. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. .Hiram Keach, Ike Warmoth, Joseph Iluitt and many others, who werenoted men in their day, watched for years to find a cause. Tliere arebut few men who now live that know the cause to which these strangephenomena were attributed. Perhaps none except myself. If so, it willnever be known. That unhappy spirits reigned within the walls of thehaunted house is beyond a doubt. J. HEADRICK. We give the above from the pen of a gentleman well known in thisCounty, on the authority of its writer. It is an interesting narrative. In 1826 Judge Wm. T
. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. .Hiram Keach, Ike Warmoth, Joseph Iluitt and many others, who werenoted men in their day, watched for years to find a cause. Tliere arebut few men who now live that know the cause to which these strangephenomena were attributed. Perhaps none except myself. If so, it willnever be known. That unhappy spirits reigned within the walls of thehaunted house is beyond a doubt. J. HEADRICK. We give the above from the pen of a gentleman well known in thisCounty, on the authority of its writer. It is an interesting narrative. In 1826 Judge Wm. Thomas came through this region on his wayfrom Kentucky to Jacksonville. He afterward published in the Jackson-ville Journal the following account of that part of his trip which laythrough this County : •From Alton I came to CarroUton, taking breakfast at JohnWilliams. From CarroUton I came to Jacksonville, taking dinnerat Judge Marks, now ^Llnchester, then called Burnt Haystacks. Ireached Jacksonville on the 12th of October, about eight oclock at ANGELINA UNDERWOODCARROLLTON. HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 333 I put up at David Teffts, who occupied a double frame one story buildingas a tavern on the east side of the Square, where I remained about aweek, when, through the influence of Dr. Ero Chandler, I obtainedboarding with Mr. Henry Robley, a farmer and blacksmith, over a mileeast of the court house, and entirely out of town. From Carrollton toEdwardsville via Belleville, the country was beautiful, the land apparentlyrich, but thinly settled, with but few good houses or improved Edwardsville to Alton the road passed over a wooded and brokencountry, thin land, and but few farms. From Alton to Carrollton afterpassing Piasa Creek, and getting on the prairie, the country was level,though sufficiently undulating for agricultural purposes. To MacoupinCreek and from there to Carrollton the road passes over a timbered andpoor country, with but two or three small farms
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