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v H. M. Aiken, Franklin County History: Centennial Edition (1918) 14-15.
vi Lee Sultzman, Illinois History, 17 Jul. 1997
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viii Aiken, 23.
ix Susie Ramsey and Flossie Miller, The Heritage of Franklin County Illinois (1964) 8.
x Aiken, 32.
xi Ramsey and Miller, 8.
xiiHolloway, 5.
xiiiRamsey and Miller, 8.
xivAiken, 26.
xvAiken, 131.
xviState of Illinois, Secretary of State, Illinois Blue Book 1975-1976 (Springfield, IL: Secretary of State, 1975-1976), 208.
xvii”The Mexican-American War,”” 31 Dec. 2013 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilfrankl/military/milmexrp.html.
xviiiAiken, 135.
xixHolloway, 16.
xxHolloway, 14.
xxiHolloway, 16.
xxiiTerry Overturf, et al., Franklin County Coal (Franklin County Gifted Cooperative, 1981).
xxiiiIllinois, Prairie Research Institute, Directory of Coal Mines in Illinois: Franklin County (Champaign, IL: Illinois State Geological Survey, 2013) 4.
xxivIllinois, Prairie Research Institute, 1-4.
xxvIllinois, Prairie Research Institute, 1-4.
xxviOverturf, et al., 7.
xxvii”Rend Lake,” 21 June 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rend_lake.
xxviii”History of Rend Lake,”” 28 Jan 2014. http://www.mvs.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/RendLake/RendLakeHistory.aspx.