2012-02-10T10:33:03-06:00 urn:uuid:db895c04-0dae-4b2d-ac9c-40c4f39145b0 VALORIE EVERSOLE - Daily Union Staff Writer urn:uuid:1b5700a8-48f6-4c90-b52c-89aa0faf6245 2011-08-27T13:00:00-05:00

<p> In 1846 a German couple, George and Barbara Hemer, and their six children immigrated to the United States and&#160; settled in Vellonia, Indiana. In 1885 their son George and his wife Catherine moved to the northernmost part of Shelby County to begin a new life.</p>

VALORIE EVERSOLE - Daily Union Staff Writer urn:uuid:c319e154-a596-49c0-994d-b1b12fff2b07 2011-07-29T16:08:49-05:00

<p> In the mid-1800s Winand Schmitz migrated from Germany to Wisconsin. Eventually he took a train south and ended up in the southwestern corner of Shelby County.</p>

VALORIE EVERSOLE - Daily Union Staff Writer urn:uuid:afad2d18-0151-4754-9c3a-ddab0af45606 2011-07-01T16:15:25-05:00

<p> The great grandson of a Rural Township landowner holds the deed to Centennial farmland.</p>

VALORIE EVERSOLE - Daily Union Staff Writer urn:uuid:c3955558-2872-4b76-a643-d87122af2578 2011-05-26T08:55:04-05:00

<p> The sixth generation of a prominent Westervelt family is now living in the home built by their great-great-great grandfather.</p>

VALORIE EVERSOLE - Daily Union Staff Writer urn:uuid:65b9c1d2-788d-4ec5-9160-63f8a9dd9721 2011-04-28T09:06:52-05:00

<p> In 1840 a young man traveled from Ohio to Illinois where he staked out three tracts of land&#160; totaling 360 acres in Shelby County from the government.</p>

VALORIE EVERSOLE - Daily Union Staff Writer urn:uuid:a14fa2e8-2d47-4199-9d49-e960d8aaca84 2011-03-31T08:26:40-05:00

<p> A wife wanted to give her husband a special Christmas gift. So after a bit of research, she was able to present him with the Illinois Department of Agriculture Centennial Farm honors.</p>

VALORIE EVERSOLE - Daily Union Staff Writer urn:uuid:6e73a250-2923-448b-940c-84c2152de452 2011-02-24T08:05:40-06:00

<p> Ninety acres of Shelby County farmland has been passed from great grandfather through the generations to great grandson.</p>

VALORIE EVERSOLE - Daily Union Staff Writer urn:uuid:8f10fae2-f78a-4598-b07b-ba1968097980 2011-01-27T09:34:08-06:00

<p> A Civil War veteran inherited a parcel of Shelby County land from his wife&#8217;s father and kept it in the family name through four more generations.</p>

VALORIE EVERSOLE - Daily Union Staff Writer urn:uuid:4010146f-6fbe-473e-84df-14390a4dd33d 2011-01-03T09:22:30-06:00

<p> Shelbyville resident Julie Elbert has recently been honored with a second centennial farm in her name.</p>

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