You should call the Dorsey in Buena Vista. Lots of people moved from Leadville to Buena Vista. It is only about 45-50 minutes from Leadville. Do you know anything about the lawyer who wrote the letter about George Thompson's death? Sheree' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorsey, Peter A." <dorsey@msmary.edu> To: <colake@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [COLAKE] CHURCH RECORDS > Sheree: > > Thanks. You were kind enough to send me these before, but now thanks to > Janice Fox sending me some census data I am sure that they relate to my > Dorsey group and the pictures you sent were probably of them! The father > John Dorsey or J.B. Dorsey as he seemed to be called was a master mechanic > for the RR through Leadville, and I found numerous references to him, his > son Duane and his daughters Marie and Marguerite in the local newspaper > that can be found on line. This was very cool! Gail Meyer Gilgore had > also sent me some references to some Dorseys in the Leadville history and > this is the same group, so I'm beginning to get a picture of them. Now of > course I want to visit Leadville! I also wonder if there are any living > relatives around there. I didn't see any Leadville Dorseys in the online > white pages although there was a Charles M. Dorsey in Buena Vista so who > knows. I'm trying to work up the courage to call him out of the blue. Of > course I had to google the Mou! > nt Massive Trout Club and see it's still in existence--so that's very cool > also. My twin sons are crazy about fishing so maybe some day . . . Thanks > so much. It is great to have the pieces fall together like this. Pete > > -----Original Message----- > From: colake-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:colake-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Sheree' Belanger > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:30 AM > To: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com; colake@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [COLAKE] CHURCH RECORDS > > Pete, > I have sent you an email with scans some Dorsey items I found in a piece > of > furniture that my Grandfather was given as payment for a job. My > Grandfather, Henry "Bud" Thompson was the second caretaker of the Mount > Massive Trout Club. His father, my Great Grandfather, Azzie Thompson was > the 1st. My Great Grandfather helped build most of the buildings, lakes > & > roads. > I hope there is a connection to your Dorsey's. > Sheree' > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> > To: <COLAKE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:52 PM > Subject: Re: [COLAKE] CHURCH RECORDS > > >> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >> >> Author: @@dorsey@msmary.edu >> Surnames: >> Classification: queries >> >> Message Board URL: >> >> http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.colorado.counties.lake/63.71.2/mb.ashx >> >> Message Board Post: >> >> Pete: >> >> I have established that my Dorseys came to Leadville from Parkersburg >> also. I think we have a match. See my post to Pat above. Please email >> me at dorsey@msmary.edu! Thanks, Pete Dorsey >> >> Important Note: >> The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you >> would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link >> above and respond on the board. >> >> >> >> Check out our new Genealogy Project!! >> >> http://trailstothepast.org >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> COLAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > Check out our new Genealogy Project!! > > http://trailstothepast.org > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COLAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > Check out our new Genealogy Project!! > > http://trailstothepast.org > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COLAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message