I can try to help you. I live in Virginia and have access to a library with lots of records. However, I am not going to get there for the next few days. It would help if you have any idea what part of Virginia he came from? At that time (before 1850) Virginia and West Virginia were one state. A lot of people continued to list their birthplace as Virginia even after the two separated because, technically, that was where they were born. There is an area in what is now West Virginia called Berkley Springs. I would assume Berkley is anothe varient of the name. His first name is unusual and may offer a clue. Also, since he died in February 1880, he won't be in the census but should be in the mortality schedule. Have you checked that? Gloria

I have searched for quite some time for an ancestor who died in Illinois. I want to know who his father was so i can continue my genealogy-if possible The name is spelled in so many different ways, on many records, making my search a nightmare at times. The correct spelling,according to family members is-- BEDE BARCLAY born: 05--January 1815--Virginia died: 24--February 1880--Fulton County,Illinois Spouse: Amanda Livingston born: 20--May 1828 Licking County, Ohio died: 08--June 1885--Fulton County, Illinois Married: 1848--Licking County,Ohio 1850 Census--Ohio BEDA BARKLEY 1870 Census--Illinois---------hand written/cursive. BARKLEY, BEDEE AGE 55 AMANDA 42 MILTON 22 LOUISA 19 JAMES 17 WESLEY 14 MINERVA 13 ROBERT 10 MARION 8 DORA 6 ALICE 2 I have tried to obtain a death certificate for Bede Barclay, thinking that perhaps his parents would appear on it, but as of this day i have not been able to . I have searched all the records of Virginia possible, but that far back only the name of head of house was shown and all others are merely numbers, not names. I have searched records of Ohio, hoping to find a marri age record with some information-nothing there either. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

I can check 10 to start... Cathy [email protected]

Dear David, Are you there? He said he was joining our list today, so he should get this forwarded message from you, Gloria, through our list. Thanks for the good advice, --Alice -------- Original Message -------- [from: [email protected]] Alice, You might also add for David that the search engine on the marriage records does not allow much for error. If the name is Mullholland and you search under Mulholand you won't find the name. I usually search under all counties and put in only the bride or only the groom. Also, if an initial search using the full name didn't work, I would start with just the first four or five letters of the name and work backwards to three or possibly even two. Also, be creative with spelling. Some of our ancestors were certainly that. Gloria

Dear Fulton Friends, Let me take this holiday occasion to thank everybody who has been volunteering, sending me Project Fulton Folk contributions, answering questions from our new list members, and helping build website pages. Thanks to you, great things are happening for our beloved Fulton Co.! Please bear with us, as we are working on several ILFultonprojects at once, and may not send you a personal thank you and response in a timely manner. Know that I appreciate your efforts, and that volunteers and I are working to give you more bios, township pages, photos, obits from newspapers, lots of great stuff. My goal is to have at least some of the township pages up by Christmas, and other tangible progress for you to see. But now, I must get ready for my Thanksgiving company that will soon be here. So, I will be pretty quiet until next week. Keep up the good research, and have a wonderful time with your families! When I bow my head before our feast on Thursday, my heart will be full of gratitude for my Fulton pioneer ancestors, and for all of you, my wonderful Fulton Co. list friends. If anybody else wants to go off-topic to wish each other a happy Thanksgiving, go for it!

Thanks, Everybody, Yaaay, together we have rooted out all the dead links on our surnames links page on our website already, so we don't need any more volunteers to do that, thanks! I have re-posted the page with live links and indications of where we need new, interesting ones for lonely surnames at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilfulton/FultonLinks.html So, if you want to help, you can do Google searches on surnames associated with Fulton Co., and send me the surnames and the link addresses to post. Please make sure that when a person goes to that page, they see 1) the surname and 2) the words "Fulton Co.", or a town like "Canton, Illinois" so it's relevant to our Fulton families. Thanks for all your help! Alice ILFulton List Administrator and ILFulton County Coordinator

Hi Listers, A thought occurred to me when I attended the services for a good friend's mother last year. She was cremated but not buried and kept in a box. Where would a descendent find a headstone if none was ever placed? Or the urn lost? And what about ashes scattering? No headstone again. I have for years thought I'd like to be scattered but after that small little thought. Nope. I want to leave a trail set in stone. Hopefully you'll find a paper trail if not a trail in stone. Did you get the death cert? I have some that say what will happen to the remains. Luckily my ancestors were buried. Good luck! Dawn DiSomma [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Forwarding message sent to our ILFulton website from: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:56:36 -0600 "Parker, David" <[email protected]> ---------- Hi David, Thank you for visiting our Fulton Co. ILGenWeb website! First, you can address your requests for Fulton County vital records to: Fulton County Clerk P.O. Box 226 Lewistown, IL 61542 The cost per record is $2 each for birth, marriage & death certificate. Please list full names if possible and dates of birth, marriage or death. Make checks payable to Fulton County, IL Clerk. Genealogy requests require 2 to 3 weeks to process. Telephone number is 309-547-3041 extension 42. The courthouse is open Mon. through Fri. from 8AM to 4PM and is open during lunch. I am also forwarding your request to our whole ILFulton list in the hopes that somebody among our 350 subscribers can help you in some way. We are all researching our Fulton Co. roots, and sometimes we have access to biographies, obituaries, photos, and other helpful items. We are in the process of sharing and helping each other, on a volunteer basis, to learn more about our Fulton Co. families. I would like to invite you to join our (free) ILFULTON-L list. You can send us email with the surnames you are researching in capital letters, like WILSON, along with other specific questions. If you would like to join our list, just ask me and I will be happy to subscribe you. Also, I suggest you contact the friendly folk at the Fulton County Historical and Genealogical Society, PO Box 583, Canton, IL 61520. Best wishes, Alice San Jose, CA ILFulton List Administrator and ILFulton County Coordinator -------- Original Message -------- Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:56:36 -0600 "Parker David" <[email protected]> I was wondering if the county marriage records might be more complete than the state online database. I have a marriage I am fairly sure occurred there in the county, but it did not come up in the state online search. Would it be worth my time to check with the county? David Parker

Thank you for the biographies !!! Karen

My Grandpa Robert James Mason worked at a mine that was called "Water Lily Coal Mine "in Cuba Ill. I have been trying to find out more about that. He lost a hand in an accident there. Karen http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kamber/masons.htm Mason's,Keime,Kannel,Loomis,Porter,Thayer,Green, Bartlett,Dowling,Heiny,Haney,Henry,Alford

Hi I can check 20 links for you - just contact me. Pat

Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] >surname Lyon. My GGrandmother was Ella/Ellen Lyon, born 1850 in Fulton, Lewiston, IL. < I have Lyon ancestors that were in Stephenson and then Carroll Co's. during that time period. Head of family was Harvey Lucius Lyon from NY and OH. Moved to Linn Co., IA in mid 1860's then on to Smith Co., KS. Chuck Kimball

Kathy -- I FEEL YOUR PAIN! I am about to give up on Etta "May" Ingram Longwell Wagner too. She was b in Plymouth, Hancock Co in 1879, Etta May INGRAM, but lived some of her elder years (1944-50ish?) in Fulton County - last noted location 1944: Vermont. But after years of searching, talking to Vermonters door-to-door, walking tombstone by tombstone, browsing obit books, ordering death certs and even subscribing to Ancestry.com, I am unable to find her anywhere. I thought Ancestry.com would be my hope -- however when I paid my subscription fee -- I discovered that the census years I need (1920-1930) are not indexed, and you must view each page of every township. (on dial-up connection to the Net, this is brutal). So.... After three hours and only browsing two townships, I gave up. Where is Etta "May" Ingram Longwell WAGNER?? Did she have more children? She was my great grandmother that no one in our family ever got a chance to meet due to a nasty divorce that separated her from her infant son. (Even the way I learned just that much history can be nearly called a miracle!) Valerie <<<<I give up!!! What has Fulton County done with Mary Ellen Weese Comingore????? She died about May 19, 1935 in Fulton County. My aunt says they had her funeral "over in Canton". Can anyone help me out with this. An obit or cemetery transcription or any other clue will be appreciated. Kathy>>>>

I give up!!! What has Fulton County done with Mary Ellen Weese Comingore????? She died about May 19, 1935 in Fulton County. My aunt says they had her funeral "over in Canton". Can anyone help me out with this. An obit or cemetery transcription or any other clue will be appreciated. Kathy

Can anyone on the list tell me if Buckeye Church is still owned by a Church, or some other group, or by an individual? Also, is the Buckeye Cemetery maintained, and if so, by whom? Thanks for any info. Dick Southwood [email protected]

Hi Listers, Well, we might have a TON of dead links on our ILFulton website, but we also have a bunch of very much alive volunteers! Thanks to the fast work of volunteers Carla, Mary, Deb, Gloria, and others, we are already almost done identifying the dead links on the page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilfulton/FultonLinks.html I will combine the "Fulton County Families on the Internet" links (after checking their pulse) on our ILFulton homepage with these survivor links on that links page. That will get some clutter off our homepage, too. Now, I must report that MOST of the surname links were DEAD. So, please SEND me your UPDATED links with their related surnames, or else your dead links to what may be your family and/or favorite webpages will be deleted. Everybody please SUBMIT directly to me your favorite live SURNAME LINKS to fill out our Fulton family connections with outside websites. Please make sure the link names a directly Fulton-related family! You may also provide a short description of the contents of the link, if you want. Thanks, you guys are great! Alice <[email protected]> ILFulton List Administrator and ILFulton County Coordinator Alice Imig Stipak wrote: > Dear List Members, > > We have a lot of old, dead links on this page of our ILFulton website: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilfulton/FultonLinks.html > > Page name: "Outside Links with Fulton County Surname Connections" > > I need volunteers to click on each link and report dead ones to me, so > that I can delete the dead ones, and replace them with live ones, if > available. > > I could do this myself, but it is time-consuming, and I am busy > posting bios to our website and also planning township pages and > Project Fulton Folk additions, etc. If any of you want to help in a > straight-forward, immediate, and necessary way, this is the job for you! > > HOW TO HELP: > 1) Take a look at the page, and decide about how many links you want > to check. > 2) Email directly to me, saying "I can check 5 links" or 10 or 20, > whatever. > 3) I will email back (quickly!) with letter assignments, like "Please > check all ABC surnames". > 4) You check links to surnames starting with those letters, > and email me a DeadList of all dead ones by surname, named Smith1, > Smith2, Smith3 > if there is more than one entry for a surname. DeadList example: > "Dead links: > Ackley > Bonney2 > Smith3 > Wallace" > 5) Optional LiveList: You can do a Google search on the surname, and > if you find good webpages with that surname AND mention of a Fulton > Co. location, then do a "Live links" list for me to add to our page. > 6) I will then update that page with you deletions and additions. This > will be done in a timely manner, meaning within 2 weeks of getting > this help from some of you. > Is Marylin Miller among you? She kindly provided the links, and I > would like to discuss our renovation of her page with her. Her new > email address would be appreciated. > > Thanks, everybody! > Alice > ILFulton List Administrator and ILFulton County Coordinator > > > > > ==== ILFULTON Mailing List ==== > Can't handle so many messages from us every day? Don't quit the > ILFulton list, just switch to DIGEST MODE -- Digest Mode delivers > batches of up to 25 messages in 1, not one at a time! > >

Dear List Members, We have a lot of old, dead links on this page of our ILFulton website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilfulton/FultonLinks.html Page name: "Outside Links with Fulton County Surname Connections" I need volunteers to click on each link and report dead ones to me, so that I can delete the dead ones, and replace them with live ones, if available. I could do this myself, but it is time-consuming, and I am busy posting bios to our website and also planning township pages and Project Fulton Folk additions, etc. If any of you want to help in a straight-forward, immediate, and necessary way, this is the job for you! HOW TO HELP: 1) Take a look at the page, and decide about how many links you want to check. 2) Email directly to me, saying "I can check 5 links" or 10 or 20, whatever. 3) I will email back (quickly!) with letter assignments, like "Please check all ABC surnames". 4) You check links to surnames starting with those letters, and email me a DeadList of all dead ones by surname, named Smith1, Smith2, Smith3 if there is more than one entry for a surname. DeadList example: "Dead links: Ackley Bonney2 Smith3 Wallace" 5) Optional LiveList: You can do a Google search on the surname, and if you find good webpages with that surname AND mention of a Fulton Co. location, then do a "Live links" list for me to add to our page. 6) I will then update that page with you deletions and additions. This will be done in a timely manner, meaning within 2 weeks of getting this help from some of you. Is Marylin Miller among you? She kindly provided the links, and I would like to discuss our renovation of her page with her. Her new email address would be appreciated. Thanks, everybody! Alice ILFulton List Administrator and ILFulton County Coordinator

My surnames are: STEVENS, HATT, and THOUSAND (Collateral line) for FULTON COUNTY. I am researching the family of Leonard STEVENS who married Ida Jane HATT in Parke County, IN. Their children were Joseph Earl, Cecil Coyer, Cynthia (died as a baby), Sophia Ester STEVENS SCOTT (died in Farmington, IL in 1916), Clyde Ingram (died in Maryland in 1970), and Orval L. STEVENS who married Delores THOUSAND in 1920. Leonard STEVENS died in McLean County, IL in 1925. I have found Clyde Ingram and his wife Edith in Baltimore County, Maryland on the 1920 and 1930 Census. Their children are: John (11), Dorothy (9), Orvil (7), Evyline (4) and Robert (2 2/12) as listed on the 1930 census. This family lived at 76 Admiral Boulevard, Dundalk, Baltimore County, Maryland. On Clyde's Form SS-5 U. S. SOCIAL SECURITY ACT Application for Account Number he listed his residence as 76 Admiral Blvd., Dundalk, MD. and this form was dated 26 November 1936. He also listed his parents as Leonard Coyer Stevens and Ida Jane Hatt (giving me the supporting documentation needed to prove he was the son of my ancestors). I have hired a researcher in Baltimore, Maryland to find some additional supporting documentation. Would appreciate any information on this family, including Delores THOUSAND STEVENS. Darlene Shawn

BAILEY, EVAN B. Dr. Evan B, Baily is the owner of a 240 area tract on Sect. 13, Bernadotte Twp. He comes from farming stock and his first years were spent among agricultural surroundings in Eldorado Twp., McDonough Co., where he was born March 9, 1865. On the paternal side he is of German ancestry, a son of Thomas, and grandson of Evan Baily, the latter of whom came from Ohio to Vermont Twp, Fulton County at a very early day, where his son Thomas was born, reared, and finally married Nancy Battenberg. After his marriage Thomas Baily moved to McDonough, Co., where his wife died in 1892, and when he moved to Table Grove, Fulton County, his present home. The educational advantages of Dr. Baily consisted of district schools and the highschool at Macomb. After graduating he returned to the home farm. In 1889 he entered the office of R. W. Baily, a dental practitioner of Macomb, and the following year took a course at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, graduating in the class of 1890. In the meantime, the elder Dr. Baily had opened an office in Omaha, Nebraska, and Dr. Evan B. Baily practiced with him during his vacation, and in the fall located in Vermont, IL, where he practiced dentistry for five years. He next located in Wayne Co., IL, and in 1903, selling out his business, he moved with his family to Chicago. Two years later he came to his present farm and is now engaging in stock-raising, having on hand a large number of cattle, horses, hogs and sheep. Sept. 17, 1891 he married Lizzie Branson who was born in Ipava, Fulton County, Nov. 22, 1868, a daughter of William T. Branson, one of the honored pioneers of Fulton County. Dr. and Mrs. Baily have two children: Annie Maurine was born in Vermont Twp., July 15, 1892, and Evan B. in Fairfield, Wayne County, Sept 21, 1900. Dr. Baily is a Republican in politics and fraternally is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Royal Neighbors. With his wife he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Ipava. Joan