Posted on: JoDaviess Co. Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/JoDaviess/801 Surname: Murray, O'Neill, Mc Carthy, Riley ------------------------- Researching the McGahey ancestors of Galena, Ill. Mary McGahey was the daughter of Owen McGahey and Joannah Murray. Mary was born 1854, married David O'Neal 1870, died 1946. I believe there was a least one other child (male) Port of entry was NY. Have reason to believe that Mary's brother stayed in the NY area. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am very willing to share what I have.

Merry Christmas List, This is a long shot as it is the holidays and may only apply to one or two on the list. Is there any on the list that has Cornish relatives that has information on the ship and the voyage across the Atlantic, like a diary? My ANGWINs TIPPETTs immigrated from Cornwall .... probably left from Padstow, Cornwall, in 1842 and came through Quebec to Kingston, Buffalo, Chicago, Galena. I'm seeking any information about esp. "sailing" ships that passengers may have recorded. And, of course, it would be neat to find someone who's relatives sailed to Canada\America in the same year ?..... from the same port? ..... or the same ship??? Long shot ..... I know. Nothing ventured .... nothing gained. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all on the list. It's pretty quiet out there. Warmest regards, Richard Angwin

I invite you to join us for genealogy chat tomorrow, (Mon.) evening at 8pm CST (or 9pm EST) Chat centers around northwestern Illinois and those areas in Pennsyvania where the majority of the settlers to this area came. We are at www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm There is a listing for Chat Room on the right hand side. Click on that, put in your name and join the chat. Lou Cook

Posted on: JoDaviess Co. Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/JoDaviess/798 Surname: Kindeg ------------------------- Can anybody help me find the current address and phone numbers of Paul E. Kindeg and his wife Helen who live at the Spring Hill Ranch, in Jo Daviess County. Thank you. Verna -- [email protected]

Posted on: JoDaviess Co. Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/JoDaviess/797 Surname: GROEZINGER ------------------------- Looking for parents of Jacob and Elizabeth Groezinger. Jacob was born 14 Nov 1834 and died 21 May 1915. Elizabeth was born 23 Feb 1844 and died 24 Feb 1908. Both are buried in Massbach Cemetery, Derinda Twp., Jo Daviess Co. Known children of Jacob and Elizabeth are: Adam born 14 Sept 1868, August born 28 Dec 1875, and William 8 March 1870. Also possibly: Nicholas, Emma, John, Julius and Johann. Any information on this family would be greatly appreciated.

Hello again I want to thank everyone who has responded to my earlier question. I have another one. My great uncle Ferdinand Pluym became a citizen of the USA on February 26, 1902 (Jo Daviess County, I own the certificate), in 1930 he was a milkman in Dubuque, and lived at 1731 Elm Street. In 1930 he travelled to Germany and the Netherlands via New York and Rotterdam (I also own his passport), where he visited his brother, my grandfather. He died at my grandfather's on February 6, 1935. It says in the death certificate he was married to a Julia Cropy. I asked about her on www.familyhistory.com, but nobody responded to her surname, a few responded on the Pluym surname. Has anyone of you ever heard the surname Cropy or does anyone happen to know who my great aunt was? Jan Melssen The Netherlands

As a footnote to Marjorie Smith's information, the Port of New Orleans was a preferred port of entry throughout the 1840s and 1850s for my German, Irish and English families. The Germans and English apparently went straight up river, but the Irish definitely stopped over in St. Louis for at least 2 years. Eventually, they all ended up in Lafayette County, Wisconsin. Happy hunting, Monica Odani

Marjorie, Thank you for the information on traveling to Galena. I will print and save it with my research. I've been working on my HART history for 26 years. Thank you again, Susan Hart -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Susan Hart San Francisco State University Internet: [email protected] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

I, too, would like to know how my HART Irish ancestors arrived in Galena/New Diggings. I know they were in New York City for a while (1834-1844)--but how they got to Galena remains a mystery. They arrived in Galena about 1845. From dates in the family Bible I know that the last child born in New York City was in 1844 and the next child was born in 1845 in New Diggins. Perhaps they traveled by river transport and then overland by coach or by supply wagontains? Any help would by appreciated. Susan Hart -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Susan Hart San Francisco State University Internet: [email protected] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Paul & Cathie CycleBuddies wrote: > I am looking for travel routes in the early 1800's. > Would like to know if any one has any ideas of the ports that Irish immigrants would have arrived at for getting to Illinois. Also, what were the routes they would have taken to arrive in Jo Davies County. The time period that I am looking at is the 1820's and 1830's. Any suggestions? > > Thank you, > Paul Campbell > >

I am looking for travel routes in the early 1800's. Would like to know if any one has any ideas of the ports that Irish immigrants would have arrived at for getting to Illinois. Also, what were the routes they would have taken to arrive in Jo Davies County. The time period that I am looking at is the 1820's and 1830's. Any suggestions? Thank you, Paul Campbell

I will try to locate some travel descriptions to send to Cheryl the webmaster to see if she has room on the JoDaviess site. But the safest easiest fastest way to get to Galena was on the steamboats. Galena was a major port on the Mississippi because of the lead mines. Steamers had to be modified to get over the rapids at Rock Island. But the river was the most economical way to get the lead to market. Most of the early Irish were already in St. Louis. If you check the Catholic marriages and baptisms published by the St. Louis Genealogical Society, you will find the early early Irish. The stage coach from Galena went to Peoria. After Chicago developed then there was stage coach transportation to Chicago. The following was found in the Galena newspaper, sorry I don't have the year, will get that before sending to the web, but shows the hardship of trying to come overland from St. Louis to Springfield to Hennepin (Peoria area) to Dixon to Galena. "The story of a trip from New York City to Galena taken when a girl by Caroline Thompson, afterward Caroline Phelps, as told by herself." "Early in September 1832 I left New York for Galena with Uncle and Aunt Kent, my parents expecting me to return by the first safe opportunity after a year had passed." "We left by boat for Hartford where we spent a few days with Corning relatives. Next we went to Suffolk, Conn., Uncle Kent's birthplace and home, a typical New England home. Then we went by stage to Enfield to take up Miss Clarissa Pierce who wanted to go west to teach and help in mission work. Then next to Blanford, Mass., by stage to pick up Eli Edwin Hall, a young man of nineteen, who was to finish fitting for college with Uncle Kent and later enter Illinois College at Jacksonville, Ill., in preparation for Home Mission work. Then by stage, our party of five came to the Hudson River, took boat for Albany, then across New York State via Erie Canal to Buffalo. From Buffalo to Niagara Falls where we spent two days with a friend of Uncle Kent. From Buffalo again we took stage for Wheeling, Va., where we took steamboat for Cincinnati to "spend the Sabbath" as Uncle Kent would not travel on Sunday." "Sickness of some of our party delayed us in Cincinnati for four weeks. We then took boat for Maysville, Kentucky, where we waited several days for the boat for St. Louis in which place we finally arrived about the middle of October, the time set for our arrival in Galena. We were delayed in St. Louis by trouble with Uncle's eyes and it was nearly the end of November before we could go on. We then took the night and day stage for Springfield, Ill., and learning to our dismay on arriving that the stage was then laid off for the winter and only a horseback mail once a week sent to Galena. But it was decided to push on at all risks. The whole country from points not far north of Springfield had been devastated in the summer and autumn by the BlackHawk war and was still unsettled, Indians roaming about, and but few of the white settlers who had fled had returned. Supplies for man and beast were most uncertain and we were assured, that after the first night north house or ! cabin would not be seen more than once in forty miles." "However, Uncle bought a span of stout horses, blankets robes, feed and other supplies, with a large sack of crackers and a ham of smoked beef for provisions. With five people and three trunks that wagon was filled to capacity. The weather was mild for December but the ground was frozen and traveling rough. First night out was spent in Hennepin. We set out next morning on a forty mile stretch of prairie for Daddy Chambers' cabin. We dined on crackers and dried beef and drank water from the streams we crossed reaching Chambers' mansion at night fall. Daddy and Ma'am Chambers gave us a warm welcome. the cabin was log with mud floor and a "stick and daub chimney" and a swing window, a mere board shutter on leather hinges. Daddy and Ma'am had formerly kept a tavern for the stage route but the Indians had burned the house. They had in this cabin, formerly the kitchen, a few chairs, a home made bedstead, trundle bed, a small table and a few dishes, coffee pot and an iron! three legged bake oven with iron cover, the only cooking utensils they had. After a super of biscuit and bacon I slept with Miss Pierce in the root house made of sod while the others were stowed in the cabin, Mr. Hall sleeping in the wagon." "After a breakfast of soggy biscuit and bacon we started at daylight for a forty mile stretch to Dixon's Ferry. Late in the afternoon we reached Daddy Joe's cabin, some ten miles from Dixon's Ferry; but a peril lay before us in the Winnebago Swamp, three miles from Dixon's Ferry which must be crossed." "After the "howdye" and preliminary greeting Uncle Kent asked him for directions to the swamp and the safe crossing but Daddy Joe advised waiting until the next day as night might overtake us before we got through and that it was dangerous except in the light. Uncle Kent being very desirous of completing the journey, decided to risk the crossing and with careful directions given by Daddy Joe we pushed on. The horses made the best progress possible but it was dark by the time we reached the swamp. After a time the trail seemed to fade out and the crossing hard to find. Finally following what seemed to be the crossing the horses were turned down a bank only to land in a mire at the bottom so deep it reached the bed of the wagon. In vain the horses tried to pull the wagon out and after working for two hours one of them got down and only with difficulty were they unhitched so they could reach bank. We were taken from the wagon by means of some sapling poles placed so as t! o make a kind of a bridge." "After rubbing most of the thick mud from the horses with the coarse prairie grass, robes were put on the horses and the two women placed thereon and we walked the three miles to the Ferry. On reaching the Dixon home we found between two and three thousand Indian warriors encamped prepared to sign a treaty of peace with the U.S. Government whose interests were represented by U.S. troops. We were given the comforts of home in the Dixon house and we were given a glad welcome by Mrs. Dixon and her daughter. It was long past midnight before we got to bed. Early the next morning Uncle Kent and Mr. Hall assisted by the Dixon men took horses with them and went back to where the wagon was still mired and after a time succeeded in pulling it out. In the meantime I had opportunity to go out among the Indians. I had not a particle of fear of them, I hardly know why. The chiefs were in a large tent and I went about among them to see their gay feathers, blankets and moccasins. T! heir leggings and earrings looked so queer to me. Some of them took me on their knees and touched my cheeks and called me brave squaw because I did not turn pale as they laughed and chatted together." "After and early and very good dinner we were again on our way. Mr. Dixon and his men went with us to the ferry which consisted of a flat bottomed boat with pulleys to haul us across the Rock River. The horses objected to going on the boat and with difficulty were finally persuaded to go aboard. Mr. Dixon had given us minute directions as to finding our lodging place for the night, a lone house on the stage road. Snow had fallen and as dusk approached and made it impossible to follow the grass-overgrown stage road. The night shut down upon us lost upon the trackless prairie without even a star for guidance. There was nothing to do but halt, unhitch, made the best camp we could and wait for morning. No fire could be kindled for fear of attracting some wandering Indians. We did the best we could to keep warm but little sleep was had that night. The next morning we discovered a column of smoke about half a mile away and not time was lost in breaking camp and getting t! o the house where we were most hospitably welcomed, warmed and fed and started on the last stage of the journey. It was Saturday and we must reach Galena before Sunday. About nine o'clock on the night of December 13th our jaded horses pulled us into Galena. Our trip from New York ended in the deep clay mire of Main St., Galena, before one of the warehouses near the levee. Uncle Kent left us there, the wagon wheels nearly up to the hubs in mud, while he hastened to the home of Reuben Brush on Bench St. He soon returned with Mr. Brush and we were given a warm welcome by his good wife and most hospitably entertained, giving us a good supper which we ate like wolves for we had eaten nothing but a noonday sack of crackers and dried beef. We stayed with the Brush family until a house could be procured and furnished. The only shelter that could be found was a little frame house on Bench street, next door to the corner of Hill street, which Uncle Kent purchase of John Delany ! later, that was the family home for so many years." "The John Delany corner, where he lived in a house with a big stone chimney, had been used for the "block House", a palisade fort of hewn logs set upright, close together, and banked with earth. It had a rough roof and many portholes for firing guns in case of attack by the Indians. Hither the people hastened from all parts of the region round about in times of alarm." "The only stove that could be procured for heating and cooking was a tiny Franklin. It had a tin reflector to set upon its hearth, wherein to bake. An old log hut stood in the rear of the house, called a kitchen, with a roofed space between called a porch. This little hut had a small swing window of four panes, a mud and stick chimney for a fireplace. It had a puncheon floor and here a "bunk" was put for Miss Pierce and me." "When we landed in Galena, Mr. Delaney had begun to turn the fort into a dwelling and Uncle Kent bout the corner and the side hill back to it, employing Mr. Delaney to finish it as soon as possible; meanwhile Mr. Hall had his bed in a corner of the old court house (with jail under it) partitioned for a study for Uncle." "The court house he had bought a year or two before and had fitted it with benches for a church and desks along the side for a school room, first occupied by Deacon Wood." CAROLINE T. PHELPS "Editorial note--The above is an account of the second trip to Galena by the Rev. Aratus Kent, the first one having been made three years previously. Due to the Indian war in 1832 the church which he had established was closed and he journeyed East where he was united in marriage with Miss Caroline Corning. When the church was reopened Mrs. Kent conducted the primary class of the Sunday school and there are still living members of her class. Among the members of the Kent family were Mrs. Henry Phelps Corwith, being a member of the First church, who was married at the Kent residence and Miss Julia Joy, who died some years ago at Platteburgh, New York." The Galena Daily Gazette, Monday, April 13, Vol 165 No. 87

Hi My name is Jan Melssen and I live in the city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. For years I've been trying to get more information about my relatives in the United States. My maternal grandfather and three of his brothers emigrated to te USA from 1892-1894, two paternal grand uncles did the same from 1910-1913. Their journey ended in East Dubuque, Illinois. My grandfather - Frank Pluijm or Pluym - was, amongst other things, a café holder in Menominee, Illinois. In the near future I'll ask you some more about the Pluym family in Jo Daviess County. Today I received some fotocopies about the Melssen family in Grant County, Wisconsin. The Register of Deeds couldn't get me any fotocopies of Barabara (Barbra) Riemenapp's birth record, born in Kieler, Wisc., November 1, 1892, and Hubert Melssen & Veronica Miller's marriage record, who married in Dickeyville, Wisc., August 18, 1914. The Register of Deeds wrote: 'As Grant county borders with Iowa and Illinois, we sometimes wonder if a minister from one of those states performed the marriage and inadvertenly took the record with him and incorrectly filed it there.' Perhaps one of you could help me out with this problem? It would be greatly appreciated. Regards Jan Melssen Eindhoven The Netherlands

please join me for genealogy chat tomorrow at 8pm CST (9pm EST) at www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm. This chat centers around genealogy in northwestern Illinois and several Pennsylvania towns where the folks in northwestern Illinois migrated from. Once you get to the front page of freeport illinois dot com, you will see chat room in script down on the rigt side. Just click there, put in your name and join us. Lou Cook _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

please join me for genealogy chat Monday evening at 8pm CST (9pm EST) for genealogy chat for northwestern IL and the PA counties whose citizens settled this part of Illinois. We are at www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm Lou Cook _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Posted on: JoDaviess Co. Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/JoDaviess/775 Surname: Ewing, Story, Jerad, Arno, Christian, Morrison, Roddewig, Stodard, Hart ------------------------- These people are all married in JoDavis Co. IL does anyone know anything about any of them. Thomas Ewing and Martha Story are married. All other names are married to other Ewings.

Lou, I am the listowner of the Jo Daviess mailing list, and I am here to tell you that your posts regarding the northern Illinois genealogy chat are WELCOME on this list. Please continue to post them. Stephenson County and Jo Daviess county are so closely associated, especially on the eastern side of Jo Daviess County, that I WANT to have this offered to everyone to attend. I consider it extrememly helpful. -Cheryl Hemingway [email protected] <http://users.rootsweb.com/~iljodavi> Jo Daviess Co., IL USGenWeb <http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/HomeonWeb.html> Cheryl's personal website http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/RubberTreasures.html> my Close To My Heart (rubber stamping & scrapbooking) consultant page. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lou Cook <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 2:01 PM Subject: [ILJODAVI] genealogy chat > I have had a complaint about my week e-mail reminding everyone of genealogy > chat. There will continue to be genealogy chats on Mon. evening at 8pm CST > at www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm, but there will be no future > reminders. Lou Cook > ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > >

I have had a complaint about my week e-mail reminding everyone of genealogy chat. There will continue to be genealogy chats on Mon. evening at 8pm CST at www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm, but there will be no future reminders. Lou Cook _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

Posted on: JoDaviess Co. Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Il/JoDaviess/771 Surname: Bardell, Holland, Rinehart, Brooks, Griffith, Diddens, Ruppert, Deineger ------------------------- I am searching for any information on Sheriff John (Johann) Bardell(the sheriff of Jo Davies County) He was killed in the line of duty in either 1915 or 1917, I would like and obit for him if I could get one also an obit on his wife Anna (Holland) Bardell. I would also like some informatin of the flood of 1937 Walter Bardell was killed in that. Actually any information that I could get on either side of this family would greatly be appreciated ...... I have hit a brick wall My grandmother Lillian Bardell Rinehart past away before I could get all the information on her parents. Thanks in advance Loretta

yes there is a genealogy chat tonight at 8:00pm CST (9:00 EST) I just forgot to send out the reminder yesterday. Genealogy for Northwestern Illinois and for those PA counties (or any other area) where the folks came from that populated that area of northwest Illinois. See you there at www.freeportillinois.com/index3.htm Just press the scripted Chat room on the right of the front page. Lou Cook _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

I thank everyone that assisted me in providing how I could obtain land records in Jo Daviess County IL Thanks very much Frank Hotaling [email protected]