Look forward to the new web site. Audra

Audra: I would suggest you go to the Ellsworth County website: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/ellswort/ and post a query about Aginville. With those directions, it would definitely have been in Ellsworth County. I've never heard of any of those place names or surnames. Tracee

Been into genealogy, less then a year. I like the idea of getting a map by interloan, thanks. My library in town, has a good person in genelogy, she will know what to do. Getting to the Kansas State Historical Society is next on my list. Been to Topeka shopping a few times, but not to the state Historical Society. only recently found we have relatives in Kansas & getting information about them, so will have to stop in next time. Have more relatives in Mo, Been going to the Gen, library in Independence, Mo. It is great place to visit ! Audra

Thanks Tracee Let me know if you need any look up for names. Audra

Audra I went to the Kansas State Historical Society site which lists county plat books on microfilm that you can borrow from the Society on Interlibrary Loan (through your local library). Here was the listing for Ellsworth County: Ellsworth County LM 489, no. 15 Plat book of Ellsworth County. Minneapolis: Northwest Publishing Company, 1901. LM 489, no. 16 Standard Atlas of Ellsworth County, Kansas...Chicago: George A. Ogle & Co., 1918. LM 908, no. 1 Pictorial Atlas of Ellsworth County, Kansas... Minneapolis: Overland Cartographers, 1970. If you'll go to the Kansas State Historical Society's Interlibrary Loan page at: http://www.kshs.org/library/illpoli.htm you'll get instructions on how to borrow microfilm from the society through your local library. You can borrow newspapers, census, some old local records and plat books (as well as other stuff). It's a good idea to print off this page and take it to your library so the staff there knows what to do. There is a link on this page to the plat books microfilm collection. The site URL is: http://www.kshs.org/library/atlas.htm Checking under ELLSWORTH County will get you the listing above. Each book has a number that you'll need to use with your interlibrary loan request. My guess (or should I say, "My hope!") is that you'll find mention of just about every geographical location within a county in the plat books. It will also list land owners. Just in case anybody is interested, there are Lincoln COunty plat books available for borrowing from the Society as well. (1901 and 1918) Best of luck Bill Sowers At 04:34 PM 8/7/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Audra: > >I would suggest you go to the Ellsworth County website: > >http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/ellswort/ > >and post a query about Aginville. With those directions, it would >definitely have been in Ellsworth County. >I've never heard of any of those place names or surnames. > >Tracee > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

We also looked there, could not find anything. Lincoln web site is better. Maybe I should post to Ellsworth message board Audra

Sorry for the bad email. will try again, no attachments A very distant relative, just sent me copies of information about Aginville. On an old piece of paper. -- Aginville, Ks - Dad (George F. Agin) born in Lincoln, Co. moved to Aginville in 1905. 8 miles south and 2 miles west of Beverly ( Beverly is scratch out, and Westfall is written in.) Ranchers in that area bought from Aginville store on J. E. Agin Farm. Gus Birgman, first owner of store. Store Closed, then Lyme Hozelton run store - still open 191? Belle Springs Creamery also had a store in Aginville. -- end. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Have a bank loan paper for buying land, stating --- J. E. Agin of Madison Township, Lincoln County, Ks - dated Feb 23, 1907. Location - Section 19 Town 13, Range 6. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Then there is a post card with Vail, Colorado on it, dated August 16, 1979. Addressed to George Agin in Salina, Ks. It says: Dear George: we are here for a day or two. While at Wilson Lake, we took a day to drive out past Hartzells, Hammar Cemetery, Matthews, the Old Anderson Place, Ecklemans, Pleasant Dale, Juanita, Westfall, Turners, Geo. Dimicks, your farm, my Aunt Ella's place, Twin Mound, etc. Lots of change. Hope you are feeling better. ~ ~ ~ ~ I have a picture, that has 4 Aginville post cards, not a picture of the town. they were scanned as one picture. Anyone interest in seeing these, email me. afagin@osprey.net ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Thanks for any help. Audra

Nick names -- For all your Help -- At this time, I do have a couple of books checked out from the library on nicknames. Plus I have a list of my own, that I am compiling. Most of these are just first names only, I am willing to do lookups for name variations for anyone. Aginville. Thank you for your responses so far, for those of you who are more fimilar with the area, I am sending more info on the next email. Thank you, Audra

Hi Audra: Try the Lincoln County Census, they are laid out by town ships & post offices are mentioned. The census are on site on the Lincoln county web page. This should give you a place to start. Gayle M. Garrett Trego County Coordinator <garr@ruraltel.net> Audra wrote: > Hi, > > I just signed up today. The surname I am researching is AGIN. I have went to the website for Lincoln, Co. but could not find a township map. I am searching for Aginville in the county of Lincoln and believe it to be in or near Madison township. I also looked for a county map of 1900 to 1910 range, and could not find one. From what little information, I have. For a reference, is Westfall in Madison township? > > Thank you Audra > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

I'm sorry, I forgot to answer the other question: Westfall is in Madison Township. Tracee

Regarding Aginville ... I've never heard of it or seen the name. Over the past few months I've been through newspapers from 1880 to 1900, either on film, on paper, or both, and I've never come across it. I also have an old map from 1879 that has a lot of community names but not that one. It wasn't a school name or a post office name, which are usually where these community names cropped up. I'm wondering if it could be over the Madison Township line in Ellsworth county. Tracee

I checked the indexes of the books I have on Lincoln County history and did not find Agin. However, there are a few Agins in the 1999 phone book for North Central Kansas, which I have. I'll make my usual recommendation - get the microfilm of the old Lincoln County newspapers from the Kansas State Historical Society and see what you can learn from them. Wilda Morris

Hi Audra.... I'm no expert on Lincoln County names but Aginville new to me. I checked the Kansas Post Office Directory and didn't find it there either. Just out of curiosity I put in a search on the US Geological Survey search page and found one thing, a steam in Ohio called "Agins Run." I did find one Agin on the Lincoln County page. If you'll check the page with REES(E) family information at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/rees.htm you'll find a marriage: Mr Millard J REES & Mamie M AGIN Jan 6 1908 Have you contacted Tracee Hamilton? She has a lot of info not on the site and might be able to help you further. Her email address is TraceeHamilton@aol.com. One more thing... the Kansas State Historical Society keeps a "Kansas Dead Towns List" on file.... listing many defunct communities in Kansas through the years. You might try contacting them. Send your question to: reference@kshs.org An added bit of information.... for the entire Lincoln County research community. We originally had several of our Lincoln County maps online on my family page so as to save space on the ISP used for most of the Lincoln County information (skyways.org). We lost our family ISP a couple months ago and Joan Stevenson was gracious enough to volunteer space on a geocities page she has. I forgot to set up the new links to the geocities pages... which is why several of the maps do not come up on the Lincoln County page right now! My apologies. Good luck Bill Sowers At 11:45 PM 8/6/01 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, > >I just signed up today. The surname I am researching is AGIN. I have went to the website for Lincoln, Co. but could not find a township map. I am searching for Aginville in the county of Lincoln and believe it to be in or near Madison township. I also looked for a county map of 1900 to 1910 range, and could not find one. From what little information, I have. For a reference, is Westfall in Madison township? > >Thank you Audra > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > Bill & Diana Sowers 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 - bsowers@kscable.com Lincoln Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Graham Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Barton Co KS ALHN: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/ Barton Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/barton/index.html Our Family pages: http://home.kscable.com/sowers/index.html

Hi, I just signed up today. The surname I am researching is AGIN. I have went to the website for Lincoln, Co. but could not find a township map. I am searching for Aginville in the county of Lincoln and believe it to be in or near Madison township. I also looked for a county map of 1900 to 1910 range, and could not find one. From what little information, I have. For a reference, is Westfall in Madison township? Thank you Audra

Hello all... We've just added a bit of info on four Lincoln County Methodist congregations taken from the book, History of Methodism in Northwest Kansas (1920). There aren't too many names but if you have an interest in church history in the county take a look. The new page is located at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/method.htm Bill and Diana Sowers Bill & Diana Sowers 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 - bsowers@kscable.com Lincoln Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Graham Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Barton Co KS ALHN: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/ Barton Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/barton/index.html Our Family pages: http://home.kscable.com/sowers/index.html

My GG Grandmother, Lucinda Hendrickson was married to Lafford McCormick. Do you happen to have any idea who his parents were? Thanks, Gene Bird =========================== >From : murcal@yahoo.com To : KSLINCOL-L@rootsweb.com Subject : [KSLINCOL] Re: McCormick 1880 census index Lincoln Co. Date : 30 Jul 2001 14:52:09 -0600 Census Place: Marion, Lincoln, Kansas Source: FHL Film 1254386 National Archives Film T9-0386 Page 437A Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Lafford MC CORMICK Self M M W 50 TN Occ: Farmer Fa: NC Mo: SC Martha J. MC CORMICK Dau F S W 14 IL Fa: TN Mo: TN Emma C. MC CORMICK Dau F S W 12 IL Fa: TN Mo: TN Nancy L. MC CORMICK Dau F S W 11 IA Fa: TN Mo: TN _________________ Source: FHL Film 1254386 National Archives Film T9-0386 Page 434B Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Lucinda MCCORMICK Self F D W 46 IN Occ: Weaver Fa: TN Mo: KY George W. BIRD Son M S W 21 IN Occ: Farmer Fa: KY Mo: IN James A. BIRD Son M S W 19 IN Fa: KY Mo: IN Elijah F. BIRD Son M S W 17 IN Fa: KY Mo: IN Sylvester R. BIRD Son M S W 16 IN Fa: KY Mo: IN ______________________ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Hi Tracee, How do we see an obituary for the list you posted? I am interested in John Stubbs. Kathleen Rizer

Census Place: Menoken, Shawnee, Kansas Source: FHL Film 1254397 National Archives Film T9-0397 Page 292A Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace William HAYNES Self M M W 40 NC Occ: Farmer Fa: NC Mo: NC Elecia HAYNES Wife F M W 37 PA Occ: Keeping House Fa: PA Mo: ENG Laura HAYNES Dau F S W 15 KS Fa: PA Mo: PA Cora HAYNES Dau F S W 13 KS Fa: PA Mo: PA Dora HAYNES Dau F S W 11 KS Fa: PA Mo: PA Auther HAYNES Son M S W 9 KS Fa: PA Mo: PA Elecia HAYNES Dau F S W 7 KS Fa: PA Mo: PA Mary HAYNES Dau F S W 5 KS Fa: PA Mo: PA Allace HAYNES Dau F S W 2 KS Fa: PA Mo: PA

Census Place: Cedron, Lincoln, Kansas Source: FHL Film 1254386 National Archives Film T9-0386 Page 409C Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace William MC CARMICK Self M M W 33 TN Occ: Farmer Fa: TN Mo: TN Harriet MC CARMICK Wife F M W 25 IL Occ: Keeping House Fa: IL Mo: IL John M. MC CARMICK Son M S W 7 KS Fa: TN Mo: IL Etta M. MC CARMICK Dau F S W 4 MO Fa: TN Mo: IL Lillie Belle MC CARMICK Dau F S W 1 MO Fa: TN Mo: IL

Census Place: Pleasant, Lincoln, Kansas Source: FHL Film 1254386 National Archives Film T9-0386 Page 416C Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Charles H. HARBAUGH Self M S W 26 MD Occ: Laborer Fa: MD Mo: PA Ellen N. HARBAUGH Sister F S W 23 MD Occ: Housekeeper Fa: MD Mo: PA