randals, Archers, Kempers and the various collateral lines that break off from the main.
We hope this helps someone else out there! If we can help at all let us know!
Karen Clark Phelps
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