Pam, These are not MERCERS in my line. Sorry. Bill Berg

Hi Pam, Janice here. Been a long time girl. About a year anyway. Haven't been able to find out much about the Mercers yet. All I know is John Mercer of Kewanee, is my husbands uncle. His brother was James Richard Mercer, my husbands father. There was also a Howard , Carrie, Walter, Robert. Their father was Elias Mercer and Minnie Pearl Lee. Elias' parents were George Edward Mercer and Harriett Lucretia Ballard. I will be going up to my mothers in Kewanee and hopefully be able to make it to the cemetery. My grandparents are in Pleasant View also. Will let you know what I found out. Guess I had better find out exactly what you need first. Take care and keep in touch. Have a nice day :) Janice Mercer ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Old Cemetery > I would like more information about the Mercers who lived in Kewanee, Henry > Co. IL. and who are buried in Pleasant View Cemetery. Esp. looking for > information about Harmon T. Mercer. > Pam Mercer Askin > St. Pete. Fl. >

I would like more information about the Mercers who lived in Kewanee, Henry Co. IL. and who are buried in Pleasant View Cemetery. Esp. looking for information about Harmon T. Mercer. Pam Mercer Askin St. Pete. Fl.

Hi Marge, There are Thurwangers in St. Mary's cemetary. Was there yesterday, Sunday, but I don't remember who though. There are some in the Kewanee cemetary also. It is a three hour ride there from home so I don't get there that much. I'm from the Egert family and some of them married into the Egert family and the first chance that I get I'll try to out who. -----Original Message----- From: Joseph W. Rafferty [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 3:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ILHENRY-L] researching Marx and Elizabeth Thurwanger\ Hi, \ New to this website and have been looking for the graves of my gggrandparents..Marx and Elizabeth Thurwanger. My great grandfather was Jacob Thurwanger, lived in Kewanee since about the early 1900's..I think that his parents came with him when he moved from New York. I have been told that they are buried in St. Mary's Cemetary....Hooppole?, but have been unable to find the graves..Is it possible that they are buried in Kewanee? Thank You, Marg ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- Have you seen the USGenWeb Illinois Page? http://www.usgenweb.org/il

Sorry it took so long to reply. No, I don't have any Fulpers. Good luck. >From: [email protected] (Barbara Hankins) >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Ship Passenger Lists - Termondt >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:13:58 -0700 (PDT) > >Amy. > >Do you have any Fulpers. Louis Fulper...year 1852 > >Thanks for any help >Barbara > > >==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- >ILHENRY now has over 150 of the best subscribers in the world!! >If each one of you would transcribe just one Henry Co biography or >obituary you have in your files, look at the library we would have!!! >These may be posted to the GenConnect boards via the links on the Henry >County ILGenWeb Project Page > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

Hi, \ New to this website and have been looking for the graves of my gggrandparents..Marx and Elizabeth Thurwanger. My great grandfather was Jacob Thurwanger, lived in Kewanee since about the early 1900's..I think that his parents came with him when he moved from New York. I have been told that they are buried in St. Mary's Cemetary....Hooppole?, but have been unable to find the graves..Is it possible that they are buried in Kewanee? Thank You, Marg

Bill, I really don't know yet. All I can tell you is my husbands father was born in Rome, Peoria County, Illinois. His name was James Richard Mercer son of Elias Mercer and Minnie Pearl Lee. Have not been able to find out more then that. If you think these are of your line keep in touch. I am going to Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois to look up some records and then to Toulon, Stark County, Illinois. Will let you know if I find out anything over there. Won't be going for at least another week. Have a nice day. Janice PS. James had a brother named John Mercer who lived in Kewanee. I am putting you in my resource file. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Janice, I noticed in your note that your last name was MERCER. I have been researching the MERCER family that moved to Henry County in 1856 and then moved to Taylor Co., Iowa in 1864-5. These MERCERS were originally from Belmont County, Ohio and Washington, Pa. Bill Berg

Dear Janice, I noticed in your note that your last name was MERCER. I have been researching the MERCER family that moved to Henry County in 1856 and then moved to Taylor Co., Iowa in 1864-5. These MERCERS were originally from Belmont County, Ohio and Washington, Pa. Bill Berg

Would someone please tell me where this old cemetery is that is supposedly going to be restored? Also I would like to know if anyone knows or has any idea about how to clean grave markers. Thank you Janice Mercer

I think I just addressed this in another posting before I even saw this one, but Larry hit the key word in his response to Richard which was "LEGALLY" It most certainly depends on where Richard copied the data FROM as to whether it can be placed online or not. If it is from a copyrighted publication we can't put it online without the permission of the person or group owning the copyright. If it is from a very old book on which the copyright has expired (and this gets touchy because of changes made over the years in copyright laws) the perhaps it can be placed online. As the listowner and the Henry County site owner, I really have to "tiptoe" on these things to make sure they can be used without violating copyright. Here's an example: Two people send me a list of burials from the same cemetery--lets use Old Kewanee as a good example. The first one says "I copied these out of a book at the library published by the Genealogical Society" The second one says "My sister and I went out and walked the cemetery and wrote down all the information on the stones on July 27th 2000" Now, both of them have sent me the burials from the same cemetery--it MIGHT be exactly the same if both people looking at the stones saw exactly the same thing BUT we could not use the information copied from the book unless the GS told us "Yes, you can publish our book on your website" (and just why would they want to do that--then nobody would buy it, the society would have no funding and they wouldn't be able to publish more books to help us and to keep the society running) The 2nd list we COULD use because that data was written BY the submitter, who buy submitting it has given us permission to USE it. These individuals who walked it don't want to make any money off it. The data on the stones is public domain (thus can be shared freely) but the COMPILATION of ALL THE STONES, style, etc, is NOT public domain. BUT then you have the "moral" delemma...since the genalogical society HAS published this information. Do we want to "cut the throat" of the GS who has been very generous with sharing with us by posting the data free and killing their fundrasing effort? It's a very complicated matter....but legally, no we can't take data from books which are still under copyright and put it on the website. > Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] birth, and marriage indexes > From: "Larry Peterson" <[email protected]> > > I think that any information that can legally be posted would be beneficial > to the site and those that visit it. Is it possible to have too much > information available? > > > From: "Richard L Dalton" <[email protected]> > Subject: [ILHENRY-L] birth, and marriage indexes > > > hi henry county researchers > > > > awhile back when i was doing searches for my family lines i copied a few > pages of the birth and marriage indexes for henry county, il. > > > > would it be helpful to transcribe and post them to the list? i don't > think these are on-line anywhere. > > > > i imagine several of us have found these books in various libraries and > copied pertinent pages and if we all transcribed what we had to the list we > may be able to post it the GenWEb Henry Co site???????????????? > > > > any thoughts > > > > richard l dalton > > [email protected] > >

I guess I should have been monitoring the list more the past month or two but my husband had what the Doctors called a "mini" stroke and my attention was needed elsewhere. In all the time I have had this list, we've NEVER EVER had a flame war or disagreement on it. This incident was minor but I don't think the original poster meant any harm by asking that the "extra" data or "garbage" (I call it debris, but it means the same thing) be removed from posts back from the list. Many of us receive literally hundreds of emails per day--having to wade through things we have already read keeps us from getting to the "goodies". For this reason we subscribe to the "DIGEST" mode. I for example am responsible for a whopping 15 different websites and 3 mailing lists, plus subscribe to 4 additional lists. If EACH of these generates 10 messages per day, I have now over 200 emails per day hitting my box, not counting any responses to queries, letters from friends and family, etc. By getting each list in DIGEST, it cuts down the number of individual emails to be waded through, making it a LITTLE more managable. Those who get the list as individual messages may not understand what a "Digest" version is ---the "Digest" takes a group of messages and sends them all as one little email "booklet". At the top of the message, those in digest see something like this: LHENRY-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 180 Today's Topics: #1 [ILHENRY-L] Mary XYZ Jones [[email protected]] #2 [ILHENRY-L] Re: cut and paste [[email protected]] #3 Re: [ILHENRY-L] Re: cut and paste [[email protected]] #4 Re: [ILHENRY-L] Re: cut and paste [lovely <[email protected]>] #5 Re: [ILHENRY-L] Re: cut and paste [[email protected] ] #6 Re: [ILHENRY-L] Re: ILHENRY-D Dige [[email protected]] That way the busy reader can select which messages, based upon topic, they wish to read while skipping over those items not pertaining to their research. Telling someone in Digest mode to "use their delete key" means they would lose ALL the message contained in the digest, not just those they don't want to read. Following the heading the Digest subscribers get (shown above) are the actual messages, in the order they are listed on the "index" shown above" If each of the people posting one of the messages listed in the index quotes the intire set of messages BACK, in the next digest instead of having 6 messages you would then have the original 6 messages x 6, or 36 REPEATED messages, plus the 6 new responses. Thus the DIGEST reader has to wade through the quotations of 36 OLD messages they already read to find the 6 new responses. Instead of hitting reply and copying the entire previously posted group of messages back, one needs to delete or remove anything quoted which does NOT relate to the new message they are posting. If you don't, the next digest will be HUGE but full of OLD messages, making it very hard to skim through and find the NEW ones among the quotes. Now, look back at the index again, you can see one person posting about Mary XYZ Jones, three discussing Cut and Past and one whom we have NO IDEA what they are discussing because they did not enter a real subject line--we already KNOW it is the ILHENRY list. Thus a digest reader not interested in Mary Jones or Cut and paste COULD hit delete except for one thing--they don't know what [email protected] was posting about--so they have to go to the message to see if it IS or IS NOT something they need to know about. Had [email protected] posted Re: Kewanee Cemetery instead of Re: ILHENRY-D Digest", the person could immediately decide "my family is from Kewanee, I might need this info" and go to read it, or decide "my family was all from Bishop Hill, I don't have a need for Kewanee Cemetery" and THEN delete the entire digest. See how this works folks?? Now that I've gone through this I hope we won't have any more problems on the list...this was the first one and PLEASE make it the last. Thanks ye ole list owner

> Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Kewanee Cemetery > Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:09:21 -0600 > From: Val <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Sometime ago I thought I read that someone is trying to do a restoration > of the cemetery and I wonder if those people could contact me as I have > reason to believe my greatgrandmother may be buried there. Thanks > Valerie There isn't really any "restoration" to do--the cemetery is immaculately mowed, few if any down stones--the problem is the older "illegible" and "no marker" burials which cannot be verified due to the fact that in about 1920 a city sexton who was relieved of his job chose to BURN the records, apparently in retaliation for his termination. The HCGS used every record they could find to record the names of those buried there for their publication, however, it and no other known record, shows where some of these people are actually buried within the cemetery. While we did locate an old plat map of the cemetery at the Kewanee Historical Society, it did not identify who was in each plot.

Guys, I just love that you have the Henry Co Genealogical Society Books and are helping each other, but I really have to ask a favor. The Henry Co Genealogical Society has been VERY GOOD to allow us to use their books for limited lookups--you have no idea how many Genealogical Societies demand that you buy the books to see what's in them, refuse to participate in the GenWeb Project or any internet activities and openly fight attempts to share data online. The Henry County Genealogical Society has been GREAT about sharing with and helping us in our efforts but we need to bear in mind a few things when using thier materials. I need to remind all of you that these books are copyrighted to the GS and while they don't mind us doing limited lookups, I need to ask you to try and respect their generousity by doing the following: 1) If you have books you want to do lookups in, please sign up with the Henry Co GenWeb Project lookup volunteers page 2) Please DO NOT send your replies to the requests to the list--send them directly to the person asking for the info. This material is copyrighted to the Society and unfortuantely there are dishonest folks out there who would scan the lists, take the data and publish it as their own, thus depriving the Genealogical Society of much needed revenue which they use to publish more books for us. A short quote from the books like "yes your grandfather is at Dayton Cemetery born 1823 died 1899" is one thing and is quite ok, but anything over a few names and dates on an individual family, I would recommend that you private mail OR tell the person "there are 27 Johnson's buried there, perhaps you should purchase the publication" What I want to avoid is posting large chunks of a single HCGS (such as the index for example) on the list--this HURTS our society badly in that they really DO share with us, do an excellent job on their publications and, because Henry Co is not an area of large cities, etc, operate on a very small budget. We really need to respect them and even JOIN them. I know you may think "I'm in California, why would I want to join--what good would it do me".....if you haven't joined, you have NO idea what the "newsletter" is...it's no LETTER at all, but a quarterly BOOK (usually about 24 pages long) jammed full of data and research ideas, info on new publications, etc. I guess I'm on my soapbox and need to hop off it, but in parting, my suggestion is this--if you have a lot of family who were in Henry County, PLEASE consider purchasing some of the more frequently needed books such as the birth, death, and marriage indexes. I've gone back to those same books repeatedly since I purchased them and they are out of my bookshelf more than in as new names crop up. PLEASE do what you can in the above ways to support the Henry Co Genealogical Society and thank them for allowing us to freely share their data.

> Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Re: ILHENRY-D Digest V00 #150 > Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:34:16 -0500 > From: "Cindy" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > what does your index show? I have the book also and it contains the name of the cemetery, the > person, when born and where born. Let me know. > cindy > It is exactly the same information at the city index (card file) that is in the book. The other little index the lady at City Hall found that started with my great grandmother 3rd on the list (Mar 1919) didn't give any more than birth death info--same stuff in the book.

Hello, I am desperately looking for some ancestors who emigrated to America around 1892. Their surname was Ginneberge. I have several pictures of them which were all taken in Geneseo, Illinois. I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me find them or give me some more information about where to look for them. Thank you very much. Greetings from Belgium, Luc.

Hello to Everyone Our community will be getting a new ISP, as of October 18, so our e-mail address will change. The new address will be [email protected] please note so we don't lose any of you thanks!! Love, Jerry and Cindy Youngquist

I looked in the Oakwood Cemetery and North Cemetery, Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois books and found nother on this name. Barbara Sand Hanson -----Original Message----- From: Luc P. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 6:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Requesting information Hello, I am desperately looking for some ancestors who emigrated to America around 1892. Their surname was Ginneberge. I have several pictures of them which were all taken in Geneseo, Illinois. I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me find them or give me some more information about where to look for them. Thank you very much. Greetings from Belgium, Luc. ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- Visit the Henry County Genealogical Society's Home Page!! http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html

Cindy...thank you - appreciate your efforts. Deb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Kewanee Cemetery > I looked all through my cemetery book and there are no Bishops listed, sorry,, > > Cindy > > John 3:16 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "debbi" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 11:51 AM > Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Kewanee Cemetery > > > > Hi Cindy... > > Could you please check on the surname of BISHOP? Someone e-mailed me with > > sparse info on a Mary Jane and I forgot to save it. I think she died in > > 1913 - I needed to know if it was possible that she went by Jane. Still > > searching for my James aka Diamond Jim Bishop to no avail. Let me know if > > you find ANY Bishops. Much appreciated. > > Deb Bishop-Abney > > [email protected] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Cindy" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:27 AM > > Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Kewanee Cemetery > > > > > > > I have the old Kewanee Public Cemetery listings, of Henry co. what name > > are you looking for > > > and I will see if I have it listed. > > > ciindy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Val" <[email protected]> > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 10:09 AM > > > Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Kewanee Cemetery > > > > > > > > > > Sometime ago I thought I read that someone is trying to do a restoration > > > > of the cemetery and I wonder if those people could contact me as I have > > > > reason to believe my greatgrandmother may be buried there. Thanks > > > > Valerie > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > > > > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > > > > Visit the Henry County Genealogical Society's Home Page!! > > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > > > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > > > Please support the Henry County Genealogical Society by becoming a member > > > and purchasing their publications. They have been VERY GENEROUS with > > > their time and contributions to this list and the Henry Co ILGenWeb > > Project! > > > > > > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > > The BISHOP HILL COLONISTS of Henry County IL > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilbhccad/index.htm > > Database featuring 12,000+ Colonists and Descendants!!! > > Part of the Henry CoILGenWeb Project > > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > Have you seen the USGenWeb Illinois Page? > http://www.usgenweb.org/il >

I looked all through my cemetery book and there are no Bishops listed, sorry,, Cindy John 3:16 ----- Original Message ----- From: "debbi" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Kewanee Cemetery > Hi Cindy... > Could you please check on the surname of BISHOP? Someone e-mailed me with > sparse info on a Mary Jane and I forgot to save it. I think she died in > 1913 - I needed to know if it was possible that she went by Jane. Still > searching for my James aka Diamond Jim Bishop to no avail. Let me know if > you find ANY Bishops. Much appreciated. > Deb Bishop-Abney > [email protected] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cindy" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:27 AM > Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Kewanee Cemetery > > > > I have the old Kewanee Public Cemetery listings, of Henry co. what name > are you looking for > > and I will see if I have it listed. > > ciindy > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Val" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 10:09 AM > > Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Kewanee Cemetery > > > > > > > Sometime ago I thought I read that someone is trying to do a restoration > > > of the cemetery and I wonder if those people could contact me as I have > > > reason to believe my greatgrandmother may be buried there. Thanks > > > Valerie > > > > > > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > > > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > > > Visit the Henry County Genealogical Society's Home Page!! > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html > > > > > > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > > Please support the Henry County Genealogical Society by becoming a member > > and purchasing their publications. They have been VERY GENEROUS with > > their time and contributions to this list and the Henry Co ILGenWeb > Project! > > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > The BISHOP HILL COLONISTS of Henry County IL > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilbhccad/index.htm > Database featuring 12,000+ Colonists and Descendants!!! > Part of the Henry CoILGenWeb Project >

Hi Cindy... Could you please check on the surname of BISHOP? Someone e-mailed me with sparse info on a Mary Jane and I forgot to save it. I think she died in 1913 - I needed to know if it was possible that she went by Jane. Still searching for my James aka Diamond Jim Bishop to no avail. Let me know if you find ANY Bishops. Much appreciated. Deb Bishop-Abney [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Kewanee Cemetery > I have the old Kewanee Public Cemetery listings, of Henry co. what name are you looking for > and I will see if I have it listed. > ciindy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Val" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 10:09 AM > Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Kewanee Cemetery > > > > Sometime ago I thought I read that someone is trying to do a restoration > > of the cemetery and I wonder if those people could contact me as I have > > reason to believe my greatgrandmother may be buried there. Thanks > > Valerie > > > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > > Visit the Henry County Genealogical Society's Home Page!! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html > > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > Please support the Henry County Genealogical Society by becoming a member > and purchasing their publications. They have been VERY GENEROUS with > their time and contributions to this list and the Henry Co ILGenWeb Project! >