Hi Tech but interesting. Sincerely, Mike Peterson ------------------------- > Occasionally a subscriber wants to know how to locate unmarked burial sites. > > This is one way to do it. > > http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/02/102802-9.html > > I hope this helps. > > Don Kelly

I am looking for decendents of the following: Renix Wilson & Isabelle ROY Wilson (Born abt 1892) I believe their children were: Hollis R; Dewey V; Velma J; Marjorie J and Beatrice M. I am related to ISABELLE and wish to connect the two families. BElieve they lived in either your area OR Kossuth County, Iowa. Any assistance greatly appreciated. Karen Peterson St Charles, Illinois Best EMail: Peterson_Karen@Alum.Bradley.Edu

There is a person researching the WILSON surname on this page - http://iagenweb.org/chickasaw/surnameindex5.htm the web site main page is here - http://iagenweb.org/chickasaw/ . Isabelle and Renix's burials are noted on this page - http://iagenweb.org/kossuth/cemetery/Eastlawn%20Algona.htm - That sites main page is here - http://iagenweb.org/kossuth/ . Best of luck in your search. Sincerely, Mike Peterson IAGenWeb Chickasaw ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Petersons" <gogetum@sbcglobal.net> To: <IACHICKA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 6:18 AM Subject: [IACHICKA] Renix & Isabelle Wilson Decendents > I am looking for decendents of the following: > Renix Wilson & Isabelle ROY Wilson (Born abt 1892) > I believe their children were: Hollis R; Dewey V; Velma J; Marjorie J and Beatrice M. > I am related to ISABELLE and wish to connect the two families. BElieve they lived in either your area OR Kossuth County, Iowa. Any assistance greatly appreciated. > > Karen Peterson > St Charles, Illinois > Best EMail: Peterson_Karen@Alum.Bradley.Edu > > > > ==== IACHICKA Mailing List ==== > Chickasaw Ancestry.com Message Board: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=an&p=localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.chickasaw > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

The following message has been posted on the Chickasaw Queries Board. To read the new posting or to reply to a Query, click on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#72788) Looking For Descendants <http://iagenweb.org/boards/chickasaw/queries/index.cgi?rev=72788> AUTHOR: Mike Peterson DATE: 4/22/2005 at 13:47:27 Surnames: ADMINISTRATIVE POST,SHAFFER I am hoping I might find some descendants of Wayland and Izettie Shaffer who were from this area. Their children were: Myrtle, Henry, Fred, Grace, Lauren, Alice and Gordon Shaffer. If you ever hear from any of this family please let me know. Thank you. Grferrari@aol.com

The following message has been posted on the Chickasaw Queries Board. To read the new posting or to reply to a Query, click on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#72728) Re: R.L. Bean/ who is he? <http://iagenweb.org/boards/chickasaw/queries/index.cgi?rev=72728> AUTHOR: Mike Peterson DATE: 4/21/2005 at 17:57:07 Reply To: (#72722) R.L. Bean/ who is he? Author: lFred Bean Date: 4/21/2005 at 16:26:49 Surnames: BEAN Hi Fred, You may have a lot of this if not all but am sending on what I can find. Ancestry.com has two civil war databases on Richard L. Bean. One has: Name: Richard L Bean , Residence: Nashua, Iowa Enlistment Date: 22 September 1862 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Union State Served: Iowa Unit Numbers: 178 178 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 22 September 1862 at the age of 42 Enlisted in Company C, 6th Cavalry Regiment Iowa on 22 September 1862. Received a disability discharge Company C, 6th Cavalry Regiment Iowa on 21 April 1863 The other has: Name: Richard L. Bean Company: C Unit: 11 Mississippi Infantry. Rank - Induction: Sergeant Rank - Discharge: Private Allegiance: Confederate Notes: R. L. Bean In addition, ancestry.com has reference to a Richard L. Bean who appears on Tennessee Confederates Pension applications with a widow named Nora. From various records: Richard L. Bean b. 5 Jan 1808 (WPA), Windsor, Vermont, 1804 (1860 Census, Vermont), died 1-16-1869, buried Oak Hill; wife Sarah Cook Bean, b. 1812 (WPA) 1816 (1860 Census), d. 1895. Served in 6th Iowa Cavalry, Company C. Son Richard Rufus served 27th Iowa Infantry, Company G. 1860 census (Bradford, Chickasaw County, Iowa) has he and Sarah with these children: Henry, Levi, Richard, George, Hoolten (?), Samuel, Ellen, Lucinda, Andrew although Andrew may be a son to Lucinda. Hope this helps. Sincerely, Mike Peterson

The following message has been posted on the Chickasaw Queries Board. To read the new posting or to reply to a Query, click on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#72722) R.L. Bean/ who is he? <http://iagenweb.org/boards/chickasaw/queries/index.cgi?rev=72722> AUTHOR: lFred Bean DATE: 4/21/2005 at 16:26:49 Surnames: BEAN I have searched all the records available to me in hopes of finding any personal information re: R.L. Bean, Capt.Co.F, 8th MS. Cavalry, CSA. d. 1864 in Battle of Brices Crossroads, Baldwyn, MS.Since I have found no information other than that above, I am posting to this site in the hope that the R.L. Bean above has been misidentified with the R.L. Bean from Chickasaw Co, Iowa rather than from Chickasaw Co. MS. If you have personal info re: the Bean from Iowa, please let me hear from you. Thanks very much.Fred Bean

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/Zk.2ADE/998 Message Board Post: All to often we see the need for volunteer lookups right in the Chickasaw County whether they be cemetery, land, court house, etc. We would certainly like to be able to list Chickasaw residents (or close to Chickasaw) who would be willing to be on our LOOKUPS page - http://iagenweb.org/chickasaw/vollookups.htm - for free local lookups in helping remote people doing lookups in Chickasaw. If you are willing to volunteer please send me a note at geanie@cox.net email. Another possibility is for local people to volunteer for Randam Acts of Genealogical Kindness at their Iowa web page - http://raogk.com/iowa.htm . Sincerely, Mike Peterson IAGenWeb Chickasaw County Coordinator

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/Zk.2ADE/997.2.1 Message Board Post: I did see that and do believe it is a typo on their part. I haven't had much luck. It's as if it never happened. I appreciate your help. Thanks. Sincerely, Kandi

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/Zk.2ADE/997.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks Mike I will do that. This has been such a struggle. Everywhere I've turned has been a dead end, it's like no one believes it and has no record of it. Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.

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/Zk.2ADE/997.2 Message Board Post: I googled Little Brown Church+Ray Charles. There was a very brief reference in a link on the 150th anniversary of the church that said the late Ray Charles sang at a wedding in 1942. The date could be a typo and that was all it said. Hope this helps a littel.

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/Zk.2ADE/996.1.1 Message Board Post: I have a general web page for the lists I manage. The list description is on the Rootsweb Mail Lists Index. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic-German/GERMANS-NE-IA.html http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/lists/index.htm

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/Zk.2ADE/996.1 Message Board Post: There used to be a web site for this. Is that now gone? Sincerely, Mike Peterson

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/Zk.2ADE/997.1 Message Board Post: Hi Kandi ! I would think that if there was an account of it that the Nashua Reporter would have it. However, the online Nashua Reporter does not cover years 1961 or 1962. If you haven't already, you might try contacting them at Nashua Reporter, PO Box 67, 216 Main St., Nashua, Ia. 50658, (641)435-4151. Sincerely, Mike Peterson

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/Zk.2ADE/997 Message Board Post: My parents were married August 5th 1962 at the little Brown Church in Nashua, IA...the late Ray Charles performed a song at their wedding as a last minute gift to them as he was there that day for some other reason. The only picture my parents have of their wedding day was taken and later mailed by a complete stranger he signed the back W C Robe from Belle Plaine, Ia. Does anyone have any info on this particular day or a way I can find out??? The current pastor has no account of this. My parents are Herb and Virginia Collins (Viers) of Swan , Iowa

The following message has been posted on the Chickasaw Biographies Board. To read the new posting or to reply to a Query, click on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#72433) L.F. Benz <http://iagenweb.org/boards/chickasaw/biographies/index.cgi?rev=72433> AUTHOR: Sharyl Ferrall DATE: 4/18/2005 at 07:24:19 Surnames: BENZ,SCLATTER L.F. Benz Representative from the Eighty-ninth district. Was born in Stevenson county, Ill. on February 4, 1862. In 1866 he moved with his parents to Iowa and settled on a farm in Chickasaw county in Stapleton township, Section 10. On May 24, 1888, he was married to Miss Susan Sclatter and moved to a farm in Section 14, Stapleton township, where he now resides. He has served many years as school director, as township trustee and was elected county supervisor in 1908 -- he held this office for six years. Was elected representative on November 2, 1920. A democrat in politics. -source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Biographies of State Representatives, pg. 334

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/Zk.2ADE/996 Message Board Post: Come and join the GERMANS-NE-IA Rootsweb (GERMANS-NE-IA-L) Discussion List. This list is for the discussion of the Genealogy and History of GERMANS in Nebraska & Iowa. This includes immigrants from all parts of Germany, Pomerania, Saxony, etc. Discussion of migration patterns, immigration, heraldry, historical sketches, settlements, census data, wills, family Bibles, vital records, web sites, etc. is encouraged. I also will allow seasonal (holiday) messages in relation to favorite GERMAN recipes that were handed down from generation to generation. The discussion of the GERMAN culture in Nebraska & Iowa is also encouraged. My name is Kathie Harrison, and I'm the administrator of this list. Subscribing. Use these manual instructions: to SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE GERMANS-NE-IA-L, send mail to GERMANS-NE-IA-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word subscribe or unsubscribe in the message subject and body. To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE GERMANS-NE-IA-D, do the same thing with GERMANS-NE-IA-D-request@rootsweb.com It is not necessary to be subscribed in both the L & D Modes. Take care, Kathie Harrison GERMANS-NE-IA & GERMANS-WI List Admin

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/Zk.2ADE/295.1 Message Board Post: Joyce, I am looking for descendants of a Erma V. Bartlett that is connected to a tree you had listed on Ancestry. Please contact me. Kathy

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Trusty/Nelson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Zk.2ADE/995 Message Board Post: I'm looking for a copy or transcript of obituaries for George O. Trusty, Jr. and his wife Selma Olive Nelson Trusty. George died March, 1981 and Selma died Jan, 1978. They were living in Ionia. Can anyone help?

The following message has been posted on the Chickasaw Documents Board. To read the new posting or to reply to a Query, click on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#72246) HASS-BAILEY WEDDING <http://iagenweb.org/boards/chickasaw/documents/index.cgi?rev=72246> AUTHOR: Marilyn O'Conno DATE: 4/14/2005 at 22:33:26 Surnames: HASS BAILEY Mary Imogene Hass Wed to B.L. Bailey DOUGHERTY- Miss Mary Imogene Hass, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hass of Dougherty, became the bride of Byron L. Bailey of Tallulah, La, March 24 in the Methodist church at Trenton, Mo. Attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hagarty of Goodell. A wedding dinner was served at the Hotel Plaza for members of the immediate family. Mrs. Bailey is a graduate of Sheffield high school and attended Iowa State Teachers college. Mr. Bailey attended the University of Wisconsin. They will make their home in Tallulah after April 1.

The following message has been posted on the Chickasaw Documents Board. To read the new posting or to reply to a Query, click on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#72245) BOAL-PETERS WEDDING <http://iagenweb.org/boards/chickasaw/documents/index.cgi?rev=72245> AUTHOR: Marilyn O'Conno DATE: 4/14/2005 at 22:28:18 Surnames: BOAL PETERS Boal-Peters New Hampton- Announcement has been received here of the marriage of Miss Charlotte Peters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Peters, and Floyd E. Boal of Buffalo, N.Y. at Washington D.C. on Dec. 27. The bride is a graduate of the New Hampton high school and has been employed in Washington, D.C. by the social security board.