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GENEALOGICAL TREASURES FOUND
o I have "rescued" an old school album dated March 22,
1888
which belonged to Lena AWTRY
of Creston, Iowa. I am not sure of
the last name as the
handwriting is difficult to make out for
sure. This is a precious
album full of poems from high school
friends, including notations
from: Carrie ALBRIGHT of Creston,
Iowa and later of
Pottsville, Pennsylvania; Hattie VAN IDERSTINE
of Creston, Iowa; Maggie
MYERS of Creston, Iowa; Willie MURPHY;
Maud M. CLINTOCK; Ray
MAXWELL of Creston, Iowa; Katie E. BEERKLE
of Creston, Iowa; Bertha
DEVOE; Mattie PAYDEN; Bessie DOBBINS;
Guy BOGGS; Jennie L. SHIPLEY
of Creston, Iowa; John R. KELLEY of
Creston, Iowa; Jessie
SHIPLEY; Lottie SWICK of Creston, Iowa;
Myrtle HAMILTON; Ida DONALD;
Ben NEWMAN of Creston, Iowa; Stella
SAIN; Lottie Mae RAE of Des
Moines, Iowa; Clara B. LEONARD of
Creston, Iowa; Bessie
MOULDER of Creston, Iowa; Essy SYREB;
Mabel CARROLL; Ada BARR of
Creston, Iowa; Floie LEONARD of
Creston, Iowa; May YURGELL;
Nettie HOLDERNESS of Creston, Iowa;
Nellie LEDGERWOOD of
Creston, Iowa; Berta PHILLIPS of New
Sharon, Iowa (a cousin to
Lena AWTREY); Maud FISHER of Creston,
Iowa; Ollie WHIPPLE of
Creston, Iowa; Codie SHREVES; Battie
RUTLEDGE; Mirtie GRIGGS;
Maggie CLARK of Creston, Iowa; Maude
LAMB; Lizzie FOSTER; Della
ROBERT; Belle KILGORE of Creston,
Iowa; Effie JONES; Ada
GENTTE; Ada B. VANDERBECK of Creston,
Iowa; Cora FRAYER; Alex
ROSEBERRY of Creston, Iowa.
I am hoping to be able to identify Lena AWTREY and seek to
return this precious
heirloom to her family or to a family
member of one of the
individuals who autographed the book. If
you are a member of one of
these families or know someone who
might be, please contact me.
Shelley Cardiel [email protected]
o Found in Village Green Antique Mall in Hendersonville, North
Carolina:
-- A small book titled Family Record of John BEAR dated the
9th of January 1750 by John
BEAR and Emanuel HERSHEY.
-- War Ration Books in the name of Forrest M. MINTON and Edna
E. MINTON of 109 Glencoe
Road in Columbus, Ohio.
-- A beautiful framed Communion Souvenir written in French for
Leon LORIOT who was born 16
December 1882 and made his Communion
in 1895.
-- A 1963 phone book belonging to Mrs. Donald WRIGHT of 104 E.
Pottawatamie, Tecumseh,
Michigan. On the inside back cover are
written phone numbers for
the names STEUVER, BRADHEAD, CUHORN,
BRAATIGAME, PETTEBONE, and
TEMPLE.
If any of these things is of value to you, send an e-mail
with Antiques-Hendersonville
in the subject and I will give you
the name, address, phone
number, and contact person. The mall
is very large and there are
booths on three floors. I have the
booth numbers for the above
items.
Patricia [email protected]
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o The following old photos were found in an antique store in
Vancouver, Washington, USA.
I would love to return to any family
Members. Cost $1 each plus
postage.
-- James B. CLINTON "Jimmy" (Wescott Studio)
-- Jim BOWERS or BAWERS, Son of Mary BOWERS 2/15/1896
-- Gertie M. BRIGHAM ("Aunt Nellie to her niece age
22")
o I have two death certificates to give freely to any
descendants:
-- Carl DAVIDSON, born in Sweden, date unknown; age given
about 50; died in Chicago,
[Illinois], 7 January 1928; Wife:
Signe
-- Carl DAVIDSON, born in Sweden, 28 November 1856; died in
Chicago, [Illinois], 3 March
1938; Wife: Carolina; Informant:
Tekla DAVIDSON.
Becca Davidson [email protected]
o While I was in a small town store in southern Texas I came
across a basket of old
photographs for sale. Most of them did
not have writing on them but
I purchased one on which someone
had handwritten "DODGE
Family (Children) Grandma ROTH worked
for." It is an old
picture (around late 1800s I'm guessing) of
four beautiful children,
estimated ages six months to 13 years.
The picture is on a
cardboard backing, with the name of the
photographer on the back --
KRIPS, Instantaneous portraits of
children a successful
specialty. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It look to be two boys and
two girls, although the baby could
be a boy also. The oldest
boy is dressed in a dark suit, the
second boy is dressed in a
dark outfit with large lapels, the
girl is also dressed in a
dark outfit, but the baby is dressed
in a white or very light
flowing gown.
I would love to find a home for this picture. I paid $5 for
it and that is all I am
asking.
Leann Lehmann, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma [email protected]
o Since I had been helping my friend with her genealogy, it
was a natural thing to
rescue the following items from being
thrown out at a Thrift shop
where she works and give them to me.
The items are:
-- A typed page, "EATON'S GENEALOGY--(Valetta Paine
Darling's*
ancestors), that consists of
her EATON connection going back to
the MAYFLOWER:
1 Fancis EATON b abt 1599 England & wife, Sara
2 Samuel EATON b 1620 England (crossed on MAYFLOWER at age 2)
3 Samuel EATON b 1663 Plymouth, Mass. & wife, Elizabeth FULLER
4 Barnabas EATON b 1701 Bridgewater, Mass. & Mehitable ALDEN
5 Samuel EATON b 1732 Middleboro, Mass. & Patience TINKHAM
6 Daniel EATON b 1767 Middleboro, Mass. & Mariena or Mercena
7 Olive EATON b 1802 Randolph Twp Orange, Conn. & Ebenzer
PAINE
8 Andrew Jackson PAINE b 1834 N. Woodstock, Conn. & Ruth BROWN
*9 Valetta Marion PAINE b
1862 Woodstock Twp, Conn. & Robards N.
DARLING
10 Evalona Jessie Darling b
1903 Vermont & William James LANDEN
11 William James LANDEN Jr.
b & wife Jean PALMER
-- life insurance, retirement pension, insurance, etc., all
handwritten
-- A well preserved photo of a Union soldier in a frock coat
and hat with Goldsmith--374
Main St. Springfield, Mass. "Largest
& finest studio in New
England" on the back. After further
research, I've thought the
gentleman in the photo may be William
J. LANDEN born 1835 and was
a jeweler in Springfield, Mass. He
also enlisted twice in
Company H., 8th Infantry Regiment
Massachusetts, Oct 1862 to
Aug 1863 and also on July 1864 to Mar
1865. Possibly some family
member could identify the picture.
(I'll scan and send picture
and typed letter if desired.)
Upon doing some research, I discovered I have ancestors in
common back in the early
settlers in Massachusetts.
I would like to give this information and the subsequent
research to a direct family
member who will cherish & preserve
these items. Please put
EATON GENEALOGY on the subject line of
your message when you reply.
Myrna M. [email protected]
o I have a spare death certificate for one of my ancestors,
that I will release to
anyone who is interested for the cost
of the order, $10, with a
SASE. The certificate is for Frances
Delilah FRYREAR, daughter of
Levi KEMP and Kay STEMOTUBBY. She
was born 15 August 1880 in
Oklahoma and died 20 November 1967
at USPHS Indian Hospital in
Lawton, Tuttle, Oklahoma. She was
a widow at the time of her
death. Her race is shown as Indian
Chickasaw 4/4 and her
funeral was held at Sevier Funeral Home.
Tracey
[email protected]
o I have a studio photo of two young ladies dressed in period
clothing. One is Charlotte
HALE or HEAL, England I think, circa
late 1800s. She appears to
be in her early 20s with her
companion. The studio was F.
F. KERSLAKE, 62 Regent St. I bought
it primarily for the
"Old" frame. Contact me with your family
connection.
Regarding my earlier post on June BOYD, I have found she
married a Donald CLASPILL
about 1936 or 1938. I am still
interested in a contact from
this family. I have numerous
photos of June BOYD from the
1920s and 1930s.
Gene Stevens [email protected]
o I've recently posted several lists of genealogical treasures
found in an antique shop in
Hampstead, England, but instead of
posting the rest, I have
added a page to my Web site, with the
complete list, plus
1881-1901 census and other material to help
identify the people
concerned. The names mentioned are: BAILY,
BARBER, BAYES, BELL, BILLINGTON,
BRIDE, BROWN, BUCHANAN,
BURFORD, BURNAND, BUSFIELD,
CARTWRIGHT, CAVET, COALES, DALES,
DAVIDSON, DICKENSON,
DOWNING, DYSON, EDWARDS, ELDRIDGE,
ETHERINGTON, FEIST, FENTON,
FITNESS, FOOTER, FOX, FULLER, GALE,
GARRETT, GERREN, GILSTON,
GOODFELLOW, GREGORY, HATCH, HICKOX,
HORRELL, IRONMONGER, ISAAC,
IZOD, JACOBS, JENNISON, JENSEN,
KNIGHT, LANDSDALE, LEACH,
LEDWITH, LIBERTY, LIVERMORE,
MARCHANT, McNEILL, MERRITT,
MILLIDGE, MOODY, MORRISON, MUNDY,
MYNN, ORTON, OSBORNE,
OXFORD, PALMER, PARKER, PARNELL, PHELPS,
RAWSON, REDPATH, REED,
ROBSON, ROGERS, RUNDELL, SHELDON,
SHERLOCK, SHINN, SILVESTER,
SMITH, SPRATT, STACHOWIAK, TALBOT,
TAYLOR, TURLEY, UPCOTT,
WARD, WARNER, WATSON, WHITE, WILLEY,
and WYLIE.
Places mentioned are all over England, Wales, Norway,
Tennessee, Ohio, Australia,
Cape Town, New Zealand, Virginia,
Tennessee, Arizona, and
California. Use the search engine to
find your name. http://www.lindynewman.co.uk
Lindy Newman [email protected]
o I have portraits taken in the late 1800s of Earl A.
HOLDRIDGE, photographer
Bogardus, New York, labeled on back New
Brunswick, New Jersey; Mr.
Silas WIER, photographer Scott, New
Brunswick, New Jersey; Mr.
WYKOFF, photographer Clark, New
Brunswick, New Jersey; and
Fred COLLIER, photographer Forshew,
Hudson, New York, labeled
New Brunswick, New Jersey, "Rutgers."
I believe these four men,
all pictured in their 20s, probably
all went to Rutgers
University. I would be happy to scan and
send a copy to anyone
related.
o I have a long article about Thomas P. HOLLAND from the
ELMIRA ADVERTISER dated 6
October 1864. A Prisoner of War camp
was located in Elmira,
Chemung County, New York. The article
describes Thomas HOLLAND's
life up until he became a prisoner
of war and the information
would be helpful for someone working
on his family. Thomas
HOLLAND was born 11 October 1836 in
Anderson C.H., South
Carolina. The article mention that his wife
was the youngest daughter of
the Rev. Russell RENEAU. They were
married on 5 March 1854 and
had five children. This is not my
family but I hope someone
can use the article. If you would
like to have a copy of this
article, please contact me.
Sherry
[email protected]
o I recently received several death certificate copies from
the Ohio Historical Society.
Among them are four which do not
belong to my ancestors and I
would like to send them on to
descendants who might use
them. I will include some of the
information from the
certificates in hope that someone can
identify them, but there is
much more information on each
certificate. They are:
-- Charles E. HUGHES, Male, White, born 6 August 1891 in
Vinton, Ohio; died 30
December 1936 in Gallipolis, Gallia
County, Ohio; Occupation --
School Teacher; Father -- Nathan
HUGHES; Mother -- Eliza
SWICK; Married to Grace GILLINGHAM
HUGHES; Informant – C. H.
HUGHES
-- Anton GRASSEL, Male, White, born 6 June 1885 in Hungaria;
died 18 January 1923 in
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio;
Occupation -- Bench Hand;
Father -- Anton GRASSEL; Mother –
not known; Married to
Beatrice GRASSEL (the Informant)
-- Mary Ellen DUNN, Female, White, Widow; born 15 February
1863 in Subuke, Ir[eland]
(?); died 9 February 1928 in Columbus,
Franklin County, Ohio;
Occupation -- At Home; Father -- John
QUIGLEY; Mother -- Mary
GIBBONS; Informant -- Thomas QUIGLEY
-- William J. JOHNSTON, Male, White, Single; born 29 September
1879 in West Virginia; died
25 March 1913 in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio; Occupation --
Cabinet Maker; Father -- William
JOHNSON; Mother -- Mary
HOPKINS; Informant -- Alice BARKER
If any of the above belongs to you, please e-mail me and I
will be happy to send it on.
Christi Calvert Brogan [email protected]
o I have an original news clipping of a marriage taking place
Oct 9th (year unknown) by a
priest at Freyburg. Mr. Lawrence
KINSTLE and Miss Ferol
ENGLISH. Bride's parents: W. D. ENGLISH.
Friends attending: Polly and
Ella COLEMAN of Urbana, Effie
McMICHAEL of Grover Hill,
and many other COLEMAN's. Location of
wedding possibly Illinois,
Ohio, or Wisconsin. Please contact
me if you have a connection.
o I have an 8 x 10 photo of Christopher U. KREIG, Jr. He is
not my relative and I will
be glad to send this picture to a
member of his family. I
found him in the 1920 census living in
Nashville, Tennessee. It
looks like his age at that time was 43.
It shows him living with his
father, brother, and sister. It
says that he was born in
Texas and his father was born in West
Virginia. The back of the
picture states: Chris U. KREIG,
Criminal Court Clerk,
Nashville, Tennessee, friend of Mr. GOULD.
I also have two photos of Harry M. GOULD which I will be
glad to send to his
relatives. He is not my relative. The back
of the picture states: Harry
M. GOULD, Pres. of Gould
Contracting Co., Nashville,
Tennessee.
Please contact me at my e-mail address. [email protected]
Linda Chiles [email protected]
o I have a high school American Government book that was owned
by Walter Max LONG, Tot
LONG, and maybe also Gin HAMILTON. I
believe most of the writing
was done by LONG, who probably
attended or graduated in
1936 as there are lists of other names
for different years and his
appears under 1936. Centerville,
Ohio. Contact me if you have
a connection.
o Portraits of an unknown Army officer and what is presumed
to be his wife were
discovered and purchased from an antique/
pawn shop in Virginia via an
auction on eBay. The buyer
contacted me by e-mail on 12
October 2002, hoping that he might
find a clue to the subjects
in the portraits in the Virginia
MITCHELLs. You may see the
portraits at this link:
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mitchell001/mys_photo.html
If you would like further
information, please let me know.
Betty Naff Mitchell
[email protected]
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mitchell001/
o I have a book with the inscription Merry Christmas to Harry
MOHLMANN from the Sunday
School. 1923. Given where I purchased
a lot of the books in the
1970s I would guess that Harry MOHLMAN
lived in the Dayton, Ohio
area, Wisconsin, or Alabama. If you
have a connection, please
contact me.
o MOODY-MARSH Diary lot
1898-1911; Item # 916613683
Auction ends: Nov-03-02
16:30:51 PST; Seller: houseofmirth
Five handwritten diaries
kept by the same woman. Two diaries,
1898 and 1901, were written
when she was single and her name was
Millie MOODY of Acworth, New
Hampshire. The other three diaries,
1909, 1910, and 1911, were
written while she lived in Bellows
Falls, Vermont, and her
married name was Millie MARSH. In 1898
she was 17 years old and
lived with her parents. Peter, her
future husband, as well as
other admirers, called on her often.
You can tell from those
early diaries that she was quite sweet
on that Peter. She was very
social, visiting relatives and
friends and going to see
Moving Pictures and dances. Examples:
March 10, 1898 - Pleasant. We gathered all the sap this
morning and tapped a few
more trees. Lil came up after cream of
tarter. Cara, Sammie and I
went over to Mrs. POTTER's to the
social.
Aug. 12, 1898 - Cloudy. Peter and I went to Alstead. Papa and
I went out to DODGE's to
have the wagon fixed. May called this
eve and rode out to the
dance with Cara, Sammie, Peter and I.
March 22, 1901 - Warm, quite pleasant. Cara came over this
pm and we called at Mr.
PARK's and at Uncle Fred's. Cara had a
telephone from Gladys about
Mission Band. Everybody is being
vaccinated for the smallpox.
A peddler called and I bought
paper of him.
Sept. 14, 1901 - Warm and pleasant. I washed floor and cleaned
up. Pa & Ma came down
this morn and we went to B. Falls. Peter
came back with us and got
home about ten o'clock. President
McKINLEY died this morn at
2:15.
Jan. 9, 1909 - Pleasant. I went down street early this morning
and left my upper teeth for
Dr. CLARKE to put in a new tooth.
Came home, baked beans,
swept, etc. and in the afternoon, mother
M. and I went down street
again and I got my teeth. I sent for
more oxen remedies this
morning.
Feb 26, 1909 - Pleasant, but quite cold. I came down on 7:40
car this am and found Grace
here. She took dinner with Myrtie.
They both came down this pm.
We three went over to Hamen Shop to
hear phonograph records.
Peter out to McNewells this afternoon
to work. Peter and I went to
dance tonight at schoolhouse hall.
Jan 9, 1910 - Pleasant. Cold. Mother M. was taken very bad off
in awful pain about 9:30
this morn. I went to 8 Paulding's to
telephone for Dr. MINER and
then went down to the house to tell
Father M. to come up as he
had just gone down. She is very bad
off tonight. Dr. gives us no
hope. We telephoned about two to
Jen and to Carrie. Gus and
Jen came about four. Gus went home
but Jen is going to stay.
Have got a message from Carrie saying
she will be here at
midnight.
Nov. 6, 1910 - Pleasant. My 29th birthday. I washed floors,
cleaned up generally. Peter
cleaned up out of doors, dug dalia
bulbs. Matt came up this
forenoon. We went down there this
afternoon and this evening
we four went to the Baptist Church.
Jan 21, 1911 - Warm, cloudy. I cooked brown bread in my new
fireless cooker. Baked pies
and tarts. Grace came over about
nine, spent the day. We went
down street this pm and in to
Dreamland. Peter and I came
up together on the five thirty five.
Her writing is legible and in most of the diaries, she
wrote nearly every day. In
1911, she only wrote for about half
of the year.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=916613683
o 1887 MURCH Family Letters, New York and England
Item # 1782454176; Auction
ends: Nov-04-02 11:35:42 PST;
Seller: atlantic-fox (Lake
District, Cumbria, UK)
USA; Envelope addressed to
Norfolk, England, franked by four 5c
stamps. Cancelled with CORK
obliterator and with RHINEBECK
c.d.s alongside, enclosing
two original letters and a document
from Mrs. Charles MURCH of
Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York,
and Rev A. C. MOREHOUSE,
pastor of Forsyth St. M.E. relating to
her marriage and family
history in regard to heirs of her former
husband.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1782454176
o I often go to auctions held at our local auction house in
search of old books,
pictures, and documents. I have found
several of my own family
genealogical treasures in what are
known as box lots. I have
also found old bibles, schoolbooks,
even an engraved family
spoon. Knowing how hard it is to find
family treasures I couldn't
just throw away what did not connect
to my family. When I found
your newsletter I was thrilled. I do
not want any money for these
things other than what it would
cost to mail them out. Here
are some of the articles:
-- Two Bibles (one is very large with births, marriages etc.)
belonging to the John Thomas
PREHM and Kora Louise (DAVIS) PREHM
families; also a couple of
cards that were sent to this family;
-- a spoon engraved CASSELL 7-4-16 in the inside bowl of the
spoon, probably part of a
wedding gift set;
-- an Abbott's Webster selected dictionary belonging to a
Janet OGLE;
-- an Algebra book belonging to Martha OGLE with personal
notes (like a diary) written
on several of the pages and dates
2-13-03;
-- a few newspaper clippings & two photographs (one looks to
be 1930s era) belonging to
the OGLEs. Somerset, Ohio and Dayton,
Ohio are mentioned in the
papers.
I wasn't sure of the way to go about getting these things to
their families or if they
even want them. I thought your
newsletter would be a good
place to start. I have other items
also but I thought I would
start with these.
Linda Acord [email protected]
o I have what I think was a high school English grammar book,
The Mother Tongue Book II,
copyright 1908. There is much writing
by and the signature of the
owner, Anna Louise ROBB, Portsmouth,
Ohio (920 Offmere?). Please
contact me if you have a connection.
o I decided it was time to find homes for information I have
gathered that does not
pertain to my research.
-- Death certificate for Mary SCHMID, age 38 years, 22 days,
born 14 August 1859,
Germany; died 6 September 1897, Oconto
County, Wisconsin. Wife of
Frank SCHMID. (I found my Mary in
North Dakota.)
-- Naturalizations: North Dakota. Attached to naturalization
information for my family
members was information on:
-- Ole Jenson MYHRE, naturalized 5 June 1890, born Norway
1833 (Eddy County)
-- Annie SWANSSON, naturalized 5 April 1893, born Sweden
1867 (Eddy County)
-- Kaus KALLESON, naturalized 8 July 1884, born Denmark 1854
(Stutman County)
-- Thresa J. DAVIDSON, naturalized 3 June 1885, born Canada
1859 (Foster County)
-- Found in an antique store on the Oregon coast, a studio
photo from Power Studio,
Minneapolis [Minnesota], picturing four
generations of woman. On the
back are listed: Grandma HARRISON
(approximate age 60 to 70
years); Muriel OTIS (20 to 30 years);
Abbie SLOAN (40 to 50
years), and Ona OTIS (infant). From the
clothing style, I would
guess the picture was taken in the late
1800s or early 1900s.
I will be happy to send any of the above to a related family
member. If there is more
than one request for the same item, I
will made copies (except for
the photo). In the subject of your
e-mail, please identify in
which document you are interested.
Joanne Mack, Salem, Oregon [email protected]
o I have a wedding invitation that was sent to my parents in
August of 1923 for the
wedding of Ruth SELWYN, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Will Selwyn
HOLLIDAY to Marshall McILHENNY on 23 August
1923. If a member of their
family will identify their
relationship, I will gladly
sent it to them. it is in excellent
condition.
Paul J. Walsh [email protected]
o I have a Jackson Township Commencement Class of 1910,
Montra, Ohio. It contains a
list the class roll and program.
Edith STAHLER, Cleo STAHLER,
Grace MAHAN, Lulu FALER, Clyde
ARNETT, Christina HEINTZ,
Helen AILES, Florence HEINTZ, Marie
MITTLER, Perry HEINTZ, Mary
BEAL, Ray LEININGER, class address
by Professor J. G. PARK. The
small program lists some teachers
and Board of Education names
on the back. Contact me if you
have a connection.
o I have a book by Mary Baker Eddy, published in 1917, with a
couple of newspaper articles
taped in the front about the
wedding of Rose Hazel
SULLIVAN (daughter of Mrs. Katherine
SULLIVAN of 315 Ellis Ave.,
who announced the marriage) and
Bruce SCHWERIN, who lived at
635 No. Topeka Ave. and owned the
Wichita Blank Book Co. I
assume the marriage took place around
Wichita, Kansas. They were
probably married in the summer as she
wore a "summer gown of
deep cream georgette and silk lace made
sleeveless." Other
names included: Rev. Kyle MURRAY of the First
U. B. church; Miss Melba
PARKER, bridesmaid; Harold SULLIVAN,
best man; Miss Mildred HOVEY
of K.C. [Kansas City], a guest;
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. SCHWERIN,
parents; and Mrs. Delbert MEANS,
a friend.
I would be glad to send this for the cost of postage.
Dorothy [email protected]
o 1856 TAYLOR-BURR Family Bible; Item # 1575138364
Auction ends: Nov-03-02
13:21:09 PST; Seller: sadler66
Bible contains birth,
marriage, and death records of a TAYLOR
family of New Preston,
Connecticut. [Editor's Note: Images of
the Marriages and Births
pages accompany this listing. They were
written in dark ink that
does not appear to have faded. I read
them as follows:] MARRIAGE –
Mr. Gideon TAYLOR and Miss
Sally C. BURR was Married Aug 23rd 1807.
BIRTHS -- Esther TAYLOR Born
Oct 4th 1808
George TAYLOR Born April 4th
1810
Emily TAYLOR Born April 4th
1810
Nelson B. TAYLOR born Jan
29th 1815
Henry TAYLOR born Sept 8th
1817
Henry TAYLOR [two Henrys
recorded] born Oct 8th 1819;
Elias TAYLOR born Dec 28th
1821
Alma TAYLOR born Aug 8, 1824
John H. TAYLOR born July
28th 1826
Esther E. TAYLOR born Oct
24th 1828
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o I have a picture of a gravestone for Margaret TESSE, died
23 July 1894 at 35 years
old. She's in the grave next to a
Catherine BRADLEY, who I
believe is my great-great-aunt, in the
Cathedral Cemetery in
Wilmington, Delaware. If you are related
and want a scan of the
photo, please e-mail me.
I also have a picture from the same cemetery of an enormous
obelisk erected for John
BRADLEY and numerous members of his
family. Unfortunately it
isn't "my" John BRADLEY (they never had
that much money). If I can
find them, I have a list of some of
the names and dates. If
you're researching the wealthier BRADLEY
family <g> and if you
want a scan, please e-mail me with the
last name in the subject
line.
Beth Cherkowsky
[email protected] or [email protected]
o We recently bought the contents of two storage units in
Carthage, Texas, and found
these pictures and mementos. I'll be
glad to forward them for
cost of mailing to anyone who can show
a valid connection to them.
1. Commencement program for the 1997-98 Garrison (Texas)
I.S.D. eighth grade. (There
are 57 graduates listed, four
administrators, and 15
teachers. If you want me to check for a
particular name, let me
know.)
2. Group picture (5"x7") made 20 July 1996 at Marvel
Cave
in Silver Dollar City,
[Missouri]. No names.
3. Group pictures (5"x7") of the 1991-1992 first grade
class (Teacher -- MACK) and
third grade class (Teacher -- GARZA)
of Wild Peach Elementary
School. Principal of both -- Mrs.
HEFFERMAN. Stamped on the
back of both is "Neil's Photography,"
and telephone numbers in the
area codes 409 and 713 (vicinity
of Houston, Texas).
4. Picture (5"x7") of large group of girls; printed on
the
front is "Texas
National Pre-Teen, March 1995." The girls are
wearing white shorts and
blue t-shirts with white logo on the
front.
5. Group picture (8"x10") -- looks like maybe a high
school
class 20th reunion; undated,
no names, but the photographer's
return address on the
mailing envelope was Hamilton Studio,
Angleton, Texas, and it was
postmarked Nov. 22, 1993;
addressed to Ralph LaBETH in
Brazoria, Texas.
Put "Pictures, etc." in the subject line of your
message.
o I found the following things at a yard sale in Michigan.
They are items from an
antique shop that closed, owned by the
woman's son:
-- WEBBER, Larry & Carole -- many records from Eastern Star,
including a 1947 80th
anniversary book, photos of Carole,
postcards of Eastern Star
temples around the USA, Troy,
Michigan High School
certificates for Carole and Bob WEBBER
-- RONCONE, Ralph -- High school diploma (class of 1943),
Senior year journal, senior
and class picture
-- STACKS, Nana May -- obituary notice (18 December 1954),
funeral register, Christmas
card
-- GIES, Flora -- Funeral register and notice, soil sample
results for property in
Royal Oak, Michigan
-- BRAUER, Harold Thomas -- many letters, notices and work
records, a telegram from his
mother, school notebooks from
Oxford School in
Pennsylvania (class of 1915), Ford Motor
Company work records and
mechanics handbook (1904 edition)
life insurance receipts
-- MANYOUN, Joseph -- High school commencement notice, 1915
-- ADAMS, John T. -- Photo and black bordered death
announcement, Pleasant
Grove, Pennsylvania, 1915
-- BURGESS, Sara Stultz -- letters, pictures and Christmas
cards
-- REID, Isabella -- Hand drawn note and card to her
children, 1917
-- WATSON, Harold -- Small book, Gospel of St. John stating
Property of Harold WATSON
-- HERMAN, Clifford to Elsie -- letter postmarked 1948, Ionia,
Michigan
-- BANDLI, George Ernest - Pocket Dictionary stating property
of, etc.
-- DAVIS, Rose Conant - Bible, pictures, letter from Pvt.
George DAVIS (early 1940s)
-- WILDER, Joseph -- New Year's calling card
I would love to see these items reunited with family or
someone researching lines.
Will send for cost of postage.
There are more items to sort through, and I will post
anything significant when I
have finished.
Please e-mail me if you have a family connection.
Michele Pomeroy [email protected]
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o 1857 AHLUM-KOOP Bible, Pennsylvania; Item # 1577726737
Auction ends: Nov-08-02
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Full leather Bible in German
published by the American Bible
Society, New York, 1857. It
was the family Bible of Jacob H.
AHLUM and Fanny KOOP AHLUM,
from Bucks County, Pennsylvania
and covers the years
1830-1894; there are four pages of records
handwritten in red in
fraktur calligraphy. Seller states he
"was told" this
was a family in the Quakertown, Swamp area of
Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
"although not sure." Images of two
pages of handwritten records
accompany this listing.
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o Found in 1933 issues of AMERICAN RIFLEMAN magazine:
From January, cover photo of Dr. W. F. BILES of Frankfort,
Kentucky; photo of Ray C.
BRACKEN of Columbus, Ohio.
From February, photos of detective Michael J. BLACKWELL of the
Cleveland, Ohio police
department; Chas. ASKINS, Jr. of Strauss,
New Mexico; Captain F. A.
DUFFNER of the South Dakota National
Guard; Hans von KNORR of
Brookline, Massachusetts.
From March, cover photo of Mrs. Joseph S. WOOD of Anchorage,
Alaska; photo of the New
York Police Pistol team of Charles
MIGLIORINI, Herbert W.
KOEHLER, Adolph P. SCHUBER, Arthur V.
SACKETT, and John L. WENDEL.
From April, photo of Herbert C. NIELSEN of Neenah, Wisconsin;
Charles H. JOHNSON of Upper
Darby, Pennsylvania; Paul LANDROCK
of Union City, New Jersey.
From November, photo of Walter R. WALSH of New Jersey; the
New Jersey state police team
of L. C. SALZ, Sgr. J. J.
ORZECHOWSKI, trooper F.
JURY, trooper J. R. MILLER, trooper B.
DEAN, Lieut. W. J. COUGHLIN,
Sgr. T. H. CUNNINGHAM; The US
Immigration Border Patrol
team of Capt. C. C. COURTNEY,
Chief Patrol Inspector Carl
A. CLYATT, Patrol Inspector Edwin
M. REDMOND; The Tampa Police
Department team H. C. HAMM, Wayne
HAMILTON, and Smitty BROWN;
The Provo Union Pacific rifle team
of George WILSON, Eugene
NELSON, Reed COLVIN, Alton F. GRONEMAN,
W. R. RITA, Clifford
ANDERSON, F. D. LOVELESS, Calvin BEE,
W. Sydney BOYLE, and Stanley
JORGENSEN. There are also photos
of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. PEASE
of San Diego, Callfornia; H. K.
SCHAAF of Seattle,
Washington; Pvt. John W. BEALE of the
Washington National Guard;
and L. E. WILSON of Cashmere,
Washington. Obituaries for
Dwight H. McCARRIER of Butler,
Pennsylvania, survived by
his wife, Dorothy; and Albert E. KENT,
son of Congressman William
KENT of Marin County, California.
From December; photos of Otto G. DINGFIELD of the Jersey City
Police; Robert W. HUGHES of
Youngstown, Ohio; F. J. SAGE (no
city); Charles ANDREWS,
Roger HUGHES (younger brother of Robert
HUGHES, age 19), and Joe
CHAPEL of Youngstown, Ohio; Ralph
GASSMAN of Matamoras,
Pennsylvania; George HEDDESHEIMER, John
DAVIDSON, and Robert J. ROSE
of New York City.
From March, 1934; Cover photo of Dr. H. D. WILBER of Loch
Muller, New York; photo of
Elsie HELLWIG of New Haven,
Connecticut; and obituaries
of James POTTHOFF of 1715 Longfellow
Ave., Bronx County, New York
and Lt. Thomas E. DUNLEAVY, age 28,
of the Massachusetts
National Guard, who had been married only
three months.
From May, 1934; Cover photo of A. E. ELLINGER of Snyder, New
York; photos of Thurman
RANDLE, Robert W. HUGHES of Youngstown,
Ohio; the Massachusetts
State Police Revolver team of Sgt.
Joseph C. CRESCIO, Pvt. Norman
SIDNEY, Capt. C. J. VAN AMBURGH,
Lt. James HUGHES, and Sgt.
Theodore JOHNSON; Gilbert ANGEL of
Tennessee; Marshall MATHIS,
William BRYAN, Harry ANTHONY of
Wallingford, Connecticut;
the Quinnipiac rifle and revolver team
of New Haven, Connecticut
consisting of Wm BREULER, Ward C.
HUNT, Edgar DOYLE, Eric
JOHNSON, and James LACEY.
From December, 1934; cover photo of Robert H. MATTHEW; Mrs.
Velma K. UMLANDT of Iowa;
the New York City police pistol team
of Patrolman Charles
MIGLIORINI, motorcycle patrolman Arthur V.
SACKETT, patrolman Herbert
W. KOEHLER, patrolman Robert SCHMIDT,
motorcycle patrolman Adolph
P. SCHUBER, patrolman John L.
WENDEL, Mrs. Charles ASKINS,
Jr., and Charles ASKINS with all
of his medals; E. G.
HARDESTY of Helena, Montana; Paul GOULDEN
of the U.S. Coast Guard; E.
C. JONES of the U.S. Coast Guard;
and Sgt. H. T. GILMORE of
the National Guard.
I will be glad to share pictures for the cost of the copies.
Please put
"rifleman" in the subject line.
Linda [email protected]
o 1871 BATTEY Family Bible; Item # 1578754796
Auction ends: Nov-08-02
18:36:06 PST; Seller: keem0
Bible published by American
Bible Society, New York, 1871.
This was passed down from
mother to daughter it appears.
Mentions Joseph and Mary
BATTEY as mom and pa, married in 1849.
Children Josephine, Susanna,
Albert, William, and Adelia soon
follow, up to 1866. William
dies in 1871 at the age of 6 or 7,
and Josephine dies at age 25
in 1875.
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o 1830 BEARD Family Bible; Item # 1578674338
Auction ends: Nov-10-02
16:58:10 PST; Seller: honeystreasures
Bible published by
Philadelphia-Towar, J. & D. M. Hogan and
Hogan & Co.
Pittsburgh-C. Sherman & Co. Printers, 1830. The
first two pages as you open
the book have separated from the
binding. This page reads
"Allen BEARDS Book." The center of the
book has several pages on
which the family recorded births,
marriages, and deaths and
family matters. There is one record
of a Charles F. BEARD killed
in the army on November 16, 1863
at Camil Station in
Tennessee. There is a birth noted of
Abraham Lincoln BEARD in
1860 and later his death is noted in
1936. I [Seller] found dates
recorded from as early as 1831.
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o 1816 BOSWORTH-QUIMBY-ROWELL-WILLIAMS Family Bible
Item # 1580282657; Auction
ends: Nov-14-02 06:31:38 PST
Seller:
[email protected]
Bible published by William
W. Woodward, Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1816. This volume is leather covered
hardboard with the binding
and spine in very good condition.
Births dated 1767 through
1781 are listed in the Family Record
Before the title page.
Family names with birth dates are:
Edward BOSWORTH April 4th,
1767; Hannah QUIMBY 1768;
Hannah ROWELL 1778; and
Hannah WILLIAMS November 1st, 1781.
These names are all written
with a quill.
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o Rescued from a shed that was about to be torn down near my
parents in Montana, a
medical school graduation certificate for
Garretson CARHART. It was
from a New York medical school and I
Believe it was dated 1848.
From searching on RootsWeb's
WorldConnect, I can see
GARRETSON served as a doctor in the
Civil War and practiced
medicine in Iowa. My parents would like
this certificate to go to a
descendant.
Denise Crawford [email protected]
o The following pictures are listed for sale at
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/
Both are in very good condition
and listed in the antique
category. Sale ends November 15th.
-- Item #430423 -- 23" x 16" picture in oval frame with
bubble glass. Dated 1910 and
"Ann CARLSON-NURSE, Aunt of Dales"
is written on the back.
-- Item #430408 -- 11 1/4 x 11 1/2 picture in a swing frame.
1928 college picture of
Florence FREDLE CARLSON.
Bonnie Fritz [email protected]
o While traveling in Connecticut in October 2002, I located
the CLARKE-ALLEN family
Bible in the Millerton Antique Mall in
Millerton, New York. The
CLARKE-ALLEN family Bible, which booth
owner states he bought at a
house sale in an adjoining town,
contains family marriages
and births starting with Joseph ALLEN,
born 1790, who married Lucy
CLARKE WARE, born 1791 in Cambridge
(Massachusetts?) on 3
February 1818, and continuing with each
generation until 1929. Also
in the Bible were postcards of the
HANCOCK CLARKE HOUSE, built
1698 in which John HANCOCK and Sam
ADAMS were sleeping in 1775
when roused by Paul Revere. There
are also a church pamphlet
and a family letter giving more dates
and family information.
Inscribed in the front of the Bible is:
"To Lucy ALLEN from
husband Joseph ALLEN, Christmas, 1841." The
booth owner, Roy, may be
reached at [email protected] for
further information.
Joyce Batchelor [email protected]
o 1873 DAME Family Bible; Item # 1578453206
Auction ends: Nov-10-02
10:21:03 PST; Seller: [email protected]
1873 family Bible containing
the names DAME, STERLING, BURROWS,
TUTTLE. Appears to be from
the Dover, New Hampshire area.
Marriages include 1835 DAME
to BURROWS, 1861 DAME to TUTTLE,
(undated) DAME to STERLING.
Birth listings for DAME starting
1795 Newington (New
Hampshire?). Total three marriages, seven
births, four deaths listed.
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o 1842 DARLING Family Bible, Rutland, Mass.; Item # 1579983994
Auction ends: Nov-13-02
13:14:21 PST; Seller: stonewillow
"Polyglot Bible"
by Robinson, Pratt and Co., New York, 1842.
Family Bible from Rutland,
Massachusetts. Belonged to Daniel
DARLING born on June 3rd,
1801. Contains four pages of family
records from 1801 through
1926. Other family names given are:
LADD, FULLMAN, TAYLOR,
HUBBARD, TINKER, MURPHY, DAVIDSON,
BARTLETT, and DENNIS.
Contains a drawing of a gravestone, some
pressed leaves, and a
newspaper article.
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o I have the contents of probate packets of George W. FOGG,
Wales, Maine, July 1894 and
Alcander F. THOMPSON, Wales, Maine,
December 1882. This file
also has a complete list of his estate
when it went up to auction.
G. W. FOGG is my great-grandfather.
A. F. THOMPSON fits in
somewhere too. They are buried in Wales,
[Maine] not far from where I
live.
Joan Pease [email protected]
o I have the following photos taken in New York (Utica and
Little Falls), Chicago, and
Montreal, Canada: John L. DAVIS,
Aggie McLAUGHLIN, Clara
MENNING OTTO, Jack PETTINGER, Stanley
JANKIEWICZ, step
great-grandmother JANKIEWICZ MONARSZYSKI,
Ella MELVIN (Mel's mom),
Florence JANKIEWICZ MICHOOLS
(BARGELSKI). If you would
like to view any of them please go to
http://hometown.aol.com/chocamook/sharedgenealogy.html
Prices paid plus shipping
cost if they fall within your tree.
o 1950s Maryon DAVIS Scrapbook/Diary/Journal; Item # 733415144
Auction ends: Nov-14-02
19:46:17 PST; Seller: diaries
Scrapbook/diary that seems
to be the life story of a Maryon
DAVIS, who lived in
Minnesota. I think someone was putting it
together for her, as she
seems to talk in the 3rd person quite
a bit. I also believe that
she might have polio, as there was
another handwritten journal
that was with this piece that stated
something about her illness.
I don't have the other diary, or I
would have sold them together,
someone else at the Antique show
got to it before I did. She
has made up a scrapbook/diary out
of an old Milk-bone box. All
the pages are cardboard, and are
full of photos, cards,
handwritten diary entries, clippings, and
all kinds of ephemera. The date
of this diary is around the mid
1950s and goes into the
early 1960s. It is a very thick
scrapbook, measuring about 6
x 8 ½ and is almost 4" thick.
[Images of four pages
accompany this listing.\]
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o 1712 DEWEY-FOOT-NOBLE? Bible; Item # 1578938481
Auction ends: Nov-11-02
05:41:57 PST; Seller: cozz (Vermont)
Published in London,
England, MDCCXII, this Bible is from a
Vermont estate. The names
appearing in the family record are
DEWEY, FOOT, NOBLE ?
[Editor's Note: An image of part of a page
of handwritten family
records accompanies this listing.]
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o 1875 HAAG Family Bible, Mansfield, Ohio; Item # 1579220781
Auction ends: Nov-09-02
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Seller: needful*things*from*ohio
Catholic Bible contains HAAG
family history dating back to 1911.
There are also baptismal
papers from St. Peter's Catholic Church
in Mansfield, Ohio, dated
June 17th 1888. There is a handwritten
letter Christmas Greeting
from daughter Nellie to her Mamma and
Papa dated Christmas 1885.
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o 1874 HATCH-PERKINS Family Bible, Maine; Item # 1579719806
Auction ends: Nov-12-02
19:38:01 PST
Seller:
[email protected]
Bible published by Bradley,
Garretson & Co., 1874. It has the
colorful marriage
certificate of Mark E. HATCH of Castine, Maine
and Louisa PERKINS of
Castine, Maine, married on November 1856
at Castine, Maine by the
Rev. William J. WILSON. Some names
in the births and deaths are
PERKINS, WILSON, NORRIS, and HATCH.
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o 1885 IZZARD Family Bible; England; Item # 920030620
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10:07:09 PST; Seller: bcoving
British and Foreign Bible
Society "Appointed to be read in
churches." Oxford:
Printed at the University Press for the
British and Foreign Bible
Society 146, Queen Victoria St, London
1885. Names of IZZARD family
with birth dates written inside
front cover. [Editor's Note:
In response to my request for more
information, Seller wrote:
"We bought the Bible in Horsham,
England--a suburb of London.
The earliest name is Edwin IZZARD
(1869). Others are Elizabeth
IZZARD, Edwin Walter IZZARD, James
David IZZARD, Arthur,
Beatruas May HALL (Adopted). It is a
church appointed Bible, also
containing pieces of pressed flower
in some of the pages. I hope
this info is helpful to you.
Sincerely, Brian [email protected] ]
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o Rescued from a flea market table, a 1932 Mt. Lebanon Junior-
Senior High School Yearbook,
referred to as THE LEBANON LOG. The
school was located in Mt.
Lebanon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The
yearbook is in excellent
condition, with the typical classmate
signatures. It appears as if
this book originally belonged to
Mary E. LAMBIE, who
graduated from there in 1932. All I ask for
this book is what I paid for
it, $20 plus $4 to mail it.
Mickey Cendrowski [email protected]
o I have a group photo of the LONE STAR SCHOOL in Lonestar,
Arizona (Safford, Arizona)
taken around 1933. My father and his
siblings went to school
there. I will be happy to send anyone
related a scan. The names
are: Elton MORRIS, Raymond GAUNA,
Flora MONTIERTH, Fairlane
JOHN, Norma MORRIS, Lorraine MORRIS,
Lawrence GAUNA, Laura
NELSON, Lola Ruiz, ?? MONTEZ, Beth
MONTIERTH, Lorene MORRIS,
Merrill KEMPTON, Teacher: Ethna
CLIFFORD, Rulen MORRIS,
Harold PACKER, Joni TYLER, Earl NELSON,
Jack KEMPTON, Teacher:
Ethelyn MONTIERTH, Madaline JOHN, Logean
MONTIERTH, Antonio LOPEZ,
Paul JOHN, Pauline NELSON, Cance?
LOPEZ, Henry NELSON, Ray
JOHN, Larmar KEMPTON, Lorraine KEMPTON,
Marie NELSON, Lola LOPEZ,
Anate? LOPEZ, MONTEZ girl, Lavoy
MORRIS, Bessie Mae NELSON,
and some Hispanic boys and girls who
are not identified. If you
are related, I will send a scan.
Please put LONESTAR SCHOOL
in the subject line.
Gena Raban [email protected]
o I have a Social Security application for Porter McCOLLOCH,
born 6 August 1890 in Viola,
Tennessee. He is not a part of my
family. I will gladly send
it to a family member.
Sandy Boyd [email protected]
o 1859 McDANIELS-TOWNS Family Bible, New Hampshire, Maine
Item # 1578601692; Auction
ends: Nov-10-02 23:00:00 PST
Seller: berrykin
Bible published by Jesper
Harding & Son, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1859. On the
family pages between the old and new
testaments there are some
births and deaths recorded. There are
also a couple of loose
sheets with names recorded. One loose
sheet gives information on
the McDANIEL family; another piece
of paper has an 'S' added,
McDANIELS. There is information like
the following in the Bible:
Thomas M. TOWNS born in the town of
Manson (I think), State of
Maine, June 27, 1830.
Martha McDANIELS, born in
the town of Northfield, State of New
Hampshire, August 11, 1832.
Then there are births of their
children (I assume) in
Sanbornton, New Hampshire, and their
dates of death. Thomas TOWNS
died April 12, 1914. It is possible
that this Bible had a
connection to people in Grafton or
Danbury, New Hampshire.
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o 1890 MARQUART German Family Bible; Item # 1578448135
Auction ends: Nov-10-02
10:12:00 PST; Seller: wenh
German family Bible dated
1890, presented to William and Eva
MARQUART by Elizabetha
MARQUART; William was born in 1864, Eva
in 1868. They had three children:
Andy William, 1889; Eva
Elizabeth, 1891; and Carl
Friedrich, 1894.
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o My daughter was at an antique store and purchased a marriage
certificate for $10. She
would like to find the family it
belongs to and return it to
them. The information is as follows:
Charles M. MARTIN married
Anna E. FOLTZ on 8 November 1896 in
the State of Indiana, Vigo
County. Both are from Oakland,
Illinois. Asking $10 plus
postage. If this is your family,
please contact:
o 1882 MOONEY Bible, Woodsfield, Ohio; Item # 1578545993
Auction ends: Nov-10-02
13:02:07 PST; Seller: nanasturtle
MOONEY family Bible
published by Hubbard Brothers Bible
Publishers, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1882. This came from an
estate sale in Woodsfield,
Ohio and is the original MOONEY
family Bible belonging to
William Crittenden MOONEY and
Elizabeth DAVENPORT MOONEY,
who were the son and daughter-in-
law of Colonial Samuel
MOONEY. This Bible contains two separate
"Family Records"
pages that note the dates of birth, marriage,
and death in the MOONEY
family. Also included is the page out
of this Bible of the
original Marriage Certificate filled in for
William Crittenden MOONEY
and Elizabeth DAVENPORT, married in
Woodsfield, Ohio on the
Twenty-first day of January in the year
of our Lord One Thousand
Eight Hundred and Seventy-Nine (1879)
by the Rev. RUDER.
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o 1844 MURPHY Family Bible; Item # 1578654426
Auction ends Nov-10-02
16:29:03 PST; Seller [email protected]
Bible published by Johnson,
Fry And Company, 27 Beeman Street,
New York, 1844. Contains a
record of the family of James MURPHY
and Mary POWERS that has
been filled in starting with their
marriage on June 10th, 1865,
continues through the births of
their children, and ends
with the death in 1884 of William
MURPHY. An image of one page
of records accompanies the listing.
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o 1874 PARKER-HATCH-BEAN-BROOKS Family Bible, Maine
Item # 1579677273; Auction
ends: Nov-12-02 18:39:01 PST
Seller:
[email protected]
Bible published by A. J.
Holman & Co., 1874. Some of the names
mentioned are PARKER, BEAN,
BROOKS, from the Castine, Belfast,
Maine area. [Editor's Note:
This is my transcription from the
images of parts of two
family record pages that accompany this
listing.] BIRTHS. Rufus Otis
son of Ruf [cut off photo] PARKER
was born at Castine, May
[cut off]. Elizabeth Stover HATCH,
daugh [cut off] HATCH was
born at Castine, Ju [cut off] George
William PARKER was [cut off]
September 28th 1865. [New page]
May 16th 1868. Isabel Nelson
[cut off] July 12th 1871.
Joseph Thombo? [cut off]
September 10th 187 [cut off].
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o 1759 RICHARDS-LINBURY-KIDDLE-COX Family Bible, England
Item # 1579905441; Auction
ends: Nov-13-02 10:11:35 PST
Seller: newhat1 (Somerset,
Bristol, United Kingdom)
A family Bible printed in
two volumes in Aberdeen in 1759 by
Bruce & Boyle. Leather
bound, front cover beginning to crack at
spine on both volumes. Most
of the cover intact, red & gilt
stain to spines. Some foxing
but interiors mostly in good
condition. Size 15" x
9&1/2". Previous owner's history on loose
page. Biographical
information (abridged) that appears on loose
page in front of book,
handwritten in old script: "B0. (born?)
in London Isaac RICHARDS May
29 1768 was married to Ann LINBURY
at Odcombe Church (Somerset)
had one daughter died in her
infancy Jan 1 - 1775 was
born Betty RICHARDS . . . Dec 5th 1824
Died Isaac RICHARDS at half
past 5 Sunday afternoon aged 81
years. October 27th 1830
Died Ann RICHARDS . . . Jan 5th 1835
Died James KIDDLE . . . Oct
15th 1837 Died Joseph KIDDLE . . .
Nov 20th 1848 Died May COX .
. . Nov 30th 1848 Died By (?)
KIDDLE . . ."
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o I have a certified copy of a marriage certificate for Mr.
J. W. ROGERS and Miss M. A.
WILLIS, married November 3, 1884 in
Wise County, Texas.
Unfortunately, this is not the couple I was
looking for. I would send
this to anyone for $6, which was my
cost for the certificate.
Holly Homan [email protected]
o 1866 SCHWARZE German Family Bible; Item # 1578134802
Auction ends: Nov-09-02
16:08:02 PST; Seller: joyreaper(4172)
German family Bible with
SCHWARZE genealogy. This is what the
title pages say: Bilderbibel
fur die Katholiken ober die
heilige Schrift des alten
und neuen Bundes von (by) Heinrich
Joadim Jaeck Leipzig, 1866
Baumgartner's Budhandlung. Contains
the official genealogy of
arrival of family from Germany to
Ellis Island with Ellis Island
official stamp. Genealogy of
Peter Wm SCHWARZE born Nov.
23, 1856 in Germany, and Mrs.
Theresa SCHWARZE, child Name
Theresa WETZEL, born in Germany
On October 9th, 1859. Then
their six children and birth places
(in the USA) are listed and
then the statement "In my own hand
P. W. SCHWARZE."
Arrival in New York dated Dec. 11, 1888 with
official Ellis Island
embossed stamp. The children's names on
the genealogy record are:
August Wilhelm SCHWARZE, Anna Suisa
SCHWARZE, Anna Katharina
SCHWARZE, Adolf Arthur SCHWARZE,
Anna Carolina SCHWARZE, and
Johan Albert SCHWARZE.
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o At an auction I bought a Land Grant, mainly for the frame
it was in. It is for E. D.
SMITH, in Bear Creek, Waupaca County,
Wisconsin. It was signed by
Thomas S. ALLEN, William E. SMITH,
and Charles R. GILL,
commissioners of School and University
Lands at Madison on January
3, 1867. It has the Seal of the
State of Wisconsin on it. It
was recorded by the Registrar of
Deeds in Waupaca county,
Wisconsin on September 17th 1875,
Volume 39, p. 438. I would
be happy to send it on to a member of
the family of E. D. SMITH.
Pat Wegener [email protected]
o 1813 SMITH-BULLOCK Family Bible; Item # 1578705066
Auction ends: Nov-10-02 17:40:59 PST; Seller:
peachiecreamy
1813 Bible includes four
pages of records [images of these
pages accompany this
listing] for the John M. SMITH and Hannah
BULLOCK family of Wilmington,
Delaware and Delaware County,
Pennsylvania, going back to
1787.
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o 1850 SMITH-COOK-GOODENER-BAYERS Bible; Item # 1578988224
Auction ends: Nov-09-02
09:01:42 PST; Seller: lostnspacek
SMITH family Bible,
published by The Bible Association of
Friends in America,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1850, contains
family records, little
ribbons, clippings, and notes. The
following is a note found in
the Bible: "This book was presented
to Elizabeth Cook SMITH by
her father Wright COOK in 1864.
J. T. SMITH her husband kept
it till death then her son William
kept it till his death. Then
his wife gave it back to his sister
Martha Smith COOK as a
memory of the family in 1922." I have
left 3 or 4 ribbons in place
and clippings showing deaths, so as
not to disturb the position
or location as to where those people
read. Marriage Records: John
T SMITH and Elizabeth S COOK--1854;
John T SMITH and Catyann
GOODENER--1864; E. SMITH and Martha B
BAYERS--1880. Birth records
and death records were also kept and
recorded. A couple of other
last names are mentioned. Please
note that some names may be
misspelled within the records and
we've written them as they
appear within the Bible, e.g. Catyann
GOODENER, as written in the
Bible, may actually be spelled Katie
Ann GOODNER as is shown in
an obituary clipping found within.
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o SMITH Old Family Portrait; Item # 731821658
Auction ends: Nov-10-02
17:36:45 PST; Seller: connie*s-closet
Formal family portrait of an
older man and woman and two
Children, a boy and a girl.
On the bottom of the matting it
says, "R. E. GREEN,
Photographer Portland, Mich." On the back
of this picture is written:
Will SMITH) husband & Ciny
SMITH) wife; Pearl &
Milo children; Morris SMITH.
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o SMURTHWAITE WWI Family Photographs & Cane; Item # 732353201
Auction ends: Nov-12-02
03:59:22 PST
Seller: tsz-shan (Greater
London, United Kingdom)
One photo frame; photograph
of Frank William SMURTHWAITE (son)
in RAF in item 1; cane as seen in photograph in item 2;
photograph from Frank sent
24/4/1918 [24 April 1918]; photograph
sent from Le Bourget Airport
in France; business card with home
address; business card (C
Binks (1920) LTD – Engineering firm);
and a photograph of father
William John SMURTHWAITE, a Sergeant
Major in the Yorkshire
Regiment dated 29/5/1915 [29 May 1915].
Research shows that the
father, William John SMURTHWAITE, was a
clerk, served with the
Engineers and was holder of the MSM
(Meritorious Service Medal).
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o 1800s SNELL Bible, Dover, New Hampshire; Item # 1578475757
Auction ends: Nov-10-02
11:05:03 PST; Seller: [email protected]
1800s family Bible with
records for SNELL, LORD, HARMON?,
PERKINS, SANBORN, BLAISDELL.
SNELL is the predominant name.
Dover, New Hampshire is
listed several times. Dates range from
1822 to 1900. Two images
accompany this listing, one of a page
with handwritten family
records.
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o 1883 STAUFFER Family Bible, Pennsylvania; Item # 1580384800
Auction ends: Nov-14-02
11:18:56 PST; Seller: skiingtrixie
Holy Bible published by
National Publishing Co. Nos. 724, 726 &
728 Cherry Streets,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1883. Contains
family death records: John
STAUFFER, Minor's Hospital, Ashland,
Pennsylvania, Oct. 12, 1891,
46 years; Sallie STAUFFER,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
May 11, 1938, 93 years; Frank H.
STAUFFER, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, April 1934, 66 years;
William STAUFFER, Union
Deposit, Pennsylvania, June 30, 1878,
12 days; John STAUFFER,
Union Deposit, Pennsylvania,
July 12, 1885, 2 years.
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o 1817 STOWELL et al. Bible; Item # 1578941905
Auction ends: Nov-11-02
06:02:02 PST; Seller: cozz (Vermont)
Bible published by J.
Holbrook, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1817.
Some of the names in the
family history are STOWELL, ELMER,
CHIPMAN, RHODES, BATES,
HICKS, PHILLIPS, EDMUND, PECK, BREWSTER.
An images of one page of
family records accompanies the listing.
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o I have some Canadian homestead papers that do not belong to
my family:
-- From the Saskatchewan Archives: Declaration of Abandonment
for Robert TURNER, dated 13
Jan. 1893 at Estevan, Saskatchewan.
-- From the National Archives of Canada: Dominion Land Grant
Letters Patent for John
CANADA, dated 19 April 1927, Manitoba.
I will send these to a family member free of charge.
Erin Kampf [email protected]
o 1796? WATERMAN-THOMPSON-JOHN Family Bible; Item # 1579890638
Auction ends: Nov-13-02
09:29:56 PST; Seller: susieqpart2
This is an old family Bible
with handwritten recordings of
Births, marriages, and
deaths that date back to 1796. I do not
know if the book if from
that time or the history of the family
was recorded at a later
date. [Editor's Note: In response to my
request for more
information, Seller [email protected] wrote:
"It is WATERMAN
marrying THOMPSON marrying JOHN. JOHN is the
last name. It is my maiden
name. It is from my family. The first
recording states it is from
Halifax. From then on, it goes to
Rhode Island. Then I would
assume New York where my
grandparents, father and
myself were born. The writing is faded.
That is why it didn't show
in the pix."]
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o I recently purchased four photographs that I would like to
return to family members.
-- postal type photo of a girl standing beside an ice cream
style chair. On the back is
written: Wilma WICKEY, Three years
old.
-- two postal type photos made in 1910 by W. W. Monteith
Studio in Gilmore City,
Iowa. These are addressed to Mr. & Mrs.
Jacob BRECHWALD or
BREACHWELD, Holstein, Iowa. Both pictures
are of their son Andrew.
-- studio picture made of a little girl with bows in her hair
standing beside a bench. On
the back is written Uncle Jake
BRECHWALD, Holstein.
If you are interested in these pictures, e-mail me with
"photos" in the
subject line, and let me know your relationship.
Audrey - [email protected]
o Circa 1900 Unidentified Family Portrait with Dog, California
Item # 732865889; Auction
ends: Nov-13-02 19:45:00 PST
Seller: amyfish
"This is a wonderful
family portrait of several generations
posing proudly on the front
porch of their Victorian home. I
particularly love the dog
who is seated on the newel post of
the stair rail. What a
character! The photo dates to ca. 1900.
I purchased it at a flea
market and the gentleman from whom I
purchased said it came from
an estate in Sonoma, California."
[Editor's Note: It looks
like three adult generations to me.
Seller is not exaggerating
about the dog. Even if you have no
California connection, I
hope you'll take a look just for fun.]
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o 1875 BAKER-HEAAG Bible, Pennsylvania; Item # 1581047420
Auction ends: Nov-18-02
19:45:08 PST; Seller: sparcove
Bible published by A.J.
Holman & Co., Philadelphia, 1875. Family
history section lists
marriages for Jacob BAKER, John HEAAG,
John Brainard BAKER. Births
are listed from 1814 to 1875, mostly
BAKERs and HEAAG, all in
Pennsylvania (Northumberland, Berks,
And Union counties). Deaths
are listed from 1876 to 1898.
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o Huldah CARLSON, small bust-type portrait of a beautiful
young woman in a full white
lace blouse. It looks almost as if
it has mutton sleeves. She
has a long watch chain hanging around
her neck. The paper matting
has two embossed medallions. The
first says: "sHs
'08". The second reads: "Bosworth Studio
Springfield Mass."
Found in Portland, Oregon. $3 plus shipping.
Saralie Northam [email protected]
o 1914 CHASE Handwritten Diary, Massachusetts; Item 921218504
Auction ends: Nov-17-02
14:00:00 PST; Seller: bubbasmomm
Diary of Jannette C. CHASE
of Newberry, Massachusetts, whose
name is written inside.
4" x 6.75" and has 368 pages. Jannette
CHASE was married to
"Howard," to whom she usually refers as
"H." His work
involved hauling coal, gas coal, coke, hay,
granite, monuments, pipe,
wood, etc. They have three children:
Ruth, Alice, and Donald. The
oldest child is 12 years old.
Jannette was a very active
and sociable person who enjoyed
visiting with her friends
and neighbors. She was a lodge member
and tended the books. She
also attended church, a sewing circle,
lodge parties, and lectures.
She seemed to be in charge of the
family finances and did the
book work for her husband's business
as well. Many names are
mentioned, but she often used initials.
Some of the names include:
Mrs. FIELD, Mrs. Ida GRAY, Mrs. Mable
GRAY, Mr. YOUNG, Mrs.
Gilbert THOMPSON, Mrs. Geo. LORD, Nellie
CARLISLE, Mrs. SCOTT, Mrs.
DEWHIRST, Mr. MYLES, N. S. TILTON,
Mrs. A. G. SWAIN, Mrs.
EASTMAN, Mrs. Lucy DAY; Mrs. G. B. THORP,
D. M. FRYE, Dr. CHESLEY,
Mrs. BURKE, Mr. ADAMS, Mrs. J. H. TUCK,
R. FOSS, Frank PEARY, Mrs.
ISAAC, Lucy GETCHELL, Everett WEEKS,
Mrs. GORE, Charles
BATCHELDER, Dr. NUTES, Mrs. KRUGERS, et al.
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o This is the last of the "stuff" I listed some weeks
ago:
-- Photo of a young couple dated Nov. 7, 1926 with this
handwritten inscription on
the back: "With Best Wishes to my
dear mother and father from
your daughter COUNTESS."
-- A whole album of photos -- the only names on any of them
are three older gentlemen in
an 8x10 picture: Bill HERBST,
C. G. CAMPBELL, J. J.
MITTEL. The photo has a stamp on the back
stating Manning Bros. Inc.
commercial photographers, Detroit,
Michigan. There are several
photos with these same gentlemen in
them. A small snapshot has
this on the back: "Here is the
picture I promised you: Jack
ANSOLVISH and me. Another snapshot
says "Jackie--6
mos--May 28, 1940." Another says Jacqueline and
Mim--age 3 ½ months, March
8, 1940." Another says "Patricia Ann
& Peg, age 2 months,
March 8, 1940." There are three photos of
houses -- two say KRAFT and
one says BURGESS. They are cabin
types on a pier near water.
-- Christmas Card booklet inscribed Geo. R. SIMS.
-- Membership list for "The Home and Foreign Missionary
Societies of the Oxford
Presbyterian Church for 1911.
-- Small novel, LOST HORIZON, with name Norma KIZER inside.
-- Ledger "Expenditures made for Mabel CARR" by Judith
BEKEMEYER.
-- A directory of names and addresses for the Clawson,
Michigan Methodist Church
dated JU 8, 1944. [June or July?]
-- Beautiful hand made cards "To Sally & Skippy from
Davy,
from Frankfort, Germany in
1945.
-- First Communion remembrance card for Ronald MARCINIAK,
May 15, 1949.
-- Handwritten/hand drawn invitation from Miss Leona GILLETT
to Miss Louise & Mr.
Andrew BRENHAM.
-- Souvenir booklet from BELOIT COLLEGE.
-- NEW BALTIMORE NEWS from New Baltimore, Michigan, dated
1/8/32 [8 August 1932?]
-- Death certificate for Edward R. SULLIVAN, 11/5/37
[5 November 1937?], Detroit,
Michigan (I ordered it and it is
the wrong SULLIVAN.)
In the newspaper and the various directories, there are too
many names to list, but I
will answer any inquiries. Again,
there is no charge for the
material, just postage to get to a
family member.
M. A. Pomeroy [email protected]
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o DECKER, REEVES, WHITFORD Letters, mid 1800s to early 1900s
Item # 734194506; Auction
ends: Nov-15-02 07:05:57 PST
Seller: ephemeraplus
>From an old estate in
Orange County, New York, a lot of more
than 150 mid 1800s to early
1900s family letters from DECKER,
REEVES, and WHITFORD estates
of Orange County, New York. These
families were somehow
related. There are also a couple of
pictures from the WHITFORD
family. [Editor's Note: Accompanying
this listing is an image of
many if not all of the envelopes and
two photographs.]
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o 1907 DeVANNY Family Letters; Item # 734424255
Auction ends: Nov-17-02
15:58:05 PST; Seller: dtw1945
Five handwritten personal
family letters to Miss Delia DeVANNY
in Geneva, New York, from
Red & Lott, or Red, or Lott. Four are
postmarked Washington, D.C.
and one is from Syracuse, New York.
Weather conditions; trip to
take in the Jamestown Exposition—-
"We expect the city
will be the stopping place for nearly all
the people who come to the
exposition;" wedding news in the
SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD;
"Company building a machine after his
design for making lath and
now that it is nearing completion he
has to watch it pretty close."
All the letters have envelopes.
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o 1838-39 Fintan DUNN, mate, Diary, Voyage on the Brig HUNTER
Item # 921874285; Auction
ends: Nov-19-02 17:59:15 PST
Seller: diaries
Handwritten diary/journal
from the Brig HUNTER out of the port
of Charleston [South
Carolina], I believe, written August 1838
through December 1839. It is
about 10" x 15 1/2" and fully
written in, with about 110
pages. At the top of every page, for
example, is written
"The Brig Hunter from Charleston towards
Boston, J. BONNEY
Master." The HUNTER changes masters a couple
of times, J. F. CLARK and,
at the end of the diary, G. COFFIN,
come on board to take over.
Below the heading it says, "H - K –
HK - Courses - Winds -
Remarks on Board - [and then the date]."
There are several dates per
page, and a lot of writing in very
beautiful script. Some of
the places mentioned are Nantucket,
Block Island, Cape Cod, Cape
Elizabeth, Widgery Wharf, Civil
Bay, Charleston, Magwoods
Wharf, Florida, Mantanza, Havana,
Island of Cuba, and I'm sure
many more, I just haven't studied
it that closely. They also
list all of the lighthouses seen.
The HUNTER seems to be a
merchant brig (I think), as they are
always stopping to load and
unload cargo. They also seem to take
on passengers. The writer
also mentions many other ships, sights
along the way, and much
more, [for example] "Took in 13 thousand
bricks . . . black man
employed . . . Passengers got on board
. . . A ship in sight
standing to the west . . . At 12 midnight
struck surroundings in 18
fathoms of water . . . All hands
employed painting ship . . .
A number of vessels standing to
the north . . . Throughout
the day, strong northerly winds and
pleasant weather, _____ the
sails to dry and discharged 76 ____
of sugar. 3 men employed. At
3 PM when turning to I ordered the
crew up to furl the sail but
James SIFTIN not starting aloft
when the others did I spoke
to him at which he went aloft a
grumbling after he got on
the top sail yard? I told him to hold
his tongue and furl the sail
at which he gave me some insolence.
I then went aloft and
collared him and told him that if he gave
me any more insolence I
would flog him, he still being insolent
I slapted him once in the
face. After they had furled the top
sail and fore sail and came
on deck I ordered the said SIFTIN to
lower down the studding sail
(which was tied? up to dry) and
make it up, but he refused
to do it and attempted to go below
but I collared him and would
not let him. BIBBER then coming
down from aloft interfered
and said if I struck one I would have
to strike the whole for they
was all clutched? together I
ordered him out to furl the
? and he went out. SIFTEN then went
below and packed himself and
went ashore after which the crew
went to their dutys and
there was no more defiancy." He then
goes on to say that he
discharged EMERSON and put SIFTIN in
jail. There are many more
passages like this one. It mentions
the names of the crew members,
the cargo taken on, etc. There
were also several pieces of
paper found between the pages of the
diary. One of them was an
old envelope that says on the front
"The purse of Dummer
SEWALE, great great grandfather of Dummer
SEWALE to whom this is
presented, as a New Years gift by his
grandfather Wm D. SEWALE,
1st of Jan. 1865, with paid by coin
cut during the Revolutionary
war, to make change." The downfall
is that the front cover is
nowhere to be found and the pages
start at #33, but other then
that all the pages are intact and
more than 110 written on
with great historical content. I will
leave you with a great
passage written at the back of the diary,
"Ends clear and
pleasant this night, left the Brig being 2
months and 20 days, so good
by old Brig HUNTER, Fintan DUNN,
Mate." [Editor's Note:
four images of diary/journal pages and
some miscellaneous papers
found in it accompany this listing.]
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o 1866 ECHARD-ECKARD-ECKERD Family Bible, Pennsylvania
Item # 1580862337; Auction
ends: Nov-15-02 11:42:36 PST;
Seller: millsman1
["Ray" at [email protected] ]
1866 Holy Bible contains
five pages of handwritten genealogy –-
births, marriages, and deaths
-– of the ECHARD family from
Pennsylvania. Covers dates
from the 1830s through 1890s.
[Editor's Note: In response
to my request for more information,
Seller, wrote: "The two
main progenitors in the Bible recordings
are Frederick ECHARD born
11-17-1825 (17 November 1825) in
Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, died 1-1-1883 (1 January 1883) and
Elizabeth McLEARY (not sure
about spelling) born 11-9-1836
(9 November 1836) Denzgal
Township (maybe supposed to be Donegal
Township) Pennsylvania and
died 8-28-1911 (28 August 1911). It
goes on to list their
children's birth and death dates, etc."]
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o I would love to see the following go to family members.
-- Purchased at an estate sale in Buffalo Gap, Texas, a
picture of two young boys.
On the back of the photo is written
"Elv and Herbert
EGGERMEYER, Sophie's boys."
-- From a flea market in Christoval, Texas, pictures of two
ladies: one of Lillie SHELBY
and the other of Daisy BURNS.
-- From an estate sale in San Angelo, Texas, a memorial
obituary for Mrs. Louise
SMITH, who died in Stephenville, Texas
on October 13, 1967. Her
husband was Charles W. SMITH. The other
memorial obituary is for
Doreen HANNA, who died June 19, 1986
in San Angelo, Texas.
-- From the George H. NOLES estate sale in Ft. Payne, Alabama,
three photographs. The first
is of a man, woman, and young man;
on the back is written
"Mr. D. R. BETHUNE, Groveoak, Alabama."
The second is a portrait of
a family with several children. On
the back it says, as nearly
as I can make out, "Mrs. J. L. (or
J. T.) Vethuna? on Glison
Ave. 900 Block." The third a picture
postcard of three
unidentified little girls.
If you are a family member related to someone named above,
please e-mail me and tell me
how you are related. I will be
glad to send them to you.
Please put Somebody's Links in the
subject line.
o 1870 LEOLT Family Bible; family photos; Item # 1580849463
Auction ends: Nov-15-02
11:08:32 PST; Seller: pvt.sam
1870 Family Bible has 16 old
photos in the back, two of them
tintypes. The only name I
can find is on a photo--Harrison LEOLT
[Editor's Note: In response
to my request for more information,
Seller, [email protected]
, wrote: "No names in the Bible. One
photo has Harrison LEOLT on
it, Sayre & Chase Photographers,
Newark, Ohio. Some other
galleries are Fine Art Gallery,
Delaware, Ohio; Wm. H.
Scribner Photographer, Granville, Ohio;
F. M. Carter, Granville,
Ohio; Sedwick and Wilson Photographers,
Granville, Ohio; Beach &
Bodurtha Photographers, Granville &
Delaware, Ohio; J. R.
Brown's Photographic Gallery, Berlin,
Wisconsin.]
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o On 10 November 2002, I found in an Estate sale box some
Sanyei America Rebate slips
from 1986 [ZIP codes omitted]:
-- Mr. S.E. MOSSHAMER 2664 Ardmore SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan
-- Miss B.L. MOSSHAMER 3450 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, Illinois
-- Mr. F.L. MOSSHAMER 34032 Moore Dr, Farmington, Michigan
-- Mr. Jerry MATTACK 379 Tanview Oxford, Michigan
-- Mr. Jeff FRIEDLE 2605 Saginaw St. Lansing, Michigan
I am willing to give these
to the family.
Teresa Wagner [email protected]
o Civil War Diary, New Hampshire soldier; Item # 733999867
Auction ends: Nov-16-02
16:13:50 PST; Seller: bilra96
Firsthand account of a New Hampshire soldier's life during the
Great Rebellion, the
American Civil War. [Editor's Note: Seller,
[email protected] , wrote in
response to my question about the
diarist's identity: "I
have read through this entire diary and
never found a name for the
writer; the opening page has written
on it that it is the diary
of a New Hampshire boy, but I could
not find a name anywhere.
This book came to me through an estate
auction in Plainfield, New
Hampshire."] 287 full, handwritten
pages in great detail
accounting this man's military life, first
in the U.S. Navy, and then
in the Army as part of the first and
only light battery sent to
the war from New Hampshire.
The first 128 pp. are dedicated to navy life prior to joining
the army. The author spent a
long time in the navy and then
became dissatisfied with
naval service and left to join the
army. During his time in the
navy, the author was involved in
several battles including
the description on page 107:
". . . during my entire
term of duty our vessel was detailed to
do guard duty opposite Bird
Point some two miles below Cairo.
This was a somewhat lonely,
disagreeable situation. All the
troops were withdrawn. All
of the gunboats had proceeded up the
Cumberland River to invest
Ft. Henry while we were left here
poorly manned and still
poorer armed to contend with a powerful
foe consisting of ten very
heavily armed iron clad gun boats
which it was said that the
enemy had upon the upper Mississippi.
. . . The news electrified
the Nation that Fort Henry had
fallen, that too, by the
gallant exertions of the Flotilla alone
unaided by the army. The
army under the direction of Grant
turned its attention to the
investment of Fort Donaldson upon
the Tennessee river while a
part of the fleet was obliged to
return to Cairo. The ESSEX
had been disabled by a cannon shot
having taken effect in her
boilers thereby scalding many of her
crew, among the number being
her gallant Commander PORTER who
to escape its scalding
vapors leaped overboard and must have
been drowned had not a noble
man by the name of WALKER caught
hold of his hair as he were
about to sink. Our boat was
immediately ordered to steam
up to the scene of operations to
take part in the struggle
there that was to be enacted. All
haste was made by our
officers but ere we arrived at our
destination news came that
the fort had fallen and that many
prisoners were taken. Soon
we began to meet steamers descending
the river loaded down with
prisoners also others with the dead
and dieing and the wounded.
. ."
Pages 129-288 are dedicated to the author's service in the
army. At the top of most
pages are notes to remind the writer of
the details contained on
that page. Some of these notes read:
"I am discontented and
enter the Army;" "LEE makes a Stand;"
"HANCOCK begins to be
uneasy;" "In position;" "Preparing for
Battle;" "The 10th
Mass Battery attacks us in mistake." On page
148 is a section with the
title "Diary and Incidents of the 1st
N.H. Battery in 1864 and
5."
Jan 26, 1864: "A fine and pleasant morning. We were called
Upon to witness the painful
sight of a Military execution of a
soldier who was hung for the
heinous crime of rape upon the
person of a widow woman
thereby causing her death. He was but a
young man and as it were but
just commencing life if his future
should be as the
commencement of life began it was better that
he should be hung as he were
and as he so richly deserved."
Writing about a battle at Petersburg, "June 17th, 1864,
"At
dawn the first division of
our corps made a charge upon the
first Rebel line of works
but found them evacuated. Very sharp
skirmishing all along the
line. During the forenoon we kept up
our fire upon the city.
Toward night the enemy made a grand
assault upon our lines but
got most handsomely repulsed by being
taken in flank, they fell
back seeming to be well satisfied with
our strength. . ."
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o Antique pictures listed on eBay [as of 9 November 2002;
even when an auctions is
over, in most cases the listing with
photo can be seen for
several more months by searching for the
item number at
http://www.ebay.com/ ]:
Item # 920714823 SOLOMON
family picture: This is a set of
seven tin pictures. Seller
purchased a picture frame and these
pictures were included. On
the back of the frame names were
listed: Linnie, George,
Josephine, Grandmother, Mary, Sarah,
and Grandfather SOLOMON.
Item # 919572459 J. D.
RAFFENSBURGER/Father of Gertrude. The
back is stamped H. J.
Harman/York Springs, Pennsylvania.
Item # 919576263 Lizzie
WILSON, Henry MILLERSEN, and Katie
SEIFFERT taken at Pine Grove
S.S. Picnic August 4, 1896
Item # 919668300 Herman
NICKEL with wife, older woman, and
dog at the family farm,
Wausau, Wisconsin
Item # 919671494 BEILKE
Place, Aunt Esther's Grandpa and
Grandma BEILKE, rural
Wisconsin
Item # 919780168 William
T. GRAY QM with the First Alabama
Cavalry USA. Photo taken in
Corinth, Mississippi.
Item # 919325893 Mary
MINER & Raymond R. LAUGHLIN (small boy)
Item # 732033669 Lester
L. FLORANCY age 23 months (seller is
not sure of spelling)
Item # 732236908 Photo of
baby. On back is Mrs. O MEUDENHALL.
Washington Street, Flushing
Item # 732368342
Jessie& Helen FORDYCE, daughters of David &
Maggie FORDYCE
Item # 731645958 Margaret
LOVE from Strawberry Ridge. The
Photographer is M'Killip
Bros from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
Item # 731835414 John S.
GREGSON wearing the uniform of a
Naval Secretary.
Item # 731932407 W. W.
WENDELL
Item # 732147984 Dora
GARY and relative. In pencil on the
back is also the name Mrs.
S. BAKER. Taken in La Grande, Oregon.
Item # 732209453 Edna and
Lesley ANOSIER (?), Cuyahoga Falls,
Ohio
Item # 732383095 Sidney
A. STOUR, D.H.S. '98 Capt. C.B.
Item # 732474320 Carrie
SOBY; taken in 1904 in Philadelphia.
Item # 732474763 Bert
CONNELLY. Photo was taken in 1903 in
Syracuse, New York.
Item # 732475209 Maud
BROOKS. Photo was taken in 1889 in
Bath, New York.
Item # 732475557 Seward HURD. Photo was taken in Watkins, New
York.
Item # 732476105 Ellie
JOHNSON, age 2 years, 6 months. Photo
was taken circa late 1870s
in Lambertville, New Jersey.
Item # 732476690 Theodore
F. OUGHTERSON, 3 years old. Photo
was taken circa 1905 in
Nashville, Tennessee.
Item # 732477185 Grace
OUGHTERSON McGOWEN. Photo was taken
Circa 1905 in Geneva, New
York.
Item # 732477592 John W.
THOMAS with boys John K. and Lester.
Photo was taken circa 1897
in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
Item # 732479251 Carl J.
BALLWEG. Photo was taken circa 1906-
1914 in Syracuse, New York.
Item # 732479714 Jesse
SMITH (brother of W. S. SMITH) and
wife. Photo was taken circa
1890-92 in Zionsville, Indiana.
Item # 732480069 Laura
YARTER WRIGHT. Written below her name,
in the same handwriting, is
"California." The photo was taken
circa 1905 in Syracuse, New
York.
Item # 733218619 Cabinet
of Scottish Artillery Volunteers.
Identified is Frederick
Matthew WILLIAMS (born 1830) Quarter
Master, Sergeant PERCY
Artillery Volunteers 1864-1883.
Item # 732902882 Lois
White CAMERON. Photo was taken circa
1902-07 in Portland, Oregon.
Item # 732904543 Captain
David LITTLE, at the Oregon
Agricultural College (OAC)
in Corvallis, Oregon.
Item # 732904902 Jack
HARVEY. Photo was taken circa 1905-12
in Grants Pass, Oregon.
Item # 732905397 O. E.
STANLEY (father) and Howard Burton
STANLEY, age 3 years, 4
months. Photo taken in Portland, Oregon.
Item # 732905746 Chas
BERNARD, Rosil BERNARD, and Hendry,
Andrew and Normy. Photo was
taken circa 1899-1903 in The Dallas,
Oregon.
Item # 732906107 Uncle of
Morton PRICE in Corvallis, Oregon.
Item # 733599940 Mrs.
Joseph CLARK. Photo was taken circa
1902-08 in Butler,
Pennsylvania.
Submitted by Mary W. Hurst [email protected]
o I have a booklet entitled "Young America Sings" which
is an
anthology of poems written
by students in 1948. If you think a
relative attended one of the
following schools in Minnesota,
North Dakota, Oregon, South
Dakota, or Washington during this
time, please contact me with
their name and I will be happy to
e-mail a copy of their poem.
Please put POEMS in your e-mail
subject line.
Marcy Hoover [email protected]
MINNESOTA: Blue Earth H.S.; Central H.S., St. Paul; Central
H.S., Waseca; Chisholm Jr.
H.S.; Clearbrook H.S.; Foley H.S.;
Greenway H.S.; Henning H.S.;
Hill City H.S.; Jackson H.S.;
Jasper H.S.; Lincoln Jr.
H.S., Mankato; Lincoln Jr. H.S.,
Minneapolis; Lincoln H.S.,
Wrenshall; Luverne H.S.; Moorhead
H.S.; New York Mills H.S.;
Ogilvie H.S.; Pipestone H.S.;
Rochester H.S.; Rosemount
H.S.; Rushford H.S.; Ruthton H.S.;
St. James H.S.; Sleepy Eye
H.S.; Southwest H.S., Minneapolis;
Tracy H.S.; Washington H.S.,
Brainerd; West H.S, Minneapolis;
White Bear H.S.; Wilder
H.S.; Winona H.S.; Wrenshall.
NORTH DAKOTA: College H.S., Valley City; Fargo H.S.; Minot
H.S.; Oakes H.S.
OREGON: Albany H.S.; Ashland H.S.; Astoria H.S.; Baker Jr.
H.S.; Coburg H.S.; Coos
River H.S.; Cottage Grove H.S.;
Estacada H.S.; Eugene H.S.;
Grant H.S., Portland; Grants Pass
H.S.; Hermiston H.S.; Hood
River H.S.; Jefferson H.S.,
Portland; Klamath Falls
H.S.; La Grande H.S.; Newberg H.S.;
Roseburg Jr. H.S.; Union
H.S.
SOUTH DAKOTA: Belle Fourche H.S.; Brookings H.S.; Clark H.S.;
Hot Springs H.S.; Kimball
H.S.; Mitchell H.S.; Mount Vernon
H.S.; Redfield H.S.;
Spearfish H.S; Vermillion H.S.; Washington
H.S., Sioux Falls; Yankton
H.S.
WASHINGTON: Charles Francis Adams H.S., Clarkston; Coulee Dam
H.S.; Edmonds H.S.; Highland
H.S., Cowiche; Highline H.S.,
Seattle; Lincoln H.S.,
Seattle; Monroe H.S.; North Jr. H.S.,
Everett; North Kitsap H.S.,
Poulsbo; Renton H.S.; Shumway Jr.
H.S., Vancouver; Tolt H.S.,
Carnation; Valley H.S., Menlo;
Washougal H.S.; West Valley
H.S., Millwood.
ADAMS, ADKINS, ALBRIGHT, ALLSOPP, AMES, ANDERS, ANDERSON,
ANDREWS, APPLETOFT,
ARCHAMBEAU, ARLANDSON, ASAI, ATKINS, AUBREY,
AVERY, BADGER, BAILEY,
BAKER, BALLIF, BARBER, BARNETT, BARRETT,
BARRON, BARROWS, BARTLETT,
BATES, BAUMGAERTNER, BAYNARD, BEDER,
BEELER, BEERY, BELL,
BELLMAN, BELVILLE, BENNINGTON, BERG,
BERGMAN, BERLIN, BIEREN,
BINGAMAN, BIRCHER, BLACK, BLANCHARD,
BLINE, BLOOM, BLUE,
BOHLMANN, BOLGER, BOOTH, BORST, BOTTUM,
BOWERS, BOYD, BRACHLOW,
BRANDEEN, BRECHTEL, BREMER, BRIGGS,
BRIGHT, BRIMER, BROUWER,
BROWN, BRUCE, BUEDY, BURESKE, BURTON,
BUSS, CADWELL, CAMPBELL,
CARLSON, CARNS, CARRICK, CARTER,
CASTEL, CAVEY, CHANNER,
CHRISTOPHERSON, CHRNELL, CIEMINSKI,
CLARK, CLARKE, CLAYTON,
CLEAVER, CLINKINBEARD, CLOEPFIL, CLOETER
COCKRUM, COFFIN, COLLETTA,
COLLINS, COLLISON, CONGER, CONROY,
COOK, COOLEY, COWMAN, CRETE,
CROWNOVER, CUDDY, CUTLIP, DANIELS,
DAVIES, DAVIS, DEAN, DEHNE,
DENNIS, DETRAGIACHE, DEVERS,
DIGERNESS, DIXON, DOHRING,
DORSCHNER, DOUGLAS, DREWS, DRUSHELLA,
DUFF, DUNCAN, DUNKELBERGER,
DVORAK, DZIUK, EARLYWINE, EBERLEIN,
EDGAR, EICHHORN, ELLIOTT,
ELLIS, ENGLE, ENGLISH, ERNST, FALKNER,
FARLEY, FARNHOLTZ, FAWCETT,
FINTEL, FITZGERALD, FITZSIMMONS,
FJERAN, FLEMING FOGLESONG,
FORSBERG, FRESTER, FRIEDRICH, FRITON,
FORHREICH, FROST, FRYKHOLM,
FUGIT, FULCHER, GALLA, GALUSHA,
GAR__TTE, GARDNER, GASTON,
GEMMILL, GERLACH, GETTELMAN, GIBSON,
GJERDRUM, GOODWIN, GORMAN,
GORZE, GOOT, GRABLE, GREER, GRIFFITH,
GUILE, GUSTAFSON, HACKETT,
HAFFORD, HAGEN, HALDI, HALLIDAY,
HALLOWELL, HALSTEAD, HAMMER,
HARBENT, HARDIE, HARMELINK, HARMON,
HARRIS, HATHAWAY, HAVNES
(HAYNES?), HEIG, HEIN, HELMA, HEPP,
HIGHSAW, HILKEMEIER, HILL,
HILLERY, HOLLIS, (HO)BBS, HOEFT, HOEY
HOFFMAN, HOLCOMB, HOLMES,
HONEY, HOSHAW, HOSMER, HUDSON, HUNTER,
INGLE, JACOBS, JACOBSON,
JANES, JANSEN, JAY, JAYER, JENKINS,
JENNINGS, JENSEN, JOHN,
JOHNSON, JOHNSTON, JONES, JORDAN, JOYCE,
JULIUS, KALAFATICH, KANE,
KANUCH, KAPSA, KEELEN, KEELER, KELLEY,
KIRBY, KLEBSCH, KNIGHT,
KNOSHAUG, KNUDSEN, KNUDSON, KOCHEVAR,
KOLLARS, KOR, KORPI, KOSKI,
KRAUSE, KUBAL, KUIDERA, LaBORE,
LaFERRIERE, LANCE, LANDIS,
LANGE, LANGLEY, LARIMORE, LARSEN,
LARSON, LATKOVICH, LAUTIZI,
LEBECK, LEE, LEHMAN, LENUSON,
LEONHARDT, LICHTENSTIEN,
LIEBSCH, LIENHARD, LINDE, LINERS,
LITTELL, LOFGREN, LONG,
LORAIN, LOVELL, LUECK, LUEDERS, LUER,
LUNDIN, LYON, MACFARLANE,
MADDY, MAKI, MANNING,
MARTIN, MARVIN, MASON,
MATTHEWS, MAXWELL, MAZICH, McBRIDE,
McCARTHY, McCLOSKEY,
McDONALD, McDONNELL, McWAID, MERRELL,
MILLER, MILLS, MISKIMENS,
MOE, MONROE, MORGAN, MOOR, MOORE,
MORAS, MORGAN, MORIN, MORSE,
MOSRICK, MOSS, MOUNT, MUIR, MYHRE,
NATVIG, NEIFFER, NELSON,
NESTLER, NEWBURN, NICHOLSON, NORTHCOTT,
OLSON, O'NEIL, ORR, OTTUM,
PAETH, PALS, PARKER, PARKINS,
PASKVAN, PATTERSON, PATTON,
PAULSON, PAYN, PEARSON, PENN,
PETERSON, PETTERSEN,
PETROVCICH, PHELPS, PICKERING, PITCHFORD,
PLATTNER, PLUNKETT, POIROT,
PORTER, POUWE, PRESTON, PUTIKKA,
RABEN, RANDALL, RANDLE,
RAPP, RASINA, RATZLAFF, RAY, REDD,
REDMANN, RICHARDS, RINDLEY,
ROBERTS, ROBITAILLE, RODINA, ROE,
ROHRER, ROSATI, ROTTRUP,
RUEDY, RUSS, RYAN, SAFLEY, SAHLQUIST,
SANBORN, SANDERS, SANDO,
SANGER, SAVAGE, SCHAEFER, SCHEER,
SCHIEMAN, SCHMIDT,
SCHNEIDER, SCHOONOVER, SCHREIBER, SEILER,
SELANDER, SHERERTZ, SHERMAN,
SHERWOOD, SHUGART, SHUMAKER,
SINCLAIR, SINJEM, SINKO,
SIVERSON, SMART, SMITH, SNARENBERGER,
SNITH, SNYDER, SOREM,
SPACKMAN, SPEASE, SPENCER, SPERBECK,
SPLINTER, STARK, STEINFELDT,
STENGEL, STEVENS, STEVENSON,
STILES, STILTNER, STOVALL,
STRANDJORD, STUMBO, SUTTON, SWANSON,
SWEAZEY, SWINSEN, TESKA,
THOMA, THOMAS, THOMPSON, THORKILDSEN,
THORSON, TIGNER, TOUSIGNANT,
TOWER, TRUDELL, TSCHUMPER, UHLIN,
UNDERWOOD, UNFRED, VACHUSKA,
VIESTENZ, VONDERSMITH, VOROUS,
WACHSNICHT, WAGNER, WALKER,
WALSH, WALTER, WANKEN, WATSON,
WATTS, WEBSTER, WEISS,
WELLS, WESTBY, WHITE, WHITFORD, WILLARD,
WILSON, WINDERS, WINNER,
WINTER, WILKEN, WRIGHT, YERXA, YOUNG,
ZAAT, ZILLIOX.
Marcy Hoover [email protected]
o 1887-1924 Letters to REEVES-MERRITT-MAIRS, New York
Item # 735120919; Auction
ends: Nov-17-02 08:07:06 PST
Seller: dtw1945
10 letters to Miss Jennie
REEVES, Johnson, Orange County, New
York; or Mrs. Charles
MERRITT of Utica, New York; or Sarah MAIRS
from family and friends.
Some are from Cornwell, New York.
Health news; Elisabeth
raising chickens; hemlock around the
pond; trying to persuade Jim
to go to the Hot Springs where they
treat his illness; garden
news; condolence letter [on loss?] of
a baby; farm news from
Lansing, Michigan; genealogy questions.
Envelopes roughly opened.
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o I have a copy of the naturalization papers for Matthew SPOHN
who was born in the Kingdom
of Wurtenburg in October 1828 and
immigrated to Guilford, New
York about 1855 with his wife
Marietta and a son named
Joseph. I would like to share this and
other related information I
have with any person who is
researching this family.
o I have the original diploma or Dental Surgery License for
William H. WALKER, Doctor of
Dental Surgery from the STATE
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, dated 5
March 1884. I would be glad to
forward to any family
members.
o 1870 WATT Family Bible; Item # 1580977632
Auction ends: Nov-15-02
17:11:50 PST; Seller: ilihny
Bible is in rough condition.
The first four pages are loose and
the front cover is the same
as loose. But there is a lot of WATT
family history in this
Bible. [Editor's Note: In response to my
request for more
information, Seller, [email protected] ,
wrote: "It doesn't say
where, anywhere in the Bible. But the
loose papers in the Bible
hint that they lived somewhere around
Terre Haute, Indiana.
William WATT was born November 1st 1810.
Annie MALCOMB was born
December 25th 1828. William Henry WATT,
son of William and Annie
WATT was born February 5th 1847. Sarah
Jane born July 1848, Mary
Alice born 1853, Joshine Esuelice born
1858, Francis Marion born
[no date], Mathias CURTIS born 1866.
There are some loose papers
such as newspaper clippings,
receipts, and letters that
pertain to the WATT family."
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o WILSON 150 Handwritten WWII Letters; Item # 734612703
Auction ends: Nov-17-02
20:33:31 PST; Seller: diaries
About 150 WWII letters dated
from October 1942 to August 1945
written by Charlie WILSON
and his wife Margot. They tell the
story of the newly married
couple living in Washington. He is
drafted, spends the next
several years overseas, goes from
private to corporal to
Sergeant, and she has a baby girl,
Sharlee. They talk about
such things as the Elks balls, life
overseas in the army, the
war, fuel rationing, fashion, the
draft, family, USO shows,
etc. For example:
(Margot) "Every place was crowded. There were more soldiers
and sailors. Ed and Helen
asked all about you. Dee was kicking
up her heels with a sailor.
She is having herself a fling with
sailors now and has
postponed her wedding several times. They
would fall over if they knew
she was old enough to be the mother
of some of them"
"Darling am I thrilled! No longer will I be
called 'Mrs. Yard Bird
Wilson' how did you do it, and in only
two months?" "This
blanketey blank draft board hasn't sent a
married man since you
left" "Mother's belief is that you're in
India, North Africa or
Italy, because of what you said about
filthy natives"
(Charlie) "Tonight seems to be a big night for letter
writing
here at the office because
at last we can say where we are, but
of course 'North Africa'
covers a lot of country" "Am having a
hard time concentrating on
writing this letter as there are
about 10 little Italian kids
hanging around" "Yesterday we moved
in by a swamp and as we were
really dirty, we took a bath in the
nice dirty stagnant water
with about a foot of mud, but just the
same, I enjoyed it. What you
won't do under these conditions"
"Things are running
along here about as usual with the days
rather quiet until the
artillery opens up in the evening and
continues all night. The
krauts have a shell that really screams
when it comes over, but then
as everything else, you get more or
less used to it"
"Just got thru taking a super deluxe bath,
which is a bath with 2
helmets of water as distinguished from an
ordinary bath where you use
only one helmet. These are specials
for Sunday only."
"At the present time we are in a building and
it is wonderful to get your
feet on a floor again. We are
somewhat in out of the cold,
but not the rain. Artillery shells
have taken most of the roof
off, but in our room we have stuck
a couple of canvas tarps
across the ceiling. The krauts used the
building before us and
kindly left many double decked wooden
bunks and straw ____ which
we are making good use of."
He describes his surroundings, when he is allowed to. The last
letter is from Margot about
the end of the war. Most of the
letters still have their
envelopes and stamps. Some are also
filled with little mementos
and newspaper articles, and most are
several pages. I believe he
was with the 5th or 8th armies in
Italy, as there are many
newspaper articles about them.
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o I recently bought some used books and inside one of them I
found a letter dated 1
September 1944, written by Roscoe WRIGHT
Jr. to his parents. He was
stationed in England during WWII. I
would like to send it to a
member of his family.
Irene DeBauche [email protected]
o On 10 November 2002, hoping to find family it belongs to, I
purchased a baby book in a
"recyclable store." If you know any
of these people, please
write so I can get this book to someone
in the family. I paid $5 for
the book. That and postage is all I
would like in return.
Robert George YOUNG, born 5 February 1930, Durand, Michigan.
Parents Clyde M. and Marian
E. YOUNG. There are three wonderful
photographs in the little
book. Robert George YOUNG had an older
brother, Floyd YOUNG,
perhaps born in 1920. One photo shows
Floyd holding his
4-month-old son, Jimmie, and looking on are
the grandfather (Clyde M.
YOUNG) and the great-grandfather
(unnamed) -– four
generations of the YOUNGs.
Nancy O. Anderson in upstate New York [email protected]
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o From July 1929 AMERICAN RIFLEMAN MAGAZINE, a photo of Miss
Winifred WINNARD of Portland,
Oregon; the 1939 American
International free-rifle
team of Chief Marine Gunner Calvin A.
LLOYD, Major Per RAMEE,
Major Ralph KEYSER, Brig. Gen M. A.
REKORD, William L. BRUCE of
Cheyenne, Wyoming, Sgt. Paul E.
WOODS, Sgt. Russell F.
SEITZINGER, Sgt. Joseph F. HANKINS,
Gunnery Sgt. John BLAKLEY,
Sgt. John B. SHARP, and Gunnery Sgt.
Morris FISHER. An obituary
for Capt. H. H. LEIZEAR
From April 1931, color enhanced cover photo of 12-year-old
Claretta EWING of Morenci,
Arizona; photos of R. S. MARSHALL of
Lima, Ohio; C. B. LISTER;
Mike ALTMAN of La Verne, Iowa; Obits
for Dr. Philip P. QUAYLE,
Guy H. EMERSON of Fremont, Ohio;
Miss Cora E. HAGAMAN; and R.
D. TAIT of Dunsmuir, California.
From October 1931, photos of A. HEMMING of the Detroit police,
Rex MAY of the San Antonio
police, C. E. WARD of the Los Angeles
police; officer R. J. NOWKA
of Los Angeles, Othel E. CROCKETT of
Logansport, Indiana; F. O.
KUHN of Stratford, Connecticut,
H. D. ALLYN of Springfield,
Massachusetts, and the "Mighty West"
team of V. F. HAMER, H. J.
ADAMS, Jr., J. C. BERGER, E. O.
SWANSON, T. J. IMPER, T.
RANDLE, J. FARREN and J. L. RAVEN;
Roger HUGHES, age 11 of
Youngstown, Ohio; Ad TOPPERWEIN of San
Antonio, Texas, S. B. FANN
of Pikesville, Tennessee; Capt.
Sidney H. NEGROTTO and Sgt.
R. L. COSNER from Fort Washington,
Maryland; Lt. E. F. SLOAN,
Sgt. Reginald A. HERIN of
Mississippi, Ralph F. IZARD,
Cpl. William EASTERLING, Lt. Col.
J. J. DOOLEY; another larger
photo of both R. J. NOWKA of Los
Angeles and R. S. MAY of the
San Antonio police, Billie MAUPIN
of Lexington, Kentucky, St.
Louis police team of Frank STUBITS,
Frank EVANS, Thamer HILL,
Lt. Nick BOSCH, Jr., Paul SPAVOR,
Sgt. Nary PHILLIPS, and
Oliver YANICK; Los Angeles police team
of J. J. ENGBRECHT, M. E.
WHEELER, J. O. DIRCKS, R. J. NOWKA,
J. A. BARTLEY, C. E. WARD,
J. E. DAVIS and S. S. STONE; a large
picture of Alfred HEMMING of
the Detroit police and C. E. WARD
of Los Angeles; individual
photos of Paul SPAVOR of St. Louis,
C. F. SHAYLOR of Portland,
Oregon, WlT DESMOND of Boston, Rex
MAY of San Antonio, J. J.
ENGBRECHT and C. E. WARD of Los
Angeles, A. W. HEMMING of
Detroit, and J. H. JENSEN of Portland.
From December 1931, Pete CRAWFORD, Bob SUMMERALL and
"Slick"
JONES (a cowboy) all of
Texas; F. C. NESS, Edward S. HILT of the
Geneva, New York police; and
an obituary for Youle T. FRAZEE,
born in Brooklyn and
president of the Montclair Mortgage Company
o 1800s-early 1900s BANKS Family Letters; Item # 737674609
Auction ends: Nov-23-02
06:53:49 PST; Seller: ephemeraplus
Group of 75 1800s-early
1900s C. L. BANKS family letters. BANKS
was the owner of the old
Eagle Hotel in New Berlin, New York.
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o Purchased at a flea market near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania:
-- An autograph book from the 1932 era, belonging to Virginia
Elizabeth BENDER
-- U.S. History schoolbook from the late 1880s with the name
May NORMAN, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania written inside the front page
-- U.S. History schoolbook from the late 1920s with the names
DeSales C. FEENEY, Eugene B.
FEENEY, and Leo W. FEENEY written
on the inside cover
Provide your lineage connection to these individuals and I
will send you the item.
Mel G. [email protected]
o Bible presented to Ruth BLUE in 1971. Her parents were
R. A. LUNA and Mildred
YOUNG. Apparently Ruth was an only
child, born in 1917. She
wrote the birth and marriage dates
for herself and children and
husbands. Free to good home.
Evelyn Rard [email protected]
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o I have a nice photo of Margaret DEVOURS, who lived in
Merced, California. The
picture looks to be about 1930s, 1940s.
The name of the studio is Du
or Tu Pertuis. It was in a box of
my grandmothers photos. I'd
like to send it to a family member.
Please send some identifying
information. Thanks.
Sharon Carpenter [email protected]
o 1860 William DUNLOP Port Glasgow, Two Ambrotypes
Item # 737144115; Auction
ends: Nov-24-02 08:02:03 PST
Seller: parolyn (Lyme Regis,
Dorset, United Kingdom)
A pair of Ambrotypes in a
folding case; each image approximately
2.25 x 1.75 inches. One
subject is William DUNLOP, Port Glasgow,
1860. These two ninth-plate
Ambrotypes are both in excellent
condition, beautifully
presented with elaborate inner and outer
gilt frames. Both men's
watch chains are also gilded. The
leather case is of good
quality with a nice catch, but lightly
worn. The hinge is good. Particularly
interesting is the fact
that we know who the
right-hand one is, as attested by a
handwritten label slipped
behind the image.
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o 1860s CDV Album [EARLY family including also SNOWWHITE,
HEILMAN, LAUDERMILCH,
FITTEROLF?, BENDER, MILLER, FLEISHER,
BOWMAN, WOLF, LONGENECKER,
FRANTZ, KLOPP, PEAFFLY, SHAUFFLER,
WEIDNIR, MAULFAIR, BERK,
KRUDER, GETZ]; Item # 738246941
Auction ends: Nov-24-02
16:21:38 PST; Seller: mizs
Civil War era gilt-tooled
leather CDV album, "The Photographic
Album," Philadelphia,
J. B. Lippencott & Co., approximately
6 1/8" x 9 3/4" x
2 1/4". Gilt-patterned end pages and "Index
to Portraits" page
printed in gold lettering. Some names written
in pencil under the cdvs.
There are 25 gilt-edge pages that hold
100 cdvs. There are 36 cdvs
in the album and I believe each one
is identified (it appears
there never were more cdvs in the
album). I listed the names I
saw on the backs of the cdvs, most
written in pencil, and it
appears the family was mostly from
Lebanon, Pennsylvania and
surrounding areas, and relatives
scattered in other areas.
There is one gentleman identified as
"Captain Ernest H. A.
SNOWWHITE," Lebanon, Pa., who signed the
cdv on the back in ink
"Ernest H. A. SNOWWHITE." He is not in
uniform. Here is a list of
the names I saw: John M. EARLY,
Annville, Pa.; David EARLY,
Lancaster, Pa., Mr. Christ HEILMAN;
Henry LAUDERMILCH, Lebanon,
Pa.; William EARLY, Lebanon, Pa.;
Cousin Joseph S. EARLY,
Lebanon, Pa.; Miss Sue FITTEROLF?,
Lebanon, Pa.; A. B. BENDER,
Lebanon, Pa. (taken in Des Moines,
Iowa); Mr. Sol MILLER,
Lancaster, Pa.; Miss Annie FLEISHER,
Harrisburg, Pa.; Cousin
Nancy BOWMAN, Warsaw, Indiana; Cousin
Michael BOWMAN, Warsaw,
Indiana; Cousin Malinda BOWMAN, Warsaw,
Indiana; Miss Sue WOLF,
Harrisburg, Pa.; Cousin Silas EARLY,
Harrisburg, Pa.; Miss Sallie
LONGENECKER, York, Pa.; Cousin
Mary EARLY, Lebanon, Pa.;
Ed. FRANTZ, Harrisburg, Pa.; Mr.
George KLOPP, Annvill, Pa.;
Cousin Mary EARLY, Lebanon, Pa.;
My Father Joshua H. EARLY
and Joseph PEAFFLY, Lebanon, Pa;
Brother Joshua EARLY,
Annville, Pa.; Cousin Manerva of D. S.
EARLY, Annville, Pa.; Cousin
Ida of D. S. EARLY, Annville, Pa.;
William SHAUFFLER, Annville,
Pa.; My Father and Step Mother –-
Joshua H. EARLY, Sarah EARLY
(born WEIDNIR) My Mother was born
Mary MAULFAIR, have no
picture of her. Uncle D. W. EARLY,
Annville, Pa.; Cousin Clara
of D. S. EARLY, Lebanon, Pa.; Geo.
BERK, Warsaw, Indiana; Mrs.
BERK, Warsaw, Indiana; Great-
Grandmother Christina EARLY,
Born KRUDER, Lebanon, Pa.; Aunt
Christina GETZ, Harrisburg,
Pa.; Great-Grandfather William EARLY
Lebanon, Pa.; Uncle Thomas
GETZ, Harrisburg, Pa.
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o 1845 Letters FALES Family (Boston, New York, St. John) (3)
Item # 737891547; Auction
ends: Nov-25-02 17:42:20 PST
Seller: ronpb99
Lot of three letters written
in 1845 by three members of the
FALES family. Two of the
letters deal with the birth of a baby
and how well the mother is
doing, and the other is a letter from
a child to her aunt thanking
her for gifts and discussing family
news. [Editor's Note: In
response to my request for more details
Seller, Ronald P. Blais [email protected], wrote: "Letter #1:
St. John, Sept. 30, 1845, My
Dear Aunt, etc. She mentions Mrs.
COOPER, Mrs. ROBINSON,
Cousin Maria FALES, George in Wilmot,
signed: Henrietta BAYARD;
Letter #2: New York, Wednesday,
15 October 1845, My Dear
Uncle, etc. She mentions Eliza's fine
baby boy, Mrs. BRIDGHAM,
Mrs. PURTIS (midwives), Ellen, Mrs.
PATCH, Coney Island Train,
Maria (FALES). Signed: Georgianna
HUBBARDTON; Letter #3:
Boston, Oct 18, 1845, My Dear Niece, etc.
He mentions Eliza Anne (who
just gave birth), Mrs. PATCH, my
brother, Chester, Mrs.
BRIDGHAM. Signed: Sam FALES."]
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[Editor's Note: Thanks to
Saralie [email protected] who
spotted the next item and
wrote: "There are a lot of identified
cdv's on eBay this week, but
this one is too good to take the
chance of his family missing
it. I hope I'm in time for you to
get it into the next
issue." I wondered what "a lot" meant and
so did an advanced search
(includes the international listings)
for "cdv" and was
rewarded with more than 1,200 hits. Not all
of those were identified,
but it gives an idea of the volume of
such material that is
available any given week.]
o K. J. FORD 2nd, London, England, two cdv's; Item # 736480589
Auction ends: Nov-20-02
11:58:27 PST; Seller: wwgd
These are two cdv's of the
same man, Kanis James FORD 2nd, taken
years apart. Written on the
back of the younger Kanis is "Kanis
James FORD 2nd, father of
John Stephen FORD. Photo 1817 taken."
Below that is "born
June 21, 1792, married Anne TUDOR [or SUDOR]
June 25, 1820, died Dec 15,
1886,\." "25 years old" is written
Along the side, Pretty much
the same thing is written on the
Other photo with one added
line, "son of Kanis James FORD 1st."
Photographers are Albert
Malkin London, Turner & Co Islington N.,
Honorable mention at the
Dublin International Exhibition.
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o HANKS, GOOCH: Gleanings from old celluloid photo album of
Linn and Sullivan counties,
Missouri. I bought the album on eBay
in June 2002 and there were
no photos in it. I will be happy to
send it to anyone related to
the names in the book for the price
I paid plus shipping. I have
the receipt. Laura [email protected]
Linn and Sullivan counties, Missouri Photo Album
Pasted into front leaf: (a)
Cut-out paper hand and foot prints
of "Wayne"
"Wayed 3 lbs. at burth"; (b) clipping: "McKinley's
First Words after He Was
Shot 'May God forgive him.' His Second
Words. 'I feel a sharp pain here.'
Pointing to his breast. His
Third Words: 'I trust Mrs.
McKinley will not be informed of
this. At least try to see
that what she must know of it be not
exaggerated in the
telling.'"; (c) newspaper clipping: "Little
Kenneth HANKS dies from
appendicitis. Kenneth J. HANKS, aged
one year, two months and
four days, died in Bozeman yesterday
from acute subterranean
appendicitis. The little lad . . . was
brought to Bozeman by the
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. HANKS,
from their home on the GOOCH
ranch, and died a few moments after
they arrived in town, before
they could secure medical attention
for him. An autopsy was held
to learn the cause of death. The
funeral services will be
held at the Salesville church Thursday
afternoon at two o'clock,
with Rev. C. W. WORDEN officiating.
(d) newspaper clipping:
"In Memoriam" [handwritten: "my father"]
Resolutions of Sympathy. At
a Regular Communication of Biswell
Lodge No. 610 A. F. and A.
M. held December 3rd, 1892 the
following Resolutions were
adopted. Whereas, Our Esteemed
Brother Fielding S. HANKS a
citizen of Benton Township Linn Co.
Mo., and a member of this
Lodge departed this life at his
residence on the 23rd day of
November, 1892. . . 3rd. That . . .
these resolutions be placed
on record in the archives of the
Lodge, and a copy be
furnished the Browning RECORD, and the
Linneus Bulletin with a
request to publish. Fraternally
Submitted, John CARTER, G.
T. HOPSON, H. W. CRAWLEY; (e) news
clipping: Obituary. On
Friday morning Ma----[torn] W. G. GOOCH,
after an illness of thirty
hours, passed peacefully from earth
to his reward in the beyond.
Deceased was 86 years, 9 months
and 7 days old. Was born in
Harrison county, Ky., and immigrated
to Pike county, Mo., in
1829, and in 1847 to Linn county, where
he resided until his death.
He was the father of 14 children, 12
of whom are still living.
Funeral services were conducted by
Eld. DOWNING at the
residence of J. W. GOOCH, Saturday at 1:30
p. m., after which the
remains were taken to the family burial
ground for interment. A
large number of friends and relatives
accompanied the body to its
final resting place. . ."
Names over photo inserts
(all photos missing): Uncle Pink & Aunt
Lena GOOCH; Mother's sister
Aunt Mag HAWKINS; Uncle Jim GOOCH &
Olie RIDDLE & Laverne
GOOCH; Jack HANKS; Livy HANKS; Pet &
Wayne GOOCH CALHOON; Laverne
& Forest GOOCH; May HANKS; Clara
VADEN (Pet GOOCH); Charles
GOOCH; Willis BURWELL
Laura Elliott
[email protected]
o When my husband's aunt, Thelma Hansen Harkey, died, we found
among her possessions a
family Bible of a GRIFFIN family with
entries from 1853-1921.
GRIFFINs include W. E., M. E., Clemmie,
Callie, E. G., A. E., Anna,
Laura, W. M., W. H., T. A., Mary,
E. L., Mailin, Joann, and H.
W., also Callie FIELDS. I have
copied the pages and would
be glad to send them to anyone who
might recognize a name.
Jan Cook [email protected]
o Ca. 1850 GRIFFITH VAN WINKLE Ambrotypes; Item # 922517488
Auction ends: Nov-22-02
04:08:25 PST; Seller: jaccuse
According to a member of The
Daguerreian Society, these are two
uncut 1/8 Ambrotypes,
collodion image on full 8" x 10" sheet of
glass, which has been
treated with a brown photosensitive
material which has jelled
into open follicles. Head of Viola
GRIFFITH VAN WINKLE on right
and an unknown full-length standing
woman on left. Very unusual
in this form, and may have been used
in making Carte de Viste.
Circa 1850, New England. May be as
late as 1870s.
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o GUYTON, HUCKLEBERRY family Bible, obtained at a swap meet
south of Los Angeles,
California more than 20 years ago. It is
about 4" wide and very
heavy. Scammell & Company Superfine
Edition--The New
Encyclopaedic Pictorial Family Bible, published
in St. Louis, Missouri,
187?. It is in bad condition with the
cover pulled away and
several pages loose, but the family
information is in perfect
condition. It was "Presented to the
Family of M. W. GUYTON by M.
W. GUYTON, father. Spring of 1882."
A marriage certificate in
the center has—"M. W. GUYTON and M. M.
HUCKLEBERRY married in
Mechanicsburg (Illinois) on the 9th day
of Jan., 1879 by Rev. R.
GREGG of M. E. church." BIRTHS LISTED:
Mary Matilda HUCKLEBERRY
near Dawson, Illinois, Dec.10, 1861
Marvin Wesley GUYTON near
Illiopolis, Illinois, Dec. 27, 1857
Edith Elnora GUYTON
Illiopolis, Illinois, Oct. 24, 1879
Eli Earl GUYTON " " Aug. 23, 1881
Carl Earnest GUYTON " " Aug.
23, 1883
Ralph Earmin GUYTON " " Oct.
23, 1885
M. Leo Roache GUYTON " " Oct.
17, 1887
Edward Owen GUYTON " " Aug.
28, 1889
DEATHS LISTED:
M. Leo GUYTON died Jan. 18,
1888 of congestion of brain
Marvin Wesley GUYTON died
Jan. 31. 1890 of pneumonia
Ralph Earmin GUYTON
Edith Elnora CUNNINGHAM
Carl Earnest GUYTON
Mary Malilda HUCKLEBERRY
GUYTON
Eli Earl GUYTON
MEMORANDA
Leo's funeral services were
conducted by Rev. W. A. WARMSLEY
M. W. GUYTON'S funeral was
preached by Rev. J. B. COLWELL
Both are buried at River
Side near Illiopolis, Illinois.
Also in an envelope were some poems and newspaper clippings.
They are discolored but
readable. The clippings include
obituaries for Emily H.
HUCKLEBERRY, mother of Mary Matilda
HUCKLEBERRY GUYTON; M. W.
GUYTON; Carl Earnest GUYTON, and
Abraham GUYTON, probably the
father of Marvin Wesley GUYTON.
Also two wedding announcements
for Ione CUNNINGHAM and
Edward BLANCK dated Feb. 6,
1929.
There is also a list of HUCKLEBERRY family births and deaths:
Annie Elizabeth was born
Aug. 18, 1857
Henrietta Susanna born Jan.
3, 1860
Mary Matilda born Dec. 10,
1861
Samuel Lewis born Mar. 14,
1864
Cora Jane born April 7, 1866
Hattie Mayes born Mar. 23,
1871
Nora Belle born Feb. 9, 1873
Annie Elizabeth died Nov.
30, 1861
Henrietta Susanna died Apr.
25, 1862
Cora Jane died Sept. 11,
1871
Nora Belle died Sept. 11,
1874
Emily H. HUCKELBERRY died
Nov. 15, 1882
I will gladly mail the Bible and other items to anyone who
can prove s/he is a
descendant of this Marvin Wesley and Mary
Matilda (HUCKLEBERRY) GUYTON
family for the price of postage.
Carol Harrison Carol [email protected]
o I purchased at a flea market a Tagebuch belonging to
Lieselotte (nee LUPPE)
HOLZKAMPER. This book contains memories
of her early life in
Germany, her life in the U.S., and marriage
to William HOLZKAMPER. I
will be glad to send this to anyone who
can prove s/he is a
descendant. This book should be valuable to
a family member as it has
several letters/thoughts written in
both German and English and
a picture of her home in Germany.
Connie Siverly Ferguson, C.G.R.S. [email protected]
o While going through my mother's things, we found a
photograph of a young bride.
In my mother's handwriting on the
back is the name Dorothy
JOHANSSON. I estimate she was married
during the years of WWII.
Also found in my mother's things were
gift cards from the many
showers and teas given her before her
own marriage, as well as
newspapers clippings announcing the
various events with lists of
hostesses and guests. Through all
this I have determine that
Dorothy JOHANSSON married James
STAPLES. I also learned her
father's and sister's names. They
were living in the area of
Orlando, Florida. With all this
information, you'd think I'd
be able to find someone in Dorothy
(Dotty)'s family, but after
sending letters to every Dorothy and
James STAPLES in Florida
that I could find, I still have not
located anyone. I am hoping
that through Somebody's Links, I
will find someone who will
claim this lovely lady. I will mail
he photo to anyone who can
prove s/he is related.
Christi Malone [email protected]
o I recently came across a Bible that apparently was given
to the family of Paul
William LITTLEFIELD (born 5 March 1909 in
Ft. Wayne, Indiana, died 31
December 1988, Glendora, California)
upon his death. It does not
look very used and does not appear
to have any other family
information in it but I would be happy
to help get it to a family
member if anyone is interested.
Charles C. Rich [email protected]
o I have the following photo. Lee Annie was the daughter of
James Donald McCURDY and
Judy Ann KEIFER/KIFER. Looking to
place with the nearest
relative. Daniel Boone HAMILTON, born
25 December 1858, near
Springfield, Missouri, died 5 June 1935,
Denton County, Texas,
married 16 September 1878 to Lee Annie
McCURDY, born 24 June 1863,
Washington County, Arkansas, died
17 June 1920. Both are
buried in Roswell, New Mexico.
Peggy McCurdy Seidler [email protected]
o 1818 McELWE / McELWEE Family Bible; Item # 1584268659
Auction ends: Nov-24-02
22:00:00 PST; Seller: a.ports
McELWE / McELWEE family
Bible, printed and published by M. Carey
& Son, Philadelpia,
Pennsylvania, 1818. Written on the inside of
front cover is "John
McELWE, his book." There are entries on the
Family Record pages for
marriages (earliest 1833), births
(earliest 1809), and deaths
(earliest 1837). Other surnames
mentioned are BOUGHTON,
PHILLIPS and WAKEMORE. Dates mostly in
the 1860s written next to
some passages throughout Bible.
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o I have photos and a letter from cousins of my grandmother
that I would like to share
with descendants. Two are studio
portraits of Sarah MARTIN
(one shows her possibly in her 50s and
the other possibly in her
70s), another is a studio portrait of
"Mary E. MARTIN, June
Class of 1900, L.A. Normal" (who looks to
be in her early 20s) and
there is a snapshot with an inscription
on the back, "Camp at
Warners Hot Springs -- the man standing is
my husband Isaac MARTIN, the
woman is our youngest girl, the man
is her husband that is
sitting." The photographer's studios are
in San Diego and Los
Angeles; on the back of the photo of Mary
E. MARTIN, my grandmother
wrote "La Costa, Cal.," and the back
of the snapshot is stamped
"Pomona - Calif." The letter is
undated but refers to Sarah
and her family as "California
cousins"; it is signed
S. J. MARTIN. I believe Sarah was a
daughter of Amos NETTLETON
and Sidney HODGE, who were born in
the Leeds-Grenville area of
Ontario, CANADA. By 1860, they were
living in Ogle County,
Illinois. I found Amos & Sidney NETTLETON
on the 1880 U.S. Census
living in Kansas City, Missouri; on the
same census I found an Isaac
MARTIN, his wife Sarah (born in
Illinois; parents both born
in CANADA) and their daughter Mary,
living in Kansas City,
Kansas; in the neighboring household were
Mark NETTLETON (born in
CANADA; parents also) and his wife,
Emily. Sidney Hodge
NETTLETON was a sister of Eliza Hodge
PETTIT, my
great-great-grandmother. Sidney died in Rainbow,
California on Dec. 4, 1899,
apparently having lived with the
family of her son-in-law Wm.
J. GOULD since the death of her
husband in 1883. In a letter
he wrote to cousins in CANADA, he
said she was buried "in
our little home cemetery by the side of
her eldest daughter Mrs.
ELLIOTT." Would love to make a
connection with descendants
of this family, and share these
photos and letters.
Liz Brown [email protected]
o 1856 MORGAN Letter "Heading West"; Item # 922682683
Auction ends: Nov-22-02
19:44:23 PST; Seller: diaries
Pioneer letter, dated
Monday, Nov. 17, 1856. It is a three-page
handwritten letter from a
husband, I.? F. Morgan to his wife.
She is in Fairfield and he
is on the road driving teams west.
Right now he is in Iowa City
waiting for the rest of his group,
family and friends. He tells
her to forward her letters to
Montezuma and then to Ft.
Des Moines, from which you can tell by
Looking at a map that he's
heading west. [Excerpt] "Dearest, I
am yet in Iowa City and Will
is not here yet, neither has the
box we sent from Alliance
arrived. My health is excellent. On
Saturday morning I found
Alex, who had arrived the evening
before. He brought two teams
an uncle of his driving Will's team
and he brought an ox team.
He did not get his load till this
morning and as Will had not
arrived, I waited also. I expect to
take charge of Will's team
and take what things of ours that are
here and go on in company
with Alex and 4 or 5 other teams . . .
I do hope that the western
air with care and pleasant
associations will restore
you to a better condition of health
than you have enjoyed for
years . . . I bought 25 yds of hemp
carpet at 3 shillings per yd
so that when we do have a house we
will have some chance to
keep the floor warm. Good bye, write
soon and direct to Montezuma
and in a few days write again to
Ft. Des Moines. I remain
your loving husband. Farewell dearest,
farewell, yours truly, I.?
W. MORGAN." What I've written here
takes up about one page of
writing, there is much more, and he
also lists many names of the
people who are with the group and
showing up at various times.
I don't have the envelope, but the
letter is in great shape and
his handwriting very readable.
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o 1846 MORRIS Family Bible; Item # 1585306283
Auction ends: Nov-25-02
03:45:00 PST; Seller: we831
New York Bible Society 6th
edition, dated 1846. Old and New
Testament, well used, still
in good condition. Contains names
And dates of family members.
[In response to my request for
details, Seller, Jason
McCormick [email protected] ,
wrote: "the names that
appear in the Bible are Mary G. MORRIS
with a date of March 1 1864,
and Richard MORRIS. Mary's name
and date are written in
pencil between the Old and New
Testament, and Richard's
name is written in ink 3 times on the
back page."]
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o 1858 NORRIS Family Bible; Item # 1584331695
Auction ends: Nov-22-02
11:25:58 PST; Seller: [email protected]
Bible published by Jesper
Harding & Son, Philadelphia, 1858.
"Hardings' Royal Quarto
Edition," leather bound, remainder of
metal clasp. The owner
inscription on the front flyleaf reads:
"Charles and Esther
NORRISes Book given them by there (sic) Son
Edwin NORRIS. And may the
Lord reward him for such a precious
Gift." The family
records pages found between the Old and New
Testaments contain six
handwritten records for the NORRIS family
(four births and two
deaths). The births are for Charles A.
NORRIS, William M. NORRIS,
Edwin NORRIS, and Eliza NORRIS, with
the dates provided between
the years of 1832-1837. One death
entry reads "My dear
daughter Eliza NORRIS Passed away from this
world to her home in heaven
(date), age 19 years, 9 months, 16
days." Also a death
entry for "Mises Charles NORRIS." These are
all the entries, and there
is no mention of a location.
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o 1866 PICKFORD Family Bible; Item # 1584647272
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06:16:16 PST; Seller: Nov-23-02
On inside cover page is
written: "Presented to Arthur PICKFORD
July 9, 1895 on his 40th
birthday by his father Benjamin
PICKFORD. Presented to
Arthur Harold PICKFORD May 6th 1928 by
his father Arthur." On
the next page is the inscription to:
"Mr. and Mrs. B.
PICKFORD as a token of . . . [some more
names
and dated] ENGLAND April
11th 1866 on their leaving for the
United States." It also
has a family register page with
Benjamin and Sarah PICKFORD
married Feb 23, 1852 at the parish
church of Thirkburon or Thirkburton,
Yorkshire, England. Their
children Shelly and Sheplay,
Henry, Arthur, Louis (died 1857).
Charles, Amelia, and a
couple more -- Rufus Benjamin and then
children of Arthur and Theo
PICKFORD. A lot more names and
dates. This Bible was
printed at the University Press and sold
in London with the address.
All the pages seem to be there.
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o I am trying to identify the other soldiers in a picture with
my great-grandfather,
Benjamin Franklin STEWART, Sr. His diary
states the picture is of
"Captain, myself, another Sgt and 8
privates" taken fording
the San Domingo river on September 4,
1900. He was with Company C,
47th U.S.V. I have the photograph
on a Web site that I have
dedicated to him and his service.
There are also two photos of
him, his service record, and the
entries from his diary
(which are not complete yet). Please
take a look and if you can
give me any information on this
company or any of the men in
the photo please e-mail me.
The URL is:
http://www.geocities.com/lorilpn11/Ben_Stewart_SAW.html
Lori Craiger [email protected]
o 1898-99 Journal/Handwritten Candy Store Ledger, Nashville?
Item # 1585275867; Auction
ends: Nov-24-02 11:49:50 PST;
Seller: johnp.2
Ledger 7.5" x 12";
some recipes; name entries and what they
bought, for example: JW
FORD, G Drops, coco gems, HH bar with
the amount in a column; and
some pages of expenses such as
sugar, glycerine, freight,
etc. with the amount in a column.
[Seller] believes it is from
Nashville, Tennessee. Has lots
of names and names of
companies and amount of costs.
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o I would like to find homes for the following photographs
that I purchased at an
antique store in Stillwater, Minnesota.
-- Helen Grace WALSH, 19 months, March 12, 1899, photographer
J. J. Fritz, St. Cloud,
Minnesota.
-- Lizzie J. DUNGAN, August 1890; photographer Lupton,
Burlington, Iowa.
-- O. J. ROBINSON, husband of Alice FULLER; photographer
Skutt & Palmer,
Painesville, Ohio.
-- Donna LAWTON, age 16; E. G. Fellows, Vinton, Iowa
--Mr. Harry HUERMANN, St. Louis, Missouri 1903 [about age 18]
The next photos all pertain
to the same family of WALLACE and
THEXTON, who appear to be
from Detroit, Michigan, then North
Dakota, and finally
Minneapolis, Minnesota. There is a record
for Clara WALLACE THEXTON
listed in the Minnesota Death Index
and also a record for
Wallace THEXTON listed in the Social
Security Death Index. The
1920 census for Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minnesota has a
household consisting of Henry A THEXTON,
wife Clara, and son Wallace
A., along with father-in-law Elmer
D. WALLACE, mother-in-law
Ann L., and sister-in-law Fannie.
-- Clara WALLACE, age 6 mo & 23 ds. weight 16-1/2 lbs;
photographer Powelson,
Detroit, Michigan.
-- Clara WALLACE, 1-1/2 years old; photographer Taylor &
Taylor, Detroit, [Michigan].
-- Clara WALLACE, June 1899; photographer Geo. F. Blackburn,
Grand Forks, North Dakota.
-- Wallace A. THEXTON, 1 year 4 months; photographer Shirley
V. Bacon, Long Beach,
California.
-- Wallace A. THEXTON, 8-1/2 years; photographer Lee Bros.
Studio [possibly in
Minneapolis, Minnesota]
-- Francis Ella WALLACE, 1885 (Ella F. WALLACE), sister of
E. D. WALLACE, died 1919;
photographer J. E. Watson, Detroit,
Michigan.
-- Mrs. CLOUGH, E. D. WALLACE's older sister; photographer
Hamilton's Art Gallery,
Detroit, Michigan.
If you recognize your family, please e-mail me with the
name of the person you are
interested in as the subject line.
Lynn Chadek
[email protected]
o Dana WARD's Handwritten Diary lot 1897-1951; Bible, photos,
address & date book,
diaries of a grandchild; Item # 923180961
Auction ends: Nov-24-02
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Large lot of diaries and
personal items which were kept by
Mr. Dana WARD of
Sommerville, Massachusetts. He was born on
October 3, 1874 in East
Princeton, Massachusetts and went on
to work in the Boston Fish
Market/Ward Fisheries. In this
collection, there are 29 of
his personal diaries, an address
book, a Bible, a few date
books and three 5-year diaries from
1967-1983 which I believe
were kept by one of his grandchildren.
The years of his diaries are
1897, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923,
1924, 1925, 1926, 1927,
1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934,
1935, 1936, 1936, 1937,
1940, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948,
1949, 1950, and 1951. Not
only did he write every day, but also
he attached many newspaper
clippings and photos to the pages
and kept many letters,
notices, licenses and personal papers
between the pages. He also
seemed to be quite a stamp collector
as there are several pages
filled with different postage stamps.
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o 1860s CDV Album Full(WILSON, et al.); Item # 736680218
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22:45:28 PST; Seller: mizs
Gilt-tooled red and black
leather Civil War era CDV album with
white milk glass
"studs" on the four corners of the front and
back of the album, and also
on the ornate brass clasps. Album is
approximately 5 1/8" x
7" x 2", with 25 gilt-edged pages holding
100 cdvs, and the album is
packed full. There are cdvs and
ferrotypes here from the
Civil War era and later -- about 76
ferrotypes and 24 cdvs. Some
of the ferrotypes are portraits in
embossed oval mats. There
are some great ones of children,
ladies and gentlemen with
hats, and group scenes. [Editor's
Note: In response to my
request for identifying names/places,
Seller (Flo
[email protected]) wrote: ". . . some are
from Burlington, Vermont;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Cincinnati, Ohio. I didn't
look at very many, didn't see many
names. "Theodore WILSON
1864," another was "Toussant Cabana"?
Not really sure if there are
many that are identified, but some
nice images in the
album."
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o 1818 WING-LANCASTER-BRAGG Bible, Falmouth, Massachusetts
Item # 1789805384; Auction
ends: Nov-24-02 19:28:24 PST
Seller: jrsports
WING family Bible, dated
1818 and printed by M. Carey & Sons,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This Bible contains the WING family
genealogy to 1744 Gideon
WING born in Falmouth, Massachusetts
and his wife Abigail, born
1749 in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
[Editor's Note: I
transcribed the following from images of the
pages that accompany this
listing: Gideon WING Born in Falmouth,
Mass. May 11 O.S. A.D. 1744;
Abigail his wife Born in Duxbury
October 1 O.S. A.D. 1749;
Married February 25th N.S. A.D. 1767.
(new page) MARRIAGES --
David LANCASTER born in Albion, Maine
February 15th 1806; Harriet
his wife born in Albion, Maine
August 30th 1809; Married
June 20th 1829. (new page)
BIRTHS –- Wm. WING Born July
11th A.D. 1768; Allen WING born
August 27th 1770; Abigail
born Nov 20th 1772; Joseph born
Novr 14th 1780; Hannah born
January 22, 1783. (new page)
DEATHS -- Gideon WING Died
Feby 27th 1821 in the 77th year of
his age; Abigail WING Died
July 2d 1837 in the 88th year of her
age; Stephen BRAGG Died
December 21st 1819 in the 80 year of
his age; Hannah BRAGG Died
February the 19 1870 Aged 87 years
and 28 days; Stephen BRAGG
Jr. Died May 12th 1870 Aged 54?
years 1 month and 28 days.]
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o 1889 ACURY Family Bible; Item # 1972074740
Auction ends: Nov-29-02
18:12:05 PST; Seller: lnantique
Bible published by W. J.
Holland & Co. Springfield, Mass. and
Chicago, Illinois. The
inscription on the front pages say James
F. ACURY, Emma S. Atkinson
ACURY Family Bible June 5, 1889. The
family register contains
family names as well as births,
marriages, and deaths
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o Seen at Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa, Americana Antique
Mall, an unused postcard, no
stamp, with photo of a World War I
soldier. On the back:
"Richard B. ADAMS, 1st Cook Co. F. 3rd
Infantry, US ?? Portland,
Oregon, 3/22/17" I cannot read the
first ?, possible the
second? is a G. It is possible this came
from the Dumont, Franklin
County, Iowa area. Some family should
desire this fine condition
photo card.
Wanda Spainhower [email protected]
o From February, 1932 AMERICAN RIFLEMAN MAGAZINE there is a
nice photo of J. A. WADE of
Boise, Idaho; Lt. Charles G. RAU,
Col. Charles B. STONE and
James F. McCUE of northern California;
James R. BEVERLY acting
governor of "Porto Rico"; Lt. Lewis
RAEMON and H. A. CLAPP of
Alabama; a photo and article about a
shooting involving patrolman
Gilbert VIAU of Detroit.
From April 1932, the NY police pistol team of Adolph P.
SCHUBER, Chas. MIGLIORINI,
John L. WENDEL, Arthur V. SACKETT,
Thos. McGOVERN and Herbert
W. KOEHLER; Bill STEMBLER and Bill
WATKINS; T. SAMSOE of Perth
Amboy, New Jersey, Sherwood T. MOORE
of Orange, New Jersey, and
Leonard J. MILLER of Philadelphia;
and the back cover photo of
R. E. FOWLE.
From May, 1932, Charles H. JOHNSON, L. J. MILLER and H. M.
POPE of New York; Col. J. B.
BARNES; an article and photo
celebrating the 100th
birthday of Louis MAURER of New York City
who was employed by Currier
and Ives; Col. Kenyon JOYCE, Roy
SWAN, and General Hanson ELY
(no city listed); and the back
cover photo of Walter R.
WALSH of Union City, New Jersey.
From July 1932, the colorized cover photo of Colonel Townsend
WHELEN, the Columbus police
team of Captain SMITH, Sam ERNEST,
L. W. MERICA, Guy DOWLER, C.
H. COX, and Glenn HOOVEN. Robert
H. NISBET of South Kent,
Connecticut; Dorothy Jean TRIPP aged 12
and the back cover photo of
the California police team champions
from San Diego, C. B. FREED,
Harry M. WATTS, R. J. OLIVER,
Rodney S. PEASE, and Ed. J.
MOORE.
From August 1932, Dr. Emmett O. SWANSON of Minneapolis,
Minnesota; Capt. Walter R.
STOKES of Washington, D.C., Dr. E. D.
SHUMAKER of Steubenville,
Ohio; Wm. P. SCHWEITZER of New Jersey,
Harold J. WOOD of Elizabeth,
New Jersey, and the back cover
photo of the St. Louis
police team of Frank STUBITS, F. W.
EVANS, Thaner HILL, Lt. Nick
BOSCH, Paul SPAVOR, Serg. PHILLIPS
and Oliver YANICK.
I will be glad to share copies of these photos for the cost
of copy and postage. Please
put "rifleman" in the subject line.
Linda [email protected]
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o My father was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps shortly
after World War I and was
stationed in Camaguey, Cuba. It was
in the early 1920s when his
battalion was assigned duty at
Guantanamo Naval Station.
However, the U.S. government misplaced
records of that battalion
having been in Cuba, and eventually it
became known as the
"Lost Battalion of Cuba." I have no record
of the dates or the
designation of the outfit but perhaps
someone who reads this will
have an ancestor known to have been
in the "Lost
Battalion." I have two photographs showing the
Marines' camp baseball team.
One photograph shows eight men and
the other shows 25 men. None
of the men is identified, but I
offer a copy of the photos
to anyone who has an ancestor who was
stationed in Guantanamo
during the early 1920s.
Richard Ashley [email protected]
o BARR, BAR, BAER. I have a story by Lawrence BARR (Lorenz
BAER) of his family's coming
from Germany to the United States,
settling in Tioga County,
New York, moving on to Fillmore County
Minnesota, and finally on to
Centralia, Washington, where he was
a merchant and banker. His
parents were Georg BAER and Anna
Maria EICHENGER. They had 13
children, of whom nine survived:
Christolph, John Philip,
John, Catherine, John (Hans), Margaret,
Nicholas, George, and
Lawrence himself, the youngest. Georg and
Anna Maria BAER came to the
United States in 1843 with their
four younger sons. [The
voyage took] 49 days from Bremen Haven
to New York on stormy seas.
Changed name to BARR soon after
arrival. John Philip BAER
remained in Germany and there are a
number of his descendants
there, some with extensive
genealogical information.
I'll correspond with anyone
interested, and share copies
of Lawrence BARR's story (about 10
pages) for the cost of
copying and mailing. Please use "BARR"
in subject line.
Marianne Aarons [email protected]
o I have a photo of the Passing-Out Parade of the 2nd. Plat. H
& S. Co. 20th Engr. Bn.
Fort Bragg, N.C. Capt. G. D. BOTTOMS
Comdg. 12-16-50 [16 December
1950]. Signatures on the reverse
are: Paul N. FARRELL, James
C. EDGLANT, Harry G. LAWSON, Charles
TARJUSTIN, Russell L. De
WATERS, Robert J. CARL, Alvin H. GOSS,
Russell WORSHAM, and Paul
Wurm LANE, as near as I can make out.
Also in the photo: Arthur T.
SABATO. I can scan and send photo.
Edna MacPherson Sabato [email protected]
o My son has acquired some materials that he plans to offer
for sale on eBay. They are
apparently from the estate of Hattie
Etta BURCH, who was born 20
August 1890 perhaps in Person
County, North Carolina, and
died in 1969 in Florida. She was
the daughter of Thomas
BOWMAN and Biddie Catherine SCOGGIN
BURCH. Copies of family
Bible pages with births and deaths are
included.
Hattie's sister Martha Caroline married W. T. MURRAY. The
1931 Durham City Schools
report cards of Katherine and Carolyn
MURRAY, signed by Mrs. W. T.
MURRAY, are included. There are
letters to Patsy Carolyn
MURRAY while at Lees McRae College.
There are some other
letters, also. There is the 1936 North
Carolina Teacher's
Certificate for Alma MURRAY.
There are two address books, with numerous birthdays listed.
Several photograph albums
are included, as well as piles of
loose photographs, some very
old and others more recent. The
birth announcement for David
Langdon TAYLOR, born 19 April 1949,
shows his siblings Rusty,
Alice, and Rick. I noticed a 1937
picture of Laura A. MIER and
a picture of the Ben TURNERs.
There are numerous old
postcards.
I had only a short time to look through the items and make a
few notes, so I don't know
what else may be included. What I
wouldn't give for such a
treasure trove of items from my
family! If you recognize any
relatives, you can e-mail me for
further information.
Sue Plaster [email protected]
o I have recently acquired some photos that belonged to an
elderly aunt. One was sent
to my aunt, Margaret SCHOTT BUNN; she
is not in it. It is a group
of nine young women. The inscription
on the back says: "Dear
Marg, This is the only picture I had. So
send you this. It's the
G.S.C. bunch when we went on our May
Walk to Allens Creek. from
Florence. G" The young women are
identified on the front:
Lulu S., Stella S., Laura K., Eva F.
(me), Gertrude W., Gert K.,
Lena E., Maybel M. I don't know what
GSC stands for, but would
think the G is for Gates (a Rochester
suburb). Allens Creek is
also in Rochester. Again, the photo is
circa 1900. If you know
about any of these young ladies and
would like a copy, I would
be happy to send one.
One is a photo of my grandmother, Margaret APPEL SCHOTT, a
Mrs. MANN, and a Mrs. BROWN
holding a child (about eight to 10
months old). Mrs. MANN and
my grandmother appear to be in their
late 40s; Mrs. BROWN in her
20s. This photo was taken outside,
trees and fields in
background. It was probably taken in the
early 1900s in Rochester,
New York or nearby. I would be happy
to send a copy to MANN or
BROWN family members.
Marilyn
[email protected]
o My CONRAD ancestors arrived in Manlius, Onondaga County,
New York in 1834. In the
area was a George CONRAD that I could
not connect to the other
members of the family. On a visit to
Manlius last year, I found a
reference to George CONRAD having
stated that he came from
Montbronn, France. I felt sure that my
CONRADs came from Germany,
so I tended to dismiss anything that
I learned about him. In
another forum on the Internet, I read
that Mr. Joseph CONRAD had spent
years in the Montbronn area
researching most records
back to the time of the Thirty Years
War. He had published a book
with 17,000 names of people who
lived in the Montbronn area
starting around 1650 and up until
births before 1900.
Montbronn is several miles from the German
border, in an area some
people refer to as Bitche-land, from the
names of some of the
villages, Bitche, Rohrbach-les-Bitche, St.
Louis-les-Bitche, etc. I
checked with some others and found that
data in the book tied in
precisely with what I knew about the
year of birth, names of
husbands, wives, and children, etc. of
nine of my ancestors. I
ordered a copy of the book from Mr.
CONRAD, and found in it the
names of 94 of my direct line
ancestors. The book is very
well organized with cross-references
by families and pages. Some
names frequently mentioned in the
book are SCHNEIDER, GREINER,
FERSTLER, MEYER, PHILIPP, STEBE,
GREBIL, RIMLINGER and
CONRAD. As best as I can tell, Mr. CONRAD
is my sixth cousin, and I
have no direct interest in the sale of
the book. However, I will be
happy to pass along information
about how to purchase (for
about $55) the book to anyone whose
ancestors came from that
area and is interested.
Pat Comiskey
[email protected]
o I have uploaded 30 photos of unidentified persons that were
in the photo album of my
grandmother Martha Wilson COURSON. She
was born and raised in the
area of Mt Vernon, Jefferson County,
Illinois. Most of these
photos were made by studios in Mt Vernon
and are possibly of her
relatives in that area. Surnames could
be WILSON, OSBORN,
CARPENTER, VAUGHN, VANATTA. View them by
cutting and pasting this
two-line URL into your browser window:
http://community.webshots.com/scripts/
editPhotos.fcgi?action=viewall&albumID=51336952
If you can identify any of the people in the photos, please
send me an-mail with Jeff
Co. Photos as the subject or leave a
message in the guest book.
Gwen Coleman [email protected]
o 1868 DAYNES Family Bible; Item # 1973541544
Auction ends; Dec-02-02
17:30:24 PST; Seller: ljjb
Bible published by William
Harding, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1868, contains birth (1846)
and death (1910) dates of Mrs.
Eunice DAYNES along with Mrs
Della MORRISON, Miss Flora DAYNES,
and William GALLOWAY.
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o DEVOURS Success. Just wanted to let you know that I had
two responses to the photo
the day after I sent it to you!
[notice re DEVOURS appeared
in SL 4:42, 20 November 2002.] Boy,
was I surprised at how fast
the response was. My thanks to
Sandi in Merced, California
for sending her neighbor's name,
address, and phone number. I
had a nice conversation with the
neighbor and she said enough
in casual talk to let me know that
is where the photo should
go. Turned out it was her husband's
sister.
Sharon Carpenter [email protected]
o 1872 DYE Family Bible, Troy, Ohio; Item # 1973602355
Auction ends: Dec-05-02
19:04:03 PST; Seller: kemo1
Bible published by U.S.B.
Publishing Co. No. 193 Summit Street,
Toledo, Ohio, copyright
1872, presented to Laura B. DYE by Her
Mother on July 22, 1884. The
Bible contains the Marriage
Certificate of Sylvester DYE
and Laura Belle SECREST who were
married at Troy, Ohio on the
18th day of January 1866 in the
presence of many witnesses
by Thomas COLLIER, Pastor M. E.
Church. The Bible contains
birth records for Clarence Thurman
DYE – 27 October 1867,
Estella Virginia DYE, 28 August 1869, and
Eliza Dora DYE, 18 November
1874. In the Bible is a Family Photo
Album with about 20 photos
including some tintypes. Found
between the pages of the
Bible are several clippings, obituary
notices, locks of hair, and
dried flowers.
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o I have two photos taken in a lumber camp in the Enterprise,
Oregon area, probably after
1900 and before 1920.
-- On the back of one it says: "This is the logging camp
where
I was working this Winter
they are box cars so you can see about
how much snow there is.
Write soon. With best wishes to all
F. M. JONES Enterprise,
Oregon"
-- On the back of the second photo: "This is where I was
loading sleighs at the same
camp as other picture. John HASKINGS
my self, Charlie FOX, Frank
PAPANALL. With best wishes
F. M. JONES"
I would be glad to share these with descendants of any of the
above mentioned people.
Liz DuBois [email protected]
o 1900 Ella KETCHPAIN Diary; Item # 1972612666
Auction ends: Nov-30-02
22:47:01 PST; Seller: k98252
Handwritten mostly in pencil
by Mrs. Ella KETCHPAIN of Hemlock
(state unknown), this
readable diary covers the period January-
December 1900. Follow
family, visitors and friends of the
KETCHPAINs as they struggle
with life in the 1900s: clearing
land, sewing, apple cakes,
animals and shuckin' corn, a horse
and sleigh accident. Read
about the daily weather (in October
it "rained terrible . .
. carried away part of Hemlock"),
school, Children's Day
("great turnout"). Bonus: 14 pages
transcribed from diary
covering the period of January 1-April 2
in English on stock paper.
[Editor's Note: (1) A search for
Hemlock in RootsWeb
town/county locator https://sites.rootsweb.com/
turned up one or more cities
called Hemlock in Wisconsin, West
Virginia, Oregon, Tennessee,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana, Virginia, and New
York. (2) In response to my request
for more information, seller
N. Nyland [email protected]
wrote: "The only
reference to a state that I have read so far
has been inside the front
cover, very faint, "Wis." My guess is
Wisconsin. There were other
references to Greenwood (mentioned
8+ times)(. . . have
diphtheria in), Longwood (stayed at . . .),
Chicago (. . . went to),
Withee (walked from . . .),
Neillsville. Many names are
mentioned also: Mrs. Ida PECK,
Mrs. Nettie VARNEY, Ed PECK
& wife, Marcel, Addie, The
SCHWARTZs, Floyd P., Denver
V. SHANTY, Maud, Mr. BARKER, Herb,
Chris Brick, The
SWEETLANDs."
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o 1871 KLEPPINGE-GEMMEL Family Bible; Item # 1971880636
Auction ends: Nov-29-02
09:52:11 PST; Seller: dragonlady6
Bible published by William
Harding, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1871. Family pages filled.
Joseph KLEPPINGE and Mary GEMMEL
married 1872, deaths 1903
and 1920; birth and baptism records
for 10 children 1874-1889;
also nine deaths records; includes
original separate marriage
certificate and Sunday School
certificate 1871.
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o I recently came into possession of a photocopy of "Family
History: A Sketch"
typed and signed by Kenneth Scott LATOURETTE
from Oregon City, Oregon,
dated August 1962. This is a 22-page
family history of the
LATOURETTE family. The family names are:
Jean LATOURETTE and Marie
MERCEREAU; David LATOURETTE and Hannah
HEGEMAN; Mehama LATOURETTE
and James X. SMITH; John LATOURETTE;
Lyman Daniel Cornwall
LATOURETTE; Lucy Jane Gray FISHER and
Ann Eliza FISHER; Williard
Howard LATOURETTE and Rhoda Ellen
SCOTT; De Witt Clinton
LATOURETTE; Lucy Adelaide LATOURETTE;
Nina Ann LATOURETTE and John
F. CLARK; Lyman Ezra LATOURETTE;
Nellie Edith LATOURETTE;
Edward Everett LATOURETTE and Minnie
KEYER or MEYER; Lucy Alfreda
LATOURETTE and John D. STEWART;
Kenneth Scott LATOURETTE;
Carol Clinton LATOURETTE; Lucy Ruth
LATOURETTE and William Ross
EATON; Perrin Lyman LATOURETTE;
Dorothy P. or B. LATOURETTE
and Homer Errol HOLLOWELL; Charles
LATOURETTE; Mort LATOURETTE;
Howard LATOURETTE; John SCOTT and
Chloe RIGGS; James SCOTT;
John Tucker SCOTT and Ann ROLOFSON
and Ruth ECKLER; Rhoda
SCOTT; Mary Frances SCOTT and Amos COOK;
Abigail Jane Scott DUNIWAY;
Clyde DUNIWAY; Margaret Ann Scott
FEARNSIDE; Harvey Winfield
SCOTT; Catherine Ananda Scott
COLBURN; John Henry SCOTT;
Sarah Maria Scott KELTY; Paul KELTY;
Pauline ALDERMAN; Robert O.
SCOTT; Beecher (changed to Charles)
SCOTT; Jacob and George
STEVENSON; Aaron FISHER; Ezra FISHER
and Lucy TAFT and Amelia
MILLARD; Ruth Eckler SCOTT; Joseph and
Orpha ECKLER; George ECKLER;
Cassandra ECKLER and Jessie GEORGE;
Janet ECKLER and Will
LLEWELLYN; Karl LLEWELLYN; George
LLEWELLYN; Adam LLEWELLYN;
Mary ECKLER and Melvin C. GEORGE;
Jessie GEORGE and Gwillym
JONES; Bill GEORGE.
Other names mentioned are Elkanah WALKER; Frank E. DONALDSON;
Ed LEEK; John BOCK; Hezekiah
JOHNSON; David T. LENOX; George C.
CHANDLER; John D. POST;
David DUNIWAY; Leslie SCOTT; Fred
FISHER; William OLDS; Theron
COLTON and Gretchen COLTON.
I would like to return this to the family. Please e-mail me.
Debbie [email protected]
o I found two photos at work at Nebraska Book Co. in Lincoln,
Nebraska. They had been
found inside a book.
-- One is a Happy New Year's card with greetings in English,
German, and Hebrew. The
couple is wearing possibly 1900s
Clothing: the man has a
bowler hat and the woman has a large
white feather plume in her
hat. Her dress is floor length with
a fitted waist and tight
sleeves from the elbows down, and a
stand-up collar. The couple
appear to be in their 20s or 30s.
The photographer is A.
Warshaw, 23 Manhattan Ave., 349 Tompkins
Ave., Brooklyn, New York.
The name on the front of the photo
says "Mom and Pop
LESLENICK," I think. The last name is hard to
read. There is a post-a-note
on the back that says "a New Years
card sent by Grandma and
Grandpa Lao?"
-- The other picture is a wedding picture of the same couple.
It shows her in a long white
gown that is very full, looks like
there is a braided sash with
tassels around the waist, and a
full veil. She has a full
train. Her bouquet is large, possibly
white or light colored
roses. He is wearing a single-breasted,
loose-fitting suit coat,
maybe a white tie and a white flower
for his boutonniere. The
couple looks very close to the same
age as in the New Year's
photo. The post-a-note on the back of
this photo says
"Grandma Eva and Grandpa Harry Lao?"
Both photos seem to be reprints of older photos. I will
mail them to the family they
belong to.
There may be some more photos of this same couple at work.
When stockers find pictures
in books, many times they get
posted in the bucket drops.
That's how I found out about these.
Lydia Waserstein [email protected]
o As a former Marine, I would like to send to the proper
Marine a book found in
garbage. It's from Marine Corps Recruit
Depot Parris Island, South
Carolina for Series 4030, 29 July
1988 - 17 October 1988. The
name Crystal D. LOTT is underlined.
The book is in very fine
shape. I will want you to cover cost
of postage.
D. Scott Jones [email protected]
o I was surprised to receive five e-mails this morning
[25 November 2002] relating
to my article that you published
["Czech Adventure"
in MISSING LINKS, Vol. 7, No. 47, 24 November
2002], especially those that
thanked me for sharing with them.
Two people asked for the
e-mail address of the genealogist. One
who asked was from Israel
and he asked to reprint the article,
which I agreed to share. Of
course, I copied the genealogist in
the Czech Republic in my
replies.
All this prompted me to make available the following to anyone
who might like to have it.
During my research at the Lavaca
County, Texas courthouse, I
collected copies of death
certificates for two persons
and records of application for
citizenship for three
persons.
DEATH CERTIFICATES:
-- Cornelia McDERMOTT, born 12 June 1832, Washington County,
Texas, died 22 February
1925, Lavaca County, Texas. Parents:
Peter McDERMOTT and wife
Annie were born in Ireland;
-- Bertha DIERKSEN, born 16 June 1884, Austin County, Texas,
died 22 May 1924, Lavaca
County, Texas. Parents: Fritz ROGGE?
and Bertha FRIEPENKERL?,
both born in Germany.
APPLICATIONS FOR CITIZENSHIP:
-- Martin CASTIEKA, citizen of Austria, age, 55, arrived
New York, 1 December 1885.
-- Frederick BAUMANN, age 24, citizen of Germany, arrived
New York, 1 April 1884.
-- Joseph STASNY, citizen of Austria, age 44, arrived
Galveston [Texas], 15 March
1890.
Larry Lowe [email protected]
o MENGES Bible. I got a reply from the seller regarding a
family Bible that had no
names listed on the auction site. There
is a marriage certificate
for Emmanual MENGES of Allen County,
Indiana and Mary Ann TODD of
South Whitley, Indiana on 29th day
of Nov. 1877. Also listed is
the marriage of Mr. E. K. MENGES
and Lucinda C. HENRY on the
12 day of December 1869. Births from
what I can read are: Georgie
Gleneva MENGES born May 23, 1884,
Lake Township, Allen County,
Indiana. Under Memoranda, Samuel K.
MENGES died on the 24th day
of July, 1900; born Aug. 30, 1838.
A loose page placed inside
the Bible from "The Voice of the
People and the Press"
states under a photo "Our Candidate
Farmer's Son, A Newsboy, The
Son of a Veteran, A Shopman, An
Efficient Officer, An Allen
County Boy. A Self-Made Man."
[TWO-LINE URL – cut and
paste both lines into browser window.]
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&category=29220&item=1971328086&rd=1
Laura Armstrong [email protected]
o O'CONNER Pictures: My friend Charlotte has inherited albums
and pictures of her family.
Among these are pictures of her
father's sister's husband's
family, the O'CONNERs of Nebraska.
That last relative was Frank
O'CONNER. She wishes to place the
pictures where they will be
appreciated. If you wish more
information, please contact
Char at: [email protected]
Doña [email protected]
o Circa 1885 PATTON Family Bible; Item # 1972788796
Auction ends: Dec-01-02
10:15:18 PST; Seller: jdpcoins
Bible with family records
that include Walter PATTON married
Mary WERNBAUGH in 1885,
Arthur PATTON-son, Edith PATTON-
daughter, Raymond PATTON-son,
Clyde PATTON-son, Ruth PATTON-
daughter, Edith BELL, Elsie
PATTON, Lee Ronald PATTON, Arthur
PATTON, and Gertrude PATTON.
I can't find a publishing date or
company, but the marriage
took place in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
in 1885. The marriage,
death, and birth records go from 1856
through 1976.
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o Rescued Family History Items
Some of the names on my
pictures are: Hope ADAMS; Fred & Letha
AMES; Laban & Louisa
AMES; Grace BAILEY & Florence FERGUSON;
Mr. & Mrs. George BELL
(of England); Willis, Robert & Mildred
BERRY; COOLEY Family;
Emogene DOOLITTLE; Mr. & Mrs. GROGAN,
Morristown, Tennessee;
Gertrude & Gladys HOURDE; Archie NILLAD;
Archer Mauross NORTH (1888};
Dean REED Longbottom, Ohio; Delmar
RIDENOUR; Edith RIGGS; May
Alice RIORDAN; J. Howard ROBERTS;
Barbara E. SELF; Sadie
VANDERMILLEN; Grandma & Grandpa WALLS;
Arthur WALSH Family; Lynn
WHITESIDE Longbottom, Ohio--Frankie
WHITESIDE 5/11/1912--Linnie
WHITESIDE. Other items rescued
include a 1900 report card
for Flora BRIMBY; a devotional book
of Nancy L. CLARK;
McLAUGHLIN family letters (Guysville, Ohio);
1953 scrapbook, Monroe
County, Ohio; RICHTER family photo
album; ANDERSON family Bible
(St. Marys, West Virginia); MORRIS-
SHIFFLET family Bible
(Elkton, Virginia); SUTTON family photo
Christmas card; Booklet
Marriage Certificate for George W.
CUNNINGHAM & Lillie Opal
CARPENTER (Fairmont, West Virginia).
There is also a message
board where visitors can post items.
Some of these are: LONG
family Bible; ALDRICH family photos;
Kyle SMITH family photo
album; COZINE family photo album;
Elaine POMPANO and Walter
wedding album; Will of Elizabeth
SANDERS (England); DOTY
family Bible; Harvey D. PRATT travel
Scrapbook; COOK family
Bible; GROVER-BATSON family diary;
BAERCHERCK and ANTRIM photo
album.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/7741/photo.html
Flo Swisher [email protected]
o 1858 ROCKEFELLER Family Bible, Greene County, New York
Item # 1972543500; Auction
ends: Nov-30-02 19:21:23 PST
Seller: [email protected]
"[S]mall family Bible
that I understand comes from the New York
ROCKEFELLER family, as in
the John D. ROCKEFELLER family. I am
unsure as to the exact
connection, but I believe that the
individuals whose births and
deaths are recorded in this Bible
are related to this
historical lineage. The Bible comes from an
estate in the Catskill, New
York region and the elderly lady to
whom it belonged was
allegedly a cousin or other relation to the
famous ROCKEFELLERs,. . .
the Bible . . . [was] published in
1858 by the New York Bible
Society. Inside the back cover is
written in very faint
pencil, Charity ROCKEFELLER's book . . .
There are also three smaller
pencil written signatures, in
someone else's hand -- I
cannot make out the signatures though.
Reading through the
births/deaths, most are in one hand, and I
believe it is Charity's, who
herself is listed as being born
Charity McDANIEL on July 9,
1800 with her husband William
ROCKEFELLER born January 28,
1801. The remaining listings are
those of their own children,
starting with a John ROCKEFELLER in
1820 and ending with their
last child in 1846, 14 children in
total . . ." [Editor's
Note: Images of five handwritten pages,
as well as other pages,
accompany this listing.]
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o 1926-28 Thelma SCHNEIDER ("Tillie") School Diary,
Missouri
Item # 925054083; Action
ends: Dec-01-02 18:49:59 PST
Seller: pinkfloyd13
Handwritten diary, journal,
and scrapbook (combination of all)
kept by Thelma SCHNEIDER,
a young girl from Eldon, Missouri. It
encompasses her junior and
senior years of high school 1926-1927
and some college entries in
1928. She attended high school at
Eldon High in Eldon,
Missouri. The diary has all the names of
her friends and their
nicknames as well. It seem that Thelma was
a flapper and at the time
all went by different names. Thelma`s
Flapper name was
"Tillie." The diary is signed by all her
teachers and friends. The
diary has 188 pages, all full with
either text or mementoes or
photographs. There are many pages
of photos of her and her
friends and many newspaper clippings.
It seems that Tillie came
from a wealthy family because every
time she gave a party it made
THE KANSAS CITY STAR or THE OZARK
MULE. . . She kept menus
from every soda fountain and restaurant
she went to on dates to (she
went on many dates and kept
something from all). . . She
kept cards from every shop she went
to, one from a Gypsy Tea
shop in Kansas City, Missouri; programs
from every dance or function
she attended; all greeting cards
that were given to her, a
Halloween black cat, many Valentine
cards, and much more
[Editor's Note: More details are available
on the auction page.] They
also went to see a Gypsy queen to
tell their future . . . This
is only the tip of the iceberg. . .
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o 1802 SHARPLES Family Bible; Item # 1972929983
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Bible printed for Mathew
Carey, No. 118, Market Street,
Philadelphia, October 27th,
1802. This Bible was in the
possession of a Mr. Thomas
WISTAR and was presented to his
nephew, Abram W. SHARPLE, on
May 20, 1813. The Family Record
starts in 1696 and goes
through 1927. It includes marriages,
births, and deaths.
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o 1883 SMITH-HOLDEN Family Bible, New York; Item # 1972583939
Auction ends: Nov-30-02
20:45:54 PST; Seller: tuckerguinness
1883 Bible given to A. W.
and Hariet E. SMITH by Charles HOLDEN
and Ella HOLDEN on October
16, 1883.The inscription says "Mr.
Charles R. HOLDEN and Mrs.
Ella J. HOLDEN were presented this
book Oct. 16 1883. To be
their guide through life: and that it
may be a comfort in
afflictions; or old age, is the wish of your
father and mother Abial W.
SMITH, Harriet E. SMITH." Births and
deaths are listed from 1825
to 1961. Family names are SMITH,
HIGLEY, HOLDEN, BROWN,
CAREY, and COTA. Included is a prayer
list from Cleveland, Ohio
dated 1957, October 20. Names include
ANKERT, COOKE, COWLEY,
DAVENPORT, DECKER, EASTIN, HARWOOD,
JENKINS, LINHART, LOBDELL,
MAXEINER, MEYERS, MILLER, PIMSER,
SCHWING, SHAW, TIELKE,
VOORHEES, WHITMORE, HALLADAY, BUECHELE,
DIETZ, NEUWIRTH, OBER, and
PARKER. At one time the SMITHs and
HOLDENs lived in
Parishville, New York and Cleveland, Ohio.
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o 1869 TOWNSEND Family
Bible, New York; Item # 924746789
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19:10:08 PST; Seller: jem03
TOWNSEND family Bible with
additional items inside including an
old black and white picture
postcard of a man and woman, a
religious type pamphlet dated
November 4, 1916, a typed letter
about someone's trip to Lake
George on December 24, 1920, and in
the back of the Bible is a
family record with several birth and
death records dating in the
1800s. [Editor's Note: In response
to my request for details, seller
J. Morgan [email protected]
wrote: "The postcard
has not been used. They are not identified.
The letter is typed but no
closing or signature. The letterhead
states: Walden Public
Schools, Walden N.Y., M. Ernest TOWNSEND,
Superintendent. Since most
of the names in the back of the Bible
are TOWNSEND, I am assuming
that Ernest TOWNSEND is the one who
typed the letter. In the
front of the Bible it says, 'This Book
belongs to' (and I can't
read the name. It appears to be R.
TOWNSEND with maybe a middle
initial of C). I also found a small
letter handwritten to a Mrs.
C. TOWNSEND in Hammondsport N.Y.
and it is signed by Carrie.
Some of the births are:
Rachel TOWNSEND 4-5-1822 (5
April 1822), Olive TOWNSEND unknown,
Asbery R. TOWNSEND 3-23-1843
(23 March 1843), Esther TOWNSEND
5-16-1847 (16 May 1847).
Some of the deaths are:
Colwell TOWNSEND 1-16-1922
(16 January 1922), Levia J. TOWNSEND
2-15-1924 (15 February
1924), Retta D. TOWNSEND 8-4-1933
(4 August 1933), Mattie
DEPEW 11-3-1955 (3 November 1955). Some
of the marriages are:
Raymond WOOD and Bernice NYE 6-28-1930
(28 June 1930), Theodore R.
WOOD and Alice MORSE 5-23-1953
(23 May 1953). I hope I have
spelled the names correctly the
writing is hard to
identify."]
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o I would like to find homes for the following photographs
that I purchased at an
antique store in Stillwater, Minnesota.
-- Helen Grace WALSH, 19 months, March 12, 1899 --
photographer J. J. Fritz,
St. Cloud, Minnesota
-- Lizzie J. DUNGAN, August 1890 -- photographer Lupton,
Burlington, Iowa
-- O. J. ROBINSON, husband of Alice FULLER -- photographer
Skutt & Palmer,
Painesville, Ohio
-- Donna LAWTON, age 16 -- E.G. Fellows, Vinton, Iowa
-- Mr. Harry HUERMANN, St. Louis, Mo. 1903 [about age 18]
The next photos all pertain
to the same family of WALLACE and
THEXTON who appear to be
from Detroit, Michigan, then North
Dakota, and finally
Minneapolis, Minnesota. There is a record
for Clara Wallace THEXTON in
the Minnesota Death Index and in
the Social Security Death
Index. The 1920 census of Minneapolis,
Hennepin County, Minnesota
has a household consisting of Henry
A. THEXTON, wife Clara, and
son Wallace A., along with parents
in-law Elmer D. WALLACE and
Ann L., and sister-in-law Fannie.
-- Clara WALLACE, age 6 months & 23 days, weight 16-1/2 lbs
--
photographer Powelson,
Detroit, Michigan.
-- Clara WALLACE, 1-1/2 years old -- photographer Taylor &
Taylor, Detroit, Michigan
-- Clara WALLACE, University, North Dakota, March 23, 1896
-- Clara WALLACE, June 1899 -- photographer Geo. F. Blackburn,
Grand Forks, North Dakota
-- Wallace A. THEXTON, 1 year 4 months -- photographer Shirley
V. Bacon, Long Beach,
California
-- Wallace A. THEXTON, 8-1/2 years -- photographer Lee Bros.
Studio [possibly in
Minneapolis, Minnesota]
-- Francis Ella WALLACE, 1885 (Ella F. WALLACE), sister of
E. D. WALLACE, died 1919 --
photographer J. E. Watson, Detroit
-- Mrs. CLOUGH, E. D. WALLACE's older sister -- photographer
Hamilton's Art Gallery,
Detroit, Michigan
If you recognize your family, please e-mail me with the name
of the person you are
interested in as the subject line.
Lynn Chadek
[email protected]
o 1704 WESLEY-SEYMOUR Bible; Item # 1973678203
Auction ends: Dec-05-02
21:13:15 PST; Seller: mc-one
1st Edition: Samuel Wesley
"The History of the Old Testament in
Verse: with One Hundred and
Eighty Sculptures" in two near fine
volumes. Father of John
WESLEY. Was a gift from "WESLEY, L. H.
Wellesley, Rev Acceded:
Sandroyd House, Cobham, Married 29 Dec
1896 to SEYMOUR, Lilian
Octavia" Listed in the Directory of
Royal Genealogical Data. The
inside of Volume 2 has dedication
"From L. H. Wellesley
WESLEY! Nov 1905."
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