I received this on another list I belong to & thought maybe some one on this list might like to have this information > This listing comes from Judy Nordgren and the Rootsweb Mailing List. > 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 > 1732-33 Worldwide: Influenza > 1738 South Carolina: Smallpox > 1739-40 Boston: Measles > 1747 Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania & South Carolina: Measles > 1759 North America (areas inhabited by white people): Measles > 1761-61 North America & West Indies: Influenza > 1772 North America: Measles > 1775 North America (especially hard in New England): Epidemic (unknown) > 1775-76 Worldwide: Influenza > 1781-82 Worldwide: Influenza (one of worst flu epidemics) > 1788 Philadelphia & New York: Measles > 1793 Vermont: Influenza and a "putrid fever" > 1793 Virginia: Influenza (kills 500 people in 5 counties in 4 weeks) > 1793 Philadelphia: Yellow fever (one of worst) > 1783 Delaware (Dover): "extremely fatal" bilious disorder > 1793 Pennsylvania (Harrisburg & Middletown): many unexplained deaths > 1794 Philadelphia: Yellow fever > 1796-97 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever > 1798 Philadelphia: Yellow Fever (one of worst) > 1803 New York: Yellow Fever > 1820-23 Nationwide: "fever" (starts on Schuylkill River, PA & spreads) > 1831-32 Nationwide: Asiatic Cholera (brought by English emigrants) > 1832 New York & other major cities: Cholera > 1837 Philadelphia: Typhus > 1841 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (especially severe in South) > 1847 New Orleans: Yellow Fever > 1847-48 Worldwide: Influenza > 1848-49 North America: Cholera > 1850 Nationwide: Yellow Fever > 1850-51 North America: Influenza > 1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans: 8,000 die in summer) > 1855 Nationwide (many parts): Yellow Fever > 1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease=92s greatest epidemics) > 1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox > 1865-73 Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, = > & > Washington D.C.: a series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, > Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever > 1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza > 1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease) > 1885 Plymouth, PA: Typhoid > 1886: Jacksonville, Fl: Yellow Fever > 1918 Worldwide: Influenza (high point year) More people hospitalized in > World War I from Influenza than wounds. US Army training camps became > death camps 97with 80 percent death rate in some camps. > Finally, these specific instances of cholera were mentioned: > 1833 Columbus, Ohio > 1834 New York City > 1849 New York > 1851 Coles Co., Illinois > 1851 The Great Plains > 1851 Missouri >

---------- > From: Brian Leverich <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Listserver Problems Fixed > Date: Sunday, September 20, 1998 9:27 PM > > > > Since Tuesday when we resumed normal operations after recovering > from the cracker attack, we have received numerous reports of > anomalous list server operation. The symptoms included: > > o Posts and digests disappearing. > > o Posts appearing in the archives and in the digests, but > not being sent to mail mode subscribers. > > o Several other, more involved, abnormalities. > > There was indeed a problem that was causing anomalous operation of > the main "lists.rootsweb.com" server for one or two 2-hour windows > each day and a similar problem that was affecting the "lists2" > server zero or one 2-hour window each day. (We accidentally broke > "lists2" as we were making repairs to the "lists" server.) > > Anyway, the problem is now identified and fixed. To the best of our > knowledge, there are no remaining problems. These two listservers > had operated without problems for more than 200 days each before the > cracker attack, and we'll try to provide even better reliability > than that out into the future. -B > > > -- > Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L > RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ > P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 [email protected] >

As published in the brief '1857 1957 History of the First Baptist Church Centennial Anniversary July 4, 1957 Glenwood, Iowa.' On page 8 (back page): CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMITTEE Mrs. Ralph McPherron, Chairman Mrs. Berwyn Hamilton Mrs. Della Richards Mr. Dahle S. Boyer Mr. T. E. Jacons PASTORS OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF GLENWOOD, IOWA Rev. J. W. Daniels May 1858 - July 1860 Rev. J. A. Martin Dec. 1860 - Feb. 1863 Rev. J. C. Otis Feb. 1865 - Sept. 1874 Rev. E. C. Cady Nov. 1874 - May 1876 Rev. S. C. Sale Oct. 1876 - March 1879 Rev. F. W. Parsons May 1880 - March 1892 Rev. G. F. Porter Aug. 1892 - Dec. 1893 Rev. F. R. Leach Oct. 1894 - Feb. 1899 Rev. W. E. Storey Sept. 1899 - April 1903 Rev. A. H. Beaver Dec. 1903 - May 1906 Rev. J. O. Staples Aug. 1906 - Jan. 1910 Rev. R. L. Palmerton Aug. 1910 -Aug. 1912 Rev. A. C. Hageman Oct. 1912 - Oct. 1913 Rev. George Sneath Aug. 1914 - Jan. 1918 Rev. C. E. Hillis Feb. 1918 - Jan. 1921 Rev. L. R. Bobbitt March 1921 - May 1924 Dr. William R. Shoemaker July 1924 - Nov. 1926 Rev. C. W. Fletcher June 1927 - Nov. 1929 Rev. John Erb April 1930 - May 1932 Rev. L. J. Moran Sept. 1932 - Nov. 1935 Rev. L. W. Verts March 1936 - July 1939 Rev. Charles Bishop Hilton July 1940 - Aug. 1945 Rev. W. E. Prewitt Dec. 1945 - July 1952 Rev. A. C. Marston Aug. 1952 - Nov. 1955 Rev. T. C. Jacobs Feb. 1956 - I hope the above is interesting and useful. More to come from the booklet, which gives the names of the founding members and many others. H. D. Hilton Chicago

Hi, That is very good. Will look forward to more postings....thanks! Gail

I received this from a friend & it is a very interesting. It has wills for surnames I have seen on some Lists but I can't remember which lists that I saw them on. http://www.ca-probate.com/wills.htm <A HREF="http://www.ca-probate.com/wills.htm">Click here: Wills on the Web (Actual Wills of Celebrities & Others) (Frank Sinatra, Princess Diana, Onassis, Nixon, Lennon, Pr</A> There are lots of interesting wills on this page...Benjamin Franklin, etc. This guy has quite a collection. It takes a couple of minutes to open the whole page.

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In a message dated 8/29/1998 8:35:09 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << >The top ten indicators that you've become a Gene-aholic..... > By Mary H. Harris > > 10. You introduce your daughter as your descendant. > > 9. You've never met any of the people you send e-mail to, even though > you are related. > > 8. You can recite your lineage back 8 generations, but can't remember > your nephew's name. > > 7. You have more photographs of dead people than living ones. > > 6. You have taken a tape recorder and or notebook to a family reunion. > > 5. You have not only read the latest Gedcom standards, you understand > it. > > 4. The local genealogy society borrows books from you. > > 3. The only film you have seen in the last year was the 1880 census > index. > > 2. More than half of your CD collection is made up of marriage records > or pedigrees. > > 1. Your elusive ancestors have been spotted in more places than Elvis. > > >>

[email protected] wrote: > > I am wanting to see if someone know if I need more than the date of > marriage for Joseph KNIGHT and Mahala GLADDEN 11-25-1873 to write to get > a copy. Maybe someone has access to a list of marriage for this year. > and can give me Book # and Vol # > > Thank you to any one who might be able to help. > > Diana

In a message dated 8/24/1998 4:29:42 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: In response to your query about looking up obits? We do have volunteers from the Mills Co.Genealogical Society that do searches for people. They would be happy to look up obits for you--they charge $5.00 per hour plus photocopies (15 cents each). If you would still like them to search for you, you can respond to the library by e-mail and they will mail the results to you with the bill. Sincerely, Denise Crawford, Library Director Glenwood Public Library 109 N. Vine St. Glenwood, IA 51534 (712) 527-5252 (712) 527-3619 FAX [email protected] >>

James MAGWIRE/MAGUIRE/MCGUIRE b ca 1819 PA and wife Sarah DUNLAP b ca 1829 PA moved to Mills County IA between 1878-1880. They had 10 children but only 6 have been identified. The known children are Elizabeth (Lizzie) b ca 1848 PA, Mary E b 1853 PA d 1931 Emerson, IA, John b ca 1856 PA, Henry Joseph b 19 Mar 1860 Huntingdon, PA d 28 Feb 1941 Mercy Hospital Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co, IA buried Bethel Cemetery Harrison Co IA, Keage or Heage b ca 1863 PA (his name is difficult to read on the census) and Minnie P b 1860 PA d 1931 Emerson, IA. This family is listed on the 1880 Fed Census in Indian Creek Township, Mills Co. IA, last name spelled as MAGWIRE. On the 1880 Fed Census also living in the James MAGWIRE home was a niece Patience LOGAN age 42 b PA and nephew M James LOGAN age 2 b PA and a farm hand George SMITH age 20 b PA. On the 1885 Mills County Census only James MCGUIRE age 69, wf Sarah age 57, & children Lizzie age 32, John age 28, Henry J age 25 & Minnie age 17 are listed living in the residence in Indian Creek Township on Township 72, Range 40, Section 13 SW1/4 NW1/4. What happened to the younger son Keage or Heage? Mary E and Minnie P MAGWIRE are buried in the Emerson Cemetery a few rows from the front of the cemetery next to the middle driveway. Their last name is spelled MAGWIRE on their tombstones. Mary & Minnie were seamstresses who lived in Emerson their entire adult lives. They were spinsters who treated their cats like children. Their names were spelled as MCGUIRE on the 1885 Mills Co Census. Listed living with Mary in Emerson on Lot 221, on the 1885 census was a Nellie MCGUIRE age 25 b ca 1860 School Teacher. Nothing else known abut Nellie. One family story says James MAGWIRE/MAGUIRE disappeared or abandoned his family sometime after 1885. He was said to have had a mean temperment. His wife Sarah was found living with daughters Mary & Minnie on a later census but no other information has been found about Sarah DUNLAP MAGWIRE/MAGUIRE. Does anyone have any information on any of these people? Were there other Dunlap or Logan families living in the area that could have been related? My GreatGrandfather was Henry Joseph MAGUIRE. I have information on his descendants to share with other researchers of these families. Vicki King

Hi, Is there anyone in the Glenwood that could look-up old Obituaries for me if I supplied the dates etc?? Thanks These are the names I am looking for: LEE, FISHER, ETHERINGTON, HOPP,KISBY, PIATT, KEPHART, HARMON, Mary (LEE) Stewart [email protected]

If there is anyone researching the DOLPH and RIDDELL surnames in Mills County, I'd like to hear from you. I am descended from Aaron DOLPH and Evaline MILLER and their son Josiah DOLPH who married Susan Lovina RIDDELL. Connie Fulkerson [email protected] Manhattan, KS Researching: DOLPH, RIDDELL, HASKIN, RHODES, ELDREDGE, CHEATHAM, PRICE, NELSON, HERMAN, GRANQUIST, MATTSON, HOSIER

Hi, We have had a lot of new members sign on in the last two weeks, this list is very slow, so if the new members could post their info maybe some of us older members maybe able to help. Always, Searching Gail Meyer-Kilgore Casa Grande,AZ Searching: Kilgore, Alexander, Boone, Lassley, Douglass Searching: Meyer, Beer, Bretting, Kruger, Groen, Nottelmann, Frerichs ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* List Hostess of [email protected] List Hostess of [email protected] List Hostess of [email protected] List Hostess of [email protected] List Hostess of [email protected]

Hi Mills Co. I am new to your list. If this is a little long forgive me. My GGrandfather William SEWING moved his family from St. Louis, Mo. to Pottawattamie Co. IA about 1883. William Sewing had three children from his first wife who died of Small Pox in St. Louis - their names were Anna SEWING; William Thomas SEWING; and Alvina SEWING. Alvina C. SEWING married James Franklin JUDKINS 3 September 1887 in Glenwood, Mills Co., IA. They had three children Walter William JUDKINS (born 1888 in Glenwood, Mills Co., IA); Nora Pearl JUDKINS (born 1889, Glenwood, Mills Co.,); and Roy Lamont JUDKINS (born 1893 in Arnold, NE). The father of James Franklin JUDKINS was James M. JUDKINS and the mother was Francis W. LIGGETT JUDKINS. Siblings of James Franklin JUDKINS were Elizabeth Ann JUDKINS, born 1860 in Glenwood, IA; William H. JUDKINS, born 1862 in Unknown; Cora M. JUDKINS, born before 1896 in unknown; Josephine E. JUDKINS, born before 1896 in unknown; and Lille S. JUDKINS, born before 1896 in unknown. William SEWING and his second wife Wilhelmina MITTENDORF SEWING had ten children. Many of them farmed in Pottawattamie Co., and south of Council Bluffs towards Mills County. The children were Dorathy K.; Charles Edward; Daniel Amos; Marie Carolyn; Elizabeth Catherine; Harriet Marie; Thomas Carl (my grandfather); Louise S. (who married Fred William GRUDLE) of Glenwood, Mills Co.; and Sarah SEWING. We know little about the JUDKINS family, and I would love to visit or exchange information with anyone who might have known the SEWING or JUDKINS families. Sharie Batson [email protected] 532 Arnold Avenue Council Bluffs, IA 51503-5147

I am looking for alumni from Cradock High School. Robin

I am looking for members of the China family. Robin

I am looking for members of the Gray family with roots in Virginia. Robin

Hello Everyone, I just received in my snail mail the latest Genealogy SCAM. I just thought I'd pass this information along to forewarn everyone. This one is from the U.S. INFORMATION BUREAU, NUMA, 3220 N. St., N.W. Ste.1400, Washington, D.C. 20077. ============================================================ This is from, "ANote From Our Publisher." "This important new book features a "never-before-published" roster of those with your proud surname who served in the Civil War. Edited by noted Civil War genealogist Sherry Harris, you'll discover specific tips that will help you determined if you could be linked to one of the Civil War veterans listed. Plus, you'll find little-known facts about those past and present, informative text and reproductions of archival photographs taken during the War. Your First Edition book is a full 8-1.2" x 11" in size. It is numbered and registered in your name. A Certificate of Registration denoting this specific information accompanies each copy. Each collector's First Edition is handsomely hardbound in a padded leather-grained cover and will be an attractive addition to your living room or library. YOUR SPECIAL PRE-PUBLICATION PRICE IS JUST $49.50!! YOU SAVE A FULL $20.00 OFF THE REGULAR PRICE OF $69.50. (Just reserve by the date indicated on the enclosed Reservation Form.) SEND NO MONEY NOW!!! Publisher: NUMA, Washington D.C." ============================================================ Constance

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Thought that I would repost this as some of you new members signed on today and I am not sure if you got this or not. Gail ---------- > From: Cay Merryman <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IAMILLS-L] Re:IAMILLS-L Roll Call > Date: Sunday, July 26, 1998 4:54 PM > > Hi to all the Mills County researchers, > > I have been away from my computer most of this summer and am just > home(in St. George, UT) for a week or so before leaving for Minnesota > again till about October 1st. A lot of the material which is on the > USGenWeb site for Mills County was collected by me and I am anxious to > get more helpful information online for Mills researchers. Margaret > Hougland has done a great job of putting the information I send her on > the Mills pages - I don't know how to do that. Joan DeBella is keeping > the query pages going, I don't know how to do that either. > > How about giving me some input as to what kind of material would be > helpful. Would it be more census indexing? or would it be more helpful > to have the complete census record? > I have easy access to the census records for 1856, 1860, 1880 and maybe > others.Are all of you aware that there is a 1925 State Census available? > It gives a ton of information. I don't have access to this now but might > get it if enough people are interested. I would be glad to look up the > complete census record for those years which are available, if you find > the surname in the index and let me know year and township. > > Right now I have the marriage records for Mills County from January 1, > 1886 to December 31, 1899. These were copied by Beverly Boileau in > 1982/83 and I have her permission to put them on our web site. The > people at the Glenwood Public Library have been very helpful to me as > far as giving me access to many records, especially Denise Crawford, the > director of the library, and Rachel Carlile, who looks up numerous > requests for me. > > If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know. I have > answered queries about Mills County from many states and even England, > and I have also corresponded with a number of you who are on the mailing > list. Thanks Gail Kilgore for your part in this effort. Someday maybe > we will have lots of researchers using the mailing list. > > My ancestors in Rawles Twp., Mills County were few and far between. My > grandparents, > Thomas and Sarah Catherine (Riggs)Brading, my great grandfather, James > Warren Riggs, and my parents are all buried in Tabor Cemetery. A great, > great aunt, Elizabeth Harrison, married Richard Estes and there are > Estes and Delavan distant relatives still in Mills. Another great, great > aunt, Rebecca Harrison m. Evan Shelby and they lived in Lyons Twp. and > probably have descendants living in the area. A great great uncle was > Samuel Harrison who lived in Rawles Twp. early, before moving to the > Whiting, Iowa area. > > When I come back home in October I hope I am flooded with requests for > lookups. In addition to the census records, I have the 1985 Mills > History and the cemetery book with the newer complete index. Most > everything else is on the web site. I also have a cemetery book and the > 1996 Fremont County History. Information I can give from all of these is > somewhat limited because of copyright laws. > > Good hunting! > > Cay Merryman > [email protected] > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamills >