Welcome to Warren County Illinois

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WARREN a county in the Western part of Illinois, has an area of 540 square miles. It is traversed by Henderson river, and also drained by Ellison's and Swan creeks. The surface is nearly level; the soil highly productive. The county contains extensive prairies and is liberally supplied with timber. Indian corn, wheat, oats, hay, wool, and pork are the staples. In 1850 it produced 1,021,542 bushels of corn; 122,645 of wheat; 174,396 of oats; 51,277 pounds of wool, and 8293 tons of hay. It contained 13 churches, newspaper office, and 409 pupils attending public schools. Stone coal and limestone are the most valuable minerals of the county. It is intersected by the Military Tract railroad, and by the Peoria and Oquawka railroad. Capital, Monmouth. Pop., 8176. This is courtesy of Kristie Setser, IL AHGP State Coordinator

Hi, my name is Foxie Hagerty, I live in Knox County, IL, which borders Warren County, IL. I have many Terpenning and other family roots in Warren and Knox Counties, plus, other counties of IL. I will be your host for the Warren County site at this address. I started this site to help people out who have roots in Warren County, IL. I’ve helped quite a few of them and have become friends with a lot of them. There doesn’t seem to be that much information on the net about Warren County, IL, and there is a lot of information to be obtained and typed up and put on here. If you feel you could help in anyway just click on my email doggie and let me know. I have some sources that I can copy and snail mail to you. You will find my sources listed on the recent updates page. Census and the Marriages takes time to type up and then make them available for the net. So, let me know if you would like to help out. Thanks!. "Come on in. Make yourself at home. Look around. I want you to feel at home. Grab a cup of coffee or a can of coke a cola, which is my favorite and do your thing...."

With your help and help of others, I hope to make this one of the Best historical and genealogy sites to leave for others and my family members who are tracing their family history in my area. Thanks!*~

~*As of August 19,2002, I have an assistant who also lives in IL. She lives down by Springfield, IL, and works in a building next door to the Illinois Historical Society. Her name is “Kitty Smith” and she is helping to type up information on Warren County IL to put on my website. Kitty has just finished e-mailing me the surnames out of two different books to be put on the web. Uploaded September 6,2002 at 2:53a.

I also, want to note:I'm dedicating this site to my

TERPENING BEGINNINGS from Warren County, IL.

~*Please add your Warren County, IL, family to the add Bio link. Be sure and mark your spot on my guest map. It will take a minute for the map to down~load. Why? DuH? I have no idea. Wish I did. I would then try and make it faster. Oh Well, as Jennifer says.... Have a Great Day!!!

Wanted to let you know that I’ve put in some search engines on my site for your convenience. There are google search engine that searches the web and the usgennet site, hippo search engine, bravenet search engine that will search my site, yahoo on the links page, just trying a few of them out to see how they work and if you like them . You can let me know by posting on the query board, emailing me. Thanks again for your support.