Source: Rockford Register Star, Feb. 13, 2022.
Pecatonica
Andrea Hazzard, Organic farmer in love with the land
Source: Rockford Register Star, June 30, 2019
“83-year-old Will Drive Clydesdales in Parade” – 1966
Source: Rockford Morning Star July 2, 1966
“Floyd Conger, 83-Year-Old area farmer , drives his champion Clydesdales, as four-horse-hitch, but one will be dropped as Conger and the Peacock wagon appear July 4 in the Old Milwaukee Days circus parade.”
Butterfield Bros., Pecatonica – 1944
Above: Ready-built Hog House for Farmers
Address: W. 3rd St., Pecatonica, commercial farm supplies, feed, tractors.
Source: Rockford Morning Star 9/10/1944
London Building and Supply – 2005
London Building and Supply, Susan Joseph manager, building materials wholesale, P O Box 453 Pecatonica
Source: 2005 Polk’s Rockford City Directory
10 Original Land Patents – 1941 article
Source: Rockford Streamlined 1834-1941, page 74
Black Sabbath Concert – July 1972
Source: Rockford Register-Republic July 14, 1972 (above)
Source: Rockford Register Star July 15, 1972
James P. Highland – 2015
Ipsen Industries – 1958, 1959, 1960
“Ipsen Shows Pecatonica Plant” from Rockford Register-Republic May 23, 1958
“Ipsen Plans New Factory in Boone [County]” from Rockford Morning Star January 20, 1959
“Ipsen to Move Into New Furnace Plant This Month” from Rockford Morning Star Oct. 15, 1959
“Ipsen Industries To Expand Plant at Cherry Valley” from Rockford Register-Republic Feb. 22, 1960
1120 Harlem Boulevard
Mrs. Esther Winchester of 1120 Harlem Boulevard died at home. Her funeral will be at home
Mrs. Winchester was a pioneer of a Northern Illinois farm
She was born in Erie, Pennsylvania on 10/16?/1850
She moved at age 3 to Pecatonica with her father, Squire Corwin
She was married in Pecatonica to the late Thomas Winchester, prominent area builder and stonecutter
A daughter, Mrs. Edith Pitney, preceded her in death
Four children survive her: Mrs. Nellie Tole and Mrs. McIntosh of Rockford, Mrs. Harry Tear of Galena, IL and Mr. Thomas Winchester, Jr. of Lincoln, Nebraska
Reverend John Gordon will officiate, with burial in Forest View Abbey


Source: Rockford Morning Star, 02/11/1936