Margaret, I've been looking for a book about Johnson Co..... it's somewhere!! But I wanted to check with you, I had an Uncle Ted Gray.... he was married to my father's sister, Emma. I think his name was Theodore Roosevelt Gray.... they didn't have any children, at the end of his life, they had an antique shop just west of Vienna.....would he be a brother to the man you wrote about? Just wondered..... thought I'd ask. Louise Greer Erekson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peggy Oliver" <peggyjune@adelphia.net> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Waters family (VandaWaters) > To anyone who may be interested, This Thomas Basil Gray is son of Basil > Shaw Gray and Mary Ann Reynolds of Johnson County, Illinois. The Reynolds > line is mine, but I don't really have anything on the Grays or Vandawaters. > Margaret Reynolds Oliver > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kathleen Waters" <kwaters5@kc.rr.com> > To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:52 PM > Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Waters family (VandaWaters) > > > > Yes, Julia, as a connection with the Gray family of Missouri. Thomas > > Basil Gray married Minnie Almina Haden, who was the daughter of Mary Ann > > VandeWaters and Richard Anderson Haden. > > I don't have any indication of a connection with Barfield or Jago. > > Katy Waters > > 1228 SE 11th St > > Lees Summit, MO > > (816) 246-5351 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "A Barlows J Anderson" <jand-ab@webtv.net> > > To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:37 AM > > Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Waters family (VandaWaters) > > > > > >> RE THE WATERS FAMILY. > >> > >> WAS THERE A MARRIAGE INTO THE GREY FAMILY OF MONITEAU COUNTY MISSOURI OR > >> ANY CONNECTION TO THE BARFIELDS OR JAGO FAMILY OF JOHNSON OR MASSAC > >> COUNTIES OF ILLINOIS? > >> > >> THANKS, > >> Julia Anderson, > >> Kansas City > >> > >> Please pray for our beloved country and peace > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: cwaters@siu.edu > >> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:27 PM > >> To: ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com > >> Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Waters family (VandaWaters) > >> > >> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >> > >> Classification: Query > >> > >> Message Board URL: > >> > >> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1083 > >> > >> Message Board Post: > >> > >> I'm trying to get some information on the Waters (Vandawaters) family > >> that moved to the Vienna/Bloomfield area in the 1850's from Charlotte, > >> Dickson County, TN. There are still some of the descendents in the area, > >> including myself, and I'd like to learn whatever I can about my > >> ancestors. Thank you. > >> > >> > >> ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > >> Do not send Virus warnings to this list. > >> "Problems with Johnson Co IL Mail List email Tim Casey" > >> timcasey1@verizon.net > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > >> Johnson Co IL Message Board hosted by Ancestry.com > >> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.illinois.counties.johnson > >> > > > > > > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > > Visit the Official Johnson Co IL ILGenWeb Site! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljohnso/ > > > > > > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Johnson Co IL Message Board hosted by Ancestry.com > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.illinois.counties.johnson > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.5/403 - Release Date: 7/28/2006 > >

To anyone who may be interested, This Thomas Basil Gray is son of Basil Shaw Gray and Mary Ann Reynolds of Johnson County, Illinois. The Reynolds line is mine, but I don't really have anything on the Grays or Vandawaters. Margaret Reynolds Oliver ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathleen Waters" <kwaters5@kc.rr.com> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:52 PM Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Waters family (VandaWaters) > Yes, Julia, as a connection with the Gray family of Missouri. Thomas > Basil Gray married Minnie Almina Haden, who was the daughter of Mary Ann > VandeWaters and Richard Anderson Haden. > I don't have any indication of a connection with Barfield or Jago. > Katy Waters > 1228 SE 11th St > Lees Summit, MO > (816) 246-5351 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "A Barlows J Anderson" <jand-ab@webtv.net> > To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:37 AM > Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Waters family (VandaWaters) > > >> RE THE WATERS FAMILY. >> >> WAS THERE A MARRIAGE INTO THE GREY FAMILY OF MONITEAU COUNTY MISSOURI OR >> ANY CONNECTION TO THE BARFIELDS OR JAGO FAMILY OF JOHNSON OR MASSAC >> COUNTIES OF ILLINOIS? >> >> THANKS, >> Julia Anderson, >> Kansas City >> >> Please pray for our beloved country and peace >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cwaters@siu.edu >> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:27 PM >> To: ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Waters family (VandaWaters) >> >> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >> >> Classification: Query >> >> Message Board URL: >> >> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1083 >> >> Message Board Post: >> >> I'm trying to get some information on the Waters (Vandawaters) family >> that moved to the Vienna/Bloomfield area in the 1850's from Charlotte, >> Dickson County, TN. There are still some of the descendents in the area, >> including myself, and I'd like to learn whatever I can about my >> ancestors. Thank you. >> >> >> ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== >> Do not send Virus warnings to this list. >> "Problems with Johnson Co IL Mail List email Tim Casey" >> timcasey1@verizon.net >> >> >> >> >> ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== >> Johnson Co IL Message Board hosted by Ancestry.com >> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.johnson >> > > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Visit the Official Johnson Co IL ILGenWeb Site! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljohnso/ > >

Yes, Julia, as a connection with the Gray family of Missouri. Thomas Basil Gray married Minnie Almina Haden, who was the daughter of Mary Ann VandeWaters and Richard Anderson Haden. I don't have any indication of a connection with Barfield or Jago. Katy Waters 1228 SE 11th St Lees Summit, MO (816) 246-5351 ----- Original Message ----- From: "A Barlows J Anderson" <jand-ab@webtv.net> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:37 AM Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Waters family (VandaWaters) > RE THE WATERS FAMILY. > > WAS THERE A MARRIAGE INTO THE GREY FAMILY OF MONITEAU COUNTY MISSOURI OR > ANY CONNECTION TO THE BARFIELDS OR JAGO FAMILY OF JOHNSON OR MASSAC > COUNTIES OF ILLINOIS? > > THANKS, > Julia Anderson, > Kansas City > > Please pray for our beloved country and peace > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: cwaters@siu.edu > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:27 PM > To: ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Waters family (VandaWaters) > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1083 > > Message Board Post: > > I'm trying to get some information on the Waters (Vandawaters) family that > moved to the Vienna/Bloomfield area in the 1850's from Charlotte, Dickson > County, TN. There are still some of the descendents in the area, > including myself, and I'd like to learn whatever I can about my ancestors. > Thank you. > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Do not send Virus warnings to this list. > "Problems with Johnson Co IL Mail List email Tim Casey" > timcasey1@verizon.net > > > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Johnson Co IL Message Board hosted by Ancestry.com > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.illinois.counties.johnson >

I have a great deal of information on your WATERS family. This info is a collaboration of many of John VandeWaters's descendants, and I will be glad to share it with you. Contact me directly at Kwaters5@kc.rr.com. ----- Original Message ----- From: <cwaters@siu.edu> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:27 PM Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Waters family (VandaWaters) > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1083 > > Message Board Post: > > I'm trying to get some information on the Waters (Vandawaters) family that > moved to the Vienna/Bloomfield area in the 1850's from Charlotte, Dickson > County, TN. There are still some of the descendents in the area, > including myself, and I'd like to learn whatever I can about my ancestors. > Thank you. > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Do not send Virus warnings to this list. > "Problems with Johnson Co IL Mail List email Tim Casey" > timcasey1@verizon.net >

RE THE WATERS FAMILY. WAS THERE A MARRIAGE INTO THE GREY FAMILY OF MONITEAU COUNTY MISSOURI OR ANY CONNECTION TO THE BARFIELDS OR JAGO FAMILY OF JOHNSON OR MASSAC COUNTIES OF ILLINOIS? THANKS, Julia Anderson, Kansas City Please pray for our beloved country and peace -----Original Message----- From: cwaters@siu.edu Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 3:27 PM To: ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Waters family (VandaWaters) This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1083 Message Board Post: I'm trying to get some information on the Waters (Vandawaters) family that moved to the Vienna/Bloomfield area in the 1850's from Charlotte, Dickson County, TN. There are still some of the descendents in the area, including myself, and I'd like to learn whatever I can about my ancestors. Thank you. ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== Do not send Virus warnings to this list. "Problems with Johnson Co IL Mail List email Tim Casey" timcasey1@verizon.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1083 Message Board Post: I'm trying to get some information on the Waters (Vandawaters) family that moved to the Vienna/Bloomfield area in the 1850's from Charlotte, Dickson County, TN. There are still some of the descendents in the area, including myself, and I'd like to learn whatever I can about my ancestors. Thank you.

Linda, I am so sorry about the previous email.It is "Mary" Jane (Smith) Dodge and Nelson Powers Dodge in the Cemetery at Dupage County. Sorry about that Vera --- llscottfl@cs.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > this mailing list. > > Surnames: Dodge > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1082 > > Message Board Post: > > Does anyone have access to the Johnson County > Cemetery Books? I would appreciate a look-up for > Newland Dodge. He married Mahala Jane Smith in Wayne > County, Indiana in 1834 and then sometime before > 1842 relocated to Illinois. His wife is listed as a > widow in the 1860 census for Vienna, Johnson, IL. > In that same census his youngest daughter was listed > as 2 years old, so I am concluding that he died > between 1857 and 1860. > > Thanks in advance for all your help. > > > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Visit the Official Johnson Co IL ILGenWeb Site! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljohnso/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

I tried sending an e-mail about your Dodge family...but something happened... so since you have written again, I'll resend the little bit of help I found. this is what I said.... I too have been looking for your Newland Dodge in all the material I have.... the only thing I've found is a listing of his marriage to Mahala Jane Smith in Wayne Co., IN I found this in the IGI [International Genealogy Index] collected by the Mormon Church... I looked for Lavinia, Mahalia... All I found was Newland Dodge and his wife. I looked for Lavinia, Mahalia..... I've looked for Newland Dodge in the 1850 census index of the whole US, but he wasn't in there!! Is there any other name he could have used? Does anyone in your family belongs to the Mormon Church? They might have sent this information in. I find it a mystery - as you have already figured out!! Sorry I couldn't find more. louise erekson ----- Original Message ----- From: <llscottfl@cs.com> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:43 PM Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Cemetery Look-up for Newland Dodge in Johnson Co., IL > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Dodge > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1082 > > Message Board Post: > > Does anyone have access to the Johnson County Cemetery Books? I would appreciate a look-up for Newland Dodge. He married Mahala Jane Smith in Wayne County, Indiana in 1834 and then sometime before 1842 relocated to Illinois. His wife is listed as a widow in the 1860 census for Vienna, Johnson, IL. In that same census his youngest daughter was listed as 2 years old, so I am concluding that he died between 1857 and 1860. > > Thanks in advance for all your help. > > > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Visit the Official Johnson Co IL ILGenWeb Site! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iljohnso/ > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/396 - Release Date: 7/24/2006 > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dodge Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1082 Message Board Post: Does anyone have access to the Johnson County Cemetery Books? I would appreciate a look-up for Newland Dodge. He married Mahala Jane Smith in Wayne County, Indiana in 1834 and then sometime before 1842 relocated to Illinois. His wife is listed as a widow in the 1860 census for Vienna, Johnson, IL. In that same census his youngest daughter was listed as 2 years old, so I am concluding that he died between 1857 and 1860. Thanks in advance for all your help.

In Parker's History of Johnson Co. IL, there is a listing of Mary Oletha Walton, wife of Cliff Walton, her dates; 10/9/1883 - 6/19/1909 In this book it's listed as being in Belknap Cemetery, Cache Twp. I looked in the book about Cache Twp. cemeteries, In the Belknap Masonic Cemetery, there is a listing for; Mary Oleatha WALTMON, wife of Cliff WALTOM dates Oct 9, 1883 -June 19, 1909 There are two others by the name of WALTOM listed in another cemetery..... if you think they would be your relatives. Good luck, Louise ----- Original Message ----- From: <jenjerkev@aol.com> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:25 AM Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Cliff Walton & Mary Cross > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Cross & Walton > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1080 > > Message Board Post: > > Mary Oletha Cross Walton died on 19th of Jun 1909 in Johnson Co., IL. I would like a cemetery look up I'm trying to find the Masonic Cemertery in Belknap, IL. Mary is buried there. Does any one know where I could get an obit on her too? > > > ==== ILJOHNSO Mailing List ==== > Do not send Virus warnings to this list. > "Problems with Johnson Co IL Mail List email Tim Casey" > timcasey1@verizon.net > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/396 - Release Date: 7/24/2006 > >

Belknap Masonic Cemetery is located in Township 14 S, Range 2 E in the NW 1/4, Section 1, Lower Cache Township. From Vienna take US 45 south approximately 5 miles to the Belknap blacktop; turn right and go about 5 miles; at the stop sign in Belknap turn right and follow road through town (about 1/4 mile) to the Methodist Church; turn right at the church and go to the top of the hill. The earleist marked stones show that burials began about 1906. It is still used today and is well maintained. After the death of Jane Monroe in 1991, her husband, Ed, put up new fencing and gates with marble pillars topped by angels on either side, making it one of the most beautiful entrances of any cemetery in Johnson County. ----- Original Message ----- From: <jenjerkev@aol.com> To: <ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:25 AM Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Cliff Walton & Mary Cross

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cross & walton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1081 Message Board Post: Mary Oletha Cross Walton died on 19th of Jun 1909 in Johnson Co., IL. I would like a cemetery look up I'm trying to find the Masonic Cemertery in Belknap, IL. Does any one take pictures of tombstones are has a listing of the cemetery? Mary is buried there. Does any one know where I could get an obit on her too?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cross & Walton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1080 Message Board Post: Mary Oletha Cross Walton died on 19th of Jun 1909 in Johnson Co., IL. I would like a cemetery look up I'm trying to find the Masonic Cemertery in Belknap, IL. Mary is buried there. Does any one know where I could get an obit on her too?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Campbell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1079 Message Board Post: I am looking for a obit or any records on Archelus Campbell. Born 1833 Ill. and died Oct 18, 1897 in Goreville, Johnson, Ill. Thanks for any help. Doreen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2g.2ADE/1078.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for responding to my request. I have had several responses off-list, with the same conclusion. The census entry that I was looking at turned out to be the name Jacob Dooly. Hence, another rabbit trail closed! It also appears that the N.M. Dodge that you mentioned in DuPage Co., IL, shows up as Noah M. Dodge in the 1850 census. All of you on this forum are just wonderful. Thank you for all the responses. Regards, Linda Scott

Little Egypt Heritage Articles Stories of Southern Illinois © Bill Oliver 23 July 2006 Vol 5 Issue: #23 ISBN: pending Osiyo, Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of Little Egypt Often when I make the decision to write on a topic, material during the week just seems to become overwhelming. Such is the case with this article. My plans were to write about a wonderful restoration and preservation project a friend of mine is and was involved in from its beginnings. My last article touched on it slightly – the restoration of the Train Depot in Murray City, Hocking/Adams Counties, Ohio and making it into a museum of trains and also a museum of coal mining, particularly in that south eastern section of Ohio. While catching up on all the articles in my piled up newspapers I read about a local [northwestern Ohio] agribusiness that has a rail group as part of its four business groups, which generated nearly half of the operating income. This company is in the rail business because they handle bulk material, fertilizer, and grain. They ship out grain and fertilizer in their own cars. Due to the increased costs of transportation railroads are becoming healthier again. Last week the article mentioned Paducah, Kentucky as a center. This agribusiness has built itself into a fleet of more than 100,000 rail cars and 89 locomotives/engines, making it the eighth largest fleet in the United States. Historians, and buffs, know historical facts, yet tend to forget them until something comes along to remind them that there are always people in our world who are developers and will use every trick to procure what they need to make more money. We are familiar with the term “eminent domain” or the right of governments to take property from private citizens for the “betterment” of their community. Back in the days of railroad expansion, which tallies to the race to complete the transcontinental railway and also connect every community along the way, the Federal Government, as incentives, gave the very same condemnation powers to the railroad companies to “build roads and other public works.” In a corner of southeastern Michigan the U.S. Rail, a short-line railroad operator, is proposing to construct an “intermodal” terminal where freight is transferred between trucks and trains on some 400 acres along its present tracks. It turns out that this parcel of land has proximity to two Interstate Highway interchanges. Plus, the bonus of “room” for expansion. This means, of course, the “taking” of private land, in at least one case, of folks who have held that property from before Michigan was a state. I lived very close to a “railroad switching” yard as a lad and remember the sounds I got used to in falling asleep. Railroads were important. In some cases they made, or not, towns all across this country. Out in Nebraska, John C Fremont and General Henry Leavenworth urged the building of a Pacific railroad as a military measure. Asa Whitney, of New York, was willing to build a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean, and submitted his offer to Congress. Stephen A Douglas, of Illinois, proposed three great lines, one from Texas to the Pacific, one from Missouri or Iowa to San Francisco, and one from Wisconsin to the Pacific. Following the Civil War, when northern promoters turned to serious railroad building, the great trunk lines closely followed the routes outlined in those Douglas proposals. It took until 1862, when the southern states’ objections to the northern routes had been eliminated by the secession, before a route finally materialized. The Union Pacific was granted a two hundred foot right of way, plus any lands for stations, depots, shops, buildings, etc., and earth, stone, timber, and other materials from public lands for construction purposes. This wasn’t all – to secure the safe and speedy transportation of mail, troops, munitions, and public stores, the company was granted every alternate section of public land [up to five alternate sections per mile on each side of the railroad]. Thus, the railroads obtained almost five million acres of land in Nebraska alone. In Ohio, in 1875, Murray Brown platted the town which bares his name. Though he was not totally successful in creating a metropolis, coal mining about 1885 did furnish the town with economic prosperity to rival other towns in the Hocking Valley. Scots, Irish and English people were predominate in the business and social life of the town. Later arrivals from Southern Europe poured in and as these folks gradually assimilated and the M.E Church was built, there was a change from the rough element controlling the town to the law abiding people who made their influence felt politically and socially; the town then evolved into what it is today. This combination makes the best community in the world according to a couple of citizens I chanced to converse with. For a long time the railroad was the only form of transportation in or out of the valley where Murray City was located. There were as many as four Hocking Valley Railroad trains per day. There were four mines of the Sunday Creek Coal Company that shipped coal out of Murray City. Today the train depot is just one of three original depots left in the state of Ohio. In January of 2002 the deed to the depot, with almost two acres of land, was transferred to the Murray City Improvement Committee, a citizens restoration and museum group. They have restored the building, and purchased a caboose and a small engine which are on display. They did this by the sale of books about their hometown. Inside the clean building is both a train museum and a coal mining museum with early pictures and documents donated by the residents. Mounted on the walls are many pieces of equipment used on trains and the mining of coal, all donated by the descendants of local miners. This writer made the mistake of thinking a wick jammer for mine blasting was a coal stoker for train engines. Mr Mitchell and I had a discussion about this. It just goes to say how much trouble a little knowledge can get a person into. <grin> The Sunday Creek Coal Company mines in this area were the largest coal mines in the country. For those who are interested in more detail, there is an excellent web presence with pictures at: http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eohathens/murraytrain.htm. My family was fortunate enough to ask for a tour from one of the trusties of the depot/museum. A friend had given me the contact. Larry Mitchell spent an hour and a half talking with us and proudly making sure that we missed no detail in the museum. Exactly what one would expect of an Ulster-Irishman and he did sure look the part with his hint of red hair and ruddy complexion. As a retired trucker, he was familiar with my Wood county and related that he had once visited the Courthouse there where I worked for the Clerk of Common Pleas Courts. I think it would have been nice to have known him then – I could have given him a grand tour of all the records held there in Wood County – a return for his generous hospitality. e-la-Di-e-das-Di ha-wi nv-wa-do-hi-ya nv-wa-to-hi-ya-da. (May you walk in peace and harmony) and Wado, Bill -=- PostScript: Other sites worth visiting: PostScript: = = = = http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SOIL http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ILMASSAC http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/state/BillsArticles/LittleEgypt/intro.html

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2g.2ADE/1078.1 Message Board Post: I did not find anyone with the name of Dodge in the 21 pages consisting of the Johnson County Illinois 1840 Federal Census. The closest thing I got was a N. M. Dodge listed in DuPage County in northern Illinois. There was one male between the age of 30 & 40 and 2 females living in the household. One of the females was between the age of 20 & 30 and the other was between the age of 50 & 60.

Here are two Bowie's that died in Johnson county. BOWIE, MARY ANN - F/W UNK 0440013 1923-02-21 JOHNSON - ROAD DIST NO 1 23-02-22 BOWIE, WILLIAM - M/W UNK 0440020 1929-01-26 JOHNSON-VIENNA -29-01-26 =============================== In a message dated 7/22/2006 7:07:04 P.M. US Eastern Standard Time, AudrHorn8@aol.com writes: Hello, is anyone on this list researching the last name of Buie/Bowie? I have a female ancestor who shows up on the 1930 census sporting the last name of Bowie (have also seen it spelled Buie), she is again widowed so I don't have a first name for the man. I have looked and cannot find anyone with this last name in Johnson County for a starting point. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Audrey

Hello, is anyone on this list researching the last name of Buie/Bowie? I have a female ancestor who shows up on the 1930 census sporting the last name of Bowie (have also seen it spelled Buie), she is again widowed so I don't have a first name for the man. I have looked and cannot find anyone with this last name in Johnson County for a starting point. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Audrey

Box 8 Johnson County, Illinois – Office of Clerk of Circuit Court Page 5 State of Illinois Johnson County In the Circuit Court December term 1873, to Hon David J. Baker Judge of the Johnson Circuit Court. The undersigned Special Master in Chancery & who was referred the cause wherein Rebecca E. Neeley was petitioner and George Neeley Et Als, were defendants, begs leave to report, that he has paid all the parties interested in the land in said cause, therein respective shares. Except the shares of Isaac N. Neeley and John I. Neeley, they both lived in the state of Kentucky the last he heard of them and the John I. Neeley is a minor. That the shares he has paid are as follows towith: Rebecca E. Neeley 1/8 -$18.57 George Neley 1/8 -$18.57 Isaac P. Neeley 1/8 -$18.57 Mary C. Bost 1/16 -$9.28 Barbara E. Cornish 1/16-$9.28 Wm. C. Debnam 1/56-$2.65 Lucinda A. Debnam 1/56-$2.65 James A. Debnam 1/56 -$2.65 Dorotha E. Wilson 1/56-2/65 Isaac N. Debnam 1/56-$2.65 John H. Debnam 1/56 -$2.65 The shares of Nancy A. Boyl (deceased) & Adaline Miller $3.09 as per Instructions of the court. And the two shares of Isaac N. Neeley $18.57 & John I. Neeley $18.57. He has paid to John S. C__? ---(if there was more I didn’t copy it) ***These are children and grandchildren of Isaac & Barbara (?) Neeley