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/1711.7.1 Message Board Post: George A. Lush, Charles Billeen and Chris Hess are all in my family tree with George Lush being my grandfather. Any additional information you can provide me on them would be much appreciated. Kathy

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/1721.1 Message Board Post: I am so sorry to hear about Forrest. Please know that you are in my thoughts at this difficult time. We have been in and out of town and I have not been checking the message boards very regularly lately. Of course, when I checked today I saw your posting. Forrest certainly did well with his U of Iowa education! I remember fondly the number of times I "caught" a ride home with Forrest from school. I have been "busy" searching the other branches of my tree, with success I might add, but I will get back to you soon.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Evans Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1722 Message Board Post: In her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1850 Federal Census for Fremont county, Iowa Horace Evans....40....b. New Hampshire Candace............30.......Ohio Oscar................13.......Misssouri Urial....................8.......Illinois John....................8.......Illinois Merritt.................6.......Illinois Laura...................3.......Iowa Candace..............1.......Iowa 2. 1852 Fremont county Census: NOT FOUND 3. 1854 Fremont county Census, "Scott township" Horace Evans...4m...3f....1 voter...1 militia....no aliens 4. 1856 Iowa State Census, Fremont county, Sidney twp.: Horace Evans....45...b. NH....8 years in Iowa Candace...........36.......Ohio..8 Osker...............18.......MO....8 Rial...................14......ILL.....8 Merit..................12.....ILL.....8 Byron...................1.....Iowa...1 Lora.....................9.....Iowa....8 Mariah..................7....Iowa.....7

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Farwell, Welby, Liggett, Love, Snowden Sayre, Haning, Bell, Musser, Brubaker, Allard, Woodbury, Conant, Thorndike, Harrington, Waller, Surface. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1721 Message Board Post: FORREST KAY FARWELL died June 29, 2002 at the Rosewood Care Center, Moline, Illinois, after an extended illness caused by "cell" cancer. He was the son of Clyde Ross and Erma Leona (Liggett) Farwell, and the descendant of Henry and Olive (Welby) Farwell, immigrants about 1635 from Boston, county Lincoln, England. His grandfather, Byron Skiff Farwell, is number 4702 in the "Farwell Family" genealogy. The European ancestry of the family of Clyde Farwell (1893 - 1967), through Olive Welby, can be traced by using Weis's "Ancestral Roots", or, Buck and Beard's "Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants", or, Roberts" "Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants". The Farwell family was from County Norfolk. His mother (1897 - 1968) was a direct descendant of John Ligget (sic), died 1763, in Windsor township, York county, PA. Her collateral lines of Love, Snowden, Sayre, Haning, Bell, Musser, Brubaker have been published. She had several lines of descent from old families who settled at Salem, Massachusetts including Woodbury, Conant (both called "Old Planters" by Massachusett's colonial history), Thorndike (as shown in Roberts' "...500 Immigrants"). Although the descendants of Hugh Allard, fishing boat captain at the Isles of Shoals, have been traced, there is no publication in book form. Forrest graduated from the Sidney, Iowa, Community Schools in 1954, and from the business administration college at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, in 1963 at which time he accepted a job as traveling auditor for John Deere Company of Moline, Illinois. He was employed as an auditor in the branch internal audit department at Lansing, Michigan, as an auditor with John Deere Ltd. in South Africa. After that, he was a controller for John Deere in southeastern United States at Atlanta, Georgia, and then as a marketing service advisor in the main office in Moline, Illinois. After 29 years, he retired in 1992. At the time he learned of his terminal illness, in November 2001, he was improving his "lake" which he had constructed on a farming property at Orion, Illinois. Forrest Kay "Poot" Farwell was born May 27, 1936 in Riverton, Iowa, at the home of his uncle Forrest Liggett, a town barber. He grew up on the family farm on the southeastern edge of the Nishna Valley neighborhood in Prairie township. At age 12, the family--which included his niece, Judith Jean Harrington--moved to the old Farwell home place in Walnut township , straight north of Farragut in the McIntyre neighborhood, and near the eastern edge of Singleton Grove. He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister Norma Jeanne (Farwell) Harrington in 1948, and by a brother Robert Farwell of Valley, Nebraska, in 1986, and by his brother-in-law, Charles Neal Harrington. Survivors include his brothers Jack, Walter and Rex; also, his niece Judy (Harrington) Waller, and his brother's widow, Barbara (Surface) Farwell. Forrest served two years in the army. Inurnment was in the Sidney, Iowa, Cemetery.

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/710.1 Message Board Post: I have an Edwin Denny in my line. He was born in 1872 in Illinois, son of Carlos Denny and Susan Kelsey. Moved to Osborne Co., KS when he was small. Would this be your Edwin Denny?

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/980.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I am from Craig, Nebraska, and I am curious about the Cowgers. Didn't they have a drug store in Craig at one time? Shirley

Just beginning to work on this side of the family and according to the 1880 census, Arvill or Arvil Switzer and his wife, Mahalia Delight Adams are living in Hamburg with daughter Nellie age 8. Arvill and wife were both born in NY. Pretty sure Arvill died in Jan. of 1926 and his wife died later. I have only 2 children so far, Nellie and Fred Ross Switzer, he married Myrtle Lilly White I believe in Hamburg but date is unknown. Is there anyone on this list that can add anything ? Thanks, Cidney

Additional comment regarding your email reference to Sterling MORTON Copeland (son of John Copeland) moving to Fargo, ND (per M. Bridges card file)...I believe the move to ND concerns Sterling Lee Copeland (son of Willard Hall Copeland) with his wife, Pella Reed. Also, another reference to John F(letcher) Copeland, from Indiana was the son of Hugh Copeland of NC and married to Drucilla Holland....he died in Coffeeville, KS. I may have already sent this info to you but just thought telling you twice was better than not al all. Thanks for your help.... Bill Copeland, nephew of John and Marie Copeland of Percival

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pierson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ok.2ADE/249.255.1 Message Board Post: While in California Walter Ray Pierson married Edith Mae Bee and they had two girls Bonnie Jane 1942, Ava Jean 1944 and one boy Walter Ray 1946.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Trudeau, Jiggar, Bruno, Kenceleur, Livermore, Descouteau Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1720.1 Message Board Post: Iris: Have you by any chance typed in "Trudeau" in the SEARCH space on this posting cite, clicked on the eye for FREMONT, and then clicked GO? There are 13 matches that come up, including some from one Thomas who says he lives in Quebec. I'm sure that in one of his posts, he outlines the family of Adeline Jiggar. Since posting some of my notes on Trudeau, I've discovered that he appears to have had some acquaintance with Michael Descouteau who was with McKinley (?) when he established a fur company trading post amongst the Blackfoot Indians about 1830. Then about ten years later, Descouteau was one of those selected by John Charles Fremont for one of his expeditions in the FAR WEST. (Fremont made the statement that he wanted only men experienced in the ways of the western plains as members of his expedition. That's the reason I think it must be the same man.) The Jesuit records at St. Marys, Kansas, show that the mountain men who were amongst the Blackfoot during the 1830's had returned to the Missouri river area within "The Nishnabotna" and "The Council Bluffs" stretches along the that river. When Descouteau died in French Village, The Nishnabotna, Fremont county, I find Trudeau, Bruno, Kenceleur and Livermore connected with Descouteau within his estate records. I know that Bruno ! was among the Blackfoot in some capacity, and that Kenceleur was largely responsible for the famous Platte Bridge in Wyoming on the Oregon Trail -- SO--they would have been compatible with Descouteau, personality wise....Well, all of this explanation so you might know why I ask if the name "Descouteau" means anything to you? His estate records say he left a widow, and his parents who lived in Canada.

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/1615.1.1 Message Board Post: You are just full of info. Thank you so much. There wouldn't possibly be an obit for Eliza his wife who died 6-26-1915. I have Eliza's maiden name as Fuller, everything you posted said Tullar.

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/1615.3.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the info. Could you send me the address for the Sidney Argus-Herald and I will write to see if they have a copy of the picture for me.

In a message dated 6/25/2002 9:19:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dbrown@webpipe.net writes: > Are you descended from Adeline Stivers Hi ! BetseyLee, I am related to Hugh Irwin, husband of Adeline. Hugh was married previously to Mary Bolton whose line I come from. After Adeline, Hugh again married to Hannah Schober. Both Adeline and Hannah lived with Hugh Irwin in Fremont County, Iowa. Would love to hear more about Adeline if you have any information you might want to share. Best regards; Dave - Famsource@aol.com

In a message dated 6/25/2002 6:29:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, andersoniris@cs.com writes: > Louis Trudeau > Do you know of an Elizabeth Trudeau b. abt. 1875 Neb. who married a John Gilson ? She had a brother or half brother named Lewis or Louis Holthaus or Trudeau, b. 1880's . Dave - Famsource@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gigger,Jiggar, Giguere, Louis Trudeau Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ok.2ADE/1720 Message Board Post: To thne Author of Messages about Adeline Jiggar, One of my Aunt was Adeline, I don't know if this could be my Grandfathers Sister.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ettleman, Forney, Stanley Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1719 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1826: Born in Stark county, Ohio in 1826. Came to Mills county, Iowa, in 1845; 18 months later moved to Plum Hollow, Fremont county. Married Susan Forney on Oct. 10, 1847 - first marriage in Scott township. Children: Margaret, William H., George W., David M., Sarah C., Martha Y.--Hist. of Fremont county, 1881, pp. 700 - 701. 1826: Born in Stark county, Ohio, in 1826. With parents, moved to Ray county, Missouri, in 1836. Left home at 14, lived for 6 years in Adams county, Illinois. Came to Mills county, Iowa, in 1846; 18 months later came "south into Fremont county and settling in this neighborhood long before Plum Hollow, the early name for the community, was known". Oct. 18, 1847 married Susan Forney; first white marriage in Scott township.--Stanley, in the Sidney Argus-Herald of July 4, 1957, page 7. 1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa Samuel Ettleman....23.....b. OH Susan...................23..........OH William...................1..........Iowa 1852: NOT LISTED in the Fremont county Census. 1854: Fremont county Census: "Scott township" Samuel Ettleman....3m....2f...1 voter...1 militia...no aliens 1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county: "Scott township" Samuel Ettleman....29.....b. OH.....10 years in the State Susan....................29.........OH.....10 William W................7........Iowa......7 Mary A....................5........Iowa......5 George W...............5.........Iowa......5 David......................0.........Iowa......0

In a message dated 6/22/2002 2:05:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, lucyvp05@aol.com writes: > Hugh is the son of Solomon Reeves and Elizabeth Irwin 01/17/1828 in Meigs > County Ohio. Hi ! Lucy; I descend from the Irwin line. Elizabeth was a daughter of Hugh M. Irwin Sr. of Derry Twp. Westmoreland Co. PA. My Irwin's come from the 1812 Hugh who was the son of Hugh M. b. 1781. I sure would be interested in any Irwin or Reeves information you could send me. My lines also intersects with the Reeves at Joseph b. 1808, son of 1759 Richard. Best regards; Dave.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: English, Buckham Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1715 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1840's: Set out the second orchard in Fremont county.--Lingenfelter, page 7. N.B.: Notice the sizeable orchard that Tilden Buckham set out in 1852, as described in his biography. (Use SEARCH to find this.--W.F.) 2.--1852: Fremont county Census: "Madison township" H.W. English.....1 m....1 f 3.--1853 Land entries for Harvey W. English: (a).--July 11, 1853: the west half of the northeast quarter, and the northwest quarter, all of section 17 township 67 range 41. (b).--Sept. 1, 1853: the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 8 township 67 range 41. (c).--Dec. 17, 1853: the east half of the southwest quarter of section 18 township 67 range 41. 4.--1854: Fremont county Census: "Madison township" H.W. English....2m....1 f....1 voter...1 militia....no aliens 5.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Madison township" Harvey English....31....b. MO....14 years in state Mary..................26........MO

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: English, Greenwood Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1714 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1840: Dave English came in 1840 from Clay county, Missouri, to McKissick's Grove. Appointed organizing sheriff by the governor.--His nephew Wm. F. English, quoted in the Centennial Edition of the Hamburg Reporter. 2.--1849: Elected sheriff at the first election in April 1849.--Lingenfelter, page 8; Hist. of Fremont County, page 379. N.B.: Strictly speaking, this was the o-r-g-a-n-i-z-i-n-g election that was held in the spring of 1849. The men elected at this time were to organize the regular election in the fall. English set off the county into three townships for this purpose.--W.F. 3.--1849: Made the first land entry at Fairfield, Iowa, on May 28, 1849 for the northeast quarter of section 25 township 67 range 42. On Oct. 9, 1849, entered the southwest quarter of section 25 township 67 range 42.--1881 History of Fremont county, page 401. 4.--1849: Land entry made July 19, 1849 for the northeast quarter and for the southeast quarter of section 24 township 67 range 42.--Hist. of Fremont County, page 401. 5.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa: David English.....31.....b. KY Eliza.................29.........MO Joseph................4.........Iowa John....................2........Iowa 6.--1850: Bond of David M. English as assessor approved.--Minutes (of the Board of County Commissioners.--W.F.), April 1, 1850. 7.--1851: David M. English,. sheriff, allowed $175.70 for receiving prisoner, etc.--Minutes, Jan. 6, 1851. 8.--1852: Fremont county Census.--"Madison township" Eliza English......2m....1 f 9.--1852: Allowed $121.28 for services as sheriff.--Greenwood, Dec. 30, 1852. N.B.: It seems one has no choice but to believe English, now deceased, had not been paid by the Board of County Commissioners before that form of county government had been replaced by the county judge system. The payment must have been made to his widow, for she is shown as such in the 1852 census.--W.F.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Eberman, Greenwood, Hiatt, Blackfoot Indians Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1713 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1847: John Greenwood was married to Frances Eberman on Dec. 20, 1847, by James Cummins, J.P.--Atchison county Marriage Book "A", page 14. 2.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, IOwa Margaret Eberman.....53......PA Nancy......................17......ILL Elizabeth..................14......ILL Eliza Ann..................11......ILL 3.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Madison township" Margaret Eberman....1m....4f 4.--1854 Fremont county Census, 1856 Iowa State Census: NOT SHOWN. N.B.: John Greenwood was the son of "Old (Caleb) Greenwood", noted mountain man of The West, and of a woman of the Blackfoot Tribe of Indians where Greenwood trapped during the l830's. Old Greenwood, for his last time, emigrated west in 1848...Somewhere I have picked up the story that John came to no good end: He was purported to have been so abusive of the Indians against all advice of his famous father, that they murdered him on the plains west of the Missouri....Another of the daughters married a Hiatt, and lived north of Sidney, raising a large family....When the government surveyors were working in 1845 - 1846, they reported that "John Everman" was living along the old Council Bluffs - St. Joseph Road, northeast of Hamburg, Iowa. His estate, probated in Atchison county, names two sons who had left to serve in the Mexican War. However, they drowned while bathing in the Missouri river at St. Joseph before they had had a chance to enlist. The estate also shows negro slaves! in the household--meaning that southern Fremont county, when still a part of Missouri, was slave territory!--W.F.