Webster
settlement #481274
created 2012-10-02 by bplewe
official name: Webster (started: 1846, : open)
assertion #3724921 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
official name: Macedonia (started: 1843, : 1845)
They retained this name when they travelled en masse to Western Iowa
assertion #3725135 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
official name: Ramus (started: 1840, : 1842)
assertion #3724931 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
official name: Crooked Creek (started: before 1839, : 1840)
assertion #3724868 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
is a(n): village (started: 1840)
assertion #3724922 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
started: 1839
assertion #3724937 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 90%.
ended: open
assertion #3738937 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 90%.
description: In 1826 Ute Perkins and his family became the first permanent white settlers in Fountain Green Township in Hancock County Illinois. Their settlement became known as "Perkins Settlement". In 1839 Joel Hills Johnson and other missionaries came to the area and converted the Perkins family and other families living along Crooked Creek. They became known as the Crooked Creek Branch. In 1840 the town of Ramus, a Latin word which means ‘branch’, was laid out on land owned by Ute Perkins. When the town was incorporated in 1843 the Illinois Legislature gave it the name of Macedonia. In 1845 the population was approximately 500 residents. During the exodus from Illinois in 1846, the majority of the population traveled across Iowa as a group.?
assertion #3724990 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 0%.
religion: Early (started: 1840, : 1846)
assertion #3724934 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
located at: Hancock County, Illinois, United States
assertion #3713274 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
location: 40°27'59"N, 91°0'2"W
assertion #3718045 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 70%.
belongs to: Crooked Creek/Ramus/Macedonia Branch/Stake
entity #481221, assertion #3751262 by bplewe on 2012-10-02: confidence 100%.
in group: Nauvoo Era
assertion #3726989 by bplewe on 2012-10-30: confidence 100%.
see also: JHC 9/16/1845
entity #850219, assertion #3771116 by bplewe on 2013-10-29: confidence 80%.
see also: JHC 12/5/1841
entity #850179, assertion #3771034 by bplewe on 2013-10-29: confidence 80%.
see also: HC 4:404
listed as a desired gathering place, 16 July 1841
entity #850121, assertion #4003342 by mpra on 2017-07-17: confidence 100%.
see also: T&S 6:16, 1015
entity #850660, assertion #3773759 by bplewe on 2013-10-29: confidence 80%.
see also: HC 4:143-145
entity #850105, assertion #3770404 by bplewe on 2013-10-29: confidence 80%.
see also: T&S 3:3, 616
entity #850559, assertion #3773111 by bplewe on 2013-10-29: confidence 80%.
see also: Crooked Creek/Ramus/Macedonia Branch records
entity #850015, assertion #3770121 by bplewe on 2013-10-29: confidence 80%.
see also: Hancock Plat Book A (Family History Library 954774) p.45
entity #850080, assertion #3770246 by bplewe on 2013-10-29: confidence 80%.
