Joanie, I can't thank you enough for finding this wonderfully informative obituary. Can you tell me the date and name of the paper where you found it? Tali -----Original Message----- From: Joan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 4:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Obit 1920, Ransom? Greetings Again, I thought I could read all the dates, but I missed the date of his move to Chicago. I can read the "185" but not the last digit. The rest of the obituary is fairly clear. Next time I go to the library, I'll see if I can read the last digit. There were two other articles: Nov. 8, 1920 Announcing his death and giving the time of the services. Nov. 17, 1920 Mrs. Hugh Ingle of Ottawa, who was staying with her parents, M/M Julius Redman during the funeral, returned home. Joanie > > Joanie, I just received this. > > I found a small obit on Joe Scherrer in the Ottawa paper. It says Joe > Scherrer of Chicago who has been making his home for the past four years > with Mr. and Mrs. Julius Redmann, died Sunday night. Mr. Scherrer had been > ill for almost seven weeks. He was almost 80 years old. The funeral was > held Tuesday in the German Evangelical Church. The remains were sent to > Chicago for burial. > This was in the Nov. 13, 1920 issue of the Free Trader paper in Ottawa. > I hope this helps. > Jenan Jobst Corresponding Secretary > LaSalle County Genealogy Guild > > If you think there may be more in the Streator paper, I would be glad to > have it. If not, thanks for the offer of the look-up. > Tali > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Obit 1920, Ransom? > > Greetings from Streator, > > I do not have the obituary list for 1920. > If the steps are okay tomorrow, I will see if he is listed. His obituary > should be in the Streator paper. But, sometimes, that depended on the > correspondent for the area. > Joanie > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

The Streator Public Library has the Streator newspapers on microfilm. They charge $1.00 per microfilm copy plus postage. (Don't know if they charge for a search.) The name of the paper changed several times, I believe this is the Streator Daily Free Press. There is an index for the Weekly and Daily Free Press for the years 1873 - 1935. The Monitor, another paper, was indexed for the year 1872. Joanie Tali Barbosa wrote: > > Joanie, > > I can't thank you enough for finding this wonderfully informative obituary. > Can you tell me the date and name of the paper where you found it? > > Tali > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joan [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 4:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Obit 1920, Ransom? > > Greetings Again, > > I thought I could read all the dates, but I missed the date of his move > to Chicago. I can read the "185" but not the last digit. The rest of > the obituary is fairly clear. Next time I go to the library, I'll see > if I can read the last digit. > There were two other articles: > Nov. 8, 1920 Announcing his death and giving the time of the services. > Nov. 17, 1920 Mrs. Hugh Ingle of Ottawa, who was staying with her > parents, M/M Julius Redman during the funeral, returned home. > Joanie > > > > > Joanie, I just received this. > > > > I found a small obit on Joe Scherrer in the Ottawa paper. It says Joe > > Scherrer of Chicago who has been making his home for the past four years > > with Mr. and Mrs. Julius Redmann, died Sunday night. Mr. Scherrer had > been > > ill for almost seven weeks. He was almost 80 years old. The funeral was > > held Tuesday in the German Evangelical Church. The remains were sent to > > Chicago for burial. > > This was in the Nov. 13, 1920 issue of the Free Trader paper in Ottawa. > > I hope this helps. > > Jenan Jobst Corresponding Secretary > > LaSalle County Genealogy Guild > > > > If you think there may be more in the Streator paper, I would be glad to > > have it. If not, thanks for the offer of the look-up. > > Tali > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:00 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [ILLASALLE] Obit 1920, Ransom? > > > > Greetings from Streator, > > > > I do not have the obituary list for 1920. > > If the steps are okay tomorrow, I will see if he is listed. His > obituary > > should be in the Streator paper. But, sometimes, that depended on the > > correspondent for the area. > > Joanie > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go > > to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237