Featuring

• The emigrants Jacob and Dorothea Birkel
• Brothers and Descendants of Jesse Pirtle
• Ancestry and Descendants of George Washington Moon
• Ancestry and Descendants of Jesse Wells
• Ancestry and Descendants of Ananias Stroud
• The family of Squire Busick
• Related Hobson, Hollowell, Crecelius & Bullington Families
• Early photographs, Civil War military records and personality profiles
• A criminal trial in which a Pirtle was the star witness
• A Pirtle's imprisonment by the Germans in WWII
• An explosion that shook Southeast Township
• Much, much more

The book will be available in Nov, 1998 at $55.00, including handling and shipping. This price reflect the actual cost of production.

To order: Send your name, address and check payable to

Dwight W. Young 5555 N. Sheridan Road, Suite 1102 Chicago, IL 60640-1624