The Famous and Not-So-Famous
Patoka.
Organized 1875, by Samuel Hawley; present membership, 125; value of property, $2,000; Bible school began 1882, present enrollment, 129.
This church made but little progress for five years. In 1880 it was reorganized by Min. J. D. Morgan. There were then twenty-nine males and eleven females composing the membership. The church then began to grow. A church building was erected in 1882, and in 1905 an addition was built, making it a very neat structure. A large portion of the membership reside in the country south of town. They have erected a chapel and maintain a Bible School there as well as in town. C. M. Ashton is clerk.
Smith's Grove (Kinmundy).
Organized 1882, by Joseph D. Morgan, present membership, 25; value of property, $400; Bible school began 1882; present enrollment, 67.
This church is about seven miles east of Omega. About eighty years ago a log church stood two miles east of Smith's Grove. It was known as the Bluff Church because it stood on a high bank of Skillet Fork, by a rock-bottomed pool that has been used in baptizing through all these years. When the old log house burned down, some of the members formed the Old Union Church in Clay County. In the early eighties, J. D. Morgan gathered together members from the Old Union Church, and others living in Krutchfield Prairie,
We believe that Joseph D. Morgan Jr., was not only a Doctor, but a Minister just like his brother James Harvey. We found him as a Doctor in Effingham County also.
Prof. Hull is a native of Salem, Marion county, Illinois. He had the ordinary advantages of the public schools of a third of a century ago. At the age of about 18 years, he entered the State Normal at Normal with the first entering class. From the Normal he was graduated in due course of time and immediately entered upon the profession of teaching.
He was soon thereafter elected to the superintendencey of the schools of McLean county. In this capacity he served a portion of two terms, coming to this school about the second year of its existence. He organized the training department and was connected therewith during his connection with the school. He was especially interested in higher mathematics and usually conducted classes therein, though not required by the course of study.
He also liked to delve in the mysteries of Metaphysics and was for several years in charge of the Pedagogy and Psychology.
When Dr. Allyn resigned in '92, the board selected Prof. Hill as his successor. Prof. Hull had already been selected to have charge of the exhibit of the Southern Illinois Normal at the World's Fair, and the burden of preparing the exhibit now fell upon him. He was ably assisted by the Faculty and the exhibit by this school was universally praised by educators.
At the end of one year's service as president, there was a change in the board and Prof. Hull severed his connection with the school. He was chosen president of the River Falls, Wisconsin, Normal. Here he served one year when, by reason of ill health, he resigned and went into the Rocky Mountains. Later he located in New Whatcom, on Puget Sound, Washington, where he is now engaged as editor of a daily paper.
Mark Tully
Mark Tully b. 1 Aug 1791 Berkley Co. Va, d. 17 Oct 1869 Tonti, Marion Co. IL.Buried at East Lawn Cemetery, Salem, Marion Co. IL Mark married three times. First to Susannah "Suky" Ruddeford 28 Dec 1811, 2nd to Ann Nicholls on 30 May 1858, and 3rd to Loucis Edington on 3 March 1865
Mark Tully a son of an Irish immigrant, was born in Berkley Co. VA., near Harper's Ferry. He left Virginia and migrated to Tennessee as a young man. He then left for Indiana, finally moving to Marion County IL between 1819 and 1821, settling about 3 miles outside of Salem.
Writings describe Mark as a man "of fine character and was endowed with the clear brain and kind heart of his Irish forefathers....man of most excellent character. Highly esteemed by his fellow citizens....he was the first Sheriff of the county (Marion Co.) and for many years was one of the guiding spirits of the destinies of the new county."
In June of 1826 Mark and his wife "Suky" made a gift of land conveying 30 acres of land to the county to establish the county seat of Salem. It is beleived that Mark named the county seat, Salem, after a place he lived in Indiana.
A historical marker in Marion Co. IL now marks the spot where the Tully Tavern and Stagecoach Inn was built, owned, and operated by Mark Tully.
"Here on the Vincennes-St Louis Trail, now U.S 50, was Tully's Stagecoach Inn. The second building in Salem, built 1821-1822, stood on this location, being the only hostelry between Vincennes and St. Louis during the early years of the Prairie States. Mark Tully, Esq., the landlord, (and Rufus Ricker, Esq.) deeded the original 30 acres to the town of Salem, surveyed by Arba Andrews, on June 26, 1823, to the county commissioners of Marion County for a county seat, Sept. 5, 1826. Tully was born 1791, Harper's Ferry VA., died 1869 and is buried in Salem's East Lawn cemetery. He lived to hold every county office except judge and was the second president (mayor) of the town board of the town of Salem, in 1856. His death was not until after Salem became a city April 17, 1865. From his life's endeavors now stands the city of Salem."
Mark Tully's headstone says:
Mark Tully
Oct'r..17..1869
Died
aged
78 Ys.2 Mo.17 Ds.
I have fought a good fight, I
have finished my course,
I have kept the faith.
Henceforth there is laid up for me
a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous
judge, shall give me at that day,
and not to me only, but unto all them
also that love his appearing
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Background picture-William Jennings Bryan
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