Welcome To Jefferson County Illinois Genealogy Trails 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 Genealogy Trails is a not-for-profit organization whose members strive to post as much raw genealogical data online as possible. Cindy Ford 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. Cindy was also the host for the Genweb Jefferson county site, and linked to much of her data on that site from this one, so depending on what they do with that site of Cindy's, some of our links may go bad. Please let us know of any bad links and we'll do our best to fix them. 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!!! WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU. All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back. Links to other sites should be considered referrals only and should not necessarily be taken as endorsements. Here at Genealogy Trails we do our best to present free material that will assist your research for your family in Illinois. We have set up The Illinois Trails Research Help Page to answer most of the frequently asked questions about research in Illinois. Please refer to this page for help. All contributors will be given credit, and retain ownership of their data. Submitters retain all copyright, along with the hosts Data will be removed upon request. Check the What's New Page for all current updates to this site Thank You for visiting Jefferson County Genealogy Trails Enjoy your stay! & Thanks For Looking Mailing List Genealogy Trails Mailing List Once you are subscribing member of our list,to post a message, send it to: illinoistrails@yahoogroups.com     The Calaboose (Jail) Information About The County County History County Origins Court Houses Ghost Towns Old Towns a Little History Politics & Government Population The Postal Service Townships Articles Anniversaries Early Polish Immigrants Jefferson County Farmers' Institute The County Poor Farm The Dogwood Tree Tornado of 1888 The Hight Sweetin Murder Case 1924 The Mt. Vernon Car Shops The Citizens Gas, Elect & Heating Co. The Great Hotels of Mt. Vernon The Birth of Mt. Vernon Theaters Newspaper Clippings The Prairie Historian Bible Records Biographies Births 1877 - 1902 Birth Certificate Extractions Cemeteries Cemetery Maps By Township Cemeteries - Unmarked Graves Census Church Histories Correspondence * Family Letters Inside Mt. Olive Church Deaths Illinois Death Index 1916-1950 1850 Mortality Schedule Doctors listed on the 1850 Mortality Schedule 1860 Mortality Schedule 1880 Mortality Schedule Death Records "Hicks" Death Certificate Extractions Funeral Homes Funeral Homes Families Early Settlers Family Histories & Gen Charts Jefferson County Jefferson County Courthouse Jefferson County Links Jefferson County Genealogical Society Jefferson County Historical Society Jefferson County Historical Village Land Records Land Records by Surname Land Records by Township Marriage Records Marriages Marriages 1819 - 1829 Medical Diseases Hospitals Military Records Military Records IL Genealogy Trails Military Page Daughters of the American Revolution In memory of those who have given All So We Can Be FREE & A Salute to all who are still protecting that freedom God Bless America Obituaries Obituaries A - L Obituaries M - Z Submit An Obituary Pictures 1925 Business of Mt. Vernon Early Homes Postcards from the County Old Family Pictures Unknown Pictures Research Help   Search this site      powered by FreeFind The Genealogy Trails Research Help Page Jefferson County Courthouse Jefferson County Links  Jefferson County Genealogical Society Look Up Volunteers State Links Hickory Hill School Schools Early Schools Pictures of Schools Class Photos Surnames Surnames A - L Surnames M - Z Surrounding Counties Franklin -- Hamilton -- Perry Marion -- Washington -- Wayne     ©2011 Cindy Ford and Genealogy Trails