Hi, folks. I have scrounged up some more obituaries/death notices for 1891 and will add them to the website. Wanted to let you all know who they are in case there is a match. Most of these are very brief mentions but here they are. Tracee Gay, Daughter Morgan, William Sargent, Infant Harshbarger, Melinda Graham, H.B. Walch, Miss (Wacker?) Jackson, Child Garretson, Mrs.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Haynes,Morgan, Miller, Stewart Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5l.2ADI/0.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for the Census information. My great grandmother was Mary (Marion Rolinda Haynes) and it helps to know that both william casper haynes parents are from NC. Thank you again Deb

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5l.2ADI/22.3 Message Board Post: THe 1885 and 1895 census can be found on the Lincoln County GenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sturtevant Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5l.2ADI/22.2 Message Board Post: Census Place: Golden Belt, Lincoln, Kansas Source: FHL Film 1254386 National Archives Film T9-0386 Page 425B Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Joshua STURTEVANT Self M M W 34 CAN Occ: Farmer Fa: CAN Mo: CAN Mahala D. STURTEVANT Wife F M W 28 NY Occ: Keeping House Fa: NY Mo: NY Ora B. STURTEVANT Dau F S W 8 IL Occ: At Home Fa: CAN Mo: NY Perry J. STURTEVANT Son M S W 5 IL Fa: CAN Mo: NY Maude A. STURTEVANT Dau F S W 1 KS Fa: CAN Mo: NY I am not related

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: white Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5l.2ADI/22.1 Message Board Post: Census Place: Golden Belt, Lincoln, Kansas Source: FHL Film 1254386 National Archives Film T9-0386 Page 424D Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace E. D. WHITE Self M M W 38 NY Occ: Farmer Fa: NY Mo: NY Martha WHITE Wife F M W 39 NY Occ: Keeping House Fa: NY Mo: NY Alfred WHITE Son M S W 10 IL Occ: At Home Fa: NY Mo: NY Bertha WHITE Dau F S W 9 IL Fa: NY Mo: NY Phillip WHITE Son M S W 3 IL Fa: NY Mo: NY I am not related

Hi, folks. I've added a few pages to the Lincoln website. A list of Lincoln businesses in 1880: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/1880biz.htm A fire in Lincoln in 1892: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/fire1892.htm A fire in Lincoln in 1895: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/fire1895.htm An article about Co. C, home on furlough from the Spanish American War: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/furlough1898.htm A list of teachers in 1895: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/educ1895.htm A short history of Union Valley Cemetery: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/unionvalley.htm A tornado in Lincoln in 1899: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/tornado1899.htm A list of doctors in 1898: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/doc1898.htm Enjoy! Tracee

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WHITE Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5l.2ADI/22 Message Board Post: Looking for info on my maternal grandfather CLARENCE ALLEN WHITE, father EDWIN WHITE mother MARTHA DOWNING cousins GUY BUDROW, unk STURTEVANT (sp) Any info appreciated

Hi, folks. I have added the following names to the 1895 Index: Bell, Bentley Gourley, Infant Judd, Arthur Lindenmuth, Coral Rodrick, Infant Stroemer, Heinrich I've also added indexes for three more years, 1892, 1893 and 1899. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/obit1892.htm http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/obit1893.htm http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/obit1899.htm If you would like any of the obituaries listed, let me know. Tracee

How exciting, Scott - truly a genealogists dream come true. Why write "real" letters?? I save my emails. Someone will someday inherit stacks of floppys and CDs! Only thing missing will be the handwriting - and I do have some of that also. Glenda *************************** Glenda Garrelts Mattes Dover, Mass DoverGGM@zK-State.com PLEASE SAVE THIS ADDRESS ----- Original Message ----- From: "sholl58" <sholl58@rcnchicago.com> To: <KSLINCOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 09:55 PM Subject: [KSLINCOL] Some obits plus a genealogist's glee Going through the letters made me realize that we have lost something with e-mail and telecommunications. No one rights letters anymore. What evidence will future genealogists have about our generation? I, for one, am going to start writing more letters. Scott Holl

First, I received boxes of material that originally belonged to my great-grand parents (Johann and Theresia (Mueller) Holl) and my great-aunt (Barbara Holl) and found the following obits. Please let me know if any of this might be of use to someone: Mrs. Harry Schmidt (died in auto accident, July 1, 1969) John f. Schroeder (4/27/1880-Jan 7, 1970) Carl Reinhold Steinberg (1/6/1884-1/1/1970) S. C. Page (Lincoln Co. pioneer) 2/4/1888-6/8/1969) Emil J. Geyer (4/8/1882-6/4/1969) Amalie Gronemeyer (daughter of the Rev. John Hahn, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church) died 8/12/1965 Memorial cards for the following: Ernest Friedrich Obermueller (12/4/1872-8/8/1961) Martin Luther Stover (10/26/1884-12/22/1960) William Otto Lebien (3/17/1869-1-29/1961) Ervin E. Schultz (12/24/1896-9/22/1959) William H. Schroeder (4/1/1878-10/6/1947) Herman Kowalke (5/10/1859-1/6/1947) Funeral sermons for Olga Geyer (funeral 6/18/1974) and Herman and Mildred Meier (funeral 9/29/73) Second, I will use this opportunity to express my genealogical glee. A couple weeks ago, I visited Lincoln. While I was there, I visited my father's first cousin, Marguerite Gabelmann, who is 93 years old. I contacted her in the hopes of viewing some old family photographs. Not only did she show them to me, she GAVE them to me--several boxes. Not only that, but she led me down to her basement to look through about 10 boxes of letters and more photographs--which she also gave me. She told me that her children were not interested in any of it. She has congestive heart failure and could go anytime. It has a happy coincidence that I contacted her now, before everything was sold at auction to strangers. I am particularly excited, because the materials will hold many clues to two paternal lines that I have made little progress on. My Holl great-grandparents must have saved every letter they received. There are many, many letters from my g-grandfather's siblings in Germany, beginning in 1870, when my g-grandfather immigrated from Upper Franconia. There are also many letters from my g-grandmother's relatives in St. Louis and Alton, Illinois, plus old tax documents from the 1890s, papers related to my g-grandfather's land claim in Kansas, German prayer books and hymnals (including one that belonged to my g-g-grandmother and stamped 1847) and more stuff I haven't even gone through yet. It is a genealogists dream come true. I have begun to sift through the letters. A casual survey has already revealed some very interesting family stories. Many of the letters are in old German script. I read German, but the script is difficult and may take lifetime for me to decipher. Going through the letters made me realize that we have lost something with e-mail and telecommunications. No one rights letters anymore. What evidence will future genealogists have about our generation? I, for one, am going to start writing more letters. Scott Holl Researching: Paternal lines Holl (Oberpreuschwitz bei Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany) Müller (St. Louis) Wolting (Rußfort, Niedersachsen, Germany) Tiemann / Meyer zum Vorwalde (Dahlinghausen, Niedersachsen, Germany) Maternal lines: Walters Quillin Harshbarger Walls Crowe

Hi, folks. Sorry to send this far and wide, but someone asked me to do some searching on ELLIS a while back and I can't seem to remember who it was. Hoping this gets to the right party. From the Oct. 12, 1893, Lincoln Beacon: Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Ellis have removed to Mitchell county, where they will reside with their daughter, Mrs. Rich. Mrs. Ellis, who has been partially paralyzed several months, is a little stronger. They went overland last Tuesday. Thanks for your patience, everyone. Tracee

If Kirk Painter is still on this list, or if someone knows his e-mail address, please e-mail me. I have recently acquired some photographs that will be of great interest to him Thanks, Scott Holl sholl58@rcnchicago.com

Hi guys, You sure have given me some useful ideas of things to do and people to contact. You are keeping me busy. I will let you all know what I come up with. I did contact the person about the "Dead town list" They wrote: Dear Audra: The only information I find in our "Dead Towns List" is a copy of a letter dated 1977 from Kent D. Johnson of Rice, KS to a Mrs. Albert. He doesn't provide much information, but states, "the story on Aginville is that it was little more than a store with pretensions in Lincoln County, north of Shady Bend." It appears that you have more detailed information about this community than we have. ---Then stated other people to contact, things about the pictures, etc. ********** Part of an email from the person who sent me the information about the town. I asked him, if he had been there? his reply: The only time I ever visited what was left of Aginville was back in the 60's when I went with my Dad (Harold F.) and Granddad (George F.) I was home on leave from the service and we went target shooting in the country and visited the area, at my request. There was nothing left of the townsite except the foundations of a couple buildings. Even during its "heyday" (roughly, we believe , the 1890's to 1912 or so (?), Aginville wasn't much more than a wide spot in the road; but, for a while, it did have a "post office" at the general store and creamery and was a "milk and cream" stop on the branch line of the railroad. I'd love to have something postmarked from there, or a map with the name noted, but am doubtful that any such thing exists anymore. Jim ********** Hope to get to down to the library soon & request a gazetteer. Audra

Hi, folks. I'm sending this information about the AGIN family list-wide since there might be something here for more folks than just Audra. First, there are no AGINs in the Death Register. There are two AGINs in the Birth Register. George and Elzora (Howe) Agin had a child named Faran March 19, 1915. Oscar F. and Pauline (Burris) Agin had a child named Patty Jo March 1, 1933. There are two AGINs in the Cemetery Index: Annie E., b. 9.7.1871, d. 3.2.1945, and James E., b. 5.27.1905, d. 1.4.1983. Both are buried in Hammer Cemetery, which is between Lincoln and Westfall. Clarence Suelter raised the point about the back issues of "Waconda Roots and Branches." I have two of those (I think they are Spring and Summer 1984, although I'm sorry to say I don't have them here with me at work) and neither includes Aginville. On Clarence's advice a while back I did a PERSI search and requested all the material that I KNEW I didn't already have from the Allen Co. library. I can't post it on the website, nor can I provide lookups from it, but I can compile a list of the citations, I think, without violating copyright law, and someday I will, if I ever find the time! Tracee

Hello one and all.... I administer the Lincoln County genealogy email list and just wanted to ask that we keep the personal response emails directed toward individuals, not to the list as a whole.... not just because they're not necessarily meant for the group as but also because some of them have been bouncing back to me and not making it on the list... I haven't been able to figure out why but I get the bounced messages forwarded to me from the rootsweb ISP and I've gotten several the past few days. I've set up the Lincoln County email list so that, if you hit REPLY to a message, the response should go directly to the person who sent the message into the list... not to the whole list.... so that's pretty much all you have to do to respond to an individual. If you have general information that you feel would be helpful/informative for the whole group then please send it on it. Thanks Bill (in steamy, not Topeka!)

Lori, Yes, Lee has been in contact with me. He says he is busy now, but after Labor Day he should be able to send me some information. Thank you for the OBit, However, Gerald W. of Kansas City, - he passed on this spring, it is the only obit I have of this line, do you want it. Audra

Lori, That is great ! Could you please send it. As I said before, if any of you have any first name variations or nicknames to look up. Let me know. Audra ------------ I have Madge in my Cassell database married to Emery Agin. I have an obit for Madge. Lori Dunlap

Lee, Yes, I can wait until you get back to Kansas for any information you have about the Agin's. Our family line is Lewis Agin (4 generations back) & he had 6 brothers, one being James. James line HAD family in Lincoln Co. but living relatives are now in Salina,Ks Nebraska, California & possibly KC. Have only recently gotten in contact with that side of the family, & only beginning to gather information, progress is slow. Audra

Good Morning Colleagues in Genealogy: The extensive discussion about the existence of Aginville prompted me to examine my notebook on Lincoln. I find in there a copy of the "Waconda Roots and Branches" a publication of the North Central Kansas Genealogical Society and Library, Box 251, Cawker City, KS 67430. Anyway a few issues of this quarterly publication in 1984 lists lost towns, post offices, overland stations, mission settlements & trading posts in Linclon, Mitchell, Cloud, Jewell & Republic counties. I have the 3rd issue of Vol. VII for the Fall of 1984. The lists of town in this list begins with Cuba in Republic County. They note that the listing in this issue is continued from the last issue. The listing also continues into the next issue. So in my view, the complete listing should be in Issues 2, 3, and 4 of Volume VII, 1984. Issue 3 also lists lost towns etc in Osborne, Phillips and Smith Counties. They noted that they obtained this listing from Vol. XII of the Kansas Historical Collections. I obtained my copy of this publication from PERSI at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN. Now an order blank for obtaining copies of these documents can be downloaded from the following web site. If you wish you can go to the PERSI Catalog on the Allen County Public Library web site and search for the articles as well. http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/database/graphics/order_form.html Good luck Clarence Suelter who used to haul wheat to the Westfall Grain elevator managed by Erwin Eckelman.

George Agin has a brother Emery Agin, who married a Madge Cassell. I have names only under Emery & Madge Their children: Gerald, Louvae & Clarence. I do have an obit for - Gerald Agin. Do you have any other info. Audra