Names: Wilson

Hello Laurie,
            Great hearing from you and thankyou for your help. I didn't expect a reply so quickly.

A note re Martha (Sachaggs) Wilson - her maiden name was actually SKAGGS.
Once again thankyou, I now know where my great great grandparents were buried. I might be in touch again, in the future, and in the meantime will follow up on your other helpful suggestions.
            Thanks and regards, Jenny Matson

From: Ken & Laurie Huffman <Huffman3@concentric.net>
To: Jenny Matson <jennmat@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cemeteries in Brown County
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:48:40 -0600

Dear Jenny,

Here are the listings you requested. Also, to  purchase a copy of the cemetery
book, click on our website page (address here for your convenience
(http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilbrown/brown.htm), then scroll down to "Helpful
Addresses" and go the the website for the Versailles Area Genealogical &
Historical Society. They will be able to help you. You may also want to send
for the death certificates for the two individuals I looked up, in order to
verify their parents' names and other information. On the website, click on
Illinois Links. There is a link there for sending for birth and death
certificates in Illinois. Since the wife, Martha, and daughter, A. Adeline
died after 1914, they will have her certificate on file with the State of
Illinois Vital Records Office.

I hope these will be of help to you. We will be unavailable starting tomorrow,
and until mid August for further requests (see note on the home page of our
web site) but you can ask other volunteers for assistance with the cemetery
book.

Laurie Huffman

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Cemeteries of Brown County, IL, Mt. Sterling City Cemetery, pp. 240 & 269:

William A. Wilson (25 Jul 1824 - 13 May 1913)
Martha J. (*Sachaggs) Wilson, wife of William A. (4 Jan 1833 - 28 Oct 1922)
    Please note that Martha's surname is misspelled in the book & should be
*Schaags. It is the only place in all our
    records we have seen this name. The correct spelling was found on p. 269.
There is also another error on p. 269.
    It gives Martha's year of birth as 1863, rather than 1833. These types of
type errors are common in the book.
A. Adeline Wilson, dau/of William A. & Martha J. Wilson (1854 - 1918)
Luther Wilson, son/of William A. & Martha J. Wilson (29 Mar 1855 - 23 Feb
1911)

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Jenny Matson wrote:

> Hello Ken,
>          It's Jenny Matson from Hunterville, New Zealand here. I've been
> checking some of my family names in the Brown County Permanent Resident
> Index - there are a few of them. Do you look up info for people? I'd do it
> myself, only wish I didn't live so far away! I certainly wouldn't mind
> getting my hands on this book.
>
> I'll give you a couple of names, just in case this is what you do.
> WILSON, William A.(240)
> WILSON, Martha (Sachaggs) (240)
>
> I'd love to know where these two are buried, and the death dates if
> possible, in case I have them wrong!
>
>                   Hoping to here from you, kind regards
>                                   Jenny Matson
>