This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HERROD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YW.2ADI/4227 Message Board Post: Searching for someone who can lookup the following obituary: Elvern Leeverne “Billy” Herrod born December 13, 1926 and died October 13,1998 while a resident of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. (SSDI) I don't need a physical copy. I just need the information from the obituary.

I don't live in California, but did find these references. There is indeed some confusion about your grandfather's name: Arthur, Joseph, John, Henry; and his mother's maiden name. I would start by writing off for his social security application which should give his parents' names; and try to locate an obituary from February 1942. Also, his birth day appears to be Sept 7. Once you have his parent's names you might have more luck locating him in the 1920 and 1930 census - I didn't find any obvious matches looking just for him - his first name is too ambiguous and his surname rather common. Good Luck. California death index: MARTINEZ,JOSEPH HENRY born 1912 09/07 mother BUSCH father MARTINEZ MALE CA; died SONOMA county 1942 02/09 ssn 552-03-9319 age 29 or MARTINEZ JOSEPH JOHN 1912 09/07 BUSCH MARTINEZ MALE CA SONOMA county 1942 02/09 ssn 552-03-9319 age 29 California birth index: MARTINEZ ARTHUR J 1912 09/07 mother BOSH MALE SAN FRANCISCO co MARTINEZ, JOSEPH ARTHUR 1933 02/16 mother ADAMSON MALE SONOMA co MARTINEZ, WAYNE EVERETT 1936 12/14 mother ADAMSON MALE SONOMA co MARTINEZ, NELSON FORREST 1940 01/06 mother ADAMSON MALE SONOMA co California birth index: Possible sisters: MARTINEZ FRIEDA M 1915 03/13 BUSCH FEMALE CONTRA COSTA county MARTINEZ MYRLE J 1916 06/11 BUSCH FEMALE CONTRA COSTA county California death index: possible grandmother record, although she would be 7 years older than grandfather PRICKETT DOROTHY ADAMSON born 1905 03/01 mother REID father ADAMSON FEMALE CA; died CONTRA COSTA county 1981 02/11 ssn 549-03-6517 age 75 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 11:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CASonoma] Martinez This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martinez/ Busch Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YW.2ADI/4226 Message Board Post: I am looking for my grandfathers family, don't have much info. What I do know is his name was Joseph Henry or Joseph John Martinez Born Sept 9-1912 died in auto acciedent 1942 was married to Dorothy Mae Adamson they had 3 sons Joseph Arthur, Wayne, Nelson Forrest. Any information would be a great start. Thanks for any help

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martinez/ Busch Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YW.2ADI/4226 Message Board Post: I am looking for my grandfathers family, don't have much info. What I do know is his name was Joseph Henry or Joseph John Martinez Born Sept 9-1912 died in auto acciedent 1942 was married to Dorothy Mae Adamson they had 3 sons Joseph Arthur, Wayne, Nelson Forrest. Any information would be a great start. Thanks for any help

Looking for any information on the John Raymond Simmons family. John Raymond SIMMONS DOB: 31 Dec 18221 Place: Madison Co., Kentucky7 1st Married: Kentucky Susan Jane CORNELSION9 2nd Married: California Elizabeth8 DOD 17 June 1903, age 80 years 5 months 17 days1 Death Place: Emeryille, Alameda Co., CA1 Burial Place: Old Pioneer Cemetery, Guerneville, Sonoma Co., CA brought from Alameda Co., CA1 Occupation: teamster8 farmer The family is in Sonoma Co., CA by 1874 - Guernevile area or Russian River area Children of John Raymond and Elizabeth: Benjamin Oregon Married Sarah Story Josephine Married William T. Fraley Laura L. Married William J. Heffelfinger Thomas Samuel Married Clara B. Beaver Ella Martha Married Erastus F. Steward Mary Emma Married Mason E. Allen Any help that you can provide on their time in Sonoma Co., CA would be most appreciated. Thank you. Laura

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wilkinson, Edwards, Davison, Whitten, Stockton, Douglas, McDowell, Hoar, Sims, Cottrell, Miller, Tierney, Merrell, Mills Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YW.2ADI/3884.1.1 Message Board Post: Still trying to find the family of John Wilkinson from Virginia, born approx 1804. He was a merchant on the Mississippi River. His son, George Wilkinson, was a steamboat captain after the Civil War, in New Orleans. He married Georgianna Langdon, daughter of John & Eliza Langdon. George is buried in the Whitten cemetery in Panola, Miss. John's wife was Jane Caroline Whitten, daughter of John, from Laurens, South Carolina. The daughters were Sarah Jane Davison, Martha Edwards and Rachel Stockton. All moved to San Francisco between 1866-1870, where their children were born. I am looking for info on any of these families and have appreciated the help I've received so far. Please contact me through the board or by email at [email protected] Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CARPENTER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YW.2ADI/4225 Message Board Post: My husband's grandfather, George Byron Carpenter, died on May 3, 1917 in Sonoma Co. The death certificate says he died at Baxter Tract, near Sonoma. I have been unable to find this name on any map. The funeral record also indicates a charge of $5 to move the body to Pailer(?) It could be Pailen or most anything else, I guess. I have been trying to find a grave and haven't had much luck.

Here's the California death index citation to clarify what you are looking for and where to look for it. I don't live in California, so I can't help any more than this. Good luck. PFANN MARJORIE IRENE born 1941 08/28 mother WILSON father WHITTINGTON FEMALE CA; died SONOMA county 1991 02/24 Ssn 568-64-4212 age 49 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 2:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [CASonoma] whittengton 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/YW.2ADI/4224 Message Board Post: I'm looking for the obit for Marjorie Whiitengton or may be Marjorie Whittengton Pfann. She died in Feb. of 1991. Thanks for any help.

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/YW.2ADI/4222.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Great news, its always a relief to get results and am glad one of your mysteries was solved. Elaine

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/YW.2ADI/4224 Message Board Post: I'm looking for the obit for Marjorie Whiitengton or may be Marjorie Whittengton Pfann. She died in Feb. of 1991. Thanks for any help.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WALKER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YW.2ADI/4222.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I FINALLY found her in the Ellis Island Records. (don't give p the ship, so to speak!! ) Guessed maybe she sailed by name of "Emmie Walker" or a variation---no luck there; then maybe "Lina Walker" & struck paydirt. Emmelina was kind of a long handle for a teenager. At any rate, she came over to the US in July of 1908 from Liverpool at age 18 on The Umbria. Mystery solved. I have emailed the Contra Costa Library System for a copy of Emmelina's obit & will be contacting the SF Library for her mother's 1934 obit...apparently they require a written snail mail request

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/YW.2ADI/4222.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Kathy, I checked the 1930 census and Emmeline immigrated in 1908 although I did not find her in the immigration records. I found this link which you can request an obituary (even by phone) and they do it free of charge. http://www.contra-costa.lib.ca.us/genealogy/genealogy.html#obit. Good luck. Elaine

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/YW.2ADI/4223 Message Board Post: My great-great-great aunt was Jennie Healey Reed, wife of George Reed, both born in Canada (Jennie born circa 1874). They came to Santa Rosa in 1908 from Spokane, Washington, where they lived for a few years. I have all kinds of info. on Jennie - sometime around 1910 she and George had a child who appears in the 1920 census as "Minto". In the 1920s they divorced and she remarried to Alfred Beechman. Jennie died in Sonoma in 1944 and I have her obit. It says she had a son, James A. Reed of the U.S. Army. Perhaps James and Minto are the same person. Does anyone know anything about him? Also, Jennie's mother Esther Chapman Healey, born Canada circa 1852, may have lived with them and died in Sonoma, probably pre-1910 as she is not in the census. I have traced Jennie pretty well, but would love to know more about her son, and if he had any children.

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/YW.2ADI/4213.1.1 Message Board Post: That would be simply lovely! I could see if Peggy will let me post the information or maybe you'd like to do it since you spent the time. Either way, you get the credit - nothing like have some help on Sonoma Co CEMS! Let me know which way you decde and we can go from there. Thank you for the offer! Susan Faught

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WALKER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YW.2ADI/4222.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for the info. Does the 1930 census indicate when "Emmelina" arrived in the US? I can't find her on any Ellis Island Records under that name, though both "Lydias" show up as having arrived in 1907. I also see a "Emilne Walker" in SF in the 1920 census...maybe the same person, slightly different spelling. I'll have to see if I can get a copy of that 1975 obit for her; would like a copy of Lydia's 1934 obit. Any suggestions?

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/YW.2ADI/4213.1 Message Board Post: In 2003, I visited Shiloh Cemetery. I photographed close to 300 tombstones. Would you like a copy. I have adjusted the photo to approx 4 x 6 inches and typed in the transcription on those that were difficult to read.

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/YW.2ADI/4222.1 Message Board Post: I found this census and death info. 1930 census, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Co: Walker Emmelina, head, 39, S, b. Italy, parents b. Scot. Teacher public school. Walker Lydia H., mother, 73, Wd, b. Scot., parents b. England. Walker Lydia E., sister, 37, S, b. Italy, teacher, public school. California Death Index: http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/ Lydia H. Walker, age 77, spouse initial R, died 3/1/1934 in San Francisco. Emmelina D. Walker, b. 5/14/1890 other country, d. 9/27/1975 in Contra Costa Co., CA. Age 85 Lydia Walker, age 43, died 3/29/1939 in Contra Costa Co., CA. NOTE: age is 3 years difference then on the census but I am assuming this is the Lydia Walker you are looking for. Elaine

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells, Baily Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YW.2ADI/4221.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes, my mistake. I first saw the name of the town in Rose's brother's mortuary record, and there it was Flatters Springs. When I could not find it on the Internet, I checked out all the "Springs" towns and found Fetters Hot Springs, which was confirmed on Rose's death certificate. I'm finding mortuary records to be a wealth of information for genealogists! I haven't found any information on Rose for years! I knew nothing of her other than when she lived at home with her parents, so the last I saw of her, she was 9 years old. With her married name and place of residence, what a find! Now, to find her in the 1900 thru 1930 censuses! I've seen a Mrs. Baily in her mother's obituary but no residence, and it has to be her, but try to find a Rose Baily, even with Soundex, that fits her! Here I thought I was all set to know everything about her, but nooo! Also, I have her husband's name, together with residence in 1943, so one might think I could then find other informatio! n on him but there are many, many Charles Wells and his middle initial of "S." does not help. Actually, I am very grateful to have found her, all griping aside. Someday... Thanks for your help, Bob!

to John in WA mailto:[email protected] I have copied the material requested for you and will be mailing it to you shortly. Meanwhile, here are some highlights .... Thomas M. Ward is descended from a race of pioneers. His grandfather was a native of Scotland, who emigrated to the US and settled in North Carolina in the colonial times. His father, David Ward, was born in that state, but was among the early settlers in Cook County, Tennesse, where the subject of this sketch was born May 23 1815. His mother was Nancy Turk Mitchell Ward, a native of VA. Her grandfather was an officer in the Revoluntionary War. Shortly after he was born, his parents moved to Missouri ended up in Lafayette County. Thomas became an expert as a carpenter and cabinet-maker. At the age of nineteen in 1834 he married Miss Glaphgra Bowman, daughter of John Mitchell and Elizabeth Horn Bowman. In 1845 he moved to Buchanan County where he remained until 1847. His wife died on Sep 3 1849 and he came to Sonoma County and in July 1851 with his brother Nathaniel Ward, opened a blacksmith and carpenter shop in Sebastopol. Mr. Ward's second wife was Miss Elizabeth James who he married in 1850. She was the daughter of Henry F. and Kesiah Talbot James. Her father was a pioneer in every sense of the word who came to CA in 1849, taking up his residence in Humboldt County. to Mr. Ward and his first wife were born 7 children-only one of whom is now living--David M., a resident of CO. By his second marriage he had 8 chilren: William H., John L., Charles M., Edward L., James A., Benjamin F., Julia A. and George S. From Ancestry.com Thomas Mitchell Ward Born: 10 Aug 1815 [city], Cocke, White County, Tennessee, USA Died: 5 Apr 1888 Lonerock, Gilliam, Oregon, USA

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WALKER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YW.2ADI/4222 Message Board Post: Does anyone know this person and/or what happened to this person? According to the US 1920 census, she & her widowed mother (also named Lydia Walker) were residents of Santa Rosa that year. She gave her occupation as a teacher at the high school & JC (presume Junior College). Thnk you.

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/YW.2ADI/4221.1 Message Board Post: I believe the name of the town is Fetters Hot Springs in Sonoma County - not Flatters Hot Springs. It is located about 20 miles south east of Santa Rosa in the Valley of the Moon.