Coles County, Illinois Courthouse Civil War Monument - My
maternal 3rd Great Grandmother, Martha Bundy Monticue Wilson arrived here in
1862/3 and died very shortly after arriving (she became ill on the trip here
from Henry County, Indiana.
See more on the Monticue Line here.
Her son William Lewis Monticue stayed here and had several descendants stay
in the county. Several are buried in the Mound/Roselawn Cemetery.
Martha's son, William Lewis was in the Civil war and he has a government
marker at the Roselawn/Mound Cemetery.
