At the immediate past Rennels Family Reunion in Charleston, Coles County, Illinois - we voted to sponsor a website concerning our family. The Reunion pays for it, so it is free to the members, but it is a private website and you must apply to become a member by contacting the administrator, David Kent Coy, President of the Rennels Family Reunion, at davidkentcoy@mcleodusa.net The Rennels Family is descended from John Rennels, Sr. (1781-1866) and his wife, Nancy Ewing Bland Rennels (1787-1867). They had 13 children and about 72 grandchildren and thousands of other descendants. Their children and grandchildren married into almost all the pioneer families of Hutton Township, Coles County, Illinois - so we are also interested in hearing from genealogists, historians, and people interested in the Hutton Township area. The Rennels Family supposedly traveled from Sussex County, Delaware, to Madison County, Kentucky to Lawrence County, Indiana, to Vermillion County, Indiana, before! they ended up in Hutton Township. If you are interested, please email me at the email address above and indicate your connection to the Rennels Family or specify your interest in a pioneer family of the Hutton Township area. We are NOT trying to be exclusive, but do want to protect the site from unwanted problems. Actually the more members, the more successful the site can become and more information can be shared. The name of the website is RENNELS FAMILY REUNION, powered by www.myfamily.com which can take you to a public sign-on site, which will be directed back to me as the administrator, so you can be invited to join. It's an easy to use site with the capabilities of posting photographs, drawings, GEDCOM files, text, documents, recipes, our family newsletter, Five Mile House news, and more. Please contact me if you are interested. Thanks, David Kent Coy Rennels Reunion President davidkentcoy@mcleodusa.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================== 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Newlon, (Newlin), Propst, Webster, Hedges, Hall Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lg.2ADE/1115 Message Board Post: Thanks to all of you for your helpful responses to my questions. I went to Paris yesterday. Spent half a day at the gen. library there. There was a gentleman volunteer--very nice--who helped me. I then went to the court house--pretty much in fear and trembling--HA! I've never done that before. They were so very nice. Invited me back into the vault. Wow--talk about history. I just stood there looking at spines and reading the volumes and volumes of info -- way back into the early 1800's. I found the land records I was looking for. What I found out was that the ORIGINAL deed books are at the Genealogy library. You cannot photo copy them. BUT, there are exact replicas of those books at the court house that you CAN photo copy. (If you make the copies of deed records yourself they are 50 cents a copy--the ladies helped me figure out how to unlock the bindings and use the copy machine). I was tickled to see the originals--over 150 years old--at the library. But we cou! ldn't find my ancestor there. That was because the seller was the US gov't. He got his land by patent straight from the government--I found all the listings in the land patent index at the court house. Then when I checked his name in the seller index (just to be thorough), I found he sold all the land within 2 years of the purchase date. Then I had to climb to the ceiling on this neat old ladder and lift down about a 15 lb. ledger. There they were--deed info of his sales of the land. Then the upsetting news--it wasn't the right wife. So I pondered--went ahead and copied them. When I got home and considered it--the time frame is right that this wife could have died and he remarried my 4G grandmother. I vaguely remember the fella finding a woman by that name in one of the cemetery books at the gen. lib. So I will send a query and find the date. If it fits--he may have married twice. I feel like Sherlock Holmes. Isn't family research fun! So--a great experience ! at the genealogy library and the court house in Paris--very pleasant a nd helpful employees and volunteers.

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/lg.2ADE/1114 Message Board Post: I'm finally giving in and going with the strong possibility that Henderson and Elizabeth (Allen) Cook are my ggggrandparents. Does anyone know where Catfish Cemetery is located? I would need to have a contact person before going over there from Springfield though to locate gravesites.. I suppose I could contact the Edgar Co Genealogy Society. They tried to convince me several years ago that the James M. Cook in this family is my gggrandfather, but I've never been able to find absolute proof.

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/lg.2ADE/1113.1 Message Board Post: There is a wonderful Edgar Co. Historical Soc. Genealogy Library there in Paris. The address is 408 N. Main St. and phone number is 217-463-4209. I have their hours as 9-4 on Wed.-Friday. They are very helpful there. They will also help you at the court house too. Hope this helps. Happy hunting. Karen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Webster, Hall, Hedges, Newlon, Propst Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lg.2ADE/1113 Message Board Post: I have hunted on the internet and just cannot find the hours for the Edgar Co. Court House online. I want to go the end of this week. Also--anyone out there done any court house research there? Where are the old records held? How do the employees respond to genealogical research? Thanks for any help. Jan

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/lg.2ADE/1112 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on the descendants of Jesse Cooper who appears on the 1880 census of Young America Twp. Jesse was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1819; married Mary Stout and moved to Edgar County about 1870. They had children Gilbert, 1849, Albert 1851, Julius 1854, Deborah 1856, Sarah 1860, Alice 1862, John 1865, and Arrissa 1868. Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Treva Bean" <Treva_Bean@msn.com> To: <INLAWREN-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 2:36 PM Subject: [LCI-OBITS] OBIT: PEARL CRANE CUNDIFF - 1937 > > > BEDFORD DAILY TIMES > > BEDFORD, INDIANA > > MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1937 > > SISTER DIES AT PARIS, ILLINOIS > > Mrs. Pearl Cundiff Succumbed Sunday Morning- Funeral Services Tuesday Morning > > Word has just been received in this city of the death In Illinois of Mrs. Pearl Cundiff, sister of Fred Crane, deputy sheriff of this county, who with his wife and son, Vernon, have just returned from his sister's bedside. She passed away Sunday morning at 10:10 following an illness since last July with complications. She was 49 years old. > > Funeral services have been set for Tuesday morning at 10:30. at Paris. > > Surviving relatives, besides Mr. Crane, include her husband, A. M. Cundiff; a sister, Mrs. Onah Thronbergh of Anderson; a brother Guy, of Anderson; two sons, at home; father, William H. Crane, of Indian Springs, and many other relatives living in Lawrence county. > > > ==== INLAWREN-OBITS Mailing List ==== > If you have Lawrence County, IN obituaries please post! > > ============================== > 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Erp Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lg.2ADE/1110 Message Board Post: I have recently acquired a very old picture of who may be my GG-Grandmother, Vira ALEXANDER ERP. However the woman may also be Elizabeth STOGSDILL ERP both being wives of William Madison ERP. Vira died in in Pulaski County KY in 1871. Elizabeth lived in Chrisman from the mid 1870's until her death in 1921. What I am trying to do is find publications with photographs of church groups or other social gatherings from the period that Elizabeth ERP was alive in Chrisman and hopefully she will be in one so that I can confirm the identity of the woman in the picture. Any help much appreciated

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GLICK, DONBAR, PERKINS, JONES Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lg.2ADE/1105.1 Message Board Post: I now know that Leona was the daughter of Nettie PERKINS, who was Robert's first wife, not Bessie JONES. She was his second wife. Leona and Dorothy (later Betka) were Nettie's daughters (Nettie d. 1958). Harland, Kemper and Kenneth were children of Bessie. Leona married Harold G. DONBAR (he died 1961, Corpus Christi, Neuces Co., Texas). Leona died Dec. 31, 1978 in Corpus Christi. No children.

In looking through Google I found: Ingram, Jacob C. Private Residence: Elwood Mustered: AUG 28, 1862 Died, Nashville, Nov. 10, 1862 Ingram, William P. Private Residence: Prairie Mustered: Aug. 28, 1862 Discharged July 14, 1863 They were in Company A, 79th Illinois Infantry. I suspect they are of my line of Ingram's but am interested if anyone has them in their line also or have investigated them trying to find your Ingram's. I believe William P. was son of Mitchel Ingram who had wife Mary Lagle. I believe Jacob C. was son of Montgomery Ingrm who had wife: Mahala (possibly also an Ingram). Looking forward to speculations. dianne ingram in oregon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Henry Franklin SMITH married Mary E. McFARLAND Jan. 4, 1871 in Morgan Co, IN and are in Edgar Co., IL by 1878 (probably 1873.) Mary E. died (divorced?) by March 26, 1879 as that is when Henry F. married Mrs. Martha E. DANIELS (Edgar Co.) I believe Henry & Mary may have lived around Logan, IL, but not positive. Are there any old cemeteries in Edgar Co. which have had tombstone readings where I might be able to find this Smith family? Are there any descendants out there? Thanks. Marsha

George W. Bandy married Ollie Jane Smith on Dec. 12, 1890 in Edgar Co. According to the 1900 IL census they lived in Chrisman and on the 1910 and 1920 IL census, in Paris. Is anyone else researching this family? Thanks. Marsha

John W. Smick married Elizabeth Smith in Edgar Co. on Feb. 2, 1889. They lived in Edgar Co. for a time, then are found on the 1920 Union Co., IL census. Is anyone researching this family? Thanks. Marsha

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/lg.2ADE/479.3 Message Board Post: deloris go to sixth generation delap that mite help you

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/lg.2ADE/479.1.4 Message Board Post: hi the robert i have was b.1743 in M.A. essex co. wife ruth children. george, john, thimothy. robert c. jojonathan, joseph.william anthony,ann, ruth, margaret, elijah, hoping george is my g.g.g. grandfather. stilling figuring out. have a robert the father wasjohn motherann b.1720. john b.1719.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cassady, Crafton, Metcalf, Bedman, Clark Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/lg.2ADE/644.1.1 Message Board Post: My great-great-great grandfather : James F. Crafton, born Nov 10,1811, Lunenburg, VA married a Sinia Cassady, born Mar 9,1806, Halifax, VA, in Bourbon, IL, Jun 9,1978. I do not any more about their respective families, but several of the Crafton's in my family tree were born in Paris, Edgar Co., IL. I would appreciate any information on the Cassady family or any info on the Crafton's that may have been kin to James F.

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/lg.2ADE/1109 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on this COMSTOCK in Paris, IL I have no further information on the subject. BJS

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/lg.2ADE/1108 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on this DUKE member in Paris, Il I have no information on him BJS

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lindsey, Fultz, Baker, Flake Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lg.2ADE/1107 Message Board Post: I was told that my ggrandmother Jane Lindsey died in or Metcalf, Illinois around 1900, but have been unable to find verification of her death or where she is buried. Her first name was possibly Eliza, although she was called Jane. I have an old sale bill dated 1896, where she has all of her livestock and farm equipment for sale, saying she was retiring from farming. The address was Metcalf. If anyone can give me any information, I would greatly appreciate it.

This is fairly long. Get a cool drink and settle back. Do you have more to add to this information I recently received? dianne ingram in oregon FAMILY GROUP RECORD ------------------------------------------------------ Husband: Andrew J. Canaday ------------------------------------------------------ Born: 25 DEC 1822 Place: Carter Co., TN. Married: 18 APR 1845 Date: Edgar Co., Il. Died: 5 MAY 1897 funeral by Rev.Grave of M.E. Church � Buried: Reed Cemetery, Polk Co., Mo. From Bolivar Free Press 13 MAY 1897 FATHER; MOTHER; OTHER WIVES: Samantha L. Moreau M: 14 MAR 1893 ------------------------------------------------------ WIFE: Nancy J. Ingram ------------------------------------------------------ Born: 11 AUG. 1821 Place: Hawkins Co., TN. Died: 20 APR 1845 Buried: FATHER; Miller Ingram MOTHER: Rebecca Hagood??? ====================================================== CHILDREN ====================================================== Name: Eldridge Jones Born: abt.1847 Living in Edgar Co., Il. When father died in 1897 Place: Married: Date: Died: Buried Name: Mary A. Born: Living in Edgar Co., Il. When father died Place: Married:�Hickman Date: Died: Buried Name: Florella Born: Living in Edgar Co., Il. When father died Place: Married:John W. Wilson Date: 1874 in Polk Co., Mo. Died: Buried Name: Laura Born: 14 JUNE 1854 Place: Married: Samuel L. Brock b: 1851-1929 Date: One known child: Myrtilla C. Brock b:5 SEP d: 15 SEP. 1878 Bur: Reed Cem. Polk Co., Mo. Died: 22 Oct 1881 Buried: Reed Cem. Polk Co.Mo. Name: Alonzo Born: 4 MAY 1859 Place: Edgar Co., Il. Married: Leona Hawkins Date: 4 APR 1901 Polk Co., Mo. Died: 15 APR. 1917 Buried: Reed Cem. Polk Co.Mo. Both buried Reed Cem. Both listed on marriage certif. as being from Greene Co., Mo. Name: Viola Born: 18 OCT 1861 Born: Place: Married: Charles Francis Sergent Date: Died: Buried 1870 Edgar Co., Il. Fed. Census: Prairie Twp., Bonwell Po. Pg. 206 Household: 59 Canady, Andrew J. 47 yrs. B: TN. Farmer worth $40,000 Nancy 48 yrs b: KY Mary A. 20 yrs. b: IL AT home Florella 18 yrs. b: IL At home Laura 16 yrs. b: Il At home Alonzo 11 yrs. b: IL At home Viola 8 yrs. b: IL Attending School Household: 60 Nolin, Cain 40 yrs. b: IL Almisa 24 yrs. b: IL Grover, Isiah 25 yrs. b: Ohio Manley, Manerva 36 yrs. b: IN listed as Insane Nancy of HH 59 and Manerva Manley of HH 60 are sisters. Obituary � Bolivar Free Press, May 13, 1897 DEATH OF A. J. CANADAY: In the death of A. J. Canaday, which occurred at his home, 3 � miles northeast of Halfway, May 5, 1897, Polk County loses one of its most valued citizens. He was born Dec. 25, 1822, in East Tennessee, and removed from there to Edgar County, ILL. When nine years old. He united in marriage with Nancy Ingram April 20th, 1845. He was the father of seven children, four girls and three boys, five of which survive him, viz: Jones Canaday, Mrs. M. A. Hickman and Mrs. J. M. Wilson, of Edgar County, ILL, A. Canaday, of Springfield, and Mrs. C. F. Sergent of Bolivar. His first wife died June 22, 1889, and he married Samantha L. Moreau March 14, 1893, who survives him. His main occupation was that of a farmer and stock raiser, and by industry and frugality accumulated a competence. He was diligent in business, prompt in his obligations, and though not active in public affairs was widely known and highly esteemed. These are the main facts in the life of a worthy gentleman, who was one of that large body of quiet, unassuming men, who in their day have done their duties well, in all the relations of life, and whose labors in the pioneer life have made this country what it is. Their lives deserve the passing tribute of an appreciative memorial and their labors, the fruits of which the present generation now enjoys, merit a constant acknowledgement. Funeral services were held at his residence May 6, 1897, conducted by Rev. Graves, of the M. E. Church, which was largely attended. After which the remains were laid to rest in Reed Cemetery. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail