Townships of Jefferson County Illinois

   This township lies next west of Mount Vernon and south of Rome and it was settled about the same time. It was mostly timber at the start, but a good productive soil, somewhat broken in places, but nearly all susceptible of cultivation. It is watered and drained by the west fork of Big Muddy or Casey's Fork. All kinds of grains, vegetables and fruits are produced from Shiloh soil.
   The very first settler is said to have been Zadok Casey, soon joined by other Caseys, the Maxeys, the Johnsons, Depriests, Tylers, the Mosses, the Frosts, the Paynes, the Pierceys, the Galbraiths, the McMeens, Greers, Webbs, etc. The township has paid considerable attention to stock raising, and the Moss family were the first to import improved stock, followed by many others.
   In matters of educational and religious, Shiloh has always been considered the leader and example, whist others have followed. It had the first and best schools and churches and from the very start, Shiloh seemed well supplied with teachers and preachers.
   Woodlawn, a lively villiage on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, lies principally in Shiloh township ( it laps over a little into Casner) and is a town of good business interests and two railroads, for it now has a line of the great Chicago, Burlington & Quincy running through the north and south. It formerly had a line from Louisville & Nashville northwardly through its territory, but it was taken up and the "Q" built instead. Woodlawn is not slow in anything she undertakes, and among other things has furnished us two state Senators Watson and Payne, and now she has just furnished us a Representative in the person of her postmaster, Hon. George B. Welborn. Woodlawn is an incorporated villiage and has her local institutions just like other towns. It is the capital of Shiloh township (a capital township) and both are in the capital county of Jefferson. Capt. John R. Moss was the first supervisor of Shiloh.