This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sprague,Llewellyn,Cunningham,Masters,Phillips,Burkhart Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADI/1239 Message Board Post: My father was George Edward sprague b.8-4-1926,d.12-2-1976 His father was louis lawerance sprague b. 9-23-1890,d.11-11-1941,louis wife was Edna May (Lewellyn)Sprague,b.9-12-1888 d.9-14-1973.louis`s parents are Edward Price Sprague b.1849 in Elizabeth,Pa. his wife was Sophia Elizabeth Phillips b. 11-22-1858. Edwards father is belived to beWilliam Peter Sprague b.1827, wife Mary Whitte or whitty b. 1836. Sophia`s parents were David Blair Phillips married Dec.20,1855 to Mary Sophia Burkhart. Thats all that I`v been able to find. Any help would be appreciated.Thank you.Joyce

To: Unknown VAN SOMEREN Sarah ecilia, died 4 April 1939m County Hospital, Eureka. Bur: 6 April, Myrtle Grove cem, Eureka. Cervical Cancer. inform: Hospital records. Residence: 816 Pine Street, Eureka. Husband: Gysvert Van Someen. Born 12 August 1892 at Fort Recovery, Ohio. Parents: Mary (DSmith) & John Schock, both born Ohio. Birth Certificate would be obtained via the Humboldt County Recorder, Vital Statistics office. 825 Fifth Street, Eureka, California. 95501 Above obit from: Humboldt County California Abstracts of Death Records/ 1936-1947, Compiled by Marilyn Keach Milota, December, 2003. {ge 557. Regards, Don Tunison-Campbell Eureka vansomeren@sbcglobal.net wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADI/1210.2.2 > >Message Board Post: > >I am searching for my husbands grandmother who passed away sometime in 1939, don't know the date. Her name was Sarah Cecilia Schock VanSomeren. If you have any ideas how I might obtain her death cert and where she might be buried I would really appreciate it. > > > > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADI/1238 Message Board Post: Can people please help rate my site of its info and its navigability. http://www.zarr.co.uk/go.asp?l=Lj93gMDxKh

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: VanSomeren/Schock Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADI/1210.2.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for the information, I spent last night looking through most of the paperwork that I have. I know that Gysbert came from Holland in 1910 and is found on the 1910 census in Sanger Wyoming. The next time I find him is on the 1920 census in Kelso Washington. I have pictures of Gysbert on Sarah's father ranch in Oregon City (West Linn) Oregon some time between 1910 and 1920. Sarah and Gysbert were married in Clatsop Co., Oregon in 1918. I find them next on the 1920 census in Astoria Oregon. I know that some time between 1920 and 1930 Gysbert went to work on the Occidental Ranch near Port Kenyon. They lived on the Ranch at least until Feb of 1938. I have a post card that Gilbert sent to his sister Kate addressed to the Occidental on that date. Kate got her in Nov of 1938 and they then lived in Eureka on Pine St. Sarah died in April of 1939 so I think that I have narrowed it down to about 10 years at the Occidental. I have many pictures on the ranch, as well as information that Gilbert boarded in Ferndale while he went to high school. We only live down in the San Francisco bay area so we plan on making a trip up there in about 2weeks to see what else we can find. My father-in-law Gilbert spent the rest of his life talking about the Occidental and Ferndale and even subscribed to the Ferndale newspapers as well as the Ferndale historical society even though they lived in Hemet in southern California. Any help you might have from this information would be great! Carolle

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADI/1210.2.2.2 Message Board Post: I found your Sarah on the U.S. Census > 1930 U.S. Federal Census > California > Humboldt > Pacific > District 35 , it shows she was about 39 years old at that time. She is married but I can not read the first name of her husband. She has two children a boy and girl, son gilbert, age 11, and the daughter Kathrine, age 9 It shows that Sarah was born in OH as were her parents, and gilbert in Washington and katherine in Oregon, her husband was born in Holland, as were his parents and his race is listed as dutch. He worked on a dairy farm. I will continue searching as time allows, didn't see anything in the redwood researcher pages, so perhaps there was not stone in the cemetery when they did the walk through? genzi founder CGC http://groups.yahoo.com/group/californiagenealogy

Greetings: The Press Release at the end of this message was sent out this morning to media representatives in the Sacramento area. As president of the El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission, I have attempted to keep a residential subdivision from impacting a small cemetery in Cameron Park. Efforts to this point have not been as fruitful as we would have hoped. Much as I have asked you to do in relation to other historic cemeteries with immediate problems, it would be helpful for others to let the County of El Dorado know they are watching this situation. Please contact the District 1 Supervisor Rusty Dupray at bosone@co.el-dorado.ca.us or call him at (530) 621-5650. Please cut and paste the following message and send it to Supervisor upray - Honorable Rusty Dupray, District 1 Supervisor County of El Dorado 630 Fair Lane Placerville, CA 95667 Re: Skinner Burying Ground, Cameron Park Dear Supervisor Dupray: I learned that a residential subdivision is threatening to engulf the historic Skinner family cemetery near the intersection of Green Valley Road and Cameron Park Drive. Too many of California's historic cemeteries are being impacted by development projects these days with no regard at all to the pioneers buried within them. I hope you will help to ensure that this cemetery is not adversely impacted by the effects of the Cameron Glen Estates project. Please help to protect and preserve it in a way that it will remain visible from Green Valley Road as it has for over 136 years. Sincerely, [Your name, address, email address and phone number.] [End of message text.] Thanks so much for lending a hand! Sue Silver State Coordinator, CALIFORNIA SAVING GRAVES President, El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS: No Rest for the Dead in El Dorado County James Skinner could never have imagined that 136 years after burying his son John, a struggle would become necessary to protect the resting place of his family. He could never have known that in the county he once helped settle there is no rest for the dead. Now a group of El Dorado County residents is endeavoring to protect and preserve this small historic cemetery in Cameron Park. In the past this area was known as Green Valley. Just north of the cemetery is Green Valley Road that was first known as the Sacramento and Coloma Road in the 1850s. It was the earliest route to and from the newly discovered California gold fields. Pioneer James Skinner owned his ranch and winery in Green Valley from 1856 until his death in 1885, when he was buried beside his son John in the little cemetery on the hill overlooking his home. The boy had tragically died in a hunting accident in 1868. Skinner's wife Jessie was laid to rest in the ranch burial ground in 1898, and Skinner's lifelong friend David Reid, who had emigrated with the family from Scotland in 1840, was interred there on his death in 1899. The bachelor sons of the family, Alexander and William were also buried here. James Skinner's children sold the ranch in 1898. Together with the cemetery, they excepted and reserved to themselves and their heirs, an easement running 200 feet to the Green Valley Road. They also reserved the right to use the easement "at all times" for the purposes of caring for the cemetery and "interring other bodies therein." The James Skinner family has not rested in peace for many years now. Since the 1970s,, development in the vicinity of the old ranch and cemetery has been extensive. Every residential or commercial project approved for construction near or adjacent to the cemetery has caused vandalism and desecration to occur. In the late 1980s, a shopping center was constructed on one of its boundaries, cutting the hill to a depth of 12 to 15 feet on the east side of the cemetery. The gravestones have been continuously vandalized or stolen ever since. Now only the stones for James and Jessie Skinner and David Reid survive. A white picket fence that was required of the shopping center developer by the County has been torn apart and put together at least twice since the mid-1990s. Now Cameron Glen Estates, a residential subdivision on the southern, western and northern boundaries of the cemetery, threatens to completely engulf it. When the project first began in 1990, the County of El Dorado told the developer that the board of supervisors was the legal authority for the cemetery. This contention was made even though Elva Joerger Ryan, James Skinner's great-granddaughter, was paying property taxes on it, as she had since 1967. Project plans for Cameron Glen Estates will substitute an arbitrary access route to the cemetery created by a 1967-subdivision map. Although the 1967 map did not identify the Skinner deed which established the family' s rights, neither did the 1990 Cameron Glen subdivision map. Some believe the developer ignored the controlling deed in order to deliberately and unlawfully extinguish the true easement. If plans for Phase 5 of this project are approved, two houses will be constructed on the north side of the cemetery and will interfere with the family's easement described in 1898. Elva Ryan's family was never notified of this project or the shopping center development because the County had maintained it was authority over it. The family did not learn of the problems that the cemetery was suffering until late-2000 when members of the El Dorado County Pioneer Cemeteries Commission (EDCPCC) contacted them. The group has since worked with James Skinner's great great granddaughter, Jeanne Ryan Jackson of San Francisco, who continues paying the property taxes on the family burial ground. Mrs. Jackson has asked the EDCPCC to work on behalf of the Skinner family cemetery. She hopes the group will help ensure it will be protected and preserved as the children of James Skinner intended it would be. The Commission has advised county project planner Rogers Evans of the easement dispute. Evans has been asked to withhold all further approvals affecting the cemetery pending a land survey to locate the original easement. Until this issue is resolved, the James Skinner family will not rest in peace. [END TEXT]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADI/1210.2.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You are welcome. Good luck!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADI/1210.2.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you! I have been searching for years with no luck, this is just wonderful. I should be able to find her now. Again thank you! Carolle

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADI/1210.2.2.1 Message Board Post: I don't know where she was buried, but per the Calif Death Index, she died 4 Apr 1939, and the state file number is 22079. Am not positive about that last number because the index is dark there, but it appears to be a 9. Perhaps someone on the Humboldt County mailing list will be able to do a lookup and find her obit and/or death certificate for you. Jackie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADI/1210.2.2 Message Board Post: I am searching for my husbands grandmother who passed away sometime in 1939, don't know the date. Her name was Sarah Cecilia Schock VanSomeren. If you have any ideas how I might obtain her death cert and where she might be buried I would really appreciate it.

Hello listers: I am seeking the Steven LIGHT / Pamela Palmer LIGHT family. Steven and Pamela had two sons (Jesse and Matthew) born in Humboldt County, California (city unknown), in 1977 and 1978. Pamela's mother, Doris Kojima (formerly Palmer) is a relative whom I've been trying to locate for years with no success. Last trace of Doris Palmer was application for a marriage license in Los Angeles County to wed Herbert Kojima. It is hoped that Pamela LIGHT may at least be able to tell me whether her mother is living or is now deceased. Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated. David Young Harrisburg, PA

Greetings, While working on construction for their new Cancer Center this past Tuesday, UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento unearthed two sets of human remains from the old Sacramento County Hospital Cemetery. Despite the fact that both the county board of supervisors and the medical center knew the cemetery was there, the county transferred the land to the center in 1973. Davis intends to call these "archaeological remains" instead of bodies from the old cemetery. In this way they may be able to circumvent California law that requires certain steps be taken to relocate remains such as these. The county should have relocated the cemetery to another cemetery before handing the property over to UC Davis. Instead, now thirty years later, UC Davis claims to be surprised to have "solved" the mystery of the missing hospital cemetery! Please help me to persuade the county and the medical center to follow California law so that these past citizens of California will get a decent reburial elsewhere. There are about 57 other old county hospital cemeteries elsewhere in California that have the potential to suffer this same fate. Please cut and paste the following message and send to Sacramento County District 2 Supervisor Illa Collin at collini@saccounty.net . You can also fax it to her at (916) 874-7593. Or you can call her office at (916) 874-5481. ********************************************* Honorable Illa Collin, District 2 Supervisor County of Sacramento 700 H Street, Suite 2450 Sacramento, CA 95814 Dear Supervisor Collin: I have learned about the "discovery" of the old County Hospital Cemetery during the construction of the new wing of the UC Davis Cancer Center on Stockton Blvd. I understand the County should have relocated the entire cemetery before transferring this land to UC Davis, but didn't. Please help ensure that the remains that the county buried in its hospital cemetery are properly respected. Please work with UC Davis to relocate all the bodies as required by California Health and Safety Code section 8000 et seq. Sincerely, [Your Name, Address, phone number and Email address.] *********************************************** Thank you for your assistance on this very important matter. Sue Silver, State Coordinator California Saving Graves www.usgennet.org/usa/ca/state/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADI/1237.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks, Jackie. I'll check out these possibilities.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHAW Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADI/1237.1 Message Board Post: Here is a possibility for your Harrison Homer Shaw for 1910. It's not exactly right on, but it's similar. 1910 Belleville City, Republic County, KS ED 95 sheet 18A 411 435 Shaw, Harry H, 34 single, IL OH OH carpenter house Jane mother 80 wid 7 births 3 living OH KY NJ 1900 Coffeyville, Montgomery, KS ED 134 sheet 12A 259 255 Shaw, Harrison Dec 1871 age 28, married 5 yrs OH OH OH teamster wife's name hard to read...possibly Onn F or Annt (???) Oct 1873 age 26 1 birth 1 living KS TN NC (no children in the household) 1880 Parker, Montgomery, KS ED 158 page 2B 15 15 Shaw, Wallace 33 married farmer OH OH OH Angeline wife 31 OH OH OH Charles C 11 son OH OH OH Harrison H 9 son OH OH OH Nora 4 dau OH OH OH Otis 1 son OH OH OH on this same page there is a Harrison Shaw age 45 and family, but I suspect the 9 year old Harrison is the one you want. 1920 Coffeyville, Montgomery, KS ED 180 sheet 3B 1514 South Maple St 66 75 Shaw, Harrison H 50 wid OH OH OH constable city Harrison H son 17 KS OH KS Couldn't find father or son in 1930 census. Jackie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADI/1237 Message Board Post: I am trying to discover more about Harrison Homer Shaw. Here’s what I have so far: • He might have been born in the late 1850’s or early 1860’s • He was a game warden out of Coffeyville, Kansas and later served on the Coffeyville police department • He was supposedly a friend of the Dalton family living outside of Coffeyville – if not a friend then an acquaintance. (That’s the infamous “Dalton Gang”) • He married one of the KIMES who first settled in North Carolina coming from Ireland, possibly due to the potato famine. • He had one son – Harrison Homer Shaw Jr. His wife died when the son was 7 or 8 years old o [There’s a California Death Index record for Harrison Homer Shaw, b. 14 Aug 1902 in Kansas, d. 14 Aug 1954 in Humboldt County, California. Mother’s maiden name KIM. This is probably the son.] o [The 1910 census of Montgomery Co, KS shows a Harrison Shaw, age 7, listed as “lodger” in the household of Robert & Effie Hudson. The age is about right if Jr. was born in 1902. If the mother died when he was 7 or 8, perhaps the Hudsons were friends or relatives who took the boy in. Haven’t located Shaw Sr in the census yet.] o [There’s a Social Security Death Index record for Harrison Shaw, b. 18 Jul 1905, d. 3 Jun 1990 in Johnson Co, Kansas. Unsure if this person is related.] • Shaw Sr. died in Kansas City from cancer sometime in the late 1930s

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Richard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADI/1236 Message Board Post: Am looking for information for Mary L. Goodwin, d. 27 Dec 2003, Eureka, CA 95503. An obit would be great if some kind person has the time for a research. Would like to know burial location also. Any help would be appreciated very much. Thanks - Richard

Elizabeth Shown Mills will present an all-day seminar in Santa Rosa on 24 April. Details can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cascgs/mills.htm Carmen J. Finley, CG, Ph.D. SCGS Seminar Committee

Carol: Who are you trying to contact? It is not at all clear in your message on the Ancestry Board. Regards, Don Tunison-Campbell Eureka, Humboldt County fhc@ancestry.com wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >Classification: Query > >Message Board URL: > >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADI/1205.2.1.1 > >Message Board Post: > >We are related to Hugh McDade and Anna Schild/ >Tried going to your bravepages site but you are no longer there. How else may we contact you? >Carol C. > > > > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADI/1205.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The URL is httrp://mcdade.bravepages.com Possibly you or I typed it wrong. The website is there and remains quite active. Please try again. septmcdade@yahoo.com is the webmistress' e-mail -- if you run into problems or have questions, please drop us a line.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AW.2ADI/1205.2.1.1 Message Board Post: We are related to Hugh McDade and Anna Schild/ Tried going to your bravepages site but you are no longer there. How else may we contact you? Carol C.