FYI: Please read the message below regarding an old genealogy scam that has once again surfaced. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ralph Terry" <rterry@web-access.net> > To: <TXCOLEMA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:44 PM > Subject: [Texas-Coleman Co] Re: genealogy scam > > > > To the Coleman County listers ... > > > > The following is from David Morgan, the TxGenWeb > coordinator. > > > > Ralph Terry > > Coleman > > > > > > Hi Everyone: > > > > The old genealogy scam is back. www.genseekers.com > > > > Behind the password protection are links to the free genealogy > > on-line. There is no content of their own. > > > > In order to get the "5-day free trial" you have to surrender a > > credit card or bank account number. You have to cancel within 5 days > > or you get dinged. Guess what? The cancellation e-mail bounces. Does > > this surprise you? > > > > One person who recently fell for the come-on had > > his/her account dinged not once, but twice. > > > > It is time to remind folks on your state and county > > mailing lists about these scoundrels. It has been a > > couple of years since we have mentioned this. > > > > Permission is granted to pass this on. > > > > > > ==== TXCOLEMA Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from the Coleman County email list, send > the message "unsubscribe" without the quotes to > TXCOLEMA-L@rootsweb.com. > > To unsubscribe from the Digest version of the Coleman > County email list, send the message "unsubscribe" without > the quotes to TXCOLEMA-D@rootsweb.com. > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online > genealogy records, go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1 > 237 > > > > > > > > > > ==== TXHILL Mailing List ==== > Website by Debbie: http://cathy_shelley.tripod.com/index.html > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txhill/ > Barb's Photo Page:http://members3.clubphoto.com/barbara260032/guest-1.phtml > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.404 / Virus Database: 228 - Release Date: 10/15/02 ==== MSCHAT Mailing List ==== ** MSCHAT? MS it no more! Come Thursdays at 9:00pm CT! ** http://www.rootsweb.com/~msgenweb/chat.htm ==== MSMARSHA Mailing List ==== If you have any of these records to share, please send them to msmarsha2000@yahoo.com: birth, marriage, death, obits, civil war, wills, church, cemetery listings, newspaper articles, photos, and/or historical info. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Handlin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wg.2ADE/1506 Message Board Post: Does anyone know if there is a Margaret Handlin buried in the area of Nettle Creek Twp. in Grundy Co.? She died 1870 to 1880. Thanks for any help.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cummings Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wg.2ADE/1505 Message Board Post: Does anyone know how I can find out if there is a will for Amos Cummings in Grundy Co., who died Jan 27, 1900 at Mazon? Thanks for any help. Mary

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harris Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1504 Message Board Post: Morris Herald, September 8, 1876 Death of Judge Harris As a journalist it becomes our painful duty to record in the pages of history the death of our esteemed fellow citizen, Sydney Wells Harris, which occurred at his residence in this city on Friday evening, September 1st, from the effects of a carbuncle located on the back of his head, in close proximity to, and affecting the brain. He was afflicted but about two weeks, and until one or two days before his death, although it was known that he was in critical condition, hopes were entertained for his recovery. His funeral took place on last Sunday and was attended by a large concourse of people, embracing the Society of Odd Fellows, of this city, of which order he had been a member for the past 20 years; the bar of this city and of Joliet; the county and city officers, making altogether one of the largest funerals ever held in this city. The funeral sermon was delivered by Rev. J. H. Alling, of the M. E. church, and from his discourse we take the following biographical sketc! h of this distinguished citizen: Fellow Citizens: In the reason and fitness of things, among a free and enlightened people, there is a necessity but for few places of high responsibility and command; and in harmony with such a state of things it is a fact that only occasionally is one by nature and culture qualified to fill such places of trust and power. And so it comes to be true that at long intervals only in man’s life time are they called upon to do the funeral honors of those who have filled posts of great influence and power. Yet such is the sad duty of this hour. To day we come hither to lament the sudden demise among us of one of nature’s noblemen. Stamped as such by a higher sanction than royal patent or hereditary title confers. Especially eminent in his profession as an advocate of the law, he was also a highly respected citizen of our city, as unpretentious, kindly man, a faithful friend, a loving husband, a tender parent – with an ever open hand of generosity for the needy. Permit me, for a brief moment, to hold in review before you the public and private life of our distinguished citizen and brother. Sidney Wells Harris was born in Vergennia, Vermont, Aug. 16, 1815, and died Sept. 1, 1876, thus being 61 years of age the 16th of last month. His mother brought him from Vermont, a youth of 6 years, to Trumble Co., Ohio. He resided there with an uncle, Agustus Stevens, except such time as he spent at a collegiate institute on the Western Reserve. He graduated at the Cincinnati law school, and was admitted to the bar at the age of 25. The following year he married Miss Mary Brunson, of the same county. He practiced law at Warren, Trumble county, for eight years, and moved to Cincinnati in 1848, and there remained in the practice of his profession until the spring of 1855, when he came to Morris, where he has since resided. He has often been entrusted with school and municipal offices in this city. Recognized by all as standing in the extreme front of the ranks of his profession in these regions, he was elected by your free suffrages to the most responsible and honorable trust that it is in your power to give to any man in the several counties comprised in this judicial district – namely, that of Circuit Judge. Of his administration in that high and dignified post, in which he represented the forces of government for the suppression of crime and the protection of virtue, I hear but one voice of approval. He held this position until he resigned it in 1866, having been nominated for Congress. After that canvass, taking his son, Tracy B. Harris, into partnership with him; he resumed the practice of law, and has since followed his profession up to the present time. His mother, who in his early years brought him to Ohio, came with him to Morris, and deceased here in 1858, a member of the Methodist Epsicopal church, at the advanced age of 73. His wife died in Morris in July, 1867, at the age of 46, leaving one son and two daughters, who mourn with us today. On Dec. 15, 1868, he was married to Miss Mary Keenon, who survives him to day and follows him to his last resting place, and who gives this tribute to me of his memory, looking at him through the vision of deepest affection: “He was the best of husbands – the best of men.” Yet none claim that he was free from faults. He belonged to the genius homo, not perfect because not divine. As a father, he was indulgent and loving in his family, and beloved by his children. His son, especially, feels grateful for his father’s guidance and aid in his profession. He often said he felt it to be one great part of his mission to aid children to a good settlement in life, and he had the satisfaction of living until all are finely situated in this world. As might have been predicted from the results of his early training he was a firm believer in Revelation, and to his son and others often spoke of his admiration of the morals and grace of the Savior’s inimitable sermon on the Mount. He was suddenly taken seriously sick and his physical sufferings were so exquisite that most of the time Nature gave him freedom from conscious pain by the dethronement of reason; his attendants tell me that it is doubtful whether he had one idea that the Messengers of Death were at his door. And thus he passed from an influential career on earth to be with his Maker. We offer to you his consort, sad and widowed, bereft of the companion of your heart and life, in so sudden and unbetokened and mysterious a manner, the consolations of the everlasting Gospel in which you are a firm believer; may grace assuage your unutterable grief, till at glory’s morning gate you shall meet him again in sweet embrace. And you, his children, I bid you follow the good counsels of him who loved you so much, until you shall greet him in your Father’s house on High. And you in charge of these ceremonies, and in the mystic and tripled-linked brotherhood of Friendship, Love and Truth, you have lost a valued and worthy member. One of the symbols of your order is drawn from the friendship that existed between David and Jonathan. A touching illustration of which was exhibited by Jonathan in the use of the arrows to warn David of impending danger. Let the arrows of love fly as constantly for each other, as you give evidence that they have done for our brother covering the whole of life, and they shall dart even beyond the bounds of time and sense. Let the evergreens which you strew on his coffin today be emblematic of the green memory with which you shall hold in recollection his good deeds, his true faith to your friendship, until you all shall assemble in the rapturous brotherhood of the skies. Companions of the departed in the profession of law: Your brother has appealed his suit to the highest Court in the Universe, and his spirit has gone thither to attend it, while you are honoring his remains by bearing “them to the house appointed for all the living”. Who can doubt but that he who loved to read and ponder the law and the testimony of the Heavenly code on earth, shall gain his suit and find a blessed acquittal on high. Many of you have a name and fame in your profession here, prepare for as eminent a situation in yonder world. And you, vast concourse of relatives and friends and citizens, be warned betimes, and “be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the son of man cometh.” Bar Meeting – At a meeting of the Grundy Co. Bar, held in the Court House in Morris, on Saturday, Sept. 2, 1876, on the occasion of the death of Hon. S. Wells Harris, were present Hon. Jas. N. Reading, Hon. W. T. Hopkins, Hon. P. A. Armstrong, Edward Sanford, Esq., A. R. Jordan, Esq., A. L. Dowd, Esq., F. W. Tupper, Circuit Clerk, J. R. Combs, Deputy Circuit Clerk, S. B. Thomas, County Clerk, and H. D. Hitchcock, Deputy County Clerk. On motion Hon. W. T. Hopkins was chosen chairman, and Sam’l. B. Thomas, secretary. The following resolution was offered by Mr. Sanford, and adopted: Resolved, That the bar of Grundy county, as a body, attend the funeral of Judge S. W. Harris, and wear the usual badge of mourning, and that a committee, consisting of Hon. James N. Reading, Hon. P. A. Armstrong, and Hon. W. T. Hopkins, be appointed to draft suitable resolutions for adoption by the bar, and that Mr. Armstrong be requested to present the same to the County Court at its next session at 2 o’clock p.m. of Monday, Sept. 11, and that Judge Reading be requested to present the same to the Circuit Court at its next session at such time as may seem most convenient, and that the County officers be requested to place upon the Court House suitable mourning drapery. The committee reported the following preamble and resolutions: By an Inscrutable Providence our brother and companion, Hon. S. Wells Harris, has been called from our midst into the Unknown Country – the impenetrable Beyond, we are started at the swiftness of Death’s arrow, and awed by the grandeur of his strength; we mournfully and irresistibly bow in this sad bereavement to our Maker’s behest; and, Resolved, That in the death of Judge Harris, we have lost one of the brightest lights in the profession, a just Judge, a true friend, a kind and generous neighbor, and a worthy, upright and honorable citizen, and that we will, as brothers, revere his memory, cherish his friendship, and emulate his virtues. Resolved, That we tender to the family of brother Harris our unfeigned sympathy and consolation in this the hour of their deepest affliction and sorrow; that they be furnished with a copy of these resolutions, and that other copies be presented to the Circuit and County Courts of this County in open court, with the request that they be spread upon the records thereof, and further, Resolved, That this bar attend the funeral of brother Harris in a body, and that each member thereof wear the usual badge of mourning. The following resolution was also adopted: Resolved, That the bar of Grundy county invite the bar of Will county to attend the funeral of Judge Harris, and that the secretary of this meeting telegraph the invitation to Hon. Josiah McRoberts. Meeting adjourned to meet at the dwelling of deceased at two o’clock p.m. Sunday.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fox Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1503 Message Board Post: Fox, Henry (deceased) – In the death of Henry Fox, Dwight, Ill., lost a substantial and well-known citizen, one who had spent thirty-two years of his life there. Mr. Fox was born in Rentlingen, Germany, October 4, 1833, and came to America in 1854, landing in New York City October 4, and going direct to Milwaukee, Wis. There he remained for a few years, after which, he went to St. Louis, Mo., where he was engaged as a clerk in a dry goods store. He then removed to Mt. Pulaski, Ill., where he clerked for some time, later becoming owner of a dry goods store and continued a mercantile life until the breaking out of the Civil War in April, 1861. He enlisted for three months with the Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Later he re-enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Sixth Volunteer Infantry, and served with that regiment until the fall of 1863, when he became captain of the Fifty-ninth Colored Infantry, remaining until January 31, 1866, when he was honorably disc! harged, having met with the misfortune of having his horse shot under him, the fall crushing his ankle and making him a cripple for life. During his years of army life he was wounded three times. After his military service he located at Lincoln, Ill., where he was employed in a lumber office until 1874, moving from there to Dwight, Ill., where he took charge of the William Scully land, which embraced about 12,000 acres in Grundy and Livingston Counties, which position he held until his death, September 3, 1906. His burial was in Oak Lawn cemetery, Dwight, Ill. Mr. Fox’s first wife was Magdalene Mayer, a native of Mt. Pulaski, Ill., who died in 1879. To them were born the following children: William, who died in 1898; Henry, of Nelson, Neb.; Anna; Mrs. Benjamin Showalter, of Davenport, Neb.; Lydia, who lives with Mrs. Fox; Lewis, of Kansas City, Mo.; Susan, a teacher of painting in Chicago; Pauline; Mrs. Alonzo Emans, of Florida; and Daniel, of Hall City, Fla. Mr. Fox’s second marriage occurred October 28, 1880, with Miss Harriet Chamberlain, who was born in Western New York, a daughter of William and Nancy (Jackson) Chamberlain, the former born in Vermont, and the latter in New York, both dying in New York State. Mr. Fox was highly educated, having attended educational institutions in Stuttgart, Germany. He was at one time a German Lutheran, but, after coming to Dwight, became associated with the Presbyterian Church. In political views, he was a Republican and served Dwight as Mayor several terms and was also a member of the Town Board. He was a member of the A. F. & A. M., of Dwight; Wilmington Chapter No. 513, R. A. M.; Blaney Commandery of Morris; Council of Streator. He belonged to the Dwight Encampment No. 126, I. O. O. F., of which organization he was a member for forty-eight years. He belonged also to the Grandy Army of the Republic No. 626, Dwight Post, and was a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion of Illinois. Enterprising and progressive, he was looked upon as one of his city’s representative men, and was highly esteemed by all. Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois, 1914, page 811

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFaddens/McFadyen/ McFadyean/ McFadzean Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1502 Message Board Post: I'm looking for anyone with a connection to the above surnames, my 2xgreatgrand fathers brother John McFadyen is shown in the 1880 census for Braceville, Grundy. His wife's name was Rachel and children were John, Robert , & Houghy if anyone can help me find out more about them please get in touch Regards Eddie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Baker, Collar, Crabb Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1501 Message Board Post: I am looking for my Great Grandfather Alpha Burdette Baker. He lived in Dwight Ill when my Grandfather was born. My Grandfather was Francis Porter Baker. GG was born 9-1831, he married Sarah Jane Collar 9-25-1861. If anyone has information it would be appreciated very much. Thank you Twila Hartford

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COCKERAM VALLANCE PRICE PETERSON ISHAM BAKER GRIGGS MARTIN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1500 Message Board Post: Researching the Samuel Cockeram Family, wife Hannah Vallance, children William (Catherine Price), Samuel (Sarah Peterson), Hannah (Benjamin Isham), Mary Ann (Ira Baker), Emma ( Jacob Griggs) and Benjamin (Catherine Martin). Living in Grundy County circa 1855-1900. I have quite a bit of information on this family but I'm hoping someone out there may have something new for me. Is anyone else researching this family?

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/1053.2.1 Message Board Post: Thankyou for your reply. My Jacob J Vogen was born 1/1/1854 in Olen,Norway. He came to this country in 1873 and lived in the Lisbon and Newark areas of northern Grundy and southern Kendall county,ILLINOIS.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vogen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1053.2 Message Board Post: Do you have any other information on Jacob J Vogen? I have a Jacob Vogen born on Jan 28, 1862 in Finnoy, Rogaland, Norway. I might have the date wrong. Mine grew up in Rushford, MN which is not very far North -West from there.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hayes/ Long/ Liberty Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1499 Message Board Post: I am looking for Johanna Liberty who married Philip Hayes or a Johanna Long who married Philip Hayes in Will Co. in 1872. It is possible Johanna had married a man named Long and then Philip Hayes. There is also a Marie Liberty who married a man named Cushing. Any info would be appreciated. Thank you Anne Nelson

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Severson, Hockinson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1498 Message Board Post: I have been trying for some time to find Sever Severson.I know that He was alive at the time of the 1900 census, living in Braceville with his wife Bertha and family. He died sometime between 1900 and 1910. Bertha is buried in the Braceville/Gardner cemetery. I was wondering if anyone knows how to find burial permits issued between 1900 and 1910 for the Braceville cemetery.I would appreciate any help anyone can provide. Thanks Bob S

Dear List, I just posted a biography of Thomas Loughhead, my 4great-grandfather. It tells quite a bit about him. Can anyone please tell me where he might be buried? Does anyone have further information on this family? In the 1850 census, I found John Loughead and his family. Next door living with a Thompson family from Norway, is Thomas Loughead (Jr.). Not too far away is James P. Thompson and his wife, Sarah (Loughead), and their children: Emeline, Franklin and Margaret? (James P. Thompson was born in Maryland or Pennsylvania, depending on which census you look at, so I don't think he is related to the Thompson families from Norway. James and Sarah later moved to Newton County, Indiana.) Does anyone know the names of Thomas's other daughters and who they might have married? Any information will be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Marcy _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

History of Grundy County, Illinois, pages 286-287 In 1841 or '2, Thomas Loughhead came in from Mercer County, Pennsylvania. he was born of Scotch parents, in the north of Ireland, and emigrated to Canada during the Napoleonic wars. The vessel in which he embarked fell in with a French privateer and barely escaped capture, losing his chest of clothes and the hat from his head. He soon afterward met Mary Donley and married her, a little later coming to Pennsylvania. His wife was the daughter of a lady, the daughter of an Irish nobleman, who had eloped to this country with an Irish teacher. In the war of 1812, Mr. Loughhead was drafted, and served throughout the struggle as a private. His wife died before his coming into Illinois, but he brought a family of two boys and four girls, none of whom were then married. For three or four years he rented the farm of George Brouse, which he bought in 1847. The boys subsequently bought farms near by, and the girls engaged in teaching school. They enjoyed the advantages of liberal study, having attended the seminary at Hudson, Ohio. Another son, James, came to Nettle Creek subsequently, and stayed there about two years, buying the interest of the other heirs in the parernal estate, and finally selling it to a Mr. Moody. A year or two later, James P. Thompson, who had married one of the Loughhead daughters, followed his father-in-law to Illinois, and settled on the northeast quarter of section 19. The head of the Loughhead family died about 1855, and the different members have one by one gone to different parts of the country, leaving no descendants here. Marcy Hoover, descendant of Thomas & Mary (Donley) Loughhead, and James P. & Sarah (Loughhead) Thompson. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

In a message dated 2/11/03 12:02:45 PM US Mountain Standard Time, ILGRUNDY-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Amends the Secretary of State Act . Provides that a fee of $7 per > research > request for copies of non-certified death certificates, civil war muster > > records and census records shall be paid to the Secretary of State and > Hi List ! This seems pretty reasonable. Im not aware of the old fee, IF there is one, but we have to expect that they be reimbursed for their expenses, when it gets beyond normal business activity of the office. Just my thoughts. Mike in AZ SWARTZ~SVARC / McCOLLOUGH~McCULL.. / CERNY / HAJEK / HOSEK / HRABAC / KRIESSINGER / CERMAK / PERGLA

FYI -----Original Message----- From: Gloria Frazier [mailto:glofra@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:55 AM To: ILGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ILGEN-L] HB 498 - SOS charging research fees I am passing this on from Carolynn Bettis <fbettis@earthlink.net> Please pass onto your Illinois county maillists and genealogy and historical society members (Illinois). gf ---------------- Rep Gary Hannig has filed the following bill. The Secretary of State's Legislative Liaision, David Jones, is aware of the bill, but they were not involved in its creation. The bill will probably be heard in committee on Feb. 20th. HB 498 Amends the Secretary of State Act . Provides that a fee of $7 per research request for copies of non-certified death certificates, civil war muster records and census records shall be paid to the Secretary of State and deposited into the Archives Research Fund. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Archives Research Fund and provides that monies deposited ito the fund may, subject to appropriation, be used by the Secretary of State for expenses of conducting archival research of Archive records. Effective July 1, 2003. Urge all in opposition to HB 498 to conctact Representative Gary Hannig by phone or mail at: 225 S. Macoupin St, Gillespie, IL 62033, Tel. # 217-839-2859 or 300 Capitol Bldg., Springfield, IL 62706, Tel. No. 217-782-8071 also contact: Senator Vince Demuzio, 140 Carlinville Plaza, Carlinville, IL 62626, Tel. No. 217-854-4441 Have not been able to acquire an email address for Rep. Hannig and Sen. Demuzio does not have one. Strongly urge all those in opposition to this HB 498 also contact their local Representative(s) and Senator(s) making their feelings known. Perhaps if this HB 498 moves thru the legislative system, we can form a group and personally appear and offer testimony in opposition. This bill can be tracked at the Illinois Legislative Reference Bureau's web site: www.legis.state.il.us ------------------ Gloria Frazier <glofra@earthlink.net> Macoupin County ILGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/macoupin.htm Maillist manager for FRAZIER-L and ILMADISO-L ==== ILGEN Mailing List ==== To contact the list Coordinator, Richard M. Howland. mailto:illinois@usroots.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dempsey Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1497 Message Board Post: Dempsey, Lawrence (deceased) – Farming and stock raising are two kindred lines of endeavor, and many of the substantial men of Grundy County gained their wealth through following them. One of those who attained to a well merited prominence as an agriculturalist, who carried on general farming and stock raising in Norman Township, was the late Lawrence Dempsey. He was born in County Wexford, Ireland, in the spring of 1832. He came with his sister to Wisconsin at an early day, and found employment on a farm near Madison. In 1871 he married Anna Larkin, born in Kings County, Ireland, May 10, 1834, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Looman) Larkin, also of Kings County, Ireland. Mrs. Dempsey came with her brother to the United States, the voyage consuming seven weeks, and stopped first at Chicago, and thence by way of the Illinois and Michigan canal came to Minooka. There she lived until her marriage. Following marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey went to Aux Sable Township and lived on a rented farm for two years, then to another farm two miles from Mazon, which continued to be their home for seven years and it is in Mazon Township, Mr. Dempsey died July 17, 1879. In February, 1883, Mrs. Dempsey and sons settled on the property which is now the home of Mrs. Dempsey, in Norman Township, where they bought 382 ¾ acres about eighty acres of which was timberland, and the balance was prairie. They have recently bought another 140 acres in Wauponsee Township. Mrs. Dempsey and her sons carry on general farming, and specialize on raising Belgian horses. Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey had children as follows: William, who lives with his mother; John, who died June 24, 1907, aged forty-four years; Elizabeth, Mary and Lawrence, who are all with their mother; Thomas, who lives at Fort Cobb, Okla.; and Anna, who lives in Chicago. Mrs. Dempsey is a Catholic and belongs to the Church of Imma! culate Conception at Morris. Mr. Dempsey was a Democrat, but he never aspired to public office. He was an excellent man and is tenderly remembered by his wife and children. Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois, 1914, page 803-804

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thomas, Ferguson Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1496 Message Board Post: WILL OF MRS. JUDGE THOMAS On the 27th day of November, Mrs. Amanda Thomas made the following will; She ordered and directed her executor Charles D. Ferguson, to pay all debts, and funeral expenses, and as soon after decease as convenient to carry out the following details of her will; A brick vault to be built the same as that of her husband, with head and footstones of Scotch granite to mark both graves. That the remains of her late mother and sister Mrs. L. Shaw be removed from their present resting place and placed in the family lot here. To the trustees of the Morris cemetery association $200 with which to care for the cemetery lot. All her earthly belongs were bequeathed as follows: To John E. Thomas, her late husband’s brother of Williamsport, PA $2,000; to Bird and James Thomas, brothers of her late husband, $500; to Annie Thomas, daughter of J.E. Thomas $500; to her brother C.D. Ferguson $4,000, and the sole use and benefit of the 90 acre farm at Peter’s Ford; to her nephew Fred C. Ferguson $2,000; to Fred C. Ferguson and his heirs her dwelling house and lot together with the household furniture therein not otherwise disposed of; to Fred C. Ferguson an additional $200 with which to repair the house and lot; to Harry M. Ferguson, $2000; to Eugene Ray Ferguson, $2000; to S.D. Ferguson $300; to her sister, Amelia Riddle, $100; to Annie E. Ferguson $100, and also her ???; to Elizabeth ??eoker, $100; to Florence Ann Partridge, Canada, $100, to Myra Ferguson, wife of S.D. Ferguson, $100; to Blaney Commandery, Morris, her late husband’s picture, framed in gold; to Annie E. Ferguson! , all her diamonds, jewelry, and watch trinkets to be divided as she thinks best; to C.D. Ferguson, Fred C. Ferguson and Eugene Ray Ferguson equal portions of the residue of her entire estate. Morris Daily Herald, December 6, 1893 Typed by Kathleen Berner Groll

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/1495 Message Board Post: Does anyone have any info on the marriage of these two? Francis was born 1875 in Cook County. He died in 1897. They had a son, Alfred, who was adopted by William Braithwood and Elizabeth Makepeace. I am looking for any information, adoption records, obits, anything,. I have no info on Amanda Thank you for any help you might be able to give, Lynda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Emily/Emiley/Lamsett/Piche Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wg.2ADE/1494 Message Board Post: looking for information on francis emily (emiley) settled in grundy county 1850's in the area of what is now dresden nuclear plant. His wife was josette ann lamsett piche later to be reed after the death of francis sometime around 1857 or 1858. Trying to locate his burial place.