Langley Family Cemetery in Carthage Township http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/langley.html Logan Family in Dallas Township http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/logan.html The Forgotten Men of Montebello in Montebello Township http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/forgotten_men.html Kappmeier Cemetery in Montebello Township http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/Kappmeier.html Luzadder Family Cemetery in Montebello Township http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/luzadder.html Steimel Cemetery in Montebello Township http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/steimel.html Bean Family Cemetery in St. Albans Township http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/bean.html As before if ase cemeteries please let me know. As you will see alot of these are just history but very interesting to say the least. Shawnnee

Yes and they will be going on the website as soon as I can get to them. I am averaging 3 or 4 a day of the smaller cemeteries and ones with just history. When I get to the bigger ones it will take me longer. I have 2 cemeteries with over 3,500 burials so I think they will be last but I am working as fast as I can. I have been sending out emails when I put the new cemeteries on but the last 2 days have been only histories with a couple of names which are very interesting and I will send those out tonight when I am finished for the night. A couple of days last week I had a lot of bounced email from rootsweb and AOL. I was told that you would all get the email as soon as they could get it to you so I hope you have all been getting the updates. Please if you do not get the updates go to this website and see if you see any new ones on the list. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/cemetery.html or you can email me and I will tell you if I have finished the one you are asking about and give you the website URL. Shawnnee ----- Original Message ----- From: "m.putnam" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > Shawnnee > Are any of the cemeteries up near La Harpe? I would sure like to find some > Brundages from that area. > Chick > Rev. Marion L. Putnam > papa chi to my great grand son > now shortened to pa chi > I USE ARCHIVE BOOKS IN MY RESEARCH > http://www.archivecdbooks.org > I SUPPORT FREE CENS > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shawnnee Ramey" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 7:34 PM > Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > > > > I am just so glad I can do this and have the information thanks to the > > Warsaw library and Dan Finton. Just to let you all know I have gone over > the > > cemeteries that I have already finished and found a few typo's. They have > > all been fixed. I hate typo's so if any of you find one please let me know > > so I can fix it. > > Thanks > > Shawnnee > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Robert L Webb" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 6:51 PM > > Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > > > > > > > Shawnnee, > > > Thank you for your excellent work on this project. It will be a great > > > help to many people. I just did some looking on the Hancock genweb site > > > and found several pieces of helpful information. Noticed among early > > > settlers of the county the names of Curtis Caldwell and Hiram Woodworth, > > > of Rocky Run township. Also found Zachariah Barnett. All of these, plus > > > Isaac Vinson, J. B. Couch, P. P. Glen, John Walker, George Walker, and > > > Eli Walker, and others, I have found in early church records for that > > > part of the county between 1835 and 1840 or so. > > > Robert > > > > > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:32:30 -0800 "Shawnnee Ramey" <[email protected]> > > > writes: > > > > Robert, > > > > I am in the process of putting the cemeteries on the Hancock County > > > > website. > > > > I can't remember if I have the Walker cemetery or not but as I go > > > > through > > > > the cemeteries If I have that one you can compare what I have to > > > > what you > > > > have and see if there is anything wrong. > > > > Shawnnee > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Robert L Webb" <[email protected]> > > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:24 PM > > > > Subject: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, forum members, > > > > > Earlier today I made a copy of the 1976 burial listing of > > > > the > > > > > Walker Cemetery in Walker township, Hancock Co., Illinois, which > > > > is at > > > > > the Carthage Public Library. Does anyone know if there has been > > > > any > > > > > other reading of the burials in this cemetery? Some of the dates > > > > on > > > > > stones appear (possibly) to have been read wrong on this list, and > > > > I > > > > > wondered if another reading might have been made which might have > > > > > different dates. > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > > Robert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > > > > > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > > > > > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > > > > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: > > > > [email protected] Turn off your signature. 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Shawnnee Are any of the cemeteries up near La Harpe? I would sure like to find some Brundages from that area. Chick Rev. Marion L. Putnam papa chi to my great grand son now shortened to pa chi I USE ARCHIVE BOOKS IN MY RESEARCH http://www.archivecdbooks.org I SUPPORT FREE CENS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawnnee Ramey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > I am just so glad I can do this and have the information thanks to the > Warsaw library and Dan Finton. Just to let you all know I have gone over the > cemeteries that I have already finished and found a few typo's. They have > all been fixed. I hate typo's so if any of you find one please let me know > so I can fix it. > Thanks > Shawnnee > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert L Webb" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > > > > Shawnnee, > > Thank you for your excellent work on this project. It will be a great > > help to many people. I just did some looking on the Hancock genweb site > > and found several pieces of helpful information. Noticed among early > > settlers of the county the names of Curtis Caldwell and Hiram Woodworth, > > of Rocky Run township. Also found Zachariah Barnett. All of these, plus > > Isaac Vinson, J. B. Couch, P. P. Glen, John Walker, George Walker, and > > Eli Walker, and others, I have found in early church records for that > > part of the county between 1835 and 1840 or so. > > Robert > > > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:32:30 -0800 "Shawnnee Ramey" <[email protected]> > > writes: > > > Robert, > > > I am in the process of putting the cemeteries on the Hancock County > > > website. > > > I can't remember if I have the Walker cemetery or not but as I go > > > through > > > the cemeteries If I have that one you can compare what I have to > > > what you > > > have and see if there is anything wrong. > > > Shawnnee > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Robert L Webb" <[email protected]> > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:24 PM > > > Subject: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > > > > > > > > > > Hi, forum members, > > > > Earlier today I made a copy of the 1976 burial listing of > > > the > > > > Walker Cemetery in Walker township, Hancock Co., Illinois, which > > > is at > > > > the Carthage Public Library. Does anyone know if there has been > > > any > > > > other reading of the burials in this cemetery? Some of the dates > > > on > > > > stones appear (possibly) to have been read wrong on this list, and > > > I > > > > wondered if another reading might have been made which might have > > > > different dates. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Robert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > > > > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > > > > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > > > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: > > > [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is > > > no > > > subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. > > > Unsubscribe > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: > > > [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is > > > no subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. > > > Unsubscribe > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: > [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is no > subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. Unsubscribe > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > List owner Shawnnee Bolt Ramey [email protected] >

In a message dated 3/5/04 5:57:57 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > As I am finishing the cemeteries I am putting them in the right township so > please bare with me. I still have a long ways to go. > Heck of a job, Shawnee.....you have a lot of people ever so grateful for your work. Including me, of course!

Shawnnee, Thank you for your excellent work on this project. It will be a great help to many people. I just did some looking on the Hancock genweb site and found several pieces of helpful information. Noticed among early settlers of the county the names of Curtis Caldwell and Hiram Woodworth, of Rocky Run township. Also found Zachariah Barnett. All of these, plus Isaac Vinson, J. B. Couch, P. P. Glen, John Walker, George Walker, and Eli Walker, and others, I have found in early church records for that part of the county between 1835 and 1840 or so. Robert On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:32:30 -0800 "Shawnnee Ramey" <[email protected]> writes: > Robert, > I am in the process of putting the cemeteries on the Hancock County > website. > I can't remember if I have the Walker cemetery or not but as I go > through > the cemeteries If I have that one you can compare what I have to > what you > have and see if there is anything wrong. > Shawnnee > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert L Webb" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:24 PM > Subject: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > > > > Hi, forum members, > > Earlier today I made a copy of the 1976 burial listing of > the > > Walker Cemetery in Walker township, Hancock Co., Illinois, which > is at > > the Carthage Public Library. Does anyone know if there has been > any > > other reading of the burials in this cemetery? Some of the dates > on > > stones appear (possibly) to have been read wrong on this list, and > I > > wondered if another reading might have been made which might have > > different dates. > > Sincerely, > > Robert > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: > [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is > no > subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. > Unsubscribe > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: > [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is > no subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. > Unsubscribe > > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

Shawnee, any chance you'll be listing either the Myers Cemetery, the Pontoosuc Cemetery, or the Thornber Cemetery in the future???

I am just so glad I can do this and have the information thanks to the Warsaw library and Dan Finton. Just to let you all know I have gone over the cemeteries that I have already finished and found a few typo's. They have all been fixed. I hate typo's so if any of you find one please let me know so I can fix it. Thanks Shawnnee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert L Webb" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > Shawnnee, > Thank you for your excellent work on this project. It will be a great > help to many people. I just did some looking on the Hancock genweb site > and found several pieces of helpful information. Noticed among early > settlers of the county the names of Curtis Caldwell and Hiram Woodworth, > of Rocky Run township. Also found Zachariah Barnett. All of these, plus > Isaac Vinson, J. B. Couch, P. P. Glen, John Walker, George Walker, and > Eli Walker, and others, I have found in early church records for that > part of the county between 1835 and 1840 or so. > Robert > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:32:30 -0800 "Shawnnee Ramey" <[email protected]> > writes: > > Robert, > > I am in the process of putting the cemeteries on the Hancock County > > website. > > I can't remember if I have the Walker cemetery or not but as I go > > through > > the cemeteries If I have that one you can compare what I have to > > what you > > have and see if there is anything wrong. > > Shawnnee > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Robert L Webb" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:24 PM > > Subject: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > > > > > > > Hi, forum members, > > > Earlier today I made a copy of the 1976 burial listing of > > the > > > Walker Cemetery in Walker township, Hancock Co., Illinois, which > > is at > > > the Carthage Public Library. Does anyone know if there has been > > any > > > other reading of the burials in this cemetery? Some of the dates > > on > > > stones appear (possibly) to have been read wrong on this list, and > > I > > > wondered if another reading might have been made which might have > > > different dates. > > > Sincerely, > > > Robert > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > > > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > > > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > > > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: > > [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is > > no > > subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. > > Unsubscribe > > > > > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: > > [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is > > no subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. > > Unsubscribe > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is no subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. Unsubscribe >

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/cemetery.html Sorry I forgot to send the website Shawnnee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawnnee Ramey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 5:56 PM Subject: [ILHANCOC] Cemeteries > Yes I believe I have at least Pontoosuc Cemetery, and thew Thornber Cemetery > and will get them on as soon as possible. I am trying to get the smaller > ones out of the way now and will be putting the bigger ones on starting next > week. > My kids are coming this weekend so I will be taking a break until Monday, > possibly Tuesday. > > You can go here and see some of the cemeteries I have on the site. Some of > them are not in the right place according to the records I have in front of > me. Some of them are alos mixed with other cemeteries on the same page. I am > trying to change them and have one cemetery on one page. I have done some of > them but not all of them yet. > As I am finishing the cemeteries I am putting them in the right township so > please bare with me. I still have a long ways to go. > Shawnnee > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 5:39 PM > Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > > > > Shawnee, any chance you'll be listing either the Myers Cemetery, the > > Pontoosuc Cemetery, or the Thornber Cemetery in the future??? > > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: > [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is no > subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. Unsubscribe > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > List owner Shawnnee Bolt Ramey [email protected] >

Yes I believe I have at least Pontoosuc Cemetery, and thew Thornber Cemetery and will get them on as soon as possible. I am trying to get the smaller ones out of the way now and will be putting the bigger ones on starting next week. My kids are coming this weekend so I will be taking a break until Monday, possibly Tuesday. You can go here and see some of the cemeteries I have on the site. Some of them are not in the right place according to the records I have in front of me. Some of them are alos mixed with other cemeteries on the same page. I am trying to change them and have one cemetery on one page. I have done some of them but not all of them yet. As I am finishing the cemeteries I am putting them in the right township so please bare with me. I still have a long ways to go. Shawnnee ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > Shawnee, any chance you'll be listing either the Myers Cemetery, the > Pontoosuc Cemetery, or the Thornber Cemetery in the future??? > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is no subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. Unsubscribe >

Hi, forum members, Earlier today I made a copy of the 1976 burial listing of the Walker Cemetery in Walker township, Hancock Co., Illinois, which is at the Carthage Public Library. Does anyone know if there has been any other reading of the burials in this cemetery? Some of the dates on stones appear (possibly) to have been read wrong on this list, and I wondered if another reading might have been made which might have different dates. Sincerely, Robert ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

Robert, I am in the process of putting the cemeteries on the Hancock County website. I can't remember if I have the Walker cemetery or not but as I go through the cemeteries If I have that one you can compare what I have to what you have and see if there is anything wrong. Shawnnee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert L Webb" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:24 PM Subject: [ILHANCOC] Walker Cemetery, Hancock Co., Illinois > Hi, forum members, > Earlier today I made a copy of the 1976 burial listing of the > Walker Cemetery in Walker township, Hancock Co., Illinois, which is at > the Carthage Public Library. Does anyone know if there has been any > other reading of the burials in this cemetery? Some of the dates on > stones appear (possibly) to have been read wrong on this list, and I > wondered if another reading might have been made which might have > different dates. > Sincerely, > Robert > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is no subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. Unsubscribe >

More than likely he was buried close to the battle. No embalming in those days and the smell would not allow them to keep him for shipping. Chick Rev. Marion L. Putnam papa chi to my great grand son now shortened to pa chi I USE ARCHIVE BOOKS IN MY RESEARCH http://www.archivecdbooks.org I SUPPORT FREE CENS ----- Original Message ----- From: "bobert" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 10:04 PM Subject: [ILHANCOC] [PRR] CIVIL WAR ENGINEERS/TRAIN EMPLOYEES > A friend sent me this and I am just sharing. Shirley: [email protected] > > Some interesting reading...Civil War Engineers (Train Employees). If > your ancestor fell into the below categories - and why they are not > listed with > The National Archives. > > I [Marty at: [email protected]] have a family letter that states > that my ggggreat-grandfather, John Stevens, was an fireman (engineer) > for the P.R.R. on one of the first (Union) runs into the South during > the Civil War. He was killed during the battle. I have found online that > train engineers were not required to enlist in the war - this explain > why he is not listed with the National Archives. > > I am looking for his burial. Does anyone know where engineers would have > been buried? My thought is probably somewhere around Philippi. This > battle involved troops from Ohio and he was from Cincinnati. > > ********** > > Can't answer your questions directly but did find some interesting > correspondence about the draft of railroad employees. In August, 1862, > Thos. A. Scott, VP-PRR (there was also a Thomas A, Scott who was acting > Secretary of War but don't know if they were the same) asked that all > railroad employees be exempt from the draft. He sent the Secretary of > War a draft letter and I've not been able to determine if it was > actually adopted. > The actual correspondence follow: > > "PITTSBURG, PA., August 6, 1862. > Hon. E. M. STANTON, > Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.: > Can anything be done by the Government to relieve railway employes from > draft in the same manner as telegraph officers? The organization of > principal lines, all of which have been declared under Government > control, will be seriously impaired, if not entirely disorganized, > unless the Government will consider employes exempt from draft. Please > answer. > THOS. A. SCOTT, > Vice-President Pennsylvania Railroad. > ****************** > WAR DEPARTMENT, > Washington, D.C., August 6, 1862. > THOMAS A. SCOTT, Esq., > Pittsburg: > An order similar in principle to that in respect to railroads might be > made for those on which Government transportation is carried on, but it > ought to be carefully guarded, as too many persons would seek its > shelter. I would like to have your notion in the form of an order, and > will endeavor to make one that may meet the case. Adams Express Company > encouraged their employes to enlist in the service, and I think any > order in respect to railroads ought to be as limited to actual > necessity, or it may provoke hostility in the public mind. > EDWIN M. STANTON, > Secretary of War. > ***************** > PITTSBURG, PA., August 6, 1862. > E. S. SANFORD: > The telegraph is a very good thing, but you cannot carry men or > munitions of war. Does not the Secretary think railways as essential to > aid prosecuting the war as telegraphs, and if so must we not have to > work them experts--men of experience and detail--and if so should not > this class of men be exempt? I assure you this question is assuming a > serious aspect. I hope the Secretary will not consider that I am, like > newspapers, assuming to advise. > G. W. CASS. > ****************** > WAR DEPARTMENT, > Washington City, D.C., August 6, 1862. > GEORGE W. CASS, Esq., > Pittsburg:I have for some days been considering the question of military > service as to railroad employes, and recognize the justice of the > principle so far as it is applicable to them equally as to telegraph > operators, provided it can be properly limited. Your views on the > subject would be thankfully received, for I am anxious to be enlightened > upon this as upon every other official duty. The principle that exempts > telegraph operators is that they serve the Government in a special art > known to but few persons, whose places cannot be supplied. The same > principle might justly extend to engineers of locomotives, conductors, > and brakesmen, but how much further it should go is a point of > difficulty on which I would be glad to be informed. > EDWIN M. STANTON, > Secretary of War. > ****************** > WASHINGTON, D.C., August 6, 1862. > THOMAS A. SCOTT, > Vice-President Railroad Company, Pittsburg: > Telegraph operators have already been exempted from draft. There is > strong > opposition to exempting railroad employes, and I do not know what will > be > the decision. > H. W. HALLECK, > General-in-Chief. > **************** > CHICAGO, August 7, 1862. > Hon. E. M. STANTON: > As the draft for soldiers is calculated to seriously embarrass the > operations of the various railroads of the country by obstructing the > services of engineers and machinists, which are indispensable, and > looking to the vast importance of maintaining without interruption the > facilities of the transportation, not only necessary to the military > operations of the Government, but the commerce of the country, we > respectfully ask your early consideration of extending an exemption of > engineers, machinists, and other experts employed by railroads against > draft, which can by no possibility be replaced without months of > previous instruction. > JAS. ROBB, > Receiver Saint Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad. > G. L. DUNLAP, > Superintendent Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. MAHONE D. OGDEN, > President Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad. > E. B. TALCOTT, > General Superintendent Galena and Chicago Railroad. > C. G. HAMMOND, > Gen. Sup. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Chicago, Ill. > ************* > SARATOGA, N. Y., August 8, 1862. > (Received 5.30 p.m.) > Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, > Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.: > As we find a good deal of excitement among our employes on the subject > of > drafting, will you please inform me if locomotive engineers, firemen, > and > conductors who are essential to the running of trains, and of course > transportation of the mail, are subject to draft? Please answer to this > place. > SAML. SLOAN, > President Hudson River Railroad Company. > ******************* > WAR DEPARTMENT, > Washington, August 8, 1862--9.55 p.m. > SAMUEL SLOAN, Esq., > President Hudson River Railroad, Saratoga, N. Y.: > Locomotive engineers will be exempt on the same principle with telegraph > operators; no others. > By order of the Secretary of War: > C. P. BUCKINGHAM, > Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General. > **************** > PITTSBURG, PA., August 8, 1862. > Hon. E. M. STANTON: > I wrote you last night from Steubenville, but failed to get it in the > mail. It will not reach you before Saturday evening or Sunday morning. > The > following form of order, it is believed, will effectually guard all > interests and be >productive of great good. I submitted it to President > Clement, of Cincinnati; T.L. Jewett, president Steubenville and Indiana, > and J. N. McCullough, president Cleveland road, all of whom approve and > desire speedy action, if it meets your approval. In my letter you will > find some reasons why the necessity for action is pressing: > > Whereas the President of the United States has been authorized by an act > of Congress to take possession of any or all the railways of the > country, and so control their facilities and employes as might to him > seem needful to the interest of the Government; and as it is now > important to the Government and to the general business interests of the > country that the organization of all railway companies should be kept in > the highest state of efficiency for service, it is Ordered: > > 1. That all the officers, agents, engineers, firemen, mechanics, > conductors, brake-men, and other employes that may have been in the > service of the respective railway companies for at least three months > previous to the date of the last call of the President for troops, the > same are hereby exempted from military duty so long as they may remain > in such service; provided that all agents and employes between the ages > of eighteen and forty-five thus exempted from the provision of the laws > authorizing drafting shall enroll themselves, under the military laws of > the Government, and drill at least once each week, and shall > in all cases of emergency be subject to military duty in the field when > so > ordered by the President. > > > 2. Organizations under the order will be furnished arms and > accouterments > for drilling purposes, but will not be entitled to pay unless called > into field for active service. > > > 3. All employes of railway companies that may refuse or neglect to > enroll > themselves into military organizations, as set forth in this order, > within > sixty days from the date thereof, and all persons that may enter the > service of any railway company after the date of this order, shall not > be deemed or considered as being exempt from military duties. > > > Very respectfully, > THOS. A. SCOTT. > ***********" > > Regards, Marty > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this mailing list send an e-mail to: [email protected] Turn off your signature. There is no subject required and only one word goes into the e-mail. Unsubscribe >

A friend sent me this and I am just sharing. Shirley: [email protected] Some interesting reading...Civil War Engineers (Train Employees). If your ancestor fell into the below categories - and why they are not listed with The National Archives. I [Marty at: [email protected]] have a family letter that states that my ggggreat-grandfather, John Stevens, was an fireman (engineer) for the P.R.R. on one of the first (Union) runs into the South during the Civil War. He was killed during the battle. I have found online that train engineers were not required to enlist in the war - this explain why he is not listed with the National Archives. I am looking for his burial. Does anyone know where engineers would have been buried? My thought is probably somewhere around Philippi. This battle involved troops from Ohio and he was from Cincinnati. ********** Can't answer your questions directly but did find some interesting correspondence about the draft of railroad employees. In August, 1862, Thos. A. Scott, VP-PRR (there was also a Thomas A, Scott who was acting Secretary of War but don't know if they were the same) asked that all railroad employees be exempt from the draft. He sent the Secretary of War a draft letter and I've not been able to determine if it was actually adopted. The actual correspondence follow: "PITTSBURG, PA., August 6, 1862. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.: Can anything be done by the Government to relieve railway employes from draft in the same manner as telegraph officers? The organization of principal lines, all of which have been declared under Government control, will be seriously impaired, if not entirely disorganized, unless the Government will consider employes exempt from draft. Please answer. THOS. A. SCOTT, Vice-President Pennsylvania Railroad. ****************** WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D.C., August 6, 1862. THOMAS A. SCOTT, Esq., Pittsburg: An order similar in principle to that in respect to railroads might be made for those on which Government transportation is carried on, but it ought to be carefully guarded, as too many persons would seek its shelter. I would like to have your notion in the form of an order, and will endeavor to make one that may meet the case. Adams Express Company encouraged their employes to enlist in the service, and I think any order in respect to railroads ought to be as limited to actual necessity, or it may provoke hostility in the public mind. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. ***************** PITTSBURG, PA., August 6, 1862. E. S. SANFORD: The telegraph is a very good thing, but you cannot carry men or munitions of war. Does not the Secretary think railways as essential to aid prosecuting the war as telegraphs, and if so must we not have to work them experts--men of experience and detail--and if so should not this class of men be exempt? I assure you this question is assuming a serious aspect. I hope the Secretary will not consider that I am, like newspapers, assuming to advise. G. W. CASS. ****************** WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D.C., August 6, 1862. GEORGE W. CASS, Esq., Pittsburg:I have for some days been considering the question of military service as to railroad employes, and recognize the justice of the principle so far as it is applicable to them equally as to telegraph operators, provided it can be properly limited. Your views on the subject would be thankfully received, for I am anxious to be enlightened upon this as upon every other official duty. The principle that exempts telegraph operators is that they serve the Government in a special art known to but few persons, whose places cannot be supplied. The same principle might justly extend to engineers of locomotives, conductors, and brakesmen, but how much further it should go is a point of difficulty on which I would be glad to be informed. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. ****************** WASHINGTON, D.C., August 6, 1862. THOMAS A. SCOTT, Vice-President Railroad Company, Pittsburg: Telegraph operators have already been exempted from draft. There is strong opposition to exempting railroad employes, and I do not know what will be the decision. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief. **************** CHICAGO, August 7, 1862. Hon. E. M. STANTON: As the draft for soldiers is calculated to seriously embarrass the operations of the various railroads of the country by obstructing the services of engineers and machinists, which are indispensable, and looking to the vast importance of maintaining without interruption the facilities of the transportation, not only necessary to the military operations of the Government, but the commerce of the country, we respectfully ask your early consideration of extending an exemption of engineers, machinists, and other experts employed by railroads against draft, which can by no possibility be replaced without months of previous instruction. JAS. ROBB, Receiver Saint Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad. G. L. DUNLAP, Superintendent Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. MAHONE D. OGDEN, President Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad. E. B. TALCOTT, General Superintendent Galena and Chicago Railroad. C. G. HAMMOND, Gen. Sup. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Chicago, Ill. ************* SARATOGA, N. Y., August 8, 1862. (Received 5.30 p.m.) Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.: As we find a good deal of excitement among our employes on the subject of drafting, will you please inform me if locomotive engineers, firemen, and conductors who are essential to the running of trains, and of course transportation of the mail, are subject to draft? Please answer to this place. SAML. SLOAN, President Hudson River Railroad Company. ******************* WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, August 8, 1862--9.55 p.m. SAMUEL SLOAN, Esq., President Hudson River Railroad, Saratoga, N. Y.: Locomotive engineers will be exempt on the same principle with telegraph operators; no others. By order of the Secretary of War: C. P. BUCKINGHAM, Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General. **************** PITTSBURG, PA., August 8, 1862. Hon. E. M. STANTON: I wrote you last night from Steubenville, but failed to get it in the mail. It will not reach you before Saturday evening or Sunday morning. The following form of order, it is believed, will effectually guard all interests and be >productive of great good. I submitted it to President Clement, of Cincinnati; T.L. Jewett, president Steubenville and Indiana, and J. N. McCullough, president Cleveland road, all of whom approve and desire speedy action, if it meets your approval. In my letter you will find some reasons why the necessity for action is pressing: Whereas the President of the United States has been authorized by an act of Congress to take possession of any or all the railways of the country, and so control their facilities and employes as might to him seem needful to the interest of the Government; and as it is now important to the Government and to the general business interests of the country that the organization of all railway companies should be kept in the highest state of efficiency for service, it is Ordered: 1. That all the officers, agents, engineers, firemen, mechanics, conductors, brake-men, and other employes that may have been in the service of the respective railway companies for at least three months previous to the date of the last call of the President for troops, the same are hereby exempted from military duty so long as they may remain in such service; provided that all agents and employes between the ages of eighteen and forty-five thus exempted from the provision of the laws authorizing drafting shall enroll themselves, under the military laws of the Government, and drill at least once each week, and shall in all cases of emergency be subject to military duty in the field when so ordered by the President. 2. Organizations under the order will be furnished arms and accouterments for drilling purposes, but will not be entitled to pay unless called into field for active service. 3. All employes of railway companies that may refuse or neglect to enroll themselves into military organizations, as set forth in this order, within sixty days from the date thereof, and all persons that may enter the service of any railway company after the date of this order, shall not be deemed or considered as being exempt from military duties. Very respectfully, THOS. A. SCOTT. ***********" Regards, Marty -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Shawnnee, That is my Uncle Leonard Harrison and his wife Grace Gavillet Harrison buried in the South Basco Cemetery. Leonard Harrison died on 6 Jun 1982 and Grace Harrison died 19 Apr 1990. Loren E. Harrison was their son. Madonna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawnnee Ramey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:12 AM Subject: [ILHANCOC] Basco South and West Cemeteries > I have just finished Basco Cemeteries in Bear creek Township They are both very large cemeteries so they may take a while to load depending on your connection. > South Basco > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/south_basco.html > > West Basco > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/west_basco.html > > If you have any family or friends burried in these cemeteries and you do not find them on the list please let me know. If you have more information such as dates places of birth and death please let me know. > Thank you > Shawnnee > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > Hancock County Coordinator: Shawnnee Bolt Ramey > Rock Island County Coordinator >

I have just finished Basco Cemeteries in Bear creek Township They are both very large cemeteries so they may take a while to load depending on your connection. South Basco http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/south_basco.html West Basco http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/west_basco.html If you have any family or friends burried in these cemeteries and you do not find them on the list please let me know. If you have more information such as dates places of birth and death please let me know. Thank you Shawnnee

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/Eg.2ADI/1139.1 Message Board Post: I have a Thomas Murphy in my mother's line in Augusta, Maine, who's father Patrick came from Co. Carlow. Thomas's mother was Nellie Nolan who may have been orphaned early and taken in by Patrick Murphy's parents whose names I do not know.Thomas had 3 brothers and 3 sisters. The second son Edward Henry Murphy was my ggrandfather who later moved to St Paul MN. My notes say that Tom was a optometrist in August. Eventually he died of TB. Patrick Murphy the father came to Maine in 1860's so your date might be right. Does this fit your family. Please email. Murphys are hard to track. April Foster

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFarland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Eg.2ADI/2142.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you so much. Yes, that must be him. His youngest child was named Louisa! Carolyn

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/Eg.2ADI/2142.1 Message Board Post: I found the following census listing in 1900 for John McFarland -- sounds like this may be yours: Pontoosuc Twp, Hancock Co., IL, Roll 305, Book 1, pg. 212, image 1/16, enumerated 1 Jun 1900, ED 217, sheet 9a, line 40, in dwelling #9 - head of household's name is Buck, Oa (?) and wife Louisa. His relationship is stated as father-in-law to Oa Buck, so he must be Louisa's father? Hope this helps. I think you can find the listing with this information. Dianne

Shawnnee, My daughter was a run away and after cornering some boy she knew two weeks after she left we had some idea where she went and who helped her. It took us two trips to Texas and working with the police in Dallas before we found her. The people who helped her run away talked her into marrying this man but because she was underage we took her home and they were divorced. I remember doing a lot of crying and taking a lot of pills. That was forty years ago and I still remember all the pain. Good luck and I hope it doesn't take as long as we did. It took us almost two months and it seemed like a hundred years. Roberta

Good luck Shawnnee. You should tell us what he looks like and how old he is. I went through this many years ago with my daughter so I have some idea how you feel. Roberta