Hey, folks, here's a question for you. Have you ever heard of a Springfield Iron Company being in LINCOLN? I bought a rather odd stereoview on ebay. It is of what looks like the Springfield Iron Company Store, with what looks like a mill (a steel mill, not a roller mill) next to it. On the back is a stamp that says "N.B. Rees, Photographer, Lincoln Center, Kansas." I bought it based on the stamp, but I don't know if the actual picture was taken in Lincoln. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Do any of the Rees family connections out there have any ideas? Tracee

Hello Lincoln COunty researchers...... Margaret Knecht of the Kansas State Historical Society has informed me that the Society has set up a search engine for their site. If you go to the main page: <http://www.kshs.org/>http://www.kshs.org and click on the link for HELP/INDEX/SEARCH you'll be taken to a page with a search box and instructions on the right hand side of the screen. I tried a few searches..... great tool. Bill Sowers Bill & Diana Sowers 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 - wrs@cjnetworks.com Lincoln Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html Graham Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Allen Co KS ALHN page: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ks/county/allen/index.html Barton Co KS ALHN page: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/ Barton Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/barton/index.html

Hello Lincoln COunty researchers...... Margaret Knecht of the Kansas State Historical Society has informed me that the Society has set up a search engine for their site. If you go to the main page: <http://www.kshs.org/>http://www.kshs.org and click on the link for HELP/INDEX/SEARCH you'll be taken to a page with a search box and instructions on the right hand side of the screen. I tried a few searches..... great tool. Bill Sowers Bill & Diana Sowers 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 - wrs@cjnetworks.com Lincoln Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html Graham Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Allen Co KS ALHN page: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ks/county/allen/index.html Barton Co KS ALHN page: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/ Barton Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/barton/index.html

Posted on: Lincoln Co. Ks Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ks/Lincoln/18 Surname: ------------------------- Yes, Salt Creek Township still exists. It is in the uppermost northeast corner of Lincoln County. The town of Barnard is located on the boundary line between Salt Creek and Scott townships. The town of Milo, which no longer exists, was located in Salt Creek Township. For divorce records, see the Lincoln Co. GenWeb page and look under vital statistics. Write to the same address that is listed for marriage records. They should be able to help you. Tracee

Hello, folks. Just wanted to tell you all that I have put up a new page on the Lincoln page. It is a series of pieces the Lincoln Sentinel ran on Nov. 20, 1913, about Lincoln. There are a lot of names mentioned, and it paints a good -- if somewhat flowery -- picture of Lincoln in what was its boom time. The main page is http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/1913.htm Tracee

Posted on: Lincoln Co. Ks Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ks/Lincoln/17 Surname: Sellman, Schulte ------------------------- Is Salt Creek Township still in existence? I have found it on the Lincoln County 1885 Kansas State Census but cannot find it on a current AAA map. If still around, where is it? If not, was the name changed or did it just cease to exist. Also, where would I write for divorce records circa 1885-1900, but most likely the divorce occurred between 1885 & 1895. Thanks for any information.

Hello Lincoln County My daughter and I spent the last couple of hours at the library learning the ropes at the microfilm reader. This was my first experience at it and it was fun. I borrowed 2 films of the Barnard Bee from the Kansas Historical Society. They are reel #B809 (1/3/1907--3/25/1909) and reel#B883 (1/1/1931--12/29/1932). If anyone would like me to keep an eye out for names just let me know. I will have the films until Sept.11 and will get to the library as time allows. Happy Trails, Mike Woody =========Here is a clip from the Barnard Bee Thursday April 2, 1908======== Report of Barnard School For Month Ending March 6, 1908 Primary Enrollment..........37 Average Daily Attendance..........34.2 Neither Absent or Tardy Harold KOHFIELD, Emmerson SHAFER, Dean GIBBS, Lloyd GIBBS, Nola PRICE, Haysel JOHNSON, Everett BABCOCK, George MURRY, Ethel PATRICK, Edith GRUNDMEIER, Etta BLANDING, Ben STOVER, Lloyd GRIFFETH, Mary SORBER, Lon HEWES, Howard BLAIR, Hattie MURRY, Hazel GILL Ella G. MCBRIDE, teacher Intermediate Enrollment..........33 Avg Daily Attendance..........29 Neither Absent or Tardy Gladys JOHNSON, Merle MESICK, Fay VAUGHN, Harry VAUGHN, Doyle BIGGS, Dorothy PERKINS, Elden BRACKEN, Grace KOHFIELD, Melvin PATRICK, Lew GILL Maud KELLER, teacher Eighth Grade Enrollment..........13 Avg Daily Attendance..........12 Neither Absent or Tardy Craig BRACKEN, Everett BROWN Mona PERKINS, teacher High School Enrollment..........12 Avg Daily Attendance.........11.1 J.W. MARSTON, principal

DILLE family of Kansas. My great grandfather is Asa Jackson Dille. His daughter Myrtle Dille was born in Lincoln Co. KS in 1890. Her mother�s name was Lillie. Asa Dille is listed on the 1885 Census Lincoln Co. Township Franklin. I would appreciate any information on the Dille family. I am willing to share my information. Thank you, Vivian James byjames@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

I would like to thank those of you who have sent me some very helpful information and links to help me get started. I have just sent off letters to the Social Security Administration for the following record: Keith White SSN 513-16-1528 Residence at time of death: Wichita, Sedgwick Co, KS 67212 born: 17 Feb 1925 died: 24 Apr 1993 Social Security number issued in Kansas before 1951 I believe it most closely matches the information I have. I have also written the MHGS for the 2 obituaries listed for him in 1993. Again I appreciate you ideas and anything else you might want to share. If anyone is interested in this line I can post the information when it comes. Thanks again Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill & Diana Sowers <wrs@cjnetworks.com> To: <KSLINCOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 2:29 AM Subject: Re: [KSLINCOL] White/Tannehill families of Kansas > Pam..... > > Woke up in the middle of the night and where do I go..... the computer!!!! > Thought I'd post this response to the whole list just to let those of you > who are unaware of the two great resources on the Internet mentioned below. > > Just out of curiosity I checked the Social Security Death Index at > Ancestry.com and found the following: > > Keith White > SSN 513-16-1528 > Residence at time of death: Wichita, Sedgwick Co, KS 67212 > born: 17 Feb 1925 > died: 24 Apr 1993 > Social Security number issued in Kansas before 1951 > > You can go to the site and search > > > http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm > > Put in the last name, White, first name, Keith and right underneath that > put Kansas in the box that says > "Issued by". Notice when you bring up Keith White off to the right hand > side there is a link saying "Request Information." Click on this and > you'll get detailed information on how to request this Keith White's > original Social Security application. It should list all sorts of helpful > info that might help determine if this is the correct Keith White. > > Also, the Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society, located in Wichita, > has an extensive webpage at: > > http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/mhgs/ > > They have an online obituary index of the Wichita newspaper. I checked > under 1993 at: > > http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/mhgs/93obits.htm > > and sure enough listed twice is: > White Keith W.------------ 26 Apr 1993 > White Keith W.----------- 28 Apr 1993 > > If you'll go to the top of the obituary page for the Society you'll see > that you can request (via "snail mail") copies of these obits/death notices > for just $3 each. The obits might be info enough for you to establish > whether this is the right Keith White or not. > > Good luck with your research. > > > Your message: ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Hi There, > I am helping a friend of mine do some geneology research. He is kind of lost > and doesn't know where to start. In the note below I have included all the > information he has. Any information that any of you could provide or add > would be greatly appreciated. We have kind of hit a dead end. I am sending > off an application for a copy of the marriage license to Ellsworth County > but I am not sure if they will give it to us since we don't have all the > information they are requesting. I am not sure if any of these people are > still alive. So, here is what we have and I am hoping this rings a bell > with someone. > Keith White married Wilma J. ? (maiden name possibly Tannehill but > just speculation could be completely wrong) in Ellsworth, Kansas about 1945 > The number of children is in question . It is not known for sure if they had > 3 or 4 children. In one set of records it is believed that they had > a daughter born in or around 1946, another daugther in 1948, > a son in 1949, and another son in 1953. > >From what I can tell Wilma J. ? 's mother was born in 1888 > and her father was born in 1878. My guess at the moment is > that if Wilma is a Tannehill she would be from Lincoln or Ellsworth > county in Kansas. > Wilma J. ? attended 2 yrs of high school in Lincoln, Kansas. > I know there was a William Tannehil that graduated from Lincoln High School > in Kansas in > 1948. Maybe that is a relative? > She was employed for 10 yrs in a sheet metal aircraft work (Cesna Aircraft > Company). It looks like they lived for a time in Haysville, Kansas but by > November of > 1961 had moved to Witchita, Kansas and may have lived their through the > 1981's or in > nearby Derby. > > Any help would be very very much appreciated. > Thanks for your time and help. > Pam > > Bill & Diana Sowers > 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 - wrs@cjnetworks.com > Lincoln Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html > Gove Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html > Graham Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html > Allen Co KS ALHN page: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ks/county/allen/index.html > Barton Co KS ALHN page: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/ > >

Pam..... Woke up in the middle of the night and where do I go..... the computer!!!! Thought I'd post this response to the whole list just to let those of you who are unaware of the two great resources on the Internet mentioned below. Just out of curiosity I checked the Social Security Death Index at Ancestry.com and found the following: Keith White SSN 513-16-1528 Residence at time of death: Wichita, Sedgwick Co, KS 67212 born: 17 Feb 1925 died: 24 Apr 1993 Social Security number issued in Kansas before 1951 You can go to the site and search http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm Put in the last name, White, first name, Keith and right underneath that put Kansas in the box that says "Issued by". Notice when you bring up Keith White off to the right hand side there is a link saying "Request Information." Click on this and you'll get detailed information on how to request this Keith White's original Social Security application. It should list all sorts of helpful info that might help determine if this is the correct Keith White. Also, the Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society, located in Wichita, has an extensive webpage at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/mhgs/ They have an online obituary index of the Wichita newspaper. I checked under 1993 at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/mhgs/93obits.htm and sure enough listed twice is: White Keith W.------------ 26 Apr 1993 White Keith W.----------- 28 Apr 1993 If you'll go to the top of the obituary page for the Society you'll see that you can request (via "snail mail") copies of these obits/death notices for just $3 each. The obits might be info enough for you to establish whether this is the right Keith White or not. Good luck with your research. Your message: ------------------------------------------------------------ Hi There, I am helping a friend of mine do some geneology research. He is kind of lost and doesn't know where to start. In the note below I have included all the information he has. Any information that any of you could provide or add would be greatly appreciated. We have kind of hit a dead end. I am sending off an application for a copy of the marriage license to Ellsworth County but I am not sure if they will give it to us since we don't have all the information they are requesting. I am not sure if any of these people are still alive. So, here is what we have and I am hoping this rings a bell with someone. Keith White married Wilma J. ? (maiden name possibly Tannehill but just speculation could be completely wrong) in Ellsworth, Kansas about 1945 The number of children is in question . It is not known for sure if they had 3 or 4 children. In one set of records it is believed that they had a daughter born in or around 1946, another daugther in 1948, a son in 1949, and another son in 1953. >From what I can tell Wilma J. ? 's mother was born in 1888 and her father was born in 1878. My guess at the moment is that if Wilma is a Tannehill she would be from Lincoln or Ellsworth county in Kansas. Wilma J. ? attended 2 yrs of high school in Lincoln, Kansas. I know there was a William Tannehil that graduated from Lincoln High School in Kansas in 1948. Maybe that is a relative? She was employed for 10 yrs in a sheet metal aircraft work (Cesna Aircraft Company). It looks like they lived for a time in Haysville, Kansas but by November of 1961 had moved to Witchita, Kansas and may have lived their through the 1981's or in nearby Derby. Any help would be very very much appreciated. Thanks for your time and help. Pam Bill & Diana Sowers 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 - wrs@cjnetworks.com Lincoln Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html Graham Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Allen Co KS ALHN page: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ks/county/allen/index.html Barton Co KS ALHN page: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/

Hi There, I am helping a friend of mine do some geneology research. He is kind of lost and doesn't know where to start. In the note below I have included all the information he has. Any information that any of you could provide or add would be greatly appreciated. We have kind of hit a dead end. I am sending off an application for a copy of the marriage license to Ellsworth County but I am not sure if they will give it to us since we don't have all the information they are requesting. I am not sure if any of these people are still alive. So, here is what we have and I am hoping this rings a bell with someone. Keith White married Wilma J. ? (maiden name possibly Tannehill but just speculation could be completely wrong) in Ellsworth, Kansas about 1945 The number of children is in question . It is not known for sure if they had 3 or 4 children. In one set of records it is believed that they had a daughter born in or around 1946, another daugther in 1948, a son in 1949, and another son in 1953. >From what I can tell Wilma J. ? 's mother was born in 1888 and her father was born in 1878. My guess at the moment is that if Wilma is a Tannehill she would be from Lincoln or Ellsworth county in Kansas. Wilma J. ? attended 2 yrs of high school in Lincoln, Kansas. I know there was a William Tannehil that graduated from Lincoln High School in Kansas in 1948. Maybe that is a relative? She was employed for 10 yrs in a sheet metal aircraft work (Cesna Aircraft Company). It looks like they lived for a time in Haysville, Kansas but by November of 1961 had moved to Witchita, Kansas and may have lived their through the 1981's or in nearby Derby. Any help would be very very much appreciated. Thanks for your time and help. Pam

Well, folks, after a few days of doing lookups out of the Birth Register, I have to caution you that there seem to be a lot of holes. For instance, I just typed in a very common surname for a lookup (BOLTE), and the Boltes I grew up with and went to school with weren't there. There also are a lot of mispellings and typos, which I've noticed in the Death Register as well. I also know that before there was a Lincoln Hospital, people went to Ellsworth to have babies and I'm wondering if that is part of the problem. Anyway, I don't want to be discouraging because there are still 146 pages of birth records, which is better than what we had before -- ZERO -- but it is not as complete as I had hoped. Then again, what is? Tracee

Hello Lincoln COunty researchers...... We have a new query up online on the query page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/queries.htm The query is as follows: - --------------------------------------------------------- Kathy Lupfer-Nielsen (email: knieslen@oznet.ksu.edu) - 21 Aug 2000 I am an independent researcher working on Anna CHURCHILL WAIT...just wondered if anyone knows what happened to her daughter in law, Lillian. The son Alfred is buried in Lincoln cemetary with the parents, Walter and Anna and I haven't found Lillian...just curious as to what might have happened to some of Anna's personal items. I would appreciate any information about WAITs of Lincoln County. Kathy Lupfer-Nielsen - ------------------------------------------------------------ Bill & Diana Sowers 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 - wrs@cjnetworks.com Lincoln Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html Graham Co KSGenWeb page: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Allen Co KS ALHN page: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ks/county/allen/index.html Barton Co KS ALHN page: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/

OK, folks, I've got the birth register. It's alphabetized by father's name, which Rose said was the easiest of the three choices (mother's and child's names were the others). I may try to set it up so I can arrange it any of the three ways. We'll see. Meanwhile, pls. send any lookup requests now; I will not be able to post ANY of this until October at the very earliest, and probably later than that. But lookups, any time... Tracee

Hi folks! I've added two new stories to the Lincoln page. The first is the remembrances of Flora Baker Woody, an early country school teacher. (There are some mentions of diphtheria in this, which I know will interest Wilda.) http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/stories15.htm The second is a letter I copied from the Historical Society. It was written by John A. Watts, one of a small group of blacks who settled in Lincoln County. There doesn't seem to be much information available about this settlement, which is unfortunate. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/stories16.htm Tracee

Hello, folks. The list of Sylvan Grove High School graduates is online. The URL is http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/sylvan.htm

Three Cheers for City Clerk Rose Gourley and Tracee Hamilton for bringing the Birth Records "to life." HIP HIP Hooray!! HIP HIP Hooray!! HIP HIP Hooray!! Vern Turner =):-)>= Menlo Park, CA This is the Day That the LORD has made, Let us Rejoice and be Glad In It. Researching the following surnames: Beecher, Boone, Brooks, Crawford, Diehl, Feather. Fisher, Hackworth, Harclerode, Henderson, Hiatt, Jamison, McWilliams, Mount, Neff, Pefley, Ronk/Ranck/Rank, Rush, Russel(l), Thompson, Turner, Triphook, Wright in the states of Colorado, Deleware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Jersery, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia and using The Master Genealogist.

Hi, folks. City clerk Rose Gourley is a great gal. She copied those pages for me and took them to my mom, who has mailed them to me. So I will have a birth index in just a few days! Oh joy! I'll let you know when it arrives... Tracee

Hello, folks! Thanks to Sandy Foulke, I will soon have something you'll all be interested in: birth records for Lincoln County! Although I had asked at the courthouse about these and was told they didn't exist, it turns out they were three blocks away at city hall! These records begin in 1886 and continue through the 1970s, according to the city clerk. They will not be complete; i.e., people turned the information in themselves and apparently there was no real obligation to do so. But still ... what a find. Thanks, Sandy, for the alert! The catch, and you won't believe it, is that they have no way of printing it out anymore, because the computer program is no longer available, and they only have ONE COPY. So I have to find someone who will go in and put the book on a copier and flip it over and over for a few hours to get a copy. But if I find someone, they will let me have the copy. So I'm working on that and when I get it, I'll let you all know! Tracee

Hello Lincoln County researchers.... We have two new queries on the Lincoln County KSGenWeb page. Both appear at the bottom of the query page. Surnames mentioned in the two queries are: BOWLIN, CROWL, McDONALD, RUPIN, WOODY The query page can be found at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/queries.html As always the new surnames have been added as linked entries on the surname index page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/lincs.htm We have a new birth added to the Lincoln County Birth Register page.... HARDESTY, Oda http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/birtha.htm A bit of "back patting" to all who have contributed to the Lincoln County page. We recently received statistics for the entire Blue Skyways KSGenWeb server which includes the pages for 101 of the 105 counties of Kansas. The stats listed the top 50 pages visited at KSGenWeb for a six month period. Most of the top 50 visited pages were "statewide" sites but there were some individual county pages listed as well. Overall the main page for Lincoln County ranked 21st of all KSGenWeb pages visited. Of the individual counties within the list "little" Lincoln ranked 8th!.... behind the bigger counties... Sedgwick, Johnson, Shawnee, etc. YAY FOR ALL OF US!!!!! Good job. Keep that information coming in. OK... celebration's over... back to work.<grin> Happy hunting Bill Bill Sowers (ksdocs@ink.org) Kansas Documents Librarian/Tech Services Librarian State Library of Kansas 300 SW 10th, Room 343-N -- Topeka, KS 66612 (In the State Capitol Building in beautiful downtown Topeka) (phone: 785-296-0265) (in-state WATS 800-432-3919) CHECK OUT THE TOPEKA LIBRARIES ONLINE "ATLAS" CATALOG at: http://lib.wuacc.edu/