Dear good folks of the Dearborn County Rootsweb list, I am seeking information regarding William Edgar Ramsey, believed born in or near Aurora, Indiana 20 July, 1892. It is known that he served in the Navy and later migrated to the Cincinnati area of Ohio. His wife is believed to be Alma Becker. Any information would be greatly appreciated. So shines your good deed. Sincerely, Jennifer

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Robbins ,Huston Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1646.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Earl, sorry it took so long to get back to you, This is what I have on Daniel G. Robbins, a caption from my notes,................Daniel G. Robbins was born in Hamilton County,Ohio on June 6th, 1828. He was first born to Elijah C. and Ann Eliza Robbins. His wife Mary J.(last name unconfirmed). Daniel G.Robbins siblings were Richard,who died prior to 1860 at an early age, sister Ann, no info at all on her that she was born in estimated 1864 in Hamilton County,Ohio, Montraville Robbins born in Cincinnati Ohio in Aug.of 1841 and Isaac D.Robbins born in Manchester,Indiana in March of 1843........Daniel G. Robbins DIED on April 16,1870, and wife Mary J. died April 3rd, 1877?????, and that is the only data that I have on them, our death dates are in range with a difference of 9 days, I would be most grateful if you can obtain the obituarie on Daniel G. Robbins ,it might yeild some addendom info, and if you have the time check November 5thru 11 for an obit on Isaac .D.Robbins mi! ght yeild some addedum info.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: STEWART, RUSH, CARNES, POPE, BURRIS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1937 Message Board Post: I am searching for anybody with a connection to Stephen Stewart in Dearborn county. I believe that Stephen could be my gg granfathers father. Any info would help me! Thank you!

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/Sh.2ADI/426.1 Message Board Post: I saw your listing and I have a Benjamin Drake in my database. However the other names I do not have. My Benjamin Drake was born in Ky and died in In. My mother's maiden name was Drake. I have a Raymond and Harry Drake also. Any match?

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/Sh.2ADI/1771.1 Message Board Post: I saw your listing and I was unable to find a match in my database. However, do you have a Benjamin, Harry or Raymond Drake? My mother's maiden name was Drake. I only remember them living in Aurora and Kentucky.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Longsten/Stack Bridwell/Conger Birdewell/Shell Birdzell/Fitzpatrick Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1936 Message Board Post: I have 4 Cirtificates I am not using. I am hopeful someone out here can. They are as follows. Emmeyy Logston/Alma G. Stack 1864 John Bridwell/Lillie Conger 1880 Eliza Birdewell/Joseph Snell 1880 Thomas A Birdze;;/Anna Fitzpatrick 1860 Send me your snail mail if you can use.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HARFE, NATHAN, LAUGHERY, SUTTON, BOND, COBO, EMRIE Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1935 Message Board Post: The Mail Hagerstown, Washington Co, Maryland Friday, August 16, 1872 Discovery of Another Mammoth Cave Skeletons Found in It - The NATHAN Murderer Aurora, Indiana - July 16 - The people of this city are laboring under intense excitement occasioned by the discovery of a large cave and the remains of three persons, two miles below this city, on the Kentucky shore. The locality known as Split Rock, familiar to old river men as Kirby's Rocks, two miles below here, in Boone County, Kentucky, is a wild, romantic place, consisting of a high cleft of rocks, tossed and tumbled about promiscuously, as if by some mighty convulsion of nature in ages past. A dense growth of foliage borders the north side of this rocky prominence. Early this morning three boys crossed over into Kentucky for the purposes of gathering blackberries. At ten o'clock they returned in an excited state, and reported that they had found a cave at Split Rock heretofore unknown. They and their parents, with several others, out of curiosity, started for the place. Two or three small caverns beneath some of the rocks had been known there for years, and nothing beyond something like this was expected by the party. Arriving at the edge of the rocks, the boys made their way through the dense thicket of vines and bushes, followed by the men. A tree had been uprooted by the storm, which recently passed over this neighborhood, tearing up the earth and disclosing the entrance of the cave. Lamps were procured at a farm house nearby, and the party commenced the exploration. In the meantime some of the company returned to Aurora, and some scores of people were hurrying to the place. A skin, containing Dr. SUTTON and BOND, O. P. COBO, Mayo EMRIE, and the writer, was among the earliest at the place, and the party proceeded to make a thorough examination of the premises. The party who had first gone in returned, giving a wonderful report of the dimensions of the cave, and startling the little company by the report of the discovery of the remains of three human beings, one of which, from pretty good evidence, seemed to be THE MURDERER OF BENJAMIN NATHAN ! The entrance of the cave faces directly west, and is about one-fourth of a mile from the river shore. It is about four feet high and perhaps as wide. Two lime stone rocks form the sides of the entrance, and the roof is of a heavy shale of the same material. Both sides and roof are rough and irregular in form, sharp-pointed, jutting out in all directions. About twenty feet from the mouth, the floor drops abruptly down for two or three feet. The party had proceeded thus far when they fell back aghast as the pale light of the lamps disclosed the skeleton of a human being, covering which were the clothes it had worn when alive. The garments consisted of a black frock woolen coat, a mixed-gray pair of pants, and a vest of apparently the same material, and a dark hat. The physicians gave it as their opinion that the body had lain there for a year probably. In one of the pockets was found a penknife, and in another a copy of a New York paper dated May 3, 1870, on the margin! of which was written in pencil, almost illegibly, the following CONFESSION I have found a hiding place from man, but God's eye follows me even here. I murdered Benjamin NATHAN, and am dying now. God forgive me, and have mercy on my soul! I die by my own hand. - Antonio HARFE In another place was found written the words, "Oh, my mother". Can this be the murderer of Benjamin Nathan? Some believe it is, while others are inclined to think it is but the freak of a crazy man. Nearly two years ago there is remembered to have been seen in the locality of the cave, an unknown apparently crazy man, whose dress corresponded with that found on the skeleton. After a time he suddenly disappeared. Many believe that unknown man and skeleton are identical, which is quite probable. The room in which the skeleton was found gradually widens and increases in height, and the lights of half a dozen lamps do show the end. Near the mouth, the floor or bottom seemed to be of black earth, but it is of solid rock. Frequent examinations failed to discover any variety of stone or rock comprising the sides of the cave to be other than lime, except here and there a deposit of iron ore. The floor dips and rises at intervals in the form of huge waves. At different points the roof is scooped and hollowed out corresponding with the wave like formation of the floor, and at others it is even and regular. We pick our way into this new subterranean wonder with caution, ever on the lookout for chasms and pits, of which, however, we found but one of any dimension. Numerous side caverns lead off at intervals, but so far as explored none extend beyond a distance of a dozen paces. At a distance of perhaps two hundred feet from the entrance, the cave forms an angle with it! self, turning abruptly to the left. Thus far we have been leading directly down the river, but this turn takes us directly from the river and into the hills which be back of this point. Beyond this, rocks, forming the sides, draw gradually together, narrowing the cave as it proceeds. About 75 feet from the turning point, the room is harrowed down until a man's body is only admitted comfortably. At this point the roof is about 25 feet above our hands. This continues about 30 feet, and the hall again becomes suddenly wider. Twenty feet from the terminus of the narrow passage, the room is at least 40 feet wide, and half as high. In this room, which is estimated to be 100 FEET in LENGTH, we hear the murmur of running water. A short search in the uncertan light discovers a little stream no larger than a man's finger winding in serpentine curves along the left of the room. We trace it up and find its source. It bursts out of the wall about three feet from the floor, and running down in a sheet over the side, insinuates itself into a well-worn channel and hurries on for perhaps the distance of 89 feet where it disappears in a small crevice in the rock. The bed, through which this little steam runs, is chiselled out and polished, smooth as glass. At places it is worn down about a foot, while at others, it is only two inches. This rooom is not excelled in grandeur by any in the great Mammoth Cave of Edmonson County. The sides are rough and jagged and are covered with a dark-colored incrustation of iron and manganese. Interpersed with this are shining crystals of gypsum, and the effect is grand and beautiful. The ceiling, which is rather concave, is pictu! red in the same fastastic manner, and we gaze upon it in wonder and admiration. Hanging pendent from the ceiling and from protruding rocks in the walls, are beautiful stalactites that have doubtless been ages in forming. Here we found pillars reaching the floor to the ceiling, a distance of fifteen feet. Mammoth Cave has them thirty feet in heights. By the light of our flickering lamps, we continue our examination, meeting with natures's greatest handiwork at every turn. RELICS OF PAST AGES are scattered here and there, showing that the cave was known by earlier races. It was doubtless a resort for the Indians, as numerous arrowheads and stones bearing the crude carving of the red men have been picked up. A kind of tomahawk, carved out of the solid rock, was found near the entrance of the cave by Dr. G. SUTTON. It is a curiously modelled affair, and has rude characters scratched upon the side. The party continued its explorations, ever meeting with something that filled them with awe and wonder. No actual measurement has yet been made, but it is believed the cave is two miles in length. It abounds in immense chambers, and has nine side caverns starting out at different points. The pit discovered is about midway in, and at the top, is perhaps eight feet in diameter. Its sides, so far as seen, are rough and irregular. Water can be heard within it. A paper lighted and thrown down was extinguished about twenty feet from the top. A stone dropped down gave! back hollow and repulchral sounds, and it was thought to have dropped at least forty feet before striking the bottom. In one of the small caverns were found two of the skeletons above spoken of. How came they there? Many are the conjectures indulged in. The general belief is that they are the remains of the SURVIVORS OF THE LAUGHERY MASSACRE who, wounded and pursued by the Indians, secreted themselves and perished. This memorable massacre took place in the year 1781. A company of Virginia soldiers, under the command of Col. Septimus LAUGHERY were passing down in a boat to join a command at Louisville, when they were decoyed ashore here by Indians and all were killed by the treacherous savages. At this time a stream of excited people are passing in and out of this newly discovered realm of darkness, and further discoveries will doubtless be made. ==================== - Dorinda Shepley [email protected] Early Frederick County, Maryland http://midmdroots.freewebspace.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MEDD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1934 Message Board Post: I am searching for additional information on my g-g-grandparents Thomas & Susan (Poshard) Medd. Lived in Dearborn County during the mid to late 1800's and had 14 children. Am also looking for decendants of Thomas's brother John.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Roberts, Medd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/973.2 Message Board Post: Just saw this message this evening and hope you receive my reply. Thomas Roberts did marry his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Yerkes. Correct spelling of her maiden name is MEDD. She was a sister to my gr-gr-grandfather. Do you have more info about her or her family?

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/Sh.2ADI/1894.1 Message Board Post: Hello, My name is Brandy. I am looking for information on my great grandmother Anna Mae schoonover. All I know is she married Claud earl Tyree. If you have any info please contact me. [email protected]

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/Sh.2ADI/892.1 Message Board Post: I show William Bridwell and Sarah Rogers Bridwell married 1856. They had 10 children of which there was a John

Looking for information on any Lemmon families in the area, especially near the Ohio border. Before 1850. Thanks Craig Herron

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/Sh.2ADI/1933.1 Message Board Post: Hi Dana. Using all three variations of the name I was unable to find anyone in Dearborn county with that last name. Trying to find a youngsters name in any census prior to 1850 is almost impossibe because until that date the only names listed were that of the head of household, all others, including the head, were listed by gender and approximate age. Good luck. Don

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/Sh.2ADI/1933 Message Board Post: Hi, Do any of have access to the 1840 US Census for Dearborn County? I am looking for the Dickman (Dikman, Dyckman) family. Specifically Anna Marie (Mary) she would have been approx. 10 years old in 1840. Any help would be appreciated. Dana Stokes

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/Sh.2ADI/1903.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello, and thank you for your reply. Is Sutton Hill near the the "mansion" -- forgot the name of it....Hillforest.. Someone else suggested that it might be Vereastau. Is this the same place? I am interested in your surname -- Nowlin. My Blasdel family was closely related to the Nowlin family. In fact, one of my gr.gr. aunts lived in the Nowlin house in Dearborn County for a time. Think they were first cousins at that time. Thanks for your suggestion. Is the house on Sutton Hill still there? And who lives there now? Also, is it the Sutton who was the Doctor? I am also related to Suttons from Ripley Co. (orginally from Dearborn). Marilyn

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/Sh.2ADI/1903.1 Message Board Post: Hello, The area you are speaking about sounds like up on what I knew as Sutton Hill...I think John Sutton lives up there and Pricilla Lowe lived there until she passed away several years ago...This road is off of Fifth Street in Aurora....Ms Lowe used to get her shot gun out is any of the town ruffians came up there.....Hope this helps a little.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Walum, Wollam, Woolham, Wollem, Woollum, Woolm, Wolom Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1932 Message Board Post: I have found a Peter Walum in Mercer County, Township Center, Ohio in 1840 census. They are a family of 8. Peter born about 1790-1800 Wife born about 1800-1810 male child born about 1820-1825 male child born about 1825-1830 male child born about 1830-1835 female child born about 1825-1830 female child born about 1830-1835 female child born after 1835 Does anyone know of this family, my James C. Wollam said he was born in Mercer County, in 1838-1839

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/Sh.2ADI/1442.3 Message Board Post: In the 1860 census I found: RISINGER, ANN (1860 U.S. Census) Indiana, RIPLEY, DELAWARE TWP Age 50, Female, Race: White, Born: KY Series: M653 Roll: 293 Page: 167 There is a Harrison age 11 in this household. In the 1910 census Harrison was with Abigail. RISINGER, HARRISON (1910 U.S. Census) Indiana, DEARBORN, LAWRENCEBURG TWP Age 61, Male, Race: White, Born: IN Series: T624 Roll: 345 Page: 146 Hope this helps, Dan in Florida

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/Sh.2ADI/1442.2 Message Board Post: In the 1850 census I found this Risinger. There is a Harrison age 2 in this household. Risinger, Jacob View Image Online State: Indiana Year: 1850 County: Ripley Roll: M432_169 Township: Delaware Twp Page: 204 Image: 32 As you can see they are in Ripley county next county west of Dearborn. Hope this helps, Dan in Florida

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Risinger/Rysinger/Reisinger/Small/Schmahl Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sh.2ADI/1442.1 Message Board Post: Nancie, I am also looking for Risingers in Dearborn IN. I have followed a George there in 1840 from PA (I think they are one and the same) but lose them after that. I was wondering if we could compare notes and perhaps George and Elizabeth Small Risinger will end up being your Harrison's parents. Do you know anything more about him? Siblings? Hope to hear from you soon, Janet Currie