I am a descendant of the Graveraet family that homesteaded on Harsen's Island, Michigan along with Jacob Harsen. One of the sons born on Harsen's Island was Henry Gerrit Graveraet. Henry's son, Robert G. Graveraet was a pioneer in the Marquette county area. There must be some history about this man in a local library. Can anyone tell me the address of the local library? Also I would lie to know there are presently any Graveraets in the local phone books. Arnold near LaConner, Washington State ( about 70 miles north of Seattle).

--WebTV-Mail-25592-2948 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Hi List, SORRY, I GOT THE DEATH DATE OF LILLIAN BLAKE WRONG ITS 1/7/1958 BURIED PARK CEM. SORRY, LINDA --WebTV-Mail-25592-2948 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAuAhUAoFuL/SIDXrkVEJ0WIxnl+FKfmCoCFQCLjxNdz4D4wYdGdBMdOJseJGtQOQ== From: tennanny@webtv.net (linda) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:43:52 -0500 (EST) To: mimarque-l-request@rootsweb.com Subject: BLAKE FAMILY IN MARQUETTE ,MICH. Message-ID: <845-3A6247C8-1801@storefull-613.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) Hi List, Im doing research on my aunt that lived in Marquette. LILLIAN BLAKE BORN 1898 DIED 12/13/1898 BUIRED PARK CEM IN marquette,mich.... DOCTOR HOWARD PAUL BLAKE BORN 1890 DIED 3/26/1962. I was wondering if there is a person that goes to the library there and could get me a copy of the Death Cert,Obituary,and hunting the WILL for them both. They lived in Marquette, for a lot of years. she was my dad sister. and not till this day did i know these dates. I would appreciate al you could do for me. I DONT LIVE IN MARQUETTE FOR I LIVE IN TENNESSEE.. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE, Linda C. Doyle Chattanooga,Tn. Genealogy is my heart, soul, and mind. My Family is what I love to find. Any help is appreciated ! *DYE (N.C. & Tn) * BLANTON (TN)* CASSIDY (TN,KY,OH) * HUGHS(ky & tn) * SHAW (TN) * SHADWICK * CHADWICK * SHADRICK (TN)* CHAPMAN (tn) * McDANIELS (tn)* McCARVEY (GA) * CROW / CROWE (GA) * LEMONS (VA,TN) * RESSE(TN) EDWARDS(Tn) * Rhea, Roane, Cumberland , Anderson and Marion, COUNTIES .of TENNESSEE..... THANK YOU FOR YOUR KINDNESS ! FAVORITE SITES: HTTP:WWW.SAVINGGRAVES.COM (TENNESSE http://www.explorer.msn.com (free download it .) --WebTV-Mail-25592-2948--

Hello, fellow listers, I was wondering if anyone out there might have some history on the famous Anne Oakley? I'm trying to track down a story my father told me several times to see if it is true or not about his grandmother and Anne Oakley. My father had claimed that his grandmother was a better shot with the gun than Anne Oakley. If it is true then I am a proud owner of a gun that should have gone to Anne Oakley but was beaten by my grandmother. Any help or suggestions on where to look? Kim Pollard

Gotland Radio is sending two reporters Dec.3 to do a report about Gotland, Sweden immigrants to Michigan and their descendants. Their tentative route is Grand Rapids, Manistee, Traverse City, Escanaba. They have some contacts already. Does anyone know of where any Gotland people settled in Marquette County Michigan ? Gotland Radio is not commercial radio, but like our NPR. Please contact David Larson in Salt Lake City, my Email address = dlars@juno.com

Listers I wanted to pass this along in case any of you were looking for North American Indian relatives in hopes that this would help. Kim Pollard << THE OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL TRUSTEE FO AMERICAN INDIANS (OST), OFFICE OF TRUST FUNDS MANAGEMENT (OTFM) This is the url for a goverment site. It hold the list of unclaimed property for Native Americans. These have never been posted for the public. http://www.ost.doi.gov/whereabouts.html ==== PALMER Mailing List ====

I have some addresses from the Negaunee, Michigan telephone book I can pass on: Michigan Iron Industry Museum 73 Forge Rd. Negaunee, Michigan 49866 phone: 906-475-7857 Marquette County Historical Society Museum 213 N Front Marquette, Michigan 49855 phone: 906-226-3571 Hope this might help someone. Jan from Florida

I would also like to find employment records for Marquette Co. mines -- specifically those in Negaunee, 1880-1919. Does anybody on the list have a source for those records that someone from out of state could access? Thanks, Marilyn, for asking the question! Best Regards, Sally Bolster Holcombe Researching in MI: ALVORD, BODENSTEIN, BOLSTER, CHILDS, CONVERSE, DAVEY, EDDY, EDWARDS, MENHENNICK, POLKINGHORNE, REYNOLDS, RODDA, SATTERTHWAITE, WEBB, WEEKS, WHITE, WILLIAMS, WOLFE. MIMARQUE-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > MIMARQUE-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 20 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Mines [JLMAMJM@aol.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from MIMARQUE-D, send a message to > > MIMARQUE-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > To contact the list administrator, send mail to > MIMARQUE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Mines > Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 23:21:43 EDT > From: JLMAMJM@aol.com > To: MIMARQUE-L@rootsweb.com > > Hello, > > I would like to find my Great Grandfathers employment with the mines in > Marquette County. > > I am looking in the years of 1878 to 1917. Negaunee area. > > Are there employment records available out there? > > Thank you > Marilyn

Hello, Thank you to those who answered my question on Mines in Marquette county. Rattled the brains of my parents, and 2 cousins this morning. Mine Co: maybe more: CCI Jones and Lockland Inland Steel Ishpeming Mining Co. Negaunee Mining Co. Oliver Mining Co. Mines in area: just the top of the iceberg: Mather A and B Tilden Empire Tracy Negaunee Mine Athens Queens Hartford Mary Charlotte Jackson Mine Angeline Mine Barnum Salsbury Mine Blueberry Republic Mass Lucy Mine Don Ryan who is working for Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company is building an Archives in Ishpeming at the old mine shaft call ?Cliffs Mine. Is at this time is all I know about that. Marilyn

Hello, I would like to find my Great Grandfathers employment with the mines in Marquette County. I am looking in the years of 1878 to 1917. Negaunee area. Are there employment records available out there? Thank you Marilyn

There is a branch of my family tree that I am keen to know more about. It concerns my grandfather's sister, Elizabeth Jane (Bessie) MATTHEWS who in 1903 emigrated from Cornwall, England, with her husband Frank MARTIN and settled in Marquette County. They had two sons: William Richard MARTIN born Cornwall 1902 and John MARTIN born Michigan 1909 From US census transcripts I have learnt that they lived in Michigan street, Ishpeming in 1910 and in Elm Street, Gwinn Village in 1920. In the latter year, Frank and his son Richard were listed as iron miners. I am hoping that someone on this list may be able to advise me how I should proceed to locate more information about Frank and Bessie MARTIN (not least the dates of their deaths) and about their descendants. There is very little information available in Australia. Through the LDS I obtained films of Ishpeming and Gwinn cemetary records, but I found no relevant entries. Are there perhaps family history societies or local libraries with old phone books, electoral roles, marriage and death registers, church (Episcopalean or Methodist) registers, school alumni records etc that I could have someone consult for me? Any guidance or information would be most appreciated. Trevor Matthews Sydney, Australia

Sorry, about that folks. I was informed that most people didn't get the message. Kim Pollard What To Eat Some Sensible Suggestions That Should Be Posted in Every Household Aristonite, writing in that excellent gastronomic journal, What to Eat, makes a few sensible suggestions in regard to the diet that ought to be posted in every household. He says that the healthiest and purest lives comes from those who d not eat meat before the age of 15. Potatoes, sliced thin and fried, are indigestible. While tasting delicious, they afford no real nourishment and cause a derangement of the liver. Cake clogs the stomach. All rich pastries is poison to the liver. Soft caramels and creams are also bad for anyone with a liver at all rebellious. When you get old, look out for your food. Do you ever notice that grandfather’s face is not as jolly as it used to be? His strength of mind also seems slowly disappearing, though he is getting fleshier every day. He needs a change of food. Probably he has been eating buckwheat cakes and sirup, white bread and butter, sugar fat meats, etc. Give him lean meat and fish, cracked wheat and potatoes, barley, cakes, rye bread or southern corn cakes. Try it, and instead of moping and sitting round the house all day you will find him running around lively as a cricket. Maybe, on the contrary, he is growing thin and pale. Then he needs buckwheat and molasses, fat meats, mashed potatoes in milk, southern corn, cracked wheat and fish, oatmeal porridge and fruit every morning. All rules have their exceptions, and the died described for the mass may not answer for exceptional cases, but the following directions are good for the majority. Milk is the simplest and most natural food. If you cannot drink it, your stomach is in a diseased condition. Cheese is a good substitute, if mild, fresh and made from pure milk and cream. Persons who live mostly on vegetables have the best nerves and the best complexions. Red pepper is an excellent condiment. Its effect upon the liver is remarkable. Malaria, intermittent fever or congestive chills cannot endure the presence of red pepper. Pure red pepper (known as cayenne) should be on every table. Ill health is caused largely by improper food or by food which is in a bad condition when it is eaten. The West Duluth Sun July 29, 1897 [Othe than not seeing any reference to tofu or bean sprouts, this seems like pretty sound advice, even today]. Ray Marshall

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------7DA7C6DBBD9EA5AB54967E2D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I received this from another genealogy list and thought this was very interesting and wanted to pass it along. Kim Pollard --------------7DA7C6DBBD9EA5AB54967E2D Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com ([63.92.80.125]) by mail3.cableone.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.447.44); Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:12:19 -0700 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e8TD8q124569; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:08:52 -0700 Resent-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 06:08:52 -0700 X-Original-Sender: raymarsh@mninter.net Fri Sep 29 06:08:52 2000 From: "Ray Marshall" <raymarsh@mninter.net> Old-To: <MNSTLOUI-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:19:14 -0500 Message-ID: <LPBBLKNPNBLMDBBAFAJFOEMPDKAA.raymarsh@mninter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Subject: [MNSTLOUI] 131 What to Eat Resent-Message-ID: <5VYR-.A.s_F.kRJ15@lists6.rootsweb.com> To: MNSTLOUI-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: MNSTLOUI-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: MNSTLOUI-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <MNSTLOUI-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/15

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1ECF0634000C7B232240C1F6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I thought this was very interesting and thought that some of you might enjoy reading a little of the history of our ancestors. Kim Pollard --------------1ECF0634000C7B232240C1F6 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com ([63.92.80.123]) by mail2.cableone.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.447.44); Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:03:00 -0700 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e8QH2nA24941; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:02:49 -0700 Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:02:49 -0700 X-Original-Sender: zorblitz@mindspring.com Tue Sep 26 10:02:48 2000 Message-ID: <39D0D990.21881F8@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:14:56 -0400 From: zorblitz <zorblitz@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.71 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Old-To: "WauShaOcon-L@rootsweb.com" <WauShaOcon-L@rootsweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [WauShaOcon-L] Sawdust and forest fires Resent-Message-ID: <A5cBM.A.JFG.4aN05@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: WauShaOcon-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: WauShaOcon-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <WauShaOcon-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/918 X-Loop: WauShaOcon-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: WauShaOcon-L-request@rootsweb.com Return-Path: WauShaOcon-L-request@rootsweb.com X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Hi All, I was asked about the use of sawdust as road covering in the late 1800's and did some research. I thought I would share these interesting findings. Enjoy - Rita Oconto County WIGenWeb Project Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiconto/ Question: Many years ago I became interested in the various fires that occured in the Old Northwest during 1871 and remember reading that many logging camps and larger towns actually paved their streets with sawdust from the mills so that people could walk them with out getting muddy during and after rains. Certainly a very bad idea but a excellent explanation as to why these town "went up" like gunpowder kegs. Can you confirm or deny that this practice did occur? Thank you, any reply would be greatly appreciated. - K. P. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah Answer: That is absolutely correct. The practice goes back to colonial days, but it wasn't until manufacturing wood during the "Industrial Revolution" that there was a large enough amount of sawdust to become a problem. Unlike now when sawdust is used in pressed wood products and some paper manufacturing, sawdust was just a waste byproduct of milling lumber. A BIG byproduct. At first they simply dumped it into the rivers and streams the powered the mills. It would then travel to the mouth of the rivers and totally clog the bays of the upper Great Lakes. This made shipping impossible and that meant the lumber could not be shipped to other places. There are old letter and diaries with descriptions of sawdust being so thick along the beaches and bays the you could walk out on the floating matts (also not a real safe practice). They burned the bark and scaps, that would not make shims and such small usables, in huge tall coneshaped metal stuctures with open tops and at night the workers would sit out on the front porches of their cottages with the family and watch the glowing red burners against the inky black sky until bedtime. But the sawdust remained a huge problem. It was highly combustable and not suited for burners as it would also set the surrounding area on fire with sparks traveling on the wind. Someone came up with the idea of laying down sawdust on the muddy town roads. Then you could not only walk on the knee-deep mud, but the sawdust was also "worked into" the mud by traffic to make a kind of improved surface for wagon and carriage wheels. And it was free for the hauling. Since the most concentrated traffic was in the towns, villages and settlements, this was seen as a big improvement. Just the other day, right here, I noticed that sawdust from logging off land for development was used on the mud to make a road inland for the heavy trucks. It was very successful and took the weight of many vehicles without getting muddy. This sawdust was also used in logging camps so the mud from the bare ground didn't impede transportation. It was truly dangerous by today's standards, and even more dangerous, but absolutely neccessary, by yesterday's standards. There were also no building codes back then and all the wood structures were put up fast and close together, often wall to wall. With lamp oil, wood stoves, fireplaces, candles, and various fuels being used and stored all over, women and men wearing lots of cotton clothing, and lots of smoking materials, open fires, sparks from steam engines (trains, threshers, boats, etc), campfires of hunters, brush burning, smokehouses for curing meats, bondfires for newly cleared land, open fires for making soap, scalding fowl and rendering lard, lightening, back burning, etc. you can only imagine how dangerous life was with all that sawdust around. Even circuses used sawdust all around and inside the tents as temporary flooring, and the tents were lit with open, burning torches attached to the wood mainpoles. That would give me bigger thrills and chills than any caged Tiger. Hope this answers your question. Thanks for writing. Rita - Oconto County WIGenWeb > --------------1ECF0634000C7B232240C1F6--