This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shoemaker Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hg.2ADI/620.1 Message Board Post: You will not find an obituary for John Shoemaker as obituaries just were not done in that time period. He is also not found in the cemetery walkdowns done in the 1960's so he may have had no stone or it may have been gone by the 1960's. Your best bet would be to look for a will and/or probate in Mercer County. We have a page up on the Shoemakers at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Shores/2731/Shoemaker.html but have no more information than you. There is a cemetery record for a Martha and for a Sarah in Glancey Cemetery in Eliza Township. I will try to get this record and post it for you. If they are daughters of John and Elizabeth, then John is probably buried there too with no surviving headstone. You will also find instructions for ordering a will or probate on our Mercer County Resources page at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Shores/2731/Resources.html

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shoemaker, Yarbrough, Norris, Borden, Barnes, Pate Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hg.2ADI/620 Message Board Post: Looking for obituary or death record of John Shoemaker born about 1802 in Ohio. John died after 1850 but before July of 1860. Parents unknown. Wife was Elizabeth Dewitt/Dewett. Elizabeth died after 1860. They married in Montgomery County Indiana 4 February 1830. Owned a fruit farm, possibly apple orchard, in Mercer County. John and Elizabeth had ten children: William, Benjamin, Polly Jane, George William (my ggggrandfather), Elias, Martha, Harrison, Eliza, Sarah, and John.

Our ancestor Eliza Jane Tompson (often spelled Thomson) was the daughter of Cornelius Tomson/Thomson. She married Samuel Piersol in Rock Island Illinois. This was in the 1840's. Keep my name as when you get back a little further we may be related. We found very few Thomson/Tomson families in Rock Island/Mercer Co. during the late 1800's. We just returned from a 5 day genealogy finding trip to Mercer and Rock Island Co. Many of our Irish ancestors who came to Rock Island came from Ireland in a large group of friends & family. They moved to Ohio and then on to Rock Island, IL (Bowling TWP); then to Mercer Co. (Preemption TWP); then to What Cheer, Keokuk Co., Iowa; then to Scott, Poweshiek, Iowa; then to Nebraska then to Kansas then to Colorado. Maybe this will help down the road. Trudy ----- Original Message ----- From: <GHarris10@aol.com> To: <ILMERCER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 12:26 PM Subject: [ILMERCER-L] Thomson > Have a letter written on February 2, 1944 by S. A. Thomson of 726 23 St., > Moline. He speaks of his siblings David Thomson, Wm. Maley Thomson, Abraham > Lincoln Thomson and Rev. John Thomson. Evidently there was an "old home > place in Aledo," where twin sisters lived. > > Has anyone any knowledge of this family and/or where the "old home place" > would have been? > > Many thanks in advance. > > Gayle T. Harris > 261 Medlock Lane > Alexandria VA 22304 > >

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/hg.2ADI/5.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Who and where are the Cooke surnames you are looking for? I am also looking for Cook(e)'s from Rock Island County area... Lets get in touch.

Catrina. I'm confused. Is the name you are looking for McMeekin/McMeekan or McKeekan. My family is McMeekan from the Cable, Rock Island, Coal Valley, Aledo Area. With all families having a zillion Don, Doug, Jim, etc. I'm not sure if any of yours might fit with any of mine or not. Peggy from Wyoming Catrinnas@yahoo.com wrote: > 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/hg.2ADI/138.1.2 > > Message Board Post: > > I show McKeekan's or McKeekins in my family line: > > Mary leanne harris married McMeekan, and they had the following children: > Donald Eugene, Jeff, Doug, Jim, and Diana Marie. I show the name of Baker in this family as well. My connection is to the Jones family from the Rock island, Mercer County, Sheffield, Coal Valley area. The Jones married into the Harris family, and hence the Mckeekan family. > > Do any of these names sound familiar? > Catrina

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KINSEY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hg.2ADI/619.2.1 Message Board Post: Thanks. I did check on the Mercer Co. Web site, but my particular Kinseys aren't included in the Greenmound listings there (DAR). I'm looking for: Bessie Hill Kinsey, 1890-1932; Charles B. Kinsey (her husband), 1885-1946. Also looking for his parents, Lemuel and Kate or Catherine Kinsey. I believe there are also buried there. Can you tell me section and lot numbers too? Thanks again!

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/hg.2ADI/138.1.2 Message Board Post: I show McKeekan's or McKeekins in my family line: Mary leanne harris married McMeekan, and they had the following children: Donald Eugene, Jeff, Doug, Jim, and Diana Marie. I show the name of Baker in this family as well. My connection is to the Jones family from the Rock island, Mercer County, Sheffield, Coal Valley area. The Jones married into the Harris family, and hence the Mckeekan family. Do any of these names sound familiar? Catrina

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/hg.2ADI/619.2 Message Board Post: City hall in Keithsburg has records. I live here, who are you looking for? the Mercer DAR list did miss a few people. I have a map of the cem. There is a Kinsey plot listed.

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/hg.2ADI/537.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Phyllis, Thank you for your reply. Barb

Laura, I have quite a bit of info on the Kinsey family. I am researching the Garner family and I have a Garner relative that married into the Kinsey family. Are you looking for anyone in particular? I have Kinsey family members that are buried in Keithsburg and the Quaker Cem in Richland Grove , Mercer, Illinois. Maybe I can help. Regards, Marna Wakeland Wilson

Have a letter written on February 2, 1944 by S. A. Thomson of 726 23 St., Moline. He speaks of his siblings David Thomson, Wm. Maley Thomson, Abraham Lincoln Thomson and Rev. John Thomson. Evidently there was an "old home place in Aledo," where twin sisters lived. Has anyone any knowledge of this family and/or where the "old home place" would have been? Many thanks in advance. Gayle T. Harris 261 Medlock Lane Alexandria VA 22304

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/hg.2ADI/537.1.1 Message Board Post: Barb, I don't know anything about Florence Zeisler other than what is in Bert's obituary. He married my grandmother's sister Grace Beard and I gathered as many of the family obituaries and put them on the Mercer County obituary board to help others doing like research. Evidently Florence was still alive when Bert died in 1946, so if she died in the 40's it was after that. Thanks for your reply. Phyllis

Larry McHenry has walked the cemetery numerous times and knows more than you can imagine about the cemetery. You can try to reach him via e-mail at<larryonthebay@juno.com> (and tell him Ruthie sentcha--grin!). ----- Original Message ----- From: <gee.nealogy@worldnet.att.net> To: <ILMERCER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:23 AM Subject: [ILMERCER-L] Re: Greenmound Cemetery, Keithsburg > 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/hg.2ADI/619.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Doubt that the cemetery has an office; try the Mercer County site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmercer/ > >

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/hg.2ADI/619.1 Message Board Post: Doubt that the cemetery has an office; try the Mercer County site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmercer/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KINSEY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hg.2ADI/619 Message Board Post: I just learned that I have ancestors buried in Greenmound Cemetery in Keithsburg, IL. Does anyone have an address or for this cemetery? I'd like to write regarding burial records. Thanks.

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/hg.2ADI/537.1 Message Board Post: Phyllis, I knew Florence Zeisler. She was married to Dad's cousin, John Zeisler who was a Peoria Policeman. Didn't Florence pass away sometime in the 1940"s? Barb

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/hg.2ADI/618 Message Board Post: I am researching the family of Ashley Jackson Furby. He was born in March, 1831 in Indiana, and died June 5, 1913 in Genoa, Nebraska. It is known he married Isabelle H. Hays October 25, 1862 in Aldo, Mercer County, Illinois. She was born October 29, 1838 in Pennsylvania and died May 21, 1918 in Genoa, Nebraska. Their first child, James Omar Furby, was born March 12, 1866 in Mercer County, Illinois. Their second child, John A. Furby, was born September 4, 1866 in Mercer County, Illinois according to the Furby Family Bible. However, either the birth date for James or John must have been recorded incorrectly, they are too close together. Their third child, Stephen J. Furby, was born October 29, 1874 in Linden, Missouri, thus the family moved from Mercer County to Missouri sometime between 1866 and 1874. Any information would be sincerely appreciated. My complete family tree may be found at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=wrwoodwa&recno=1218 Thank you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Busch, Giger, Sonderer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hg.2ADI/617 Message Board Post: I found this while researching cases. I have no relation to or have further information regarding the following. Giger v. Busch, 122 Ill.App. 13 (Ill.App., 1905) Jacob Busch was a native of the Canton of St. Galls, Switzerland. He came to the United States in 1854 and settled in Mercer county, Illinois, in 1860, where he lived until his death, which occurred April 10, 1902. He had a wife who survives him, but had no children. His heirs are his nephews and nieces and the children of deceased nephews and nieces, all of whom, except one, reside in Switzerland in or near the Canton of St. Galls. The parents of Joseph Busch resided all their lives in Switzerland and died there, his father in 1851 and his mother in 1857. None of the family had ever resided in the German Empire at any time within the recollection of the oldest survivors, except Freida Giger, the appellant herein, of whom the following account is given: Freida Giger is a daughter of Joseph Giger; Joseph was a nephew of Joseph Busch. Freida was born in 1892 and was the youngest child of a large family. She and a brother two years older than herself, were placed in an orphans asylum in the Canton of St. Galls in 1894. In 1896 Mr. Sonderer, a citizen of Freudenstadt, Wurtemberg, Germany, by consent and arrangement with the superintendent of the poor, took the child Freida to his home in Germany to rear her in his family. He kept her until August, 1897, when Mr. Sonderer, having decided to emigrate to the United States, left the child with Gottfried O. Nauhardt, a citizen of Leipsic, Germany, who took her into his family as his foster child, where she was at the date of the making the will and the death of Joseph Busch. Freida Giger has a guardian who resides in the Canton of St. Galls. In 1895 and again in 1898, Joseph Busch visited his relatives in Switzerland and on each occasion he made a present of 100 francs to each of his relatives; the shares of Freida and others under age were left for them with a custodian in Switzerland. While on the return from his last visit, Joseph Busch expressed his intention of making a will and giving everything to his wife and at her death he wanted all sent to his relatives to be equally divided among them. This conversation was had with Mr. Looser, who is also a native of Switzerland and came to the United States at the same time Busch came. He is one of the executors of the will appointed by Busch. Mr. Looser also testifies that he visited Joseph Busch in his last illness, and that the deceased told him he had made a will and handed the will to Looser to read. Mr. Looser called his attention to the use of the words "in Germany," and told him he should correct that and say "in Switzerland," to which he replied, "It is n! o difference, it is all Deutschland, it is all the same." *2 It is also shown that while the Canton of St. Galls is within the territorial limits of Switzerland, it is settled by people who speak the German language and that German habits and customs prevail there.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McNamara, Spurrell, Alexander, Kelly, French, Willers, Stedman, Mills, Herndon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hg.2ADI/616 Message Board Post: I am looking for the connection between my grandmother Lora M. McNamara/Spurrell buried in the Alexis Cemetery with other McNamaras, a Bill and a Nancy A. to name a couple. I don't know the connection, but am looking for Loras Parents. Lora lived in Davenport Iowa but after her death was buried with these relateives. If anyone has any McNamara relatives in Alexis Cemetery please email me. Thanks in advance

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cook, Cooke, Crawford, Hudson, Holdsworth, Grear, Raistrick, Callahan, Ray Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hg.2ADI/615 Message Board Post: I am searching for the following family. Please contact me if you know anything about these people. William Cook b: abt 1830, Great Brittain, married Mary Hudson b: abt 1831, Great Brittain. Believed to have come to Coal Valley, IL area from England btwn 1868-1873. William A. Cook was a coal miner in IL and died in 1895 of being crushed to death by falling rocks. Children of William Cook and Mary Hudson : Zechariah William Cook b:1868 Oldham England Miriam Cook b: 1862 Oldham England Abraham Cook b: 1873 IL Zechariah Cook married Ellen Callahan 1890, Rock Island County, IL Zechariah Cook also married Malissa Luvinna Crawford 1899, Mercer County, IL at which time his name was changed from Cook to Cooke by mistake. Zechariah Cook was a coal miner, and was in the Spanish American War 1898 upon the USS Vermont. Children of Zechariah Cooke and Malissa Crawford : William E. Cooke b: Jan 1900 Esther E. Cooke b: July 1901 Vernon Cooke Frances F. Cooke b: July 1909 Irma Cooke Glen Cooke Raymond Cooke Charlotte Cooke Kenneth Cooke-died as a baby Lucille Cooke-died as a baby Miriam Cook, daughter of William and Mary Cook, married George William Grear 1888, Rock Island County, IL Abraham Cook, son of William and Mary Cook, married Phoebe Holdsworth 1894, Rock Island County, IL Esther Cooke, daughter of Zechariah and Malissa Cooke married Thomas Alford Raistrick. Esther (Cooke) Raistrick died Feb 14, 1929. Esther (Cooke) Raistrick had 4 children, some are still living so I wont post their names. However one child was Violet Cooke b: 1919 IL and d: 1985, IL Frances Cooke, daughter of Zechariah and Malissa Cooke, married John Ray in 1927, IL and she died Nov 2001. Some of the family listed here lived in surrounding areas such as Preemption, Cable and Matherville, that we know of. Some of this family also moved south in IL settling in Peoria County, IL around the early 1900's Thank you and God bless.