I was going through my great grandparents photo album and came a crossed a couple of pictures that I have a question about. My great grandparents lived in Mills Co. One of the pictures says Rev. and Mrs. Shiffett, minister at the UB Church. Another picture says Willard Campbell, Sheriff. I'm sure that the picture of Willard Campbell has something to do with Mills Co. because it has a Glenwood, Iowa portrait company name on it. But I'm not sure about the Shiffett's picture. Please let me know if any of these names ring a bell. Thank you, Pat

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_917414528_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In a message dated 1/26/99 9:14:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, SLH1753 writes: << I need to write to have some research done in Glenwood. What I have on Hester is the 1850 and 1860 census from Taney Co, MO--when she was already widowed. So I don't know her husband's name. She was there living with a Bozarth family. Down the street was another Bozarth family. After writing to 3 Bozarth researchers, I've decide Hester was probably related to one of the Bozarth wives. One of them -Catherine Barr Bozarth--moved to Afton, IA about the time Hester appeared in Lyons Twp. So I have some work to do there. In Hester's family there were: Emmaline b. TN 1839. Married Levi Bozarth & stayed in MO Owen b 1843. TN. Was in Lyons Twp in 1870. Single then. I hope to find a marriage record for him. James b 1848/9 TN. Ditto Nancy Ann . Born in MO Jan 1850. Married George Hamaker in White Cloud in 1864. So I know they got to Mills Co between summer of 1860 and summer of 1864. I had them check the books they had at Iowa Gen Society for a marriage record for Hester and for burial records. They did not find anything. I need to get Bev >> --part0_917414528_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: [email protected] Return-path: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: MILLS AND MADISON COUNTIES Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:14:54 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Dear Cay, Thank you for your diligence. I was so excited to see all the neat stuff on the web page, I guess I figured Bev and Betty would be reading it, too! I will write them c/o the local Genealogy Society. Beverly has not worked on this for me. I was there in Iowa about 4 years ago. Bev and I are related through her husband. He is a Caughell in his mother's side, and I am on my dad's side. I have lots of Iowa connections: Laizures in Madison Co and Hamakers, Caughells, and McDowells in Mills Co. I need to write to have some research done in Glenwood. What I have on Hester is the 1850 and 1860 census from Taney Co, MO--when she was already widowed. So I don't know her husband's name. She was there living with a Bozarth family. Down the street was another Bozarth family. After writing to 3 Bozarth researchers, I've decide Hester was probably related to one of the Bozarth wives. One of them -Catherine Barr Bozarth--moved to Afton, IA about the time Hester appeared in Lyons Twp. So I have some work to do there. In Hester's family there were: Emmaline b. TN 1839. Married Levi Bozarth & stayed in MO Owen b 1843. TN. Was in Lyons Twp in 1870. Single then. I hope to find a marriage record for him. James b 1848/9 TN. Ditto Nancy Ann . Born in MO Jan 1850. Married George Hamaker in White Cloud in 1864. So I know they got to Mills Co between summer of 1860 and summer of 1864. I had them check the books they had at Iowa Gen Society for a marriage record for Hester and for burial records. They did not find anything. I need to get Bev to work on this. You're doing a great job. I will post a query soon. Sharon --part0_917414528_boundary--

Seeking information about James McCord born 27 FEB 1807 in Virginia. James died 4 SEP 1876 in Mills County, IA, at 69 years of age. His body was interred in Rawles Township, Pleasant Hill Cemetery. He married Mary (Polly) Utterback 1830. Mary was born in Woodford Co., Kentucky 25 MAR 1811. Mary died 1 APR 1892 at 81 years of age. Her body was interred in Rawles Township, Pleasant Hill Cemetery. James McCord was elected Justice of the Peace for Rawles Township in 1849, according to D.H. Sololon's History of Mills County, IA (1876), and served in that capacity for several years, James was a farmer in Mills County until his death. James McCord and Mary Utterback had the following children: 1) Benjamin Allen McCord born 1833 in Indiana. 2) Casa Amanda McCord born 1837 in Indiana. 3) William Henry Harrison McCord born 1841 in Indiana. 4) Matilda A. McCord born 1845 in Indiana. Any information about Mills County McCord's and Utterback's would be of great help. I'm sure there is a lot of information that can be found. Thanks, Tim McCord

Thanks Inez. We appreciate the kind words. p.32 1860 Lyons Twp. Mills County #279 lists: TAGUE, Wm. H., 22, farmer, b. IL m. within the year TAGUE, Joanna, 21, b. Arkansas There is no family as yet. p. 21 1870 Lyons Twp. Mills County #142 lists: TAGUE, Joseph, 26, farmer, b. IA TAGUE, Deborah, 23, b. IA BONSOR, William, 11, b. IA I can look in Lyons Twp. for 1880 if you think it would help. Cay Bob Jackson wrote: > > Hi Cay: Just finishing looking over the things that you have added to > Mills County, It is great. Tell everyone just how very much we > appreciate all of there efforts on this project. I was wondering if you > could look and see if on the 1860 census for Lyons township if William > H. Tague how is listed on 279 has a family. I am looking to see if I can > find out who Daniel Tague's parents are. I also noticed that there is a > Joseph Tague listed on the 1870 index and there again it is in Lyons > township. Thanks again for all that you have done to make this place a > wonderful resource for all of us that are not where we can to the > courthouse and look at all of these records. Until than Love and Prayers > Inez

Yes, this list has been very quiet and it is time to get things going again. Margaret has put new information on our web pages and in case some of you have not visited there for a while let me list the new things. 1. We are now on GenConnect. Try it out, several already have. 2. The 1856 Census Index is complete. The townships with the exception of West Liberty now have the complete census on line. 3. New Civil War information on the Military pages, more in progress 4. Additional obituaries. Please send yours to Margaret if you have some old ones. We have a number of things which are coming (some have been coming for a long, long time but we will eventually get it done). RootsWeb has been very overloaded and it has been extremely difficult to get things uploaded. Thanks to Margaret for taking care of all that. Coming are: 1. Archived queries 2. Surname Registry 3. 1856 West Liberty Township census 4. Days Past will have lots more details on the early days from the 1881 History 5. Early members of the county churches. 6 One of these days we will have look ups listed - but until then let me tell you what I can do as far as the 1901 History of Fremont and Mills Counties. The index is on our pages. I have the microfilm containing this history at the local FHC. If you request that I send you a bio of your ancestor which you have found on the index just send me an e-mail and I will eventually get it to you as an e-mail attachment. I'm not doing Fremont County, at this time. I also have the complete 1860 census and if you have found your ancestor on the index and ask for the complete listing I can e-mail that to you. If you can tell me the township your people lived in I can also search the 1880 and 1900 census records. This should keep me busy, don't you think? Please let me know if you see any glitches in the mailing list. Rootsweb has neither accepted or rejected me as the new listowner. They do not respond to my requests so we will hope everything goes well. Good searching! Cay [email protected] http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamills/

Hi Everyone, Boy this list has been quite! I have James A. Tipton b.abt. 1830 in Wilson Co. TN married to Louisa Fransces Rankin on March 27, 1853 in Lafayette Co. MO. They then move to Mills Co Iowa and on the 1880 census record I find them with the children: John Q., Mary A., Cordelia, James M., Charles, and Alfred. James was the son of William R. Tipton and Didima Ray. I realize that in the BIG RED BOOK it states that this James A. is the son of Samuel but having the will of William and some land records of William have caused reason to ponder. James A. tipton traveled to Iowa in the company of his brother's family, Alfred H. Tipton. Notice that on the census record, James and Louisa's youngest child is Alfred (most likely named after brother Alfred) James also wrote a biography which states that he is the son of William Tipton of Wilson Co. TN. I believe the Mills Co. genealogical society has copy of this biography. I would like to correspond with descendants of this family. Thank you Julie ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

---------- > From: vincent-paez <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ILROOTS-L] I search for my father RICHARD GRAY > Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 1:55 PM > > > I am french. > I have recently learned that I am Franco-American. > My name is Claude Richard and I live in the southern part of France. > > The circumstances surrounding my birth were concealed from me until > recently. > > My father is Richard Gray and this is what I know about him: > >        1. He was in Oran, Algeria, in October and November, 1943. >        2. He may well have been in the US Army. His provisional base > wasn't near the harbor or the airport. >        3. He was almost 6 feet, with light brown hair, and blue eyes. >        4. His military base was situated southeast of Oran, between the > Choupot area and the Cuvelier area (near Cite Petit). A road > separated the base from a big Algerian market hall. >        5. His dress uniform was a khaki jacket made of silky cloth. He had > a cap and wore high shoes and gaiters. > 6.My father was an "MP" (military police). >        7. His friends called him Dick and he had a friend called Mike. >        8. He apparently came back to the States, it seems before the end > of the war. > 9. He was in Oran until around 15 November - beginning December > 1943. > He came back in Oran : he had a few days'leave at the end of > December 1943. > > I have tried to find my father without success. > The results of my research are condensed below. > In the fall of 1943, an American soldier named Richard Gray, between 20 > and 23, was based at Oran in Algeria. > > There he met a young woman, my mother Lucienne Martin, 17 years old. > They became very fond of each other and planned to be married. Richard > received wedding dress photos from his sister who lived in the U.S. > At the end of 1943 (end november or beginning december) Richard Gray was > transfered to another, unknown to me, place to continue the war. > He should have been informed by mail of my birth, probably in September, > 1944. This story might be common place, but some troubling, complicating > events intervened in this love story. > Richard wrote often to my mother during the war and after he returned to > the US. > He said that he wanted to marry her; he expressed it in his letters. > > Unfortunately, my grandmother intercepted and destroyed all of his > letters. > She did not want this marriage to take place - > it would mean that her daughter and grandson would move to the USA. > > I recently learned in March, 1998, from my mother the circumstances > surrounding my birth. During this 54 year period, my mother thought she > had been deserted, in a cowardly manner, by her fiance . > To be deserted pregnant at a tender age was very difficult. > > I made several inquiries in my family in 1998 and I began to learn several > things from an aunt. > Before her death in 1977, my grandmother confided to my aunt that she had > destroyed all correspondence between them as well as a few papers > belonging to my mother. > While she never knew Richard Gray, the account of my aunt was a good one > and all of her explanations were later verified. > In September, 1998 I finally learned the truth to my mother (the > destroying of letters). > > The burdening facts that she was a deserted woman and an unmarried mother > were out and, at that time, she told me my father's name. The passing > years and the efforts to forget have resulted in fading memories. > > I have created this site, attempting to look for my father. Here I have > placed a photo of my mother at that time. > > I have written lot of emails to Gray Families who have adress email on the > web. > > I continue to use all the opportunities of the internet in my search. > The surname Gray is a very common one in the US. > If Richard Gray can be located, if he wishes, he will be able to contact > me. I only want to know if he is alive, any details of my American family, > and if he has been informed of my search. > > It's VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW the name of his Army. > Is there a veteran who was in Oran during the WWW II and would answer me ? > > Please excuse me for any improprieties. > I would like very much to find him still living, and, if so, I would like > to hold him. > > If you have no knowledge of my father, if you could forward this > request to ten veterans or people you know, and ask them to do the same, > > Thank you very much for all your help. > > Yours sincerely, > > Mr. Claude Richard PAEZ > Allee du Vent d'Est - Les Vautes N° 7 > 83320 - Carqueiranne - FRANCE > phone : +33 (0) 4 94 58 75 09 > web site : http://aa-ienet.com/RICHARD.htm > email : [email protected] > > **************************************************************************** > ******** > It's very difficult to find my father because I don't know his birth date , > his leaving town or his birth town. Without these informations, I think it > is very important to know his unit in Oran (algeria) to continue my > research. > > I wrote to a lot of Archives, 1.500 Gray families, Army, USA embassy, > President Clinton, President Chirac, US shows, US news, etc .. without > result. > In USA I find [email protected] (850 gray families), I have > written to > more of 5.000 people asking to forward my request, etc .. > I am in all [email protected] (France, Ireland, England, Scotland, > ...) > > I will write you when I'll have more results. > > Thank you very much and happy new year. > Regards > Claude Richard > adresse site : http://aa-ienet.com/RICHARD.htm > notre e-mail : [email protected] > > > > ---------- > > > ==== ILROOTS Mailing List ==== > Guidelines: Post anything you think might be helpful for your research > or someone elses. > Please Don't Post Spam mail, virus warnings, or chain letters >

Hi Gerri: There is one more Lomonds listed in the book prior to the dates for Hiriam and Eliza. That is a Dr. Al Lomonds who was born on 1856-1900 Father is how it is listed in the book. This is on page 3 and in Walnut Grove Churchyard in Lyons Township. Hope this helps Inez Home wrote: > To all who responded to my inquiry on the Lemonds family, thank you. I have > info on Hiriam & Eliza Lemonds. If the cemetaries book lists any other > Lemonds, prior to these I would be interested. Thanks again for your help. > If you run across any further information I'd be interested in hearing from > you again. > > Gerri Endean > > HD wrote: > > > Hello Mystery Writer: > > > > >From 'Mills County Iowa Cemeteries,' I see your Lemonds are buried in > > Malvern Cemetery, Section 10- > > > > Row 18 > > LEMONDS, Elmer A 1866 - 1950 > > LEMONDS, Ida Sears 1868 - 1917 > > > > and Section 11- > > > > Row 2 > > LEMONDS, Hiram 3 May 1844 - 21 Jun 1923 > > Eliza J 7 Jun 1844 - 6 Jun 1915 > > > > The spelling 'Hiram' is how it is spelled in the book; it could have been > > transcribed incorrectly or may be spelled incorrectly on the stone. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Harold > > > > Harold Hilton > > Chicago

To all who responded to my inquiry on the Lemonds family, thank you. I have info on Hiriam & Eliza Lemonds. If the cemetaries book lists any other Lemonds, prior to these I would be interested. Thanks again for your help. If you run across any further information I'd be interested in hearing from you again. Gerri Endean HD wrote: > Hello Mystery Writer: > > >From 'Mills County Iowa Cemeteries,' I see your Lemonds are buried in > Malvern Cemetery, Section 10- > > Row 18 > LEMONDS, Elmer A 1866 - 1950 > LEMONDS, Ida Sears 1868 - 1917 > > and Section 11- > > Row 2 > LEMONDS, Hiram 3 May 1844 - 21 Jun 1923 > Eliza J 7 Jun 1844 - 6 Jun 1915 > > The spelling 'Hiram' is how it is spelled in the book; it could have been > transcribed incorrectly or may be spelled incorrectly on the stone. > > Hope this helps, > > Harold > > Harold Hilton > Chicago

Hello Mystery Writer: >From 'Mills County Iowa Cemeteries,' I see your Lemonds are buried in Malvern Cemetery, Section 10- Row 18 LEMONDS, Elmer A 1866 - 1950 LEMONDS, Ida Sears 1868 - 1917 and Section 11- Row 2 LEMONDS, Hiram 3 May 1844 - 21 Jun 1923 Eliza J 7 Jun 1844 - 6 Jun 1915 The spelling 'Hiram' is how it is spelled in the book; it could have been transcribed incorrectly or may be spelled incorrectly on the stone. Hope this helps, Harold Harold Hilton Chicago

Hi, I am in search of any information I can find on the Lemonds family. I seem to be at a deadend.My gggrandfather, Hiriam Rutledge Lemonds died in Mills Co., Iowa , June 23, 1923. He was married to Eliza Jane Day. Both Hiriam and Eliza were born in Indiana. They had a son, Elmer Allison Lemonds, b. July 2, 1866 but in Monroe Co., Iowa. I haven't seen anything on Monroe Co. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, I look forward to your responses.

Hi to all Mills Researchers, Gail Kilgore, former listowner, is having some health problems and has asked for someone else to take over the Mills County list. Also Joan DeBella, who has been associated with the Mills County IAGenWeb project, has submitted her resignation as one of the coordinators. We wish to thank them both for the time and effort they have spent in getting Mills County to this point. Although I have no idea of what I am doing, I am taking over the listowner responsibility. As of now I am floundering but I will hope to understand more about it soon. Give me a few days to try to figure things out then lets get some correspondence going. I am not even sure, at this point, if my address is yet approved as a listowner. If any of you are listowners I would appreciate your input. Margaret has been making changes and additions to our pages and I will soon be posting to the list all the new things which will be available in the near future. Our query system will be going on GenConnect as soon as Margaret can bypass the busy signals to get to rootsweb to complete that project. A special thanks to Margaret Hougland as she wrestles with the problems of getting all our information online. We hope that you will contact us if you see a broken link, any errors, a better way to do something, or want to volunteer to be a lookup person. The lookup page is under construction. Thanks to all of you who have written us with complimentary remarks. We want to make the Mills pages the best on the internet and hope you will help us accomplish this. Cay Merryman [email protected] http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamills/

Hi, I am the list hostess for this mailing list and was wondering if there was someone who would be willing to take the list over for me. I would like to move on to other things and I think there has to be someone who can put some life into this list. It is not a busy list so wouldn't take up much time. Contact me if you are interested. Gail

Happy New Year to all. If you haven't been on internet discussion groups for long, I thought I'd let you know about an interesting phenomena that occurs this time of year. From a post on another list, here's the explanation: ------- begin forward message ------- Beginning this Thursday Night, and continuing through the month of January, things are going to be kind of crazy on all the RootsWeb Lists. Why? Because Santa Claus will have been and gone, and we are about to be joined by a whole bunch of Brand New Cousins with Brand New Computers and Brand New On-Line Accounts who will have almost No Idea what they are doing. <G> I would like to ask for both your patience and your help during this time period. Errors will be made (like leaving entire digests in their replies) and Questions will be asked (such as "What's a <snip>?"). Let us all remember that these were once Our Errors and Our Questions and that although our New Cousins may know nothing about Computers and On-Line, many of them will be extremely experienced researchers with overflowing filing cabinets whose contents may hold Your Ancestors! ------ end forward message ------- Now, that said - for all the newbies - don't hesitate to post. Ask your question, make your suggestions. We're here to help. If you have web access, go to Cyndi's list. Check out "Internet Stuff You Need to Know" at: http://www.cyndislist.com/internet.htm Then go back up to her main index and look around - you'll learn a lot. List Hostess of: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

GlenwoodNet is running the first of a series of exerpts from newspaper clippings found in a scrapbook along with pictures. Watch for it each week or use the search engine for GlenwoodNet later. Ramonyca << <A HREF="http://www.glenwoodnet.com/articles/981221/981221comm09.shtml"> Click here: December 21, 1998 Tales from the Scrapbook - GlenwoodNet, Glenwood, Iowa</A> >>

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Hello, I have been researching three ANDERSON siblings that moved to Mills County about 1856. My husband descends from one of their brothers. These are the Mills Co. ANDERSONs: (1) Cornelius and Lucinda ANDERSON----Cornelius died in 1915 and has an article on his family in the History of Mills County, Iowa book that was published in 1985. The article was submitted by Arilla Pearl Bennett Bice, Roberta E. Keene, and Louella Rhoades Carlson. Cornelius' children: Mary J. Anderson RUCKER, Frank P. ANDERSON and Clara Louise Anderson BOYLE (2) Darius Tipton (D.T.) and Lydia ANDERSON---Darius died 1912 in McLean, NE but had lived in Mills Co. for 40 years previous to that. Children: James F., Henry Beecher, George E., Corbin D., William S., Erastus M., Lewis M., Barton W. and Ada. (all ANDERSONs) (3) Asbury and Helena ANDERSON BAKER---Helena died in 1906. Children: Elizabeth BAKER, James BAKER, Lewis C. BAKER, Mary Ellen BAKER and Mable BAKER. I would very much like to make contact and trade information with any descendants of these folks. Ann Maxson Houston, TX [email protected]

Inez, Hi and thank you for checking on that info. I'll have to find out if the grave marker on Mrs. J. Tipton has any dates to be sure. I know they were there in 1880 as I found them on the census record. James also wrote a biography for one of the newspaper back then which the historical society has. another researcher cousin was able to obtain a copy of it. I have yet to get one. I am pretty sure James and Louisa did not leave Iowa. At the time he went there from MO he went with his brother, Alfred. Alfred returned to MO but family history states that he came only with his children. Alfred's wife died in childbirth with the infant and the two of them are buried somewhere there. I am basically hoping to find descedants of James and Louisa's children who might be researching this line. James and Louisa Tipton's children are: John Q. Mary A. Cordelia James M. Charles Alfred Thanks again. Julie >Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 16:01:19 -0800 >From: Bob Jackson <[email protected]> >To: Julie Garand <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [IAMILLS-L] Tipton > >Hi Julie: I checked the Mills County Cemetery book that I have and >although it does list a few people with the surname of Tipton, the only >one that I could find for you was in Glenwood Cemetery Oak Grove section >lot 252 and the only information listed was Mrs J. Tipton. Also checked >the book on Mills County that was put out by the genenalogical society and >there were no Tiptons listed. Good luck in your search. Inez > >Julie Garand wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> Looking to contact Tipton researchers. Especially looking for >> descendants of William R. Tipton, James A. Tipton and his wife Louisa. >> Looking forward to hearing from you! >> Julie >> >> ______________________________________________________ >> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Hello! I am doing some research on folks living in Mills Co., IA and am wondering if someone can tell me what kind of information was recorded on the Iowa 1852 census. I found an index to the census and would like to know the type of information I would be getting if I order the microfilm. Thank you, Ann Maxson Houston, TX

If you are talking about the 1856 Iowa state census, most of it for Mills County is on the web site. If you will send me the names you are interested in I can e-mail you the complete census listing. I believe the information given is listed on our web site. To the best of my knowledge there was not an 1852 census for Mills County. When asking for information on a family please include the township they live in which is found in the index. Cay Merryman [email protected] http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamills/ Phillip and Ann Maxson wrote: > > Hello! > > I am doing some research on folks living in Mills Co., IA > and am wondering if someone can tell me what kind of > information was recorded on the Iowa 1852 census. I found an > index to the census and would like to know the type of > information I would be getting if I order the microfilm. > Thank you, > Ann Maxson > Houston, TX