Chick's Country Corrected, by GJ

Have received comment from brother Chick's part of NW Illinois."Anonymous" says my guess about Lanark and Shannon is too far SE from Stockton to be the towns that sprang up on my great grandfathers' acreages. The writer wonders if two villages named Elizabeth and Scales Mound might have been the ones in question. Who knows? It doesn't really matter all that much, except that where railroads went, towns sprang up to accommodate them, with stores, banks, hotels, etc. (One rumor had it that two railroads crossed in one of those places, which probably resulted in a somewhat larger town, I'd think.) (Always glad to hear from you, "Anonymous." You sort of keep me honest!)