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Isaac Wilson, a.k.a. “Black Ike,” Early African-American Pioneer of Rockford (Entry 4 of 4)

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Collected burial information about Isaac Wilson, also known as “Black Ike.”

The sources in this post are available in print at the Rockford Public Library’s Local History Room. They are also included in Isaac Wilson’s biographical packet in the archival box titled, “Winnebago County & Rockford Region First Families/Early Settlers.”

Sources are noted below each source/article when it’s not included in the image itself.

Please visit Isaac’s Find A Grave entry here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113535536/isaac-wilson

At the time of Isaac Wilson’s burial, he didn’t have a gravestone.  Finally, after 163 years, 11 months and 5 days he has a gravestone! It was set in Cedar Bluff Cemetery on July 5, 2023.

Isaac Wilson, a.k.a. “Black Ike,” Early African-American Pioneer of Rockford (Entry 1 of 4)

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Collected information from local history books about Isaac Wilson, also known as “Black Ike.”

All of these sources are available in print at the Rockford Public Library’s Local History Room. They are also included in Isaac Wilson’s biographical folder within the archival box titled, “Winnebago County & Rockford Region First Families/Early Settlers.”

Sources are noted below each source/article when it’s not included in the image itself.

 

 

 

 

 

Isaac Wilson, a.k.a. “Black Ike,” Early African-American Pioneer of Rockford (Entry 3 of 4)

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Collected information from local newspapers about Isaac Wilson, also known as “Black Ike.”

All of these sources are available in print at the Rockford Public Library’s Local History Room. They are also included in Isaac Wilson’s biographical packet in the archival box titled, “Winnebago County & Rockford Region First Families/Early Settlers.”

Sources are noted below each source/article when it’s not included in the image itself.

Rockford Republican published on August 4, 1859. Accessed on Newsbank on May 23, 2023.

Register Gazette published on September 11, 1909. Accessed on Newsbank on May 23, 2023.

Local Group Cleans Up Graves Belonging to Veterans

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Source: Reamer, Elisa. “Local Group Cleans Up Graves Belonging to Veterans.” WIFR.com. Published on June 24, 2023. Accessed June 27, 2023.

https://www.wifr.com/2023/06/25/local-group-cleans-up-graves-belonging-veterans/

Local Historical Figure: Private Albert Cashier, Contemporary Scholars to Think of this Civil War Veteran as a Transgender Man

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Source: “Albert Cashier aka Jennie Hodgers.” American Battlefield Trust. Website Accessed on June 23, 2023. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/albert-cashier

Veterans Who Have Passed–Roger Wilson Newell

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Source:  Rockford Register Star, June 12, 2022.

Veterans Who Have Passed–Kenneth H. Johnson

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Source:  Rockford Register Star, June 12, 2022.

Veterans Who Have Passed–Joshua Aaron Hurliman

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Source:  Rockford Register Star, June 5, 2022.

Veterans Who Have Passed–Lowell Charles Doyle

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Rockford Register Star, June 12, 2022.

Veterans Who Have Passed–Gerald Thomas “Phineas” Lamia

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Rockford Register Star, June 9, 2022.