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Note: above picture is the the Fulton County Courthouse in 1954





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Almshouse Register, 1877-1908
completed
  Index

Biographical Data
  Biographies by Surnames 
  History of Fulton County, 1879
  Portrait and Biographical Album of Fulton County, 1890

  Pioneer Stories
  Henry Wages    James Arthur    Richard Hall    Mrs. Adeline Ray
  Early Fulton County Pioneer Life

  Cemeteries

Census Info
  Census Index
  1850-1880 Mortality Schedules

Deaths
  Obituaries Index
  1850-1880 Mortality Schedules
  1934 Deaths - Astoria Argus Newspaper
  Fulton County Deaths from 1916-1950 Illinois Death Index

Family Data
Diaries:
  Lodema Bayless
  Nancy Bayless Kaler


Letters               
Letter from Aaron Hendrick Aten to his wife, 1838  
Letter from Curtis B. Wilson to daughter, Mary M. Wilson, December 7, 1864





  Family Histories - submitted
  Family Websites Links - submitted

  Newspaper Articles 
  The Cholera of 1851 
  A Rambler's Notes, including early Mathew Tatum line and Buckheart Township
  A Rambler's Notes, a woman's perspective of early days in Fulton County by Amy (Tatum) Cluts

  Marriages

  Military Index

Other Types of Data
  Early Criminals
  Fulton County Convicts in Joliet Prison - link to IL main site
Bohannon, William  Dye, Rebecca  Dyer, Charles Engle, John Hill, Martin
Jones, Henry Kost, Warren Leshure, Peter McCarty, Charles N. Simons, John
Sizelove, Joseph Smith, Charles Spidell, Jacob Way, Harmon Jr.
Woodruff, George, aka "Whiskey Bill"

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  Fulton County Courthouse Info
  Reading Land Records
 Land Locatations Explained plus map of Meridians and Base Lines


  Brickwalls - Researcher Contributed

  Surnames - Submit yours!

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Link to Illinois State Archives:   Fulton County Court Cases database


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