Illinois
Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy
Trails Family
Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing
genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers.
This website is available for adoption!
We're looking for folks who share our dedication
to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this county website grow with data! If you are interested in joining our group
by hosting this county website, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us.
[A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage
is required.]
DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide
for the free research of others.
So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel
is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies,
Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU
used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history
of this county and its people, please SEND IT TO US and we'll make sure it gets posted online.
We regret that we are
unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added
to this site, so please keep checking back!
Genealogy Trails is a volunteer organization whose members strive to post as much
raw genealogical data online as possible.
Many Thanks
to our previous host Cindy Ford
She is responsible for much of the data available on our site. She has been off-line and unavailable for an extended
period of time, but we will continue to keep her work available and will add to it whenever we get new data.
If you want to help this site continue to grow, we will gratefully accept any Jefferson county related data you
would care to contribute.
This can include obituaries, marriages, census excerpts, biographies, headstone readings, cemetery listings --
any raw data YOU used to build your family tree.
(Please respect all copyright laws)
Send your data here!!!
County Information
Founded 1819
Seat Mount Vernon
Largest city Mount Vernon
Cities
Centralia (part) -- Mount Vernon -- Nason
Villages
Belle Rive -- Bluford -- Bonnie -- Dix -- Ina -- Waltonville -- Woodlawn
Townships
Bald Hill -- Blissville -- Casner -- Dodds -- Elk Prairie -- Farrington -- Field -- Grand Prairie
McClellan -- Moore's Prairie -- Mt. Vernon -- Pendleton -- Rome -- Shiloh -- Spring Garden -- Webber
MOUNT VERNON A city and county-seat of Jefferson County, on three trunk
lines of railroad, 77 miles east-southeast of St. Louis; is the center of a rich agricultural and coal region;
has many flourishing manufactories, including car-works, a plow factory, flouring mills, pressed brick factory,
canning factory, and is an important shipping-point for grain, vegetables and fruits. The Appellate Court for the
Southern Grand Division is held here, and the city has nine churches, fine school buildings, a Carnegie library,
two banks, heating plant, two daily and three weekly papers. Population (1890), 3,233; (1900), 5,216
