Can anyone give me an adress to search the LDS Genealogy records? How hard is it to get info from this group. BJ

www.Familysearch.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:44 PM Subject: [ILHANCOC] Need web site address for LDS > Can anyone give me an adress to search the LDS Genealogy records? How hard is > it to get info from this group. > BJ > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > Hancock County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/ > Rock Island County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/ >

Here is the LDS site http://www.familysearch.org/ Which group are you talking about? Shawnnee ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 11:44 AM Subject: [ILHANCOC] Need web site address for LDS > Can anyone give me an adress to search the LDS Genealogy records? How hard is > it to get info from this group. > BJ > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > Hancock County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/ > Rock Island County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/ >

The newspaper article said they were to be mailed by the 20th. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 6:56 AM Subject: [ILHANCOC] New Book > Does anyone know rather or not the Historical Society has started mailing the > new books? I am very concerned rather or not I will receive mine since I am > not at home and not sure if the postoffice will forward them or not. I wont be > home until the first of April but they will start holding my mail the 15th. of > March. > Roberta Summers > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > Hancock County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/ > Rock Island County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/ > >

Does anyone know rather or not the Historical Society has started mailing the new books? I am very concerned rather or not I will receive mine since I am not at home and not sure if the postoffice will forward them or not. I wont be home until the first of April but they will start holding my mail the 15th. of March. Roberta Summers

Yes, they were all mailed out Friday..... ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 8:56 AM Subject: [ILHANCOC] New Book Does anyone know rather or not the Historical Society has started mailing the new books? I am very concerned rather or not I will receive mine since I am not at home and not sure if the postoffice will forward them or not. I wont be home until the first of April but they will start holding my mail the 15th. of March. Roberta Summers ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== Hancock County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/ Rock Island County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/

Hi there, Would it be possible to tell if there is any reference to the early Williams (Peter and Rebekah or their son Elijah) or Waggoner (Rebekah or her brothers John, Gershom and Gad) families of Commerce city (now Nauvoo)? (Early, as in 1830's and 1840's) I would love to buy the book, but want to be absolutely sure my family will be in it. Thanks! Valerie In a message dated 2/21/2004 9:47:41 PM US Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: According to an article in yesterday's Quincy paper, the books are $80. each with an additional $5. if you want the book mailed. Send the funds to P. O. Box 68, Carthage IL 62321. Additional info can be had by calling the historical society at 217-357-0043. I'm surprised that they can get by with only $5. for the size of the publication but perhaps it is because it is a book. As with anyone who is writing "history", I have found an error about one who is a remote part of my family but only the sequence of her marriages and then another in the family that they just indicated it was a "her" without a name. But there is a lot of very good info in the many pages of the book and worth the price, esp. as the years go by! How I wish I had a copy of the Hobart bio book which was done many years ago.

Thanks Shawnnee! I have been trying to get in touch. Yes, I am a HARRISON and a HOWES descendent. My mother was the daughter of George Washington HARRISON and Ida Belle HOWES. John A. HOWES and my 2nd great grandfather Wm. W. HOWES were brothers--the sons of Reuben HOWES (1795-1868) who is buried in Green Plains Cemetery and Anna Allnutt HOWES (1795-1827) who died in Bourbon Co. KY when Wm. W. HOWES was an infant. Along with many other Marylanders, Reuben and Anna migrated to the Bluegrass area of KY shortly after their 1816 marriage. After her death Reuben remarried 3 times in KY and had more children by each of those wives. Around 1846 Reuben HOWES moved from KY to what he described in one of his letters back to relatives in MD as "eight miles southeast of Warsaw in as beautiful a country as your eyes ever beheld--Kentucky not accepted". Most of his family eventually joined him and many went even farther west. His 5th and final marriage was to a widow in Hancock Co. in 1856. You may be interested to know that Reuben also wrote "John lost his first wife, had one child, he then married a Miss Elen Brittenham" Madonna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawnnee Ramey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Green Plains Cemetery, Wilcox Township > Hi Madonna, > I got a call from Dan this morning and he would like your phone number or if > you would like to call him that is fine too but he has lots of minutes on > his cell phone.. He has some things he would like to tell you about and then > share with you. > I don't know if the Howes are realted to you but my ggg uncle David Bolt > married Nancy Ann Howes and I have a picture of them when they were older. I > also keep in touch with his descendants as they live mostly in California > and Oregon close to me. Just thought I would mention it to you. They died in > Adams County, Illinois Nancy was born March 30, 1840 in Nicholas, Bourbon > Co, Kentucky daughter of John A. and Ellen Howes. I thought that was > interesting that her family ended up in Hancock County also. > Shawnnee

> Hi Mary, How much are the books? > Shawnnee According to an article in yesterday's Quincy paper, the books are $80. each with an additional $5. if you want the book mailed. Send the funds to P. O. Box 68, Carthage IL 62321. Additional info can be had by calling the historical society at 217-357-0043. I'm surprised that they can get by with only $5. for the size of the publication but perhaps it is because it is a book. As with anyone who is writing "history", I have found an error about one who is a remote part of my family but only the sequence of her marriages and then another in the family that they just indicated it was a "her" without a name. But there is a lot of very good info in the many pages of the book and worth the price, esp. as the years go by! How I wish I had a copy of the Hobart bio book which was done many years ago. > >

The new biographical books being sponsored by the Hancock Co. Historical Society have arrived this week! I picked up my copy yesterday and they have done a very nice job with them. Being from Hancock Co, it is a good evening's entertainment just reading about those from the past and present. The pictures turned out well, too. Congratulations to those who worked on the project--well done!

Hi Mary, How much are the books? Shawnnee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Keller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 6:41 PM Subject: [ILHANCOC] Books are in! > The new biographical books being sponsored by the Hancock Co. Historical > Society have arrived this week! I picked up my copy yesterday and they have > done a very nice job with them. Being from Hancock Co, it is a good > evening's entertainment just reading about those from the past and present. > The pictures turned out well, too. Congratulations to those who worked on > the project--well done! > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > List owner Shawnnee Bolt Ramey [email protected] >

Hi Madonna, I got a call from Dan this morning and he would like your phone number or if you would like to call him that is fine too but he has lots of minutes on his cell phone.. He has some things he would like to tell you about and then share with you. I don't know if the Howes are realted to you but my ggg uncle David Bolt married Nancy Ann Howes and I have a picture of them when they were older. I also keep in touch with his descendants as they live mostly in California and Oregon close to me. Just thought I would mention it to you. They died in Adams County, Illinois Nancy was born March 30, 1840 in Nicholas, Bourbon Co, Kentucky daughter of John A. and Ellen Howes. I thought that was interesting that her family ended up in Hancock County also. Shawnnee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry & Madonna Mahurin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Green Plains Cemetery, Wilcox Township > > Shawnnee, > Eleanor Huddleston HAMILTON's husband was Jason HAMILTON who died in KY > before 1840. Elen moved to Hancock Co. with her daughter and family shortly > after 1850. > > Her daughter Ruth Hamilton HOWES' tombstone reads "Died Dec 6, 1893 Aged > 70y 9 mo 26 days". I calculate her birthdate to have been 8 Feb 1823. > Ruth HOWES was the wife of Wm. W. HOWES (1826-1903). Four of their children > are still > buried at Green Plains and a fifth child, my great grandfather John T. > HOWES, was buried there in 1914. His body was later exhumed and moved to > Oakwood in Hamilton. > > The children of Wm and Ruth HOWES buried at Green Plains are: > 1. Logan HOWES--tombstone reads "1848-1919"(in lieu of 1929) > 2. Ellen A. HOWES (1852-1855) > 3. Robert W. HOWES (1860-1883) > 4. Charles W. HOWES (1865-1929) > I am unaware where their son Willis HOWES (b. circa 1859) was buried. > Hope this helps! > Madonna > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > Hancock County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/ > Rock Island County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/ >

Hi All, I have just finished Harris http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/harris.html and Wolfort Cemeteries http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/wolfort.html in Wilcox Township which were very small cemeteries but some history involved, and Wythe Presbyterian Cemetery http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/presbyterian.html in Wythe Township. If anny of you have relatives or friends buried there and they are not on the list please let me know. If you have more information on anyone that is buried there let me know. Thanks Shawnnee

Mary, interesting thing about this Clark/Mt. Vernon thing. I'm going to have to get the plat book out to see where this Clark cemetery is supposed to be! I'd sure like to find out if there is a connection between Margaret Clark and Isabella McCoy though. They both arrived in the US about the same time and it all seems so likely that they are sisters. It wouldn't be all that far across the countryside between the Browning cemetery and the Mt. Vernon one. Those McCoys have quite a life story to tell according to the info I found at the historical society. Loved the new CBS logo!! Caused quite a stir, didn't it? Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "mary3720" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 6:41 AM Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Mt Vernon Cemetery in Rocky Run Township > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsgs/ilcemetery-al/hancock.html > > this gives names and locations of all cemeteries in Hancock County...... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Shawnnee Ramey > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:35 PM > Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Mt Vernon Cemetery in Rocky Run Township > > > Hi Mary, > It seems that the Clark Cemetery and the Mt. Vernon Cemetery have the same > exact names. I do not know what happened there but the library might have > gotten them mixed up before sending them to me. The discriptions are > different but the same names, so I am going to go ahead and put the > discription on line and hope someone knows of the cemetery and the burials > listed in it and send me the information. > Do you have Isabella's dates so I can add her to the Browning Cemetery? > Shawnnee > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Keller" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:42 PM > Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Mt Vernon Cemetery in Rocky Run Township > > > > Shawnee, I am not familiar with the Clark cemetery. Note that the dates > > that you have here are the same as the ones for George and Margaret Clark > at > > the Mt. Vernon Cemetery. Interesting!! I have seen and have a picture of > > the stone for them at Mt. Vernon though. Tell me where the Clark cemetery > > is located. It might be an interesting visit! Perhaps they were moved > from > > one cemetery to the other or, even the stone might have been moved. The > > Clarks' daughter, Mary Ayers and her family are at Mt. Vernon so it might > be > > that they wanted the stone with the rest of the family, esp. if the Clark > > plot is remote and more likely to not be tended. Thanks for the "heads > up". > > Mary > > > > > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > > List owner Shawnnee Bolt Ramey [email protected] > > > > > ==== 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 ==== > Hancock County Coordinator: Shawnnee Bolt Ramey > Rock Island County Coordinator > >

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsgs/ilcemetery-al/hancock.html this gives names and locations of all cemeteries in Hancock County...... ----- Original Message ----- From: Shawnnee Ramey To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:35 PM Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Mt Vernon Cemetery in Rocky Run Township Hi Mary, It seems that the Clark Cemetery and the Mt. Vernon Cemetery have the same exact names. I do not know what happened there but the library might have gotten them mixed up before sending them to me. The discriptions are different but the same names, so I am going to go ahead and put the discription on line and hope someone knows of the cemetery and the burials listed in it and send me the information. Do you have Isabella's dates so I can add her to the Browning Cemetery? Shawnnee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Keller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Mt Vernon Cemetery in Rocky Run Township > Shawnee, I am not familiar with the Clark cemetery. Note that the dates > that you have here are the same as the ones for George and Margaret Clark at > the Mt. Vernon Cemetery. Interesting!! I have seen and have a picture of > the stone for them at Mt. Vernon though. Tell me where the Clark cemetery > is located. It might be an interesting visit! Perhaps they were moved from > one cemetery to the other or, even the stone might have been moved. The > Clarks' daughter, Mary Ayers and her family are at Mt. Vernon so it might be > that they wanted the stone with the rest of the family, esp. if the Clark > plot is remote and more likely to not be tended. Thanks for the "heads up". > Mary > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > List owner Shawnnee Bolt Ramey [email protected] > ==== 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

Shawnee, I am not familiar with the Clark cemetery. Note that the dates that you have here are the same as the ones for George and Margaret Clark at the Mt. Vernon Cemetery. Interesting!! I have seen and have a picture of the stone for them at Mt. Vernon though. Tell me where the Clark cemetery is located. It might be an interesting visit! Perhaps they were moved from one cemetery to the other or, even the stone might have been moved. The Clarks' daughter, Mary Ayers and her family are at Mt. Vernon so it might be that they wanted the stone with the rest of the family, esp. if the Clark plot is remote and more likely to not be tended. Thanks for the "heads up". Mary

Shawnnee, Eleanor Huddleston HAMILTON's husband was Jason HAMILTON who died in KY before 1840. Elen moved to Hancock Co. with her daughter and family shortly after 1850. Her daughter Ruth Hamilton HOWES' tombstone reads "Died Dec 6, 1893 Aged 70y 9 mo 26 days". I calculate her birthdate to have been 8 Feb 1823. Ruth HOWES was the wife of Wm. W. HOWES (1826-1903). Four of their children are still buried at Green Plains and a fifth child, my great grandfather John T. HOWES, was buried there in 1914. His body was later exhumed and moved to Oakwood in Hamilton. The children of Wm and Ruth HOWES buried at Green Plains are: 1. Logan HOWES--tombstone reads "1848-1919"(in lieu of 1929) 2. Ellen A. HOWES (1852-1855) 3. Robert W. HOWES (1860-1883) 4. Charles W. HOWES (1865-1929) I am unaware where their son Willis HOWES (b. circa 1859) was buried. Hope this helps! Madonna

Shawnee, Thank you for posting the Mt. Vernon/Baptist cemetery in Rocky Run Twp. It is such a small plot that it is easy to inventory. Some of the information that you have is a bit outdated but the area is still being mowed by a neighbor who is a decendant of the Clark family buried there. The old iron fence has been taken down and the poison ivy which loved the support of the fence has been gone for several years. True, the cemetery is being mowed with a field mower but it is accessible and being tended. A person can drive right up to the stones which is nice, too. I would love to find someone who has more information about Margaret Clark than I have. She is my gggrandmother and she was born in Ireland. I have been helping find information about those buried in the Browning Cemetery in Harmony Twp. and there is a woman buried there that I have such a very strong hunch might be a sister of Margaret. Her name was Isabella McCoy and she came from Ireland, too. The years fit that they might be sisters and they both named children with similar names which was common at that time. If anyone has information about these two women that might prove my hunch right or wrong, I'd love to hear from them. Thanks again for putting all of this on the 'net. What a help! And, thanks, too, for putting the website along with the info. Makes it so much quicker to access the sites. Mary

Hi Mary, It seems that the Clark Cemetery and the Mt. Vernon Cemetery have the same exact names. I do not know what happened there but the library might have gotten them mixed up before sending them to me. The discriptions are different but the same names, so I am going to go ahead and put the discription on line and hope someone knows of the cemetery and the burials listed in it and send me the information. Do you have Isabella's dates so I can add her to the Browning Cemetery? Shawnnee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Keller" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [ILHANCOC] Mt Vernon Cemetery in Rocky Run Township > Shawnee, I am not familiar with the Clark cemetery. Note that the dates > that you have here are the same as the ones for George and Margaret Clark at > the Mt. Vernon Cemetery. Interesting!! I have seen and have a picture of > the stone for them at Mt. Vernon though. Tell me where the Clark cemetery > is located. It might be an interesting visit! Perhaps they were moved from > one cemetery to the other or, even the stone might have been moved. The > Clarks' daughter, Mary Ayers and her family are at Mt. Vernon so it might be > that they wanted the stone with the rest of the family, esp. if the Clark > plot is remote and more likely to not be tended. Thanks for the "heads up". > Mary > > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > List owner Shawnnee Bolt Ramey [email protected] >

Shawnee, Thanks for your efforts in completing this Green Plains Cemetery posting. I visited Green Plains in September and found the tombstone for my 3rd great grandmother, Elen (Eleanor)Huddleston HAMILTON, 2 Nov 1797-8 Sep 1876. It appears to have fallen over many years ago and is imbedded in the ground not far from its base next to the tombstone of her daughter and son-in-law William W. and Ruth Hamilton HOWES (in the back part of the cemetery). In all likelihood the mower is clearing this rock. I was delightfully surprised especially since I was aware her grave was not listed on the records I had obtained through the HCHS. I can email a very clear photo of this tombstone to anyone who might want to see it. Madonna in KY [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawnnee Ramey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 6:07 PM Subject: [ILHANCOC] Green Plains Cemetery, Wilcox Township > Hi All, > I just finished Green Plains Cemetery in Wilcox Township. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/green_plains.html > If any of you have relatives or friends in these cemeteries and I do not have them listed or the dates are not complete please let me know. > Thank you > Shawnnee > > > ==== ILHANCOC Mailing List ==== > Hancock County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhancoc/ > Rock Island County web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrockis/ > >