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Ford County
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If you are interested in joining our group as host for this site, and you know how to make a basic webpage, please view our Volunteer Information page and contact Kim.

If you are looking for help on researching in Gibson City, we have a volunteer who is willing to help you - Gail Hahn Hutchcraft. You can email Gail with questions and look-ups for Gibson City cemeteries, births, marriages, deaths/obits & Gibson City High School yearbooks.

Please view the ILLINOIS RESEARCH HELP page to aid you in your research on this page which should answer many of the questions you might have regarding researching in the State of Illinois.

Many thanks to our former host Carrol Mick for all her work on this site.

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Important Addresses

smallest leaf button graphicFord County Courthouse
200 West State Street
Paxton, IL 60957


smallest leaf button graphicOffice of County Clerk and Recorder
Room 101 Courthouse
Paxton, IL 60957
379-2721

smallest leaf button graphicFord County Historical Society
P.O. Box 213
Paxton, IL 60957-0213

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Townships of Ford County

Brenton (formerly Stockton)
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Dix (formerly Drummer Grove)
Drummer
Lyman
Mona
Patton (formerly Prairie City)
Peach Orchard
Pella (formerly Brenton)
Rogers (formerly Grant)
Sullivant
Wall

Towns/Villages of Ford County

Kempton, Piper City, Roberts,
Sibley, Melvin, Elliott, Gibson City, Paxton


Surrounding counties:

Livingston, Iroquois, Vermilion, Champaign, McLean

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smallest leaf button graphic Ford County Fact Sheet

smallest leaf button graphicFord County Historical Society

smallest leaf button graphic Restoration Movement in Ford County

smallest leaf button graphic World War II Casualites for Ford Co

smallest leaf button graphic1895 Map of Ford County

smallest leaf button graphicFord County Cemetery Pictures

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History of Ford 1859 to 1959

smallest leaf button graphic1917 Business Directory

smallest leaf button graphic1940 Gibson City Directory

smallest leaf button graphic1940 Plat Map of Gibson City

smallest leaf button graphic1947 Gibson City Directory

smallest leaf button graphicFord County Residents listed on the Joliet Prison Convict Register

smallest leaf button graphicBiographies of Ford County Residents

smallest leaf button graphicNewspaper Clippings

smallest leaf button graphicObituary Index

smallest leaf button graphicDrummer Township Cemetery Transcriptions
Drummer Twp Cemetery Reading done by Ford County residents and researchers Ernie & Betty Schroeder. This reading is more current and contains much more updated information than the DAR reading Surnames A-G, H-P, Q-Z

smallest leaf button graphic DAR Cemetery Drummer Township Cemetery Reading done c. 1963:
Surnames A-J & K-Z

smallest leaf button graphicDrummer Township Cemetery Burials

smallest leaf button graphicBrenton Cemetery Listing Piper City

smallest leaf button graphicElliott Cemetery Listing

smallest leaf button graphicFarmersville Cemetery Listing

smallest leaf button graphicHall Cemetery Listing

smallest leaf button graphicMeharry Cemetery Listing

smallest leaf button graphicMelvin Cemetery Listing

smallest leaf button graphicMount Hope Cemetery Listing

smallest leaf button graphicMount Olivet Cemetery Listing

smallest leaf button graphicPleasant Grove Cemetery Listing

smallest leaf button graphicPontoppidan Church Cemetery Listing

smallest leaf button graphicSt. Joseph's Cemetery (Caberry, Ill)

smallest leaf button graphicTen Mile Grove Cemetery Listing

smallest leaf button graphicWaggoner Cemetery Listing

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smallest leaf button graphicMilitary information (includes Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Korean, pensions and descriptive rolls)

Class of 1929 - Graduation Program, including Class List.

Estate documents of Alfred Slusher (offsite link, hit back to return here)

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This page was updated on August 18, 2008

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