Time Line

I recently went to a seminar and learned a lot about land searches, migration of ancestors, etc. I remember one phrase: "Your people may have moved, but their land didn't."

He suggested making a "time line" for the county you are researching, because even though the land didn't move, the county boundaries certainly did. So.....I worked up a time line for Jasper County, and was I ever surprised. I was looking in wrong places!!!! So to share with all of you, here is the time line I worked up for Jasper County.
(Linda, former County Coordinator).

Year	Before Jasper County Created
1673	France
1763	Great Britain
1774	Quebec (Canada)
1787	Virginia, Illinois County
1790	Northwest Territory, Knox County
1801	Indiana Territory, St. Clair County
1803	The Southwest Corner was in Randolph County; the rest was in St. Clair County
1809	Split diagonally SW to NE NW = St. Clair County SE = Randolph County
1812	Illinois Territory, Madison County
1815	Illinois Territory, Edwards County
1816	Illinois Territory, Crawford County
1818	Statehood (still a part of Crawford County)
1831	Jasper County created

Jasper County Loses Its Oldest Resident

Submitted by Linda Lang. Thanks, Linda!!!

Obituary from Mattoon, Illinois Daily Journal-Gazette - December 4, 1912
Newton, Ill., Dec. 4, 1912 -- Joseph PICQUET, perhaps the oldest citizen of Jasper county, and certainly longer a resident therein than any one else now living, died at the family home in Ste Marie last Saturday morning, aged ninety-six years, eight months and thirteen days. Mr. PICQUET was born in Hagauenau, Alsace, France, now Germany, on March 17, 1816 and came to America in young manhood as the advance representative of a number of relatives and neighbors who desired to locate in the then frontier west. He traveled through various parts of the United States after landing in New York, on on seeing the country in and a round Ste. Marie, was so favorably impressed that he returned to France, reported his opinions and investigations, was commissioned to act, came back to America and on October 12, 1837, at Palestine, entered a claim to purchase and patent 10,700 acres of land, the same being granted and made to include the village that he founded and where practically all his active, useful and honorable life was passed. (Printed 4 Dec 1912, Wednesday, in the Daily Journal-Gazette, Mattoon, IL)

Obituary from Mattoon, Illinois Daily Journal-Gazette - December 4, 1912

Newton, Ill., Dec. 4, 1912 -- Joseph PICQUET, perhaps the oldest citizen of Jasper county, and certainly longer a resident therein than any one else now living, died at the family home in Ste Marie last Saturday morning, aged ninety-six years, eight months and thirteen days.

Mr. PICQUET was born in Hagauenau, Alsace, France, now Germany, on March 17, 1816 and came to America in young manhood as the advance representative of a number of relatives and neighbors who desired to locate in the then frontier west.

He traveled through various parts of the United States after landing in New York, on on seeing the country in and a round Ste. Marie, was so favorably impressed that he returned to France, reported his opinions and investigations, was commissioned to act, came back to America and on October 12, 1837, at Palestine, entered a claim to purchase and patent 10,700 acres of land, the same being granted and made to include the village that he founded and where practically all his active, useful and honorable life was passed.

(Printed 4 Dec 1912, Wednesday, in the Daily Journal-Gazette, Mattoon, IL)

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