Shelley, I am the Rooks Co. KS USGENWEB Coordinator. If you can scan the picture in I can post it to the Rooks Co. website if you would like. I have rescued many pictures/photo albums off of ebay and scanned them in and donated them to the counties surrounding my home in KY. I find it heartbreaking everytime I do a search on there and find all these lost families. I too have rescued Rooks Co. families, my husband's family homesteaded there in 1878 and are still there. Thanks, Brenda Stewart-Reeder Rooks Co. KS USGenWeb Coordinator -- http://home.comcast.net/~kyseeker/ -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Shelley Cardiel" <cardiels@comcast.net> > I've "rescued" an old photograph of John & Ella HANCOCK with four of their > children, Ivy, Hackeye, Web, and Claude. The photograph was taken at the J. > Jennings Studio in Scandia, Kansas likely sometime during the 1880's. A > note on the back of the photograph suggests that the photo was taken > sometime around 1884. I would guess that the children range in age from > about 2 - 5 years at the time with Ivy appearing to be the oldest of the > four children. A note also refers to John & Ella as "Ma and Pa". > > > > Based on limited research I was able to find information regarding the > family beginning with the 1900 census records for Rutland, KS. Records > indicate the following: > > > > John I. HANCOCK, age 45, born Dec 1854, married 25 years, born IN, parents > born IN, a Farmer > > Ella A. HANCOCK, wife, age 44, born Sept 1855, married 25 years, 8 > children/7 living, born IA, parents born VT/? > > Rhoda P. HANCOCK, dau, age 13, born Nov 1886, born KS > > Albert V. HANCOCK, son, age 10, born Mar 1890, born IA, a Farm Laborer > > Oliver A. HANCOCK, son, age 9, born Feb 1893, born IA > > William H. HANCOCK, son, age 8, born Dec 1896, born IA > > > > In the 1900 census of Plainville, KS I was able to find record of Webster > HANCOCK, believed to be the child referred to as "Web" in the photograph. > He was a servant in the home of William & Cora A. ROBINSON with census info > for Webster as follows: > > > > Webster HANCOCK, age 17, born Dec 1882, born IA, parents born IN/IA, a Dry > Goods Salesman > > > > And then in 1920 I find Ivy HANCOCK living in Independence, KS with her > father and census records provide the following information: > > > > Iva HANCOCK, age 42, born IA, parents born IN/IA, a Physician > > John HANCOCK, Father, age 69, a widower, born IN, parents born KY/IN > > > > I am hoping to locate someone from this family so that this wonderful old > photograph can be returned to its rightful place with the family. If you > are a member of the family, or know someone who might be, please contact me. > > > > Thanks, > > Shelley > > > > > > ==== KSROOKS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE to the utility > address KSROOKS-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM If you are trying to unsubscribe from > the Digest list, use the same utility address but change the -L- to a -D- > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >