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Genealogical Abstracts from Rock Island County Illinois Newspapers Volume 6 – The Moline Daily Dispatch, 1895

Volume 6 is now available for purchase in our RICIGS Shop and is also free to members (login required)

January issues of this paper for 1895 are missing. Content includes birth, wedding, and death announcements as well as obituaries, marriages, baptisms, and items disclosing the contents of recently probated wills. 175 pages.

From Moline Daily Dispatch, April 13, 1895
Wm. S. Hibbard of Chicago has donated a litany desk to Christ Church in Moline in memory of his niece, Helen E. Reed. The inscription reads: “…in memory of Helen E. Reed, 1st deaconess of California, born at Moline, 1859; died at Pacific Grove (California) 1891.” Helen E. Reed was the niece of Miss Sarah Reed and Mrs. Drury.

You can find an index of the volume here

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