Dear Mari and Louisa County List Members, Over the years I have researched many Louisa County families, some more intensively than others. I haven't touched many lines for close to 10 years, and have changed computers and programs a couple of times since then. Also, because these were not my lines, I did not enter any documentation for my entries. Somewhere in my files the information may be, but it is not something that I could immediately lay my hands on. I have the EFT (Everyone's Family Tree) genealogy program writted by Bill Dollarhide several years ago. I have a 30-page printout, including index of descendants, for the WYKERT immigrant, Francis Wykert, born 2 June 1737 in Rhine River, Germany; died 9 May 1825 in what is now Marshall County, West Virginia (then was Virginia). Francis was married 13 October 1783 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Shaefer. Besides the places listed above, he also resided for a time in Washington County, Pennsylvania. I have the names of 165 of his descendants in my EFT program descendancy. I hate to be mercenary, but the easiest way for me to pass on the information is to use my copier to make copies and to send you the information via snail mail. I'm not into exporting, making GEDCOM copies, writing to disk, transferring to another computer, pasting into e-mail and sending, etc. So if anyone wants a copy, send me your snail mail address along with $5 to cover my copying and postage costs. The Knight family is not carried down further than the naming of the children of Minnie Myrtle Wykert and Albert Knight. The Tharp obituary gives more information than I had entered for the family about 10 years ago. So let me know if you want a snail mail copy, and include your address. Cheers from Keith Keith/Connie Street ckcasey@netins.net 325 Franklin Ave, Wapello, IA 52653-1515 319-523-8164 -----Original Message----- From: Mari Nielsen <mariniel@ix.netcom.com> To: Keith/Connie Street <ckcasey@netins.net> Cc: IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com <IALOUISA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 9:15 PM Subject: Re: THARP, KNIGHT, WYKERT >Keith, > >Thank you, thank you, thank you for this obit! I plan to contact the survivors >of D. Margaret Knight Tharp immediately. She was the granddaughter of Asa >Knight, who was the son of Eliza Jane Harnett's marriage to her 2nd husband, >Mark Knight. I've had no contact with anyone from this line - you may have >just blown my research of this line wide open! Bless you! > >Mari Nielsen > >Keith/Connie Street wrote: > >> Dear List, >> >> Tonight's (August 27, 1999) issue of the Muscatine Journal has an >> obituary which may interest some of you list members on some of your >> collateral lines. I type the text as it appears in the obit. >> >> D. Margaret Tharp, 90, a resident of the Wapello Nursing and Care >> Center, formerly of Grandview, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1999, at the >> Muscatine General Hospital. (Now called Unity Hospital.) >> Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral >> Home in Wapello. >> The Rev. Darryl Erickson will officiate. Burial will be at the >> Grandview Cemetery. >> Visitation will be from 2 - 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. >> Mrs. Tharp was born May 22, 1909, in Wapello, the daughter of Albert >> F. "Cap" and Minnie M. Wykert Knight. She married James Newton "Newt" Tharp >> on June 12, 1927, in Muscatine. He died May 5, 1991. >> She worked at the IAAP in Burlington during World War II. >> She enjoyed being a home-maker which included gardening and sewing. >> She also enjoyed singing and especially the times with family. >> Survivors include three daughters and two sons, Shirley Dye of >> Parker, Ariz., Janice and Glen Speers of Grandview, James and Gloria Tharp >> of San Antonio, Texas, David and Bernice Tharp of Grandview, and Debra >> Walker of Muscatine; 17 grandchildren; 22 great grandchildren; two great >> great grandchildren; and a sister, Josephine Montagna of Sacramento, >> California. >> She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Newt; three >> brothers, Asa, Anthony and Speedy; and six sisters, Frances, Alberta, Mary, >> Irene, Stella and Iris. >> >> I know some of you are interested in the Knight family, so hope this >> helps! >> >> From Keith >> Keith/Connie Street >> ckcasey@netins.net >> 325 Franklin Ave, Wapello, IA 52653-1515 >> 319-523-8164 >> >> ==== IALOUISA Mailing List ==== >> Don't forget to check out the web sites for southeastern Iowa families. >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~ialouisa >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~iahenry >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jennings > >