May 18
Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society May meeting

[May 08, 2015]  The Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society will meet on Monday May 18th at 6:30 p.m..

The program will be about Martin White who was Logan County's first representative to the Illinois state legislature and served with Abraham Lincoln 1840-1842.

The program will show where Martin lived in relation to the Trail of Death Indian March in 1838. The Pottawatomi passed through Springfield, Illinois and ended in Miami County, Kansas, where Martin moved his family in 1855.

He got involved in the border war that created Order No. 11 for three counties in Missouri. One of John Brown's sons was killed by Martin in his role as a Justice of the Peace, and as a Missouri State Guardsman, at the Battle of Wilson Creek, Republic, Missouri.

The program will be presented by Dolores and David Rush of Grandview, Missouri. Martin is Dolores's 3rd great-grandfather.

The public is invited to attend.

[Roseann Coers]