Description
This download contains abstracts from the newspapers The Rock Island Evening Argus, 1869 and The Rock Island and Moline Daily Union, 1869, Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois; 311 pages.
Abstracts in this volume include items of genealogical interest. Only some of the lists of letters at the Moline and Rock Island post offices have been included.
From The Rock Island Evening Argus, November 15, 1869
The rural dean of Harstock, Somersetshire, England has written to an Episcopal clergyman in Davenport, Iowa seeking information on a Thomas Lock, who has been away for 16 years and is supposed to be in Iowa. His wife is still in England and has raised their son and two daughters.
Free to members (login required): https://ricigs.org/members-only/newspaper-abstracts/
You can find an index of the volume here.
