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Our historical information is based on the edition by Professor John E. Hallwas of Western Illinois University.

Archibald Higbie

Mrs. Pantier

Shack Dye

Walter Simons

Emily Sparks

Ollie McGee

Roscoe Purkapile

Reuben Pantier

Fletcher McGee

Mrs. Purkapile

Margaret Fuller Slack

Seth Compton

Lucinda Matlock

Fiddler Jones

Jack McGuire

Petit the Poet

Nancy Knapp

The Town Marshall

Mrs. Williams

Lydia Puckett

Rev. Abner Peet

Dora Williams

Knowlt Hoheimer

Mabel Osborne

Williard Fluke

Pauline Barrett

Trainor the Druggist

Lois Spears

Willie Metcalf

Elizabeth Childers

George Gray

Mrs. Charles Bliss

Deacon Taylor

Harry Wilmans

Rev. Wiley

Flossie Cabanis

Hannah Armstrong

Albert Schirding

Anne Rutledge

Benjamin Pantier

Jonas Keene

Barry Holden

Mr. Merrit

Mrs. Merrit

Frank Drummer

Homer Clapp

The Circuit Judge

Hod Putt

Hiram Scates
Peleg Poague  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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