Photo Gallery

This area of Southern Illinois is called Little Egypt, for its riverside, fertile fields, among other things. The Baine family in America has its origins in this area, specifically around Cairo, Illinois.

Miss Anna Preher was our cousin. Her mother, Elizabeth, was the sister of Phil Weiskopf, our ancestor.

The killer of Anna Preher was found, tried, but not hanged. He spent most of the rest of his life in prison for his crime.

This community was built on the Baine farm in Jacksonville, Florida.

This is a photo of Katrien Elizabeth Baine and two of her children, Ruby and Carl Baine, circa 1909.

This is a photo of T.W. and Betty Baine with their children, Steve, Betty Anne, and Tommy.

This is a photo of Tom Baine, Jr. (far right in back), Lizze (to his left), and the children, including, I think, some of his Horner half-siblings or nieces and nephews.

On this spot stood the Baine farmhouse. It was torn down in the late 1990's.

This is a photo of Ruby as a baby.

Left to right: Ruby, Carl, Ruth, Harold, and T.W. Baine, around 1941, in Pulaski, Illinois.

This is a photo of Baine's Truck Stop on North Main Street in Jacksonville, Florida. Linda Baine and her father (sitting on left), Harold Baine, circa 1960.

Lorene Ervin Baine, 87, still working for herself at Baine's Truck Stop in Jacksonville, Florida.

This is a photo of our ancestor, Tom Baine, Jr., around 1930 or so.

This is Tom Baine, Jr., around 1900.

T.M. and his father-in-law, Tom Baine, ca. 1930.

T.W. in his Army Officer's uniform. He was a captain and pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.

I took this photo in September 2006, at Beechwood Cemetery, Mounds, Illinois. My great-great-grandparents, Tom and Lizzie Baine, are buried near this spot.

Bette Ruth Wadsack, Frank Montgomery, Ruth Montgomery, Bonita Taylor, and Laura Taylor.

This photo circa 1938, in Jacksonville, Florida.

A photo of Bonita in her nurses' uniform. She received a master's degree in nursing. She's now Bonita Robertson.

Photo circa 1940's or so in Illinois.

Photo of Carl Louis Baine on the family farm in Villa Ridge, Illinois, ca. late 1940's.

Photo of Carmi around the time Phil bought some land there. His sister, Elizabeth, was already living there at the time. Phil likely moved there the following year.

Photo of Cathy as a child.

Photo of Dusty and his father, Tom Baine, flying off Baine Airport in Oceanway, Florida, for the last time, September 2005.

Photo of Dusty Baine after an F-16 flight in June 1995.

Photo of Tom Baine after an F-16 flight on June 23, 1995.

T.W. Baine liked to land his E-2 Cub on Fernandina Beach, Florida, in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Often-times, however, the landings were not intentional. The engine on that airplane was not very reliable.

The E-2 over what appears to be Jacksonville IAP, Florida, as it was being built, circa the mid-1960's.

Photo of Edna Newell (right) and a neighbor in Villa Ridge, Illinois, in October 2006. Edna is a descendant of Sarah Jane Polk by Sarah's first marrage to Abraham Horner, which makes her a cousin of ours. Edna fondly remembers Tom Baine, Jr., as her, "Uncle Tom."

Photo of Sam and Lizzie Wildy in the 1940's on the porch of their home in Pulaski, Illinois.

Photo of Estelle Arnette Walker who married John Quincy Hay. Estelle is my great-great-grandmother. She is the mother of Mackie Hay, our "Mummy." Photo circa 1930?

Photo of T.W. Baine and his grandsons, Tommy Baine and Neal Weitman, 1971.

Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida

Greenlawn Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida

Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida

Greenlawn Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida

Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida

Greenlawn Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida

Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida

Greenlawn Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida

Beechwood Cemetery, Mounds, Illinois

Mapleridge Cemetery, Carmi, Illinois

Plainview Cemetery, Boonville, Indiana

Hank with the Baine kids in T.W.'s truck on the Baine farm, 1950's.

Photo of Mummy in 1912, in Jacksonville, Florida.

Photo of my great-grandparents, William and Mummy Wilson, ca. 1940's, in Jacksonville, Florida.

Linda Baine, Pamola Bell, Leeann Whittington, Betty Baine, Gay Kemp, Biff Kemp, Patty Whittington, Pete Herndon, Arnette Herndon, Mummy Wilson, Nadia Bell, Margaret Madden, T.W. Baine, and Harry Madden. Late 1960's.

Nadia, Billy, and Arnette Wilson, 1918, Jacksonville, Florida.

Photo of Aunt Margaret Parsons, ca. 1950's. She was a character, and while she was a wonderful person who did much for her Baine nieces and nephews, many cringe when they hear her name because she was strict.

This man is responsible for our family's migration to Jacksonville, Florida. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, his job in the lumber business led him and Aunt Margaret to Jacksonville in 1929.

Photo at her parents' home in Jacksonville, Florida.

Photo of our great-great-grandmother, Sarah Jane Polk Horner Baine, with her daughter, Kate Horner Ragedale, and her grandaughter, Lil Ragsdale, and her great-grandson, T.L. Sarah died in 1918, and is buried at Shiloh Cemetery, Villa Ridge, Illinois. She is a distant cousin of President Polk.

Various members of the Baine family lived in Anna, Pulaski, Villa Ridge, Mounds, Tamms, and Cairo, Illinois.

Rainbow Springs, Florida, ca. 1968.

Photo of Billy Tom as a young marine officer, 1950's.

Billy Tom, Bonita, Barbara, and Bette Ruth Ridgeway, ca. 1936.

Photo circa 1970.

The legendary Shemwell's Barbecue in Cairo, Illinois.

Tom Baine with his cousin, David Waterton Anderson, in Carlton-juxta-Snaith, North Yorkshire, England, November 1994.

Phil Weiskopf sold his marble shop and it became a theater in 1907. You can still see his name faintly visible on the top of the building.

Photo in Mounds, Illinois, ca. 1940's, perhaps.

Photo of Tommy Baine on his father's Cadillac, 1946.

Betty, T.W., Scott, and Linda Baine at the Baine breakfast table, Jacksonville, Florida, ca. 1969.

Tommy Baine IV was involved in a motorcycle accident in Fernandina Beach, Florida, in May 2007, when someone pulled out in front of him as he was driving along near the beach.

Photo circa 1936, Jacksonville, Florida.

Photo of T.W. Baine, III, in 1971.

Photo of Phil and Louisa Weiskopf, ca. 1873, in Boonville, Warrick, Illinois.

Photo of the Weiskopf family in Carmi, Illinois, 1889. Phil and Louisa sit in the middle, surrounded by their children. Left to right: Phil, Jr.; William; Louise; Louisa; Charles; Barbara; Phil, Sr.; Katrien Elizabeth; and Margaret.

Lizzie Baine ca. 1920.

Louisa and Margaret with their brother, John Sherman Weiskopf.

Very good portrait of Louise Weiskopf. Poor Louise died at age 34 in 1923 from "overwork." She was a nurse in Louisville, Kentucky.

Photo of Miss Louise Weiskopf (right) in her nurse uniform in Louisville, Kentucky, around 1920. Her friend on the left is unknown.

Photo was likely in either Carmi, Illinois, or Louisville, Kentucky.

Photo of Margaret Ann Weiskopf in 1889, in Carmi, Illinois. As she is wearing the same dress as in the family photo, she likely had this picture taken at that time. She was about 12 years old at the time.

Photo of Phil in old age with his second wife, Lucinda. Photo estimated to be around 1910.

Advertisement placed in the Carmi Times by Phil Weiskopf for his marble business, Carmi Marble Works, throughout the 1880's and 1890's.

Photo of Phil's shop in April 2005, in Carmi, Illinois.

Louise, Barbara, and Margaret Weiskopf around 1915, in Indiana. Barbara became a nun and was known afterwards as "Sister Julitta."

Bill Weiskopf was an officer in the U.S. Navy during World Wars I and II. He had the advantage in that he was fluent in German too. He served in the merchant marine between wars.

Photo of the wedding of Paul Neal Weitman and Betty Anne Baine in 1963. Left to right: T.W. Baine, Betty Baine, Betty Anne Weitman, Paul Weitman, Mary Elizabeth Weitman, and Paul Weitman.

Rosemarie, Jim, Elyse, Billy, Megan, Jenny, and Amy Wilson, Jekyll Island, Georgia, ca. 1986. They were at the Wilson family reunion.

Billy, Nadia, Betty, and Arnette Wilson, ca. 1920, Jacksonville, Florida.

The Wilsons were fond of picnics. Mackie took her children on this picnic in the early 1920's.

Nadia, Patty, Arnette, Betty, and Margaret, ca. late 1980's.