This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: klellis171 Surnames: Hamilton & Matheny Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/4173.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The David and Agness (Matheny) Hamilton family (parents of Thomas Hamilton) has been found in the 1850 census in Warren Co., IL and in the 1860 census in Sadorus, Champaign Co., IL. I still need to find the parents of David, the 1870 census with David and Agness (or are they dead by this time?), and the place of their burial. Any help appreciated. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rdwlfswmn Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/7699.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Samuel W Leeper b vernon township 11/16/1833. He had 4 sons by first marriage (which I want to find whom to) I only found 3 sons, Samuel W b 1854 (his wife is Lizzie)Morris b 1857 & John b 1866 somewhere in NJ. If I could find out more info on any of theses sone, maybe we can find out who samuel was married to first. he is buried in Fairview Cemetary, susses nj, died 9/24/1914. his second family was: wife Jeanette, son Fred Martin Leeper b 5/23/1882 & Bessie R b 1/1884. Fred's middle name was originally (Noggles) do you have any more info? thankyou! kathy Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mmccartney1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/285.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I will try to get some more written down for you all about what I have gleaned about the Middle Smithfield Welfelt connection to my family through Charlotte Overfield. van Why is another old family in Monroe county 9and adjecent counties like Lucern, I recall). My Grandmother on my mother's side, Winifred Hanna(-s) had a sister who married a van Why. I recall I have some scanned photos of them and/or their children. It may be that the van why you mention connects to my van why, and I will look into it. you may not hear from me about this for a while -- both my parents died in early January, and that and work have me swamped! But that is what triggered my digging on family roots an remembering that I hadn't sorted out the Welfelt connections. So odds our I will trickle out some bits and pieces to you. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cherismith1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/285.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Yes this board got busy, lately. I guess we all decided to research the same names at he same time. Maybe if we get together on this, we'll get it all figured out!! Adam C WELFELT (1829-1865)married Sophia FISH(1831-1870)in 1850. He died and their 7 children went to live with friends and neighbors. Sophia remarried in 1869(Lee county, Illinois) to Jesse BURGER. She died and Jesse remarried to Sarah LAWRENCE in 1871. George WELFELT is my great uncle. Adam's son , Abraham Lincoln WELFELT was my great grandfather. MOre later. folkarborist Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Katy2K18 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/285.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Wow this board got active quick! I think there are Adam's in every generation which makes it confusing. My great grandmother was Emma Welfelt Burchett, her father was George Welfelt - son of Adam C. Welfelt (1829-1865) and Sophia Fish. Adam C. was the son of Adam Welfelt/Vallerchamp and Anna Van Why (or Way). That Adam was the son of Simeon Peter Vallerchamp born in France in 1751 and died in Huntingdon, PA in 1825 from the info I have. I have no info on Sophia Fish after 10 years at this. I was previously in touch with a woman who was a Vallerchamp so I believe not all of our ancestors changed their names to Welfelt. Also there is a book that contains family history and pictures. She emailed me the pics and a few pertinent pages Ege, Thompson P. Dodson genealogy, 1600-1907 Philadelphia, Pa.: Deemer & Jaisohn, 1908, 440 pgs. It contains some info on the Vallerchamp family and some geneology that is difficult for me to follow. It never mentions the name Welfelt - just the generations before the name change. I'm trying to attach the files, I hope this helps! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: richards_clark Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/914.937.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I realize this is an older message - about 8 years - but wanted to pass on some comments. Maybe someone can figure this out! On 9 February 1920, Clarence Franklin "Frank" Moran, of Burlington, Iowa, was killed in a railroading accident. Listed as surviving him was his father, George Thomas Moran of Quincy, Illinois, and a sister, "Mrs. Ella Groeting" of Burlington, Iowa. I did not find either George or daughter Ella in the 1920 census, which had been taken a month earlier. Ella's sister (Grace) was listed by her husband's name (Mrs. Harry Rynott) in the obituary. The 1900 census of George's family showed his wife Louisa E. (Brown), and that they had 3 children living. At home was daughter Grace, and daughter "Nellie P.", born August "1885". The third living child was of course their son Clarence Frank Moran, already married. In the 1905 Iowa census, George is widowed and only daughter Nellie P. was living with him - no ages given in that record. In the 1910 census, George is living alone, and I have not found Nellie. George was said to have died in 1929, but was not listed in the Illinois Death Index - apparently he died elsewhere, probably back in Iowa. In the 1920 census, Ben Groeting is listed as divorced with his daughter Virginia, age 7, living with him in a boarding house in Quincy. In a previous message, Virginia's mother is given as Ernestine Hasse. So - is it possible that Ella, a.k.a. Nellie P., married Ben after the 1920 census was taken in January, but before the death of her brother in February? The Ella listed in the cemetery records (and Social Security death index) was listed as born in August 1892, not August 1885; yet another record conflict. If Ben and Ella married just after the 1920 census, that would explain the Infant "son" born 16 May 1921. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: allez2008 Surnames: Stansbury Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/7768/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The 1850 census shows that William Stansbury, farmer, owned property in Adams County - town of Richfield (family # 113). If someone could look this up in a platbook or land records I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cherismith1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/285.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: actually, I'm from Seattle. I'm still trying to figure out if I'm related to Adam Wellfelt Vallerchamp. I get to a dead end about there. This will take awhile. Folkarborist Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: jennbarnes77 Surnames: Buss Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/7767/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have a lot of relatives buried in what a family history book calls South Prairie Lutheran Cemetery. The book describes the cemetery as being near Golden, IL. However, I can't find any info about this cemetery online except one or two blips that lead me nowhere. I'd like an address for the sexton, a book/file/microfilm with transcriptions, anything I can get my hands on. I have heard it is also called Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, but I'm not finding what I need with that name either. :( Can anyone in that area or who is versed in Adams Co genealogy point me in the right direction? In particular, I'm looking for the grave of Hinrich Gerdes Buss b 19 Oct 1805, d 12 Sep 1861. Many thanks! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: healthyaltmc Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/539.584.1.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am just learning how to navigate this ancestry thing but I do have an Ephraim Winner in here some where. I live in McPherson. Bobbie Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

At Find-A-Grave.com it is cited as South Prairie Cemetery in Adams County, Illinois. An accompanying picture of the entrance shows it as being a Lutheran Cemetery. There are only 26 citations there at this time but it does show a John Gerdes Buss and Weert Gerdes Buss being buried there. Also there is a map of sorts showing about were it is in relation to Golden. I check this website often. It now has over 40 million grave sites cited with more being added every minute. Enjoy and hope it helps a bit. Al Baumbach

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JanUnger51 Surnames: Marshall and Jefferson Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/188.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It has been a while since your postings so I hope I can still reach you. I am descended through Noah and Mary Jefferson Marshall line. Mary was Thomas Marshall's sister. Please contact me if you can so we can share information. I, too, have been to the Jefferson Cemetery and have taken pictures. Hope to hear from you soon. Jan jiunger@comcast.net Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JanUnger51 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/3792.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I know it has been a while since you posted your message but I hope I can still connect with you. I am connected through the Marshall and Jefferson lines. If you can please contact me through this email address jiunger@comcast.net Jan Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: thistletwo Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/285.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: You're Cheri from Winnipeg right? I have tried to contact a Vallerchamp on Facebook, but haven't had a reply. The Welfelts seem to disappear into the Vallerchamps which is a French protestant name I believe. I still don't know who ran away with the Indian woman. do you? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: thistletwo Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/285.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My Joseph was born in 1853 or 1852...in Monroe Co., Pennsylvania.I'm at school not at home with my stuff handy. Someone from Winipeg emailed me years ago about her great grandfather George Welfelt who said there was a story about a Joseph Welfelt from Freeport, IL who ran away with an Indian woman. She had the birthdate of my great grandfather, but my great grandfather was not the one who ran away with the Indian woman. The male names seem to be repeated each generation so it is confusing. Although your guy looks just like my great grandfather, they must not be brothers, perhaps cousins. I wish I had time to do more research. The free stuff from Ancestry makes it appear that my great grandfather or his father had an alternate last name...Vallerchamp. That seems interesting. Anyway, I don't have a chart or anything to figure out which of these men with the same names were in a particular generation. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cherismith1 Surnames: WELFELT, VALLERCHAMP Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/285.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks for posting to my old message. I've just started working on this family again and it is a "mess". Among other things, I found a Joseph WELFELT who lived with Chief Abram B. BURNETT. I'm still trying to figure out some of my line, but I know for sure that my Adam WELFELT married Sophia FISH. Then it gets confusing. I've found several Adam WELFELT's (and VALLERCHAMP's) but are they the same or two different people? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: drbock2 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/7588.21.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I saw your post on the Meckes immigration and believe I might be related. Johannes Bernard Henrich Anton Bockenfeld was married to a "Margrith" Meckes. I show her birth date as Nov 25,1837. His was Oct 19,1836. Is "Margrith" the same woman as "Margaret" in your post? Do you show him (or any Bockenfeld's) in any of the immigration documents as having arrived in New Orleans? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sallyyarbrough56 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/7766/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I would very much like to have the obituary of Emma Farmer who died in Aug of 1972 . The social security death index says, Mendon, Adams County Illinois. Can you help me find her obituary? Thanks Sally in southern oregon Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mmccartney1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/285.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have only started tracking the Welfelt connection the past few days. He is the son of Abraham Welfelt (born ~ 1836 by census report, and his wife Jan (maiden unknown), who is shown living with him and Charlotte and their children in Kansas in Cowley County Kansas in 1880 census. In 1860 Adam age 7 is with his paremnta Abraham and Jane, both 34, in the household of Abraham's parents Adam and Anna Welfelt (both 61) in Middle Smithfield, Monroe County. In 1850, before Adam was born, Abraham is in the Adam-Anna household, age 14, and there is a brother Joseph age 18, thus born ~1832. Is that the right Joseph for you (your Great great grandfather? Then my adam would be his nephew, not brother. By the way, the inference of my adam being native American is twofold, the folklore passed to my mother by her mother, the sister of Charlotte Hanna Welfelt, and by a newspaper clipping passed down to me from them. I will transcribe it soon and send it along. The gist is that his funeral was run by the "Improved Order of Red Men" which is a Native Americal society, flowers were provided by the Degree of Pocohontas (their Women's Auxiliary), and music by the Tohee Tribe. I believe that he was a Lenape Indian, a branch of the Deleware Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: gramharris Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.adams/539.584.1.2.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dear Bobbie, what a surprise to hear from someone that is working on the same lines as I am. I appreciate your offer to share information. I am disorganized at this moment, but soon will send you some of my info. I too am at a dead end on George Wymer. Some researchers have his parents listed as Jacob & Sarah Wymer in I believe Virginia. I have the census 1850 that shows him in Illinois with his little family. Then forward each of the census years. I have a statement from a great granddaughter whose father was probably the last person to see George before he disappeared, about 1890. I have a Cunningham book that is very correct so have a lot to do there. Please let me know how you would like to proceed. Thanks so much!! Georgia Harris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.