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| | Shelby County, Illinois |
 | | My families in Shelby County are Longwell, Conrad and Lamb from the Tower Hill, Shelbyville, Moweaqua and Cowden areas. |
 | | On the north by Christian, Macon, and Moultrie; east by Moultrie, Coles, and Cumberland; south by Effingham and Fayette; and west by Montgomery and Christian counties. |
 | | - The population of the county, according to the census of 1870, was 25,476, and in 1880 is given at 29,951, and is princi pally composed of persons of English, Irish, German, and French extraction, with a few colored persons. |
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