Starting 1854? Wow, Richard, would you please look up the marriage of James Moses Beach and Nancy Spurlock? My information says it was in February 1863 in Douglas County. I would also like to know if there are any earlier marriages of James Moses Beach. And, I would be interested to know about any other Beach or Spurlock marriages in those early days. Thank you! Jane Beach Soder ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard & Joy Wellman" <wellmanj43@yahoo.com> To: <KSDOUGLA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:45 AM Subject: Re: [KSDOUGLA-L] Gingerich/Harris marriage c 1888/89 > The published marriage book only covers the period 1854 to 1884. There are only two entries for Gingrick/h and much earlier than your need. They are: > > Mattie Gingrick, m. 5 Dec. 1867 to James B. Sykes by Rev. E. . Bentley. (spelled with a "K") > > Joshua Terril m. 11 Mar. 1868 to Minerva McBride by Rev. John S. Gingrich. (spelled with an "H") > > The original marriage books for that period are retained at the Spencer Research library at Kansas University at Lawrence. > > Richard > ----------------------------------------------------- > Barbara <brivas1@cox.net> wrote: > I didn't know there was a Douglas County Marriage Book. I'm trying to find a marriage between > > Mary Ella Gingerich (Can also be spelled Gingrich or a variant) > b. 15 Jan 1861 d. 6 July 1910 Pasadena, CA m. (1) ____ Harris > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears >

The published marriage book only covers the period 1854 to 1884. There are only two entries for Gingrick/h and much earlier than your need. They are: Mattie Gingrick, m. 5 Dec. 1867 to James B. Sykes by Rev. E. . Bentley. (spelled with a "K") Joshua Terril m. 11 Mar. 1868 to Minerva McBride by Rev. John S. Gingrich. (spelled with an "H") The original marriage books for that period are retained at the Spencer Research library at Kansas University at Lawrence. Richard ----------------------------------------------------- Barbara <brivas1@cox.net> wrote: I didn't know there was a Douglas County Marriage Book. I'm trying to find a marriage between Mary Ella Gingerich (Can also be spelled Gingrich or a variant) b. 15 Jan 1861 d. 6 July 1910 Pasadena, CA m. (1) ____ Harris --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears

According to the Dg. Co. marriage book--- Andrew J. Hendricks and Cora McMillen, obtained a marriage license on 20 Nov. 1880. But the portion of the license where the actual marriage is to be recorded was not filled in. Why?? One can only guess at the many possibilities. Good luck, Richard Wellman Vrdryk@aol.com wrote: I am trying to date and place the marriage of ANDREW J. HENDRICKS and CORA MCMILLAN. I know (US census) that Cora was in Lawrence in 1880, and I have just learned that Andrew was in Douglas County ca. 1884. Andrew and Cora's first child was born in KS in May 1884, if the 1900 census is to be trusted. The same census indicates that they were married in 1882. Rick Sherman Kensington, CA --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears

Dear listers, I am trying to date and place the marriage of ANDREW J. HENDRICKS and CORA MCMILLAN. I know (US census) that Cora was in Lawrence in 1880, and I have just learned that Andrew was in Douglas County ca. 1884. Andrew and Cora's first child was born in KS in May 1884, if the 1900 census is to be trusted. The same census indicates that they were married in 1882. I believe the Douglas Co. Genealogical Society has published the county marriage records up to 1884. I wonder if anyone has access to that publication and can look this marrage up for me. Any help will be greatly appreciated by Rick Sherman Kensington, CA

Here is what I find in the "Tombstone Census" by the Dg. Co. Gen. Soc. I don't understand exactly how the stone is marked, but will give it exactly as reported in the book, all under the Leighton surname heading. (An obit might give answers to your other questions, if one exists.) Oak Hill Cem., City of Lawrence, Section 8 (North) LEIGHTON John A., Mar. 28, 1864-Jan. 29, 1920 (front side) C. HENSON, Jan 26, 1867 - ? M. E., wife, Aug. 25, 1867-May 29, 1922 ------------------------------------------------------ radevries1@hotmail.com wrote: I am looking for info on John Arthur Leighton who left Cleveland, OHIO around 1916 after a divorce and settled in Lawrence Kansas where he owned 10 acres of land. He probably died in early 1920 (according to his brothers obit), and is listing in the 1920 census in Lawrence. Any local death or burial records/indexes? Why did he move here from Cleveland? Did he remarry? He was born Mar 28, 1863 in Cleveland. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Leighton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Zl.2ADI/162 Message Board Post: I am looking for info on John Arthur Leighton who left Cleveland, OHIO around 1916 after a divorce and settled in Lawrence Kansas where he owned 10 acres of land. He probably died in early 1920 (according to his brothers obit), and is listing in the 1920 census in Lawrence. Any local death or burial records/indexes? Why did he move here from Cleveland? Did he remarry? He was born Mar 28, 1863 in Cleveland.

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.2ADI/15.1 Message Board Post: There was a man named John Simmons who had four children, one of whom was named Phillip. His wife remarried a man named Roy and had ten more children. They lived around the old town of Lapeer. Phillip Simmons married Elmira Dodder and they owned a big yellow house called Simmons Point. I don't know any more about his siblings though.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dodder, Struble, Simmons, Mann, Wertenberger, McCarty Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Zl.2ADI/161 Message Board Post: I am interested in any info on the Dodder family or the Simmons. Peter Dodder was one of the first to come to the area in 1855 with George Shobert, James Baker and Samuel Hays, according to A. T. Andreas' - 'History of Kansas'--- Peter and his daughter Elmira ran a restaurant for the Butterfield Stage Stop. Peter's home was on a the old road which ran a little north of the Old Santa Fe Trail but joined it about a mile to the west. It was called The Hill or Simmons Point. The Dodder cemetery has the graves of Peter and his wife Margaret just east of the old place. It was moved later to put the current road in. I believe it is Hwy 31. Elmira married Phillip Simmons. They had a daughter Mary Louis who married Harman Vedder Thompson. Their daughter Zoe Dentler Thompson married Charles Chesney Brant. She wrote a book on the Dodder and Thompson family about the pioneers. It was called 'The Hill or Simmons Point.'

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/Zl.2ADI/129.2 Message Board Post: According to Shalor Winchel Eldridge in his book "Recollections of Early Days in Kansas", he was the son of Lyman Eldridge and Phoebe Winchell of West Springfield, Mass. Shalor Winchell Eldridge's grandfather was Elisha Winchell, an officer in the Revolutionary War. Elisha Winchell and his son, Shalor Winchell (so I guess an uncle to Shalor Winchell Eldridge) , died in the war of 1812. Shalor Winchell Eldridge had brothers - James Monroe Eldridge, Edwin S. Eldridge, and Thomas Eldridge - with him in Lawrence in 1857. Shalor Winchell Eldridge married Mary B. Norton (1st wife) on May 23, 1839. They had 7 children, 3 died very young, one, Josephine Phoebe died as a young woman. Three surviving well into adulthood were - Mary S. who married O.E. Learnard, Alice M. who married William B. Learnard, and Evangeline L. who married first William H. Savage and later L.M. Mathews. Shalor Winchell Eldridge's second wife was Caroline Tobey, from New York, no children. According to Shalor Winchell Eldridge, in his book, there was a James M. Winchell in his group of abolitionists in 1856. In fact, James M. Winchell, a correspondent for the New York Times, and Shalor Winchell Eldridge travelled together to Kansas for the first time in 1855 (he does not state that J.M. Winchell was related to him, however). Shalor Winchell Eldridge died in Lawrence in 1899. Attending his funeral, in addition to his living daughters and their husbands, were his niece, Mr. C.C Vining of Corning, Kansas, his nephew, Mr. Ed. S. Eldridge, of Kansas City and his son James. Five grandsons served as pallbearers: Paul Learnard, Tracy Learnard, Oscar Learnard, Shalor E. Learnard, and Burton E. Savage. Don't know if this helps, I just bought this book on ebay and it was published in 1920, although Shalor wrote it much earlier. I was trying to find the relationship between the Kansas Eldridges and the abolitionist John Brown. Passed down by my late husband, Evere! tt E. Eldridge, that those families may have intermarried. Good luck, B-J Eldridge

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Woodard,Burns Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Zl.2ADI/160 Message Board Post: I am looking for Parke (or Phillip) Woodard born in KS about 1895. He mariied Violet Burns of Amenia, NY about 1925. They had a son, Parke Woodard Jr. in about 1924. Park Sr. worked as a teacher at the University- I think University of Kansas- but since I'm from NY- I really don't know. Any info is greatly appreciate!

In response--The Woodards are buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Section 14, in Lawrence, KS. Parke H. Woodard, b. 6 June 1895, d. 1 Jan. 1972 Violet B. Woodard, b. 14 Jan. 1900, d. 29 Jan. 1958. An obituary might tell more about the children. Richard ------------------------------------------ Original Message Board Post: I am looking for Parke (or Phillip) Woodard born in KS about 1895. He mariied Violet Burns of Amenia, NY about 1925. They had a son, Parke Woodard Jr. in about 1924. Park Sr. worked as a teacher at the University- I think University of Kansas- but since I'm from NY- I really don't know. Any info is greatly appreciate! --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

Beth, here are the directions to Stony Point cem. The Stony Point cemetery is south and east of Lawrence. The easiest way to get there is follow US 59 about 6 miles south of Lawrence to County road # 460 (also known as N 650 road by the street sign). There is a Zarco service station at this intersection. Turn left (east) on #460 and follow it for a little over 3 miles (includes a couple of curves). The cemetery is on the right (south) and back from the road about 100 yards. It is easily seen from the road. There is a small chapel on the grounds and rock entryway gateposts at the road. Richard --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

Still need help in locating the following cemetery - Stoney Pt. Cem. Douglas Co., KS Can anyone tell me how you would drive to it? Any help would be appreciated. Beth

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I rejoined this list about a week ago, but haven't received any messages. Is it just a down time, or did something go wrong with my subscription? Jane Beach Soder

In response to your query asking for info. about Peter & Mary Epperson-- The following is from Douglas Co. Tombstone Census book. Maple Grove Cemetery, Lecompton Twp. Mary Epperson, wife of Peter, died 19 Sep. 1883, aged 73 years, 6 months & 18 days. Peter Epperson, (no data). There is another page where they list probable burials without tombstones. In that list is Peterson Epperson. I did not find any record of the marriage you were requesting. Richard Wellman --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lawrence, Epperson, Showalter, Brooks, Jones, Stone, Boles/Bowles, Matney, Cardwell, Moore, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Zl.2ADI/159 Message Board Post: Seeking info on the family of Joseph Kronk Lawrence b. 22 Feb 1826 Dearborn Co, IN and d. 11 Jan 1867 in Big Springs, Douglas Co, KS - m. 1853 IN to Nancy Ellen Epperson b. 26 June 1836 Morgantown, IN and d. 30 Dec 1909 in Big Springs, Douglas Co, KS. Nancy m/2 to Jacob Showalter ca 1870 (need a marriage lookup) who d. 1874? Nancy m/3 to Edmund/Edward Brooks ca 1874 (need marriage lookup) and he d. after the 1880 census but before 1909. I need burial location of Joseph, Nancy, Jacob and Edmund/Edward. It may be possible that they are buried in Maple Grove Cemetery in Lecompton, Douglas Co, Kansas. Nancy had a daughter Cora Evangeline Brooks b. 16 May 1875 who may have married a W M Jones, and Nancy also had a son Elam J Showalter b. ca 1870. Need info on daughter Margaret Virginia Lawrence who m. William E Stone and resided in Lecompton. Also need info on sons Jeremiah Vaughter "Jerry" Lawrence and John James Lawrence who supposedly also resided in Lecompton. Also need info on family of Peter Epperson b. 1810 KY and d. aft 1880 census in Lecompton? His wife was Mary Boles/Bowles also b. KY 1810 and d. after 1880 census in Lecompton? They had another dau (besides Nancy) named Mary I Epperson who m. a Matney and both were deceased before 1880. They left at least one son named Solomon E Matney b. ca 1860. And another daughter Sarah C Epperson b. ca 1843 IN and sons Robert J Epperson b. 1837 IN, & Elam J Epperson b. ca 1855 Douglas Co, KS. This family was of the United Brethern faith and arrived in Douglas Co, KS on June 20, 1855 with a group that came from Bartholomew Co, Indiana area. Any info on the family will be gratefully appreciated. Below is a letter written by Joseph K Lawrence to his family back in Indiana which may be of interest to those researching early Douglas Co, KS: A letter Joseph Kronk Lawrence wrote from Kansas to his mother in Indiana: The following from the Hoosier Listening Post of the Indianapolis Sunday Star on Feb 23, 1936 - sent to them by Mrs Eugene Lawrence in 1936. She was the sister-in-law of Helen Throckmorton. The undated letter which Mrs Lawrence has sent proved it was written before 1858 and is as follows, with the original spelling: Dear Brother JWL - sisters and cousins: May you take pleasure in reading this epistle: after stating that we are well and hoping you are enjoying the same like blessing. I shall proceed to give a full description of Kansas as far as my knowledge extends. Kansas is about 150 miles wide and about three hundred long, abounding in prairies, timber, beautiful streams with high banks and rockbottoms; rock in general very plentiful for common use, stone cole so far has been plenty to supply the wants of the territory. Two mines are within seven miles of us. The soil is very rich, producing fine grass, as to grain in general we can tell but little about it, for this is the first year that any grain has been in the neighborhood, but so far corn appears very good for sod corn. The prairies here are not very wide but tolerable long. As far as I have been they are from one to eight miles wide; on the streams is very good timber, white oak, black walmut, elm sycamore, cottonwood, used here for weather boarding, oake of various kinds and a great deal of mulberry. Streams are very clear and timber on both sides, and nearly on every hollow or ravene put in to them, rock is obtainable on the slope of nearly every hill but none on upland or bottoms. The various kinds are sand lime, soap and blue slate stone. We have plowed several days and I have not heard the sound of but one rock or gravel, I picked it up and weighed it, 60 oz. Health. We have not lived here long enough to know much about the health or to know how healthy it is, but from the appearance of streams, excellent taste of well and spring water, high and dryness of the climate and country, we would suppose it a healthy country __________ come from the various states what were unhealthy for years say their health has greatly improved since they came to this country. Such as have been afflicted with coughs for many years and dyspepsy and other chronic complaints. Mother and Samuel ought to come here and many more of them. Weather and climate: This summer has been the finest I ever saw. Yesterday and the day before were the two hottest days we had this season. There is constant air in motion coming in from the Gulf of Mexico in general. We have had plenty of rain except last week it was tolerable dry, but we had two good showers today. Settlement. There appears to be an enterprising spirit among the people in this neighborhood. Business is nearly all kinds common to states is going on. Steam mills, blacksmithing, merchandise, agriculture and society. Sabbath schoool meeting of various denominations, celebration, territorial conventions, etc. The settlers in this neighborhood are mostly from Indiana, Iowa, Pennsylvania and a few from Virginia and Oregon. Animals: in this neighborhood we get to see some deer, prairie chicken, wolves and turkeys. Fish in abundance. Concerning claims; Any person twenty-one not holding 160 acres of land or any one with a family not twenty-one can hold a claim of 150 acres. It is supposed that land will come in market in 1858, not before. There are good many claims here yet. Some timber but mostly prairies......would make A or could make a fortune here. Some grist mills and blacksmiths we need here yet! Blacksmiths we have but few and they are as independent as git-out. Prices very high, sharpening plough from 75 to $1.25 and other work in proportion, cash in hand already. Send us Samual Kiser and John Tealy and we will put them to good use as they both talked of coming when we left. As I stated in some of my other letters, I will state concerning our claims. I took my claim one and a half miles southwest of Spring City, two miles south of Washington, a town laid off by Pennsylvanians. Six miles southeast of Tecumseh, six miles southwest of Lacunta, eight miles northwest of Bloomington, 15 miles! west of Lawrence City on the Missouri River, and about 80 miles northwest of Fort Scott, 70 to 80 miles east of Ft Riley. Daniel's (Lawrence) claim gaining me on the east. Father (Peter) Epperson is east of north 2 1/2 miles. Mr (Wm A) Cardwell east of Mr Benjamin Moore, north of brother Cardwell, Brother Franklin north of Brother Moore. Daniel and I are south of the California road, the balance north of it. I received Brother Phillips letter yesterday, stating that you are all well and doing well. We were glad to hear of your health and prosperity. I will answer some of his requests now, another balance in a few weeks. One is whether this will be or what the prospect is of the territory being a free state or not. As to this we know but little more than any of you. I can state --- no slaves in this part of the territory yet, and so far as regards the prospect it is entirely in favor of a free state. But this will not be decided till the territory will be sufficiently populated for that election. We want all free men to come in between now and then that possibly can, so we have a free state. I stated above that as to grain raising here I could tell but little bout since this is the first year here that there has been any grain put out. I merely state that since I commenced this letter I have been informed that Capt Roberts of Pennsylvania, a "good farmer" has been to the! Indian Reserve 20 miles east of this, informs us that a white man settled some land of the Indians, that has been in cultivation some four or five years, to try what land would produce here. Roberts says that he firmly believes (he is a man of high renown here), that it will produce at least 150 bushels per acre. So much for that. Perhaps you would like to hear something of Jeramiah, he is growing fine like all other Kansas boys. He has four teeth and can talk and walk some (eleven months). I might state that the whole company got here safe and all well satisfied and if I am not mistaken I heard each of them say they would not go back to Indiana to live there if they had the best 160 acres of land given to them and their expenses born of moving thither. If any of them you write you would better direct to Lawrence City in place of Tecumseh. We will get them sooner. If any of you come by water, come to Kansas City on the Missouri River thence to Washington on the California Road. Joseph K Lawrence The following is information found for Peter Epperson and his migration to Douglas Co, Kansas Peter and Mary Boles Epperson resided in Morgantown, Morgan Co, Indiana near Robert Bowles (possibly Mary's father?) and James Epperson (Peter's father), who had both come to Indiana about the same time. They left Hartsville, Indiana on 3 May 1855 with a group of the United Brethern Church with ox-teams and prairie schooners. After a week's stop in Missouri, they arrived on 20 June 1855 in Lawrence, Kansas. Some of those in the group, beside Peter and Mary, were: Sarah Epperson, Joseph Kronk and Nancy Ellen (Epperson) Lawrence as well as Daniel Kronk Lawrence (Joseph's brother). Morgan Co, Indiana had not been good to them as most of their children died and are buried in a Morgan Co Cemetery, located on Road 252 at the west edge of Morgantown, Indiana. In Kansas they raised two of their grandchildren, Solomon E Matney, born ca 1860 in Kentucky, son of their daughter Mary I. The other grandchild was Elam Showalter, b. 21 April 1871 in Lecompton, Kansas, son of their daughter Nancy Ellen and her 2nd husband Jacob Showalter. >From "Passing of the Pioneers", from the Religious Telescope, an article by J H Snyder, Lecompton, Kansas, written in 1910: "On May 3, 1855, a colony of Christians belonging to the United Brethern Church, with ox-teams and prairie schooners, left Hartsville, Indiana, and on June 20 landed in Lawrence, Kansas. They traveled all the week days and camped over the Sabbath. They had preaching and prayer-meetings every Sunday in the woods or on the prairies where they encamped. At one of these Sunday services, a young man who was with them as the teamster of the missionary was happily converted. The missionary was Rev William Cardwell. The young man was Benjamin F Moore." "These meetings were filled with spiritual power, which as a divine legacy still obtains in the hearts of some of the children of those pioneers....One stop of a week was made in Missouri........Then the company came on to Lawrence, Kansas.........arriving on June 20, 1855............" "This band of pioneers secured claims in and around Big Springs, and pitched their tents and built their cabins. In 1856 they began erecting for themselves a house of worship, quarrying the stone and gathering the material, and on the third of October of that year laid the cornerstone of the First United Brethern church in the State of Kansas." "On June 15, 1856, the first class was organized, with the following members: Rev W A Cardwell, Pastor; Sarah A (Sparks) Cardwell, Mattie E Cardwell, Peter Epperson, Mary Epperson, Sarah Epperson, Joseph K Lawrence, Nancy Ellen (Epperson) Lawrence, Daniel K Lawrence ....." Thank you kindly for any help with this family!

Hi, Herbert was my dad's brother and Gladys his mother. Thank you for that info and also about applying for a KS search. I do have a photo of Margo pregnant with first child at my father's graduation from KU in Lawrence, so they were close by and probably married in KS somewhere. They married after finding out about the pregnancy but before the birth in 1956, so I think 1955 is accurate. Thanks again! Marlaina Fritz Barr --- Richard & Joy Wellman <wellmanj43@yahoo.com> wrote: > I thought I sent you a message, but can't find it in > my "sent" file, so will send another to be sure. I > checked the marriage records for period Aprl 1949 to > June 1969 and found no marriages at all for surname > of Fritz. > > Birth records are maintained by the State of Kansas > for this period, so you can apply for a copy of the > birth records. However, i believe it currently > costs about $12 for a search and the first copy. > They have a website if you want to prusue that > approach. > > I did bind a burial for Herbert E. Frita, b. 11 Nov. > 1930, d. 26 Jan. 1931, bur. memorial Park, Acacia > Section A. in Lawrence. > > I looked at the Lawrence library for a city > directory, but they have them for period before 1930 > and starting again in 1961, so no help for you. > In 1961, there were two entries: > Mrs. Gladys Fritz, dep. County Clerk, r RD1 > Mrs Hazel M. Fritz, ofc. wkr. Stand Life Ins. h 845 > Maine. > > Richard Wellman > > > M Barr <marlabarr1@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I am hoping to find more information on my Uncle, > Richard E FRITZ. If anyone has access to birth or > marriage records for Douglas Co, he would have been > born around 1933 and married approx 1955 to Margot > or > Margaret, possibly Baker. Birth and marriage in > Lawrence, Douglas Co KS. Any info would sure be > appreciated. His parents were Edwin A FRITZ and > Gladys MCKNIGHT. > > Thanks, > Marlaina Fritz Barr > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site > design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site > design software __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

Thank you very much for your thorough help. 1955 would be correct as I have a photo of her pregnant with first child that dates the marraige - remember hearing the pregnancy brought about the marriage. Richard spent his life until marriage in Lawrence and he and Margo moved to Los Angeles shortly afterward. He may have gone off to a school for musicians - I know he was good friends with a famous jazz musician, Charles Kynard, from a school unknown. Also had a lot of relatives in Topeka so Shawnee Co. would be a possibility. They were not married in California although first child was born in Los Angeles in 1956. I do have Margo's last name solid as Baker now. Again thank you so much for your help. Marlaina Fritz Barr --- Richard & Joy Wellman <wellmanj43@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hello Marlaina, > > In response to your request for info. about marriage > of Richard E. Fritz to Margot (Margaret (?Baker) > about 1955 in Douglas Co., I checked the marriage > index book covering the period April 1949 to June > 1969. I could not find any record of marriage of > anyone with "Fritz" surname. Assuming that that > time period covered any error in date, I'd belive > they were not married in Douglas Co. I also have > access to Jefferson Co. (adjacent to the north) and > there is no such marriage there either. Kansas has > a state wide registration of births (starting July > 1911)and marriages (starting May 1913) that could be > searched. They will search a 5 year period and make > a copy of the record for a fee of $12. They have a > web site if you want more info. Write me directly > for details. > > Richard Wellman > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site > design software > ----------------------------------------- >>Hi List, >>I am hoping to find more information on my >>Uncle, Richard E Fritz. If >>anyone has access to birth or marriage records >>for Douglas Co, he would >>have been born around 1933 and married approx >>1955 to Margot >>or Margaret, possibly Baker. Birth and marriage >>in Lawrence, Douglas >>Co KS. Any info would sure be appreciated. >>Thanks, >>Marlaina Fritz Barr __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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/Zl.2ADI/94.1 Message Board Post: Genny Kerr: I am responding to your inquiry regarding Frederick Johntz (b 1845). He is my g-g uncle. I have for the last four years put together the Johntz Family Tree which includes all (most) of the descendants of Samuel and Susan Tschantz (Johntz). Please e-mail me at RJohntz@AOL.com and questions or comments you have. Please include how you are related to Fred J. and do identify the e-mail so I know it is related to Johntz information. Thanks, Bob Johntz