Welcome to Knox County 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 website become a valuable stop along the research trail. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting this 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! County Information Organized in 1825 from Fulton County Seat: Galesburg Knox County was organized January 13, 1825. It was named for Henry Knox, a soldier of the American Revolution who commanded the storming party at Stony Point, was later a Major General and Washington’s Secretary of War Townships * Cedar * Chestnut * Copley * Elba * Galesburg * Galesburg City * Haw Creek * Henderson * Indian Point * Knox * Lynn * Maquon * Ontario * Orange * Persifer * Rio * Salem * Sparta * Truro * Victoria * Walnut Grove Cities and Towns * Abingdon * Altona * East Galesburg * Galesburg * Henderson * Knoxville * London Mills (mostly in Fulton County) * Maquon * Oneida * Rio * St. Augustine * Victoria * Wataga * Williamsfield * Yates City Unincorporated Communities * Appleton * Columbia Heights * Dahinda * Delong * Douglas * Gilson * Henderson Grove * Hermon * Oak Run * Ontario * Rapatee Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bible Records County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Gleanings Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Mar 2013: obit for FEY; Wataga House Hotel Fire Pictures (under "miscellaneous data) Jan 2013: bios for DONNELSON, JOHNSON Oct 2012: bio for CAVANAUGH; obit for WEHRLY Aug 2012: obit for FOLGER July 2012: Abingdon Track Team and Odd Fellows group photo (under "Miscellaneous Data); Class pictures of Hermon School and London Mills Schools; Picture of members of Hermon Church in 1913 June 2012: HAYNES AND HERMON CHRISTIAN cemetery burials; obits for ARNETT, BRITTINGHAM, SCULLY, ABEL, LOFGREN, HOUSEL, MARTIN; Bio of COLTON. 1850 Mortality Schedule; burial info of EWING in Knoxville Cem. SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Illinois Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. Knox County Courthouse 200 S. Cherry Street Galesburg, IL 61401 IRAD Depository University Library Western Illinois University 1 University Circle Macomb, IL 61455 Telephone: (309) 298-2716 Adjacent Counties * Henry County - north * Stark County - east * Peoria County - southeast * Fulton County - south * Warren County - west * Mercer County - northwest VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit ILLINOIS STATE PAGE Many thanks to former host Foxie Hagerty! Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.