This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dgoldy1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.johnson/749.4/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Katherine Here is the information from the obituary index listings... Johnson County Newspaper Obituary Index, ~1920 to 1960 for obituaries published in various county newspapers RHOADES Ann Mary Mrs., Olden Olathe Register April 18, 1925, page 5, column 5 Died: April 13, 1925, Age: 43 years Arthur L. Johnson County Herald, November 11, 1943, page 5, column 1 Died: November 8, 1943, Age: 43 years Dorothy Margaret Miss Johnson County Herald, December, 12 1948, page 3, column 3 Died: December, 26 1948, Age: 84 years Etha M Gardner Gazette, September 12, 1942, page 1 Died: September 8, 1942, Age: 77y Etha Myrtle Johnson County Democrat, September 13, 1942, page 3, column 1 Johnson County Democrat, September 20, 1942, page 6, column 6, page 5, column 5 Died: September 11, 1942, Age: 77 years Frank M Johnson County Democrat, March 22, 1951, page 2, column 1 Died: March 19, 1951, Age: 83 years George D. Gardner Gazette, February 25, 1926, page 1, column 6 Gardner Gazette, March 3, 1926, page 1, column 4 Died: February 22, 1926, Age: 46 years Henry Gardner Gazette, ????????, page 1 Died: About June 23, 1911, Age: 73 years Mrs. Henry Olathe Register, November 9, 1904, page 4, column 2 Died: November ? 1904, Age: 65 years Monroe Olathe Mirror, April 14, 1898, page 3, column ? Died: April 8, 1898, Age: Not Listed Ruth, Mrs., nee Jeffries Gardner Gazette, November 8, 1904, page 5, column 5 Died: November 2, 1904, Age: 64 years William J Gardner Gazette, January 13, 1932, page 1, column 1 Johnson County Democrat, January 7, 1932, page 1 Johnson County Herald, January 14, 1932, page 1, column 3 Died: Not Listed, Age: Not Listed BECK Margaret Rhoades Johnson County Democrat, June 6, 1946, page 5, column 5 Died: May 31, 1946, Age: Not Listed MILLER Frances Zoe Rhoades Gardner Gazette, October 27, 1921, page 1, column 3 Died: October 12, 1921, Age: 37 years WILLIAMS There were several listing for May Williams, not indicating the maiden name. So here they are. You will have to check all of them to see if any are a daughter of Henry Rhoades, who married a J. P Williams, per Henry's obituary in the Olathe newspaper. May, Mrs. Olathe Register, May 17, 1917, page 3, column 4 Died: May 13, 1917, Age: Not Listed May (I think this is Henry's daughter) Gardner Gazette, June 25, 1941, page 2, column 4, page 1, column4 Gardner Gazette, July 16, 1941, page 1, column 6 Died: June 20, 1941, Age: 72 years May M Johnson County Democrat, December 3, 1953, page 6 Died: November 20, 1953, Age: 74 years James P. (I think this is Henry's son-in-law and May's husband) Johnson County Democrat, July 20, 1944, page 4, column 7 & 8 Died: July 13, 1944, Age: 75 years The next obituary index is on line at the Johnson County Library web page. It is an index of all Johnson County resident obituaries published in the Kansas City TIMES and Kansas City STAR newspapers. Go to this link: http://www.jocolibrary.org/default.aspx?id=2168 Select the OBITUARY Tab at the box on the lower left of your screen And then change the drop down box from KEYWORD SEARCH to SURNAME for the search criteria, enter the surname and click the Search button. They are in the process of updating the index to include the early county newspaper index, so you will see some of the names listed above in the search results. Click on the "more details' link to get the newspaper info, date of death and age at death. Then click on "request reprints" to see how to get a copy of the obituary. For those in the above index that also appear in the on line index, you might want to request the volunteers at the library to do the look up instead of inter-library loaning the newspaper microfilms. Let me know if you need the link to search for newspaper microfilm numbers to ILL the films from the Kansas State Historical Society. Good Luck and happy searching Dave Goldy Overland Park, KS Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.