Family lore says that Martin Miller sold his holdings in Baldwin County, GA, somewhere near Milledgeville, before the start of the Civil War. He was traveling north, perhaps to his daughter and son-in-law in Wheeling, (W)VA, when he was robbed and murdered, somewhere in KY, by his secretary. I would imagine that they were traveling by river, so the murder would probably have taken place in a river town, but haven't the slightest idea where or how to start looking. The quote I heard was that Martin was "bringing enough money for everyone"... this from a relative, whose father had been a small child at the time. I'd sure love to find out what happened to Martin! Sandra Ferguson

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------CA0AA558B31A0B9604B64B29 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Morning, Kathleen! I have his death certificate and found a little more information in the D.C. City Directories. I can understand about his widow remarrying and being buried elsewhere. I'm just puzzled about his brothers as well. The one common factor that I found with both families is that they migrated from the same geographic area in Germany. I have contacted the Stegemerten descendants and they are just as puzzled as I am because they have never heard of the WATERHOLTERS before. At least I solved their mystery for them because they were trying to find out where Christian Stegemerten was buried and what had happened to him after he left Germany. Pat McCoy =============================================== kathleen wrote: > Back in those days, Christian was also a woman's name. Could "he" be a > sister to the family? As I have a Christain in my family that was > erroneously listed as a male, it was the first thing to pop into my > mind. Other than that.............. > > If you are sure he is a he, he could still be a relative or close > friend, the widow remarried and the kids etc were buried with their > spouse's/spouse's famililies. > > ...Kathleen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Patricia McCoy <Patricia.McCoy@gallaudet.edu> > To: GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-L@rootsweb.com > <GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 3:34 PM > Subject: [GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-L] STUMPED!!! > > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >--------------05C9AEECFA1D4B164530AF53 > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >I've been trying to unravel a century-old mystery > >involving the WATERHOLTERS and the > >STEGMERTENS. > > > >Christian Stegmerten was buried in the > >WATERHOLTER family plot in July, 1897. > >Even though he was married and his widow, > >as well as his brothers, were listed as living > >in the Washington, D.C. area after Christian's > >death......Christian is the ONLY STEGMERTEN > >buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. > > > >I am trying to find out why but I have encountered > >another brick wall, along with trying to figure out > >what finally happened to Herman George > >Waterholter, who went to Chicago, Illinois by > >1880 and disappeared! > > > >I feel like I'm stuck in a maze like Pinky and the Brain! > > > >Pat McCoy > > > >--------------05C9AEECFA1D4B164530AF53 > >Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" > >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Content-Description: Card for Patricia McCoy > >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" > > > >begin: vcard > >fn: Patricia McCoy > >n: McCoy;Patricia > >org: Administrative Secretary to the Program Manager-MSSD > >email;internet: Patricia.McCoy@gallaudet.edu > >x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 > >x-mozilla-html: FALSE > >version: 2.1 > >end: vcard > > > > > >--------------05C9AEECFA1D4B164530AF53-- > > --------------CA0AA558B31A0B9604B64B29 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Patricia McCoy Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Patricia McCoy n: McCoy;Patricia org: Administrative Secretary to the Program Manager-MSSD email;internet: Patricia.McCoy@gallaudet.edu x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------CA0AA558B31A0B9604B64B29--

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------05C9AEECFA1D4B164530AF53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been trying to unravel a century-old mystery involving the WATERHOLTERS and the STEGMERTENS. Christian Stegmerten was buried in the WATERHOLTER family plot in July, 1897. Even though he was married and his widow, as well as his brothers, were listed as living in the Washington, D.C. area after Christian's death......Christian is the ONLY STEGMERTEN buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. I am trying to find out why but I have encountered another brick wall, along with trying to figure out what finally happened to Herman George Waterholter, who went to Chicago, Illinois by 1880 and disappeared! I feel like I'm stuck in a maze like Pinky and the Brain! Pat McCoy --------------05C9AEECFA1D4B164530AF53 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Patricia McCoy Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Patricia McCoy n: McCoy;Patricia org: Administrative Secretary to the Program Manager-MSSD email;internet: Patricia.McCoy@gallaudet.edu x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------05C9AEECFA1D4B164530AF53--

Seeking Dominico Fazio line (b. 1835-Davoli, Italy d.1900 Buffalo, N.Y.) married Barbara Procopio (1851-1908). Barbara's maternal line MESSARI. A son Salvatore FAZIO came to the US 1899 married Josephine LONGO Buffalo, N.Y. Their dau Erminia (Mae) DeFazio married Andrew Eugene NELSON (b. abt 1908) son of PEAR NEILSON (Sweden) and Margaret McCAFFREY (County Cork, Ireland & Omagh Cty, Tyrone). Also surnames of Gioeli, Paonessa, Leuzzi, Raddis, Hodgson, Pineso. Elyria, Ohio/Buffalo N.Y. joanfl@prodigy.net

In 1942 or 1943 my great-grandfather, Clarence Howell, was found dead in Salt Lake City, Utah under very suspicious circumstances. The police believe he was murdered. He was found face-down near a road in 2 inches or so of water. An blanket not belonging to him was over him. Abrasions were found on him as if he were in a fight. His murder was unsolved. He was married to Anne Lavina Howell. Her maiden name was Parce changed from Parcello. She later remarried. I often wonder about his death. We have a newspaper article on his death, an obituary, and his picture in the same paper.

Looking for my grandfather(s)! Tradition in the family says my grandmother - Bessie Edith Robinson (who changed her name illegally to Elizabeth) married Leslie Ray Wehrle on June 30, 1911 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. They left immediately for Sappington, Montana where Leslie was a Station Agent/Telegrapher for the railroad. To this union were born seven children, Catherine Lena in 1912, Mary Isabell in 1913, John Leslie 1915, Esther Wehrle 1916 (all in Montana; Virginia Lee in Pennington, Virginia in 1918; Francis Leonard and Elbert Dana born in Des Moines, Iowa, 1920 and 1925 respectively. Summer of 1997 at the State Genealogy Library we found microfilm of grandmother's marriage certificate/license. She married on June 30, 1911 in Des Moines, Polk Co, Iowa one Orville R. May, who was a telegrapher, listing his home as Sappington, MT. (he listed parents as William and Catherine) (Leslie's parents were John Wehrle and Mary Catherine Jones) All of the children's birth certificates list Leslie Wehrle as father - they were all delayed birth certificates with information given from my grandmother. However, researchers in Montana found one the slipped through the crack in Deere Lodge is listed with the County a physician's report: 2/18/1915 Baby Boy born to Bessie Robinson and O.R. May. Their residence was a town called Race Track. Railroad Retirement lists Leslie Worley as last working for the railroad in 1903. Retirement records on Orville R. May list him taking retirement after 1950, also shows he resided with his parents in Bedford, Iowa and was a telegrapher, station agent. He worked in various areas in Iowa. Orville May had parents in Bedford who went with him to Santa Cruz, CA. He also had a wife he married in 1926 in Nevada. Orville and his family are buried in Santa Cruz - we have his obituary. Leslie on the other hand abandon his family in about 1920 - we think before the birth of Frances Leonard Wehrle. My mother says grandma was widowed in 1924 - some man dressed in black business suit came to the house and told her that Leslie had died by his own hand (hanging) in Hilt, California. (My mother was very young and that is how she remembers it.) We have contacted California Records, Siskyou (sp) Co., Hilt, etc. and have not been able to find a death certificate on Leslie Ray Wehrle. We have Leslie's mother's Bible and one belonging to his grandmother. He did exist at one time. The family lived in Lextington Ky (my grandmother Bessie Edith was close to Leslie's mother Mary Catherine (Molly) and that is the only proof we have that Leslie existed. Grandma was declared a widow in 1927 and collected widows benefits from the county for six children. He has managed to avoid census takers through the years. When we told our mother her first comment was: "We always knew he was a bigamist". We have talked to mom, her brother and sisters and they cannot shed any light on what happened to Leslie. We have a lot of scenarios: 1) It was a little early for the Witness Protection Program. 2) He was a known felon. 3) Grandma did him in. 4) She married Orville and was abandon in Montana and either married or lived with Leslie Wehrle. We have no where else to go in this search. Can anyone help. Leslie has left no paper trail that we have been able to find. He was born January 12, 1886 in Lexington, Fayette Co, KY. Can anyone help. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Marilyn Collins.

Our family mystery begins with Alexander Shaw marrying Margaret "Maggie Cochran",in 1891. He was a 47 year old shopkeerper in Phila, PA at the time of the marriage, and this was also his 3rd marriage. Margaret "maggie"Cochran lived in Trenton, NJ and was 27 years old and had a previous marriage to James H. Masterson. My grandfather were born from this union in 1894 and 1896, yet 1900 census shows them as both being borders of the Tom Wallace Family in Trenton, NJ. They never knew thier mother and father and we don't know what became of them. Kathleen Shaw

Thi sis our family mystery.. james W. Lockwood born in 1868 in Ulster County, NY. Marries in 1888 in Delaware County, NY. Moves to Wayne County, PA..has 5 of his children in Winterdale PA. In 1900 he is withhis family in Delhi NY. In 1901 his last child is born.....thats it. His wife is a widow in 1920 living in Broome County NY. Okay..a 1900 -1920 death search through vital records at NY and through all the individual town clerks has yielded in nothing. No death record. This same search was sent to New Castle PA (where PA holds statewide death records) no death for him there. He would have been too old for WWI and also he was a quarryman and had no vision out of one eye due to an accident so he would not have been taken anyways (For WWI)On the off chance that he was in WWI, Isent awy for records..NARA search came up empty. So, he just upped and disappeared! I don't think I will ever find his death record..I sent letters to every cemetery in Broome County too and the only 2 to send me back said he wasn't there. Thats my mystery man! thanks all!! Michele R. Lockwood Researching: Blake, Burley, Church,Colon, Davis, Downs, Grant, Hulce/Hulse, Ivey, King, Liparoti/Liperuote, Lockwood,Millhouse,Troise

I am trying to find out any information about my paternal grandfather, Herbert James Kane. He disappeared from Cedar Rapids, Iowa in late 1925 or early 1926. He was married to Cora Farmer in Richland, Iowa. He was supposedly an orphan,being raised by an "Aunt Sadie", in Richland, Iowa. I have found out that his mother's name was Cora Dell Reynolds, born around 1852 and his father's name was Frank Kane born around 1858. Frank Kane's father's name was Thomas Kane and his mother was Mary (I believe Glen). I have no idea where Frank or Thomas were from. Frank married Cora Dell Reynolds on August 15, 1882, in Noble County, Indiana. Herbert was supposedly born May 5, 1883 in Sturgis, Michigan, although I can find no record of this. His mother evidently died when he was very young, but I have found his father still alive, being named as the husband of Cora Kane, deceased, in a probate of Cora's great uncle (Edward B. Parker) in Delmar, Iowa in 1904. I don't know what happened to Frank or why Cora died so soon after his birth. Herbert James Kane lived in Cedar Rapids, Indiana in the years 1925 and 1926. In the City directory he is listed as the Manager of Iowa Kleen Heet Company, which was an oil burner unit. The family story is that he "went to the store for milk" and never returned. His car was supposedly found in Indiana, but he was never found. After his disappearance, my grandmother moved the family to Oklahoma where her brother lived. She divorced him in 1927 on the grounds of abandonment. The family story is that he liked to gamble, and that they think he owed someone some money, and they "got rid of him". I would like to see if I could find out what happened to him. I can find no record of his birth. I cannot find him on the SS Master Death Index. It seems to me there should be a report or newspaper article filed somewhere on this disappearance. Any help would be appreciated.

My husband's grandmother, Caroline Cecilia Warn was born in San Francisco or Mexico (depending on what record you read) in 1870. Her father was Henry Warn, a native of England and Ygnacia Valencia, a native of either Spain or Mexico (again, depending on the document). Caroline was considered an orphan and was living in a foster home in 1880. We assumed that both parents were dead. However, I found a Henry Warn in the 1880 census in Austin (Landers Co.) NV in 1880. His birthplace was listed as England, and he was listed as single. I'm sure this is the same person. I have found no other record of him. Does anyone have a clue. Diane Friis

why don't you unsubscribe with the one address and then re-subscribe with the new address. That should do it.

Sorry to bog down the list with this, but can anyone tell me how to change my address on this list to ckangas@aol.com? Thanks, Connie

Am in seach of what happened to Capt John Davidson. After the death of his wife Isabell Little Davidson in Charleston, S. C. in 1827 he brought his you son George Henry Davidson to Clinton, S. C. to live with relatives and he left for Texas. He was heard from a few times and then nothing. Does someone out there perhaps know anything concerning him? Did you remarry and raise another family in Texas? Would really like to solve this "mystery branch" of the Davidson-Owens family tree. Thanks for any info Elnita Owens, Clinton, S.C.

My grandfather, James P. (Pinkey) Jones and his wife Dora lived in Clayton Oklahoma in the 1920's. Their children were Edgar, Rufus, Schuler, William, Lester, Eva, Irene and Pauline. Shortly after the bottom fell out of the cotton crop in the 1920's my grandfather and his oldest son, Edgar left and were never heard from again. Rumor has it he owed the bank money. Someone told me he saw him in California. My grandmother let everyone think that he had deserted the family, however on her death bed in 1965 she confessed that she was supposed to meet him and that she just chose not to go. Does anyone know what really happened to James and where he went?

Looking for any information on Anne (Stenson) Arneson, she was born in 1885 in Worth County, Iowa. Moved to McVille, Nelson County, North Dakota, and married Ole Arneson. They had 4 boys, the third one died when he was a baby. After the last baby, Manfield b. Oct. 1911, she left and never came back. No trace of her, nothing. Have checked everything I can think of. She did not divorce as far as I can find, was it vary easy to marry again with out being divorced in 1911-20's? Have checked for her by her maiden name also. Any information or ideas would be appreciated.

Looking for any information on Anne (Stenson) Arneson, she was born in 1885 in Worth County, Iowa. Moved to McVille, Nelson County, North Dakota, and married Ole Arneson. They had 4 boys, the third one died when he was a baby. After the last baby, Manfield b. Oct. 1911, she left and never came back. No trace of her, nothing. Have checked everything I can think of. She did not divorce as far as I can find, was it vary easy to marry again with out being divorced in 1911-20's? Have checked for her by her maiden name also. Any information or ideas would be appreciated. In the same family, Anne Arneson's son, Manfield Olie Arneson b. Oct.22,1911 went to CA in the late 30's, a woman said she had lunch with him in the early 50's, but never saw him again. She said he was a dancer in a Hollywood movie and was a traveling salesman, he has never been heard from again. Have checked the CA death index, not listed. It is possible he is still alive, although people from his home town of Ryder ND say he was killed in a shooting of some sort. People say he went by Manfy Arneson, any help on this one also would be appreciated.

Looking For Henderson Connection - To Find Real Surname I'm trying to gather ALL information on any HENDERSON in all counties of AL. The mystery is either my 2nd g-grandfather Joseph William Henderson b. around 1850-1860 or his father (name unknown). Family stories go like this: 1st family story is that this HENDERSON (who really wasn't a Henderson at all) as a boy lived on huge plantation in AL, his father died and law wouldn't allow a woman to own land? Anyway she remarried a HENDERSON and he took the name, the step- father was very mean to him so he ran away at young age. 2nd family story is that he didn't get along with mean step-father ran away to a family named HENDERSON and took their name. I was also told that these Henderson were or related to a Fox Henderson and another who was a Govenor Henderson of AL. I would love to discover what his real name was. If someone runs across a Henderson on a census connected with another family or has some knowledge of mother who lost/remarried to keep plantation. Would be 1830-1875 in AL. This has had family stumped for years. Your help would be very appreciated. Pamela in FLorida

James P (Pinkey) Jones and his son Edgar Lee dissapeared from Clayton, Oklahoma in the 1920's and were never heard from again. Has anyone ever heard of them?

I am searching for information on Vira (Ryan) Camp, b. 4/1876 in NJ she was married to Stephen P. Camp, b. 11/1870 in Burlington Co., NJ. 1905 Census: Vira, Stephen & their children: EllaMay b. 11/1894, Charles b. 5/1900, Edna b. 3/1902, Burta (Alberta?) b. 9/1904 & Joseph Broud "boarder", b. 5/1866 - carpenter was living with this family. My grandmother, EllaMay b. 11/1894, told us that while her and brother, Charlie were in school one day, their mother "disappeared" along with the two youngest children - never to be heard from again, "supposedly" gr. grandfather, Stephen, spent everything he had searching for her........... 1910 Census shows, Stephen as "divorced" living with daughter EllaMay and son Charles. No, Vira, Edna, Burta (Alberta) or Joseph Broud!!!!! My poor grandmother spent her entire life thinking that mother was kidnapped or murdered, when she probably ran off with the "boarder". I have searched everywhere I can think of. Any info./suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, Darlene Messina

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Jamie Cornelia Warner wrote: > > have you checked the Alaska Gold Rush? happened just about then, 1890-1910 > period. > > At 03:55 PM 1/18/99 -0500, you wrote: > >The Patterson family that lived just outside of Madisonville, Tx. in a > >little community known as Cottonwood woke up one day to find their husband > >and father gone never to return. There are suggestions that he was > >murdered for gambling debts and also that he went to fight in whatever war > >was going on in 1895. My grandmother who was born in 1890 recalls that > >she was 5 years old when he left. He would have been 42 y/o. He left his > >wife with several small children at home. She also remembers that her > >mother told her on her death bed that if "Paddy" ever returned they were > >tell him that she still loved him. Does anyone have a clue as to what > >might have happened. Was this kind of thing common in the 1890's? > > > >Jamie Gregg Smith > > > > > > > >==== GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Mailing List ==== > >To contact the owner use, dwburgess@worldnet.att.net > >