Farmer City Genealogical & Historical Society Annual Meeting

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Farmer City Genealogical & Historical Society (FCG&HS) will hold their annual meeting November 21 at 7 PM at the Farmer City Museum at 224 South Main Street.

All members are welcome to attend and vote for the 2019-20 Executive Board officers.The public is welcome too.

We will have Farmer City Journal archive pictures out for guests to identify. If you would like to join the FCG&HS, membership is $15 annually and you will receive four Mirror Quarterlies sharing our Farmer City history. Contact us at admin@fcghsociety.org or call 309-928-7198 if you have questions.

Mark your Calendars – October 13, 2019 Maple Grove Cemetery Walk

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Update! We are meeting at the Trinity Community Fellowship Church tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm. After the program, we will head to Maple Grove Cemetery to view the Clarno, Watson, Swigart and Herrick monuments highlighted in the program.
The Farmer City Genealogical & Historical Society is sponsoring our second Cemetery Walk for Maple Grove Cemetery on Sunday, October 13th at 2 PM.
Families we will discover more about this year are the Herrick family, Jacob and Rebecca Davis Swigart, Grover and Elizabeth Webb Watson and the James and Maude Bissell Clarno family.
Please come and join us!
The cemetery is located south of Farmer City on the DeLand Blacktop. Due to the change in weather, we will relocate our dramatic presentation to the Trinity Community Fellowship church. The church is located at 1300 W Clinton Ave Farmer City, Illinois 61842.
Please come and join us and please share this information.

Annual Members Meeting November 15 at 7 PM

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Farmer City Genealogical & Historical Society (FCG&HS) will hold their annual meeting November 15 at 7 PM at the Farmer City Museum.

All members are welcome to attend and vote for the 2018-19 Executive Board officers.The public is welcome too.

We will have Farmer City Journal archive pictures out for guests to identify.  If you would like to join the FCG&HS, membership is $15 annually and you will receive four Mirror Quarterlies sharing our Farmer City history.

Update – Maple Grove Cemetery Walk October 28 @ 2 PM Moved to Trinity Community Fellowship

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Come to the Farmer City Genealogical & Historical Society Maple Grove Cemetery Walk October 28 at 2 PM!

We are sponsoring a cemetery walk at the Maple Grove Cemetery October 28, 2018 at 2 PM. We will look at five different sites, share family histories and other interesting tidbits:

• Hattie Moore family site, the “devil’s chair” and other grave monument ornamentation
• Alfred and Margaret Reeser family’s gravesite.
• Wheeler family – Maple Grove Cemetery founders.
• Joseph and Sabina Moore – benefactors of school land and the Moore Township High School building.
• Tull family site – Nelson Tull and Joseph Moore were old friends, buried across the lane from each other.

Maple Grove Cemetery is located about a mile south of Farmer City on the De Land Blacktop.

The program will be held at Trinity Community Fellowship, 1300 West Clinton Farmer City at 2 PM October 28.

Wear your comfortable shoes and enjoy the program.

Farmer City Genealogical & Historical Society Program May 30 on Camp Butler National Cemetery History

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The Farmer City Genealogical & Historical Society will be meeting at the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) on Main Street’s west square by City Park for a 7 pm presentation from a Camp Butler National Cemetery representative. We will hear the history of the Springfield area former Civil War military training camp, transformed into a national cemetery. The cemetery includes the graves of Union soldiers, Confederate prisoners of war, Spanish-American War veterans all the way up into the Vietnam War. The members’ meeting/presentation is open to the public.

Farmer City Genealogical & Historical Society Program March 28 at 7:00 pm

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A Farmer City Genealogical & Historical Society program is scheduled at the VFW headquarters on the Square Wednesday, March 28, at 7:00 pm. There will be a panel discussion of “Growing up in and near the one and only Farmer City.” Members and community are all invited to come and reminisce.

This event is a reunion of generations and remembering. The end is when the stories stop, or Don Judd says goodnight. Come for the fun of it.

WILL features George Rock’s life in Farmer City

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WILL’s Jim Meadows came by the museum to see George Rock memorabilia and speak with Farmer City Genealogical & Historical Society members about George Rock’s life in Farmer City.  The article showcasing George Rock’s musical talents and life is here:

https://will.illinois.edu/news/story/a-farmer-city-native-is-featured-in-a-perennial-christmas-song

2018 Membership Dues are Due

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If you haven’t already, please pay the 2018 membership dues as soon as possible. Rent and utilities for the museum space, and printing and mailing the Mirror are among the expenses that membership dues support.

If you’re not currently a member and you want to help the FCG&H Society to grow, you can join by registering on this website and paying with PayPal or sending a check to:

  • Membership Chairman
  • 224 South Main Street
  • Farmer City, IL 61842



(includes a $0.64 transaction fee to offset PayPal charges)

FCG&H Society Annual Meeting

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The Farmer City Genealogical & Historical Society’s Annual Meeting is scheduled for November 16 at 5:30 p.m. We’ll be meeting at the newly renovated museum. Come and check it out! After the meeting, we will have a “Show & Tell” program. Bring a memento or memory from your family that tells a story. In the past, we’ve shared diplomas from the 1800s, articles and photos sharing a life tale. All are welcome.