Just a reminder..if you are interested in receiving a copy of the 1881 History of Ionia & Montcalm Counties with Illustrations written by John L. Schenck, the deadline is fast approaching. The price for pre-publication is $40 until September 30th. The price after September 30th will be $52. This is cheaper than the cost of the original publication! It is hardbound cover, over 500 pages and is an exact re-print of the original. For more information, contact Dale Jackson at djax@iserv.net Pam Swiler, President Ionia County Genealogical Society

Thanks for the site, Pam.....This is a very interesting site and will surly take may visits to view all the great information available.....Thanks again, Pat Scott > Hello listers! > Sometimes we have to look outside of our own community to find valuable > resources that are available to us. Such is the case of the Clarke Library > in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Check out this link to see what is available to > you! > http://www.lib.cmich.edu/clarke/lhbionia.htm > Happy hunting! > Pam Swiler, President > Ionia County Genealogical Society > End of MIIONIA-D Digest V01 Issue #106 > ************************************** >

Hello listers! Sometimes we have to look outside of our own community to find valuable resources that are available to us. Such is the case of the Clarke Library in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Check out this link to see what is available to you! http://www.lib.cmich.edu/clarke/lhbionia.htm Happy hunting! Pam Swiler, President Ionia County Genealogical Society

Dear Listers, Today is a sad day in America - the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC has left Americans stunned. Please take a moment to say a prayer not only for the victims and their families, but for our leaders. Pam Swiler, President Ionia County Genealogical Society

From your website I find a Sylvester Lumbert m. Elizabeth Watkins April 3 1877; in 1879 a divorce is filed as "Mary vs. Sylvester Lumbert". Is this the same Sylvester? I am looking for a Sylvester with a son named Edward. Any information on Sylvester would be appreciated. Grace in Albuquerque

You can order the record directly from the county clerk's office. The address is: Ionia County Clerk Courthouse 100 Main Street Ionia, MI 48846 Certified copies are $10 per page - genealogy copies are $1 per page. For more information on this office, visit the following web site. http://sos.state.mi.us/history/archive/county/ionia.html Pam Swiler, President Ionia County Genealogical Society At 10:28 AM 9/2/2001 -0600, you wrote: >I noticed that there are no death records available on microfilm at the >LDS centers. Can someone please tell me how I can access a death that >took place between 1900-1920? If it means coming to a court house, I will >do that. >Thank you so much. >Barbara Lewis > > >==== MIIONIA Mailing List ==== >List Mom for Ionia County, MI is Jan Cortez. My email is >cristian@netonecom.net. Spaming, flaming and profanity are not >allowed. This is strictly a genealogy list! If you have any concerns, >send me a note, otherwise enjoy the list and post often. It helps get >your message out. > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

Cheryl Van Wormer has just sent me the link to the Portland Cemetery. It is completed from A-K. I have connected it on the Cemetery Page - so please stop in and take a look. What an awesome job. See you all when I get back from vacation. Hope to have a few things completed then for the site. Jan Ionia County Coordinator

Hi Judy: I know where Algodon is......Someone on this list had to clue me in also just a while back when I was researching the Root family. <Snippet> Apparently A.J. Root was the postmaster, but I'm not sure. It was usually the ways things happened in those days. They were living in a place called Algodon [say al-ga-don]. This was just little place at the intersection of Clinton Trail and Jackson rd. It had mail delivery from about 1863 to 1899. Some of our relatives were postmasters. Clinton trail was an old, old Indian pathway. I'm not sure if had a stage coach for sure. It is just east of Clarksville another burgh. Clarksville survives. But there is nothing left of Algodon. I don't think even a foundation in a field. There might be two houses. That about all. Jane Goodsell (in Va.)

Can anyone tell me where Algodon is/was? It reflects as the Post Office address on some pension records I received. There also is a PO address of Campbell. Both Algodon and Campbell also reflect as being in Ionia County. As far as I know, he only lived in Odessa Twp/Lake Odessa in Ionia County. Thanks Judy judbear2@mediaone.net

I noticed that there are no death records available on microfilm at the LDS centers. Can someone please tell me how I can access a death that took place between 1900-1920? If it means coming to a court house, I will do that. Thank you so much. Barbara Lewis

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I just found a record of a Simon Sherberneau living in "Dewer Twp, Ionia County" in the 1900 census.....I can't find that place in my placefinder......is this the right spelling or is there not such a place??? Barb Lewis

Hello Everyone: Is anyone subscribed to this list searching or perhaps descends from: Hiram Hogle who was born in 1805 in Vergennes Twp, Genesee Co, NY, and died July, 1872 at Niles, Trumbull Co, Ohio. He married (l) his first cousin Elizabeth Hogle in 1832. She was born in 1816 in Vergennes Twp, Genessee Co, NY, and died in 1860. Correspondence with John T. Hogle of Fayettville, Arkansas, says that Hiram Hogle was married (2) Catherine Riter, June 4, 1861, in Trumbull Co, Ohio, born about 1816; married (3) Jane Brown November 17, 1866 in Trumbull Co, Ohio, born about 1815). I found in Liber C, page 31, Ionia County Marriage Records that on March 20, 1869, in Saranac, Ionia Co, MI, Hiram Hogle married what I thought was a second wife but according to John Hogle this would be wife number (4) Caroline Stillwell, both of them lived in Campbell, Ionia Co, MI. Hiram is age 64 and says that he was born in "Mapleton, Saratoga Co, NY". I have never found a town of Mapleton in Saratoga Co, NY. Caroline was age 51 at the time of her marriage to Hiram and states she was born in Vermont. My mother-in-law, Margaret, who is now age 91, remembers that as a child she attended Hogle family reunions held in Clarksville. She also remembers attending the Hogle reunion after she was married. I have located an article in the Ionia County, MI, newspaper, The Daily Sentinel, dated August 16, 1934, page 3 this article: "The Hogle family reunion was held at Mr. and Mrs. Charles Decker's. From away were William Barnes and family; Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Hood and son John, Joliet, Ill; Nellie Wells, Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rodgers and son, Detroit; Tom _____, Warren, Ohio; MRS. JOHN CRISMORE (MY MOTHER-IN-LAW'S MOTHER) and MR. AND MRS. B. C. BISHOP OF GRAND LEDGE (MY FATHER-IN-LAW AND MOTHER-IN-LAW); Mr. and Mrs. Phil Norton of Big Rapids; R. G. Spence and family of Owosso." And Margaret very distinctly remembers Roxy Hogle Hood and Otis Hogle, two of the children of Hiram Hogle. She also remembers the name Doc Scoville. (Martha J. Hogle, daughter of Hiram Hogle, married Leroy A. Scoville and they had a son, Glen H. Scoville born about 1875, who became a doctor.) Recently my mother-in-law moved into a retirement center and in all the turmoil of moving, we found a Hogle family picture which had been inherited from her mother. Among the 17 people in the picture was Otis Hogle and his sister Roxy (Hogle) Hood, along with Emma (Hood) Dildine (Margaret does not remember Emma (Hood) Dildine.) In a family letter, dated August 11, 1913, that was written by Margaret's grandmother, Margaret Elizabeth Hogle Upton Guernsey, reference is made to "the 26th Hogle family reunion that is to be held in Ohio". Does anyone know where that might have been held? In another letter dated June 13, 1915, Margaret Elizabeth Hogle Upton Guernsey states, "I got a letter from Mrs. Dildine from Clarksville (this would be MI) last week. She said the folks there were all well. Otis (this would be Otis Hogle) had a poor spell a short time ago." Margaret Elizabeth Hogle Upton Guernsey's parents were Robert and Cynthia (Reynolds) Hogle who came to MI about 1850. Cynthia died about 1854 and Robert died in 1872, Campbell Twp, Ionia County, MI, near where some of the Hiram Hogle children owned residences. I cannot make a connection between my Robert Hogle and the family of Hiram Hogle. The Hiram Hogle family can be traced back quite far - and while I am 99% postive Robert Hogle is a relative of Hiram, I don't know how he connects. Can anyone help me? Gerri bish57@acd.net

I have an envelope that cough drops were sold in that lists Charles J. Dilley as the druggist in Portland, Ionia County, Michigan. Is there anyone who can tell me where the store was located - it says the "opera block" and what dates the business was there? Pam Swiler, President Ionia County Genealogical Society

Hello Listers, I would like to personally invite all of you who are in the area to come to Lake Odessa to the Lakewood Jazz & Blues Festival, Saturday, August 25 from 1:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the park in Lake Odessa. The Ionia County Genealogical Society will have a table there and will be selling Schwaan's Ice Cream to raise funds for the society. Stop in and say hello! Pam Swiler, President Ionia County Genealogical Society

The First Families of Ionia County Society application deadline for 2001 is fast approaching. If you have not turned yours in yet, you have until September 15 to do so. See the website for further information. Pam Swiler, President Ionia County Genealogical Society

Hi List. Not much activity lately!! I was wondering if anyone had a William Curtis living in the Ionia Co area 1880ish. Am interested in where he was living and any children he may have. Thanks Beth

Our link to the website can now be found on WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids Michigan) web site along with other genealogy sites. http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=305964 Pam Swiler, President Ionia County Genealogical Society

I am looking for parents/siblings of the following individuals, Norman Clark, Parmelia Chamberlain (may be Chamberlin), George F. Percival and spouse/children of Ama/Emma Clark. Norman Clark born 1823 New Hampshire (according to the 1880 census he also stated his parents were born in that state) but in the 1900, 1910, & 1920 MI census his living children stated he was born in Vermont. The family group: Norman Clark born 1823 married to: Parmelia Chamberlain (born 1824 in Leeds County, Canada, so far no information on her parents/siblings) in Leeds County, Ontario, Canada about 1852 (still waiting for the 1851 & 1861 Leeds County Census for more information). Children Born in Canada: 1.Warren Clark born 1853, Leeds County Canada. Married to: Jennie May Porter (born 1862, Ionia County, MI) in 1880. Their children were all born in Isabella County, Michigan. a. Harriet (Hattie)born 1882 married Frank Nevitt, no children. b. Kathleen (Kittie) born 1884 married Irving Goodwin, one child. c. Harold born 1889 married Lila Goldie Bennett, 6 children. d. Minnie born 1893 married Frank Doremus, 5 children. e. Warren born 1899 married Juanita ?, 2 children. 2. Ama or Emma Clark born 1856, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada. Looking for information on her, spouse? children? etc. 3. Wilkinson H. Clark born Oct. 10, 1862, Leeds County, Canada. Married Alice F. Herald, maiden name Pretty (born in MI) in Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, 1897. No children from this marriage. Born in Michigan: 4. Lucy Clark born January 14, 1865 in Easton, Ionia County, MI. Married George F. Percival (born Bastard Twsp., Leeds County, Canada) 1885 in Ionia County, MI. They had 4 children, 2 which died before 1900. Their children were: a. Edith Percival born 1888 Nebraska, she had at least 1 daughter (married after 1910). b. Katherine Percival born 1901 MI, unknown spouse Smith, children? (married after 1920 census). George, Lucy, and Katherine died in Montcalm County. 5. Ezra Clark born 1868 in Easton, Ionia County, MI. Ezra died 1875. Any help would be appreciated. If related let me know, I am willing to share other information I have on this family line. Nona

If you have not had an opportunity to hear Carole Callard's program on Immigration and Ship Passenger Lists, now is the time! You can see her TODAY, Saturday, August 11 at 1:00 p.m. at the Ionia County Genealogical Society meeting in Lake Odessa, Michigan. Program is free of charge and open to the public. The meeting is held at the Lake Manor Apartments Community Room. Refreshments will be served. Hope to see you there! Pam Swiler, President Ionia County Genealogical Society