I have seen several postings from someone looking for a lost Fred Haas. The message below references Fred - perhaps it will help someone. Remember do not reply to me reply to Nancy: n147@postoffice.worldnet.att.net Linda lhaasdav@mindspring.com Home.page http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas Marion.Co.AR http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion List hostess for -h.a.a.s/l.e.w.a.l.l.e.n/w.a.s.h.i.n.g.t.o.n n.c ----- Original Message ----- From: Nancy <n147@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> To: <lhaasdav@mindspring.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:40 PM Subject: PML Search Result matching Haas > ===================================================================== > A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this > search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > ===================================================================== > Source: OHNOBLE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [OHNOBLE-L] Western Emigrants 1887 > > > More stuff- lots of names - from The Noble County Republican. maybe > someone will recognize a misplaced ancestor. > > Thursday, 3 Mar 1887, p 3: > About one hundred and fifty or sixty emigrants will leave Caldwell, > March 8th for various parts of the West. Most of the crowd go to > Kansas. Round trip tickets are being sold at a low figure. > > Thursday, 10 Mar 1887, p 3: > Western Emigrants > Last Thursday was a busy day at the railroad stations at Caldwell. A > half dozen railroad agents made music in rates to the great delight of > those who came here to buy tickets for the West. Nearly 200 persons > went on the Excursion. Most of the parties purchased tickts for Kansas; > the others went to nearly every state and Territory west of the > Mississippi River. The following is a partial list of htose who went on > this trip: > > Wayne Ogle, wife and children; David Miller, John Nace, Wm Grandstaff > and family; Isaiah Danford and family; L S Collins and wife; James > McKee, I C Phillips, Willie Peters, Aaron Miller, Pharan McAtee, Alva > Edwards, Milton Day, Wm Nehls, Fred Kiniah, Henry Yunger, Geo Steward, > Henry Bonar, F Schnuber, Barney Hannahs, Wm Brown, Peter Crow, John > Cohart, Isaac Mann, Fred Haas, L M Majors, E E Kirkpatrick, Charley > Young, Milton Seaman and wife; Dallas Miller, Marsh Moore, Annanias > Miller, Martin Merry and wife; G W Stewart, M Day, Wm Brown, N Unger, B > Bonar, Wm N Snoburgher, A Edwards, G Lee, T Lee, Fred Kinnah, C W > Atherton, P B Halley. > > W B Philpot, James Atkins and wife; Mrs S A Faber, John Harlan, Richard > Hare, Mrs E A Kent, Mrs Homer Kent, Homer Gibson, W G Gibson, Clarence > Wilson, Gabriel Hughes, I N Bell, George Shouse. > > In all about 200 left on this Excursion. The crowd was equally divided > between the B&O Ry and the Pan Handle. The price of the tickets varied > widely. The lowest figures at which they were sold was Kansas City > $7.50, Hutchinson $10, Garden City $11, Denver $21.50, Los Angeles, > California and Portland, Oregon $40 each. Round trip tickets to > Florence and Frankfort, Kansas, good for 40 days, sold as low as $20. > Those who waited an hour or so of the departure paid from $3 to $5 more > for tickets than they could have been secured earlier in the day. > > Thursday, 17 Mar 1887, p 3: > One of the Kansas excursionists has already been heard from. He writes > that skilled mechanics can get $2.50 per day but there is no work at all > for the common labor. As this emigrant did not buy a return ticket, his > chances to get home by rapid transit is not good. > > Thursday 7 Apr 1887, p3; > Gone West > Among those who left Friday: Wm Eyssen, Wm Foster, J J Kellar, M > Nicholson, wife and daughter; David McFerren, W Okey, Samuel Wilson, M > Haynes, Mrs S Prettyman, A L Morris, Ed Pettay, George Rice, Wm Johnson, > Chas Rodecker, John Baugan, J C Nowell, Linas Curtis, Mrs Buckingham, > Frank Harlan, Reuben Wiley, Clarence Foreman, Mrs N A Smith, Mr and Mrs > Wm Conner, Sandrew Steen, wife, and eleven children. > > Nancy