This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DAVIS - STAGG Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JGB.2ACI/649 Message Board Post: I am looking for anyone who might know any information on my great grandparent when they lived in Pentwater. Jane (Jenny) Davis married John L. Stagg in Pentwater, Michigan, Hart, County 1871. John was a Civil War Vet. and I know they had family of four. They had four daughters. The first two died young. The last two Mable and Ethel were born and raised in Manestee. John was a policeman as their was an artical in the Manistee Daily News, dated 2/6/1895. I do not know any information on Jane Davis or her family. Her father, mother and siblings are all buried in Manistee somewhere and John and Jane's two daughters who died in 1872 and 1875(Grace and Maud Stagg) are buried in the same cemetery. That is all I know. Any information will be a great, great help. Would be wonderful to know the name of the cemetery where Maud & Grace Stagg, John Davis, & Mary Davis are buried. John and Mary were from Whales. Sharon WDA333@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JGB.2ACI/648 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on Harrison H. Rowe. He was born in Ohio and moved to Manistee after the Civil War. I have some information on him at this location in 1883. He may have been in the jewelry business, possibly with a partner named Sands. Any information appreciated. Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JGB.2ACI/122.277.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't have any data on Chester Derby or Elizabeth Comes but a son of Franklin Mason Derby and Laura J. Beck was William Chester Derby who married my second cousin once removed, Elizabeth Grandjean in Manistee, MI.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Derby Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JGB.2ACI/122.277.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for info about my great,great,grandfather Chester Derby(Darby),born 1797,died June 17,1874. Married to Elizabeth Comes(Bety Combs) .Their son Franklin Mason Derby was my great grandfather. He was married to Laura Beck. I would love to have more info on chester as we are at a stand still.Thanks so much Please email if you have any info.Oh bety and chester were married feb.22,1822.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JGB.2ACI/645.1.1 Message Board Post: Well thanks for the discouraging news! The clipping I'm looking for was written during WWI which would have been in that basement by 1919. My great-grandfather wrote some sort of poem about the Liberty Loan Drive that was published. My great-aunt says there was a big to-do about it. The copy that my great-grandmother saved fell into a bunch of little pieces from bad storage. A cousin of mine has been trying to piece it together for years with no success. My great aunt is now 78 years old and wants to share this little piece with her children. Guess I'll have to tell her that it won't be found.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JGB.2ACI/645.1 Message Board Post: Chris, The village of Bear Lake suffered a disastrous fire on September 30, 1919. The publisher of the Beacon, Keddie & Son, used the basement of E. O. Thompson's building as storeroom for their past additions. This building burned as well as E. J. Kingscott's dry goods store, the Masonic Lodge, the post office, and Austin Richley's grocery store. Some clippings saved by pioneers survive and these are highly prized. Duane A. Hunt year63@hotmail.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JGB.2ACI/647 Message Board Post: I also have a picture that has 11 gentlemen in it that is only labeled "Fox Farm Bear Lake MI". Does anyone know what the Fox Farm is? The Hogmire family came from Avon NY where there is a fox hunt held every year on the land that they settled. I'm thinking this picture is related to that---like they brought the hunt to Bear Lake with them. There is a dog in the picture that could be the hunting dog. If anyone is interested in this picture, let me know via email and I'll send you a copy.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JGB.2ACI/646 Message Board Post: I have obtained a picture from a logging camp in Bear Lake MI, probably taken in 1890. There are 26 people in the picture, most very clear. Only 2 are identified, my great-great grandfather Cassius Hogmire and his brother Frank. Does anyone at this board have any interest in such a picture or think they could possibly identify more of the people. If so, send me an email and I'll send you a copy of the picture

I know that the Manistee library has some old newspapers on microfilm. Contact them as to their holdings.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Evans-Bain-Niles- Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JGB.2ACI/95.114.1 Message Board Post: Greetings, Do you know if there is any relation to Marcus & Harriet Marie Evens/Evans...Thos.J.Evans...Ignatius George Evans? These folks bought land in Kent Co. Mi. Thanks Mary

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JGB.2ACI/645 Message Board Post: Looking to see if any of the Bear Lake Beacon newspapers are on microfilm anywhere in Manistee Co. My great-grandfather Marvin Hugmeyer wrote something regarding buying bonds in WWI and am interested in finding the article. It would have been written in 1917/18. Anyone with information? It would be greatly appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kovacik, Struhar, Podkamensky, Paar Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JGB.2ACI/644 Message Board Post: Trying to research any infor. on my paternal grandparents from Czechoslovakia. Both immigrated into the USA at different times. Stefan Kovacik was born in 1884 in Roberna, Czech. (Is that a town or region?) Perhaps clerk copied it wrong and it is really Brno. Naturalization papers indicate he came into New York harbor on the Kaisirin Augusta Victoria in 1908. Francisa Struhar, daughter of Joseph Struhar and Anna Podkamensky, is said to have had a half sister named Ann Paar. (I am also looking for infor. on the Struhar or Podkamensky ancestry in the country of Czechoslovakia.) Both Stefan and Francisa married in America and settled in the Racine/Sturtevant Wisconsin area. Please send any information to Karen Kovacik-Palmer at palmer55@wwt.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DUDLEY RIETZ Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JGB.2ACI/643 Message Board Post: Lived in Dallas Texas in the late 1930s. I am looking for any of her descendants.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JGB.2ACI/282.285 Message Board Post: my family came from poland in 1904 after my great gram wanda was born in 1904 they came to america to pa.. at the time they came there was stella and wanda born there names were lottie and anthony from poland dound familuar

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JGB.2ACI/168.165.200.221.223.235.254.1 Message Board Post: Hi, my name is Carol and I am the great granddaughter of Hannah (Annie) Boughner (Buckner) who was married to Ruben Brines in 1900. Their marriage certificate shows Boughner but the news info regarding Thomas's death shows their name as Bucker. I remember my grandmother telling me she was related to the Stillwells and I seem to remember that she had a cousin named Harry Bond. Does any of this sound familiar to you. I am in China so do not have access to the census material to research. Can you help me?

We maintain the Michigan Marriage Index Database that has the following records: CHARLES EMERY FERRIS m ANNA JOHANNA FREDRICA HOKANSON in EATON cty 04 APR 1891 ORA FENA BARTELS m JOHN - HOKANSON in EATON cty 00 JUN 1872 VERMONTVILLE SCRAPBK VOL 3 PG 231 Any family connection? We did not find any listing for Karl. Jack & Marianne Dibean - Lansing Michigan Marriage Index Links http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/dibeanindex/dibean_county.html ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JGB.2ACI/642 Message Board Post: My grandfather emigrated to the US via Manistee, MI in 1888 from Sweden, according to records we found in Sweden. From family info., he worked on the railroad in MI. until 1890, when he moved to MN. I am looking for any possible source of info. that may list him during that time. His name was Karl Oscar Hokanson. Thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Baker, Gillette, Brown Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JGB.2ACI/641 Message Board Post: Portrait and Biographical Record of Northern Michigan. Chicago: Record Publishing Co., 1895. PROF. S. W. BAKER is at the head of one of the thriving institutions of Manistee. November 6, 1893, he opened the Manistee Business College, which includes in its scope of study preparation for teachers in the normal department, instruction in the languages, and a complete business course, including stenography and typewriting. The college has the support and encouragement of the best citizens of this place, and as it is the only school of the kind in the county, the people of the rural districts appreciate its advantages, and among the students enrolled are many who attend from a distance of several miles. For the accomodation of those whose time is otherwise employed during the day, a night school is also in operation three nights in each week. Professor Baker is a gentleman well fitted by training and experience for the position he occupies, as he has been constantly engaged in this line of work for about a quarter of a century. A native of Canada, born in 1849, Professor Baker was educated at the home of his boyhood and at Ypsilanti, Mich. He graduated from the State Normal School in the last-named city in the Class of '68. The following twenty years he held the responsible position of Superintendent of the city schools of Ovid and Big Rapids, this state. In 1893 he came from the last-named place to Manistee, and is meeting with gratifying success in this recent venture. The parents of our subject were M. S. and Rachel (Brown) Baker, the former a native of England, and the latter of Canada. They both died at the home of their son, S. W., who is their only child. The death of M. S. Baker occurred October 30, 1885 at the age of sixty-nine years, while his wife's demise took place September 2, 1887, after she had passed her sixtieth birthday. In the village of Corunna, Mich., Professor Baker was married, in 1870, to Miss Ellen I. Gillette, a native of this state. Six children have been born of their union, the eldest of whom, Ethel, is a teacher at Filer City, Mich. Ray C. is a druggist by occupation, and is now a resident of New Orleans. Lee H. is interested with his father in the business college and teaches the branches of stenography and penmanship. Ward and Eva are attending the local schools, and the youngest bears the name of Donald. The Professor and his estimable wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and contribute their share both of work and means towards its support. In political views Professor Baker is identified with the Republican party and is a true patriot and good citizen in the best sense of the terms. [I have no other info on this family]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Paquette, Bertschy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5519/JGB.2ACI/99.1 Message Board Post: I was in Salida and copied some information on the Paquette's and also copied a few photo's from a book on the history of Salida called "Where the Bodies are". There is some great information on them. What I got on "Frank", "Baldy" Francis Joseph Paquette was this 1 April 1891 - 14 December 1972. Frank was born in Centerville, Colorado. Frank was the son of John and Molly Bertchy Paquette. Frank was a rancher and farmer. Baldy was married to a woman a very short time but they had no children. Frank was known as a "Bubbly, happy, sort of guy. He did use profanity on occasion. He was a hard worker." He died in Salida, Colorado, leaving a brother, Walter, and a sister, Ella [Mrs. Earl] (my great Aunt) Everett. Colorado S 2 U.S. Navy World War 1 grave marker. I also have information on Delphine Herbert Paquette, Fred P. George Natol, Hixie H., James Zepyr, John Baptiste Godfrey, Johnnie Raymond, Lucy B., Marguerite A., "Molly" Mary Bertschy, Peter, Pierre, Phillip E, Veronica Harrington, and Walter William Edmond Paquette. My e-mail is TLJBGRS@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nickelsen/Petersen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JGB.2ACI/640 Message Board Post: My Grandfather shares a cemetery plot in Oak View Cemetery in Manistee with Hans P. Nickelsen, Bn. 10/18/1853 d: 9/14/1918 and his wife Annie, Bn. 3/30/1854, d: 1/16/1918. Both born in Denmark. Would like any information about this couple. Would like to know if they were related to Rasmus Petersen in any way. Thanks