That's where and I found it and DAH??? why didn't I think to go to the first page??? Any how I'm glad to know that LE = Leclaire. That is what I was hoping for as I'm trying to find a reason that my Wm. and Mary Ann Kelly, from PA, were in the 1880 IA Census for Leclaire Twp., Scott Co., IA. They were in PA prior to 1880 and she died in PA in 1888. Now I just have to find where he was and died. I received MANY answers to my question - you were the first to tell me to look at the first page. Thanks again, Shari ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 5:59 PM Subject: Re: [IASCOTT] Need help reading the 1856 Iowa Census Index for Scott County > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shari M.Price" <[email protected]> > Subject: [IASCOTT] Need help reading the 1856 Iowa Census Index for Scott County > > : I've shown a sample line from the Census Index below: > : Where is the page number? > : What do DT, LE, AG, HG stand for? > : These things are not labeled on the page. > : I'd like to figure out who belongs to what family shown in the index. > : I need assistance. > : Thank you > : Sample: > : 098 DT 000 Kelley Allis 2 F S 2 Pennsylvania > : > > Shari, > > If the page you are referring to was from the transcription done by Genealogy > Society for QC Memory Project...the headers for the census they only have listed > at the first page... > http://www.qcmemory.org/Genealogy/1856Census/1856CensusA.htm > > The DT is in the township column and I imagine stands for Davenport Township, AG > would be Allen's Grove Township, HG would be Hickory Grove, and LE would be > Leclaire. > > Cathy > > > > > > ==== IASCOTT Mailing List ==== > Reminder! If you are changing e-mail addresses, please unsubscribe > from the old address and subscribe again with the new. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

----- Original Message ----- From: "Shari M.Price" <[email protected]> Subject: [IASCOTT] Need help reading the 1856 Iowa Census Index for Scott County : I've shown a sample line from the Census Index below: : Where is the page number? : What do DT, LE, AG, HG stand for? : These things are not labeled on the page. : I'd like to figure out who belongs to what family shown in the index. : I need assistance. : Thank you : Sample: : 098 DT 000 Kelley Allis 2 F S 2 Pennsylvania : Shari, If the page you are referring to was from the transcription done by Genealogy Society for QC Memory Project...the headers for the census they only have listed at the first page... http://www.qcmemory.org/Genealogy/1856Census/1856CensusA.htm The DT is in the township column and I imagine stands for Davenport Township, AG would be Allen's Grove Township, HG would be Hickory Grove, and LE would be Leclaire. Cathy

Chapter 35 cont. ADDITIONS NEEDED In 1874 more children came to No. 1 than could be cared for and an addition was ordered to contain four school rooms and two recitation rooms, making it a ten room building. The stone school building No. 2 also suffered enlargement in 1870 by an addition on the south side which doubled its size and made of it a ten room building. Subdistrict No. 3 also grew in population and six rooms were added about 1870 on the north side of the older building. Later the filling of Sixth street made the two lower rooms on the north unservicable. The territory around No. 4 grew steadily in population. In 1877-78 the first addition was made to the six room building. A wing with two rooms, one above another was added, forming what is still the southeast corner of the house. Nine years later the old building having become untenantable, a similar wing of two rooms was added to the newer structure on the southwest corner. Only the upper room was used for a schoolroom for some years, as the lower one was occupied by the heating plant. Later the boiler was lowered and the room made available for school purposes. In the summer of 1898 the building was remodeled and emerged from teh transformation an eleven room building with two recitation rooms and a teacher's room. The remodeling brought about a greatly improved arrangement of the building. The first school added to the original six above noted was No. 7, a one story two room frame building situated in Black Hawk at the western end of Davenport. The attendance was from thirty to forty pupils and all the grades were taught by one teacher. When the scholars reached fifth grade, they were transferred t oNo. 5. This building was continued in use until 1897, when the new No. 7, now the Van Buren school, was opened at Hancock and Lincoln avenues and the scholars were transferred to this school and the old building fell into disuse. The new No. 7 is a handsome up-to-date modern school building of ten rooms and two recitation rooms, a teachers' room and principal's room, of which the people of western Davenport are vastly proud. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

I've shown a sample line from the Census Index below: Where is the page number? What do DT, LE, AG, HG stand for? These things are not labeled on the page. I'd like to figure out who belongs to what family shown in the index. I need assistance. Thank you Sample: 098 DT 000 Kelley Allis 2 F S 2 Pennsylvania

Chapter 35 cont. EARLY SCHOOL LOCATIONS In 1859 the school law was amended providing for the election of three directors who in connection with the president, vice president, secretary and treasurer should constitute the school board. At the first election A. S. Maxwell was elected president; E. Peck, vice president; Thomas J. Saunders, secretary; George H. French, treasurer; directors, J. M. Frizzell, one year, Robert Means, two years, and Ignatius Langer, three years. The second director resigned and Judge Grant was elected to fill the vacancy. The original location of School No. 1, now known as the Washington school, was Mound and Eddy streets, where a frame building accommodated the children of the village of East Davenport, until the erection of the brick structure on its present location, Fulton and Mississippi avenues, in 1865. No. 2 school, now the Adams school originally occupied the lower floor of a two story frame house on Fourth and Perry. This building was erected by a Mr. Prescott for a private school in 1843. He went to the timber for his oak which was either hewed or sawed at the Duck Creek mill. In 1853 and 1854 a stone school house was erected at the corner of Seventh and Perry streets. It is still in good condition, although not at this time is use. This building cost $8,000 and was considered in those days a triumph of architecture. Wilkie in his "Davenport, Past and Present" published in 1858, speaks in high praise of its power to accommodate pupils and mentions the commodious living quarters for the principal situated in the basement. The first house occupied by old School No. 3, now the Jefferson school, was a little frame building on the northeast corner of Fifth and Scott streets. This was in 1853. There were probably about thirty pupils. here Webster's blue backed spelling book was used for first lessons in reading. In 1855 the school was moved to Third street, south side, between Gaines and Brown streets. From there another move in 1856-57 was made to Sixth and Warren streets, where a urgency for the use of this building that a room was fitted up for occupancy in the southeast corner before the remainder of the building was completed. Hiram Price, school fund commissioner for Scott county, was the recipient of a petition in the spring of 1855, signed by the voters of North Davenport for the creation of a new school district. District No. 17 resulted. A lot was donated by James McIntosh situated between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets and between Main and Harrison streets. On this lot was built a one-story brick building of small dimensions, but adequate for the time. Later an upper story was added and later still, a frame building was purchased by the board, moved to the lot and attached on the north side of the brick building, thus arranging for a three room school. Here the school remained until a large brick building was erected in 1865 just north of the old school, on the location of No. 4, the Madison school, Main and Locust streets. The predecessor of School No. 5, the Monroe school, was a little stone building at Second and Pine streets, built about 1855, where the school remained until the erection of the present sightly building in 1868. The earliest school in district No. 11, afterwards No. 6, now Jackson school, was on the Doser farm, just west of the present Rock Island crossing of Locust street. It was a one-room frame building of such dilapidation that the children were compelled to crowd into the corners for protection from the elements. Here the school remained until 1858, when it was transferred to a new two-room frame building situated on a lot which the board had purchased on Union street, between Mitchell and Washington streets. Later two rooms were added, and still later two additional rooms, making it a six room building. In 1893 the old frame building gave place to a thoroughly modern brick schoolhouse of eight rooms, erected on the same lot. In 1902 more room being imperatively needed, the school board purchased another lot adjoining the property on the west and erected a four room addition, making it a twelve room building. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Davenport Democrat Davenport, Scott, Iowa July 20, 1924 HOW IOWA CAME INTO EXISTENCE AND STATEHOOD Territory's Settled Portion for Long Only a Narrow Strip on River. In 1833 settlers began to stake out claims in Iowa. The principal crossings of the Mississippi were at Davenport, Burlington, and Dubuque, where ferries were located. In June, 1824, the whole region lying between the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers and extending from the state of Missouri to the British possessions on the north was annexed to Michigan territory. When the council met in September the Black Hawk purchase was divided into two counties, the division line running due west from the lower end of Rock Island. The northern county was called Dubuque and the southern Demoine. For judicial purposes the two counties were attached to what was Iowa county, Michigan territory. In court parlance the three counties thus united were called the Iowa district, of which David Irving was made a judge. As an assurance of peace on the frontier, the war department stationed three companies of the First United States Dragoons on the Iowa bank of the Mississippi river a short distance above the mouth of the Des Moines, called Camp De Moines. Take Census. In 1836 a census was taken of the territory, when the four counties east of the Mississippi returned a population of 11,687 and the two counties west, 10,531, of which 6,257 were in the county of Demoine and 4,274 in Dubuque. The apportionment for the election to be held in September of that year was based on the population for Demoine county ten members in the two houses of the territorial legislature and for Dubuque county eight, making eighteen members in all against nineteen elected from the east side of the river. In the election, George W. Jones was returned to congress. The council elected met at Belmont in what is now Wisconsin, Oct. 5, 1836, when Peter Engle of Dubuque county was elected president of the lower house. At this session Demoine county was subdivided into counties as they now exist, except that the southern part of what is Scott county was then called Cook. On Nov. 6, 1837, the first legislative body met in what is now Iowa, being the second session of the first territorial council of Wisconsin. A temporary building erected for the meeting was destroyed by fire so the council met in a Methodist church to which the name Old Zion was given. At this session Dubuque county was subdivided into the smaller counties as they now exist. On June 12, 1838, President Martin Van Buren signed the bill by which Iowa territory came into existence on the fourth of July of that year. First Territorial Government. Despite its immense size, Iowa territory's settled portion was confined to a narrow strip along the Mississippi. Of this vast domain President Van Buren made Robert Lucas of Ohio governor and Wm. B. Conway of Pennsylvania secretary. As justices of the supreme court the president appointed Charles Mason chief justice and Joseph Williams and Thomas S. Wilson associate justice. Governor Lucas was a Methodist, a strict moralist, who abhorred drinking and gambling and announced he would appoint to office no man addicted to these habits. Secretary Conway, who is described as not always scrupulous, arrived on the scene before the governor and virtually assumed the office of governor. As governor pro tempore he divided the territory into judicial districts and assigned the judges to their places. He went to Davenport and entered into negotiations to make it the capital, and was on the point of issuing a proclamation for legislative districts, when the governor himself arrived. The governor proceeded to inspect his domain and desired to locate the temporary capital. Dubuque was the largest city. Here he met a young man named John Plumbe, jr., whose townsmen said he was crazy on the subject of a transcontinental railroad. Bellevue in Jackson county was well established; there was a settlement at Lyons, but Clinton was still unknown. Davenport was a new town, the creation of Antoine LeClaire and the trader after whom it was named. Rockingham opposite the mouth of the Rock River and Buffalo a few miles lower still regarded themselves as rivals of Davenport. Muscatine was then called Bloomington. The governor finally made Burlington the temporary capital of the territory. Cathy Joynt Labath Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm Iowa Old Press http://www.IowaOldPress.com/

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/Yl.2ADE/2690 Message Board Post: Hello, I was wondering if someone could do an obit look up for me on the following person: Minnie McDonald or Mina McDonald Mrs. James "Jim" McDonald Died Oct. 28, 1968 born about 1879; believe in Iowa Thanks, Crystal McDonald Wendt

In a message dated 9/29/2004 9:44:29 AM Central America Standard Tim, [email protected] writes: Deb, can you provide more indepth information on each of the independant school districts to put on the Iowa Ghost towns site. www.iowaghosttowns.com Mel [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mel, I don't do research. I type from out of copyright books for the Iowa History site and for Scott County. I do this for the people of Iowa. I also type for me. It's good therapy during stressful times in life. We have online on the Scott site many completed - huge - History books. I would have to go to the Iowa History site to count how many books that are complete on that site. I am now working on 8 projects at once. Maybe you could go to eBay and find some books you are interested in and you could type from those. Or you could go to the library as Cathy does all the time and find information for others. I have 4 more sets of books coming from eBay that I will need to start also. And one set has I think 12 books in the bid. Another one has 5 books. I just don't have time to do your research. I am busy with my Iowa and Scott typing. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Deb, can you provide more indepth information on each of the independant school districts to put on the Iowa Ghost towns site. www.iowaghosttowns.com Mel [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 9:13 AM Subject: [IASCOTT] Six Independent Schools > Chapter 35 cont. > > SIX INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS > > In the latter '50s within the present limits of the Independent district > of > the city of Davenport, there were six schools, none of them occupying the > sites > on which their successors the present schools are located. These were in > independent districts, each having its own board of directors, each > managing its > own financial affairs, and providing for its own expenses independently of > the > others. This condition continued until 1858, when a change in the school > law > of the state made consolidation and the support of the schools by general > taxation possible. May 5, 1858, pursuant to previous notice a public > meeting was > held at the courthouse at which these six districts of Davenport township > Nos. 10, 2, 7, 17, 5 and 11, were formed into one district, each > subdistrict > having its representative board member and the officers of the combined > district > being chosen by the electors at large. On this same day at this meeting, > an > election was held at which Dr. A. S. Maxwell was elected president; T. D. > Egal, > vice president; J. R. Johnson, secretary, and George H. French, treasurer. > > In this consolidation district No. 10 became subdistrict No. 1, and was > represented by J. M. Frizzell; district 2 continued the number as > subdistrict No. > 2, with Wm. T. Clark on the board; district No. 7 became district No. 3, > Henry > Lambach; No. 17 became No. 4, with T. H. Codding; No. 5 remained No. 5, > with > W. L. Cook, local member; No. 11 became No. 6, with S. G. Mitchell > representative on the district board. > > > > Debbie Clough Gerischer > Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County > http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ > IAGENWEB: Special History Project: > http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm > Gerischer Family Web Site: > http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ > > > ==== IASCOTT Mailing List ==== > Check out Cathy Labath's IAGenWeb site! > http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ > It has a wealth of information about Scott county, Iowa > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Chapter 35 cont. SIX INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS In the latter '50s within the present limits of the Independent district of the city of Davenport, there were six schools, none of them occupying the sites on which their successors the present schools are located. These were in independent districts, each having its own board of directors, each managing its own financial affairs, and providing for its own expenses independently of the others. This condition continued until 1858, when a change in the school law of the state made consolidation and the support of the schools by general taxation possible. May 5, 1858, pursuant to previous notice a public meeting was held at the courthouse at which these six districts of Davenport township Nos. 10, 2, 7, 17, 5 and 11, were formed into one district, each subdistrict having its representative board member and the officers of the combined district being chosen by the electors at large. On this same day at this meeting, an election was held at which Dr. A. S. Maxwell was elected president; T. D. Egal, vice president; J. R. Johnson, secretary, and George H. French, treasurer. In this consolidation district No. 10 became subdistrict No. 1, and was represented by J. M. Frizzell; district 2 continued the number as subdistrict No. 2, with Wm. T. Clark on the board; district No. 7 became district No. 3, Henry Lambach; No. 17 became No. 4, with T. H. Codding; No. 5 remained No. 5, with W. L. Cook, local member; No. 11 became No. 6, with S. G. Mitchell representative on the district board. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

I don't know of any relationship to your Kelly's of Leclaire Twp. But then again, I don't know that I'm not related either. Thank you for sending the information on both sites. This is what I have on my William D. Kelly/Kelley: I have a Wm.Kelly, born approx 1818 in PA and Mary Ann NELSON Kelly, born approx 1814 in PA. Mary Ann NELSON Kelly's father was supposed to have been a ____ Nelson that married a _____ HOMMER. Mary Ann NELSON Kelly's grandfather was supposed to have been a _____ HOMMER that married a Catherine Trimel, born 1791. William D. Kelly was a shoemaker In 1860 William KELLY, a shoemaker, and family were in Logan Twp., Blair Co., PA with 3 sons and 1 daughter. In 1870 William KELLY, a shoemaker, and family were in Darlington Borrough Twp., Beaver Co., PA with 2 sons and 1 daughter. Wm.KELLEY, a shoemaker, and Mary Ann were in Princeton, LeClaire Twp., Scott Co., IA in the 1880 Census with no sons and but their daughter was living next door. Also living next door to them was a Julia Ann Nelson Scandrett, born 1825 daughter of a John Nelson and her husband, Miles Scandrett, born Huntingdon Co, PA, son of William and Sarah (Coleman) Scandrett. There may be a relationship to this family as almost all were born in PA? Their daughter Melissa "Jane" Kelly McCreary with 4 of her children and a niece Ella May Kelley, 6 born PA, was living next door to them. Jane had 2 young daughters, Lizzie May 6 and Ida 4, both born PA. Jane had a son Wm. Joseph 2, born 1878 in Joliet, IL. Jane had a daughter, Mary Jane, 9 months born in 1879 in Muscatine Co., IA. Jane Kelly McCreary returned with her children to her husband, Miller L. McCreary, and lived and died in the Hillsville area of Mahoning Twp., Lawrence Co., PA. Jane Kelly married Miller L. McCreary in 1873 in Lawrence Co., PA. Jane Kelly McCreary, born 1856 in Indiana Co., PA, had brothers names of John Francis Kelly born PA approx. 1843, died 1937 in Reynoldsville, Jefferson Co., PA, Wiiliam (called Nelson in the 1870 PA Census) born PA approx. 1849 and James born PA approx. 1852. Jane Kelly McCreary died in 1915 in New Castle, PA. One of her brothers, J. F. (John Francis) Kelly, was living in Altoona, PA at the time of her death in 1915. I have an extensive family record of Jane Kelly McCreary and Miller L. McCreary and their 8 surviving children and their descendants. The McCreary family children married spouses with surnames of: Damon/Daman, Liston, Loftus, Ludwig, Cearfoss, Waters, Downs, Witherow, Holman. Most of these were of the Edinburg and Hillsville area of Mahoning Twp., Lawrence Co., PA area. Obit for Mrs. Wm. Kelly, mother of Jane Kelly McCreary: Mrs. Wm. Kelly, Obituary (Assumed that she died 03-14-1888) From: The New Castle News, New Castle, PA, Dated 03-20-1888, page 3 Mrs. Wm. Kelly died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Miller McCreary, on Saturday. The remains were interred in the Hillsville Methodist Cemetery. Mrs. Kelly was a very highly respected lady. She leaves a husband and three children to mourn her loss. SHari McCreary Price ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet Miller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [IASCOTT] Does anyone look up obits, please. > Hi Shari, > Not sure if this will help, but here are some Kelley's just south of our > town in the Sycamore area. > > Would they be related to the Kelley's in Le Claire Township? > Section 4 plat: > http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/leclaire1882.htm > > Also this land had been in our Smith family for quite sometime. Here is more > information on Jane Kelley. It eventually became the Smith farm again: > http://sycamorecreekdesign.com/familyhistory/smithbrothers.html > > > Best Regards, > > Janet Rossmiller - Miller > http://www.sycamorecreekdesign.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shari M.Price" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 1:58 PM > Subject: [IASCOTT] Does anyone look up obits, please. > > > > I need to find out if there is an obit on file for a: > > WILLIAM DANIEL KELLY/KELLEY > > Circa 09-09-1891. > > Possibly of Princeton, LeClaire Twp., Scott Co, IA. > > He would have died, while visiting, in Hillsville, Mahoning Twp., Lawrence > > Co., PA. > > Does anyone look up obits? > > Can I ask the Davenport Public Library to do this for me? > > Shari McCreary Price > > > > > > ==== IASCOTT Mailing List ==== > > Reminder! If you are changing e-mail addresses, please unsubscribe > > from the old address and subscribe again with the new. > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== IASCOTT Mailing List ==== > Reminder! If you are changing e-mail addresses, please unsubscribe > from the old address and subscribe again with the new. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Chapter 35 cont. History of Davenport and Scott County, Iowa - Vol 1 - 1910 - The book can be read on the Scott County, Site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SCHOOL DAYS Consul M. M. Price, son of Hiram Price, wrote not long ago a private letter to his friend of boyhood days, LeClaire Fulton, in which some lively reminiscence appears. Here is a paragraph: "Do you remember Harrison street when it was called Ditch street? It was simply a ditch, twenty feet wide and ten feet deep, and when it rained the water poured down from the hills and through Leonard's hollow, becoming a mighty torrent and entirely cutting off intercourse, social, commercial, or religious, between the inhabitants above and below Ditch street. And when the water subsided it was a lovely mudhole for the boys to push each other into. Thorington's academy of art and science, himself guiltless of any collusion with Lindley Murray, was located on the 'Taller banks" of Harrison street, and it was very convenient to get mud balls. It was there that many distinguished tramps, lawyers and judges graduated. Among the most prominent were Jack and Jim Fisher, Henry and 'Goak' Webb, John Dillon, Jim Buford, 'Bony' Morton, 'Bill' Carr, 'Frog' Thorington, 'Billy' McFadden, 'Pud' Price and 'Center's Daddy.' " These private schools served well the needs of the people of Davenport until public schools were established. There was an interim of unrecorded length in which schools were maintained in part by the public funds and in part by tuition. Mr. Barrows gives the date of the first district school as 1850, and James Thorington as teacher. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Hi Shari, Not sure if this will help, but here are some Kelley's just south of our town in the Sycamore area. Would they be related to the Kelley's in Le Claire Township? Section 4 plat: http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/leclaire1882.htm Also this land had been in our Smith family for quite sometime. Here is more information on Jane Kelley. It eventually became the Smith farm again: http://sycamorecreekdesign.com/familyhistory/smithbrothers.html Best Regards, Janet Rossmiller - Miller http://www.sycamorecreekdesign.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shari M.Price" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: [IASCOTT] Does anyone look up obits, please. > I need to find out if there is an obit on file for a: > WILLIAM DANIEL KELLY/KELLEY > Circa 09-09-1891. > Possibly of Princeton, LeClaire Twp., Scott Co, IA. > He would have died, while visiting, in Hillsville, Mahoning Twp., Lawrence > Co., PA. > Does anyone look up obits? > Can I ask the Davenport Public Library to do this for me? > Shari McCreary Price > > > ==== IASCOTT Mailing List ==== > Reminder! If you are changing e-mail addresses, please unsubscribe > from the old address and subscribe again with the new. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Dear Jackie, Thanks - I'm fairly sure the 1880 is correct for Louis Nissen - as I was at state library here and found 1894 City Directory linking Louis and Margaret (widow Christian) to same address...but all the later census data for Maria shows her born in Germany and not here until 1881. Thus my dilemma - unless I find the Holst family in 1895 census (state) Al Al Dawson, Iowa City, Iowa - MA, History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1973 Visit my website at: www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/w/Al--Dawson/ Ancestor Birthday: John Warner, September 26, 1649, Hadley MA. Source: Sylvester Judd, "The History of Hadley Massachusetts" (Springfield, Mass: H.R. Huntting & Company, 1905), p. 399.

Dear Friends, I'm Al Dawson, member of the Johnson County chapter. Need some help on a marriage registration as (a) I don't drive (b) have bronchitis - going to doc today. This is for a United Way project at work - earning money for UW by doing a friend's tree: Louis C. Nissen and Maria M. Holst - April 29, 1896 Scott County (lived in Davenport) Need information on parents. Thank you Al Al Dawson, Iowa City, Iowa - MA, History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1973 Visit my website at: www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/w/Al--Dawson/ Ancestor Birthday: John Warner, September 26, 1649, Hadley MA. Source: Sylvester Judd, "The History of Hadley Massachusetts" (Springfield, Mass: H.R. Huntting & Company, 1905), p. 399.

I need to find out if there is an obit on file for a: WILLIAM DANIEL KELLY/KELLEY Circa 09-09-1891. Possibly of Princeton, LeClaire Twp., Scott Co, IA. He would have died, while visiting, in Hillsville, Mahoning Twp., Lawrence Co., PA. Does anyone look up obits? Can I ask the Davenport Public Library to do this for me? Shari McCreary Price

I'm in California and don't have access to marriage info, but found this on the 1880 census: 1880 S div 1st Ward, Davenport, Scott, IA ED 271 page 4D 1 Jun 1880 1326 7th St 25 30 Nissen, Christian age 30 carpenter Prussia Prussia Prussia Margaret 27 wife Prussia Prussia Prussia Louis 7 son Iowa Prussia Prussia Hermann 3 son Iowa Prussia Prussia Bertha 19/12 dau Iowa Prussia Prussia 1880 Second Ward, Davenport, Scott, IA ED 273 page 47 16 Jun 1880 505 505 Holst, Alfred 28 laborer Holstein Holstein Holstein Anna 44 wife Holst. Holst Holst Thoening (?) Louise dau 21 single IA Holst Holst Holst William 19 son waiter in saloon IA Holst Holst Helene 16 dau IA Holst Holst Holst, Maria 6 dau IA Holst Holst Susanne dau 4 IA Holst Holst Hope this helps. Jackie Ginn ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 1:04 PM Subject: [IASCOTT] Need some assistance - marriage registration > Dear Friends, > > I'm Al Dawson, member of the Johnson County chapter. Need some help on a > marriage registration as (a) I don't drive (b) have bronchitis - going to doc > today. This is for a United Way project at work - earning money for UW by doing > a friend's tree: > > Louis C. Nissen and Maria M. Holst - April 29, 1896 Scott County (lived in > Davenport) > > Need information on parents. Thank you > > Al > > Al Dawson, Iowa City, Iowa - MA, History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1973 > Visit my website at: www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/w/Al--Dawson/ > Ancestor Birthday: John Warner, September 26, 1649, Hadley MA. Source: > Sylvester Judd, "The History of Hadley Massachusetts" (Springfield, Mass: H.R. > Huntting & Company, 1905), p. 399. > > > ==== IASCOTT Mailing List ==== > Reminder! If you are changing e-mail addresses, please unsubscribe > from the old address and subscribe again with the new. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

Chapter 35 cont. HE SURELY WAS Rev. Michael Hummer was pastor of a congregation at Iowa City after leaving Davenport and thence went to Keokuk. The incident of his bell immortalized in poetry by Judge Tuthill appears elsewhere. The first verse of the poem is said to have been an improvisation of John P. Cook. Mr Hummer lived in Lawrence, Kansas, during Quantrell's raid and escaped with his life by headlong flight. He returned from hiding after the guerillas had gone and helped look after the wounded and bury the dead. He was a resident of Kansas City in 1870. Among other early private schools was that of Miss Eads, who advertised in the Sun as being late of St. Louis and opening a school for misses and children, also Miss Beard, in the school room formerly occupied by William Gahan, who conducted a school known as the "Davenport School." John C. Holbrook was an early teacher. A Mr. Ryder taught a school in the '40s on Brady street between Second and Third streets. Another of these old schools was kept by a Mr. Sheldon on Front and Main streets. Mr. Weir had a school on Main street, west side, north of Fourth. The Misses Lyon and Munn conducted a school for young ladies at Perry and Fifth streets. Mrs. Stephens' select school was on Main above Eighth street, Mrs. Crockett's in Young's block on Brady street. Herman Hamburger, "bright young man, well versed in the manners of polite society," taught a school for the "education of young gentlemen" on Brady and Fourth streets. A notable teacher of early days was th Hon. C. C. Washburne, a native of Livermore, Maine, who came to Davenport in June, 1839, when but twenty-one years old, having come west by Erie canal and the lakes and crossed Illinois on a wagon. In this little hamlet of 300 people this young man from the East organized what is said to have been the second school in Davenport. It was conducted in the second story of Dillon and Forrest's boarding house, just west of Scott, and between Second street and the river. Among his pupils were J. Monroe Parker, C. H. Eldridge, Ira Cook, and probably Judge Dillon. There were but twelve or fifteen children in the village at this time. The subsequent career of this pioneer school teacher belongs to national history. He moved to LaCrosse in the '40s, was elected governor of that state, and held the position four years. In 1854 he went to congress, served until the war broke out, became colonel of the Second Wisconsin cavalry, and was promoted until he became a major general in command of the department of Memphis. In 1865 he again went to congress and served until 1869, when he again became governor for two years. In 1873 he retired from public service and built the largest flouring mills in the world at Minneapolis. He also found time to inaugurate the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad enterprise, erect an observatory in connection with the university at Madison, provide it with the largest telescope in the world, and present it to the state. He died May 14, 1882. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Chapter 35 cont. ST. LOUIS LIKED HIM At a subsequent meeting of the same historical section of the Academy of Sciences a letter was read from Prof. J. H. Tice of St. Louis, author of Tice's Almanac and various meteorological papers, in which he said that he taught a private school for six months in Davenport from May to November, 1842. He had from fifteen to thirty-two pupils, tuition, $3.00 per quarter, or $5.00 for two. He moved to St. Louis and was afterwards for twelve years superintendent of the schools of that city. This letter was in reply to an inquiry. Of the later schools mentioned by Mr. Eldridge in his notes advertisements appear in the Sun and Gazette. The school taught by Messrs. Thorington & Campbell had evening as well as day sessions. The older citizens well remember the schools of Thorington and Pelamourgues on opposite sides of Fourth street near Main. They also recall the chastisement administered by the French pioneer teacher to any boy he caught doing wrong at any time and anywhere. All boys looked alike to him and Mr. Thorington's boys came in for a swift licking if Father Pelamourgues caught them in mischief on the street. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

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