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/0k.2ADE/2237.1.1 Message Board Post: My grgrgrgrandmothers name was Mary Ann Ritchison Welch and the word I have is that she was born in Virginia in 1821. Thank you

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/0k.2ADE/2237.1 Message Board Post: The subject line should read James or Mary Ann Richison Welch. Thanks

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/0k.2ADE/2237 Message Board Post: I am currently looking for my grgrgrgrandparents James Welch and Mary Ann Richison Matthews or possibly Mathews. There daughter Mary J Welch married my grgrgrandfather William H. Matthews in Iowa in 1866 and lived in Harrison county, I figure they might live there also. James was born in 1817 in Ind/Ohio and Mary Ann in Virginia in 1821. Any help is appreciated. Like it was with John and Rebecca Butler Mathews.

Daily Nonpareil Council Bluffs IA Nov 4th 2004 Frances I. Sublett, 85, of Council Bluffs died Nov. 2 at Northcrest Manor. She was born Jan. 29, 1919, in Dacano, Colo., to Harry and Ethel Tennant Foreman. The family moved to Missouri Valley and Frances grew up in that area, graduating from Missouri Valley High School. Frances was a mortgage clerk who worked for First National Bank for 13 years and Commercial Federal Bank for many years, retiring at age 65. She was a member of Midwestern Baptist Church in Omaha. Frances is preceded in death by her daughter, Frances E. Hanson, and her brother, Joseph F. Evans. Survivors include her son-in-law, Gerald Hanson, of Council Bluffs; brother, George Foreman of Colorado Springs, Colo.; grandchildren, Thomas Hanson and wife, Melody, Cindy Carey and husband, Mike, Vicky Higginbotham and husband, Randy, Connie Gibbs and husband, Dave, Cheri Churchill and husband, John; 12 great-grandchildren; 10 great-great-grandchildren. Visitation will be Friday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Henry-Livingston Funeral Home, 121 S. Seventh St. A Celebration of Life service will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at Henry-Livingston Funeral Chapel with burial following at Rose Hill Cemetery in Missouri Valley. Memorials may be offered to Midwestern Baptist Church in Omaha.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0k.2ADE/2236 Message Board Post: The Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Minnesota (abridged on CD) is now available: http://www.historic-atlas-series.com/ This abridged digital version of the Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Minnesota consists of 19th century cartographic data including all of the 1874 Minnesota counties and 49 city and village plats from this period. Individual county maps are useful for identifying 1874 transportation routes, railroads, canals, streams and rivers, cities, towns and villages, and early Minnesota place names. One-room schools, churches, cemeteries and other cultural features are also included in the county maps. The city and village plat maps in the Minnesota Atlas are often more detailed with many early property owners identified; industrial sites including a variety of stores, factories and mills; State and local government sites: cemeteries, churches, schools, fair grounds, race tracks, asylum & hospitals; and much more. The high resolution digital map data is presented in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). and the Adobe Acrobat Reader is included on each CD. Other recent additions to the Historic Atlas Series include the states of Iowa and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Missouri CD's are planned for the near future. The Historic Atlas Series also appears at our eBay store: http://stores.ebay.com/Historic-Atlas-Series-by-HAR?refid=store Thanks for reading...please check back often for more updates. Rich http://www.historic-atlas-series.com/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BENZ, WRIGHT, CARTER, PFEIFFER Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0k.2ADE/2235 Message Board Post: Hello, My name is Peggy Lyon and i live in the City of Council Bluffs I have been researching my family tree for 5 years. I would like to take cemetery photos in the following counties of Iowa POTTAWATTAMIE, ADAIR, FREMONT, PAGE, MILLS, MONTGOMERY, CASS, SHELBY, HARRISON, MONONA, and CRAWFORD. I can provide photos of the county,maps,cities, cemetery and headstones, I can provide a brief Biography of the history for the cemetery ,city and/or the county. The photos and information can be mailed by post or e-mailed which ever you prefer. My Fee is $15.00 for 10 photos and information from Council Bluffs. Other cities and counties will be a charge of $25.00 per cemetery which includes up to 10 photos. Which can be paid by check or money order. Queries can be e-mailed to me at [email protected] I will need the name of the person or persons, possible dates for the gravestone. Cemetery name, city and county the cemetery is in.Please put Cemetery photos in the subject line. Please feel free to visit my family tree web site The address is: http://www.geocities.com/scoobymom2000/WELCOME.html I hope i can be of help. Thank You

The last meeting of the Harrison County Genealogy Society (HCGS) will be held on Saturday, November 13th, 2004 at the HCGS library in Woodbine IA. All members are encouraged to attend. Election of the 2005 officer's will be held at this meeting. The HCGS will not meet again until April 9th, 2005.

Daily Nonpareil Council Bluffs IA Nov 3rd 2004 Dessa Bernadine Merdinger, 92, died Nov. 3 at Indian Hills Nursing Home. Dessa Bernadine Merdinger was born in Harrison County, Magnolia Township, on Dec. 26, 1911. She was the daughter of John and Jessie (Snyder) Lennert and was one of five children. She attended country school in the Magnolia area. She was baptized in 1920 into the Methodist Episcopal Church in Magnolia, confirmed into the Underwood Lutheran Church in 1947 and belonged to the Priscilla Circle. Bernadine was united in marriage to George "Jake" Merdinger on June 16, 1943, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he was stationed during his service in the Army in World War II. Dad always said he had to wait for her to put shoes on and come out of the hills before he found her. They were the parents of two sons: James and Gene. They lived and farmed near Beebeetown, Neola and Underwood, and eventually moved to the town of Underwood in the early 1960s. "Jake" passed away on Feb. 20, 1983. Bernadine worked as a mother's helper in the Magnolia area, at the Brewer Cafe (where she met Jake) in Underwood, Michigan Bomber Plant, Martin Grocery Store and Underwood Schools. She entered Indian Hills Nursing Home in December 1996. Her parents, her husband "Jake," two sisters, one brother and one great-grandchild preceded her in death. She leaves to mourn her passing sons, James and his wife, Marlene, Gene and his wife, Linda, all of Underwood; two sisters, Inez Radloff of Lincoln, Neb., and Margorie Smith of Ypsilanti, Mich.; four granddaughters, Theresa Thompson and her husband, David, Cami Ettleman and her husband, Jim, Kelli Tompkins and her husband, Rob, and Kari Merdinger and her fiance "Bo"; seven great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews, other relatives and many fiends. The family would like memorials made to the Underwood Lutheran Church Building Fund. Visitation with family will be Thursday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Cutler-O'Neill-Meyer-Woodring Funeral Home with Dr. Eberhard Hering, pastor of Underwood Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be in Underwood Cemetery.

Daily Nonpareil Council Bluffs IA Nov 2, 2004 MISSOURI VALLEY - Kenneth L. Case, 55, of Missouri Valley died Oct. 31 at his home in Missouri Valley. Survivors include his wife, Brenda, of Missouri Valley; sons, Daniel and wife, Darlene, of Omaha, Jarrod of Missouri Valley; daughter, Cassandra, of Missouri Valley; brothers, Blaine and wife, Javay, of Missouri Valley, Rodger and wife, Lois, of Logan; numerous nieces, nephews and friends. Visitation with the family will be Wednesday from 7 to 8 p.m. at Hennessey-Aman Funeral Home in Missouri Valley. The funeral will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be in Logan Cemetery in Logan.

Daily Nonpareil Council Bluffs IA Nov 1, 2004 MISSOURI VALLEY - Wallace Smith Jr., 84, of Modale, died Oct. 28 at home. Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 8 tonight at the Hennessey-Aman Funeral Home in Missouri Valley. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Church of Christ in Mondamin. Military honors will be conducted by the Modale and Mondamin Legion Posts. Burial will be at Calhoun Cemetery in Missouri Valley.

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/0k.2ADE/2234 Message Board Post: Mona, Thank you for the information and for your time. You were right, the 1891 History of Harrison County is the one I needed. I have found what I was looking for. Thank you. Sandra

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/0k.2ADE/2233 Message Board Post: I am currently looking for my grgrgrgrandparents John or Rebecca Butler Mathews both were born in Kentucky around 1810 and both died in the 1870's and are buried somewhere in Harrison Co. Iowa. They had five children Stephen, William H.(my grgrgrandfather Born1838 and died 12 Apr 1910 in Council Bluffs Iowa)Richard, Evan and daughter America. Any help is appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SEELEY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0k.2ADE/2232.1 Message Board Post: I have this book you reference, but there is no SEELEY on page 417 or 418. All of the full biographies from this book are posted on-line at the free USGenWeb site for Harrison County, Iowa at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iaharris/bio1915/1915indx.htm#sindx I think what you want is the 1891 book. In 1891, a "History of Harrison County Iowa" was published by the National Publishing Company. It contained biographies of about 750 families who lived in the County at that time. These are also posted at the free rootsweb site for Harrison County. You'll find what you want at that site. Good luck.

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/0k.2ADE/2232 Message Board Post: Am looking for someone who has the book "History of Harrison County Iowa" by Charles W Hunt and Will L Clark, pubished in 1915 by B F Bowen & Co Indianapolis. Would appreciate a look-up of page 417, a biography on a Seeley. It is continued on page 418, which I have a copy of. Would like a transcription of page 417 in regard to the Seeley name. I have page 950 which has a bio on Jerome Seeley. Are other Seeley's listed in this book? Thaks very much to anyone who can help me out. Sandra

Daily Nonpareil Council Bluffs IA October 31st, 2004 Tilcia M. Radloff, 58, of Magnolia died Oct. 23 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Missouri Valley. She attended cosmetology school in Council Bluffs and owned the Casita De Belleza in Council Bluffs. She was married to Robert E. Radloff on September 1, 1973, in Sioux City. Survivors include her husband; son, Theodore A. Radloff and his wife, Jill, of Robbinsdale, Minn.; daughter, Lennell M. Radloff of Warrensburg, Mo.; grandson, Aidan Radloff; six stepgrandchildren; three great-stepgrandchildren; stepchildren, Robert W. Radloff of Harlan, Steven L. Radloff of Well Lake, Monte R. Radloff of Early, Rhonda Neville of Denison; three sisters and one brother. Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Logan Memorial Chapel in Logan. A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Christian Church in Logan. There will be no burial service, as the body was cremated.

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/0k.2ADE/834.844.1 Message Board Post: I am interested in any information you may have. I believe Charles and Sarah are my gggrandparents.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goss-Spracklin-Ludwig Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0k.2ADE/2231 Message Board Post: Looking for information on Solomon Goss Spracklen/lin and his wife Louisa Avitts aka Avetts. Also looking for information on Elisha (EH) Ludwig who married their daughter Dorpha. All were residents of Harrison County after the civil war in the 1860-1900's. More information on Solomon Goss (of Ohio and PA Goss') can be found here: http://www.itsjudy.com/branches/spracklin.htm Thanks! JH Seeley [email protected]

Daily Nonpareil Council Bluffs IA Oct 30th, 2004 MISSOURI VALLEY - Wallace Smith, 84, of Modale died Oct. 28 at his home in Modale. Services are pending at Hennessey-Aman Funeral Home in Missouri Valley.

Daily Nonpareil Council Bluffs IA Oct 30th, 2004 LOGAN - Tilcia Radloff, 58, of Magnolia died Oct. 28 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Missouri Valley. Services are pending at Logan Memorial Chapel in Logan.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: mcclead ///any? connections Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0k.2ADE/508.511.517 Message Board Post: hello, i am looking for anything with luther mcclead mentioned in it. he was married to virginia(?) age 16 in the 1920 harrison county (eagle district )census . he was 22. any help would be great! don't know what happened to that marraige,he later married my grandmother in 1929 she was 17.....thank you,linda