Posted "as found" on the web. ///Steve Looney/// ============================== Kendall County, IL - Early Marriages, Indexed by Groom Looney Stephen McComber Alice Jul 24 1901 ============================== 31st Illinois Infantry, Company C Looney, William A. Captain Sarahsville Resigned June 3, 1862 ============================== World War I "Honor Roll, Linn County, Iowa. An Illustrated Biography" Looney, Earl Finley Cedar Rapids, Iowa 159 ============================== Washington Co., IA - Farmers, circa 1892 Looney J. Washington ==============================

We are Iowa born and raised and are from the Absalom line through Jonathon, Sr. and Jonathon, Jr., whose son Thomas Jefferson Looney came to Iowa to Adams County (Cromwell) and nearby Union County (Creston). The Looney family farm there is still owned by Bernard George Looney and is farmed by his brother, Clelland, and his son, Clelland, Jr. and the start of his sons. Mary Lou Looney ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Hello Fellow Looney Researchers, I have seen so many Looney's from the Southern states on this site. Are their any from Minnesota, Illinois, or Iowa. Thomas and Hannah Looeny arrived in the US in 1866 along with their three children, Michael, Daniel and Mary. Stayed in Rantoul, IL long enough to have another child. Thomas worked for the railroad during that time. They then moved to Sherburne County, MN and homesteaded. They had several more children. In the early 1900's Thomas, Hannah, their oldest son -Michael and family moved to State Center in Iowa and ran a hotel. Thomas died in 1910 and the family moved back to Minnesota. Any information would be greatly appreciated, Best Regards, Jacklyn

This Isle of Man site seems to get better every time I look at it... check it out. http://www.isle-of-man.com/interests/genealogy/index.htm Best wishes to all, Frank

I have removed the attached file so this message would forward through the Looney Family discussion group's listserver properly. This message is of interest to those of you who are descendants of the Peter Luna line. Please respond directly to the individual sending the following message since it appears they are new in this family research and are not a subscriber to this list. Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 7:11 PM Subject: Clannish data > Howdy distant cuz, My ggma is Norwood not particularly related to > LUNA/looney > but my TENN double-cousin source (Ivor Norwood Smith) had Peter Luna md our > cousin . attached is richtextformat. > Here is the site link > <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~tndavids/cumbrcom.htm">TNGENWEB: Davidson > County, TN -- The Cumberland Compact</A> > > My own ancestor was Christopher Guice also at Cumberland gap, which is the > reason I found this stuff. > cuz alfred - I copied your Looney pages & will sift through it for > siblings Thanx. >

Lots of Lowell Looneys--Need more information [email protected]

--part1_17.5c12975.265601b1_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone help this lady? --part1_17.5c12975.265601b1_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Full-name: JGa666 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 18:52:32 EDT Subject: looneys To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 104 am starting to do some looney research and found that my dad (who always though he was adopted into the looney family) was actually born a looney. His dad was from lowell, arkansas, born around 1900. Any idea where my search could get more info about these looneys? any info appreciated, thanks, jan looney --part1_17.5c12975.265601b1_boundary--

The following is what came through another list. The NARA proposal to revamp the system and fees for providing copies of Military Service Records, Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Files, and Pension Application Files has been published in the 25 April 2000 issue of the Federal Register. Public comment is invited and should be directed to NARA Regulation Comment Desk 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Fax: 301 713-7270 The comment period closes on 26 June 2000. NARA prefers that you use either the postal address or fax number to submit our comments rather than e-mail A complete copy of the Federal Register notice is available from the NARA Web site at http://www.nara.gov/nara/fees-pro.html. The proposed Reproduction Fee Schedule covers a number of items, but the the Military Service Records, and the Pension and Bounty-Land Warrants are of the greatest concern to genealogists. NARA proposes three major changes: 1. The NATF Form 80 would be discontinued, to be replaced by two new forms: NATF Form 85 to request both Bounty-Land Warrant application files and Pension files (more than 75 years old), and NATF From 86 to request Military Service Records (more than 75 years old). 2. For all three types of files, NARA would no longer send a selection of pages, but would send the complete file. This would eliminate the two-step process currently used and should be beneficial to most genealogists. 3. The fees for all three types of files would be raised. For Military Service Records the new fee would be $17.00, regardless of the number of pages included in the file. For Bounty-land Warrants the fee would be $17.25, again without regard to the number of pages. For Pension Files the fee would be $40.00, regardless of the number of pages. Finally, the proposal would go into effect on 1 September 2000, if approved. Many genealogists may consider the proposed fees to be excessive. NARA specifically invites comment on the proposed fee schedule. The FGS/NGS Records Preservation and Access Committee urges everyone who wants to comment to carefully read the full proposal before submitting comments. The proposed fees are intended to cover the actual cost of locating, copying and mailing the records, plus 10% as authorized by law, and are based on the average size of the files. NARA states that the average for Military Service Records and Bounty-land Applications is somewhere under 20 pages, while the average for full Pension Files is 105 pages. The FGS/NGS Records Preservation and Access Committee will be looking at the NARA proposal carefully, and will submit comments as appropriate. Individuals who would like to provide input to the Committee's evaluation are welcome to do so but are also encouraged to comment direct to NARA at the address given above. Comments for Committee consideration should be e-mailed to [email protected], or mailed to Federation of Genealogical Societies, Attention: RPAC, PO Box 200940, Austin, TX 78720-0940. In order for the Records Preservation and Access Committee to adequately evaluate such input it must be received by 26 May 2000. The deadline for comment to NARA, however, is still 26 June 2000. Posting of this message to other mail lists is encouraged. A copy of this message will also be available on the Records Preservation and Access page of the FGS Web site <http://www.fgs.org/fgs-recordsnews.htm> and on the NGS Web site <http://www.ngsgenealogy.org>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------57F92752992703BE96F199DA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is taken from a book titled "Company Aytch, or A Side Show of the Big Show," written by Sam Watkins. It is a memoir from the Civil War of the Tennessee Infantry Regiment, 1st Company H, commanded by Major Abraham McClellan Looney, born 1820, died 1904, who later became a member of the House and Senate, Tennessee General Assembly. epdove --------------57F92752992703BE96F199DA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="pg1.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="pg1.txt" CHAP. XVI-- BATTLES IN TENNESSEE COLUMBIA "This is my own, my native land. " Once more the Maury Grays are permitted to put their feet upon their native heath, and to revisit their homes and friends after having followed their tattered, and torn, and battle-riddled flag, which they had borne aloft for four long years, on every march, in every battle that had been fought by the army of Ten- nessee. We were a mere handful of devoted braves, who had stood by our colors when sometimes it seemed that God hirnself had forsaken us. But, parents, here are your noble and brave sons; and, ladies, four years ago you gave us this flag, and we promised you "That we would come back with the flag as victors or we would come not at all." We have been true to our promise and our trust. On every battlefield the flag that you entrusted to our hands has been borne aloft by brave and heroic men, amid shot and shell, bloody battle, and death. We have never forsaken our colors. Are we worthy to be called the sons of old Maury county? Or have we fought in vain? Have our efforts been ap- preciated, or have four years of our lives been wasted, while we were battling for constitutional government, the supremacy of our laws over centralization, and our own rights, as guaranteed to us by the blood of our forefathers on the battlefields of the Revolution? It is for you to make up your verdict. If our lives as soldiers have been a failure, we can but bow our heads on our bosoms, and say. Surely, four years of our lives have been given for naught, and our efforts to please you have been in vain." Yet, the invader's foot is still on our soil, but there beat in --------------57F92752992703BE96F199DA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="pg2.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="pg2.txt" 200 • Company Aytch our bosoms the blood of brave and patriotic men, and we will continue to follow our old and war-worn battle-riddled flag until it goes down forever. The Maury Grays) cornmanded by Captain A. M. Looney, left Columbia) four years ago, with 120 men. How many of those 120 original members are with the company today? Just twelve. Company H has twenty members, but some of this number had subsequently enlisted. But we twelve will stick to our colors till she goes down forever, and until five more of this number fall dead and bleeding on the battlefield AFIASCO • When we arrived in sight of Columbia, we found the Yankees Still in possession of the town, fortified and determined to resist our advance. We send forward a "feeler," and the "feeler" re- ports back very promptly, "Yes, the Yankees are there." Well, if- that be the case, we'll just make a flank movement. We turn off the main turnpike at J. E. R. Carpenter's, and march through the cedars, and cross Duck river at Davis' ferry, on pontoon bridges, near Lowell's mill. We pass on, and cross Rutherford creek, near Burick's mill, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. We had marched through fields in the heavy mud, and the men, weary and worn-out, were just dragging themselves along, pass- ing by the old Union Seminary, and then by Mr. Fred Thomp- son's, until we came to the Rally Hill turnpike-it being nearly dark-we heard some skirmishing, but, exhausted as we were, we went into bivouac. The Yankees, it seems to me, might have captured the whole of us. But that is a matter of history. But I desire to state that no blunder was made by either Generals Cheatham or Stewart, neither of whom ever failed to come to time. Jeff Davis is alone responsible for the blunder. About two hours after sun up the next morning we received the order to. "Fall in, fall in, quick, make haste, hurrah, promptly, men; each rank count two; by the right flank, quick time, march; keep promptly closed up." Everything indicated an immediate at- tack. When we got to the turnpike near Spring Hill, lo! and be- holdl wonder of wonders! the whole Yankee army had passed during the night. The bird had flown. We make a quick and --------------57F92752992703BE96F199DA--

Posted "as found" on the web. ///Steve Looney/// ================================================================ Pocahontas Star-Herald extracts Dec 23 1910 Erasmus Looney, an aged and well known citizen of the county residing near Oconee, committed suicide last Thursday afternoon by hanging himself to a rafter in his barn. Despondency on the account of ill health and the loss of his wife, whose death occurred about three years ago, is supposed to be the cause of his rash act.

More on the Looney girls: O.G., Jessie, and Augusta all born in 1870s in TX The following is the marriage of their mother, Fannie GENTRY Still looking for the father of these girls. Upshur Co. TX Marriages 1880 Jan 7 J. M. GEE and Mrs. Fannie LOONEY The father is listed as Z. C. Looney on Augusta's DC, but funeral home says could be G, C. Looney. Hope this helps someome. Barbara Bishop Hunt

Posted "as found" on the web. ///Steve Looney/// ============================================================ Carbon Co, PA 1860 Federal Census 17 531 527 LOONEY John 39 M Prussia 18 531 527 LOONEY Mrs. 37 F Pa. 19 531 527 LOONEY Harriet 12 F Pa 20 531 527 LOONEY Elizabeth 10 F Pa 21 531 527 LOONEY Hester 8 M Pa 22 531 527 LOONEY Eleanor 3 F Pa ============================================================

Posted "as found" on the web ///Steve Looney/// ============================================================ SOUTH CAROLINA - FEDERAL PENSION REPORT 1835 JOHN LOONEY ANDERSON DISTRICT PRIVATE $21.42 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $173.78 AMOUNT RECEIVED MAY 1, 1808 PENSION STARTED $34.12 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $592.52 AMOUNT RECEIVED JOHN LOONEY ANDERSON DISTRICT PRIVATE SOUTH CAROLINA TROOPS $80.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE $240.00 AMOUNT RECEIVED APRIL 8, 1834 PENSION STARTED AGE 80 ============================================================

----- Original Message ----- From: Larry Heidlebaugh To: Cc: Sent: Subject: Julia A LOONEY Looking for information on Julia A LOONEY who married John Clabourn GUFFEY 23 Dec 1885. She lived to be about 35 years old. Julia married John in Caldwell County, Missouri. & was my GGrandmother. Have a photo of her. Any info appreciated. Regards, Tish Heidlebaugh ([email protected]

Dear Aunt Marti, Better their house than ours ! Seriously, congratulations to all, and may she be truly blessed. Afraid they are not in my line of Looneys that I know of now. Will save and keep your note handy. Don Rawlins, Snellville, GA

No luck here. Good questions; hope the Hanrahan link can be found. I don't have a thing at that time from up in there. Don Rawlins, Snellville,GA

Yesterday, a new little Looney joined the family. Cory Jeanette DOANE was born at 12:23 p.m. (Central time) on Saturday, May 6th. Cory is the daugher of Alice (Kramer) and James Doane. She's a descendant of Adam LOONEY and Hannah WRIGHT through their son David LOONEY and his wife Isabelle/Isabella KINKHEAD or KINKEAD or KINCAID ... through their son John Wesley LOONEY and his wife Matilda Ann WARD .... through their daughter Mary Ellen LOONEY MAISH HEATON & her second husband William Connor HEATON. (Aunt) Marti

Can anyone on this list help with this? I received this inquiry through a Hanrahan message I had posted: "I am looking for a John Hanrahan (Mid 1800's) who married Mary (?). They were from Claire County, Ireland, and had a daughter named Annie who married John Looney. John and Annie had 5 children, one of whom was my grandfather. Do you have any information on Annie's parents?" I am searching for info on Michael and Kate Hanrahan from the same time period and also Claire County. I thought maybe since Annie married into the Looney's someone could help. Mary Lou Looney ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

WOW! You've got some questions there. Can't help you on Robert's folks "in the beginnings." Will keep your query on file and refer to it when/if something comes along. Don Rawlins (mother was a Looney, from James Shook Looney, TN; John Bledsoe Looney, TN; James Carrol Looney, TN)

///Steve Looney/// ============================================================ Texas Marriages, 1851-1900 > Search Results (from Ancestry.com) BEN F. LOONEY ROBENA PENDER 17 Mar 1887 HuntTX T. J. M. BOSWELL ANNIE LUNA 9 May 1889 HuntTX BEN PEARSON DEE LOONEY 05 Jun 1898 ComancheTX J. W. LOONEY LIZZIE WILLIAMS 15 Feb 1899 ComancheTX R. L. COMPTON E. D. LOONEY 29 Dec 1900 HuntTX ============================================================