Can anyone help this person??? Subject: re: Stegall family Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 00:46:30 -0700 From: "Aletha" <lovell@muscanet.com> To: <njennings@lisco.net> I am looking for any information on James Hiram Stegall. He lived around Wapello and Toolsboro during the late 1800's early 1900's. He was married to Ada Marie Drake. I do not have any dates of marriage, death or births. I do know this was my mothers parents her name was Helen Leone Stegall Nickols born: November 28, 1904 was married to father Theodore Roosevelt Nickols born: March 19, 1901. My fathers were burnt during the Burlington court house fire. I do know both families resided in the Des Moines county and Louisa County for many years, but am unable to find out any information. Any help you could give me would be greatly apreciated. My mother granduated for Wappelo High School around 1920-1924.

Dear Mike, There was no Thaxter surname listed in the Letts Cemetery. There are three Fullerton listings: (1) Cora E., born 1866; died 30 April 1939; wife of Hamilton H.; daughter of Alex Heidelbaugh. (2) Hamilton H., born 1861; died 1941; husband of Cora E. (3) Susan, born 23 August 1843; died 10 March 1928; aunt of Hamilton H. Fullerton. >From a Louisa County Marriage Record, Hamilton H. Fullerton, age 28, and Cora E. Hamilton, age 23, were married in Louisa County on 25 November 1888. Other Fullerton burials in the county are listed for Catherine (Story); Corrine (Peters); Edna Mae (Holliday); Edward W.; Evelyn (Long); Francis E.; Iva I.; Marjorie T.; Vinnie (Stineman); Vinnie Belle (Cross). There are no Thaxter burials listed in the county. Do you want me to look for an obituary for any of the Fullertons in Letts Cemetery? >From Keith Keith/Connie Street ckcasey@netins.net 325 Franklin Ave, Wapello, IA 52653-1515 319-523-8164 -----Original Message----- From: Mikesalibi@aol.com <Mikesalibi@aol.com> To: IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com <IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 10:23 PM Subject: Letts Cemetary-Susan Thaxter >I am looking for information on a Susan Thaxter who died 10 Mar 1928. I have >some information that states she is buried in the Letts Cemetary in Louisa >Co. Susan was originally from Washington Co., ME and married jasmes E. >Fullerton in 1891 in Maine. > >Does anyone have any information on this cemetary or family? > >Thanks > >Mikesalibi@aol.com

I am looking for information on a Susan Thaxter who died 10 Mar 1928. I have some information that states she is buried in the Letts Cemetary in Louisa Co. Susan was originally from Washington Co., ME and married jasmes E. Fullerton in 1891 in Maine. Does anyone have any information on this cemetary or family? Thanks Mikesalibi@aol.com

I am new to this list and am researching GILMORE in Louisa and Des Moines counties. I am planning on spending several hours in those areas the end of this week. I would appreciate hearing from anyone with ties to this family line or with ideas for 'must see' while I am there. I understand that James GILMORE built and pastored a church (probably in Des Moines county) so I'd really like to be able to find that while I am there. Thanks for any leads Linda

James Clemens who is working on the Buffington/Houseal lines is changing his e-mail address. you may want to make a note of this change. Norma ==================== Please make this change: My email address has changed to: jclemans@speedchoice.com (old address: jclemans@netvalue.net) my website will also be moving shortly to the new address. thanks, james.

Here's a more complete list of land measurement terms. cstreet 1 perch is a linear measure of one rod, 160 perches as a linear measure is 1/2 mile. As a measure of area, a perch is one square rod of land; 160 perches is one acre. 1 rod is a linear measure is 5 1/2 yards or 16 1/2 feet; as a unit of measure a rod equals 30.25 square yards. Here's more. 40 rods is one furlong 40 square rods is 4 square roods 4 square roods is 1 acre 1 mile is 80 chains or 320 rods or 5280 feet 1 chain is 4 rods or 66 feet or 100 links 1 square chain is 16 square poles 1 square pole is 625 square links 1 link is .66 feet or 7.92 inches 25 links is one rod 100 links is a surveyors chain 1 square pole is 625 square links. 1 acre is 43560 square ft or 10 square chains or 160 square rods or 4840 square yards. 8 furlongs is one mile 1760 yards is one mile 80 chains is one mile. 640 acres is 1 square mile. 1 square mile is 1 section or 640 acres 1 Congressional township is 6 miles square or 36 sections or 36 square miles 1 Civil township is political subdivision and may be square or irregular in shape. The acreage is indefinite. Metes and bounds describe land that was never a part of public domain: the 13 original states, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas. At one time a tract was 24 square miles. Today it generally refers to a piece of land. ---------- Keith/Connie Street ckcasey@netins.net 325 Franklin Ave, Wapello, IA 52653-1515 319-523-8164 --.

Another old e-mail responding to a question about what a "pole" was in reference to measurements is forwarded for your information >Reading through The Researcher's guide to American Geneology by Val D. Greenwood, Geneological Publishing Co., Baltimore, Md. I came across the following on pg. 352. An acre is 43,560 square feet or 160 square rods; a chain is sixty six feet or twenty two yards (100 links); a furlong is 660 feet or 220 yards (ten chains); a link is 7.92 inches, there are 25 links in a rod and 100 links (or four rods) in a chain; a mile is 5280 feet (eighty chains, 320 rods, or eight furlongs); a perch is 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet, and is also called a rod or a pole; a rood varies from 5.5 yards to eight yards. Rood might also be used to describe an area equal to 1/4 of an acre.

In going through my old e-mail box after switching hard drives and starting over I found this tidbit I thought I would share with our subscribers. Norma In a message dated 98-02-20 06:30:25 EST, afranks1@juno.com writes Sept-Oct, 1997, Newsletter - Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County "Source: Ancestors West, SSBCGS, Vol 20, No l, Fall 1993, South Bend (IN) Area Genealogical Society via Julie Burnett, Sue in Arizona and Judy Nordgren SMCAGS "In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors disappeared during a certain period in history, this might help. Epidemics have always had a great influence on people - and thus influencing, as well, the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing from records can be traced to dying during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below: 1657 Boston Measles 1687 Boston Measles 1690 New York Yellow Fever 1713 Boston Measles 1729 Boston Measles 1732-3 Worldwide Influenza 1738 South Carolina Smallpox 1739-40 Boston Measles 1747 CT,NY,PA,SC Measles 1759 N. Amer [areas inhabited by white people] Measles 1761 N. Amer and West Indies Influenza 1772 N. America Measles 1775 N. Amer [especially hard in NE] epidemic Unknown 1775-6 Worldwide [one of the worst epidemics] Influenza 1783 Dover, DE ["extremely fatal"] Bilious Disorder 1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles 1793 Vermont [a "putrid" fever] and Influenza 1793 VA [killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks] Influenza 1793 Philadelphia [one of the worst epidemics] Yellow Fever 1793 Harrisburg, PA [many unexplained deaths] Unknown 1793 Middletown, PA [many mysterious deaths] Unknown 1794 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever 1796-7 Philadelphia, PA Yellow Fever 1798 Philadelphia, PA [one of the worst] Yellow Fever 1803 New York Yellow Fever 1820-3 Nationwide [starts-Schuylkill River and spreads] "Fever" 1831-2 Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] Asiatic Cholera 1832 NY City and other major cities Cholera 1837 Philadelphia Typhus 1841 Nationwide [especially severe in the south] Yellow Fever 1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever 1847-8 Worldwide Influenza 1848-9 North America Cholera 1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1850-1 North America Influenza 1852 Nationwide [New Orleans-8,000 die in summer] Yellow Fever 1855 Nationwide [many parts] Yellow Fever 1857-9 Worldwide [one of the greated epidemics] Influenza 1860-1 Pennsylvania Smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans} {Smallpox Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC} {Cholera [A series of recurring epidemics of:} {Typhus {Typhoid {Scarlet Fever {Yellow Fever 1873-5 N. America and Europe Influenza 1878 New Orleans [last great epidemic] Yellow Fever 1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid 1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever 1918 Worldwide[high point yr] more people were {Influenza hospitalized in WWI from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% death rate in some camps Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned: 1833 Columbus, OH 1834 New York City 1849 New York 1851 Coles Co., IL, The Great Plains, and Missouri

Those of you who are members of the Louisa County Genealogical Society have probably received your newsletter by now. One of the features your new editors are working on are the pioneer cemeteries. The April newsletter featured the Linn Grove Cemetery with a color photograph and the list of names. We had a brief history of the cemetery which we did not have room to include in this issue. We will try to include it in the next issue along with another small cemetery. However, we would like to obtain the history behind these pioneer cemeteries. If any of you have background information on these little cemeteries, we hope you will share it with us for possible future use. I (Norma) have been photographing a few of these cemeteries that are easily accessible with visible stones, and small enough to put on one page of the newsletter and hope to do more in the future as soon as I complete some other projects that I am working on. Seems I always have more projects than time so any help from our subscribers would be very much appreciated. Thank you ! Norma Jennings and Eleanor Jones, Co-Editors of the LCGS Newsletter.

For those interested in the orphan trains to Iowa, the Cedar County IAGENWEB site has a very nice section on the subject at the following URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iacedar/orphans.html

Subject: Orphan Train 'riders' Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 21:15:35 -0500 From: "Bill & Donna Harms" <wmmharms@ncn.net> To: <njennings@lisco.net> There were a number of children brought to your county from New York from 1853-1929. Our home is the Iowa Research Center about the 10-12,000 children who were brought to Iowa. I am searching for information about these children . Also, there will be an Iowa Orphan Train Reunion for 'riders, descendents & interested persons to be held in Ft.Dodge,Iowa 20,21 & 22 August 1999 at the Budget Host Inn. I will appreciate it if you would announce this at your meetings &/0r in your newsletter. Any one with information may contact me at wmmharms@ncn.net Thank you, Madonna M. Harms, Archivist

Hi Marcy, It gave me a pleasent surprise to see someone inquiring on the Bartenhagen name. Mabel was first cousin to my grandfather, Henry Peter Bartenhagen (son of Wilhelm and Emma Friedrich Bartenhagen). I would be happy to supply you with all I know about Mabel's Bartenhagen ancestors. Unfortunately, I can't help you with the Robinson side of her family, but you already know more than I knew. Send me an address and I'll forward hard copies OR, if I can figure out how to seperate the Bartenhagen info, I could send you an attachment. For now, Henry (Heinrich) Bartenhagen (no middle name) was born February 9, 1876 near Wischhafen, Kehdingen region, Stade, Niedersachsen, Germany. He was the third child and second son of Peter and Adelheid Rebecca Steffens; they had a total of eight children. Henry emigrated to the United States sometime between 1892 and 1905. He was probably sponsored by his older brother John Henry Bartenhagen who had come to the Muscatine area in 1892. On January 23, 1907, Henry and Mattie E. Robinson (b. abt 1878; d. unk) were married and on January 3, 1908, Mabel was born. Henry died in April 1966 and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, Muscatine, Iowa. Mabel was an only child and she never married. I admit, somewhat sheepishly, that since there was no continuation of the line, I hadn't researched the Robinson-side of Mabel's line. You may be interested to know that the Muscatine library has a large collection on Mabel's memoirs. She was a hostess on the Delta Queen and was a local celebrity. I'm sure, also, that the Muscatine Library would be interested in reading the letters you have. As for myself, I would like to read them for insight to her father thought and memories on Germany. Rumor has been that the four Bartenhagen boys didn't want to fight for the Kaiser, so they came to America; the four sisters stayed in Germany. Peter was said to be a dike builder in Germany, but it apparently was mandatory that his sons serve in the army for a brief period. I suppose that the people from Schleswig-Holstein and Niedersachsen had no fondness for there Prussian masters. Hope to hear from you soon. Stephen Bartenhagen BARTENHAGEN/CRESWELL: Archibald Bailey Crilley Dickinson Erwin Friedrich Grinke Hammann Holthusen Jackson Ollrich Steffens Stephen Van Trump McNEIL/SCHNEIDER: Bertiss/Burns/Capwell/Dunkel/Harkins/Herrick/Michael/Powell/Stiles/Van Schaick CROMER/SUTTON: Edwards/Hardy/Hill/Keller/Mervin/Rouse/Stevens/Walters PELLUM/RUTLEDGE: Alderman/Clark/Duke/Frederick/Gray/Pelham/Prine/Southern/Whidden ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Hi everyone, I recently was given a box of letters that were written to my Ggrandmother from her niece. They are very interesting and include some newspaper clippings etc. Does anyone have any ideas on where I could post them (newspaper clippings). Is this something that would go on the Gen Web site. The letters were written my Mabel Bartenhagen daughter of Henry & Mattie Bartenhagen. I would love to hear from anyone who has any information on this family. Mabel worked at the local newspaper and at the Heinz Co. I also believe she was a member of the Historical Society in Muscatine. At the time of her death (12/28/1976) she was living at 515 Orange Street, Muscatine. I also was given pictures of my Robinson Family. These are descendents of John & Mary Jane (Hunter) Robinson and their son John Thompson & Susan Kennedy and grandson Wilford Reed Robinson/Robison & Nevada Hutchinson. If anyone on this list could help me out I would really appreciate it. Happy Hunting, Marcy Gilding Billings

Keith or anyone, can you see what listing you have for Paxson buried in Spring Run cemetery.. thanks carol

Help Find This Stolen Car Hello all Please see the attached picture. Our friend had his 1931 Candy apple red 1931 Studebaker STOLEN from the parking lot of the Bayside Expo Ctr in Boston Massachusetts USA(World of Wheels)on Sunday night 1/10/99 about 9:30pm. The owner did not choose to trailer this vehicle and we believe it may have been pushed onto a tow truck or trailer and taken away. If anyone heard ANYTHING or saw the car being moved (or anything about anything_ please contact us by phone. If you saw it driving by after the show- CALL US. You need not leave your name if the information tells where the car is or who took it- The car is of little value if taken apart and we need to get that info out to the general public. It is too radical to keep together- I think they dont realize what they took- its just too noticeable to keep around! You may have seen the car in the movie "American Graffiti" the owner is heartbroken. Please pass this information on to everyone- especially out of state towards the South and the Mexican border-we think whoever stole it may be trying to take it out of the country. IF YOU HAVE CONTACTS IN THE TOW INDUSTRY,SHIPPING INDUSTRY OR AT THE BORDERS OF THE US.- PLEASE NOTIFY THEM TOO! IT WOULD BE TRULY APPRECIATED. Many thanks Dana Cyclone Car Clubintern 1-781-397-1322 (w)800-338-4247 x60271 E-Mail: Dana_Schaeffer@harvardpilgrim.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Back To Hot Rods World Wide

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Try also the official LDS website address: www.lds.org click on "Family History Resources". Then on "Index" at the bottom of the page or go directly to the index using: http://www.lds.org/en/Index/Index.html two interesting topics are "Family History Centers" and "Family History - Frequently Asked Questions"

the Mormon Church site is online with some minimal info but if you don't have a library in your area with the cd's you might try it. http://32.96.11113/default.asp carol

Hello, List Subscribers: I am new to your list. I am interested in learning if there is a cemetery located in or near Oakland Twp. (or perhaps it is Oakville Twp.). My gr.gr.gfa. and gr.gr.gr.mother are buried in such a place I believe. In Louisa Co. - graves for: James McKee, b.1792, d.1875. Susannah Shoemaker McKee, b. 1795, d.1871. Am I correct, are the cemeteries and burial locations on record for Louisa Co. If so, where would one inquire? TIA. Patricia J. Pardun, FL -----Original Message----- From: IALOUISA-D-request@rootsweb.com <IALOUISA-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: IALOUISA-D@rootsweb.com <IALOUISA-D@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 9:20 AM Subject: IALOUISA-D Digest V99 #18

Dear Marcy, There has been no town of Harrison for many years, but there was a settlement there in pioneer days. It is across the river from Wapello, just a couple of miles from where I am typing this. The Harrison Cemetery still exists, has an active association and keeps the cemetery mowed and in good shape. The cemetetery book on-line you said you had accessed. The cemetery has been read and names of those buried there have been published. Give me the name and dates for your great great grandmother and I will check records here. From Keith. Keith/Connie Street ckcasey@netins.net 325 Franklin Ave, Wapello, IA 52653-1515 319-523-8164 -----Original Message----- From: M. Billings <mabillings@home.com> To: IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com <IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, March 29, 1999 11:57 PM Subject: Harrison Church Cemetery >Does anyone know where the town of Harrison is in Lousia County? If yes, >are there any cemeteries in that town. I hope this is not to general of a >question. All I know is my GGGrandmother was buried behind the "Old >Harrison Church". Any help or ideas would be appreciated. >Thank you, >Marcy Billings > >Yes, I checked the Lousia County Web site for the cemetery listings.