With Outlook Express you can set the type, size and color that e-mail messages appear in when you read them. It's under Tools/Options/Read. Jim James R. Baker, Jr. [email protected] Visit my genealogy page: 135 pages of Marriages, Tax Lists, Census, Etc. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jrbakerjr/genealogy/index.htm (some pages do not work well with Netscape) .. ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Slaven To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [MO] Capitals Hi, If you are having problems with reading your messages, another solution is to invest in a new monitor, 17 inch or larger. I understand the problem with reading some of the messages, I also have resorted to an "Optivisor" with the lens of the proper focal length. Needless to say, I have vision problems, I have found that reading messages written in caps, is much more difficult to read. My two cents worth! Frank Mesa, Arizona ==== Missouri Mailing List ==== Need to find the county for a town? USGS/GNIS site: http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp

Please, I had 35 messages tonight and about 20 yesterday. I have really enjoyed this list but if it continues I am going to have to unsubscribe. I do not want to hurt anyones feelings, I am pleased the way it was resolved, but I think it has gone on long enough. We just need to learn a little more tolerance for those that are not as well versed in computers as some of us are. Thanks, Vicki ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 5:58 PM Subject: [MO] PRINT SIZE, ETC ETC AD INFINITUM !!!! > Haven't we thrashed this thing to death yet???? I am deleting about 25-30 > msgs per day on the same subject ----- give it a rest !!! > > Dori > > > ==== Missouri Mailing List ==== > Need to find the county for a town? Yale Peabody Museum GNIS site: > http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/gnis > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog >

Celia Jane Walker born 30 August 1841. Do not have any location for birth. She died 1904 in Barry County, Missouri. Unable to find any info on her parents or sibs. She may have been Cherokee. Iris [email protected]

HI I have been on the Net since 96 so have heard it all. And I have cousins that write in all caps to see but the thing that I am writing about is for those who have trouble reading the smaller print on this list I have found some web. sites that I cannot read because they are so small. What I have done to read them is hit the file bottom and Save as on the site it will save it to where ever you want. Then open it in a word processor where you can change the type, just though I would send the suggestion along hoping it will help someone. Now on the all Caps. They are harder to read than the mixed case but putting something in Caps will make it stand out that is why we put Sur names in Caps. You can scan a E-mail and see the names without having to read the whole thing. Patti Moore Lininger Yelm,WA Almost all my and my Husbands family were in MO at some time. And I got blessed with Common names.

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Where can I find a map that shows only, where each county is located in a state, for example Missouri or Illinois? In Oklahoma this kind of map is available through some television stations for tornado and storm warnings. I checked the following sites: GNIS http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnisform.html and www.mapquest.com but each site seemed set up for specific questions, not general county map for a state. Besides contacting TV stations in each state, is there another way to access such a simplistic map for each state? When you guys start mentioning counties by name, after abt 3 county names, my eyes "start to glaze over" because I haven't got a clue where that location is. If I could just find a map showing only county locations in each state, it would really help. My memory is not that great anymore. State road maps are "too busy" to make out the individual counties quickly. This request may sound foolish to many of you, but I really don't know where else to look. Would appreciate any advise. Anna T-town Researching in MO: Berkemeyer/Johnston/McCormick/Shinall Also searching: Miller/Norton/Wagner ________________________________________________________________ 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/tagj.

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I agree with your comments about spelling, grammar, etc. Incidentally, 'site' means place; 'sight' is the correct spelling. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, April 06, 2001 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [MO] Caps for stressing In a message dated 04/05/2001 10:05:43 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Yep thats true cept there are alot of people out there that have a hard time reading typing and type in caps so they can read what they wrote...when I get one in caps I assume they have seeing problems and type in caps back so its easier for them to read... >> Well ... here's my nickel's worth. I do see messages (or sentences) typed in all caps as shouting or yelling ... probably because I was fortunate enough to have a good AOL mentor who clued me in to tips like that. As for typing in all caps because of seeing difficulties, my mother is completely blind in one eye and is losing her site in the other eye ... and yet she manages to follow the standard netiquette protocol by increasing her font size and making it bold. She has this preference set up at her end, so that even if I send something with a font size of 10, she receives in her (larger) preset defaults. Whatever happened to standards for letter writing? That's really all e-mail is ... an electronic letter. Are we supposed to excuse people for bad spelling, grammatical errors and basic sentence and paragraph construction just because their message is on the internet? Personally, I want whatever I type in to an e-mail to be easy for the recipient(s) to read and, let's face it ... bad spelling, inappropriate text formatting, poor grammer, and illiterate sentence and paragraph construction do not make me want to read the message ... thank heaven for the good ol' delete key. ==== Missouri Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from *digest* mode, send a message to [email protected] containing only the word "unsubscribe". ============================== Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 Source for Family History Online. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11H B

Hi I am looking for the marriage or a census record for my great grandmother, Martha Jane "Mattie" HOLLINGSHAD (or other creative spellings). She came with her family to Ozark and Howell Counties in Mo in about 1867. She married somewhere in MO around 1879 - 1881. The man's name was supposed to have been Jim Davis. I was told he was a doctor. He left her when she was still pregnant with their child who was listed as being born in MO. The child's name was Minnie B. DAVIS. Jim Davis was listed as being born in AR. I have looked in the soundex for 1880 but because Minnie wasn't born until 1881 there is not listing for them. I did a person by person search in Howell, Ozark, and Douglas counties without success. I also looked with Martha Jane HOLLINGSHAD DAVIS' parents and she wasn't living with them. I can't imagine where else a woman with a new born baby would go in 1881 except maybe to work in another person's home. I am stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Karen Stone [email protected]

Hi, If you are having problems with reading your messages, another solution is to invest in a new monitor, 17 inch or larger. I understand the problem with reading some of the messages, I also have resorted to an "Optivisor" with the lens of the proper focal length. Needless to say, I have vision problems, I have found that reading messages written in caps, is much more difficult to read. My two cents worth! Frank Mesa, Arizona

I'm posting this to MO List since MO and KY have a lot of genealogy ties. Rootsweb.com has a "Kentucky: Slaves in Wills/Deeds Forum". We thank the folks who started this Forum. Someone has posted new info on Slaves in Wills, related to BERRYMAN. To read the message, go to: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Slaves/KyWill What's needed for MO and other places are websites specifically for descendants and others to post the names of people who were enslaved -- listed by name or surname, county and state, etc. -- where people may post these names and other clues we have on enslaved ancestors. Most of us who are descendants of enslaved families don't have early wills or deeds, but we do have names of some ancestors. We may not know what happened to them, but we know many of their names. KY Slaves in Wills/Deeds is a data-only board. Anyone may post info relating to enslaved persons listed or mentioned in Wills, Estate Papers, Deeds and other similar documents -- related to Kentucky. No queries are allowed on that website. To subscribe to get email notice of new postings on the Kentucky: Slaves in Wills/Deeds Forum, go to: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Slaves/KyWill#Subscribe PRISCILLA Shackelford was enslaved. I'm looking for her and other enslaved Shackelfords; also for Shackelford, and other, slaveholders, in MO, KY, and maybe Virginia. Marian Douglas [email protected] and [email protected] ----------------- Kentucky: Slaves in Wills/Deeds Forum: A new message, "BERRYMAN Estate Division of Slaves" was posted by linneer on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 Surname: BERRYMAN If you wish to view this message, please visit: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Slaves/KyWill Use the following link to subscribe to this mailing list for notice of postings to Kentucky: Slaves in Wills/Deeds Forum: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Slaves/KyWill#Subscribe

I have found two people researching the surname WARREN on the MO website, but couldn't reach them directly. I hope someone will get this to them if they don't see it. I will try to be concise. I have John N. WARREN, son of John WARREN & Mary A. TRAINOR. John N. was born in Missouri (as specific as it gets) abt 1848. About 1877 he married Viola Rebekah "Olie" HANEY, probably in or near St. Louis. Olie was from a river family - her father was captain of a riverboat that would go from St. Louis as soon as the ice thawed in the spring all the way up to Dakota Territory (and into Montana). He would try to be back home by the time the river started to freeze. But I digress... John N. WARREN and Olie had a daughter, Julia Aimee WARREN born Mar 1878 in Missouri. Olie died in Nov 1879. Olie's brother had died a short time before she did, and her father reportedly died of a broken heart a few months after Olie died. You see, he was still on the river and didn't get to see her before she passed away. This is really quite a story. It goes on that John N. and Olie's mother, Sarah KOONSE HANEY (b. 1831, Ohio) took the baby Aimee, as she was called, to Loup City, Sherman County, Nebraska arriving in May of 1880. Sarah's sister Naomi KOONSE SIMPSON lived there. Since Sarah was a widow, this seemed a good idea to be near family. On 12 Oct 1886, John N. WARREN was married to Anna BETTS or BELTS. At some point after this, I think they returned to St. Louis and had at least one daughter. This WARREN daughter married a man named Richard JORDAN and lived in Maplewood, a suburb of St. Louis. I have an account of a dynamite explosion in their neighborhood around the beginning of Mar, 1916. In this, it says there was a baby and 4 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard JORDAN. I would like to know if anyone knows of this family. I am looking for the JORDAN family and their descendants. I also don't have John N. WARREN's death date or place yet. Thanks, Laura

AMBROSE L.F. RUCKER was FOUNDER of " RUCKERS PRAIRIE ", MISSOURI Established the First Post Office, 22 December 1853, served as the FIRST Postmaster until 15 May 1858. Ruckers Prairie was later renamed Lubbering, Missouri. _____ 522 Harvard Street, NW, Washington D. C. 21 February 1920 Judge Robert B. Denny Jackson, Missouri Dear Judge Denny: Ruckers Prairie Post Office was established 22 December 1853 and discontinued, 21 November 1861 The following Postmasters served there: Ambrose L.F. Rucker - 22 December 1853 to 15 May 1858 T.C.G. Jones - 15 May 1858 to 18 January 1859 L.T. Jones - 18 January 1859 to 7 March 1860 William Russell - 7 March 1860 to 18 July 1860 Jeremiah Russell - 18 July 1860 to 21 November 1861 Have you any idea about what Section, Township and Range this Postoffice was located in or can you give me an idea who owns the land now, so I can hunt it up on the map? Will appreciate any help or clue to help given. Notations hereon will answer. Yours very truly, Herman G. Kiel per R.J.K. _____________________ CARLA in OREGON [email protected] _____________________

Was someone looking for GINN surname information? I am presently working on another site and I have a RETTA L. GINN, Treasure of the Rebekah Lodge mentioned in this 1894 proceedings of the IOOF convention held in St. Louis, Mo. With Best Regards Victoria Brittain Allen First On Line Directory 1917-1918 Online Directory http://brittainsbookbarn.homestead.com

Death: WILLIAM LEVI BRANCH, Jr. (known as LEVI) b: 1792 in North Carolina d: 1849 in Union, Franklin County, Missouri Bu: --?-- Cemetery, Franklin County, ? Missouri ? m: 1813 Nancy Branch Cumberland County, North Carolina. Nancy and Levi were COUSINS _______ State of Missouri County of Franklin The State of Missouri to all persons to whom these presenters come; Greeting. Know ye that wereas LEVI BRANCH, late of the County of Franklin; died intestate as it is said having at the time of his death properties in this state which be lost due to my --?-- er or diminished in value if speedy care be --?-- takers of the same to the end therefore that the said property may be collected preserved and disposed of according to law. We do hereby appoint WILLIAM BRANCH Administrator of all and --?-- ular the goods and chattels. in 8ths and credits which were of the said LEVI BRANCH at the time of his death with full power and authority to secure and dispose of said properity according to the law and collect all moneys due said deceased and in general to do and perform all other acts which are or hereafter may be required of him by law.. In testimony whereof I, C.J. Jeffnes, Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of Franklin Appeared, have herewith Signed My name and affixed the seal of said Court at Office this Fourteenth day of May A D 1849. C.J. Jeffnes Clerk Recorded May 14, 1849 {{ seal }} _____________________ Children: Susan Elizabeth Branch Rucker John Carrol Branch William Branch Wilson Devalson Branch _____________________ CARLA in OREGON [email protected] _____________________

My toughest Missouri wall is my great grandmother, Ellen M. Wilson, born 27 Feb 1869 in Toronto Mills, MO (possibly in Camden County). The family bible states she is one half Chippewa and was adopted by John S. and Mary Wilson in approx 1973. She has one known step brother, Matthew who was in Baxter Springs, Kansas in the 1940's and 50's. The same Bible says her real last name is Mentez, Mantez, or Montez (the writing makes the second letter hard to discern). I've checked all the censuses in the right time frame in Missouri and have not come up with John and Mary with an Ellen.. John S was born 1 April 1844.. Mary was born 19 Dec 1853 and they were married 9 May 1869. Ellen married Charles L. Johnson 27 Aug 1889. He was born in Buffalo, Dallas County, MO 6 May 1865 and died 14 Feb 1959 in Kansas City, MO while living with his son Sylvan. Ellen died in 1932 in Stover, MO. They had the following children: Lela b 1891 unknown. She died without issue about 18 years of age William Lanceford b 4 April 1895 in Bagnell, Miller County, MO James, Sylvan, Bert and another unknown female child. Any information anyone might have on Ellen, her adopted parents or her real parents would be greatly appreciated or any helpful hints on what I can try next would be very welcome. Norma M in California

Estate of SUSAN ELIZABETH BRANCH RUCKER ___ WILLIAM BRANCH Administration of the Estate of the said SUSAN RUCKER For Medical Attendance and Medicine, furnished Mrs SUSAN RUCKER and Family from September 12th 1866 to February 23rd 1868. Twenty Two Dollars $22.00 ___ County of Bourbon State of Kansas Before me John Todd a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared M.D. Elder agent of above named W.G. Elder who made solemn oath that there is justly due on the above claim the sum of $22.00 that no payments have been made thereon, and that there are no offers to against the same to his knowledge. M.D. Elder, agent for W. G. Elder M.D. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of October 1870 John Todd, Justice of the Peace ___ Fort Scott, Kansas December 10th, 1870 For Mrs SUSAN RUCKER. Five visits and medicine $35.00 N.N. Horton M.D. MEDICAL Bill turned into the Estate of Susan Rucker. Dr. Horton claims that it is Justly Due.. ___ FINAL SETTLEMENT of the ESTATE of SUSAN ELIZABETH BRANCH RUCKER Recorded: 30 April 1874 ___ SUSAN ELIZABETH BRANCH RUCKER: Born: 1814 - Tennessee or North Carolina.? Died: 1868 Marmaton, Bourbon County, Kansas Burial: 1868 Marmaton Cemetery, Marmaton, Bourbon County, Kansas.? Marriage Record: December 23, 1846 to Ambrose LeGrand F. Rucker, lll Book B, Page 038-2 Franklin Co. Courthouse, Union, MO. ___ Parents: William Levi Branch, Jr. & Nancy Branch (cousins) ---- Brothers: John Carrol Branch William Branch Wilson Devalson Branch _____________________ CARLA in OREGON [email protected] _____________________

Ah...back to the root of the issue! There are 3 Hendricksons in St. Louis County before MO statehood (1821), actually, 1805 is when they all signed a petition to the government! Does anyone know how John, Jonathan and William are related? Which one fathered Richard, born in KY ca 1790? And what happened to Daniel P. and Mary L. Shepherd after the 1860 census in Crawford Co., MO! Their son, Robert Lafayette married Sarah Elizabeth Hendrickson (gr daughter of Richard above) probably in Jefferson Co ca 1869. Gottya! HappyHunting and lets keep to the problem at hand...finding all those skeletons from long ago! People ask me why I like genealogy and I frequently tell them it's because the people don't talk back to me! Of course, when they don't "talk" I have a hard time finding them! Carolyn Wilburn Medlin

Susan: b: Tennessee or North Carolina.? d: Bourbon County, Kansas m: Franklin County, Missouri Widow of Ambrose LeGrand F. Rucker,lll Parents: William Levi & Nancy Branch _______ INVENTORY of the ESTATE OF SUSAN ELIZABETH BRANCH RUCKER: 15th day of June, 1868 State of Kansas County of Bourbon, MarmatonTownship: Inventory of the Estate of SUSAN RUCKER, Deceased Cash on hand at death of decedent. nun Evidence of debt nun three milk cows, three head of stock, Cattle on pair of work oxen, four hogs, one poney mare, one bed stid and one bed and bedding, five chairs, one water bucket, oven pot, skillet and lid, one stove pot, one sive, one fire shovel and tongs, one han saw, auger, one ----at, three plows, one wagon, one pile corn, one hoe, one bell and strap, one table, one stove, one pair knives. REAL ESTATE: one hundred and sixty acres land, Bourbon County, Kansas. South west quarter of section Eleven in township twenty six south of Range twenty three east. Filed: June 25th 1868 Pashel Buck Probate Judge ____________________ CARLA in OREGON [email protected] _____________________

Death Notice: SUSAN ELIZABETH BRANCH RUCKER b: Tennessee or North Carolina.? I need Record of Birth.? d: 27 February 1868 - Marmaton, Bourbon County, Kansas Bu: Marmaton Cemetery, Bourbon County, Kansas.? m: Franklin County, Missouri Widow of Ambrose LeGrand F. Rucker, lll _______ Executor of the Estate: William Branch - Brother ___ State of Kansas County of Bourbon WILLIAM BRANCH being duly sworn executor for the deceased. SUSAN RUCKER dec'd without a WILL and ---------- content of his knowledge and belief, Names and place of residence of the heirs of the deceased as follows, to - wit; ELIZA JEAN RUCKER, Bourbon County, ELISHA HURT RUCKER, Bourbon County, THOMAS LEVI RUCKER, Bourbon County, JAMES WILSON RUCKER, Bourbon County. signed WILLIAM BRANCH Administrator Subscribed and Sworn before me, this 4th day of March 1868. PASCHEL BUCK, Probate Judge _______ Can any one fill in the blank spaces.? The copy of the Document that I received, I could not read the --?-- --?-- _____________________ CARLA in OREGON [email protected] _____________________