The Mound City Journal was edited by Fannie Green and Lucy Hatch in Griggsville, Pike County, Ill. around 1861. They included articles about school and education, morality, and courtship. One of the articles includes an ongoing series titled "Personal Sketches of the Members of the Griggsville Lyceum." It included the profiles of three Griggsville men, Rev. B.B. Carpenter, a clergyman of the Baptist Church, John Crow, a local merchant, and S.L. Edwards. The editresses write that Edwards "has never been found guilty of picking peoples pockets; but it is asserted on good authority that he often gets his fingers into their mouths & picks out their teeth! The place where these dark deeds are perpetrated is supposed to be a certain room in the northwest corner of Stanes Brick Block." He is registered as a dentist in the 1860 census. Other articles include "Reveries of a Bachelor," "The Closing Year," and "Things to Cherish." They also included various poems, puzzles, satirical news, and local notices. The contributors mentioned include Invisible, Fleta, Cousin Millie, Marcia, and Albert Moreland.
Mary Frances "Fannie" Green was born on December 11, 1843 to Jonathan and Abby D. (Worcester) Green in Stoddard, Cheshire County, N.H. She had three brothers, George Waldo (1846-1851), Charles Osmer (1854-1926), and Fred E. (1855-1921). She married Charles Thomas Kenney (1841-1924) on May 30, 1865 in Griggsville, Pike County, Ill. They had six children, Jessie (1866-1944), Alice (1868-1869), Willie M. (1870-1871), Freddie (1872-1872), Helen Francis (1874-1951), and Marie L. (1881- ). She died on November 30, 1917 in Griggsville. Lucy Hatch was born on October 3, 1849 to Lt. Col. Reuben Benton (1819-1871) and Ellen Dewitt (Bush) Hatch (1824-1893) in Pittsfield Township, Pike County, Ill. She had eight siblings, Maria Rebecca (1847-1861), George Merrick (1852-1929), Ozias Mather (1854-1923), Arthur Grimshaw (1856-1915), Edward Carroll (1858-1861), Benton (1861-1920), Ellen Maria (1863-1864), and Morton Williams (1865-1899). She married James Mirrieless (1840-1886) on April 3, 1873 in Phelps County, Mo. They had four daughters, Ellen Jean (1874-1894), Elizabeth Harriet (1876-1943), Edith Ronald (1878-1962), and Lucia Bush (1886-1957). She died on March 23, 1909 in Big Timber, Sweet Grass County, Montana.