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Effie Johnson and her brother lived west of the Old West’s Hotel. Neither Effie or her brother ever married. Her brother was a brakeman for the CB&Q Railroad (Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad).

Civil War

There were nearly sixty men who served in the Civil War and gave Sugar Grove as their home at the time of their enlistment. A list of Union soldiers as well as those known veterans memorialized at Jericho Cemetery is provided in the…

Ezekiel Mighell was one of the early settlers of Sugar Grove in the 1830s and 1840s..

Will A Johnson Sr, Sugar Grove, Illinois, was a collector of Appaloosa mules.

Will A Johnson Sr, Sugar Grove, Illinois, was a collector of Appaloosa mules.

Will Johnson and Pat with Mules named Amos and Andy. 1951.

Circa 1949

Ken Krieghbaum chewing on toy tractor.
Rick Johnson on riding toy.
Marie Johnson standing on porch.
Ruth Krieghbaum sitting on steps.
Dorothy Johnson behind Ruth Krieghbaum.

Two unknown Women

Subjects are unknown. This image on a metal substrate is known as a tintype, melaintype or ferrotype.

Female child poising

Johnson Family: a Tintype or melainotype or ferrotype photo. Photographic emulsion is applied directly to a thin sheet of iron coated with a dark lacquer or enamel, which produced a unique positive image.

"Uncle Billy" Johnson posing with mule at his barn at the corner of Main and First Streets, Sugar Grove, IL ca 1940's.

Will A Johnson Sr, Sugar Grove, Illinois, was a collector of appaloosa mules. Said to be the only six appaloosa mule hitch in…

Frances Rice was Electa Rice Judd's sister and Thomas Judd's sister-in-law. Frances Rice raised Roy and Charlotte Judd.

As the companion note states,

Children of "Uncle Tom" Thomas Judd and Electa Rice Judd:

Thomas Judd (infancy)
Phil…

Handwritten Note:

Veryle McGill with the Jack Ass that sired all the spotted mules. Our 1946 Mercury [car] is in the background.