Do you have any Carroll names in that estate book for Henry County? In particular looking for James, Eleanor, Rebecca (might be under Tompkins)? (Rebecca was daughter of James and Eleanor). There was a whole bunch of Carroll children in Henry county, have not been able to find what happened to all of them. Mary and Don in Wyoming

Pattie.. I would really like the information on William, this is my ggrandfather, I knew he was in Henry Co, and may have died there, but had been unsuccessful in locating records on him, John T and Sara were his brother and sister-in-law. Also Cora, not sure who she is , if she died as an infant, could be my aunt Really excited to find this information. Guess I should put last name Fulper Thank you so very much. Barbara

Patti, Do you by any chance have any Estate file on Nathan A. Chamberlain & wife Sarah (Jameson) Chamberlain? She died in 1848 in Illinois. They lived at one time in Henry Co. and possibly Logan Co. I do not have a accurate date of date of Sarah, except that their daughter Mary A. was born March 7, 1848, either in Henry Co. or Logan Co., so I am wondering if the mother (Sarah) didn't die in childbirth or shortly thereafter. Nathan A. Chamberlain died somewhere (?) in Missouri in 1866. I am hoping that he is buried in Illinois with Sarah, if I could ever find out where. I thank you for any help in advance. Muriel (Tuttle) Johnston ---------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Old Kewanee Public Cemetery > Date: Sunday, September 17, 2000 12:27 AM > > Barbara - What Fulpers are you looking for? I found 4 Fulpers in the Index > to Estate Files, Henry Co. Chas. T Fulper, John H Fulper, Sarah Fulper and > William Fulper. Do you want the info on these listings? There is also a > Cora Fulper in the Index to Deaths - Henry Co. > > Patti > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > Visit the Henry County Genealogical Society's Home Page!! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html

Thank you to all who responded to my request. I am looking for surname Garrett. John, John, Jane and Charity. There is also a Garrett that the first name appears to be illegible whom I think might be Thomas (?). They are listed in Old Kewanee Public Cemetery. I am planning a trip the cemetery and was hoping to get as much info as I could before I go. Appears burial records have been burned tho. Thanks to all Patti

Barbara - What Fulpers are you looking for? I found 4 Fulpers in the Index to Estate Files, Henry Co. Chas. T Fulper, John H Fulper, Sarah Fulper and William Fulper. Do you want the info on these listings? There is also a Cora Fulper in the Index to Deaths - Henry Co. Patti

There was also at one time where they had moved some of the graves to the Pleasant View Cemetary. That's where my ggggrandfather was found. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 7:21 PM Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Old Kewanee Cemetery > contact the Henry County Genealogical Societ at Box 346, Kewanee, Ill. 61443...Here is what > it says on my cemetery book..::: Old Kewanee Public cemetery was the first public burial > grounds in Kewanee. The grounds were donated by col Sylvester Blish wherein he was later > buried. The first burial was that of Adelaide e. Blisyh, daughter of William and Eliza Blish, > in 1854..Through the years adequate records were not kept or were lost. Therefore, there are > mor buirls in this cemetery than are listed in the tombstone inscriptions. There are 26 > burials marked only by an existing base, and 10 broken stones with some parts of information. > Some graves have no stone and are marked as such, the information obtained from the sextons > records. Further information could be secured from the Office of hte city Clerk of Kewanee. > do you just need dates of some one buried there? I have the list of names, born: and where > from if you need a lookup. > cindy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "janice" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 6:33 PM > Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Old Kewanee Cemetery > > > > Pat, try the Pleasant View Cemetery. The man there might be able to help > > you. I found my ggggrandfather there. He died in 1880. Good luck, Janice > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 9:05 AM > > Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Old Kewanee Cemetery > > > > > > > Does anyone know where I can write to obtain records for burials in the > > Old > > > Kewanee Public Cemetery? I have an index of the cemetery but need to know > > > who keeps the records back to 1873 thru 1880. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Patti > > > > > > > > > ==== 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 --------------------- > > Visit the Henry County Genealogical Society's Home Page!! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html > > > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > Visit the Henry County Genealogical Society's Home Page!! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html >

sorry Barbara, no Fulper listed in my book,,, anymore? cindy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Hankins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 7:46 PM Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Old Kewanee Public Cemetery > Hi Cindy; > > Perhaps you could take a look for Fulper, I seem to > have lost a few. > > Barbara > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > Submit your Henry County obits, wills and other transcribed > data to [email protected] for inclusion in the USGenWeb Project Archives > for inclusion in the ILGenWeb Project Archives!! >

contact the Henry County Genealogical Societ at Box 346, Kewanee, Ill. 61443...Here is what it says on my cemetery book..::: Old Kewanee Public cemetery was the first public burial grounds in Kewanee. The grounds were donated by col Sylvester Blish wherein he was later buried. The first burial was that of Adelaide e. Blisyh, daughter of William and Eliza Blish, in 1854..Through the years adequate records were not kept or were lost. Therefore, there are mor buirls in this cemetery than are listed in the tombstone inscriptions. There are 26 burials marked only by an existing base, and 10 broken stones with some parts of information. Some graves have no stone and are marked as such, the information obtained from the sextons records. Further information could be secured from the Office of hte city Clerk of Kewanee. do you just need dates of some one buried there? I have the list of names, born: and where from if you need a lookup. cindy ----- Original Message ----- From: "janice" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 6:33 PM Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Old Kewanee Cemetery > Pat, try the Pleasant View Cemetery. The man there might be able to help > you. I found my ggggrandfather there. He died in 1880. Good luck, Janice > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 9:05 AM > Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Old Kewanee Cemetery > > > > Does anyone know where I can write to obtain records for burials in the > Old > > Kewanee Public Cemetery? I have an index of the cemetery but need to know > > who keeps the records back to 1873 thru 1880. > > > > Thanks > > Patti > > > > > > ==== 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 --------------------- > Visit the Henry County Genealogical Society's Home Page!! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhcgs/index.html >

Thanks Cindy !!!!!

Pat, try the Pleasant View Cemetery. The man there might be able to help you. I found my ggggrandfather there. He died in 1880. Good luck, Janice ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 9:05 AM Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Old Kewanee Cemetery > Does anyone know where I can write to obtain records for burials in the Old > Kewanee Public Cemetery? I have an index of the cemetery but need to know > who keeps the records back to 1873 thru 1880. > > Thanks > Patti > > > ==== 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! >

Hi Cindy; Perhaps you could take a look for Fulper, I seem to have lost a few. Barbara

Pat You might try Western Illinois University Illinois Regional Archives Depository University Library 1 University Circle Macomb, Ill 61455 Phone (309) 298-2716 They have been agreat help to me as I must do much of my research by letter. They are very reasonable and quite prompt. If they can not help you, they will tell you were to go Good luck to you Barbara Ca

There will be a DeMaranville Family Reunion held this Sunday, Sept. 17, 2000 in Atkinson. We will meet at the Atkinson Museum at 11am, with a luncheon to follow in the Town Hall. All descendants of the DeMaranville family are invited to attend. This event is being co-hosted by my mother, Lois DeMaranville Gale, 85, who was born and raised in Atkinson. She is looking forward to seeing all those long lost cousins! If you have ancestral photos, please bring them along; as Bill Freddy, Museum Curator, would like to add more photos to this family history. Hope to see you there. The Atkinson Heritage Days will also be taking place this weekend, starting with an Old Fashioned Thresherman's dinner at 5pm on Friday, at the city farm. Other events will be held all day long on Sat. and Sunday. Mikki Judge Buffalo, IA

> > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > Does anyone know where I can write to obtain records for burials in the Old > Kewanee Public Cemetery? I have an index of the cemetery but need to know > who keeps the records back to 1873 thru 1880. > > Thanks > Patti Sorry Patty but you are probably going to be out of luck--in about 1919, the man who was acting as the Cemetery Sexton was fired from his job and in retaliation BURNED the records for the cemetery...if you have the index printed by the HCGS, you have about the only records there are. The City Clerk has some records forward from Feb 1919 in a card file and on a list (my great grandmother who died in Mar 1919 was 3rd on this list). There really isn't much hope for records prior to that. If you have the death dates for the people you are looking for you might try some of the funeral homes for funeral records but that's about your only hopes. I've spent 3 trips to Kewanee trying to locate the graves of my great grandparents. Neither the city nor the funeral home recorded the lot number of my great grandmother's grave and the index says my great grandfather's stone was illegible (then how do they know it was him) so fundamentally the City of Kewanee has LOST my great grandparents except to be able to tell me they are "somewhere in the cemetery".

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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susie Martin-Rott" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 5:19 PM Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Re: ILHENRY-D Digest V00 #150 > > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > > > Does anyone know where I can write to obtain records for burials in the Old > > Kewanee Public Cemetery? I have an index of the cemetery but need to know > > who keeps the records back to 1873 thru 1880. > > > > Thanks > > Patti > > Sorry Patty but you are probably going to be out of luck--in about 1919, the man > who was acting as the Cemetery Sexton was fired from his job and in retaliation > BURNED the records for the cemetery...if you have the index printed by the HCGS, > you have about the only records there are. The City Clerk has some records > forward from Feb 1919 in a card file and on a list (my great grandmother who died > in Mar 1919 was 3rd on this list). There really isn't much hope for records prior > to that. If you have the death dates for the people you are looking for you might > try some of the funeral homes for funeral records but that's about your only > hopes. > > I've spent 3 trips to Kewanee trying to locate the graves of my great > grandparents. Neither the city nor the funeral home recorded the lot number of my > great grandmother's grave and the index says my great grandfather's stone was > illegible (then how do they know it was him) so fundamentally the City of Kewanee > has LOST my great grandparents except to be able to tell me they are "somewhere in > the cemetery". > > > ==== ILHENRY Mailing List ==== > --------------------- ILHENRY-L Mailing List --------------------- > Submit your Henry County obits, wills and other transcribed > data to [email protected] for inclusion in the USGenWeb Project Archives > for inclusion in the ILGenWeb Project Archives!! >

Hi List, I am searching for descendants of Johannes GERBER d. 1777 Berks Co., PA, for inclusion in the web site I'm building. I have it that David STROHECKER b 1802, s/o Daniel STROHECKER and Leah GERBER, died 1888 in Cambridge Twp., Henry Co., IL. I found an LDS ancestral file that lists David's children as George W. STROHECKER b 1825 d 1880, James T. STROHECKER b Abt 1826 , Sevilla STROHECKER b 1827 m. Male Zimmerman, Benneville STROHECKER b 1828, John H. STROHECKER b 1831 d 1888, Reuben STROHECKER b 1832, Catherine L. STROHECKER, b 1836, Mary Elizabeth STROHECKER b 1838, and Henry Clay STROHECKER b 1843, d 1861. Does anyone have information on these children's families? Thanks. Doug Garber ---------- GERBER/GARBER (Switz > Berks Co., PA > Somerset Co., PA > Holmes Co., OH > Tuscarawas Co., OH > Stark Co., OH > Geauga Co., OH HOPKINS (Essex, England > MA > CT > VT > NY > Licking Co., OH > Geauga Co., OH) MCCOLLUM (Atlantic Co., NJ > Clermont Co., OH > Bracken Co., KY > Mahoning Co., OH) HENRY ( Washington Co., PA > Mahoning Co., OH > Ashtabula Co., OH > Mahoning Co., OH)

Audrey; Witchers are able to find gravesites and gravestones, as well as water. What they find is where the earth has been disturbed. Some witchers, who are very good at their craft, can actually outline the entire gravesite by witching. Mikki Judge Buffalo, IA << X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:24:15 -0600 From: "Audrey Annable Franklin" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Witchers Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I thought witchers looked for and found water not gravestones. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 9:54 AM Subject: [ILHENRY-L] Witchers > Are there any "witchers" in the area? We are interested in having someone > who is skilled in this craft come to the Hunter Cemetery in southern Bureau > County to help us locate gravestones that are buried. > > If you are a witcher, or know someone who is; please have them contact me at > their earliest convenience. > > Thank you. > > Mikki Judge > P. O. Box 38 > Buffalo, IA 52728-0038 > 319-381-3238 > [email protected] > > >>

We have a photograph in our files that we found in our Wilson Family photos. The date is 1906. It is a public school building. The families involved in that line involve a long list - Wilson, Tompkins, Fickle, Madden, Carroll, Loughrey, Barnett, and many more. We created a webpage to house the picture in the hopes that some of you, someone, anywhere, might know where the building is located and the history behind it (OK, that is a long shot, but here goes....) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sabthomp/mysterybldg.htm Thanks ahead of time for taking a moment to view it. Mary and Don in Wyoming

Are there any "witchers" in the area? We are interested in having someone who is skilled in this craft come to the Hunter Cemetery in southern Bureau County to help us locate gravestones that are buried. If you are a witcher, or know someone who is; please have them contact me at their earliest convenience. Thank you. Mikki Judge P. O. Box 38 Buffalo, IA 52728-0038 319-381-3238 [email protected]

Katie & Kathy; Would this be considered a posthumous birth? :) lol Mikki Judge << -------------------- X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 22:04:58 -0500 From: "Kathy Minder" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [ILHENRY-L] Seyller & Clementz Information Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Katie, Thats exactly what I have. Did we get this from the same place??? Kathy Minder -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 6:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ILHENRY-L] Seyller & Clementz Information Sorry if I made myself unclear - I will email it to you all: ( made a mistake apparently when I copied this at the library - it shows the last son being born after the mother died - maybe someone can correct it) Xavier Clementz from a Biographical Record of Henry County (1901) Among the agriculturalists of Henry County whose places manifest to the most casual observer the energy and ability of the owner in his chosen calling is the subject of this personal history. He now owns 280 acres of well-improved and highly cultivated land on Sectors 4 and 9, Yorktown township. Mr. Clementz was born in Alsace-Lorraine, at that time under the French government, on the 6th of July, 1844, but was only nine months old when brought to this country, in 1845, by his parents, John and Michelina (Highmaster) Clementz, both were born near Strasburg, Germany, the former in 1813, the latter in 18--, The family first located two and a half miles from Naperville, in DuPage County, Il, where the father purchased 140 acres of land, partly covered with timber, and to the development and cultivation of this farm he devoted his time and attention for twelve years. During this time our subject aided in the work of the farm and learned very little English, as German was the language spoken in the home. He then accompanied the family on their removal to Lorraine township, Henry County, where a farm of one hundred and thirty acres was purchased, and here he attended the district schools for a time, pursuing his studies in an old log hut with log seats standing on pegs driven into the floor. There were no desks. After seven years spent at this place, the family returned to Naperville. Xavier remained with his parents two years longer and then again came to Henry County, this time locating in Yorktown township. Subsequently, the father traded his Naperville farm for land in Yorktown township, which our subject operated. In 1886, he purchased 200 from his father, and since has bought eighty acres from Mr. Bogardus. Nearly all of the entire tract has been broken by himself, and has been converted by him into one of the finest farms in Yorktown township. Xavier Clementz is the 3rd in order of birth in a family of 5 children: Josephine, wife of Conrad Seyler, of Prophetstown Lena - wife of D. Smith, a farmer of Yorktown township August - who married Barbara Creygar and died in Naperville in 1889. Kate - wife of George Seyler, of Yorktown township Xavier Clementz has been twice married. In December, 1869, in Loraine township, he married Miss Louisa Gross, who died Oct 20, 1873, leaving Frank and Dora (wife of August Seyler). On the 20th of June 1874, Mr Clementz married Miss Mary Vogel, a native of Naperville, Il and a daughter of Anthony and Mary Ann (Seyler) Vogel, lifelong residents of Germany. Her father was born near Strasburg, her mother in Alsace-Lorraine. By his second marriage, Mr. Clementz has eight children: Anna (Apr 5, 1875) William (Sep 15, 1877) Bertha (Jan 22, 1880) Martha (Jan 28, 1883) Josephine (May 12, 1886) Katie (Dec 26, 1890) Fred (Sep 19, 1892) and John (Feb 7, 1894) all are at home Mrs. Clementz passed away Sep 1893. The family are communicants of the Roman Catholic Church, and are held in high regard by all who know them. He supports the Democratic party, and gives his support to every worthy enterprise for the public good. >>