I'm looking for information concerning my great grandfather. His name was Bertin Johnson and grew up around the Buffalo Center, Winnebago Co, IA area. He was born about 1860 or so and am not sure of date of death. He was a barber and is buried in Graceland cemetary in Buffalo Center. Any info. would be helpful. Thanks Dave Johnson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

I am so sorry. I hit the send all button on my mail waiting to be sent. Instead of the single send email button. Cathy does not have all of these files online yet. Please forgive me for flooding your mailbox. I try to send an email a day. I am so sorry. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

You can read the whole chapter on the Iowa History Site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER IX MANUEL LISA ON THE MISSOURI SLOPE Just a little while after the close of the Revolutionary War, a Spanish boy, named Manuel Lisa, came up the Mississippi River from New Orleans and stopped at St. Louis, which then belonged to Spain. At this time Manuel was about eighteen years old. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ We would not have liked their food, either. For breakfast they might have hominy, but without butter, sugar, or cream. Dinner perhaps consisted of fat pork and biscuits, though often the biscuits got wet and could not be used. For supper they might have a bowl of mush with a pound of tallow melted in it. Sometimes, however, they killed a deer or a buffalo, and then they had fine steaks roasted on a stick before the fire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

You can read the whole section on the Iowa History site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MODERN CONVENIENCES FOR THE FARM HOME DISPOSAL OF ASHES, GARBAGE, AND MISCELLANEOUS REFUSE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a very small section. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

the subtitles of Chapter 5 are below. You can read the whole chapter on the Iowa History Site. Under History of Iowa Vol 3 chapter 5 - Funny in their election there was big trouble in Florida then too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CHAPTER V The Fifteenth General Assembly - Contest Over Election of Speaker - Investigation of the Agricultural College - Its Management Vindicated - A Bill Passed Regulating Railroad Charges - The Burlington Railway Resists the Enforcement of the Law - Judge Dillon of the U. S. Circuit Court Sustains the Law - A Decision of Vast Importance - Political Conventions of 1875 - Kirkwood Again Nominated for Governor - The Republican Candidates Elected - Governor Kirkwood Chosen United States Senator - Temperance State Convention - Reunion of the Army of the Tennessee at Des Moines - Distinguished Generals in Attendance - General Grant's Famous Speech - Misrepresentation and Controversy Finally Settled - Political Conventions of 1876 - Result of the Presidential Election in Doubt - George W. McCrary of Iowa Frames a Bill which Settles the Controversy................................................... Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Below is part of the chapter. The whole chapter can be read on the Iowa History Site. STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER VIII UP THE MISSISSIPPI WITH PIKE You have already learned how Iowa became a part of the United States, and how President Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark up the missouri River to explore the western part of the new purchase. The government also wanted to learn more about the region of the upper Mississippi Valley. Accordingly early in the summer of 1805 General James Wilkinson at St. Louis ordered Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike to make a trip to the source of the Mississippi River. This Lieutenant Pike is the same man who later discovered and gave his name to Pike's Peak in Colorado, At this time he was only twenty-six years old. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

This is part of chapter 7. The whole chapter is on the Iowa History Site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER VII UP THE MISSOURI WITH LEWIS AND CLARK If you visit the northwestern part of Iowa and stop at Sioux City, you will see a tall stone monument rising one hundred feet above the ground. This was built in 1901 to mark the place where almost a century before a young soldier had been buried. This was Sergeant Floyd who started up the Missouri River in the spring of 1804 with Lewis and Clark. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Going up the river they could travel about twelve or fifteen miles a day, just about as far as an ordinary automobile goes in half an hour. Sometimes they could use the sails, but when the wind was not in the right direction they had to row the boats, or the men walked along the shore and pulled the boars up the river by a rope. Once one of the pirogues stuck on a sand bar and would have tipped over in the wind if the men had not jumped out in the water and held it until the storm passed. There they stood on the sand with the muddy water of the Missouri rushing past them, while the wind blew, the thunder crashed about them, and the rain beat down. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Below is only part of the chapter. You can read the whole chapter by going to the Iowa History Site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Fox Indians-Their Early Wars - "Hill of the Dead" - Union with the Sacs - The United Tribes Move West - Treaties with the Whites - Found in Iowa in 1805 - Sac Village on Rock River - The Disputed Treaty of 1804 - Sacs and Foxes in the War of 1812 - Treaties of 1824 and 1825 - Massacre of Foxes in 1828 - Retaliation - The Black Hawk War of 1831-2 - "Stillman's Run" - Battle of the Wisconsin River - Black Hawk's Masterly Retreat - The Massacre of Women and Children at Bad Axe - Black Hawk a Prisoner - His Rival, Keokuk, Made Chief - Pathetic Address of the Deposed Chieftain - Death of Black Hawk.................................................................................................. ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Sac village on Rock River was one of the oldest in the upper Mississippi Valley. Black Hawk, in his autobiography, says it was built in 1831; it was named Saukenuk. This was for more than fifty years the largest village of the Sacs and contained in 1825 a population of not less than eight thousand. The houses were substantially built, and were from thirty to one hundred feet in length and from sixteen to forty feet in width. They were made with a frame of poles covered with sheathing of elm bark fastened on with thongs of buckskin. The doorways were three feet by six and before them were suspended buffalo skins. These houses were divided into rooms separated by a hall extending the length of the building. Fire-pits were provided with openings for the smoke. The beds were made of skins of animals thrown over elevated frames of elastic poles. Half a mile east of the town is a bold promontory rising two hundred feet from the bed of Rock River. This was known as "Black Hawk's Watch Tower," and was the favorite resort of the great Sac chieftain. here he would sit smoking his pipe, enjoying the grand scenery spread out before him; the beautiful valley of Rock River, the mighty current of the Mississippi and the bluffs of the Iowa shore fringed with forests. Here he was born and it was the home of his father, Py-e-sa, one of the great Sac chiefs. It is to his credit that he clung to his old home and fought his last hopeless battles against overwhelming numbers of well-equipped white troops in defense of his native land. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On the first of August, Black Hawk had gathered the shattered remnants of his band on the banks of the Mississippi and offered to surrender. But the soldiers who crowded the steamer "Warrior" were ordered to fire upon the white flag Black Hawk had raised in token of surrender. Twenty-three of his people were thus killed while offering no resistance. The next day the Indians were attacked by the combined forces of Generals Dodge, Henry, Alexander and Posey and shot down again without mercy. Men, women and children were killed like wild animals as they sought to escape by swimming the river. More than three hundred Indians were thus massacred and the slaughter was dignified by the name of the "battle of Bad Axe." Black Hawk and a few of the people escaped but were captured by treacherous Indians, delivered up to Colonel Zachary Taylor and by him sent to Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis. Thus ended the Black Hawk war in which the whites lost about two hundred killed, the Indians about five hundred men, women and children. The cost to our government was about $2,000,000. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

This file has a wealth of surnames. You can find it on the Iowa History site - address below - Under History of Iowa - Vol 3 - Part 6 - it is the last section ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HISTORY OF IOWA VOLUME III DIRECTORY OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STATE LEGISLATURES OF IOWA Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Modern Conveniences for the Farm Home part 5 - the whole section will be on the Iowa History site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MODERN CONVENIENCES FOR THE FARM HOME DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE Dangers of a cesspool. - Principle of modern sewage disposal. - Three systems described. - COLLECTING THE LIQUID WASTES The house drain or sewer. - Making the joints. - Volume of sewage. - FLUSH TANKS A Simple Flush Tank Construction. - Use of screens. - Open tanks. - Double-chambered Tanks Description. - Construction and cost. - SUBSURFACE IRRIGATION Use of draintile. - Adaptations to different soils. - Different methods illustrated. - DISPOSAL BY FILTRATION SURFACE IRRIGATION CARE OF THE DISPOSAL PLANT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

MODERN CONVENIENCES FOR THE FARM HOME EARTH CLOSETS Where there is difficulty in the matter of ultimate disposal without the use of a cesspool, and the consequent and apparently unavoidable risk thereby incurred of contaminating the well water, it would be better to use an earth closet. This is not wholly satisfactory, but is safer and far better than the provision so often found on farms and in villages. The house containing it should be well built and substantial, well lighted and ventilated, with a good roof, and preferably plastered on the inside to insure less exposure in cold weather. A carefully made and dry walk, screened by lattice for protection from the wind and for privacy, should be built to it. The excreta should be received in a galvanized-iron pail, not too large and made to fit close under the seat. This seat can be like that of an ordinary water-closet. Each time the closet is used dry earth is added. The pail should be emptied very frequently. With proper attention this closet need not be, built far from the house. It would even be possible to place it in a room built against the house, the room having one door opening from the house and another opening out of doors. This would make it possible to enter from the house in inclement weather, and also to carry out the pail without passing through the house. The room should be well ventilated by a window close to the ceiling, and only tissue paper should be used. The earth for use in these places is to be found in nearly every field and garden and should be of rather a loamy nature if possible, and porous. A very and sandy soil is next to useless. Large heaps of earth should be collected for the year's use and dried in the summer sun. It is not necessary to use perfectly dry earth, but it is always the best. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

History of Iowa, Vol 3 - At the end of the Contents - Part 5 State Officials (Appointed) There are a lot of Surnames in this section. The above is on the Iowa History Site. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Below is part of Chapter 6 - the whole chapter is on the Iowa History site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER VI IOWA BECOMES A PART OF THE UNITED STATES During the two centuries following the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, three European nations - Spain, France, and England - tried to get possession of North America. Spain had colonies in the south. France took possession of the St. Lawrence Valley and the Great Lakes. The English settled along the Atlantic coast in what we call the Thirteen Colonies. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

The Mesquauki Indian tribe bought their land, therefor it is a settlement not a reservation. Cheri C. ----- Original Message ----- From: jan garber<mailto:maejan@cfu.net> To: IOWA-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Making of Iowa Vol 1 chapter 6 No The Mesquauki indian tribe were an Iowa tribe and their reservation has always been near Tama IA. JAN

Below is part of Chapter 5. You can read the whole chapter on the Iowa History Site. STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER V LOUIS HONORE TESSON AND HIS APPLE ORCHARD In 1799, just eleven years after Julien Dubuque came to the lead mine region, a French-Canadian named Louis Honore Tesson bought a farm in what is now Iowa. At that time all the land west of the Mississippi River was still owned by the King of Spain, and Tesson had to buy his land from the Spanish governor. If you bought a farm in Iowa at the present time, you would probably have to pay from one hundred to three hundred dollars an acre, but Tesson did not have to pay any money at all. You see, the Spanish governor was afraid some English traders would come into the northern part of the Mississippi Valley and buy up all the furs. So he told Tesson he might have 7056 arpents of land if he would help him keep the English from coming into the Spanish territory. This was about 6073 acres. He was also to buy the furs which the Indians had to sell, to teach them to be Christians, and to show them how to raise wheat, corn, and vegetables. The Indians had plenty of game, such as deer, for meat, but they often did not have any bread, potatoes, corn, beans, or pumpkins, things they liked very much. Tesson also promised to plant some trees, for at that time there were very few trees in Iowa except along the streams. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

Hi Kaye, I missed some messages in case this is a repeat question, but do you have a link for where the Iowa facts can be found on the Internet? I'd like to know if the facts are availabe for other states also? Vern Taylor Stockton, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kaye" <jkstraus@bellsouth.net> To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 6:20 AM Subject: [IOWA] Iowa Facts > As this pertains to Iowa, and I found it very interesting, I thought > others would too. > Now if anyone ever asks you what's in Iowa you have an answer for them. > IOWA ===== IBSSG, Editor of the Stockton CA Family History newsletter. Free subs. <FHCnews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com> There once was a researcher named Vern He found many ancestors, but learned For every one you find It's really unkind There's still two more to discern _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Darrell, I couldn't connect to the form site. Thanks, Rosemary

Good Morning Mr. Barquist, and List members, my original reply was meant to be a short message to help some people with their genealogy. However Mr. Barquist did ask a question which I will answer. The Charts & Forms software may be used by anyone still using hard copy records, but the intent is to be used by computer user genealogist. Example the forms are exact reproductions of all forms, this means a genealogist using a laptop could set up next to a micro film reader and enter information directly. A lot of forms are printed with beautiful background paintings. All forms are computer printed, no hand writing is needed, now you read your form or change them when needed. Save to disk and you have them for many many years. This is long enough, please go to www.leswllc.com and look at what the program really does. It is a lot more than simple free forms. Darrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Barquist" <sbarquist@kc.rr.com> To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] genealogy information form > Right, spend $60 for what is available from many other sources for free. > Their software may be wonderful, but why charge for a form? > > Look in Cyndi's List for a ton of free forms > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darrell" <eastondr@acsnet.com> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] genealogy information form > > > > Hi Jane, Check out www.leswllc.com for every possible chart or form needed > > by genealogists. > > > > > Does anyone have a "form" that I could reprint to send to a relative to > > fill out for genealogy? > > > > > > > > > > ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== > The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub > instructions, list rules and other useful information. > Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

You will find the whole chapter on the Iowa History Site. Below is just a part of the chapter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CHAPTER IV JULIEN DUBUQUE AND THE MINES OF SPAIN Although the two Frenchmen, Marquette and Joliet, reached the country that is now Iowa in 1673, it was more than a hundred years later before any white man came here to live. During this time France had transferred the country west of th Mississippi and south of Canada to Spain. Thus when Julien Dubuque, the first white settler, came to the Iowa country in 1788, the land was under the control of Spain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dubuque soon gained great control over the Indians. They looked upon him as a magician. He could handle snakes without fear, it is said, and had a medicine that was a certain cure for snake bites. Once when the Indians refused to do something he wanted, they story is told that he threatened to set Catfish Creek on fire. He had some of his white helpers pour some oil on the water upstream and when it floated past he set fire to it. The terrified Indians agreed to do what he wanted. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

<Anything else that might help narrow down the search? "> How accurate it may be, I don't know, but she failed to incude the parental nativity of the parents from the 1880. And personally, I'd be curious as to the source for the surname Morse since previous posts were indicated as surname unknown. Dick May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! (Irish proverb) Sue Thielmann wrote: > I don't know if this will help, but here's what I've found. > HeritageQuest shows 61 Morse households in Iowa in 1860 and 141 by > 1870. This is the only one in 1860 that seems a possible match. > > 1860 Cerro Gordo County, Falls Township > George Morse, age 33, farmer, born in NY > Eliza Morse, age 27, wife, born in NY > Martha, age 1, born in IL > > However, by 1870 the same household is listed as follows: > > 1870 Cerro Gordo County, Falls Township > George O. Morse, age 43, farmer, born in NY > Eliza A. Morse, age 36, born in NY > Ellie Morse, age 11, born in IL (first name is difficult to read, but > definitely NOT Martha) > Emma Morse, age 8, born in IA > Frederick Morse, age 4 born in IA > Theodore Morse, age 2, born in IA > Tammy Hudson, age 23, domestic servant, born in NY > George Ruud, age 19, farm laborer, born in VT > > Anything else that might help narrow down the search? > > Sue > > ----- Original Message ----- From: <Daaazy1945@aol.com> > To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 7:29 PM > Subject: [IOWA] Re: Ia-Unknown County-1860 Morse > > >> >> >> >> I'm back! Would someone be so kind to look for a Martha Morse,white >> female >> born 1859 >> or 1860 Ia. I had asked before when I thought she was N.M._____? She >> might >> have been known also as: Nannie Martha Morse. >> This woman later lived in Texas.She was in the Tx Kerr county 1880 >> census as >> N.M. Hardin. >> . >> >