Organizations & Groups

Organizations, Groups & Clubs

Kinmundy and Alma, Illinois

We are looking for photos of people and/or places from around Kinmundy & Alma. Can you help?

Or maybe you have stories or memories from the "Good Old Days"? What do YOU remember?

The Kinmundy Historical Society would be honored to preserve your memories and stories. We also have the

equipment to scan (or copy) your photos so that they may be enjoyed now as well as for generations yet to come!

We would love to hear from you! For more information, please contact:

Dolores (Ford) Mobley – Dolores@ford-mobley.com

208 Joan Dr.; Divernon, IL 62530; (217) 625-7527

Gladys (Corrie) See – gsee49@yahoo.com

408 S. Washington St.; Kinmundy, IL 62854; (618) 547-7731

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Group Photos

(O-51) Young people dressed up around Foster twp. - August 1912

TOP ROW: Fletcher Cole, Edwin Walker, Frank Doolen, Hobart Arnold, Andy Dukes, Sam Jones, Frank Garrett, Cecil Lowe, Ernie Jones, George Cole, & Sam Lowe

MIDDLE ROW: Mollie Livesay, Esta (Garrett) Robb, Allie (Jones) Thomas, Blanche Frizzell, Ola (Green) Frizzell, Hazel (Garrett) Livesay, Flossie Eagan, Ella Engler, Gladys Arnold

BOTTOM ROW: Martha Walker, Jane (Walker) Stevens, Carl Doolen, Josie Ballance, Laura (Garrett) Lowe, Grace Frizzell, Lois Jones

Kinmundy area group

Back row: Francis Asbury Pruett (man under window with bow tie), and next to him with black suit and large mustache is John F. Donovan

Sitting in chairs: Abraham W. Songer (on far left); Mamie (Songer) Brown (lady seated in front of man with bow tie)

Kinmundy area group at lake

Alta Bagott (second from left), Abraham W. Songer holding fishing pole on far right

(O-65) Kinmundy Reunion near Monte Vista, Colorado, 1927:

Many families from the Kinmundy area, who suffered from Tuberculosis, traveled to Colorado in an attempt to relocate, since the weather helped them with their illness.

Some stayed, but a lot returned after missing "home".

BACK - Clyde Garrett, Mamie (Garrett) Bassett, Charles Lee Doolen (baby), Bill Doolen, (person behind) Ruth Doolen, _____________, Willie Garrett, ____________, Dorotha Jones, ____________,

____________, Ella Garrett, ?Marlin Diss, ?Harold Jones, ?Fat Doolen;

FRONT - Benny Doolen, Lora (Jones) Ingram, Cecil Jones, Millie (Jones) Vallow, _____________, _____________, Julia Jones Uhle

Back Row: Charles Shufeldt, William H. Shriver, Ed Dillon, Fred Kleiss, George W. Newell.

Middle Row: John A. Holt, William T. Wilkinson, ?John T. Arnold, Charles P. Balke, Lloyd Hammer.

Front Row: George W. Snelling, Harmon W. Lenhart, William H. Maxey, ?I.D. Widdes, George H. Spiese, Jerome N. Embser,

William Morris, ?Russell S. Lenhart, W.H. Gray, Charles Erasmus Hull, Elisha Hammer

The name was change a few years ago to Home and Community Education, and is called HCE. In 2007, the Kinmundy unit had 10 members.

(O-44b) Gladys Hiestand, Naida Uchitjil, Vera Johnston, Sue Curry and Mary Alice Wagoner (Home Economist)

Behind them are: Naid Uchitjil, Margaret Shaffer, Gladys Hiestand, Beth Hoekstra and Alice Casey.

(O-43a) Three Marion County Homemaker Extension Members: Sue Curry, Vera Johnston, and Evelyn Beguelin

At one time, there was a group in Kinmundy that held a hound show every fall for Beagles, Fox hounds, and Coon hounds.

This trophy is the challenge trophy awarded to the best Beagle each year. It was given in memory of the Beaglers named on the front of the trophy. To retire the trophy, it had to be won three times by the same owner. We were able to retire the trophy in 1983 and are now donating it to the Kinmundy Historical Society.