Thanks so much. This really helps. Peggy -----Original Message----- From: Carrie [mailto:hetaerae@swbell.net] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:04 PM To: ILMADISO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ILMADISO-L] GERVIG >Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 20:44:06 -0600 >To: ILMADISO-L@rootsweb.com >From: Carrie <hetaerae@swbell.net> >Subject: Re: [ILMADISO-L] GERVIG > >I found the following on Ancestry.com and in the Edwardsville >Intelligencer. Looks like Mr. Gervig died in Pike County, MO, possibly in >the city of Louisiana, MO, and his estate was probated in Madison >County. The given date death here is different from what you have given, >so you'll need to verify the death date you have, or verify that the >information given here is for the correct Phillip Gervig. > >Alton, IL directory for 1890: >Name: Philip Gervig >Location 1: 306 Belle >City: Alton >State: IL >Occupation: barber >Year: 1889, 1890 >Location 2: r 512 State > >Pike County, Missouri Deaths, 1878-1911 >Name: Phillip Gervig >Age or Birth Date: #IL >Death Date: 16 Jan 1897 >Publication Date: 21 Jan 1897 > >The Pike County, MO death database doesn't give details, just names and >dates. It also lists a brother, Fred Gervig. > >Edwardsville Intelligencer, January 22, 1897 >Under Probate Proceedings before Judge William P. Earley on page 1: >Phillipe Gervig, deceased; proof of death made; last will presented; Henry >S. Baker and Fred Gervig witnesses. > >Edwardsville Intelligencer, January 29, 1897 >Under Probate Proceedings before Judge William P. Earley on page 1: >Philip Gervig, deceased; depositions of Fred Gervig, of Louisiana, >Missouri, presented; Will admitted to probate; Gertrude Gervig being named >executrix without bond, letter issued. > >The 1890 Census shows Frederick Gervig living in Louisiana, >MO. Occupation was cigar manufacturer. Born 1865 in Germany. > >In the 1920 Census, there is a Phillip M. Gervig, born circa 1889, listed >as an auditor for a railroad company in Alton, IL. Could this be a >son? The Census states that he was born in Illinois, and his father and >mother were born in France. > > >At 10:53 AM 4/2/2004 -0600, you wrote: >>I am trying to help a lady become a member of Colonial Dames and need an >>obituary or >>cemetery record for Philippe Marzolf Gervig who died June 15, 1897 at Alton, >>Madison county, Illinois. >> >>Thanks >> >>Peggy Duty >>4001 N. 22nd St. >>Waco TX 76708 >> >> >> >> >>==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== >>Search USGenWeb including the archives, census' which are done, etc.: >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm > >Carrie >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >...Then they filled, with clear, shallow water, >the whole breadth of this broad canal, and set >little whirlpools turning in the depths, >and for the first time mirrored the green banks >and distant calls of birds -- while in the sky >the starry nights of another, sweeter country >blossomed above them and would never close. >Tombs of the Hetaerae, by Rainier Maria Rilke >Translation by Stephen Mitchell Carrie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...Then they filled, with clear, shallow water, the whole breadth of this broad canal, and set little whirlpools turning in the depths, and for the first time mirrored the green banks and distant calls of birds -- while in the sky the starry nights of another, sweeter country blossomed above them and would never close. Tombs of the Hetaerae, by Rainier Maria Rilke Translation by Stephen Mitchell ==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== Passenger Lists on the internet search: http://www.google.com/search?q=Passenger+Lists&btnG=Google+Search