This came to me in email today, and I thought you all would appreciate it. Dear Ancestor: Your tombstone stands among the rest; Neglected and alone The name and date are chiseled out On polished, marbled stone. It reaches out to all who care It is too late to mourn. You did not know that I exist You died and I was born. Yet each of us are cells of you In flesh, in blood, in bone. Our blood contracts and beats a pulse Entirely not our own. Dear Ancestor, the place you filled So many years ago Spreads out among the ones you left Who would have loved you so. I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew That someday I would find this spot, And come to visit you. -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

Found 2 photos taken of a man and a woman in Galena in 1860's. They are unidentified. url: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=278918353 Christina

I received the following message which may be of interest to some of you. -Cheryl Hemingway D.O.T.S. Independent Demonstrator <http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/RubberTreasures.html> Rubber Treasures ----- Original Message ----- From: Eagle Auction Company <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 2:02 PM Subject: Elizabeth Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth, IL > Hello -- > > We are putting our book inventory on the Internet for sale and are > coming across quite a few items that we think might be of interest to > genealogists and local historians. Therefore, we are contacting the > county coordinators of the applicable USGenWeb project sites in hopes > we can pass these items along to people who would really like to have > them. > > We would appreciate your letting individuals you think might be > interested that we have this book: > > The Reliable Cookbook Vouched for by the Ladies' Missionary and Aid > Society of the Elizabeth Presbyterian Church; published 1895. It is > full of wonderful recipes, probably many of them favorites among the > community, with the names of the submitters. It has several pages of > advertising from local businesses. The book is approximately 4.5" x 6" > and contains 146 numbered pages. It also has several recipes stuck in > and written in the blank pages. The book is hardbound -- it looks like > it was originally produced with a paper cover typical of that period. > The binding is library-quality buckram, and the pages have been stitched > in professionally. The cover shows some shelf wear and a couple of > small spots of minor staining, most likely from some great cook's use! > The interior pages have turned brown from age (typical of the common > grades of paper used during this period). Some pages have chips at the > very edges. A few pages have small tears from the edge inward (but no > missing sections), and some have light staining. This book appears to > have been a favorite and regularly used by someone. > > We have listed the book for $15.00, plus shipping ($2.50 book rate; > $3.50 priority) and optional insurance (85 cents). > > Thank you in advance -- > > Mary McNamara > Eagle Auction Company > http://www.collect.com/eagleauction > >

As you all know, I have been waiting for months for my computer upgrade. Well, it is finally here, but in the process of transferring data to the new computer all of my mail files were lost. If you sent pictures to me for the Jo Daviess website, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send them to me again as soon as possible. I plan to put these up in the photo gallery and continue to add other data to the site. Any other contributions that you would like me to add? =-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

John Thomas YOUNG (b. 1804) and Nancy Jane ALLISON (b. 1805) were married about 1827 in Mercer County, PA. They had ten children, all born in Mercer County. Allison, James, Jerusha, Charles, John, Charity, Thomas, Julius, Lydia, and Gaius. Lydia died before the age of 5 and was buried in Mercer County. About 1854 John and Nancy moved with the rest of their family to Jo Daviess County, IL. Most of their children eventually moved further west except for Charles. John, Nancy and Charles all died in Jo Daviess county and are burid there. I'm looking for other researchers of this line to exchange informtion about John and Nancy's descendants. Please contact me if you think you may have a connection. Thanks, janet young berkson

I would like to invite all of you to join us for genealogy chat for northwestern IL and related Pennsylvania counties on Thursday evening at 8:00pm CST. I may be late tomorrow evening but all of you just start without me. Just go to www.freeportillinois.com and press the chat button on the right hand side. It loads in a little slowly sometime but is worth the wait. When it comes up, it will ask for your name and for a profile. Put the surnames you are researching in the profile part. Have fun. Lou Cook

Hi everyone! I am new to this list and hope to make some connections on the above surnames in Jo Davies County. Here is what I have: Nicholas MILLER, born 1833, married Mary Anna BRUCE, born 1842. Not sure if marriage took place in Germany (Prussia) or Jo Davies County, but the couple both died in Jo Davies County and are buried in SINGER Catholic Cemetery. I know of at least 9 children born to them: 1. Margaret MILLER 2. Mary MILLER (1860-1925) 3. Peter MILLER (born abt. 1866) 4. John MILLER (born abt. 1870) 5. Anna MILLER (about 1872) 6. Joseph MILLER (about 1874) 7. Theresa (Thersa) MILLER (born 1877) First husband was Fred MEADER (b: 1875) and her second husband was Andrew BRUMMER (born 1883) 8. Frank MILLER (1879) 9. Albert MILLER (1886) These children of course married and had children. With the exception of Theresa MILLER's descendents I know very little about the rest of the family. ANY LEADS OR LOOK-UPS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. Thanks, Michele Barry [email protected] Nicholas MILLER's parents are believed to be Peter MILLER/MULLER and Margaretha BRUCE (?).

Hi everyone. I finally have my new computer equipment and software installed here at home, but there was a problem in the conversion in that I lost ALL OF THE DATA that had been saved in my email folders. As a result, I'm going to have to ask for you to resend that data. However, I'm going to try to do this in a way that I can keep better track of what is being sent. For now, I would like to ask that if you asked me to change your email addresses on the Jo Daviess Co. website that you would check to see if it has been done. If not, please send the request to me again and I will take care of it quickly. After I have all the email addresses updated, then I will ask for submission of other data. -Cheryl Hemingway

Looking for information on James Patrick Murphy born in Galena IL. 1859 if anyone has any information you can contact me at [email protected] Chuck Murphy

Subject: Gas-Out!! : Last year on April 30,1999, a gas out was staged across America to bring : the price of gas down, and it worked. It's time to do something about it : again. Only this time lets make it for three days instead of just one. : The so-called oil cartel decided to slow production to drive up gasoline : prices. Let's see how many American people we can get to band together : for a three day period in April, NOT TO BUY ANY GASOLINE, during those : three days. : : LETS HAVE A GAS OUT. Do not buy any gasoline from APRIL 7, 2000, : THROUGH APRIL 9, 2000. Buy what you need before the dates listed above, : or after, but try not to buy any during the GAS OUT. : : If you want to help, just send this to everyone you know and ask them to : do the same. We brought the prices down once before, and we can do it : again. : : Come on America, let's stand together. : : WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Sorry some of you could not get in last Thurs. I don't know why not, about ten others did. I will have Frank check in with Volano and see what the problem is. What web server do you use? If there is some consistency with those who cannot get in and servers then we may be able to see why. We are changing servers within the next month which may alleviate the problem all together, but please each of you who did not get in, e-mail me privately. Lou COOK: PA>IL, SEYLAR: Germany>PA, ROBERTSON:Scotland>MD>PA, CAMPBELL: MD, BUCK: IL, SCHREINER: Germany>IL, MORRIS: PA>IL, KOPP:MA>IL,ELLIS: MA>NC>GA, VARNER: MD>GA, HENLEY: MD>NC>GA, Chamberlain: MD>NC, Montgomery: MD>SC>VA>TN>GA, Barkley: GA, McConnell: Scotland>GA, Cunningham: VA, Crow/Hindman: SC>GA, Gwin: SC>AL, Roebuck: SC>GA>AL>IL, Chasteen: GA>AL, Jones: Cherokee and Marshall Co, AL, ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

I can't get on either... have a different error, but same result. They must be having problems tonight. Julie

I also would love to chat on Thursday nites. But I get a message from VolanoChat Server: Unauthorized Web Page - You have been denied access because the chat room on the previous Web page is not authorized to connect to this VolanoChat server. Can anyone help me get access. Marge

genealogy chat is only on Thurs evenings at 8pm CST

I went there but could not find the chat! Talked to myself for a little while and then left. Nice website though. I enjoyed looking through it. Marilyn Hughes

At 4:56 PM -0800 2/22/2000, MJH wrote: >I went there but could not find the chat! Talked to myself for a little >while and then left. Nice website though. I enjoyed looking through it. > >Marilyn Hughes There is a direct link to Lou's genealogy chat room on the Stephenson County website. Here is the shortcut... <http://volano.siteprotect.com/freeportillinois/chat.htm> Julie -- List moderator , Stephenson Co., IL mailto:[email protected] Stephenson Co. ILGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilstephe

Hello everyone, I needed to let you know that I am going to be offline for several days while my new computer equipment is installed. During this time, I will not be available for lookups, updates to the Jo Daviess website, etc. Hopefully I'll be back by Friday evening. Thanks for your patience during this time of transition. -Cheryl Hemingway [email protected] http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/HomeonWeb.html Jo Daviess Co., IL USGenWeb: http://users.rootsweb.com/~iljodavi/index.htm Jo Daviess Co., IL Marriage Index: http://members.tripod.com/~Chemingway/Mrg.html

on Thursday evening at 8pm CST. for northwestern Illinois at www.freeportillinois.com Lou Cook

I just found this little bit of information while going through some of my grandmother's pictures, etc., and thought I'd pass it along for whatever it's worth. (My grandmother, Marjorie Laird, is one of the pupils listed. Genevieve Laird is her cousin.) The document is titled "School Souvenir", is dated 1919 and has a photograph of an unidentified woman on its cover. One of the inside pages lists the following: Travis School, District No. 92, Council Hill Township, JoDaviess County, Illinois Emily Raisbeck, Teacher B. L. Birkbeck, Co. Supt. A. H. Bastian, Clerk Wm. Travis, President Noble Hughes, Director PUPILS Alice Haser Myrtle Bastian Genevieve Laird Millie Lowery Ethel Hughes Bernice Travis Marjorie Laird May Hughes Ida Travis Florence Hughes William Hughes

genealogy chat for northwestern Illinois tonight at 8:00pm. at www.freeportillinois.com Lou Cook