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/ok.2ADE/4137.1 Message Board Post: And here was the question ... Can you help us please with some research? We are looking for the family of Perceval/Percival and wondering for whom Percival IA is named? Curiously enough, the semi-royalty Percevals landed in Bedford IA and then St. Joseph MO before going on to Alberta. Given that the Perceval name gets the other spelling regularly, we were just wondering if you could tell us about the small place. Sincerely. Gord Young Editor Lakefield Heritage Research ---------- Sincerest thanks to you for this grand and splendid help. This is indeed the very same family, with their variant spelling. It fully explains why the Percevals were out in there in Bedford Iowa...farming but, likely watching what was going on with the family affairs. Please thank Walter. Sincerest thanks and every good wish to you and yours. Gord

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Klein Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4138 Message Board Post: I would like to locate the street address in Tabor where my g-grandparents George & Caroline JUNGBLUTH Klein lived from about 1915 until 1924 or later. Is there someway to take property ownership information - i.e. lot and block number- and convert that to the present-day street address? I also know the street name from the 1920 census, but not the specific street number. I would appreciate any pointers. Email me directly if you wish.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: High, Henderson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4086.2.2 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. August 4, 1892. "OBITUARY".-- Henderson.-- At her residence in Walnut township, Fremont county, Iowa, on Sunday, July 24, 1892, of congestion of the liver, Martha, wife of Robert Henderson, and eldest daughter of Eph. and Elizabeth High, aged 43 years 5 months and 4 days. The deceased was a widow, her husband having been suffocated by gas in a hotel in Chicago, July 28, 1888, being there on business. She united with the Presbyterian church, about a year before her husband's death. After she became a widow she returned to Fremont county an soon after joined the M. E. church by letter. She leaves a little son 5 years old, a daughter 7 years of age, 4 step children, an aged father and mother, 2 sisters, 3 brothers and a wide circle of friends to mourn her loss. She was a most affectionate mother and cheerful and friendly towards all, endearing herself by her amiability and gentleness to all her family and friends. The funeral services took place from the residence Monday, Rev. A. E. Griffith, pastor of the Methodist church, Shenandoah, officiating. Her remains were laid to rest in the Chambers cemetery. "By and by we will meet each other As we never knew before When the morn of life is breaking When the shadows flee away. "For we know she has crossed the river Entered in the golden gate-- Hear the strains of angel music Softly falling on the ear. "When the misty veil that hides us From our dear one gone before Shall be drawn aside forever And shall meet her face to face. "For all her cares and sorrows From the heart have rolled away And her soul has risen in triumph And the veil has rent in twain. "When the grim death crossed our threshold And our dear one passed away And our hearts are torn with anguish At the thought we must part Heavenly voices whisper softly She has gone home to rest." N.B.: The Chambers Cemetery is the one for the Singleton Grove community in northeastern Prairie township, Fremont county, Iowa.--W.F.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lorimor, Wyatt, Hawke, Nuckolls Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4086.2.1 Message Board Post: Brent: During the time your grandmother was living in her apartment in Sidney near Mary Redd, I visited her in regard to an article I was mulling over in my mind, and trying to shape for publication by the Sidney Argus - Herald. The article was to be about the Cory postoffice on Walnut Creek, and knowing that Grace's family had been pioneers in that area, I decided to make a call on her. I was more than pleased on the information she furnished. Grace had an old envelope addressed to Ephraim High, Cory postoffice, Walnut Creek, Fremont county, Iowa. She loaned it to me, and the Argus of July 6, 1972 published a picture of it. This envelope she wanted returned to her, and I most certainly did. ALSO, she had an old market note dated Dec. 12th, 1859 in which C. W. Wyatt, agent for Hawke and Nuckolls of Nebraska City, was asking "Mr. Ephraim High" to consider that firm if he had any hogs to sell. Grace had no desire to keep that, and gave it to me, and I still have it. (The Sidney Argus - Herald, on July 13, 1972, published this market note with the second part of my article.) My question is: Would you want this old relic? If you should, would you e-mail me your regular address so I might return it to your family?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown, Gaston, Adams, Shepardson, Sanborn Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4132.3 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. April 23, 1903. "OLD RELIC GONE. The House Where John Brown Drilled his Men Consumed by Fire."-- Tabor, Iowa, April 11.--A little blaze in a cottage in this city a few days ago is fraught with much historic interest, for the famous "John Brown House" was the victim, a relic of the Underground Railway in the '50s and during the civil war. And what stories the little old shack could tell of the frightened gatherings of fleeing darkey slaves, or the gayer scenes when care was thrown to the winds and the floor cleared for a "reg'lar old-fashioned breakdown". For it was in the house that many a time the fiddle shrieked while the fugitives danced to a merry tune in accordance with the plans of Brown himself, who believed it a good time to thus cheer up the fleeing negroes. This house is given added interest because its builders are still living, one of them here and the other in or near Glenwood, Iowa. It also sheltered a miniature arsenal, which afterward became famous, and a cannon, which came from Maine with a party of northerners, found lodging there until it was taken to Kansas for real war. The so-called "John Brown house" was originally constructed to give additional school room for the children of the public school. Away back in the '50s the public school house was located on the site of the present big brick church of the Congregationalists. This structure was built that was to give more space for school purposes under the direction of Deacon George B. Gaston, a famous pioneer in these parts, and the men who did most of the work on the little edifice, destined to become historic, were S. H. Adams and William Shepardson--the former still living here--the latter, southwest of Glewnood. The building was located on the property owned by Dr.J. F. Sanborn. John Brown was ever bringing parties of blacks through here to aid them in their escape from slavery. This little school house served as a shelter, where they danced and fiddled away a merry hour, accompanied their benefactor to church, and then were hurried on to the next underground station. Parties were passing through Tabor from the east--one composed of 200 men from Maine. They had arms, ammunition and one cannon, which was carefully guarded. These men found lodging in this building and in other places about the small village, and later went on to assist in the free state cause in Kansas. The cannon was carried thence in a load of corn. Brown drilled his men here from time to time, who were recruited from the east, and passengers going through Tabor on the daily stage coach from Missouri viewed the proceedings in very great rage. John Brown's use of the little school house for the escaping blacks on the one hand and the people passing through from the east on the other hand, and the subsequent history of the civil war stamped the otherwise insignificant building with importance. "It seems ages ago," said S.H. Adams who built the house, the other day, "that there was much excitement in Tabor. It became quite a common thing to see party of negroes in the vicinity, where we hardly knew what a black man was prior to the Underground. It was indeed a picturesque scene to see those men drilling for a coming conflict under the leadership of John Brown. My, but he was a character! The world has never seen many such men. He was simply saturated with the idea of freeing the slaves, and that his life should be forfeited for that idea was of no consequence to him, provided that he did something toward the emancipation of the slave." It is interesting in this connection to recall the underground station at Nebraska City, Neb., which was written up in the Sunday World Herald not more than a couple of years ago. Some traces of that historic spot where the slaves were secreted still remain, and it was from that point that many fugitives were taken to Kansas and Missouri, to be piloted across the corner of Nebraska into Iowa and on to Tabor.

----- Original Message ----- From: nboyd To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 4:44 PM Subject: Underground Railroad from Thumbprints in Time 1996 Taken from “Thumbprints in Time” Fremont County Iowa Family/History Book 1996 Hope this helps Nancy M. Body The Underground Railroad There were many in Fremont County who were interested in the anti-slavery movement years before John Brown came on the scene. In the summer of 1834 a traveler on his way to Utah camped overnight near present day Tabor. In the party were six slaves and five of them made known to some of the residents that they desired to escape. During the night aid was furnished and they were taken across the Nishnabotna River and concealed in the timber and brush. The next day the traveler discovered the chores were not done and that his human chattels had escaped. Securing the aid of some pro-slavery sympathizers in the neighboring community a man hunt was organized. Some of those involved in the escape volunteered to search in the area of concealment. Of course, the slaves were not found and the “underground railroad” in the county was begun. Thirty percent of the county’s population at this time had come from slave states. Many had come to Iowa in opposition to slavery but there were many who were pro-slavery. Others considered the subject as a meddling in the affairs of another state and wanted no part of it. In 1855 on September 15, a meeting by the Anti-Slavery Friends of Fremont County was held in Sidney with the opposition present though uninvited. Those assembled for the meeting were assaulted by the pro-slavery group with the usual method of disapproval at the time-stale eggs. By 1856 Maria Gaston wrote in her Reminiscences that their homes in Tabor were overflowing with people passing to and from to Kansas trying to secure it choice of being a free state. After physical battles in Kansas the anti-slavery fighters retired to Tabor sick and sometimes dying. Woodsheds became makeshift hospitals. Weapons were stockpiled. Men drilled in the park; some done in preparation should the town become a battle ground in this controversy. Jim Lane kept the anti-slavery emigrants coming thru Fremont County headed for Kansas. The U. S. Marshall’s were looking for Lane and Brown to arrest them for bringing armed men into Kansas. Pro-Slavery Missourians were looking for them too, planning revenge. Capt. Lane was an expert military man. Dr. Blanchard had fifteen years as a missionary in Kansas and knew the territory and Mr. Gaston had the compassion to free the slaves. Each made a decision to give their lives if need be for this cause. Therefore, if slaves made it to Kansas in 1856, odds were good they’d find freedom through Lane’s Trail and the protection of Lane’s Army of the North. The starting point for the Trail which became the Underground Railroad was Topeka, Kansas with the final point in Canada; if at all possible they were to go through Civil Bend. Tunnels under ground were used as an escape route from slavery to freedom. Iowa being a free state was a first refuge for the slaves from Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. They crossed on John Boulware’s ferry at Eastport in Benton Township into an area where abolitionists would help with transportation to Chicago and Canada by using false bottomed wagons and hiding them in caves. In spite of help and protection there are stories of deaths and bounty hunters. Congregationalists who first settled in Civil Bend and later founded Tabor in 1852 believed it their duty to assist the escaping slaves. John Brown and General Jim Lane were in Fremont County and Tabor often and for periods of time. From Eastport slaves headed for Civil Bend where a shelter was in the basement of Dr. Ira Blanchard’s home. Later this property was known as the Alex Bebout home. A picture of the basement where they hid the slaves appeared in the Nebraska City News Press Vol. 106-#264 in 1960 when Lola Bebout lived there. On the main floor a bed lifted up so people could go down steps to a basement that would hold 15-20 people. A fireplace was built in the basement so slaves could cook their own food. It was tied into the main floor’s chimney. Tunnels from the house led to the barn. Unfortunately this house has been torn down. Other residents of Civil Bend fed hungry slaves, sent food with them and provided extra clothing as they were directed towards Lewis and Grinnel, Iowa. Most slave running was done at night and Rev. Todd of Tabor was known to have disguised one negro as his wife thus, using his horse and buggy. Once two female slavers were stolen in Nebraska City and brought to Civil Bend and transported to Chicago. Mr. Nuckols of Nebraska City had four slaves that were helped to Civil Bend and on to freedom by way of Copeland Landing, a crossing from Old Wyoming in Nebraska. Lester W. Platt hid them in a wagon and covered them with flour sacks of grain and took them on to Tabor. John Brown and Jim lane had a camp in a grove west of Mr. Gaston’s. Buzzard’s Nest was the name given to the Tabor Underground where, food shelter and care was given. The route for slaves from Eastport followed a path via Lester Platt’s, Richard R. Rickett’s, George B. Gaston/s Rube Williams, Joseph Treat’s and Sturgis Williams from Eureka in Benton Township to Tabor which was in Scott Township at this time. Hunters of slaves were blamed for the burning of school buildings and homes. Rube William’s home and barn were built with money collected from lawsuits against Mr. Nuckols. Later the barn was burned and many thought it was done by Mr. Nuckols. There were three black families living in Civil Bend. The Garner family settled southwest of Dr. Blanchard who had been a missionary among the Shawnee and Delaware Indians from 1833-1847. Though Mr. Garner paid $1.50 per acre for his 60 acres and put $30.00 down, Dr. Blanchard and George Gaston had to sign a bond that the Garners would never be county charges. After Mr. Garner died his children left Civil Bend and Dr. Blanchard paid the $45.00 due on the land then later sold it. The Garner children got a judgment after Dr. Blanchard died. Blacks who were free in the county had to have on file at the courthouse papers proving their freedom. In the Fremont County Courthouse today there are papers proving that a Mr. Joseph Garner, a free black, purchased for four hundred dollars a twenty-seven year old negro woman, Jane and her five children in 1839 from a Mr. John Marr of Johnson County Missouri. The children’s names were Lucinda, 7, John Green 5, Nancy Savannah 4, George Washington 3 and Isham Garner 3 months. After Mr. Garner died on son was reported to have been “hung by the neck” by a group from Nebraska City who were looking for two negro women owned by S. F. Nuckols. Other black families were the Avery’s and Smiths. When Missouri acquired the Platte Purchase in 1837, slave territory reached its most northwestern limits within the United States-namely the southern half of Fremont County! The Fremont Countian might be startled to know that just a few miles east of Civil Bend at Big Springs (Knox) slavery existed in the 1840’s when Captain John Whitehead brought two slaves with him when he purchased the home of Stephen Cooper. In 1846 Jacob McKissick had a slave woman with her children. The appraisers of James Mobley’s estate delivered ownership of 14 year old Lucy worth $300 to Elizabeth Mobley, the widow. On November 10, 1846 Margaret Eberman of Austin bought a black slave named Betsy from Nathan Meeks. Do these facts help one understand something more about the county’s culture? (Material from Jean Schobert: Wayne Polk’s article Something about the Underground Railroad published in the Sidney Argus Herald, 1952, Slavery in Fremont County, by Walter Farwell published in Sidney Argus Herald; interview with Lew Bebout) --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0603-4, 01/20/2006 Tested on: 1/20/2006 6:44:27 PM avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: 1/20/2006

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Percival, Handy, Kelsey, Montgomery Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4137 Message Board Post: THE DAILY GLOBE. March 10, 1886. "Robert Percival". -- Died.--Tuesday, March 9th, 1886 at 6 p.m., of apoplexy. Hon. Robert Percival, in the 57th year of his age.--Yesterday evening with the going down of the sun passed away in peace the spirit of Robert Percival. Mr. Percival was born in the year 1830 at Chatham Head, Northumberland county, New Brunswick. At the age of 16 years he left home to seek his fortune and found employment in a ship yard in Maine, as a ship carpenter. From there he went to New York City where he again found employment as a carpenter. Leaving New York City, he moved to Chariton county, Missouri where he taught school and took up the study of law which was destined to be his life calling. Shortly after this he came to Crescent City and then to Council Bluffs.....From here he went to Plum Hollow in Fremont County, Iowa, and taught school two terms still continuing, out of school hours, those arduous studies which made him one of the safest of legal counsellors. After having undergone the necessary training in 1855, Mr. Percival received his license to practice law from the district court at Sidney, Iowa, and at once engaged in the practice of his chosen profession in partnership with William Kelsey...... N.B.: The above clipping was sent to me many years ago (1970?) by Gertrude Handy of Percival, Iowa.--W.F. THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. June 10, 1971. (This is the caption under the picture of Robert Percival's tombstone.) "Robert Percival's Monument".--Robert Percival, a pioneer days attorney, who practiced law for a short time at Sidney and then followed his profession at Council Bluffs, is the man for whom the town of Percival is named. His final resting place is under this handsome granite shaft in the east side of the Sidney cemetery. The stone was provided by one Robert E. Montgomery, his friend. No one we have contacted has so far been able to tell us when the monument was erected or who Montgomery was. Perhaps some member of the Percival Historical Society will be able to provide us with this information. The inscription on the side of the stone shown in the photograph reads: "Robert Percival...Born in Chatham Parish....Miramichi.....New Brunswick.....March 5, 1830." On the opposite side of the stone is inscribed this simple notice: "Erected in Grateful Memory of his Friend by Robert E. Montgomery."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beatty - to - Williams Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4136 Message Board Post: HOLT COUNTY SENTINEL. Oregon, Missouri. August 14, 1868. "FINISHED".--The last rail on the St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad was laid last Monday and the first train through to Council Bluffs passed upon Tuesday morning. The road is now owned, we understand, by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company, who will from this time forward run through with regularity. Elegant new cars and engines have been received, built expressly for this road, and have taken the place of the ones heretofore used. HOLT COUNTY SENTINEL. Oregon, Missouri. November 27, 1868. "The St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad".-- This road, which hitherto has been owned by two different companies -- the portion south of the Iowa line by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company, and the portion north of said line by Messrs. Phelps an others -- is now owned entirely by the proprietors of the Hannibal and St. Joseph road. The whole line will hereafter be known as the St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad. A new time table went into effect on the road, commencing last Sunday, which is printed at the head of our local column this week. THE COUNCIL BLUFFS CHRONOTYPE. July 11, 1855. "RAILROAD CONVENTION".--Pursuant to previous notice, a Convention was held on the 4th of July, 1855, at Sidney, in Fremont county, Iowa, for the purpose of taking into consideration, the propriety and expediency of forming a Rail Road connection between St. Joseph, Missouri, Council Bluffs City, Iowa, and the intermediate Towns: Col. W. Broadus Thompson of St. Joseph, was called to the Chair, Jefferson P. Casady, Esq., L. P. Stringfield, Thomas Farmer and Thomas McAdams, were appointed Vice Presidents, and Robert L. Douglass and L. Lingenfelter, Secretaries. Col.Thompson, on taking the Chair, made a beautiful and appropriate address, relative to the object of the Convention. The following delegates appeared and took part in the proceedings: 1. St. Joseph: Col. W. Broadus Thompson, Thomas E. Bottom, Esq.,Col. J.K. Burgess, of St Joseph. 2. Council Bluffs City: C. E. Stone, Esq., Jefferson P. Casady, Esq., Robert L. Douglass, Esq., of Council Bluffs City. 3. Mills County, Iowa: J. D. Tutt, J. A. Hays, L. H. Stringfield of Mills county, Iowa 4. Atchison county, Missouri: Thomas M. McAdams, N. W. Swift of Atchison county, Missoui. 5. Fremont county, Iowa: Sen H. G. Barton, J. C. Beatty, Chauncey Cowles, Thomas Davis, Doctor William Dewey, G. P. Easton, H. W. English, John Farmer, Thomas Farmer, Edmund Fisher, A. Fletcher, A. J. Gillman, T. M. Gordon, Henry Holloway, John Kelsey,William Kelsey, Hnery Keyser, George Lacey, Littlebury Lingenfelter, Esq., A.Mann, Robert Marshall, M. F.Platt, Benjamin Rector, Fred Rector, M. Richards, T.W. Ripley, A. S. Roberts, J. C. Scott, Hon. E. H. Sears, J. Sherman, A. J. Singleton, J. L. Smith, Albert Whiting, Thadeus Williams, all of Fremont county. ...Etc...Etc...Etc. N.B.: Any progress on building this railroad was interrupted by the Civil War, 1861 - 1865, but the work on it was reinstated immediately afterwards. ....This is the railroad which I took at Hamburg, Iowa in order to attend school in Kansas City, Missouri. During the 1940's, it had a passenger car as well as a dining car. However, I believe these were removed soon afterwards, in the 1950's. It is still very much in operation.--W.F.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Livingston, Livingstone, Poulson Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4135 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. July 5, 1900. "INSTANTLY KILLED. Frank Livingstone Accidentally Shot at Farragut on the Fourth".-- During the celebration at Farragut the Fourth, on account of some trouble which arose at a shooting gallery which was being operated upon the grounds, the marshall thought it necesssary to take the guns away from the parties who were running the gallery. The guns were magazine loaders and the marshal did not understand their operation and asked that the loads be removed. It appears that some one standing by volunteered to take the loads out and while he was engaged in doing so the gun was discharged and struck Frank Livingston who was standing near by. He was killed almost instantly. The young man who was killed is a son of H. R. Livingstone, one of the well known men of Locust Grove township. He was married two years ago last March to Grace Poulson and was about twenty five years of age. The man in whose hands the gun was when it was discharged was arrested and given a preliminary trial and was dismissed as it was purely accidental.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Large, Sumner, Brandon, Frazer, Jordan Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4134 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. July 5, 1900. "A SAD AFFAIR. Three Young Women Drowned in the Nishna River on the Fourth. TWO FAMILIES SPENDING THE DAY FISHING. One of the Victims a Daughter of Peter Large; the Others Were Sisters, and Daughters of Stanley Sumner".-- The 4th of July, 1900, will long be remembered by many of the residents of Fremont county on account of the tragic events which happened that day and especially will the day be remembered by those to whom it brought such sorrow in the sudden loss of loved ones. One of the saddest happenings in the history of this county was the drowning of three young women in the Nishnabotana river above the bridge just east of Sidney. Several of the families in the vicinity of Lacey Grove northwest of Sidney had arranged to spend the day on the Nishna river at Smith lake. The families of Peter Large and Stanley Sumner were together and made some mistake in the arrangements and went to the Otte Lake instead of the one on Mr. Hawley's place. They stopped just above the river bridge and ate their dinners and thought they would remain there for the day. There were eleven in this group consisting of three young men, two of them Large boys and one Sumner boy, three young women, two of them Sumner girls and one Large, the mothers Sumner and Large, and Mr. Large, also two younger Sumner boys. After eating their dinner the boys went to look for a bathing place where the girls might go into the water without any danger.The girls had taken clothing with them suitable for going into the water. The water was shallow where they went. in. In the meantime Mr. Large and the boys had gone farther up the river where they went in bathing. Mrs.Large and Mrs. Sumner were on the banks but a short distnce below where the girls had gone in wading. It appears that Mrs. Sumner saw some commotion among the girls but thought they were only playing, but it is likely that it was their drowning struggles, as when they went a short time after to look after them the three young women were drowned. There had been no outcry to cause any alarm and the exact facts concerning the matter will never be known. The names and ages of the three young women are as follows: Lillie Belle Large, aged twenty years; Nancy Belle Sumner, nineteen; Rosa Nellie Sumner, fifteen. The women gave the alarm as soon as they saw what had happened and the young men came at once to the sad task of taking the dead bodies of their sisters from the water. Frank Brandon and the Frazer boys had gone to the river to bathe and were the first on the scene of the accident, just as the bodies had been taken from the water. They did all they could to bring them back to life. One of the young men came with all possible speed to Sidney for medical assistance. Charlie and Paul Jordan were just starting to the field as the young man who was going for the doctor came up. They hitched up to their buggy and went to the river as rapidly as possible and rendered what assistance they could and other help soon arrived, but all attempts at resuscitation proved unavailing. The girls had gotten into deep water. The two older girls had removed their shoes and stockings. Nellie Sunmner, the younger of the three girls, had her shoes and stockings on when taken from the river, from which fact it is supposed that she had not intended to go into the water with the others, and that she met her death in an attempt at the rescue of the others, but this is only supposition, as nothing more definite is known about the sad occurence. The bodies were brought to Sidney and placed in the undertaking rooms of A. Wildberger where they were suitably prepared and placed in coffins and were taken to their homes. As soon as the almost distracted families got to Sidney word was sent to other members of the families in the county. One very sad feature was the absence of Mr. Sumner who had started just a few days ago overland for Arkansas, and as there is no telling just where he can be found, it will be impossible to get him here before his daughters are buried. The burial of the young women took place this morning in the Lacy Grove cemetery. The funeral was very largely attended. This was such an unusually sad affair that it has cast a gloom over the entire community and the sympathy of all goes out to the stricken families.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4133 Message Board Post: First, thank you for your messages - BUT Today alone, I had 22 e-mail messages, that will simply have to be added to the ones that are already piled up, waiting to be answered. They are all interesting to me, but I simply cannot get around to all of them. AND I do have postings of my own that I want to make before departing this orb. I sincerely wish I had more hours in the day that are rewarding when I try to get something done, but my brain seems to give out after several hours! --W.F.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fletcher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/2209.1 Message Board Post: Do you know if this James Garfield Fletcher?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: O'Laughlin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ok.2ADE/3810.1 Message Board Post: Is this the same Archibald married to adaline Witty wade? We are trying to find more information on his parents. This is our family. Do you know where I can locate his marriage license? It is hoped there will be information about the parents on it. We are desperately needing to know where they are from. Would appreciate any help you could give. Thank you, Becky Houston

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/ok.2ADE/4132.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the feed back. It all helps. By the way, Helen Hickey Gresham is my mother....I sure know the Bebout name is familiar to me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lane, Blanchard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4132.2 Message Board Post: Mary --- William Lane married Elmira Blanchard August 11, 1858. Elmira was the daughter of Dr. Ira Blanchard. Elmira ("Mira") Blanchard Lane is buried in the Blanchard Cemetery. The Fremont County GenWeb site is a good source of information concerning who's who and connections in Fremont County: http://iagenweb.org/fremont/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blanchard, Bebout Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4132.1.1 Message Board Post: Mary, you may want to contact Max Bebout (Percival, Iowa)as he should be a good source of information concerning the Blanchard Cemetery as I believe he owns that property. Also, the Morton-James Public Library (Nebraska City) and the Fremont County Museum (Sidney, Iowa) would be good sources of information as well.

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/ok.2ADE/3571.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for your last reply. I like to check my sources so I have as accurate info as possible. Are related in some way to Ezra?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mayhew, Kagi, Brown, Blanchard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4132.1 Message Board Post: Thank you Walter. I decided I needed to start in NE City as the slaves came accross the river at that point. I located much information about Allen Mayhew and his brother-in-law John Kagi, a trusted member of Brown's abolitionists. Mayhew had the cabin and "cave" at present day NE City where the escaping slaves stayed until safe passage was arranged for crossing the MO River. The Fremont County Cemetery Book also talks about Ira Blanchard who was one of the conductors and who resided in the Civil Bend area. I was able to locate the Blanchard Cemetery with the help of my map program on my computer. I will look your article of Feb 18, 1971 up in the Sidney Argus Herald. Thanks for your help.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Platt, Lane, Bottsford Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4132 Message Board Post: Mary: I don't know what's going on, but somehow my personal e-mail had a query from you inquiring about "Conductors on the Underground Railroad", and now I cannot find your posting on Rootsweb in order that I might reply to it. (I know there are other people in Iowa who are again researching this matter.) So, I will start over. One of your questions concerned the location of Gaston post office. I wrote an article for the Sidney Argus Herald of Feb. 18, 1971, and in that you may find a longer account in that issue. But for right now, I believe Lester W. Platt's home would have to have been in the NW quarter of Section 12 Township 68 Range 44, and, I am guessing that his letter boxes would have been of the "traveling kind" which could be moved from home to home whenever the post master would be changed. The "Frontier Guardian" of Apr. 3, 1850 contains an advertisement from Leter W. Platt in which he says he lives 4 miles north of Old Fort Kearney. Also, when one remembers that the line between the State of Missouri and Potawatomie Indian Country ran across the top of township 68, it becomes obvious that Platt would have to have been living BELOW this boundary line before the Missouri - Iowa boundary was established and re-surveyed about 1850. And the question must be asked if Platt moved after the state line had been resurveyed. It appears that he might have, so the exact location of his post office undoubtedly changed accordingly!.....But, take heart, it appears Platt always lived somewhere in the Civil Bend area, about four miles north of Nebraska City, and in the immediate neighborhood of present day Percival. I notice that Rev. Bottsford (died May 24, 1884 and buried in Grandview Cemetery) of Civil Bend is one of the people you asked about.....Also, William Lane: Is he a man that took part in Bloody Kansas with John Brown and Jim Lane? At one time, I believed that he married a girl from Civil Bend, but a definite answer can't be given until I have time to look at my old notes. You say Civil Bend was given as the post office for people enumerated in Benton township in 1860. I am quite sure the Percival post office replaced Civil Bend about the time the Civil War ended.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fletcher, Anderson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ok.2ADE/4115.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Vicki, Thank you for the response. Ruth Fletcher was born to Jonathan H. Fletcher and Mary Anderson Fletcher. She had siblings, Sena, Moses, and Stella. I found an obit for Ruth but still can't find any information on the mysterious Mr. Holmes that she married or even as to the marriage date yet. According to her obit she was the libriarian for Hamburg for many years but that is the most I know about her. Thanks again for the help. Shelley