THE PURCELL SCRAPBOOKS

These scrapbooks include thousands of newspaper clippings about Alma and around Marion county from area newspapers, from the early 1900's thru the 1950's.  Each of the 3 books is also indexed by name.

Purcell Scrapbook #1

Purcell Scrapbook #2

Purcell Scrapbook #3

OBITUARIES FROM

MARION COUNTY, ILLINOIS

This is from the collection of obituaries compiled by Stephen P.H. Frakes, and also the collection of Jim Hester & Mary Cessna.

These are primarily for the years from 2000 thru 2018, and most are from northern Marion county, but there others as well.

Surnames A thru E

Surnames F thru J

 Surnames K thru N

 Surnames O thru S

 Surnames T thru Z

Original copies of old newspapers around the Kinmundy-Alma community

Click here to access the following editions

This includes: "Kinmundy Independent" - Sept. 30, 1871

 "Kinmundy Express" - July 17, 1891

"The Plow & Hammer" (published by the Alma Christian College - May 20, 1898

"The Alma News" - July 11, 1918

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ABOUT OUR COMMUNITIES

Histories and Newspaper Articles from around Alma

Histories and Newspaper Articles from around Kinmundy (1865 - 1999)

Newspaper Articles from around Kinmundy (2000 - current)

Photos and Historical Articles about Brubaker

Photos and Historical Articles about Foster township

Photos and Historical Articles about Omega township

Photos and Historical Articles about Meacham township

KINMUNDY EXPRESS GLEANINGS

(Including summarized information from Births, Marriages, Death Notices and other miscellaneous articles.)

Compiled, transcribed, and printed by Dolores Ford Mobley.

The articles on this web site were originally reported in weekly editions of "The Kinmundy Express" (also known at one time as "The Marion County Express").  Please note that the years of 1883-1884 and 1904-1914 (minus 1913 which is unavailable at this time) include COMPLETE articles, while Oct. 1914 - 1959 contain SUMMARIZED "gleanings" from the newspaper articles (in most cases) with special interest being focused upon data which is significant to genealogical research. 

OUR NEWSPAPER DIGITALIZATION PROJECT

      In 2017, the Kinmundy Historical Society purchased several dozen rolls of microfilm which contained digital images of each edition of "The Kinmundy Express" from Oct. 1914 thru 2005.  After former owner and publisher, Rudy Slane, gave his written permission, we then worked with Ancestry.com and Newspapers.com to digitalize these newspapers and make them available at www.newspapers.com and preserve the history published each week in our hometown paper.   By working with this company, they gave us free access at the library in Kinmundy for these local papers on their website..  For anyone purchasing the subscription thru this website, they can also read and search thru the thousands and thousands of articles.  

      We have also digitalized Salem area newspapers dated from 1850's thru 1920 (prior to the copyright laws) when we purchased rolls of microfilm of these newspapers as well.  These are also available on Newspapers.com.