I am interested in the entries for the Leslie family and the Pierce family in the Cedar Falls Pioneer's 1845-1866. Thank you, Lorraine Leslie Besmer besmerlk@gwtc.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cadwallader Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/1743 Message Board Post: Mr. Philip Cadwallader returned from Iowa last week to remove thither with his family. He has located in Blackhawk Co. Union looses a good citizen and Janesville, Iowa, gets one. The house formerly owned by Phillip Cadwallader, together with ten acres of land. On this ten acres there is a barn, a well, an orchard and a quantity of small fruit. Terms easy. If not sold soon the house will be to rent. Baxter Boynton. April 28, 1880, Evansville Review, p. 3, col. 2 & 3, Evansville, Wisconsin

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Steffeney Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/1742 Message Board Post: No. 204-05 IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2005 DoD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. Eric M. Steffeney, 28, of Waterloo, Iowa, died February 23 in Tuz, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated. Steffeney was assigned to the 184th Ordnance Battalion, 52nd Ordnance Group, Fort Bragg, N.C. For further information related to this release, contact Army Public Affairs at (703) 692-2000. http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2005/nr20050225-2123.html POSTER'S DISCLAIMER: I have no connection to this person. Posting is intended as an act of genealogical kindness. This post is not a political statement. Like any obituary this post is meant as a genealogical memorial to the life of a human being. No political viewpoint is being express.

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/Vk.2ADE/137.894 Message Board Post: For those of you on the mailing list, here is a listing of the surnames in "When Cedar Falls was Young" ADAMS, ALDRICH, BERRY, BISHOP, BOEHMLER, BROWN, BRYANT, BURR, CAMERON, DAYTON, DEMOTTE, FORD, HAWLEY, HUGHES, HUMBERT, JOHNSON, KEENE, KELLOG, KNAPP, LEAVITT, LESLIE, LIVINGSTON, MARKUSSEN, MELENDY, MILLER, MORGAN, MORRISON, MULLARKY, NEELY, OVERMAN, PERKINS, PHILPOT, PIERCE, ROBINSON, RODENBACH, ROWND, SARTORI, SAWYER, SNYDER, SOMANEIX, SPEER, STEMMING, STREETER, STURGIS, TAYLOR, THOMPSON, TOLLERTON, TOWNSEND, VAN SAUN, WISE

Do you see any Waring, Warring, in your book.

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/Vk.2ADE/137.893 Message Board Post: This is to update those who receive messages posted on the message board via the IABLACKH-L@rootsweb.com mailing list. The booklet I quote from is 23 pages in length and covers the period from 1845 to 1866. "When Cedar Falls was Young" by Roger Leavitt Published by Record Press Cedar Falls, Iowa Dec 15, 1828

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PERKINS, BOEHMLER, BISHOP, LEE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.833.1 Message Board Post: There is one mention of PERKINS in the booklet and a section on BOEHMLER. "Geo. Perkins, left his newspaper, "The Cedar Falls Gazette.". In later years he became the distinguished editor of the Sioux City Journal and member of congress" "Some twenty years ago Charles Boehmler told me the following incident: He came home on a furlough, and on starting back was given a gold watch to carry back to one of the officers of his company. Before he had a chance to deliver it after his return, he was captured by the Rebels. He had on when captured a pair of new boots, which his father had made for him. Before he was searched he cut a slit in the lining of his boot and slipped the watch in out of sight. As the boots were new he feared some poor barefooted rebel might take them away from him so he took a stick which was on fire and burned the boots so they looked as if they were on their last legs. His captors looking at the ghastly outside did not know that the leather lining was keeping them in shape. He went into Andersonville and came out after months of confinement with those same boots and delivered the gold watch so long and so well concealed. There were five Boehmler brothers in the Civil war. Two were! in Andersonville. Jacob Boehmler, who enlisted three times before he was accepted, is the only on now living. Their father, a pioneer boot and shoe maker, had at one time twelve men working in the shop, which stood at 116 Main street, where Bishop's Paint store is located. This building was moved to the middle of the west side of Main street, between 3rd and 4th, and is now occupied by Fong Lee laundry on West 4th street."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SNYDER, CAMERON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.699.1 Message Board Post: There are two references to SNYDER in the booklet. "Nov. 8, '67, married E.A. Snyder and Mary A. Cameron." "July 31, '67, E.A. Snyder buys an interest in the Gazette."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: STURGIS, MILLER, ADAMS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.575.1 Message Board Post: According to the booklet, Sturgis was one of the first settlers in what is now Cedar Falls. The original name for the community was "Sturgis Falls". Here are two excerpts from the booklet. There is a lengthly description of how beautiful the area was when it was first settled that is too long to post here. "The first permanent white settler was Wm. Sturgis who came in the spring of 1845, from Michigan and built a cabin near the present site of the ice house. Mr. Sturgis was a brother of the late Mrs. Hannah Miller, and uncle of Frank B. Miller. He built his cabin on the bank of the river, where prarie and timber met." "That fall, Erasmus Adams and family came and built a cabin in the woods on Dry Run. Attracted no doubt by the springs at that point which from time immemorial have poured forth a never failing supply of pure cold water. Both Sturgis and Adams broke up small farms and Sturgis Falls was born. Later the name was changed to Cedar Falls. Just as it takes two points to make a straight line so it took two families to make a town. By late fall there were five families comprising fourteen people in Black Hawk county."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ADAMS, STURGIS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.604.1 Message Board Post: The only ADAMS mentioned in the booklet is Erasmus Adams. "That fall, Erasmus Adams and family came and built a cabin in the woods on Dry Run. Attracted no doubt by the springs at that point which from time immemorial have poured forth a never failing supply of pure cold water. Both Sturgis and Adams broke up small farms and Sturgis Falls was born. Later the name was changed to Cedar Falls. Just as it takes two points to make a straight line so it took two families to make a town. By late fall there were five families comprising fourteen people in Black Hawk county."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MELENDY, MORGAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.664.1 Message Board Post: There is one MORGAN reference in the booklet regarding the ceremony celebrating the starting of the Iowa Central road in 1865. The road was never built however. "The ringing of bells and firing of cannon ceased, and Peter Melendy announced that the great event of breaking ground was about to take place. The president of the road, Hon. David Morgan of Oskaloosa, threw the first shovelful."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SNYDER, CAMERON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.662.697 Message Board Post: There are two references to SNYDER in the booklet. "Nov. 8, '67, married E.A. Snyder and Mary A. Cameron." "July 31, '67, E.A. Snyder buys an interest in the Gazette."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HAWLEY, KELLOG, DEMOTTE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.609.698 Message Board Post: There is one mention of HAWLEY in the booklet. "After many disappointments Cedar Falls finally welcomed the Illinois Central road -- as it is now called, March 31, 1861, just twenty days after reaching Waterloo. The conductor of the first train was Cy Hawley, the express messenger was Tim Kellog, both of whom I know later. The engineer was Joe DeMotte."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: JOHNSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.562.1 Message Board Post: There are two references to JOHNSON in the booklet. The first is part of a story about a battle over the location of the county court house between West Waterloo and Cedar Falls (which combined with East Waterloo). "Many years later when the late Emmons Johnson was a prominent candidate for congress, Cedar Falls and East Waterloo defeated him. They came here, most of them in covered wagons, or on foot as my father came, without money, but with a determination to succeed. They were men of deep feeling. It took many years to overcome the passions aroused by the county seat fight." From this I assume that Emmons Johnson was from West Waterloo. This is the second reference: "Nov. 18, '70, Henry Johnson opens grocery."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BISHOP, BOEHMLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.560.2 Message Board Post: There are two references to BSIHOP in the booklet. "Another important name among the early settlers was S.A. Bishop, who came in June, 1852. There were only six families then in Cedar Falls. He built a drugstore on the corner where the Citizens Savings Bank now stands. When he came, the woods from 5th to 7th streets were so thick with trees and bushes as to be impassable. Mrs. Jacob Boehmler and Mrs. F.D. Peirce are his daughters. He had shipped in for his drugstore a barrel of whiskey which was not up to standrd. A man offered him in exchange for the whiskey, the lot now occupied by the Rock Island station. He accepted the offer and in five months sold the lot for $79.00." "There were five Boehmler brothers in the Civil war. Two were in Andersonville. Jacob Boehmler, who enlisted three times before he was accepted, is the only one now living. Their father, a pioneer boot and shoe maker, had at one time twelve men working in the shop, which stood at 116 Main street, where Bishop's Paint store is located."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KNAPP Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.524.2 Message Board Post: There are two references to KNAPP in the book. "Sept. 3, '67, married at the Presbyterian church, Clarence Knapp and Mary J. Neely." "Nov. 15, J.T. Knapp has completed his residence, corner Clay and 3rd streets and it will rank among the beat residences in our large city. This is the house recently bought by the Woman's club."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bancroft Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Vk.2ADE/1741 Message Board Post: Nashua Reporter, The (Nashua, Iowa) 1899 > June > 22 Last night Cedar Falls was bombarded from above, the projectiles hurled from the celestial artillery being large chunks of ice. The hail stones are said to have ranged in size up to that of a good-sized egg, but were peculiar as being somewest [sic] flat on two sides. Great damage was done to window glass in all parts of the city. Seventeen hundred panes of glass were broken in the green houses of Joseph BANCROFT and nearly every skylight in the city was broken. Hail stones even fell with such force as to go through the tin roof on one building near the Arlington hotel. Much damage was done to gardens and fruit orchards in the vicinity. --Waterloo Reporter, June 19.

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/Vk.2ADE/1739.1 Message Board Post: Could it be Zion Lutheran Cemetery (aka Jubilee Westburg), which is located in Spring Creek Township, Section 2, on Jubilee Road between Jesup Road (V 62) and Spring Creek Road?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SMITH Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/1740 Message Board Post: There is a photo fo a Smith family of Hudson, IA, on the Black Hawk Co., IA, usgenweb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iablackh/surnames3.htm Does anyone know any of the given names of the individuals in this photo? (I've tried contacting the person who submitted the photo, but my message was returned undelivered.) Thank 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/Vk.2ADE/1734.1.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: HI I'M INTERSTED IN THE PICTURE OF THE YOUNG GIRL FROM DENISON. I WOULD LIKE TO BUY IT FROM YOU WITH IN REASON. OR GET A GOOD COPY IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PART WITH IT. MY FAMILY ARE FROM AND STILL LIVE IN DENISON. MY FATHER DATED DONNA REED BEFORE SHE LEFT FOR CALIFORNIA. ARE FAMILY FARM IS NEXT TO DONNA REED'S FAMILY FARM. PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT:zene@rainforests.ws THANKS CHRISTNA