Welcome!NOTE 4: June 2009. My recent trip was an unqualified success and well worth every one of the 7,717 miles I drove through 12 states over the course of 26 days! I met a few cousins for the first time; visited my remaining brother and sister; saw and scanned hundreds of family photos and documents; visited cemeteries and photographed dozens of gravestones; found numerous newspaper articles of interest in libraries and in a newspaper office. As I suspected might happen, for every question answered I probably raised at least one new question! Some of my research will add to what is here and even correct some of it. Those additions and corrections will come in time, so please bear with me. Thank you for stopping by... please email your feedback (link below), Bill Hewitt
A Hewitt genealogy that includes
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Brief Summaries of his Two Families (click here to expand/collapse)
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Details of Eli's Civil War Service (click here to expand/collapse)
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CAUTION Note to other Hewitt researchers. There were in fact 2 Eli Hewitt's residing in Vermilion County, Illinois at the same time. I do not know of a connection between them. This Eli is NOT the one that was married to Mary Ann Prather and lived only in Georgetown.
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My Research
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This is my small effort to share knowledge of
the genealogical line of
Eli Martin Hewitt...
husband, father, farmer, doctor, and soldier. I am Bill Hewitt,
a great-great-grandson of Eli. It is with great pride and pleasure that I
make this site available to family members and researchers. For enhanced credibility, I want you to know of my research experience, genealogical studies, and attitude toward accuracy of information shared, published and proliferated, especially on the Internet. I have been researching this family for since the mid 1970s. Over the course of that time I have made a number of research trips to the seat of primary origin, Vermilion County, Illinois. After locating living descendents of all 6 children of Eli, I communicated with and visited some of them around the country. In the areas of former or current family residences I researched family holdings, cemeteries, government record repositories, local libraries, genealogical and historical societies, and newspapers. I have made use of a branch of the National Archives, local and regional Family History Centers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, as well as spending a week researching in their Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The State of Illinois Archives and the National Archives in Washington, DC, were sources for Eli's Civil War service records and his widow's subsequent pension applications. And of course, I have used Internet resources... cautiously, as guides and clues to the source. Wherever and whenever possible I have identified and obtained copies of pertinent source documents. In 2002 I took and completed American Genealogy: A Basic Course offered by the National Genealogical Society. In preparing my narrative compilation of the family history I strive to comply with the intent of techniques and style as found in Producing a Quality Family History by Patricia Law Hatcher, CG, and You Can Write your Family History by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack. I seek and can provide much source documentation and references. I try to validate to the best of the resources available to me. If you have documentation to support any of the
information on this site, or question any of it,
please email me
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