October 15th, 2008
The Phantom Funeral of Southern Illinois
Readers recall that in the summer of 2007, GeneaBlogie’s research trip took us to the St Louis area and southern Illinois. We visited the Micheau family ancestral homeland of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, a village founded by the French in 1722. I didn’t know then what I know now: that in 1889, a phantom funeral was first seen near Prairie …
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October 15, 2008 Wednesday at 3:12 pm




