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July 12, 2001
Pulaski, IL (a village in the town of Augusta, IL)
My mom is really into genealogy so today we spent the day at the library and the county court house looking up information about my Crain ancestors.  We spent the morning in Carthage, IL, the county seat for the town of Augusta.  The downtown of Carthage is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  The buildings are lovely and the courthouse grand.
We spent the evening at the Pulaski Cemetery.  Pulaski was a village on equal footing with Augusta when the two places were founded about 5 miles apart in the 1830's but once the train came through Augusta (and not Pulaski), Augusta reined supreme and Pulaski slowly disappeared.  All that is left is the cemetery. 

Rev. William Crain was my pioneer ancestor in Pulaski.  He moved here in the 1830's and started a farm.  He was also a Methodist preacher.  His wife was Harriet Tong.

Rev. Crain's headstone says:  Rev. Wm Crain, d. Nov. 3, 1884, Aged 82 y's, 8m's & 2 days, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me."

On the other side of the head stone is a memorial to his wife, "Harriet E., Wife of Rev. Wm Crain, died 11/1 AD 1884, Aged 67 y's 4 m's & 7 days, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

At one time in Pulaski, there stood the Pulaski United Methodist Church, stores, school, etc.  My ancestor Rev. William Crain helped found the Pulaski Methodist Episcopal Church.  Originally it was a wood-frame church, then a brick church was built next to the cemetery but in 1930 the church was torn down due to the expense of the upkeep. Here is a photo of Mary Crain Allphin Helmick at the venerable Pulaksi Methodist Church in Pulaski, Illinois.

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