This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wettstein, Bazin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zl.2ADE/510.3.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello again: thank you for the further tidbits of information - I am sure others who have miners in this area will also find it interesting and helpful. Glad to know there is really much more to be found than what was initially known and what was not found during research via internet. Fortunately the surname Wettstein is not a common one, so possibly it sticks out for anyone researching miners of any name. Appreciate the information and the help, for sure. It has been a long, hard, frustrating journey working on Wettstein, due to lack of contact/co-operation from others also researching this family. It must have been interesting working on the Miner's Memorial project.

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/zl.2ADE/510.3.1.1 Message Board Post: No, I am not with the Pittsburg Public Library. I guess the 'we' just comes from being from Crawford Co. I do not know what the email is to the genealogy society. I will be there tomorrow (Monday) evening. I will ask if anyone has heard of Ashley and I will look up Henry Wettstein in the Miner's Accident Report's. I will also ask about Axe Library's Special Records. Axe Library is our University's library. PSU is Pittsburg State University. I know they have the accident reports as does Pittsburg Public Library but I think they may have further information. I have also worked on certain projects of the Miner's Memorial and have done quite a bit of research on the miner's in my own family. I know that I have seen the name Wettstein before and that is why I responded to your post.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wettstein, Bazin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zl.2ADE/510.3.1 Message Board Post: Who is "we" - are you with the Pittsburg Public Library? Is there someone who can be contacted by e-mail? (I never attempt to make telephone calls from where I live; too much time difference to catch someone when you want them). What is PSU where the Axe Library is located? More details would be helpful in following up on the information you posted, for those of us who live elsewhere and not familiar with the area and/or cannot just walk into a repository there to check on the map and other things they may have. Do you have more details to give? Thank you - appreciate this new information.

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/zl.2ADE/510.3 Message Board Post: We have a map listing different coal camps. Ashley does not ring a bell but then I am not an expert or even close. I am not familiar with the small towns in the SW corner of our area. We have accident reports, they usually tell what coal company they worked for. These are in the genealogy room at the Pittsburg Public Library. Axe Library PSU has a mining document in special collections Not sure what it has in it.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wettstein, Bazin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zl.2ADE/510.2.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for sending all this neat information about the Miner's Memorial - I am going to follow up on the links for more information, etc.; this is most certainly of great interest/help to those who have a connection to the miners, and adds a personal touch to our research. So glad you posted this information.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clark/Helton/Bales Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zl.2ADE/512 Message Board Post: I am looking for John Clark B 28 Mar 1816 ,Clay,KY & family. He was the son of Wm "Billy" Clark & Rebecca Bales all of Heltonville,Lawrence,IN. I have found John & his wife Nancy Helton in the 1870 census in Washington,Crawford,KS. Their son James B abt. 1848/1849 is living with them as well as daughter Delitha Ann B Dec 1852 (she married Alexander Wilson from Paragon,Morgan,IN & that family later removed to OK). Their other son William Helton Clark B Feb 1845 married to Julia Wilson was living in Lincoln,Crawford,KS. In 1900 Wm H. Clark is also found in Dexter,Cowley,KS. John & Nancy Clark must have moved to KS between 1860-1870. 3 of John's brother were killed during that decade. It's possilbe he moved away to avoid family troubles. It is also said that at least 2 of their grand-daughters might have gone off to KS (after getting married) from IN in covered wagons, perhaps sometime around that decade. I hope someone out there can help me!

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/zl.2ADE/510.2 Message Board Post: Olive, This map is still being sold, and as far as I know the price hasn't changed. http://www.minersmemorial.org/ Click on Products. There's also Contact information, phone and snail mail as well as online. I hope this helps. Orlena ~~~~~ Cartographer for a cause Casaletto compiles map of old coal field to raise funds for Coal Miner Memorial Sunday, November 17, 2002 - Morning Sun By JEFF WELLS Morning Sun Staff Writer Photo (attached) Ray Brecheisen/The Morning Sun Frontenac resident Louis Casaletto, pictured here in the Crawford County Historical Museum, has created a map of the Weir-Pittsburg Coal Field in Cherokee and Crawford counties. He is selling copies of the map to raise funds for a proposed Coal Miner Memorial to be located at Immigrant Park in downtown Pittsburg. FRONTENAC -- Louis Casaletto is a cartographer for a cause. Casaletto recently compiled and is selling a map of the Weir-Pittsburg coal field. Proceeds from the sale of the map, "Coal Mines and Mining Camps of Crawford and Cherokee Counties," will be used to help develop the proposed Coal Miner Memorial to be constructed in Immigrant Park in downtown Pittsburg. The map plats historical mines, camps, and communities in southeast Kansas from Arcadia south to Weir, Scammon, and West Mineral including Arma, Frontenac, and Pittsburg. Current city boundaries, county roads, and U.S. Highway 69 are also shown. "This information here is available (elsewhere) but it is difficult to find and nobody knows about it," Casaletto said. Casaletto spent a few months preparing the map--the first he has attempted. Pittcraft Printing printed 1,000 copies of the first edition. More maps will be printed and corrections made as needed, he said. "I'm sure people will say we missed this mine or this camp," he said. Casaletto based the map on an earlier University of Kansas Geological Survey map of southeast Kansas mines and material from William Powell's dissertation on the names and locations of the mining camps. Casaletto and the group working with him on the project also consulted old railroad maps. Powell is a retired faculty member from the PSU geography department David Fish, a Pittsburg architect, worked with Casaletto on the project. "There were well over 100 small mining camps associated with all the mines in the Weir-Pittsburg coal field," Fish said. "We correlated that with more modern information. We put on what we thought was more relevant information so that people can find these places." Randy Roberts, Pittsburg State University special collections curator, provided Casaletto with some of the information on the map. "We scanned some of the photographs and pictures that we have here and they incorporated those on the map," Fish said. Debbie Close, Linda Knoll, and Wilma Cook Snare also worked on the project. Roberts said that Axe library has a several state maps and reports on the mining industry in its Kansas documents section. The library also has old geological reports, photograph collections, personal papers, some records from mining companies, newspapers, historical studies of mining companies , and state coal mine inspectors reports. "They have a lot of the information on accidents and injuries as well as production information," Roberts said. The map does not detail undermining information. Roberts said that persons wondering whether their property is undermined will find a few maps in the library's special collections, but he recommended checking with state offices. "It doesn't in any way show the old shaft mines or what is undermined," Roberts said. The proposed Immigrant Park is planned for unused railroad space in downtown Pittsburg on Second Street between Pine to Walnut. "Pittsburg was the focal point," Casaletto said. "It was at the center of the coal fields and the hub for all the railroads. It's a natural thing to have the memorial in Pittsburg." The memorial will have a bronze statute of a miner and black granite tablets inscribed with the names of miners. Fundraising and publicity efforts should be in full-swing by spring 2003, Casaletto said. The group is interested in the history of the mines and miners and locating their descendants. They are compiling a brochure and developing forms to collect information on the history of the miners. Casaletto said he does not know of any similar public memorials to the miners of the southeast Kansas coal fields but he said there are several coal miners memorials throughout the United States including one at McCallister, Okla. A memorial similar to the one planned for Pittsburg was constructed at Altus, Ark. Organizers there also published a memorial book--Casaletto's group hopes to do the same. The map is just one way that Casaletto is promoting the memorial. He and Arma welder Primo Guerrieri recently built a replica coal car. Casaletto plans to take the coal cart to area festivals. Casaletto traces his heritage to immigrant miners. His father and uncles came to southeast Kansas from Italy to mine in the early 20th century. "They all came for the coal fields," Casaletto said. Copies of the mining map are available for $5 each plus $3 for shipping and handling from Intercity Maps, 807 Redbud Lane, Frontenac, or by calling (620) 232-1728.

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/zl.2ADE/508.1 Message Board Post: I did a quick look through the past issues of "The Seeker," the quarterly publication of the Crawford County Genealogical Society and a few other resources I have here at home. Two of Miles R. Wooster's wives are buried at the Old Arcadia Cemetery (Forest Hill): Rachel Wooton wife of Miles R. Wooster died Dec 19 1872 aged 40yr 9m & 7dy Martha wife of Miles R. Wooster born Nov 10 1829 died Apr 1 1879 Malinda Gifford Bower and her husband are buried in the Girard Cemetery: Malinda Gifford Bower 1837-1901 H. D. Bower 1833-1903 Father & Mother Back in the Spring 1980 issue of The Seeker, someone gave the following information: Martha Huberry b. 10 Nov 1929 possibly Va., married first ? Bowen. They had one child, Sarah Jane Bowen, b. 13 Oct 1848-1849 near Bowling Green, Ky. Mr. Bowen died and Martha appears on 1860 census for McGhee Co., Ks. with her second husband George W. James. After George W. James died, Martha m. Miles Wooster. After the Civil War, Henry Clay Chancellor located near Arcadia, Ks. and married Martha's daughter Sarah Jane Bowen. Henry Clay Chancellor was b. Clark Co., Ill., son of Ewing Chancellor, Sr. and Hulda Lee Chanclellor. Thomas J. Chancellor and Ewing Chancellor, Jr. also moved to Crawford Co., Ks. They were brothers of Henry Clay Chancellor. Thomas J. Chancellor married Sophronia Wooster (Martha's step daughter by Miles Wooster) and Ewing Chancellor, Jr. married Rachael E. James (Martha's daughter by George W. James). If you write to my e-mail address, I will send you the name and address of the researcher who posted this message. I would not want to post it on an open forum. However, the name and address are twenty-five years old. The Seeker has also published an index to probate records: In the probate of Martha Wooster: H-10, 11 H-19,20 Court date 8 July 1889 Minor heirs of Martha Wooster, dec'd William James, age 19 years on 19 May 1889 Mary E. Wooster, age 15 on 20 Nov 1888 Ewing Chancellor, Guardian, Arcadia I did not find any marriage records for Miles or any of his daughters. Arcadia is not far south of the county line with Bourbon Co., KS and it is on the state line with Missouri. Back in the 1880's it would not have been unusual for someone living nearby in Bourbon Co. KS, Vernon Co. MO, or Barton Co. MO to be buried in the Arcadia cemetery. It is just a suggestion that you might try looking in those counties for further records.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MASKROD, DOSS, MYERS, MOORE, SCOTT, NORRIS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zl.2ADE/510.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for sharing your sources. I have only the 1900 census stating that John Maskrod immigrated in 1861. Maskrod is an unusual name which is probably not its original form. I have been searching for a long time, through Ancestry and Castle Garden with no results, and thought maybe they came through another port. John Maskrod lived in Illinois and then Kansas. He says he was born in either France or Italy, but came to the US from Swtizerland. I can't imagine the spelling of his name if it started out French! Foreign accents in the US were not necessarily heard the way they were pronounced. :-)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DOSS, MYERS, MOORE, MASKROD, MASKRID, SCOTT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zl.2ADE/510.1 Message Board Post: My ancestors came to this country from Switzerland, too, I have been told. They came about 1861. Do you know what port your ancestor arrived at from Switzerland? I have been unsuccessful in tracking my ancestors to a ship and port. Specifically, John Maskrod and his three children came to the US about 1861. He is said to be French or Italian (?) and his wife died in a house fire before they came to the US.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wettstein Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zl.2ADE/510 Message Board Post: I have just found out that the name of Ashley where Henry Wettstein was living when he re-married in 1904 refers to a coal mining camp and not a city in Crawford County, which is why I could not locate it on a map. I have been reading the earlier messages posted about these coal camps and, like a previous poster, would like to know more. Is there a map showing the location(s) of these coal camps and are there still existing records that would tell us about the company that owned (for instance, Ashley) and anything else that might be of interest to us, including something about the individual miners? Did each one have a specific job to do in the mine? We know Henry came over from Switzerland; he may have been a cheesemaker over there (still debatable), but for some reason choose? to become a coal miner over here, in both Illinois and Kansas. We do not expect the company records to tell us this, but it might be nice to see what they did know. (If anything).

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/zl.2ADE/508 Message Board Post: Looking for info on Miles Wooster who married Rachel Wooten. They had daughters Melinda who married Isaac Gifford, Saphronia who married Thomas Chancellor, and Drucilla who married Wec Sappington. These would have married in 1870 or 1880. Any info appreciated. Mary

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/zl.2ADE/507.1 Message Board Post: Sally, I am not researching Woods but was wondering if you know of any Spurlock who married a Frazier, to be more specific I am looking for an Arch Spurlock who married a Frances Frazier from Stone County Missouri around 1870 or 1880. My great grandmother was a sister to Frances (Fanny) and I am at a brick wall with finding anything on them. The story is she married Arch and they went to live somewhere else so I am just curious. thanks, Mary

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zl.2ADE/504.1 Message Board Post: The marriage license was applied for on 11 April 1904, and Henry Wettstan [sic?], age 37 of Ashley, Kansas and Ella W. Campbell, age 36 of Buxton, Kansas were married by T. R. Jones, Probate Judge of Crawford County on the same day, 11 April 1904. If you contact me off-list with your address, I will mail the photocopies of the marriage record to you. Kim Baker Topeka, KS

Hi~ I'm looking for information on Florence Worley. She was married to (and divorced from) a Mr. Clump before she died, and I'm trying to find out if he is related to my Clump line and how he fits, so I'm trying to track down information on her in order to find out who he was and such. Anyway...Florence Worley was married to a Mr. Briddle. I believe it was the Elmer Briddle I found, and I think they would have been married in Crawford Co., Kansas around 1912. Their daughter was born in 1913. If anyone has access to the marriage indexes or records, I would really appreciate a lookup! If there are any costs involved, I would be happy to pay them. If anyone knows anything about Florence Worley other than what I have here, I would appreciate hearing about that as well! I would also be happy to share information with anyone who is interested. Thank you, and take care! "-) Justina "-)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zl.2ADE/506 Message Board Post: I am trying to find a probate record dated May 12, 1904 for Paul Hatzey/Hatze/Hutsey in either Baker or Frontenac, Crawford Co. Kansas. I believe he lived in Pittsburg but was buried at Mt. Carmel Cemetary in Frontenac and his funeral was held at the Friskel Funeral Home also forntenac, DOD: late 1903-May 1904. His wife was Frances Hatze and the oldest child was Joesphine, my g-g grandpa is Paul Hutsey there son b. 1892. Any information, help, advice, etc is greatly appreciated. Thank you, Paul Erickson

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burnett, Seymour, Mims/Muns/Manis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zl.2ADE/505 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on a John Mims/Muns/Manis - it's hard to read the census taker's handwriting. He has a wife named Jessie. I believe this might have been Jessie Seymour, d/o Jesse and Minerva (Burnett) Seymour. John is listed as a coal miner. Jessie is married to David Birney in the 1930 census. This marriage occurred bet. 1928-1930. I wonder if John might have died in a mining accident. He was only in his 20's. Might there be marriage records for Crawford Co. around 1920? Thanks, Linda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wettstein, Campbell, Wilcox Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zl.2ADE/504 Message Board Post: If someone has access to the Crawford County marriage records as shown below, I would really appreciate a look-up to see what the details are. I am especially interested in the exact date of this marriage as there is a "debate" going on about information on the back of a photo of this couple.. Crawford County Marriage Records 1869 - 1912 Henry Wettstein married Ella W. Campbell 1904 Vol. R.184." Thanks much.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Halcro Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zl.2ADE/503 Message Board Post: Am not a Listmember for KSCRAWFO, am trying to find out how to get information on a possible obit for a death in Pittsburg on 23 Oct, 1927 of Charles HALCRO. He was removed to Kansas City to be buried with family, I have the brief text from the KCMo paper which wasn't helpful. He was 39y and may have been married as his WWI draft papers indicated a wife, I've not known of one but divorce was a possibility, there were no children. 1927 was early to find anything in newspapers, does anyone on the List have an idea of where I could call or contact about getting any details on this death ? Funeral homes in the area back then may not be still in business. Appreciate advice - MegG in OK. Please click on my name in the Message Board and reply personally if possible as M.B. replies usually end up in a spam folder.

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/zl.2ADE/501.1 Message Board Post: A quick check of the "Tombstone Transcriptions of Crawford County," gives the following: Drake Benjamin F. 1865-1928 Fannie C. 1866-1928 John A. 1902-1928 They are all three buried at Highland Park Cemetery in Pittsburg, and apparently this is all of the information on the tombstones, just names and years. I found no entries for Louisa or Lowell Drake.