ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

Tag: O’Fallon

  • Edwards Family

    Four generations, left to right:  Mishey Edwards, Mrs. Mary Stephenson, Dorothy Edwards.  Mary Stephenson is holding her oldest child, Margaret, and the little boy in front is Albert, her sister’s son. Photo from the O’Fallon Missouri Historical Society – Mary Stephenson Collection.

  • The Abington family

    Many of the families had relatives all over St. Charles County and were members of the various AME churches…the Abington family can be found at Sage, Grant and Smith Chapel Cemeteries….

  • The people on the hill

    on his land was a road that led from his plantation house up into town to the Railroad tracks, just east of the station. On that road, his enslaved had lived for generations, which was how it had earned its name. The 1930 Census taker would refer to it as …..