R/RFHA NEWSLETTER                                            P.4

From Wilma Rawlings, NBU 4615, Prague, Oklahoma 74864 (new address for Wilma)

(She is at the moment compiling a family history on one of MICHAEL RAWLINGS descendants in Missouri. There are several descendants of this MICHAEL who married Margaret Stites.)

Probate records, Adams Co., Illinois

MICHAEL RAWLINGS OF Adams County, Illinois, purchased 160 acres of land from Magneder Edmondson for $400.00 - paid in full December 30, 1834. This property is located between Mendon and Ursa, Illinois. MICHAEL had just arrived in Adams County from Pendleton Co., Kentucky.

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MICHAEL's Death - Settlement and Appraisement Papers

MICHAEL RAWLINGS died November 5, 1861.

Dr. Thomas Clarkson - visits beginning Sept. 16 to October 26, 1861 - $77.00 Credited MICHAEL's bill by giving him one barrel of cider and 22 bushels of apples.

Dr. William J. Brown - 1st visit on Aug. 18, 1861 - $17.00 Visits from October 17, 1861 to November 5, 1861. - $79.00

(MICHAEL's grandson, George W. Rust, Jr., married Dr. Brown's daughter.)

Suit of clothes to bury MICHAEL purchased from James A. Parker, Merchant at corner of Main & Fourth Street, Quincy, Illinois. Listed as Tails - $16.50

Quincy Herald - S.E. corner Main & 4th - published MICHAEL's Estate Settlement - December 24, 1861 - $3.50.

Signatures an Settlement and Appraisement documents - October 21, 1865.

S.R. Crittendan, John Bray, James Parker and Charles Brown.

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Wilma is trying to put together some of the material she has gathered over 40 years of research for a RAWLINGS book on her husband's line - ROBERT and Elizabeth Forsythe RAWLINGS, son of EZEKIEL (KBI in War of 1812). (For you newcomers KBI means killed by Indians in either the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812

and the years between.) Like most of us she has files and piles of papers which she has to put in some order. Good luck Wilma, and we hope to see your book when it's finished.

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"Some Early Emigrants to America" (indentured servants sailing from London)

JOHN RAWLINGS, sawyer from Middlesex C o., aged 27 - illiterate, signs with an "X" - to John Norris, London Merchant - Jamaica on the "Providence", Capt. Bartholomew. Contracted 7 March 1683.