The following entries are found in the death records of St. Paul United Church of Christ, Columbia, Illinois. They were translated & indexed from the original German by Robert Buecher...The majority of the information for each entry is a summary only of the content of the original.

Johann Heinrich Muskopf (1796-1882) was born in the Canton of Landstuhl, in the area of Europe known as the Rheinland-Palatinate, the son of Johann Nikolas and Margretha Hehlmuther Muskopf. He married Charlotte Margaretha Ulrich (1804-1881), daughter of Johann Daniel and Maria Cathrina Niolai Ulrich, in 1825. They had ten children, 1823-1847. The family immigrated to the United States in 1837 and settled on a farm in the Millstadt, Illinois area. Henry and Charlotte are buried in the Frievogel Cemetery near Millstadt. Descendants lived in Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere.

By: E.H. Marshall, Orig Pub. 1941, Reprinted 2019, 270 pages, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-934-6. Obion County was created in 1823 from ceded Indian lands in the northwestern corner of the state. This land was first settled in 1819 when the western portion of the state was being opened for settlement. This book is not too different from other county history books of this era. With such topics as trade and transportation, labor, farming, politics, and race relations - all important in the development of the county - are discussed. This type of county history book can help one develop ideas or paths to those missing ancestors by showing the customs and traditions of the local residents.