Personal Recollections: Of Early Decatur, Abraham Lincoln, Richard J. Oglesby and the Civil War (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Personal Recollections: Of Early Decatur, Abraham Lincoln, Richard J. Oglesby and the Civil War

In June, 1912, the grave of William Dickey, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who was buried at Argenta, Ill., was suitably marked with a handsome bronze marker.

One great duty which devolves upon our organization is the collecting and compiling of local history.

While taking up the study of the history of Illinois at one of our meetings at the home of Miss Carrie Powers, Mrs. Jane M. Johns gave a reminiscence of Decatur and Macon County in the early days. She said: The usefulness and intensity of life in those years can never be realized by the younger generation. Like conditions can never again exist.

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