History of Cumberland County by Lowdermilk

As a part of our celebration of the Sesquicentennial Year of the State of Illinois, the Cumberland County Historical and Genealogical Society of Illinois voted to produce a history of our county since 1884. In that year the Battey volume of the history of Cumberland, Jasper, and Richland was published. In 1885 our courthouse burned and practically all county re cords were lost.