In and Around Panama and Sorento, Illinois

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Photographs

  Early Days

Recent Aerial Photos

Miscellaneous Local Photos 

Panama's Own

An excellent biographical synopsis of John L. Lewis by Allan Keith.

 

 

 

Some Area Cemeteries 

 

 

  • Montgomery County Cemetery Location Maps and Pictures
  • Bond County Cemetery Location Maps and Pictures
  • Grisham Township, Montgomery County Cemeteries 1985
  • Photos of Illinois Cemeteries at graveyard.com
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    All burials listed on the following pages have memorials that contains birth and death dates, pictures and possibly other information, at findagrave.com.

    Bond County

  • Blanchard Cemetery
  • Britt Cemetery
  • Burgess Cemetery
  • Campground Cemetery
  • Dunkard Cemetery
  • Durham Cemetery
  • Durr Cemetery
  • Elm Point Cemetery
  • Etcheson Cemetery
  • Hastings Cemetery
  • Hazel Dell Cemetery
  • Hug Cemetery
  • Jett Cemetery
  • Liberty Cemetery
  • Maxey Cemetery
  • Mitchell Cemetery
  • Mt. Gilead Cemetery
  • Mt. Nebo New Cemetery
  • Mulberry Grove Cemetery
  • Neathery Cemetery
  • Panama Union Cemetery
  • Reno Bethel Cemetery
  • Smith Grove
  • Snow Cemetery
  • Sorento Sunnyside Cemetery
  • Sugg Cemetery
  • Tobias File Cemetery
  • Wright Cemetery
  • Zion Cemetery
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    Montgomery County

  • Donnellson Cemetery
  • Edwards Chapel
  •  Hopewell / Grantham Cemetery
  •  Little Jerusalem Cemetery
  •  McDavid Point Cemetery
  •  Mt. Moriah Cemetery
  •  Traylor Cemetery
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    news2.gif (469 bytes)Compiled Newspaper Articles and Books About Panama and Sorento 
  • Panama, An Illinois Coal Mining Town 1905 - 1915 Volume I
  • Panama, An Illinois Coal Mining Town 1916 - 1920 Volume II
  • Panama, An Illinois Coal Mining Town 1921 - 1927 Volume III
  • Panama, 100 Years in the Making
  • Ta's True Tales of Sorento, IL 
  • Aunt Taddie's Treasures of Sorento, IL 
  • Aunt Taddie's Friends and Neighbors of Sorento, IL 
  • Sorento Centennial 1882 - 1982 
  • History of Shoal Creek Volume I
  • History of Shoal Creek Volume III and Ripson Bridge 
  • Sorento - An History of the Town and Its People 
  • Sorento Family Histories 1882 - 2007 
  • Sorento Couple Established a Burger Chain
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    Panama School Annuals

  • Student Memories 1944 - 1945
  • Student Memories 1946 - 1947
  • Student Memories 1947 - 1948
  • Student Memories 1948 - 1949
  • Student Memories 1949 - 1950 
  • Student Memories 1950 - 1951
  • Student Memories 1951 - 1952
  • Student Memories 1952 - 1953
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    Sorento School Annuals
  • High School 1935 - 1936 
  • High School 1936 - 1937
  • High School 1937 - 1938
  • High School 1938 - 1939
  • High School 1941 - 1942
  • High School 1942 - 1943
  • High School 1945 - 1946
  • High School 1946 - 1947
  • Grade and High Schools 1947 - 1948
  • Grade and High School 1948 - 1949
  • Grade and High School 1949 - 1950
  • Grade and High School 1950 - 1951
  • Grade and High School 1951 - 1952
  • Grade and High School 1952 - 1953
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    From the Archives

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  • Panama Death Certificates
  • Panama Burial Permits
  • Panama Coal Mine Fatalities
  • Union Cemetery, Panama - Burial List - 1916 to 1934
  • Sorento Building and Loan Annual Report 1935;
  • Sorento Electric Light Co. Bill 1911
  • Bank of Sorento Check 1896
  • Sorento in 1883
  • Best Grocery Collapses
  • Sorento Commercial  Club Hosts the Tri-County Farmer's Institute
  • Cruthis IGA Flyer
  • History of Bond & Montgomery Counties
  • Portrait & Biographical Record Of Bond & Montgomery
  • Past and Present of Montgomery County
  • Prairie Farmers Directory of Montgomery County
  • The Settlement of Illinois, 1778 - 1830
  • When Wilderness Was King - A Tale of the Illinois Country
  • Illinois - Era of the Civil War 1848 to 1870
  • A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois
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    Census Information

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    1920 Census of Panama, IL

    Both Bond and Montgomery Parts.

     

    Some Useful Links

  • Find A Grave (Over 96 million entries)
  • Montgomery County Historical Society
  • Illinois State Genealogy Society
  • Family Search Internet Genealogy Service
  • Roots Web
  • World Connect Project
  • Family History at Ellis Island
  • Misc. Illinois Data
  • Local History of Some Macoupin County Towns
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    Eccles Family Genealogy

    tree.gif (12177 bytes)My Eccles Family emigrated to the U. S. from Burnley, Lancashire in 1863

  • Burnley, Lancashire, in 1818 by James Grant
  • Burnley, Lancashire, in 1818, Part II by James Grant
  • Early Map of Burnley
  • Burnley Photo Gallery 

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