This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cooper Lair Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yl.2ADE/2336 Message Board Post: John was the son of John Perry Cooper and Winnie Jane Pace. ------------------ APRIL 6, 1919 COOPER John Perry Cooper, well known resident of Montpelier township, passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A.E. Stigers, who resides at Nevada Ave. and Rockingham road. Mr. Cooper had been ill for several years. Decedent was born Scott county, Dec. 9, 1840, and was 73 years at the time of his death. He was united in marriage to Rowena A. Lair, Oct. 24, 1867. His wife preceded him in death Aug. 3, 1915. The following children survive: Miss Agnes Cooper of Fairmount, N.D., Mrs. Belle Bohnsack of Stockton, IA, Mrs. Rose Pahl of Blue Grass, Mrs. Mayme Stigers of Davenport, Mrs. Viola Eis of Blue Grass, Virgil Cooper of Davenport and Perry and Charles Cooper of Blue Grass. Funeral services are announced to be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the home with services at the Blue Grass church at 2 o'clock. Internment will take place in the Blue Grass cemetery. handwritten note: APRIL 10, 1919 THE COOPER FUNERAL Funeral services for the late John Perry Cooper were held Wednesday afternoon from the home of his daughter, Mrs. Art Stigers, Nevada Ave. and Rockingham road, at 1:30 o'clock with services at the Blue Grass church at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Mary Parkhurst had charge of the services at the church. Several beautiful hymns were offered by the church choir. Those who acted as pallbearers were: I.R. Banks, Herman and William Plett, John Prien, John Schnoor, and Fred Lehme Internment was in the Blue Grass cemetery.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lair, Cooper Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yl.2ADE/2335 Message Board Post: Rowena was the daughter of Jacob C. Lair and Elizabeth Craig who married in Scioto Co., OH on June 4, 1845 ------------- AUG. 3, 1915 MRS. COOPER DIES NEAR BLUE GRASS Blue Grass, IA, Aug. 4 Mrs. Rowena Nair* Cooper, wife of J.P. Cooper, died at 11:30 o'clock last night at the family home, one mile west of Blue Grass. The deceased was born in Wabash, Ind., Dec. 19, 1849. She was a prominent member of the Baptist church and was generally held in high esteem. In addition to her husband, four sons, five daughters, 20 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one brother survive. The brother is Ben Lair of Pittsburgh, Kan. The children of the immediate family are Agnes Cooper, Fairmont, SD; Mrs. Nellie Bohnsack, Stockton, IA; Mrs. Rose Pahl, Blue Grass; Virgil Cooper and Mrs. A.E. Stigers of Davenport; Mrs. Wil Eis of Montpelier; Perry, Charles and Eldon Cooper of Blue Grass. The funeral will be held at 1:30 Friday afternoon from the home with services at Blue Grass at 2 o'clock. THE COOPER FUNERAL The funeral of the late Mrs. Roanna Laird* Cooper was held Friday afternoon from the Blue Grass Presbyterian church, Miss Mary Parkhurst officiating. Interment was in Blue Grass Cemetery. The two Fauer sisters, and Fred Bear, of New Era rendered several hymns. The pallbearers were four sons-in-law and two grandsons of the deceased. Henry Pahl, Henry Bohnsack, William Eis, H.E. Stigers, Harry Bohnsack, and Roy Pahl. There was a large attendance of friends from Davenport and Muscatine, and a multitude of floral offerings. * Maiden name LAIR

20.  "Dr. Jennie McCowen. - Though still living and still active in the society, as she has been ever since joining it in 1880, Dr. McCowen's work for Davenport has been such that it must not be passed wholly without mention.  Eminently practical in her humanitarian views, she has found time, in the midst of a busy practice, to embody them in a strong organization of far-reaching beneficence base on E. E. Hale's admonition to 'lend a hand.'  Allusion has before been made to her active interest in the welfare of the insane, and she is prominent in various humanitarian societies. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L

19.  "Dr. Lucius French, the oldest surviving member at this writing (1905), was born near Binghamton, New York, 1832, graduated at Berkshire Medical college, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1853, and after a few years' practice in the east, located at Anamosa, Iowa, in 1862.  Enlisting as a surgeon in the Thirty-first Iowa Infantry, he served through the war, locatd in Davenport in March, 1865, and was elected to membership in the county society the following month.  From that time on Dr. French has been among our foremost physicians and most honored citizens. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wright Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/2334 Message Board Post: I was searching for my brother, James Charles Wright, who lived in Bettendorf, Iowa, when I found in The Social Security Death Records where he had died September 8, 2000. I am in search of anyone who can give me further information about what happened and where he was interred.

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/2226.2 Message Board Post: My name is George L. Hohnsbehn, Jr. I was born in Alton, Il. My father's name was also George L. Hohnsbehn and he was born on 5 December 1919. He had three brothers (John William; Frank; Monie) and a sister named Thelma. John William - went by the name of 'Bill' - passed away in Sullivan, MO in 1998.

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/2226.1.1 Message Board Post: My name is George L. Hohnsbehn, Jr. I was born in Alton, Il. My father was also named George L. Hohnsbehn, and he was born on 5 December 1919. He passed on in Currie, NC on 26 July 1995. My dad had at least three brothers (John William; Frank; Monie) and a sister named Thelma. John William - mostly went by 'Bill', passed away in Sullivan, MO around 1998.

Greetings Scott County Researchers, According to the Social Security Death Index, the benefits for Roy E. CRAIG (1893-1979) were sent to Scott County, Iowa. Roy E. CRAIG was the brother to my Great Great Grandfather, John Wesley CRAIG. I am looking for Roy's descendants. And I would like to know if he is buried there in Scott County. What was his wife's name? What were the names of his children? Does anyone have easy access to obituaries, to do a lookup? Laura in KS bradlara@pld.com

Hi Laura in Kansas :-)...I don't know if this will help, or confuse, but I found this on a FTM, but it looks like they know nothing of Roy & son Leroy, but it might be something to hold on to til you find the right family :-) Janet in Janesville Descendants of William Elliott, Sr. 1528. Effie L.7 Green (Ella Clementin6 Elliott, William Washington5, Jonathan W.4, William3, Archibald2, William1) was born April 13, 1889, and died April 15, 1970. She married Roy E. Craig 1910 in Ohio. He was born Unknown. Child of Effie Green and Roy Craig is: 2703 i. Leroy8 Craig, born 1922. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad&Laura Koehn" <bradlara@pld.com> To: <IASCOTT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 1:20 PM Subject: [IASCOTT] Roy E. CRAIG 1893MO-1979 > Greetings Scott County Researchers, > > According to the Social Security Death Index, the benefits for Roy E. CRAIG (1893-1979) were sent to Scott County, Iowa. Roy E. CRAIG was the brother to my Great Great Grandfather, John Wesley CRAIG. I am looking for Roy's descendants. And I would like to know if he is buried there in Scott County. What was his wife's name? What were the names of his children? Does anyone have easy access to obituaries, to do a lookup? > > Laura in KS > bradlara@pld.com

Letter to Edith in college in Cedar Falls. Apparently, even in 1909 college kids wrote home for money! LOL! Muscatine July 12th 1909 Dear Edith, Your letter just arrived, I have to got a board meeting of the Y.W. this afternoon, so will not have much time but will try to write a short letter in reply to yours for fear something might happen to prevent me this evening. I am sorry about the money order. When I got it at the office said to Ed Link, it is the little one that goes in the letter isent it? I was in a hurry and dident stop to look at them or I would have known better. He said yes, so I put it in and the other away without looking at it and never thought of it again until getting your letter. Do just as you think best about coming home Sat. of course we will be glad to see you. I have not had much time to rest up partly on account of the ants, we are just taken alive by them, I never had such a time, have tried everything I could hear of for driving them away but without success so far, they even get in the refrigerator and at night we pile the bread box, sugar box, &c on the dining room table. It was beautiful last evening and so the first of our out door services was held in the park, it was quite a success, the young peoples meeting was well attended and so was the other. Carrie and I went out early and went in the club house and around, then sat in Hutchinson's surrey and heard the preaching, then they took us home together with Mrs. Prosser, who had gone out with them. We have not heard from Jo or Fred either, Carrie has been looking anxiously for one from Jo as she told her if she would come back here she would try to get her something in Chicago to do. She sends her love and says she will write to you or send a card. Good bye for this time. Lovingly, Mother ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Elaine Rathmann ACC Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project List Adm: *IA-CIVIL-WAR *IA-DANES

Letter to Edith in Cedar Falls, Iowa from her mother, Ella Sanders Raff. Muscatine July 4, 1909 Dear Edith, Thanks for all the mail you have sent I am always glad to hear from you and look forward to mail time as you used to and I expect do yet. There has been a little hitch in it the past week, the post card I sent you asking about the Chautauqua ticket I put in the mail box at Prossers corner wanting it to reach you soon as possible so as to get an answer. Laura Bilkey has them to sell and I told her I would let her know the first of this week. The next morning it came back to me in the mail, as there was nothing the matter with it I mailed it again and hope it reached you. In the same mail I received a notice that a letter was in the Cedar Falls post office with a one cent stamp directed to me if I would forward the other stamp they would send it, so I have it now, that postcard cost four cents to get it here but I am glad to have it. This evening we were to have commenced services at Weed Park and Carrie and I were going out early and take a lunch with us, so that I could take her around and show her the park but it has commenced raining so the plans will have to be changed. If it should be pleasant tomorrow we will go then instead. Nothing special in the way of celebrating is to be done that I know of, excepting excursions up and down the river. I hope you will be able to have your picnic and that you will have a good time. The weather of the past week has been more like Fourth of July weather than today. It was almost unbearable. The day of the Congregational excursion was hot but there was a delightful breeze on the boat. There were only about two hundred and fifty people, just wait until we have ours, we always have the crowd. It was pleasanter though for those who went, it gave them more room. There was plenty of music, Pandets band and the boat orchestra. I did not expect to get to see Frank (Edit! h's cousin, Frances Raff Ebi in Davenport) but we were given such a long time there, from half past twelve to half past five that I did go up there too. I wrote Julia (Ella's sister) not to come up to the boat that we would come down there but she did and so we missed each other and we had to wait at the Home until she returned. We did not see Nellie Hawley, did you know she is going to leave there the first of Sept? going to train for a nurse. I will enclose a couple of clippings from last nights paper which might interest you. Mrs. Durkee and Ray have decided on moving to Des Moines. Ray is going this week but she is not just yet. Cora Lilly has been here to make arrangements for moving here, so you see things are changing while you are away. Cora is going to take the part of Mrs. Makins house which was occupied by Dr. Barr. Mrs. Prosser has rented a part of the double house being built on the corner this way from where Jamesons lived. Mrs. Fred Giesler was buried on Friday. Ed Shoemaker is laid up with a broken arm, fell off a step ladder while picking cherries. This is about all the news I can think of so we'll close for this time. Lovingly, Mother ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Elaine Rathmann ACC Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project List Adm: *IA-CIVIL-WAR *IA-DANES

Edith is at the Cedar Falls, Iowa, Teachers College and her mother writes to her of friends and events in Muscatine and Davenport. Muscatine June 20th 1909 Dear Edith, Your post card and letter were gladly received as also the news that you arrived all right and were enjoying yourself. I invested in new paper and pen so as to be ready for writing to both you and Fred (Edith's brother) this afternoon when I knew I would feel lonesome. Now they are in good condition the ink seems pale, you will need glasses to read this I fear. It does not seem as though I have done much of anything since you left-I felt pretty well tired out. Friday was spent at the church as the society had an all day meeting. In the evening of that day the ladies came to see me. Mrs. Day, Durkee, and Lillibridges. Yesterday Sarah Hawley and her mother were here a while in the afternoon, she was at the church for dinner on Friday, too so you see she is getting quite spry. Carl is spending today in Davenport as I expect you know. I have received several letters since you left, one from Fred. I will give you his new address 6330 Greenwood Ave. He says he and Jo (Ella's cousin Josephine Sanders) have fine rooms and wanted me to tell you to write him or drop a post card and you should have a box of butter chocolates. I had too quite a long letter from Mrs. Jameson which I must answer right away for she is so homesick, she says little Hugh and she cry a great deal over it. They have had quite a little attention shown them there but s! till they have not yet become reconciled, the living is much higher and the house does not suit. Her health is not much improved from what it was here and Ruth has whooping cough, so she is not through with all her troubles yet. You knew dident you that the Y.M.C.A. has called Mr. Mitchell back here again to take Mr. Jamesons place. Then too I had a letter from Carrie, (Ella's sister, Caroline Elizabeth Sanders) instead of going farther west she is coming east, will reach here Wednesday or Thursday and said she would stay a few weeks with me while you are away. Of course I will be glad to see her but it means I will not get to go anywhere this summer. I was planning to live very economically while you were away and save something perhaps for a trip somewhere. Carrie says that Jo has been trying to persuade her to come back east and wants her to come to Chicago and she will try to get some thing for her to do. This is a lovely day although rather warm. I had your Sunday school class and will likely have to keep it while you are away. It is a fine class and ought to have a regular teacher to keep it together and influence them for good, they were almost all present and one new one besides. Mrs. Kent fell down the high terrace at their home and has injured herself quite severely. Mrs. Barr's funeral took place today. I will enclose a clipping in regard to our excursion which has just been decided upon. The Methodists have one this week, the Congregationalists next week but the crowd will wait for the Baptists. Lovingly, Mother Written in margin at top of first page: A couple of pair of those tan hose are good if I can dye them a good color will send them if you wish. ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Elaine Rathmann ACC Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project List Adm: *IA-CIVIL-WAR *IA-DANES

Davenport Times Davenport, Scott, Iowa Jan 26, 1900 HOTEL IS QUARANTINED State Board of Health Takes a Hand and Stops Protracted Meetings at Ayresville and May Order Vaccination. A man is down with genuine smallpox near Ayersville. 14 people are quarantined at Bennett, Davenport has been bombarded by telegraph for vaccine virus and the end may not be yet. And the whole excitement is over the return of Cad Ayers who has been a student at Dixon, Ill. History of the Case. One week ago today, that is on Friday, Jan. 19, Cad Ayres came from Dixon, Ill. to Rock Island and there took passage on the B.C. & N. train Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock for Bennett. At Bennett young Ayres registered at the Hotel Bennett. He remained at the hotel over night and last Saturday morning the hotel proprietor, W. Delley, drove young Ayres to his home six miles south near Ayresville and not far from Wilton. Ayres Taken Sick Yesterday morning Ayres, who had been sick several days, was found to be broken out on the arms and the physician, Dr. Battey, of Wilton, pronounced the case smallpox. He had his suspicions and had informed Dr. John C. Schrader, of Iowa City, a member of the state board of health, who arried yesterday morning and confirmed Dr. Battey's diagnosis. Dr. Schrader gave the necessary orders about quarantining all persons exposed. Hotel Guests Quarantined. As a result of Dr. Schrader's orders the Bennett house located about one and one-half blocks from the B.C.R. & N. station at that place is quarantined and a rope is stretched along the sidewalk at the south of the building beyond which the unwilling guests and the hotel keepers family are not allowed to go. Caught in this quarantine are seven boarders, including Frank Cope, owner of a drug store and formerly employed by John Harding of this city; L.E. Kemmen, groceryman; Ed Conrad, Mr. Wingert, clerk in the Bennett bank; Louis Dawson, grain buyer. Besides these there are quarantined W. Dilley, his wife and two children; two hotel girls and Mrs. Dilley's father, Mr. Leatherburg. The quarantine was established yesterday morning and at the same time William Templeton, the township clerk, went to Ayersville and stopped the protracted meetings that were in progress there. A Bennett Man Talks Mr. Madden, who is car inspector for the B.C.R. & N in this city, and whose home is in Bennett, when seen by a Times man today stated that there was no indication nor great fear of the outbreak of that disease in Bennett. "People have not yet decided to close schools and vaccinate the children. Ayers has smallpox not varioloid." Cathy Joynt Labath Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm The Irish in Iowa http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm

Davenport Times Davenport, Scott, Iowa Monday, Feb 5, 1900 Death of Mrs. Wittenmyer Well Known in this City as the Founder of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home. Mrs. Wittenmyer is dead. She had been given 72 years of life and in that time she has crowded much that is helpful, that will be remembered and for which she will be revered. Among these works of her life none is more conspicuous to the people of Iowa and Davenport in particular than the establishment of the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home for which she labored and planned. Mrs. Annie Turner Wittenmyer was born in Sandy Springs, O. and came from ancestry of Irish descent. One who knew her well gives this sketch of her career. "She had three sons in the civil war and her own part in the struggle was no small one. Mrs. Wittenmyer was married in 1847 and in 1850 removed with her husband to Keokuk, Ia. There were no schools then so she leased a building and hired a school teacher and soon had 200 pupils on the roll at her school. When the civil war broke out she was one of the first to assist in organizing a soldiers' aid society, and early in 1861 went to the army camps to personally see what the boys in blue needed. Aid societies all over the state sent her supplies for the soldiers and during the war she distributed $160,000 worth of needed articles. In 1862 she was appointed a sanitary agent for the state by the legislature and from then on until the end of the war she worked night and day for the soldiers. She visited the camps, battlefields, and hospitals and whenever an Iowa boy was in need of anything she did her best to get it for him. The Soldiers' Orphans' Home mainly owes its existence to Mrs. Wittenmyer, and the special diet kitchen, now an important adjunct of the army hospitals, was conceived by her. The world lost one of its noblest women when Annie Wittenmyer died." Cathy Joynt Labath Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm The Irish in Iowa http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm

18.  "Dr. Alonzo W. Cantwell, born at Mansfield, Ohio, and a medical graduate of the University of Michigan, came to Davenport in 1869 and died here in 1899, having been an active and greatly esteemed citizen for thirty years.  Especially interested in sanitation, he was connected with the Davenport board of helath continuously from its inception until his death.  He was at the front during the epidemic of cholera in 1873 and the epidemics of smallpox in 1872 and 1882, bravely withstanding the unreasoning opposition to needed restrictive measures.  Dr. Cantwell was kindly and popular in the extreme.  To be with him on the street it would seem that almost every citizen, high and low, knew him and was quick to return his cheery greeting in kind. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L

17.  "Dr. William Drummond Middleton. - In June, 1868, Dr. French presented the name of Dr. W. D. Middleton for membership in the Scott County Medical Society, and he was unanimously elected at the July meeting.  Probably no citizen of Davenport, before or since, has been so universally loved, honored and mourned, as the young physician then starting in practice at the age of twenty-four, came to be at the time of his death from blood poisoning in 1902.  Coming with his parents from Scotland to America in 1856, and soon after to Davenport, he grew up here, studied medicine with  Dr. Peck, graduated at Bellevue, was one of the first faculty of the State University of Iowa medical department, and at Dr. Peck's death took his place as its dean, and also as surgeon-in-chief of the Rock Island road.  The writer knew him as the embodiment of kindness and the most perfect honor, these with industry won deserved success. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L

16.  "Dr. Washington Freeman Peck. - In July, 1864, Dr. Adler presented for membership in the Scott County Medical Society a name than which none shines brighter in the medical annals of the state - that of W. F. Peck.  Born in Wayne county, New York, of Scotch descent on his father;s side, he had graduated at Bellevue, and served as house surgeon at Bellevue and Blackwell's island hospitals and as United States surgeon in the Lincoln general hospital, Washington, before coming to this city in 1864, at the age of twenty-three.  From that time until his death here in 1891 Dr. Peck was identified with the history and interests of Davenport and of Iowa.  Brave, skillful and cool, he soon took front rank as a surgeon, his fame reaching even across the Atlantic and placing him in the estimation of his fellows as 'one of the six most successful surgeons of the United States.'  With the cooperation of warm friends, such as Judge John F. Dillon and Colonel J. P. Irish, he founded, and with loyal helpers such as Dr. W. D. Middleton, D. N. Richardson and others, he built up the medical department of the Iowa State University, of which he was made dean, and which stands as his monument today.  He was also a prime mover and the medical father, as it were, of Mercy hospital of this city, of the surgical department of the Rock Island road, and of the Iowa Orphans' Home in its extension to more general usefulness.  Dr. Peck possessed, in a wonderful degree, the faculty of inspiring absolute confidence in his patients; they felt that he knew his ground.  The writer who, soon after graduating, spent some months in Dr. Peck's office, was as much impressed by his conscientious care in determining the question of operating as by the fearless skill of his hand  when the decision was reched for action. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L

15.  "Dr. Robert James Farquharson was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and was a graduate both of the University of Nashville and of the University of Pennsylavania.  After two years of practice in New Orleans he became assistant surgeon in the United States navy, thus being privileged to see much of the world, but acquiring also an unfortunate deafness while cruising on the coast of Africa.  This greatly hampered his professional activiety, but under President Johnson, who was an intimate friend, he held important hospital positions during the war.  Coming to this city in 1868 he officed with his warm friend and fellow Scotchman by descent, Dr. W. D. Middleton, doing almost exclusively a consulting practice.  He died in Des Moines in 1864, at the age of sixty, the last four years of his life, as has been stated, being given to the state board of health as its efficient secretary.  Dr. Farquharson, as the writer knew him, was a man of the most kindly and lovable personality.  Devoted to natural science and to preventive medicine, he was brimful of accurate information on any topic that might come up.  He had read and experienced much and his memory was wonderful.  His little mannerism of a short, hacking cough, which always preceded speech, only helped the full gaze of his mild blue eye to capture one's heart; he made friends of all who knew him. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/129.288 Message Board Post: I am seeking information on Alexander Winfield who was born in Ohio, but whose mother and father were born in Virginia. Was your Edward Winfield a slave owner, or the son of a slave owner? If so, are there any lists or schedules that reference runaway's? I would be interested in any info, as my Alex Winfield is African American.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Flynn/McGovern Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yl.2ADE/2333 Message Board Post: I recently received an obit on my gggrandfather Thomas Flynn b. 1838 in Ireland d. 1907 Louisville, KY. He was a master marble carver. On this obit, it stated it was copied to the Minneapolis and Davenport Iowa newspapers. I'm trying to figure out why? I wasn't aware he had relatives there? Possibly relatives of his wife's rather than his? His wife's name was Mary Ann McGovern b. 1847 in KY. Anyone with any hints would be greatly appreciated!