Hi Linda, Are there any Strunk's or Wheeler's listed in the book? Thank you, Jan Durr -----Original Message----- From: dogtraks [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 12:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ILMacoupin] Migrations to KS For what it is worth: The coal mines opened at McAlester, Pittsburg county Oklahoma as soon as the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad reached the crossroads store of J.J. McAlester in 1872 and going full blast by 1888. Located in McAlester is a memorial wall of the miners killed in the mines. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 10:08 AM Subject: Re: [ILMacoupin] Migrations to KS > Holms S. (Hal) Young wrote about following the coal mines to Kansas. > There > were other types of mines in the Joplin, Missouri area including Newton > County, Missouri besides the coal mines of Pittsburg, Kansas. Miami, > Ottawa > County, Oklahoma also had mining going on in the late 1800s and into the > early > 1900s. > > I have found Ditsons in Galena, Kansas (just over the state line from > Joplin). Also, know Lair and Crays migrated to that area as well. > > A quite check of a book I have in my own library, (Cemetery Inscriptions, > Cherokee County, Kansas Compiled by Don Ford, 1988) found people with the > following surnames that may or may not have a Macoupin County, Illinois > connection: Bevins, Bird, Bridges, Cherry, Clevenger, Crays, Ditson, > Doss, Doty, > Dugger, Lair, Large, Mahan, Mayberry, Nash, Rice plus many of the more > common > names. > > The back cover reads, "All the inscriptions from the fifty-five known > cemeteries in Cherokee County are included in this volume. The > inscriptions give > the name of the deceased, dates of birth and death (or age), maiden names > of > women, relationships, and comments on military service, to the extent > that > such information was given on the gravestones. The inscriptions are in > alphabetical order with a code identifying the cemetery, and there is a > cross-index > to buried names." > > If anyone thinks they may have a relative who may be listed in this book, > I > will be happy to do a quick check. > > Linda R.F. Arnold > California > > > > > > ==== ILMACOUP Mailing List ==== > Macoupin County Historical Society books for sale: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/m_bksale.htm#hissoc > > ==== ILMACOUP Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from [email protected], send a message to: [email protected] that contains in the body of the message the command: unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but your software may require one.