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Heyworth Reference
VHS Tapes
1. Illinois’ Memory of the Civil War (VHS 666)
2. Ernest Thorp’s Experiences in World War II (VHS 655)
3. Heyworth Fire August 12, 1986 (VHS 189)
4. Heyworth Marching Hornet Band (Florida Trip 1993) (VHS 765)
5. Heyworth Marching Hornet Band (Liberty Bowl Trip, 1988) (VHS 71)
6. Heyworth Memorial Day Services, 1993
7. Heyworth Public Library Groundbreaking – June 1988- Open House January 9, 1989
8. Illinois Terminal
Cassettes & CD’s
1. Central Social Club of Heyworth, 80th anniversary, 1992
2. Collier, Mary (Mary Collier Reminisce About Life in the Heyworth Community)(Only Cassette)
3. Down, Nuel (Lytleville & Old Times)
4. Drake, Genevieve (Methodist Church History)
5. Evans, Lottie (Lytleville Remembrances)
6. Oelze, Albert (Reminisces on Farm Experiences)
7. Ryburn, Charles (Charles Ryburn 100 Years Old)
8. Ryburn, Charles (Interview by James Beveridge)
9. Thomas, Ruth (Ruth Thomas on Short Point School & Community)
10. Vandervoort, Glen (William Vandervoort Family History, 1982)
11. Wakefield, Dr. F.L. (Noreen Cusey’s Interview with his Grandchildren, Robert Mosteller & JoAnne
Dewey, September 1979)
12. Wakefield, Dr (Oral History)(Only CD)
13. Library Tapes Raw WAV File (CD)
Heyworth High School Yearbooks 1951-Present
Missing Years: 1956, 1957, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1980
Microfilm:
The Heyworth “Natural Gas” – November 11, 1910- June 11, 1925
“The Heyworth Star”- June 18, 1925- October 27, 2010
-Poster of the Heyworth Star Thursday October 4, 1934
Books by Heyworth authors:
-Wilson Tucker:
1. Last Stop
2. The Lincoln Hunters
3. Wild Talent
4. Procession of the Damned
5. The Chinese Doll
-Thomas Cummings
1. Recollections of a Country Doctor (World War II)
-Wanda Kirby Gardner
1. The Woods Call
2. Short Story – Caught on the Bridge (Manila Envelope)
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3. The Potter & the Clay
-Marion Spratt
1. Heritage Stories
-Clark E. Stewart
1. On Randolph Hills
2. My Musical Memories
-Fontella Haycraft
1. Thru the Years in Rhyme
2. Pantagraph article on Fontella Haycraft (December 5, 1995)
-Wilmer Edward Weishaar
1. Memories of Wilmer Edward Weishaar
Heyworth Scrapbooks:
1. Short Point School (2 scrapbooks)
2. Heyworth Centennial (2 scrapbooks)
3. Heyworth Fire (2 picture albums)
4. Randolph Township
5. Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival
6. Heyworth Centennial (Minutes of Centennial Meetings) August 19, 1955- May 16, 1957
7. Heyworth Public Library (4 scrapbooks) (also a folder of HPLD and a box of HPLD pictures)
Randolph Township Cemeteries:
Randolph Township Cemetery (Volume 16-1 & 16-2) (See Genealogy Area with other cemetery
records) Contains:
1. Heyworth Cemetery
2. Koch Farms Cemetery
3. Passwater or Randolph Township Cemetery
4. Spaid-Bishop
5. Lytleville Cemetery
6. Stewart Cemetery
7. Rhodes (Also known as Cox, Woodlawn, or Diamond Grove Cemetery)
8. Miller or Rutledge Cemetery
-Picture book of Grave sites
-“The Miller Cemetery: a Wonderer’s Guide”
9. Shiloh or Mayberry Cemetery
Heyworth Church History:
1. 125th Anniversary Heyworth Presbyterian Church
2. 150th Anniversary Heyworth Presbyterian Church
3. Christian Church Centennial 1871-1971
4. The First Hundred Years of the Methodist Church
5. Consecration Sunday: United Church of Heyworth
6. Poem – Centennial of Presbyterian Church
More Heyworth History:
1. Echoes of an Era, 150 years (Heyworth, IL) 1856-2006
2. 1856 - Heyworth Centennial 1956
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1776 – Heyworth Bicentennial History – 1976 (1776- 1976)
A History of Heyworth, 1926
“Heyworth Natural Gas” (Newspaper Article – May 22, 1913)
Heyworth, IL (Yellow Pamphlet)
Heyworth Centennial 1956 (Packet)
Heyworth Centennial Play (Manila Envelope)
2012 Heyworth High School Alumni Roster Classes 1878-1962
Magazine- Treatment Plant Operator (Tony Foster Heyworth, IL Resident) (Lessons from his father
helped Tony Foster shape up a small lagoon treatment plant in a central Illinois community)
Heyworth Planning Commission
Gardner Randolph of Illinois by: Jacquelyn Hanson
H.A. Karr Journal (In director’s office)
Heyworth Agriculture & FFA Bi-Annual Review 2011
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Bloomington Public Library (Pamphlet)
Guide to County Records
McLean County Citizen’s Handbook
125 Years of Faith, Hope, and Healing (OSF St. Joseph Medical Center)
Five Golden Decades
University of Illinois Agriculture Experiment Station Soil Report No. 10 McLean County Soils May
1915
A Tree Grows in Funks Grove
Ellsworth’s 100th Year
71 Interesting, Amusing, Fascinating Facts About McLean County
The Scott- Vrooman Mansion
Bloomington- Normal Lost
McLean County and it’s Schools
Good Old Times in McLean County
Index to: The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois
A Fair to Remember
Guidebook to Historical McLean County
Heritage of the Prairie: History of Empire & West Townships of McLean County
History of McLean County Volume 1 & Volume 2
This Blooming Town
History of McLean County Illinois 1879
The Illustrated History of McLean County
The Great Depression
Index to the Map of McLean County, Illinois, 1866
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois & History of McLean County (Volume 1 & 2)
Portrait and Biographical Album
Inventory of Historical Landmarks in McLean County
McLean County Historical Society 1991 Move to the Courthouse Floor Plans
Index to the Illustrated History of McLean County, 1982
McLean County Historical Society On the Square September- October 1990 (Pamphlet)
WJBC’s History You Can See
Don Munson’s WJBC Sesquicentennial Stories
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McLean County in the World War (1917-1918
Saybrook: City of Shade & Water 1825-2000 Cheney’s Grove Township Celebration
Much Ado About Nothing
Preservation & Awareness of Our Local Heritage, McLean
McLean County Centennial Arrowsmith Battlefield Historic Stewart House
Historic McLean
Welcome to the Downs (Pamphlet)
Historical Tour of McLean County Tape/Slide Program by Noreen Cusey
The Way it was in McLean County
Atlas of McLean County and the State of Illinois 1874
Every name Index of Portrait & Biographical Album of McLean County, Illinois 1887
History of DeWitt County, IL
The High Road to Honor- Vrooman
A Sentimental Journey
Another Sentimental Journey
Funks of Funk’s Grove
The Hybrid Corn Makers
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Illinois State Library Volume 1, Issue 1 “Newspapers in the Historical Library”
Cornbelt Library System Union Bibliography of Local History Materials
Constitution of the State of Illinois and the United States
Illinois: How to Levy Taxes 1968 Edition
Township School Trustees in Illinois 1819-1980
Central States Archaeological Journal
a. Volume 1 April, 1955 No. 4
b. Volume 20 October, 1973 No. 4
Illinois Capital Guide
Federal Writer’s Illinois Guide
The Illini: The Story of the Prairie
Clinton/ DeWitt County, IL 1835-1985
Livingston County in the World War
The Making of Illinois
Illinois Trivia Illustrated
A Student’s History of Illinois, 7th Edition
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois: Biographical & Memorial Edition
Wapella East Oil Pool, DeWitt County, Illinois- A Silurian Reef
This Awkward Mud (Illinois Poets)
A Book to Celebrate Waynesville, IL, 125 Years of Cherished Memories 1875-2000
Illinois Traction System (Interurban-ITS) (Manila Envelope)
Illinois Architecture
2011 Illinois Court of Claims Rules & Statutes
2011 Roster of State Government Officials
2012 Roster of State Government Officials
Illinois Voters Handbook 1976
The Covered Wagon- Emerson Hough
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Biographical Directory of American Congress 1774-1961
Colonial Daughters of the Seventieth Century, Inc. (1896-1979)
Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut
Our Country’s Flag
Pictorial History of the World War
Korea the Forgotten War
History of the United States
Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln
An Attempt to Steal Lincoln’s Body
Lincoln: A Pictorial Story of his Life
Ladies of Courage By: Eleanor Roosevelt (Eleanor Roosevelt’s Signature)
Dictionary of Musical Terms
Life and Deeds of General Sherman
Leaves of Grass
Genealogy
1. Heyworth Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1864 By: Norris Porter
2. Index of McLean County, Illinois and McLean County History -1879 also Merriman’s McLean
County History -1887
3. Soldiers of the Revolution & the War of 1812, Buried in McLean, IL
4. Draper/Ross and Allied Families
5. The Hammitts in Illinois
6. Tallon Genealogy
7. Turner- Hill Genealogy
8. Shirley Jean Cates’ Class Autograph Book (Peggy Phillips’ Mother) Dahlgren High School (Dahlgren,
IL)
9. 1895 Heyworth Primary School Class List
10. Wakefield, Campbell (1772-1885) (Folder)
11. Ancestor Chart of George Martin and Susanna Harvey Families
12. Heyworth Natural Gas, May 22, 1913
13. Fortune: A Farm in Illinois – George Wissmiller and Family
14. Clinton News Together with… March 18, 1913- May 22, 1914 (Black Binder)
15. McLean County Census: 1840, 1850, 1860
16. “Celebrating 100 years of the Good Life in the Stanford, Covell Area” 1868-1968
17. “Illinois Libraries” Archives (May 1977)
18. Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly
- Index to 1977-1978
- Summer 1977
- Fall 1977
- Spring 1977
- Winter 1977
- Spring 1978
- Summer 1978
- Fall 1978
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- Winter of 1978
- May 1990 (Newsletter)
- June 1990 (Newsletter)
- Summer 1990
Immigrant & Passenger Arrivals (A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications)
1983
The Samuel Stewart House and Stewart Family History
“Cumming Family History”
Prairie Pioneers of Illinois Vol 1 & Vol 2
The Genealogical Helper
- May/June 1987
- July/Aug 1987
- Sep/Oct 1987
- Nov/Dec 1987
- Jan/Feb 1988
- Mar/Apr 1988
- July 1994
Old Family Records (Numbers 1-9)
Central Illinois Obituaries (1848-1870) (1871-1880)
McLean County Birth Records
- Vol 1 (1860-1879)
- Vol 2 (1880-1882)
- Vol 3 (1883-1885)
- Vol 4 (1886-1888)
- Vol 5 (1889-1892)
- Vol 6 (1893-1896)
- Vol 7 (1897-1899)
McLean County Illinois Marriage Records
- Vol 1 (1831-1855)
- Vol 2 (1856-1862)
- Vol 3 (1863-1867)
- Vol 4 (1868-1872)
- Vol 5 (1873-1877)
- Vol 6 (1878-1882)
- Vol 7 (1883-1887)
- Vol 8 (1888-1892)
McLean County Cemeteries:
- Vol 1 Dawson Township
- Vol 2 Empire Township
- Vol 3 Bloomington Township
- Vol 4 Allin Township
- Vol 5 Dale Township
- Vol 6 Arrowsmith Township, West Township
- Vol 7 Bellflower Township
- Vol 8 Dry Grove Township
- Vol 9 Funks Grove Township
- Vol 10 Old Town Township, Downs Township
- Vol 11-1 Danvers Township, Park Lawn Cemetery
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- Vol 11-2 Danvers Township, Six Cemeteries
- Vol 12 Mount Hope Township
- Vol 13-1 Bloomington Township, Old City Cemetery, North Part of Evergreen
- Vol 14-1 Bloomington Township, St. Mary’s Cemetery
- Vol 14-2 Bloomington Township, St. Mary’s Cemetery
- Vol 14-3 Bloomington Township, St. Mary’s Cemetery
- Vol 16-1 Randolph Township
- Vol 16-2 Heyworth Cemetery
Livingston County Cemeteries, Vol 1
Ancestors: Yours and Mine
- Vol 1-1 February 1975
- Vol 1-2 May 1975
- Vol 1-3 Aug 1975
- Vol 1-4 Nov 1975
- Vol 2-1 Feb 1976
- Vol 2-2 May 1976
- Vol 2-3 Aug 1976
- Vol 6-3 Aug 1980 (1840 McLean County Census Index)
- Vol 6-4 Nov 1980
- Vol 7-1 Feb 1981
- Vol 7-2 May 1981
- Vol 7-3 Aug 1981
- Vol 7-4 Nov 1981
- Vol 8-1 Feb 1982
- Vol 8-3 Aug 1982
Glenings’ From the Heart of the Cornbelt
- Vol 1-1 Sep 1967-Spring 2007
DeWitt County Genealogical Quarterly Winter 1975-Spring 2007
The Genealogical Work of Mr. and Mrs. John Bennett Boddie
American History: Census Records
Guide to Genealogical Records in the National Archives
The Genesis of Your Genealogy
Help is Available
Illinois Libraries: April 1991 (Newspapers in the Illinois State Library)
Vital Records Handbook
From Tape to Type: An Oral History Manuel and Workbook
Preserving Historical Records from Illinois State Archives (Manila Envelope)
Illinois Central Magazine: Jan 1944 (Heyworth People: Harrison, Noble, Florence Ensiminger, and
Marjory Wieting)