Same ting happened to me. -----Original Message----- From: BJ Whitsitt [mailto:folkie@insightbb.com] Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:32 PM To: IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Check out this site. Hi, All... When I clicked on this link, an error message popped up saying that the page can't be found. Any advice? Thanks.. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Fenton" <KeokukCoGenealogy@msn.com> To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 10:28 PM Subject: [IADECATU] Check out this site. > > http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz/<http://spaces.msn.com/members/f entonscheetz/> > > Here is my new personal web page dedicated to my families' genealogies. I am starting with my Great Grandmother's Photo Albums. The handsome gent on the main page is my Grandpa Joshua Parker Fenton. > > These albums "were destroyed in a fire and did not exist" until 2 years ago, so please look if you have any of these surnames in your line. Fenton, Frisby, Crockett, Robinson, Sheen, Poland, McMurtrey, Tobian, Pickett, and a host of unknowns. If you can identify the person, I would love to know who they are and I will update the name on the photo. Come back often because I will be adding more data on a regular basis. > > Best regards; > > Craig Fenton > > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== > Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com: Decatur County List Administrator, > Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com: Decatur County List Administrator, Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu ============================== 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

Hi, All... When I clicked on this link, an error message popped up saying that the page can't be found. Any advice? Thanks.. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Fenton" <KeokukCoGenealogy@msn.com> To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 10:28 PM Subject: [IADECATU] Check out this site. > > http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz/<http://spaces.msn.com/members/f entonscheetz/> > > Here is my new personal web page dedicated to my families' genealogies. I am starting with my Great Grandmother's Photo Albums. The handsome gent on the main page is my Grandpa Joshua Parker Fenton. > > These albums "were destroyed in a fire and did not exist" until 2 years ago, so please look if you have any of these surnames in your line. Fenton, Frisby, Crockett, Robinson, Sheen, Poland, McMurtrey, Tobian, Pickett, and a host of unknowns. If you can identify the person, I would love to know who they are and I will update the name on the photo. Come back often because I will be adding more data on a regular basis. > > Best regards; > > Craig Fenton > > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== > Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com: Decatur County List Administrator, > Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

The following emails are not working. If you are listed or if you know a correct email address for one of the following people, please let me know as soon as possible. Thanks! LARRY BRIGHT CLEVELAND CONNIE _DEEKERS99@AOL.COM_ (mailto:DEEKERS99@AOL.COM) JANE DORSEY REBECCA GARRLENTINI MAGGIE LUMPKINS JACKIE PHIPPS HAZEL TARR ANN UPTGRAFT JEANNE WILSON CHANNING & CHARLA WINNETT SANDY WUNDER I've completed the D Surnames List now. More tomorrow. Stacey Dietiker

http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz/<http://spaces.msn.com/members/fentonscheetz/> Here is my new personal web page dedicated to my families' genealogies. I am starting with my Great Grandmother's Photo Albums. The handsome gent on the main page is my Grandpa Joshua Parker Fenton. These albums "were destroyed in a fire and did not exist" until 2 years ago, so please look if you have any of these surnames in your line. Fenton, Frisby, Crockett, Robinson, Sheen, Poland, McMurtrey, Tobian, Pickett, and a host of unknowns. If you can identify the person, I would love to know who they are and I will update the name on the photo. Come back often because I will be adding more data on a regular basis. Best regards; Craig Fenton

Hi Everyone - I've had a few emails come through with these questions and I just want to clarify how this works for you all so that maybe there won't be so much confusion. I hope this helps you guys! I've run across some confusion about the Decatur County, Iowa Rootsweb Mailing List vs. the Decatur County, Iowa IAGENWEB Website. Just for clarification, the mailing list and the website ARE NOT connected. The Website is a part of the IOWAGENWEB Project and the mailing list is run by Rootsweb. When you change your email address on the mailing list by unsubscribing and subscribing under the new email address, IT WILL NOT automatically change your email address on the Website. To change your email address on the Website, you need to send me an email at _Momdit@aol.com_ (mailto:Momdit@aol.com) and let me know that your email address has changed and the Surnames you are listed under and also anywhere else on the Website that you might be listed, such as the Lookups or Photos Pages. The names that I have listed on the last email are those that are on the Surnames Listings but are not working. They are coming back to me with the message that they are unknown by the service provider (i.e. AOL, MSN, Earthlink, etc.). Since we can't send the person an email to connect with them on the surname they have listed I am going to remove the email addresses that no longer are working after I try every avenue I have to find them. By sending the list to our mailing list I'm hoping to be able to find a few of these people's new email addresses and by doing that, hoping that they won't have to be removed from the Surnames Lists. I hope that helps to clarify this a little bit for all of you! Thanks for your help! Stacey Dietiker momdit@aol.com Decatur Co IA List Administrator Decatur Co IA Website Coordinator

I was wondering if someone could help me out with finding further information on this family line? Perhaps obiutary lookups would be fine or census lookup. It would greatly be appreciated. Gwen Ole A. Olson & Mallene Toreson Danielson ================================================================================ Husband: Ole A Olson ================================================================================ AKA: Born: 2 Apr 1839 - Askerhus, Buskernd, Norway Christened: Died: 8 Apr 1909 - Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa, USA Buried: Father: Sr. Austin Olson (Abt 1813-1843) Mother: Caroline Hayer (Abt 1817-1856) Married: 30 Apr 1860 Place: Lasalle Co, IL ================================================================================ Wife: Mallene Toreson Danielson ================================================================================ AKA: Born: 14 Jan 1838 - Vallem, Ardal, Norway Christened: 17 Mar 1839 - Vallem, Ardal, Norway Died: 1 Oct 1909 - Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa Buried: Father: Tore 'Thomas' Danielsson (1781-1861) Mother: Sophie Pedersdatter Svadberg (1805-Aft 1870) ================================================================================ Children ================================================================================ 1 M Austin Olson Born: 10 Feb 1861 - Norway, Lasalle Co, Illinois, USA Christened: Died: Aug 1930 - Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa, USA Buried: Spouse: Elizabeth Rogers (Abt 1866- ) Marr. Date: Abt 1887 Spouse: Marr. Date: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 M Thomas Edward Olson Born: 8 Jul 1863 - Norway, Lasalle Co, Illinois, USA Christened: Died: 6 Sep 1906 - Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa, USA Buried: Spouse: Nellie M Hougas (1863-1943) Marr. Date: 6 Dec 1883 Spouse: Marr. Date: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 M Amos P Olson Born: 30 Oct 1866 - Ottawa, La Salle, Illinois Christened: Died: 6 Sep 1936 - Des Moines, Polk, Iowa Buried: Spouse: Katherine Scougall (1872-1950) Marr. Date: 13 Oct 1902 - Near Belvidere, Boone, Illinois Spouse: Marr. Date: Gwen

I'm only halfway through the B Surnames List and I already have quite a list of unknown user emails. Please check to see if your name is listed here or if you know any of these people. If you are listed, please contact me ASAP! I will begin deleting these people within the next week from the Surnames Lists. Thanks so much for your help with this! BEVERLY BARGER LAURA ADAMS PAM SHELTON-ANDERSON JUDY CHASTAIN VALERY FROST JUANITA LORETTA HILBERT JEFFREY BROWN _jimg@olyoffice.com_ (mailto:jimg@olyoffice.com) RICHARD BEISIGL THOMAS W. BROWN H TILMAN RICH AND PAULA HILSON SPENCER RADNICH _MANSIONONMAIN@AOL.COM_ (mailto:MANSIONONMAIN@AOL.COM) BARBARA BOWER MARTIN DAY Stacey Dietiker momdit@aol.com Decatur Co IA List Administrator Decatur Co IA Website Coordinator

Thanks so much for the very good response to my last email about changing your email addresses on the surnames lists! Wow! I've just completed changing and adding all of the listings received up to today - 2/19/05. There are several new Surnames so check them out! I've just sent out test messages to those on the A Surnames Listings. If you receive a test email just delete it. I'm only looking for emails that bounce back to me with a "user unknown" message. I will try not to send a message for every name you have listed but I may miss a few. If I do, my apologies in advance! So many names listed it's hard to remember but I'm making a list and checking it twice! Thanks so much for your help with this! It will help to clean out those email addresses that no longer work. Stacey Dietiker momdit@aol.com Decatur Co IA List Administrator Decatur Co IA Website Coordinator

Just a little reminder before I check out the email addresses on our Surnames Lists. If you have changed your email address in the last six months please check your listing(s) on the Surnames Lists for Decatur County, Iowa at _www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu/surnames/Surnames1.html_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu/surnames/Surnames1.html) . I will be testing the addresses starting next week. If an email no longer exists it will be removed. Thank you for your attention to this matter! I am steadily working away at the transcription of the WPA Cemetery records. As soon as I figure out how I want to arrange the pages on the website I will start putting the information online. It will be arranged alphabetically. I will send an email when any of it is ready for your perusal. Some of the Surnames Lists have been updated today with a few new Surnames. Stacey Dietiker momdit@aol.com Decatur Co IA List Administrator Decatur Co IA Website Coordinator

Hello, Leon Follmer is looking for information and possibly connections to his family. You can contact Leon at: follmer@isgs.uiuc.edu Thanks, Deborah I am a grandson of George's brother John, who lived near Pontiac, Illinois. I would like to link up with descendents of George and compare notes on family history. I have recently connected with a distant cousin in German who has family history back to about 1700. Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa Thursday, January ll, l923 GEORGE HENRY CHRIST FOLLMER was born in Ripley County, Indiana, January l5, l86l. Departed this life January 4, l923. He was united in marriage to MARGARET KIRCHHOFF in l883. To this union were born eleven children, MRS. ED DAVIS, MRS. CHAS. BURCHETT, EDITH M., FRED C., WILL G., SYLVA M., JESSIE F., JANE M., LINCOLN J., AMANDA E., and EDWARD J. MRS. ED DAVIS preceded him three years ago. Besides his wife and children, he leaves to mourn two brothers, JOHN FOLLMER, of Pontiac, Ill.; and ALBERT FOLLMER, of Osgood, Ind., four grandchildren and a host of friends and relatives. He moved with his family from Indiana to Illinois in l889, to Iowa in l896 and to Missouri in l9l9, at which place he resided at the time of his death. He united with the German Lutheran Church at the age of fourteen, which faith he kept till death called him. He was also a member of the Iowa Homestead Lodge of Leon, Iowa, being an active member in this organization for a number of years. Funeral services were conducted at the Akron Presbyterian Church, Sunday, January 7th at ll a.m. by Rev. Henry Esch of Cainsville. Interment was in the Akron Cemetery. Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert "With permission from the Leon Journal Reporter" July l4, 2002

I am trying to find further information on this family line. Perhaps obiutary lookups would be fine or census lookup. Ole A. Olson & Mallene Toreson Danielson ================================================================================ Husband: Ole A Olson ================================================================================ AKA: Born: 2 Apr 1839 - Askerhus, Buskernd, Norway Christened: Died: 8 Apr 1909 - Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa, USA Buried: Father: Sr. Austin Olson (Abt 1813-1843) Mother: Caroline Hayer (Abt 1817-1856) Married: 30 Apr 1860 Place: Lasalle Co, IL ================================================================================ Wife: Mallene Toreson Danielson ================================================================================ AKA: Born: 14 Jan 1838 - Vallem, Ardal, Norway Christened: 17 Mar 1839 - Vallem, Ardal, Norway Died: 1 Oct 1909 - Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa Buried: Father: Tore 'Thomas' Danielsson (1781-1861) Mother: Sophie Pedersdatter Svadberg (1805-Aft 1870) ================================================================================ Children ================================================================================ 1 M Austin Olson Born: 10 Feb 1861 - Norway, Lasalle Co, Illinois, USA Christened: Died: Aug 1930 - Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa, USA Buried: Spouse: Elizabeth Rogers (Abt 1866- ) Marr. Date: Abt 1887 Spouse: Marr. Date: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 M Thomas Edward Olson Born: 8 Jul 1863 - Norway, Lasalle Co, Illinois, USA Christened: Died: 6 Sep 1906 - Lamoni, Decatur, Iowa, USA Buried: Spouse: Nellie M Hougas (1863-1943) Marr. Date: 6 Dec 1883 Spouse: Marr. Date: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 M Amos P Olson Born: 30 Oct 1866 - Ottawa, La Salle, Illinois Christened: Died: 6 Sep 1936 - Des Moines, Polk, Iowa Buried: Spouse: Katherine Scougall (1872-1950) Marr. Date: 13 Oct 1902 - Near Belvidere, Boone, Illinois Spouse: Marr. Date: Gwen

Hello, Anita Zieman has emailed me regarding this family. Samuel was her great-great grandfather. She would like to hear from any family connections there may be subscribed to the list. Her email is: Weezerz@aol.com Thanks, Deborah Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa Thursday, October 29, l925 WILLIAM RILEY CLARK was the son of SAMUEL and LUCINDA (SHELTON) CLARK. He was born in Ray County, Mo., May ll, l859, and passed away at his home in Creston, Iowa, Oct. 22nd at the age of 66 years. He was married to MARTHA ELLEN CLARK at Leon, Iowa, l877, and to this union were born seven children, five of who remain to mourn his death; CLAUD, of Portland, Ore.; MRS. FRANK GUNTER, of Winterset, Iowa; LEWIS, of Creston; WILLARD, of Los Angeles, California; and MRS. CLYDE SHELL, of Shenandoah. His first wife died in l899. On March 27, l902, he was married to MARY CORDELIA, GOFF VAN HORN. To this union were born three children, MRS. JAMES COZARD, 206 South Birch Street; CLARA and CLARENCE, all of Creston. He leaves three brothers, THOMAS CLARK, of Haxtun, Col.; WILLIS CLARK, of Garden Grove, and LEE CLARK, of Creston. Short services were held at 9 o'clock Sunday morning at the McGregor & Coen Chapel. The remains were taken to Leon, Iowa, where services were held at the Presbyterian Church and interment in the Leon Cemetery. MR. CLARK made his home at Leon until he moved to Creston l3 years ago. He was a kind and loving husband and father and a faithful friend to all, and will be sorely missed by all. Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert "With permission from the Leon Journal Reporter"

Here are my Decatur surnames: Lane Dillon Shumway Barrett Prior Thanks Bob Bixby

Here are some of my surnames: Bridger Huffhines Noftsger Lewis Peterson Doxtator McHarness Gray Williams Cramblitt Willey Foreman Sullivan Post Chaney Earley Warner Vanderflught Truesdale Cook Pullen Maybe will think of more later Wanda Wanda --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone.

CASS, will send thru Decatur Co, Ia group and perhaps someone else is working on this family. We are living on the MO border and sometimes they are buried there also. marie, iowa ---Original Message----- From: Lucien and Cass Williams [mailto:lwilliams280@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:24 PM To: mari@netins.net Subject: SUBJECT=LOOKUPS/DECATUR CO,IOWA/CEMETARIES) Dear Ms. Hollinger, Would you have any cemetery listing for the following STANLEY surname? Hiram J. STANLEY - listed Eden Twp. 1860 census, b. abt 1819 - d. abt. 1862 Hannah STANLEY (wife) b. abt 1826 - d. abt. 1878 Houston STANLEY (son) died infancy - abt.1848 Other STANLEY children names: Ebin STANLEY b. 1844 IA Emily STANLEY b. abt. 1845 -m- John MINTER. Lived Mercer Co., MO. Migrated to WY bef. turn of the century Squire STANLEY b. 1850 IA -m- Deborah MUNDELL 4 Nov 1877 Abram STANLEY b. 1852 IA -m- Theresa ? (They are buried in Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, Mercer Co., MO) Isaac STANLEY b. 1856 IA, d. 1857 IA Sarah Hilliance STANLEY b. 1857 IA d. abt.. 1934. Married William Holmes abt.1876 Anna STANLEY b. 1860 IA d. ? (All children probably born Decatur Co., IA) Thank you so very much! Sincerely, Cass Williams lwilliams280@comcast.net

Decatur Folks, A few may be interested in a Supreme Court Case of MO vs. IA ,165 US 118, where the State Line was in dispute. It focuses on the line running between the border town of Pleasanton and the border town of Lineville. There was a survey done in 1850 and then a court case in 1897. It also includes the words "a witnessed stone at the corner common to Wayne and Decatur counties, Iowa.". http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=165&invol=1 18 U.S. Supreme Court, Missouri vs. Iowa, 165 U.S. 118 (1897) I found it difficult to wade through the legal words and the survey terms, and I think most of the several names may be outsiders, however my gr-gr-grandfather FUGATE was the surveyor mentioned. He became the Mercer Co Surveyor in 1850. There was also a STOKES fence mentioned. Perhaps someone else with a background for reading things like that could fish out any other likely Decatur Co. names in that document. Elaine

Hello, Doing some transcribing for Jefferson County, Iowa and this piece was part of it. I have more on the Van Nostrand family that I transcribed if anyone is interested. There are other families also from Jefferson County included. The piece below did not say it was a "Portrait and Biographical Album" of Jefferson County, Iowa. Page 473, Portrait & Biographical Album, Pub. 1890. JOHN VAN NOSTRAND was born 1 Sept. 1800 in Westmoreland County, Penn. In Ashland County, Ohio, he married MISS. ELIZA GRIBBEN, native of Penn., but of Irish descent, her parents having been born in Ireland. His death occurred on the 6th of April 1859 after an eight-years' residence in Iowa. His wife was called home about three years previous, dying in November 1855, at the age of 54 years. They had four sons and three daughters, but only three are now living: WILLIAM, a resident farmer of Decatur County, Iowa; AMANDA, wife of JOHN BIRKHIMER, whose home is in Fremont County, Iowa; CLARK VAN NOSTRAND, Sec. 18, Buchanan Twp., Jefferson Co., was born in Ashland County, Ohio, Jan. 12, 1831; married, 23 April 1859, MISS SARAH WHITING. Their children: EMMA, married BENJAMIN L. GOSSICK, farmer of Buchanan Township; ANDREW B., Colorado; and LEWIS W. at home. Deborah

Thanks Staci for your work and for the information! One of my first genealogy searches in the early 1970's was in Decatur Co IA. It was wonderful to have those WPA Cem Records! In fact, they showed old tombstones for my great-grandparents (William A. and Minerva Ellen Riddle Curry) that my grandmother later replaced. There was more information on the old ones so I appreciated that discovery! Gayle in Kansas

Just wanted to let you all in on some new information coming out soon to both the Decatur County, Iowa website and the Iowa Genweb Website which includes Iowa as a whole. Several volunteers are working on transcribing the WPA (Works Progress Administration) Cemetery Records completed back in the 1940's for all of the counties for which it exists in Iowa. I am transcribing Decatur County and will be posting it to the Decatur County website as well as the Iowa Genweb WPA project page. These records are not extremely accurate by any means as often they were not obtained by actual survey of the cemetery but through court and county records, including information where there often were no stones to correspond. These records were typed on a manual typewriter and I can attest that the Decatur County section has some quite a few typos. Since it's a transcription I can't take the liberty of correcting those typos but I have tried to correct the name of the cemetery in parenthesis as often as I can. There are over 155 pages included in the Decatur County section and I have almost completed the "C" Surnames. I will begin posting these to the website soon. To read a very good explanation of the records and the project in general go to the following link: _http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ia/wpa.htm_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ia/wpa.htm) And since I have your attention - There are many other special projects going on in the Iowa Genweb as a whole. Many of which you can contribute to on your own. Of course there is the wonderful Iowa Gravestones Project which is a wonderful way to not only find your Iowa ancestors but to also obtain and share photos of stones. You can find this project at: _www.iowagravestones.org_ (http://www.iowagravestones.org/) Another great project just getting off the ground is the Iowa Family Group Sheets project where you can submit your Family Group Sheets and search for others researching your Surnames. You can find this project at: _http://www.rootsweb.com/~iafgs/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~iafgs/) One of the newest projects is the Iowa Old Press Project. This is a project where you can submit and read transcriptions from old Iowa newspapers. This project can be found at: _http://iowaoldpress.com/_ (http://iowaoldpress.com/) These are just a few of my favorites. Other special projects can be found at _www.Iagenweb.org_ (http://www.iagenweb.org/) including Civil War Project, Orphan Train Riders Project, Iowa History Project, Iowa State Census project. When you reach the page, scroll down just a little and the special projects are listed on the left hand side of the page. Stacey Dietiker momdit@aol.com Decatur Co IA List Administrator Decatur Co IA Website Coordinator

Deca Folks, Does anyone know who Morgan Township was named after? Elaine