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/Fk.2ADI/602 Message Board Post: Seeking the obit of Lydia E. (nee Himes) Benoit who died 14 July 1959, Manson, Calhoun Co, IA. Any help appreciated.

Cyndi really did a great job of making a lot of information available to all of us. If you get a chance, take a look at those platt maps with all the farmers names on them. I had a lot of fun wandering up and down some of those gravel roads waving to neighbors that I haven't seen in a long time. (I guess it was only in my mind) 1961 is just the way I remember things- and sorta the way I wish they could remain. Give a tip of the hat and a big thank you to Cyndi. Gary Ramthun

The 1961 Calhoun County Farm Directory is online! Take a look and see if you recognize any of the names. http://www.rootsweb.com/~iacalhou/1961farmersdirectory.html There are 1780 names. Even though they farmed in Calhoun county, they lived in Sac, Webster, Green, Pocahontas and Calhoun. Let me know if you find any broken links or problems. Thanks, Cyndi Vertrees cc Calhoun County, IA

More additions to the Calhoun county USGenWeb! Royal Arch Masons Thanks to Sharyl Ferrall Journal of William Thompson Smith Thanks to Merleen Gholdston There are now 150 Obituaries! (this does not include the Obit board) Obituaries added this week: Emma Brugger Richard Brugger Lilly McDaniel Johnny Youker A. B. Mooney Daughter of John Coe Aaron Chambers A. M. Merriam James G. Robinson J. H. Harrison George McCrary Effie Ellen Warner Hudson Jimmie Osburn Swen Daniel Debough Eddie Dean Charles Arnold Maggie Powers Daniel Fobes Graphic Newspaper articles Nov 14, 1889 March 1894 news April 1894 news Dec 1893 news Wedding announcements Jukes & McDonald Wedding announce Rufus Dehart and Nancy McCauley And still more to come. Cyndi Vertrees CC Calhoun County

I was wondering if anyone could get me a copy of an obit for a Francis (Frank)Marion Steele. He was born August 31, 1883 in Illinois and died March 1963 in Lohrville, Calhoun County, Iowa, Sincerely, Jeremy Millard __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL – Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

Lake City Graphic Feb. 14, 1901 JACKSON NOTES Tim Brady took up a homestead while he was in Oklahoma but expects to remain in Iowa for another season. Mr. & Mrs. Norm Hutchinson, Mr. and Mrs. Larkin Williams and Mrs. Fronia Oxenford are on the sick list. Peter Wilger left Thursday for Oklahoma looking for a location. If the place suits him he may sell his farm here. Owing to the illness of Mrs. Keith, Rev. Keith was unable to be at his appointment and Rev. Wilkins preached. Only a few were present but the sermon was excellent. CAMP CREEK Sherman Noel is visiting at Thomas Moulds. Mrs. Bert Trullinger is visiting in Rockwell City. Mr. Woodyard has lost two head of cattle recently. Mrs. Nora Peebles visited Mrs. Fred Madden Monday. Ida Hulser was a guest of Blanche Rex one night last week. Harvey Satterlee went to Iowa Falls to visit his brother Jasper. Wesley Fickle purchased a cow and calf of Geo. Hulser Saturday. Nolan Buckles visited friends at Cottonwood Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. Foster Boyles visited at Joe Wright's the first of the week. Amor Long was in our neighborhood at his work as assessor last week. Will Mishler has rented a farm in Fayette Co., so listen for wedding bells. A crowd of Yetterites were on the Creek skating last week Tuesday night. Mrs. Geo. Hulser attended the lecture at the M. E. church Tuesday night. Mr. Rex was quite ill Thursday night but is as well s usual at this writing. Mrs. Charlie Peebles and Mrs. H. Satterlee visited Mrs. Thomas Moulds Wednesday. The wedding bells will ring at several of our homes between now and grass time. Mr. and Mrs. Lark Williams are confined to their rooms with lagrippe and require watchers at night. Arthur Desart and Frank Patterson are running the saw in our neighborhood this week. Albert Binkert has rented the Haskins farm and it has been said he was planning to bach. (?) Mr. and Mrs. Ordnung visited Mrs. O's sister and father near Lake City the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Woodyard spent Sunday at his father's and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ripley at Mr. Taylor's near Auburn. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Clark are visiting in Fayette Co., and Roy and his wife are caring for thing during their absence. Geo. Mowry has purchased a driving team a new buggy and harness. He has decided to farm his own place another year. Mrs. Grant Madden and son Roy and Rachel Trullinger spent last week visiting their sister Mrs. Geo. Spencer at Rockwell City. Dan Trullinger has rented the Mead farm for another year and the old neighbors will be glad to welcome him back into the neighborhood. NEWS A. D. Twogood, living 6 miles southeast of Lake City, is the owner of a 9 months old colt whose right foot is formed like that of a cow. A photo of it was taken last Monday, by L. D. Hawkins, which will be sent to Mr. Twogood's brother-in-law, I. N. Weymore of Chicago who will try to enter the animal in a museum. S. P. Elliott bought of J. H. Fuller two calves eleven months and six days old that weighed 1620 lbs and brought $64.85. Hotel Columbia, under the management of Drake & Hammond, has undergone several improvements in the last few weeks. Every room in the house has received a coat of paper or calcimine. The house has been connected with the new sewer and toilet rooms have been added to both lower and upper floors. The new management seems to be giving entire satisfaction as the house is filled with guests every day. Supervisor Geo. W. Reeves called Friday. He was in town in the inter-of caring for the effects of his brother, D. B. Reeves, in which trust he is doing conscientious service. We were permitted to read a letter received by Attorney gray of Rockwell City from D. B. which seems to give evidence that he is recovering and will ultimately regain full health. Best & Son's restaurant is O. K. Take meals at the O. K. restaurant. John N. Freeman's auction sale next Wednesday. Lewis Ihrke moves next week to the old McMeekin farm which he purchased. The Lake City K. of P. degree team goes to Glidden Monday evening, Feb. 25, to do some floor work. Hon. D. J. Townsend will be re-elected to the legislature from this county without opposition. The county has an expert, Miss Denny, employed at the court house looking for taxable property which has escaped the notice of assessors. She is to receive 15 per cent of the moneys actually collected. B. Mendelssohn and Mayor McCrary removed an obstruction upon the sidewalk near the Presbyterian church Sunday evening that might have crippled someone. Such dastardly work deserves punishment. Barney Mendelssohn drew the fine double barreled shot gun put up by G. W. Ripley Monday. What will he do with it? Geo. W. Reeves has filed an inventory and made a report in the matter of the estate of D. B. Reeves. John Ross has rented his farm to Thos. Clark and will buy a home in Lake City this week, to which he will soon remove. D. E. Ellis lost his colt that took 1st premium at Pittman's colt show last fall. It injured itself internally while at play about the yard. Mayor McCrary and Recorder Hibbs have received a large number of bound volumes of government documents to be placed in the city archives. G. B. Mabee has moved his music store into the Blue Front where he has more commodious quarters for his large and increasing business. The Maccabees initiated seventeen new members into their order last Thursday night. They have a band of seventeen pieces and claim to have the largest lodge in the state. Cyndi Vertrees CC Calhoun County IA Gen Web http://www.rootsweb.com/~iacalhou/

Lake City Graphic Newspaper Clippings Feb. 14, 1901 A telegram received by O. L. White from his father at Iowa City Saturday evening stated that G. L. Hartman passed through his operation successfully and was getting along all right at that time. Dr. Katharyn E. Keith of Panora, Iowa, was at the Methodist parsonage over Sunday, being called to see Mrs. Keith who has been very sick with Grippe and pleuritis. We are glad to note that Mrs. Keith is getting better now. Mr. Irving E. White, after a pleasant and enjoyable visit of three weeks with his brother, Clarence White, returned Thursday via Algona, Iowa, where he will visit a week with an uncle, thence home to Waterloo, Wisconsin. Fourth ward people heartily welcome to the neighborhood Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Townsend who will soon move to their newly purchased home, lots 3 and 4 block 3, Moody & Davey's addition, just east of the Mrs. Cap't. Hobbs home. Roy Bryan, who for some time has assisted J. H. Russell of the Queal Lumber Co., of this place, has received a well earned promotion. He left last week to take charge of a yard at Ireton, Iowa. His family will remain in Lake City until spring. The following songs were very beautifully rendered at the Catholic Fair by the three young ladies named: Newcomb.. Miss Edna Townsend Good-bye, Tost!...Miss Ada Zane Allab!Chadwick, Bercense, Vinal... Miss Grace Wilson We acknowledge a pleasant call on last Friday from T. P. Cassen of Story City, formerly of Morris, Grundy county, Iowa. Mr. Cassen and his family, consisting of six boys from four to nineteen years and Miss Cora, eight years of age, will move to the John L. Larson section 34, five miles southeast of Lake City, some time this month. He will bring with him twelve or fifteen head of horses. TRACK AND TRAIN Frank Evans of Carroll was a Lake City caller last week. N. Jackson did business on the Denison branch last Friday. 150 carloads of stock passed through the Lake City yards Sunday. C. A. Lichty, of Boone passed Sunday in this city with his family. Superintendent Sanborn visited R. C. Harden who is very ill at Boone. Frank M. Morgan made a business trip to Chicago last week returning Thursday. C. E. Fitch is here from Boone assisting in the train dispatcher's department. Fireman Chas. Coats returned from Kansas City last Thursday and has reported for duty. W. C. Bell returned to Chicago last Thursday night to remain a few days with his brother who is not improving as fast as could be desired. Ed Warner has resigned his position as ticket agent at the depot and with his family will remove to Sac City where he has a farm. He gains possession about March 15. N. J. Thompson who has been employed at the round house in this city removed his family to Boone Thursday where he has accepted a similar place in the shops at that place. Claude Hoffman received a message from Grant City last Thursday announcing the death of his sister who expired at her home of typhoid fever. It has only been two weeks since his father was taken from same disease. Cyndi Vertrees CC Calhoun County IA Gen Web http://www.rootsweb.com/~iacalhou/

New additions to the Calhoun County web site! My fingers are worked to the bone and my backside is numb! I have a few days off and plan to do alot more typing. So check back at the end of the week. ( I have two years of newspapers to type!) Cyndi V. http://www.rootsweb.com/~iacalhou/military.html Additions to the Calhoun County Website Jan. 2006 Obits Jennie Fox Danforth Prudence Gouldin James Nicholas Tillie Larson Daryl Iler Mary Williams Mrs. Ed. Foley Kane Parmelia Bosley A W White Elmer Jolly Lavina Fitzgerald Wedding Announcements Gabriel and Kegley Folsom and Smith Brock and Sharkey Cook and True Fort and Brady Grant and Flinn Danforth and Harris Bishop and Halloway Newspaper articles News 1899 News Feb 7 and Feb 14,1901 School Class of 1891 Graduates Military Iowa Fifty-First Boys Letter home from Della Weeks The Artillerys' hard work News dated Sept 7, 1899 News dated Oct. 26, 1899 Letter home from Fred Hibbs News dated Nov. 2, 1899 News dated Aug. 10 ,1899

----- Original Message ----- From: <kimmerhoo@yahoo.com> To: <IACALHOU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 5:28 PM Subject: [IACALHOUN] WESSELS or WESSELLS-Augusta Death Look-up > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: WESSELS OR WESSELLS > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fk.2ADI/600 > > Message Board Post: > > Looking for death and cemetery records for Augusta Wessels or Wessells who > died between 1920-1930 in Manson,Lincoln Twp. Formerly widow of Markert > and remarried around 1910 to John Wessels. Appears in 1920 Census for > Manson,Lincoln Twp. Augusta was born 1864 in Germany. > > > ==== IACALHOU Mailing List ==== > Search the IACALHOU-L archives at > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=IACALHOU > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WESSELS OR WESSELLS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fk.2ADI/600 Message Board Post: Looking for death and cemetery records for Augusta Wessels or Wessells who died between 1920-1930 in Manson,Lincoln Twp. Formerly widow of Markert and remarried around 1910 to John Wessels. Appears in 1920 Census for Manson,Lincoln Twp. Augusta was born 1864 in Germany.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MARKERT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fk.2ADI/599 Message Board Post: Looking for death records of Augusta Markert b.1864 and died after 1900 and Husband unknown Markert died in Greenfield Twp. between 1890-1900. May be buried in Greenfield Cemetery.

Hi, I'm trying to find the death date for Mary Jane Gabriel Smith JORN and cemetery in which she is buried. Her first husband, Granville Smith, died at Lake City in 1919 and burial was in the Lake City Cemetery. I would guess that is where Mary Jane is buried. She was born in 1856 and died sometime between 1933 and 1948, most likely at Lake City. I do not know the given name of her 2nd husband, nor have any information about him. Thank you. Karolyn in Montana

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SMITH, MARMON, PICKRELL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fk.2ADI/592.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Beverly, Christian Smith's wife was Pheriba Marmon [15 Aug 1815 OH-11 Jul 1890 IA]. She was the daughter of Peter L. Marmon [1778 NC- 22 Mar 1825 Logan County, Ohio] and Dorothy Marmon [1787 NC- 18 Jul 1841 Logan County, Ohio]. Peter and Dorothy were first cousins, once removed. There are several Peter Marmon's in Logan County Ohio during this time period, so be sure to follow up on Peter L. Marmon. Peter L and Dorothy apparently had three daughters, only two of whom are known to me. The other daughter besides Pheriba was Rachel Marmon 1815 OH-23 Dec 1889 Pickrell, Gage County, NE. Rachel married Jacob Pickrell 21 Aug 1833 in Logan County OH. had ten children. Family members were Orthodox Quaker. Lots online about them through ancestry.com Best of luck, Debian Marty

Forwarded. If you find a connection, please send me an Email. Thank you. Sincerely, Hans-Georg Boyken Titonka, IA 50480, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcia Johnson" <mlj55124@frontiernet.net> To: <AUS-GERMAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 4:13 PM Subject: [AUS-GERMAN] Emil Folkerts > Looking for information on where EMIL FOLKERTS ended up. According to an > obituary for a member of his family he was in Australia in 1910 or so. He > may have returned to America but have found no record as yet. Emil was > born in Ostfriesland Germany in about 1862 to WILHELM FOLKERTS and VOELKE > TAMMEN. Wilhelm, Voelke, and other children Christopher, Wilhelmine, > Falka, and Wilhelm settled in Manson, Calhoun County, Iowa. Two other > children, Johan and Jelesch (Jelly) stayed in Germany. If anyone knows > something about Emil I would enjoy hearing from you. > > Marcia Johnson > Apple Valley, Minnesota USA > > > ==== AUS-GERMAN Mailing List ==== > For your Aus-German resources go to > http://www.ainsleehooper.com/germlinks.htm > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 > >

I am forwarding this from the APG list. Please read this so that you are informed about the issues of closing public records in the name of identity theft, privacy, terrorism, financial ruin or what else might grab the fears of the public. It's worth the few minutes it takes to read. Most likely all the states are struggling with the same sort of issures. - Terry Davis Hello Today Dick Eastman's Newsletter provided a pointer to an article by the Burlington Free Press reporter Adam Silverman "Vermont Clerks Prepare for Restrictions on Vital Records Access" - see http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/11/vermont_clerks_.html#more As you will note below, in a note to the reporter, I recently testified at a Massachusetts legislative hearing where several misinformed folks also believed that the federal government could regulate what is constitutionally a state perogative. I wrote to Mr Silverman (see below) and he responded that he would like to be alerted to any actions that the genealogical comunity takes or any updates on this issue. Mr Silverman would like to continue writing about this issue. Mr Silverman can be contacted at asilverm@bfp.burlingtonfreepress.com . The regulations for US Public Law 108-458 "Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act" are due out in a few weeks for a 90 day review. It's time to do your homework in your own state. http://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_010705.html Folks who live in any state should alert their local genealogical societies, as well as contact your state and federal congressmen and Senators about this issue. Sharon Sergeant ancestralmanor.com PS An ironic twist to this situation is the goal of matching birth and death records by providing grants to accomplish this! ======================================================================== Note to Burlington Free Press reporter Adam Silverman ======================================================================== Adam, I am a researcher of Vermont records, and a member of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Genealogical Council (an umbrella organization for genealogical and historical societies chartered as a watchdog for records access protection), and also a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, an international organization. The US Public Law 108-458 "Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act" was passed in December 2004, based upon a Senate bill S.2845, not the Draconian House of Representatives bill HR.10 - which did have many police state types of measures. However, what could not be passed as law cannot be used in an end run in the regulatory process. Regulations can only be done within the context of the law that passed. If regulators think otherwise, then the court system will have to address the issue. The checks and balances in our Federal structure are there for a reason. Vital records are a states' rights issue in the US. Factions of the Federal government have been trying to get states to implement a "model law" for vital records for more than 25 years, under the guise of whatever is the hot-button of the times. We are in danger of revisiting the McCarthy years - treating everybody as suspects and destroying the system of checks and balances that has stood the test of time. Identity theft is a financial threat, not a terorist threat. Agencies of the Federal government have repeatedly found that identity theft and privacy problems do not result from the adminstration of vital records. Instead, there are mounting database, internet and electronic credit card security breaches to augment the tried and true everyday methods and lapses by the credit card industry, an unscrupulous family member, friend, store clerk or waiter or plain old trash pickers, burgulars and pocket pickers. http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/idtheft.html http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/ Every state has dealt with the issues according to their own constitutions, and prior legislative history, in their own way throughout the decades. Every state handles illegitimate births, still births and adoption records differently. Illegitimate births now number in the double digit percentages nationwide. Adoptee rights groups have created recent changes in attitudes that have been reflected in some state law changes. Marriage laws have been changed to include same sex marriages in many states. However, some federal minds continue to chip away at these states rights at every opportunity, promulgating completely different ideas about what the enacted Federal laws or funding aids to the states actually mean. Last month, I testified at a Massachusetts legislative hearing about this issue. A number of Massachusetts records closing laws have been proposed for decades. Now the story line by Massachusetts proponents of records closing laws is that they are simply getting ready for what the Federal government would require. It's a sad day when your own state legislators don't know where the line is between states' rights or the how and why of the Federal system design. Vermont has apparently been given the same kind of pitch by the Federal evangelists of this decades old effort. The Federal government has the right to regulate the format of certificates that Federal agencies will accept for passports, visas, military, Social Security, or other Federally regulated purposes. The Federal government has the right to require vital records statistics for the many activities that are the responsibility of the Federal government. But only states have the right to determine whom to issue birth, marriage and death certificates to, or who has access to the records, just as each state determines laws and licenses for other normal everday activities of the citizenry. My personal background includes a secret security clearance, military and commercial network systems security and performance analysis, nuclear power plant records, legal and travel systems development. I do take real issues of concern seriously. There is a time and place for security measures. Standardized certificates to prevent fraudulent use is one thing. Arbitrary retrictions to the records information is another. Requiring unecessary security measures that burden the majority, and don't address the real problem is a waste of time and money. If Vermont towns can't publish the summary of their vital records as they have for more than a century, then perhaps there is also an everyday impact on newspapers. Will your readers be able to read the engagement and wedding notices, or obituaries. Will your advertisers with family event products and services continue to place ads? Will the US Surgeon General have to retract his call to us all to do family medical health histories? Family medical issues must be studied over many generations and through collateral lines, not just immediate families. How will we find this information unless we have access to the leaves in the vital records trees to find a person (living or not) for whom we also have to find the legal repsentative or guardian? There is also an impact on libraries and archives, services and others who already have vital records that now are proposed to be closed. Will there be SWAT teams with search warrants to ferret them out and great book burnings or computer disk erasing events? Will I be prosecuted because I shared a cousin's birth certificate with another family researcher? I propose a different route. Consult with a nation of experts, the millions of experienced family history researchers who know how to determine whether one person of record is the same as another person of record, where the errors occur and how to avoid serious forensic mistakes. The town and city clerks of Vermont will not be left to fend for themselves in this matter. The Vermont genealogical research community spans the nation. The Vermont tourist trade benefits every year when researchers visit to get back to their roots, and access the records. I think you will be hearing from many others. Sharon Sergeant ancestralmanor.com ==== APG Mailing List ==== The Association of Professional Genealogists http://www.apgen.org/publications/apg-l/index.html

I've "rescued" an old photograph of Merl & Harold ROUSH which was taken at the Kramer's Audio Studio in Des Moines, Iowa. The photograph was likely taken in the 1890's with the oldest boy about 3 years old and the youngest likely only 1-2 years old at the time. Based on limited research I was able to find Merl Daniel ROUSH b. 9 May 1893 in West Bend, IA to parents Gavin or Guy ROUSH and Clara EERNISSE. Merl married Mable FINCH in Le Mars, IA in 1914, and died 29 April 1939. Merl's brother Harold Elgar ROUSH was b. 14 Jun 1894 at Manson, IA. Harold married Pearl HEALES or HEALIS in IA in April 1917, and died 29 Mar 1985 in Seal Beach, CA. I'm hoping to locate someone from this family so that this wonderful old photograph can be returned to their family. If you are a member of this family, or know someone who might be, please contact me. Thanks, Shelley

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: seil, brookman, schmidt, dorman, vogel,schnebel, lange, ohlmeyer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fk.2ADI/577.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: ok

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Horace Messenger Messinger. josiah E. Shaw Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fk.2ADI/577.1.1.1 Message Board Post: thank you. so quick of a quick repy too. Will county joliet 174 ?-1880 illn.

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/Fk.2ADI/577.1.1 Message Board Post: There were several Messinger brothers, and I know at least one family went to Illinois, but haven't tracked them down yet.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Meyer, seil, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Fk.2ADI/577.1 Message Board Post: wondering did he have ancestors in will co, illinois or near there?