By any chance were they Catholics? There is a Peter Reilly cemetery in that area. Joanie Linda Lee Ziemann wrote: > > I love reading the messages on this list. > Joannie does a wonderful job of helping us with our requests. Joannie, > thanks for being there for us in Illinois....and I am glad that you are > recovering well. > > Like most of us, I have some ancestors that are my brickwall. > I am looking for the burial place for > William Ewing......the last name could be spelled without the last > g......perhaps just EWIN. > AND his wife, Frances Ewing...or EWIN. My research effort has uncovered > the fact that my Gr Gr Grandfather and one of his sons, (my great > grandfather) chose to drop the last g in their latter adult years. > > These are my paternal gr gr grandparents. > I have checked with LaSalle county and Marshall county....and would > appreciate a check from the Streator Library, if there is an index that can > be searched. > > This couple appeared in the 1880 Fed. Census....Marshall county, Bennington > Township. > William Ewin > Francis Ewin > > I have traced this couple and their children. > I have not been able to find out where they are buried. > I have recently found that > William Ewin/g died in Sidney, Nebraska. The LDS site states the year of > death as 1888. (I have written that submitter with no response as to how he > came up with the year.) > A volunteer in Cheyenne co. Nebr., has done some library checking for me. > There is no record of a burial in that county anywhere for William Ewin/g. > Frances is said to have died 17 FEB 1890 in Creston, Iowa. Courthouse > searches there by myself and a volunteer have turned up no burial record > for her there. > > So.....could you check the Streator library records. > It is worth it to me, since Streator lies so close to where this couple > lived in Illinois. > I was thinking that maybe there could be a burial record for one or both of > them if their families brought them back to Illinois for burial. > > This Frances Ewin/g was Frances Stratton. > I had a wonderful lady in Marshall county help me with burial records for > the Stratton's in Marshall county. She found the Stratton burial records in > the Rutland cemetery, but nothing for my Frances Stratton Ewin/g or her > husband William. > > I know the timeframe was 1888 and 1890, but I want to think that the family > at that time would have documented their deaths with a burial recorded > somewhere, even if there was no tombstone marking the grave/s. > I will keep looking and do appreciate any help you can give me in Streator. > I know this is a long shot, but not an impossibility. > Thanks for your attention and time when that permits. > Always seeking those elusive ancestors....there is always one more story to > find!! > Linda Ewin Ziemann > > Search engine use: > http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/IA/index.html > Linda Ziemann, County Coordinator > Plymouth County Iowa > NewspaperAbstracts > http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/IA/Plymouth/index.html > > ============================== > 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