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/wg.2ADE/1529 Message Board Post: Looking for any info on these family names, all married a Talbot, late 1800s early 1900s. Appreciate any help Thanks, Larry

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFadden/ McFadyean/McFadzean Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1528 Message Board Post: Is there anyone on the list researching McFadden/McFadyen be glad to hear from 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/an/wg.2ADE/1527 Message Board Post: Born 22 Apr 1845 in Indiana. Married Euphemia in Knoxville, ILL 27 June 1868. Their kids were all born in Iowa. Who were his parents?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CHALLY, THOMPSON, DANIELSON, OSMUNDSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1526.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank-you Lea! YOU MADE MY DAY! GREATLY APPRECIATED!

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/wg.2ADE/1526.3 Message Board Post: Kendall Co, IL Marriages list: Godskalk Grunstad m. Waljar Larsdotter 11/14/1847 Lea

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/wg.2ADE/1526.2 Message Board Post: Also, in Kendall County, IL Marriages is listed: Godskalk Grunstad m. Waljar Larsdotter 11/14/1847. Pea

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/wg.2ADE/1526.1 Message Board Post: Gwen, I found the following obituaries in the "Morris Daily Herald", Morris, IL March 23, 1899 Mrs. Halvor Grunstad died today noon at her home north of the third ward school house. She has been suffering some time with paralysis and its fatal stroke came today. March 24, 1899 Mrs. Elizabeth Grunstad whose death was noted in yesterday's Herald will be buried Sunday in the Lisbon cemetery. The funeral services will be held Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock at the house and 10:30 o'clock at the Lutheran church. The deceased had her first stroke of paralysis about Jan 1 and the fatal stroke was received last Tuesday. Mrs. Grunstad was born in Etne, Norway, and was 56 years old last Monday. She had been in this country twenty-nine years and had been married twenty-six years. Four children have been born to her, two of whom survive. July 25, 1904 Halver Grunstead, for more than fifty years a resident of Grundy county, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Martin Enger, in this city, Saturday evening after an illness consequent to a light stroke of paralysis sustained some time ago together with the infirmities of old age. The deceased was born at Etne, Norway, October 6, 1815, and was therefore, in his 88th year at the time of his death. He came to America in 1847, and after a short residence in New York state came west locating in Saratoga township where he made his home until about 10 years ago when he came to Morris to spend the last of his days on earth. Mr. Grunstead was twice married. He lived with his first wife for 25 years when she died and after a few years spent as a widower he again married living with his second wife for 26 years. She died five years ago and since that time he had made his home with the daughter at whose house he saw the last of earth. The funeral services will be from the home at 10 o'clock and from the Lutheran church at 11 o'clock tomorrow, conducted by Rev. Aarrstad, the interment following at the Lisbon cemetery. (both of these burials were in the West Lisbon Cemetery, which is in Kendall County, IL) Dec 6, 1918 Mrs. Martin Enger died last night at 10:40 in her home, 820 Price street, after a short illness from diabetis. She had been at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Olson in Aux Sable township, taking care of Mrs. Olson and was taken ill Wednesday. It was deemed advisable to bring her to her home in Morris and Davis' ambulance brought her here yesterday morning. She sank rapidly shortly after her arrival. Her maiden name was Stena Grunsted and she was born north of Morris on the Halvor Grunsted farm on the Grundy county line on December 9, 1878, and lived there all of her youth until her marriage to Martin Enger 22 years ago. A year afterward they moved to Morris and have lived here since. Besides the husband, she leaves three children, two sons, Clyde and Allan at home and daughter, Miss Etta, who has been employed in Joliet. She also leaves a sister, Mrs. Osman Osmanson, Morris, and half sister, Mrs. Paulson. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in her home, Rev. Aarrestad officiating, and burial will be in Osmanson cemetery, north of Morris. (This is now called Saratoga Cem, Grundy Co, IL) June 8, 1922 Mrs. Omund Osmanson died last night at 8 o'clock in her home on Vine street following an illness of some time. Deceased was Miss Inger Grunsted and she was born in Grundy county 48 years ago, September 3. Later years in life her home was in Morris in Price street until her marriage to Mr. Osmanson June 16, 1917. No children were born of her marriage. She was a sister of the late Mrs. Martin Enger and her husband is all who survives her. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the home and 2:30 from Bethlehem Lutheran church. Burial will be in Osmanson cemetery. Feb 9, 1912 Mrs. Lewis Bentson died yesterday (pneumonia, asthma) at her home in Saratoga. Native of Norway. Survived by husband Lewis Bentsen, daughter Mrs. Tena Hagen and two sons Henry and Dennis Bentsen. Also, leaves a sister Mrs. Raymond Paulson of Grundy County and a brother Mr. Grunsted who lives in Nebraska. Burial Lisbon Cem. Grundy County Marriages: #4650 Belle Grunstad m. Raymond Paulson 3/31/1879 (Belle d/o Halvar & Ingirid Larsdotter Grunstad) #7644 Erik Grunstad m. Betha Vogen 12/2, 1897 (Erik s/o G. Gronstad & Wagir Chelly) His 2d marriage #7414 Martha J. Grunstad m John J. Enger 2/24/1897 (Martha d/o Godskal Grunstad & Valter Kjella #7548 Stena Grunstad m. 2/24/1897 Martin Enger (Stena d/o Halver Grunstad & Lisabeth Johnson #4217 Hellen Grunstad m. 2/23/1876 Lewis Benson (parents not included at that time)--think Helen also Malinda #4507 Erick G. Grunstad m. 3/18/1878 Dorothea Jacobson (Erik s/o Godskath Grunstad & Volga Tjelde) Inger Grunstad, age 44 d/o Habor Grunstad & Elizabeth Johnson married Osmond Osmandson, age 64, born Olen, Norway s/o Osmund Knutson & Valbrig Grunstad in Morris, June 16, 1917. Wit. Clyde Enger, Etta Enger. It was his 2nd marriage. #3862 Halvor Grunstad m. 9/14/1872 Elizabeth Johnson (parents not given at that time) My deduction is that Inger Helen Grunstad's mother was the second wife Elizabeth Johnson. Lea

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/wg.2ADE/1523.1 Message Board Post: I can take pictures at Evergreen Cemetery if the stones still exist. Give me a list of names. Lea

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TJELLE, CHALLY, OSMONDSON, OSMUNDSON, THOMPSON, DANIELSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1526 Message Board Post: I an trying to find informatin on this family line: Osmund OSMONDSON b: 1854 in Norway? married: 1917 Spouse: Inger Helen GRUNSTED b: 1854 d: 1922 in IL Father: Hallvard 'Halvor' Ericksen GRONSTED (1816-1865) Mother: Ingrid Mairie TJELLE/CHALLY (1819-) Inger's family emigrated to the United States from Norway in 1847 and settled in Grundy Co., IL. If anyone can help me out with this family line I would greatly appreciate it. Gwen

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/wg.2ADE/1525 Message Board Post: I have trying to contact Rodney on old emails which bounce back to me, I found his webpage on Grundy co. and email him but never heard anything. It is about Thomas Gould b. 1842 in England

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hicks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1524 Message Board Post: I collect old photographs of older women and I found a photograph in an antique shop in Ohio of Gulielma P. Hicks from Morris, Grundy County, Illinois. The photo was taken in 1897 when she was 80 years old. I am interested in any information anyone might have about her.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Behrens, Kelch Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1523 Message Board Post: Is anyone willing to take pictures of a few tombstones for me? Email me with your reply and I will send you the exact names and dates. Thank you!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CHALLY, THOMPSON, OSMUNDSON, DANIELSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/309.420.2 Message Board Post: Candy,Hi Gwen --- I have just been contacted by Geir who believes that your Osmund lived on the Lundervoll farm in Tysvær, northern Rogaland. Sure enough, I find an Osmund Osmundsen, born 1824, listed on Bruk 1 of this farm in volume 1 of the Tysvær bygdebøker, page 305. Osmund was the 4th born of the 5 children of Osmund Osmundsen Nes and Synnøve Jensdtr. Lundervoll. It looks like he took over Bruk 1 of Lundervoll after his father's death, getting the deed in 1847, however he sold the place in 1849. Further, it says that Osmund married in 1848 to Sølvi Larsdt. Odland (also in Tysvær), 1831-1848. They had one child, Ingeborg, who was born in 1848 and went "to America" in 1865. While it is not clear in my book, it appears that Osmund's wife died shortly after their marriage and birth of their first child. No specific mention is made of Osmund's emigration, nor is any mention of a second marriage for him, at least in what I have found so far. I will keep digging. Geir will be busy traveling for a few days so might not be able to get back to you or the List for a while. Keith in California Gwen Butrum wrote: >Would some kind person do a lookup for me. I am seeking information on the following family line: > >Osmund L. OSMUNDSON >b: 25 Apr. 1821 in Norway >d: 1 Jul 1892 Mission Twp., LaSalle Co., IL >+Thorber > ==== NORWAY Mailing List ==== Learn how to of NORWEGIAN RESEARCH by reading Niels Newbie Notes http://members.tdn.com/dagwood/NorwayList.htm UNSUBSCRIBE/SUBSCRIBE at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/NOR/NORWAY.html Candy Please get back to me in regards to Osmund L. OSMUNDSON. I spent most of the day yesterday searching for information on his immigration and came up with this information. Everyday I hope to get closer and closer on finding out more about him and his family. If you have any further information on this family line please get back in touch with me. Gwen

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/wg.2ADE/1029.1 Message Board Post: I have been researching my Battersby line in Illinois, and I think possibly we may be related in some way. I know my father had a cousin named Dorothy. My father was Robert Battersby, married to Phoebe Davies. His father was Robert Battersby, married to Elizabeth Kaeding. His father (my g-grandfather) was James Battersby, married to Edith Shaylor in England in 1879. I am trying to link up some of my grandfather's brothers, and I think John may have been one of them. Do any of these names ring a bell for you?

An article written by Vickie Speek <mailto:vspeek@morrisdailyherald.com> (vspeek@morrisdaily.com) appeared in the Morris Daily Herald on March 24, 2003, regarding the demolition of the mausoleum at Brookside Cemetery in Mazon due to deterioration. The demolition will take place in June, 2003. Vickie is looking for descendants of the following people for a proper burial (some of these people are early settlers of Grundy and Civil War veterans). In an additional article of April 11, 2003, the Grundy County Coroner and Morris funeral director have offered their assistance with removal of the bodies from the mausoleum and burial in the ground where the mausoleum stood after it is demolished. Please contact Vickie if any of your ancestors appear in the following list of interred. The unclaimed bodies in the Brookside mausoleum are those of the following people: . BARNES, Chauncey N. (1863-1944). . BARNES, Doris (birth and death dates unknown). . BARNES, Susan (1829-1911), died on Aug. 29, 1911. . CASH, Hannah (1830-1919), died on Oct. 29, 1919, at the age of 86. Her husband, William, died in the infamous Andersonville prison camp in 1864. . CASH, Joseph (1856-1915), Hannah's son, died near Pontiac on July 4, 1915, when he was 59 years old. . CASH, Mary A. (1852-1932), Hannah's daughter, was the last of her immediate family. She died on Aug. 17, 1932, and was survived by her cousins Mary Fuller and Turner, Samuel, Lyman and Frank Hough. The bodies of Mary Fuller and Turner Hough were interred near Mary, but have already been removed from the mausoleum. . CLEMENTS, Charles Christopher (1866-1915), was one of the most prominent men in Mazon. He owned several businesses, including a meat market and a wagon hauling company. Charles raised stock at a farm outside the Mazon village limits. He was a member of several fraternal organizations, including the Masons. "Acute dilation of the stomach" was the cause of Charles' sudden death on June 26, 1915. . CLEMENTS, Lora (Laura) May (1871-1952), the wife of Charles Clements, died on Feb. 27, 1952. She was born in Braceville, the daughter of John and Zama Watters and was the last of their 10 children. After her husband died, she moved to Cook County to live with her only child, Effie (Clarence) Dunlap. . CLITHERO, Elizabeth Jane (1844-1936). . CLITHERO, Isaac N. (1833-1915), one of the best-known Republicans of Grundy County and a Grundy County road commissioner for 40 continuous years, died on Aug. 14, 1915. He was born and raised in Monroe County, Ohio, but moved to Mazon Township in 1862. He was married to Jane Pool of Ohio. They had four children - William T. Clithero of Mazon; Mrs. John Rankin; Mrs. A.G. Rundle of Mazon; and Iona Clithero, who lived with her parents. . COLEMAN, Catherine, died in January 1901. . COLEMAN, Mary, birth and death dates are unknown. . COLEMAN, Thomas, died either Sept. 1, 1917, or July 21, 1918. . DAVIS, Ada (1854-1918), the wife of Oscar E. Davis, died of "paralysis" on April 7, 1918, after a long illness. She was born in Mazon and lived there all her life. Her brother, Frank Clapp, was the president of Grundy County National Bank in Morris. . DAVIS, Oscar E. (1849-1932), was born in Salem, Indiana, the son of Robert W. and Phereba Boswell Davis. He moved to Mazon in 1865 with his parents, and settled on a small farm two miles from Mazon. He later became a carpenter and managed the furniture business of U.C. Davis and Sons at a branch store in Mazon. Oscar died of illness on Apr. 27, 1932, and was survived by one son, Frank, of Delavan, Wisconsin. He also had a sister, Mrs. George Sinclair of Mazon, and a brother, Charles Davis of Morris. At the time of his death, Oscar was visiting Mrs. Harry Hough, who with Mrs. Allen Laudphere, was raised in the Davis home. . FOSTER, Allen H. (1838-1901), a Mazon farmer who enlisted in the Civil War as a private and served three years with his company as a drummer. . FOSTER, Harriet (Hattie) F. (1847-1931), was the wife of Allen F. Foster, a Civil War veteran. She was "one of the most highly respected women in the southern county" and her friends were "legion." . HADDEN, Laura Frances (1856-1919), the wife of William B. Hadden, died on Feb. 10, 1919, following an operation. Her maiden name was Allison. She left behind a sister, Margaret Johnson; a son, Joseph Hadden, of Mazon; and three grandchildren. . HADDEN, William B. (1854-1929), husband of Laura Frances Hadden, died on Nov. 29, 1929. . HUME, Grace (1870-1918), was the daughter of Harriet and Allen Foster, who are also interred in the mausoleum. She was married to Edward C. Hume. Grace died on Jan. 23, 1918, of dropsy. Because of the cold, Grace was escorted to the cemetery by a funeral cortege of bobsleds. She was survived by her children, Edna (Clarence) Reading of Mazon and Wilbur Marsh of Arizona, and her step-children, Clint Hume and Mrs. Rome Graham of Morris. . LAASE, Emma Bertha Elizabeth (1888-1919), was put in the Mazon mausoleum "temporarily" because the ground was frozen. She died on Jan. 27, 1919, of flu and pneumonia at the age of "30 years, 3 months and 19 days." She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Laase of Goodfarm Township. She was survived by a brother and sister. . THOMAS, George (1836-1917), enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War. He fought in the battles of Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock Station, the second battle of Bull Run, Antietam and others. . THOMAS, Sarah A. (1840-1929), was married the first time to Ashbury Preston of Grundy County. Ashbury died in the Civil War. She then married George Thomas. Please contact Vicki <mailto:vspeek@morrisdailyherald.com> Speek for additional information. Deb Haines Grundy County IL Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgrundy/index.htm

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Peart Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1522 Message Board Post: Peart, Jeremiah - One of the substantial general farmers and constable of Goose Lake Township, who stands high among the leading agriculturalists of Grundy County, was born in Ohio, October 11, 1864, a son of Cuthbert and Mary Ann (Walker) Peart, natives of England. The father was taken to Ohio by his parents, but the mother came there alone. The parents met and married in Ohio, where they resided until 1866, but in that year moved to Felix Township, Grundy County, Ill., where the father bought 160 acres of land, on which he died October 13, 1910, having retired from active work in 1903. His widow lives at Carbon Hill, Ill. Jeremiah Peart grew up on the homestead and attended the schools of his neighborhood. In 1894 he rented land in Goose Lake Township, and continued to do so for three years, but then bought eighty acres in the same township. This property is still his home, and he has developed it into a valuable farm, erecting all the buildings and making other important improvements. Mr. Peart devotes his land to general farming, and his results justify his course. On November 29, 1894, Mr. Peart was married to Anna Swenson, born, reared and educated in Denmark, which she left when twenty years of age to come to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Peart are the parents of the following children: Mabel, Ethel and Cuthbert. The family are Methodists in religious faith. In 1905 Mr. Peart was elected Constable of his township and still holds that office, while for twelve years he was Judge of Elections and for eighteen years was a School Director. Some years ago he joined the Mohawk Harbor of A. O.! O. Gleaners, and is interested in the work of that organization. A man of action, steadfast in his allegiance to church and party, he is one of the reliable men of his locality, and is properly esteemed by those who know him. Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois, 1914, page 882

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/wg.2ADE/1363.1 Message Board Post: Hi Michael My family lived on the nothwest side of chicago for many years i have alot of family history on these people , still some living in the area ... let's e-mail and find out what we have in common michele

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CHALLY, MILBURN, DANIELSON, SUCKOW Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/89.166 Message Board Post: My new email address is gwenb@wccta.net

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/wg.2ADE/1500.2.1 Message Board Post: There are various spellings of the name - Cockeram, Cockram, Cochran, etc etc. There were two different families in Grundy County, one from England and one from Ireland. Mine all came from England. Does any of this match?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crane, Hall, Kimber, Surman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1500.2 Message Board Post: There are a few people on a branch of my family that have the last name Cockream. Is this the same name, just spelled differently? They are/were in Kendall/Grundy. bye, dj