Description
This download contains abstracts from the newspapers The Rock Island Daily Argus and The Rock Island Daily Union January-June 1878, Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois; 255 pages.
Included in this volume are vital records, visits from out-of-town relatives and former residents of Rock Island County, probate court listings, divorces, and real estate transfers. Information from a third newspaper, the “Rock Islander”, published in Rock Island at this time is not included.
From The Rock Island Daily Union, January 3, 1878
Wm Schoot whose wife died recently has started for the home of his parents in Ohio, taking with him his two motherless children who will be cared for by their grandparents. Schoot will return to Moline in a few weeks.
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