Today we went to the Ford County Courthouse located in Paxton, Illinois to research some of Debbie's family history...
In the lobby of the courthouse, there is this monument to the soldiers that served in WWI from Ford County...
Arthur and Willie Rudolph are Debbie's great-uncles (her grandfather's brothers). Arthur served in a medical company and Willie was in the Foreign Service in the infantry. Both were inducted in 1917 and honorably discharged in 1919.
After a long day in the hot courthouse, we found this pretty little park on the way to Sibley and enjoyed a nice picnic together.
We located the deed records for this lot which was apparently co-owned by about 10 members of the Rudolph Clan and sold to a couple in 1946 for $1.00 and some other unnamed things of value... it is the west half of Lot 1 in Block 8 of the Hiram Sibley 1st Addition (corner of Indiana and Madison Streets) in Sibley, Illinois.
We got back to Brando's about 5:30 and headed out for the lake with the boys for an evening of Bass fishing... Ammon has been waiting to help grandpa catch the big one!
Hyrum fished for awhile but lost interest pretty quickly!
Kaleb used a rubber worm but did not have much luck... (great photo grandma).
Brando landed the first bass with a trout lure...
Hyrum was the net guy...
Grandma and Ammon waited patiently...
Grandma and Hyrum wait and wait...
Brando caught another one just as the sun went down... All together, Brando caught 3, Grandpa 1, and Ammon 1.
Brando's friend Mike caught this monster mud cat on a worm! That will be some good eating!
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