Southern Illinoisan from Carbondale, Illinois • Page 103

Carbondale-Herrin-Murphysboro-AAarion SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1980 Page Thirty Nine ennisssearss Kentuckians. I flocked to Southern mm Si Busy-B We, at the BANK OF ZEIGLER, have just passed our 58th anniversary of serving the financial needs of the residents of Southern Illinois. The past 58 years have been tremendous years for us. We have seen the area grow from a prairie land to highly modernized economic mecca. We have watched our customers grow in stature and prosperity.

We have watched our bank grow right along with the area. TO) DVAWfK settled about 10 miles southeast of Carbondale in the Devil's Kitchen Lake area. Wright noted that although there was a lot of pro-southern sentiment in the area because of its strong southern heritage, each Southern Illinois county got more than its quota to fight in the Civil War. He said union troops had to be brought in the area only once to protect a railroad trestle north of Carbondale after threats were made by pro-southern groups to blow it up. "They did have a lot of trouble with a unit from Williamson County," Wright said, "after the men found out they were fighting against people from the area they came from.

Joyce Capps said her husband's family came into the area around 1915 from Lyon and Cardwell counties in Kentucky after hearing about the good Southern Illinois coal fields. Her father was killed in the coal mine when she was 14 years old. Mrs. Capps said her side of the family came to the Union County area in 1818. One of Mrs.

Capps kin transferred from the Lutheran faith to Baptist and ran a store in Anna in the early 1800s. In 1830, the capital of Illinois moved from Vandalia in Southern Illinois to Springfield in the central part of the state as the population of the state continued to move northward. After the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution began, which brought a lot of industry and new businesses into Southern Illinois. The majority of the industry took a northward movement. And the area, never really industrialized, has kept a rural flavor until the present day.

We're proud of our continuous 58 years of service to the customers from throughout Southern Illinois. We want to thank all our wonderful customers who made our growth possible. We pledge to continue the same personal service that has Circle- Wilcox Member F.D.I.C. made us a full service facility. We invite you to By Mike Estel Of The Southern Illinoisan The migration of persons from Kentucky and Tennessee is predominately responsible for the settlements of early Southern Illinois.

"Practically all the southerners who came in were farmers, said noted historian and author John W. Wright of Carbondale. "A lot of the settlers who came up in the early 1800s were Revolutionary War and War of 1812 veterans who were given Bounty Land Tracts by the government to settle the new Wright also said that with the return of peace in 1814, there was a great movement to the west In 1800, the population of Illinois was less than 2,500. But in an 1850 census of Illinois, the migration from Kentucky and Tennessee had fully blossomed 49,588 Kentuckians and 32,303 Tennesseans then claimed Illinois as their home state. Wright said that around 1810 there were only about 25 or 30 settlers living in Jackson County and that number was typical of the rest of the Southern Illinois counties.

Illinois became a state in 1818 and the new constitution forbad slavery. Many of the southerners who moved into the area then oppossed the possession of slaves. Wright also said that Southern Illinois did get a minimal migration from the Chester area (Randolph County) which was settled in the 1700s by the French. Some of the French settlers became disillusioned with the farming land around Chester and moved to the fertile fields in Southern Illinois. And Wright also noted: "People who first settled Union County came up the Cash River Wright said.

"The came walking or by small boat. The main religion in early Southern Illinois was primarily protestant. And these early churches, which continue to grow in the area, are Presbyterian, Baptist, Lutheran, Christian and Methodist. "Most preachers had to have a trade then, Wright said. "There was not enough money in running a Early schisms from main protestant church bodies contributed to the foundation of new churches, brought by many of the early settlers.

A good example of this is Simon Hiller, who started the Hillerite movement which established five or six churches in Illinois. The church no longer functions. "The Catholic influence in early Southern Illinois was Wright said. "Hie only major Roman Catholic influence was around the Kaskaskia area where the French first settled. The early settlers arrived cither overland from Kentucky with oxen and horses or came by the waterways.

Settlers coming up the Mississippi generally landed around the Chester area at a place called Sheep Island, which has disappeared in the last 100 years. On the Ohio river, the settlers disembarked at either Shawneetown or Golconda (Pope County). Joyce Capps of Carbondale, who has done extensive work in tracing her family tree, noted that some of her family moved from Kentucky in the early 1800s to settle in the Alto Pass and Clear Creek area (Jackson and Union counties). "Their main interest in coming to Southern Illinois was to find feed for their stock, not to work Capps said. "My great grandmother also landed at Olmstead landing on the Ohio River in the early "Southern Illinois did not get many pioneers from New England and the New York area, Wright said.

"The exception was Daniel Brush, who was the founder of the present Carbondale. Brush came from New York. Early settlers in Southern Illinois devoted a great part of their time to hunting wild game, bee-hunting, trapping and fishing. When Illinois was first settled, deer, bears, turkeys, grouse and prairie chicken were abundant in the woods and prairies and even elk and buffalo were found. Bears were depended upon by many in the less settled regions, for salt meat, instead of pork until these animals, after a short time, disappeared from the state.

Single hunters often killed eight or 10 deer in a day. Up until around 1830 or 1835, there were many men in the area, who did nothing else but hunt and fish, and many others cultivated a few acres of ground to raise corn and potatoes, and after the crops were harvested, joined the hunters in the late fall until the early spring planting. Though there was a lot of pro-southern sentiment prior to the Civil War, the area remained as a whole loyal to the union. "Southern Illinois almost seceded," said Barbara Fischer of Carbondale, who is active in the Jackson County Historical society. "But General John A.

Logan almost single handedly kept the people in the Noel Taylor of Carbondale, who has written a book on his family tree, notes that his great grandfather, William Hatley Taylor came to Southern Illinois in 1865. "My grandfather came to get away from the terrible conditions in West Tennessee during the Taylor said. Taylor noted that his great grandfather, also a minister, oppossed slavery and was under a lot of pressure from his neighbors. He had two sons who both fought for the Confederacy and never came home from the war. One died of food poisoning and the other disappeared after the last battle of the war.

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