Sugarville, Illinois

Sugarville was a community near Put Creek in Joshua Township, Fulton County, Illinois. It once had several houses, a blacksmith shop, and a general store. It no longer exists today.

The Geographic Names Information System lists it only as part of an alias for Moore Cemetery in Joshua Township.^[1]

Skeeter Bonn (Junior Lewis Boughan) was born in Sugarville; he moved to Canton when he was 13. In the 1950s, he was a country music performer on several national radio shows, including the WLS National Barn Dance.^[2][3]

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Municipalities and communities of Fulton County, Illinois, United States County seat: Lewistown Cities Canton Cuba Farmington Lewistown Town Astoria Villages Avon Banner Bryant Dunfermline Ellisville Fairview Ipava Liverpool London Mills‡ Marietta Norris Smithfield St. David Table Grove Vermont Townships Astoria Banner Bernadotte Buckheart Canton Cass Deerfield Ellisville Fairview Farmers Farmington Harris Isabel Joshua Kerton Lee Lewistown Liverpool Orion Pleasant Putman Union Vermont Waterford Woodland Young Hickory Unincorporated communities Babylon Beaty Bernadotte Blyton Breeds Brereton Checkrow Depler Springs Duncan Mills Enion Fiatt Gilchrist Leesburg Little America Manley Maples Mill Marbletown Middlegrove Monterey Poverty Ridge Rawalts Sepo Seville Summum Ghost towns Buckeye Bybee Civer Forty Acres Fulton Center Howard Keeler Midway Otto Pleasant Ridge Sugarville Troy Tuscumbia Virgil Waterford Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties