NEWS ARTICLES

Of
PIKE COUNTY ILLINOIS

Pittsfield West Side of Square
Postcard from Carmen Megehe



Anti Slavery

"BACKLOG" as told by Sarah (Burlend) Allen

Cincinnati Landing Tragedy

CLARKSON BROTHERS - Freeze to death together

John GRESHAM Murdered - Bartholomew BARNES Hung

HALL Children Dead of Burns

HULL Cabin Relocated to Quinsippi Island

LYNCHING - Beating of Henry C. Johnson

Nettie (Hardy) Love Murdered by Elmer Flowers Williams

RAIN STORM - Washes Out Railroad Tracks 1899

Suicide of Mrs. Herbert Rhodes

Route 36 - New Life to Pittsfield

D. Gates Seybold Convicted of Manslaughter

M.B. Stead "Honored by the Wabash Railroad"

Mrs. Charles Taggert

Taylor Home Burns

Volunteers to Keep Train Going (Highbert, Davis, Smith, Williams & Weeks)

Isaac Walling - Last Veteran of the "Merrimac"

Joseph Wilson - 95 years old