The Pinckneyville Public Library has uploaded the
following documents to archive.org:
(Click to follow links to archive.org)
Be sure to visit our Local History page for
more (or “hidden”) genealogical information!
Follow these links to topics on this page:
– Plat Books
– Cemetery Listings
– Census Records
– Family Histories
– Obituaries
– Other
Genealogy of Illinois Counties
1823 Perry [ ‘Marion’ ] County Map
*map of area BEFORE Perry’s creation in 1827
1831 Perry County Illinois Map
1835 Perry County Illinois Map
1856 Perry County Illinois Map
1870 Randolph, Perry, and Jackson County Map
1870 Perry County Illinois Map
Plat Books
1853 Perry County, Illinois Plat Book
1902 Standard Atlas of Perry County, Illinois (links
to zoomed in copies of each Township and City
in description!!!!!)
1936 Perry County Township Atlas
1971 Perry County, Illinois: Triennial Atlas & Plat Book
1974 Perry County, Illinois: Atlas & Plat Book
1976 Perry County, Illinois: Atlas & Plat Book
1979 Perry County, Illinois: Land Atlas
and Plat Book
1987 Perry County, Illinois: Land Atlas
and Plat Book
1989 Perry County, Illinois: Land Atlas
& Plat Book
1993 Perry County, Illinois: Land Atlas
& Plat Book
2002 Perry County, Illinois: Land Atlas
and Plat Book
Cemetery Listings
IOOF Cemetery with Genealogy;
Du Quoin Illinois
Mueller Hill Cemetery:
One Mile West of Pinckneyville
History of Mueller Hill Cemetery (1859 — 1989)
Old Du Quoin Cemetery and McElvain Cemetery
Pinckneyville City Cemetery (formerly I.O.O.F.)
Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery Du Quoin, Illinois
as of 2000
Paradise Cemetery, Tamaroa, Illinois
as of 1983
Perry and Randolph County Mortality Schedules
1850 and 1860
Perry County Cemeteries, Volume One
Perry County Cemeteries, Volume Two
Perry County Cemeteries, Volume 3
Perry County Cemeteries, Volume 4
Sacred Heart and McElvain Cemeteries
plus Sacred Heart Baptisms, 1868 thru 1900
St. Bruno’s Cemetery / St. Bruno’s Death Book thru 1935 /
St. Bruno Baptisms thru 1900
St. Paul’s United Church of Christ Baptism Records
(1874 – 1886) [ genealogytrails.com ]
Death Records of St. Pauls’ United Church of Christ
(1884 – 1905) [ genealogytrails.com ]
Galum Presbyterian Church (1844 – 1934)
(Includes Cemetery Information)
Perry County Cemeteries: Hopewell, Miller, Galum Baptist,
Byerley, Lacey, Galum Presbyterian, Tangen, Blanchard, Huggins,
Spring Hill, Gerstenschlager
Galum Baptist Church Cemetery
(Tombstone Inscriptions)
Old Concord Cemetery Listings
(Alphabetical [Kimzey: 1958 + 1973]
and by Tiers [Hicks: 1989])
Nine Mile Baptist Church Cemetery
Old Du Quoin Cemetery (West Prairie Cemetery)
Beaucoup / Cemetery of Hutchings Family /
Liberation of Negro Slaves
by Pandy Hutchings
Perry County Cemeteries: Cross or Brown Cemetery,
Concord Cemetery, Old Concord, Bardmoss Cemetery,
Chapman Cemetery, County Farm Cemetery, Haggard Cemetery,
Friendship Church of Christ, Greenbriar Cemetery,
Old House Cemetery, Old Keene Cemetery,
Lipe Cemetery Baptist, Nine Mile Cemetery,
Primitive Baptist Cemetery, Untefer Cemetery,
Tangen Cemetery, Blanchard Cemetery, Vancil Cemetery,
Byerley Cemetery, Unterfer Cemetery, Galum Presbyterian Cemetery
Cottom Cemetery (also known as the Crow burial ground)
Perry County, Illinois Marriages
1827-1850 with Genealogical Notes
Perry County Marriage Licenses Book Number One
(January 17, 1827 to February 25, 1850)
Perry County Illinois Marriage Records 1868 – 1896
(A Few Through 1903)
1830 Perry County, Illinois Federal Census
1840 Perry County Census / 1830 Perry County Census /
1892 Militia Census / 1850 Agricultural Census /
1835-1850 “Entry Book’ Names
Perry County, Illinois 1850 Census
1850 Perry County, Illinois Agricultural Census
1855 State Census Perry County, Illinois (partial)
Perry County, Illinois 1860 U.S. Census
Illinois State Census Perry County 1865
Plus Soldiers of Revolutionary War, War of 1812,
Black Hawk War, Mexican War, Civil War
1870 Perry County, Illinois Census
1880 Perry County, Illinois Census
1890 Perry County Real Estate Tax List
1900 Perry County, Illinois Census
Sacred Heart Marriages 1869-1930
Perry County Family History (1988)
Perry County Family History (1998)
Pioneer and Related Families of
Randolph and Perry Counties Illinois
[ Campbell, Crozier, Flack, Milligan,
Steele, and Thompson ]
by Robert Crawford Robertson, M.D.
Du Quoin, Illinois: A Family History
by Kathryn Pope Olsen
Epplin Family History
by Mark P. Urbanek
Epplin / Eisenhauer / Ernst /
Horschmann Family History
George Robb–Catherine Forsythe and Descendants
(1807 – 1982)
Ruppert, Shape, and Giacomo Family Trees Traced
The Schneider Family in Pictures
by Marry Ann Mann and Donna Vuichard
Descendants of John George Cowley
through Seven Generations
Richard Guy x Sirena Bell Family Genealogy
400 Years of Our Family History:
The Jones Genealogy from Jamestown to the Present
by Harry and Norma Bray Olson
Memories: A Family History
by Zelma Dempsay Jones
The George Marlow Descendants of Perry County Illinois
by Jack and Vicky Jones
Kellermann History
by Elmer Kellerman
Descendants of Bartholomaus Kellermann
Descendants of George Balth. NP Eisenhauer
Valentin Family of St. Clair, Perry, and Jackson Counties
by Robert L. Downen
Wheatley Family Notes
by Gary Hiller
1880 Pioneer Families WP Justice, Wm North, & Joe Craig
As Told By Bethia Jane Justice Graham
The Franklin and Carrye Reidelberger Family History
(1875 – 2003)
Stern Family of Alsace Lorraine, France and
Perry County and Washington County, Illinois
The Descendants of Joseph Todd and Ann Shannon
(also Corr Family)
The Hincke Family / Pauline Hincke /
Harmon Edward Hincke
Miscellaneous Local Obituaries
(List of Names in Archive Description)
Obit Listings from the Du Quoin Tribune
(1867 – 1925)
Obituaries from perrycountyillinois.net
[list of names in description]
Perry County Illinois Courthouse Entry Book
1834 – 1850
County Commissioners Book A Perry County, Illinois
(April 29, 1855 to January 15, 1862)
Clerk’s Docket: Perry County, IL. (1860 – 1863)
Letters of the Roe, Jones, and Dobyns Families
(contains Roe, Jones, Dobyns family history)
History of Sunfield (Diamond Town / Diamond City)
[ includes genealogical histories of founding families ]
The Pinckneyville Telephone Directory (March 1908)
Telephone Directory:
Du Quoin, Pinckneyville, Cutler, Tamaroa, Swanwick (1915)
Telephone Directory: Du Quoin (September 1922)
Swanwick Telephone Directory (May 1946)
Telephone Directory for Percy, Cutler, Willisville
(March 1962)
1978 Perry County, Illinois Rural Resident Directory
1979 Perry County, Illinois Rural Resident Directory
Perry County Illinois Probate Index (starting in 1850)
[ note: some indices are missing from this edition ]
Probate Papers of James W.T. Ritchie, M.D.
[A Doctor in Perry County, Illinois until ~1874]
List of Pensioners of the Roll for Monroe County and Perry County
(1883)
Perry County, Illinois Records of Indenture (1834)
by Genevieve Rainey
Oldest Marked Graves and
Earliest Recorded Deaths in Perry County, IL
Early Settlers of the Old DuQuoin Area
by Mamie Reheis
Some Records From Perry County Clerk’s Office
Some Delayed Perry Co. IL Birth Certificates
beginning March A.D. 1867
Death Cards in the hands of Rex Franklin
(includes burials in Pinckneyville IOOF, Catholic,
and Hopewell Cemeteries.
Also includes Veteran Listings up to WWII for
each cemetery. And Freemason burials)
Links to Online Perry County IL Collections
www.perrycountyillinois.net
(website capture June 24 2012)
www.sarjas.com
(website capture December 1 2008)
Cyndi’s List
[ a fantastic and continually updated genealogical resource ]
Perry County, Illinois Genealogy & History Index
[ genealogytrails.com ]
Perry County Cemetery Record Archive
[ usgwarchives.net ]
Perry County Census Record Archive
[ usgwarchives.net ]
Perry County Birth Record Archive
[ usgwarchives.net ]
Perry County Death Record Archive
[ usgwarchives.net ]
Perry County Marriage Record Archive
[ usgwarchives.net ]
Perry County Military Archive
[ usgwarchives.net ]
Perry County Obituaries Archive
[ usgwarchives.net ]
We also have available in library:
Microfilm
The Tamaroa Times
– Aug 1895 – Apr 1936
(missing Aug 1911 – Dec 1911)
The Tamaroa Bugle
– Dec 1894 – May 1895
The Pinckneyville Advocate
– Dec 1897 – Jun 1934
(missing the year of 1902, 1905, 1906, 1907)
The Perry County Advocate
– Jul 1934 – Dec 1956
The Perry County Monitor and Sun
– Jan 1887 – Dec 1887
Publications
1902 & 1920 Perry County Plat Book
Portrait and Biographical Record of Randolph, Jackson,
Perry and Monroe Counties, IL (1894)
Perry County Honor Roll Illinois Veterans’ Commission 1956
Bethel Cemetery, Swanwick Illinois
Perry County Cemetery Records
Perry County Census (1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900)
Perry County Marriages (1827 – 1850, 1868 -1896)
Combined History of Randolph, Monroe, Perry Counties
Illinois (1883)
1853 Perry County Plat Book
History of Perry County Vol. 1 (1988)
History of Perry County Vol. 2 (1998)
The Pinckneyville Democrat 1982 – present