Here is a link I found that someone might be interested in. http://www.negenealogy.com/ngo03.htm It has links maps for all the North eastern states there for census and county formation maps. Charles

Anyone have further info on this couple? Marriage date, parents, birth, or death dates? They are in Leonidas, St Joseph Co, MI in 1880 Census. Thanks, Patti Faist

A land record for FRANCIS PITTS Dated 01 May 1839 Document #: 11770, Serial #: MI1340__.057 Meridian or Watershed: 19 Parcel: Township 1 S, Range 11 W, Section 20 has the same date as a land record for GARDNER PITTS Document #: 10818, Serial #: MI1320__.147 Meridian or Watershed: 19 Parcel: Township 7 S, Range 11 W, Section 13 Gardner Pitts was an early resident of St. Joseph County, Florence Township. I assume his land purchase, Township 7 S is in St. Joseph. I'm interested in Francis Pitts as this is the only record I have of him. Would Township 1 S also be in St. Joseph County? Does anyone have any record of Francis Pitts? Gardner Pitts was from Onondaga, N.Y. and had three sons there. The 1840 census in St. Joseph records only two sons who had to be Hiram Amasa Pitts and Gardner W. Pitts. Any help on this would be much appreciated. David T. Pitts

Thank you so much for this info. I'll pass it along. Regards, Denise County Coordinator/St Joseph Co., MI USGenWeb site > Greetings > > Aulsbrook & Sturgis Furniture Company produced furniture in Sturgis, > Michigan from 1882 to 1908 when the name was changed to Aulsbrook & Jones. > Somewhere around 1949 to 1952 the name was changed to Paramount Furniture. > > Greetings, > > I've had someone ask me about an unidentified label on a washstand. This is > what he wrote: > > I recently acquired an old washstand that bore a largely illegible label > which identified it as originating in Sturgis, MI and made by _aulsbrook & > Stu____. > > Can anyone help to decipher this label? Please reply to the list, as others > might be interested in how this mystery gets solved. > > Regards, > Denise

Greetings Aulsbrook & Sturgis Furniture Company produced furniture in Sturgis, Michigan from 1882 to 1908 when the name was changed to Aulsbrook & Jones. Somewhere around 1949 to 1952 the name was changed to Paramount Furniture. -----Original Message----- From: DEFrederick [mailto:tfred@voyager.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:09 PM To: MISTJOSE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MISTJOSE] Sturgis, MI washstand Greetings, I've had someone ask me about an unidentified label on a washstand. This is what he wrote: I recently acquired an old washstand that bore a largely illegible label which identified it as originating in Sturgis, MI and made by _aulsbrook & Stu____. Can anyone help to decipher this label? Please reply to the list, as others might be interested in how this mystery gets solved. Regards, Denise ***************************************************** Petoskey, Emmet Co., MI email address: tfred@voyager.net Researching these surnames: BECKWITH, BUGBEE, CHASE, CLINE, CRANE, FLANDERS, GAUMER, HEIFNER, HENRY, HUNT, LANE, MARSCH, MUSHRUSH, NEEB, QUIGLEY, RAYDURE/RYDER, ROSS, STANTON, STONE, SHURGOUR, STARKWEATHER, THOMPSON, VAN RIPER, WENNER, WERTZ and WHITING Visit my homepage and read "Denise's Story": http://members.tripod.com/~deemamafred/index.html CC for Emmet County, MI USGenWeb Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~deemamafred/miemmet.html CC for St. Joseph County, MI USGenWeb Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~tfred/mistjo.html CC for Washtenaw Co., MI USGenWeb Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~deemamafred/miwash.html Emmet County Genealogical Society: http://members.tripod.com/~deemamafred/ecgs.html ***************************************************** ==== MISTJOSE Mailing List ==== **************************************************** Visit the St Joseph Co., MI USGenWeb Homepage http://members.tripod.com/~tfred/mistjo.html **************************************************** ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Greetings, I've had someone ask me about an unidentified label on a washstand. This is what he wrote: I recently acquired an old washstand that bore a largely illegible label which identified it as originating in Sturgis, MI and made by _aulsbrook & Stu____. Can anyone help to decipher this label? Please reply to the list, as others might be interested in how this mystery gets solved. Regards, Denise ***************************************************** Petoskey, Emmet Co., MI email address: tfred@voyager.net Researching these surnames: BECKWITH, BUGBEE, CHASE, CLINE, CRANE, FLANDERS, GAUMER, HEIFNER, HENRY, HUNT, LANE, MARSCH, MUSHRUSH, NEEB, QUIGLEY, RAYDURE/RYDER, ROSS, STANTON, STONE, SHURGOUR, STARKWEATHER, THOMPSON, VAN RIPER, WENNER, WERTZ and WHITING Visit my homepage and read "Denise's Story": http://members.tripod.com/~deemamafred/index.html CC for Emmet County, MI USGenWeb Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~deemamafred/miemmet.html CC for St. Joseph County, MI USGenWeb Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~tfred/mistjo.html CC for Washtenaw Co., MI USGenWeb Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~deemamafred/miwash.html Emmet County Genealogical Society: http://members.tripod.com/~deemamafred/ecgs.html *****************************************************

I am looking for a marriage between an unknown ENGLER male to a Clara Ione (Maiden name unknown) about 1893/94 in Saint Joseph County. He may have died between 1898 and 1903. They also could have been divorced. They had three daughters: Mary Ellen born 1895, Leona born 1897, and Lela born 1898. Can anyone help me out with this marriage? Pam

If anyone has access to the marriage records I need the date of marriage for Gus or Gustav Thompson and Joanna or Johanna (possibly Gavilan) in the 1861-1863 time period. Thanks David Strickland dstrickland@optekinc.com Dallas, TX

Looking for information regarding Abner Yorton/Abbie Hill Yorton who lived in the "Mint" area of St.Joe county - Vicksburg area - in the 1890's. Mrs. Yorton ran a post office out of her home on Brown Road in the 1890's, and the Hill family was very prominent in the area at this time. These are not relatives of mine, I am currently living in this house and I am researching a history of this house. Any information about these folks or other previous owners (Ralph Brown, Mary Fisher, etc.) would be helpful. Thanks so much, Steve

Is there an Augsbury/Osgbury researcher on the list? Would like to exchange information. lynettes@charter.net Thanks!

Looking for information regarding Abner Yorton/Abbie Hill Yorton who lived in the "Mint" area of St.Joe county - Vicksburg area - in the 1890's. Mrs. Yorton ran a post office out of her home on Brown Road in the 1890's, and the Hill family was very prominent in the area at this time. These are not relatives of mine, I am currently living in this house and I am researching a history of this house. Any information about these folks or other previous owners (Ralph Brown, Mary Fisher, etc.) would be helpful. Thanks so much, Steve

Listers, So many of you kindly responded to my request. I have added one more piece of data to my family tree "puzzle". Thanks, all, for your offers to do look-ups.

I am searching for family of Sarah Alice Davis, b. 8/25/1835 in White Pigeon, St. Joseph county, Michigan. She died Sarah Alice Davis Hamm in Maryville, Nodaway Cty., Missouri. I don't have any other information on the Davis or Hamm families. I only know of her daughter, Angeline Hamm, her daughter, who was my ggrandmother. Linda

Hi everyone, Just a little update to let you know we now have 171 list members that are subscribed to the St Joseph Mailing list. 1) If you have a question about a family member with ties to the St Joseph county area, be sure to post a query as there are many knowledgeable people who are more than willing to help you out. 2) Not sure how to research something? Post a question to the list. 3) Not sure where a town is located? Send a message to the list. Anything genealogically related is acceptable to post to the mailing list... and always remember, the St Joseph Co., MI USGenWeb website is full of material for you to look through. Good luck with your research. Regards, Denise ***************************************************** Petoskey, Emmet Co., MI email address: tfred@voyager.net CC for St. Joseph County, MI USGenWeb Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~tfred/mistjo.html *****************************************************

Thanks to all of you Listers who responded so graciously to my request for a census lookup yesterday. I was able to fit one more tiny piece of "the puzzle" together. --Lynette

Is there anyone on the list who goes to the library to run microfilm that would look up a Burr Oak family on the 1880 census? I live in North Carolina and do this occasionally to help out-of-state persons who ask for a hand here. Just wondered. Thank you.

I am looking for relatives. William Arick b. 1844 OH lived and died in Huntington, IN He m. Sarah Wallick b. 1846 OH. WIlliam had 3 children Melissa m. Charles Miller, George who remained in IN. and my grandfather William Jackson. William Sr. died in 1874 and Sarah m James Maddux. He died in 1888 They had 4 children Minnie m. John Smith, Henry m Ethel, Ray m Edna, and Francis m. Emma. On the 1920 census for Sturgis Francis had one child Florence b. can't make it out but either 1919 or 1920. I haven't been able to find the other children. The 3 Maddux sons and wife's and Sarah, and Miller's are buried in Oak Lawn Cem. Sturgis and my grandfather is buried in Coldwater. I remember as a child visiting the Millers in Sturgis. They had Fay m. Charles Monroe, Clara m Forest Shisley, Elvie m Velma Routsong and Milo m Velma Hanmer. I remember meeting their son Milo and I have a picture that I believe is the home in Sturgis. There is a woman standing outside with my grandfather and I think it is his sister. My grandfather died in 1964 and my father was an only child and he died in 1984, so a lot of family information is lost. If anyone knows anything about my family I sure would love to hear from you. Marianne (Arick) Senecal

Forgive me for my mistake in the State mentioned in my previous posting. The figures and offer were for Michigan prisoners. Kevin Please visit my website dedicated to those Americans who were imprisoned and died in captivity while in the service to our country http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html AOL USERS go to http://hometown.aol.com/andersonvillecw/

I would like to welcome those of you new to this site and tell you there are some really great folks who are willing to help just for the asking. I, myself do Volunteer research at Andersonville Civil War Prison in Andersonville Georgia. There are Any research I do is absolutely at NO cost and I am willing to do what I can. There are 1376 prisoners on record from the state of Illinois and the almost 800 known from Illinois who died here, I thought I would send my offer. Here are my sources of research. There are 2 online databases to do lookups.....One by name...one by Company and Regiment. I also have a copy of the Dorence Atwater Death list which has the names and grave numbers of 12960 graves with only 460 marked as " UNKNOWN " This along with a CD I have which contains 34,000 names of the 45,000 who were imprisoned there which helps me find prisoner records because of misspellings of the names or alternate names. I visit the prison site every couple of weeks and have access to the onsite databases as well as the physical files. I would like to let you know of another service I offer which is to take photos of graves for a small fee. Please do not consider this spam as my research offer is FREE for the asking and will be posted on this county site only once. If there is anything I can do in helping your research at Andersonville, please just ask. Kevin Frye Local Andersonville Historian / National Park Service Volunteer Please visit my website dedicated to those Americans who were imprisoned and died in captivity while in the service to our country http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html AOL USERS go to http://hometown.aol.com/andersonvillecw/

We're looking for Samuel Kiler born in St. Joseph County, Michigan, born July 1851 -- that's all we know -- other than he ended up in Marin County, California. He was a carpenter by trade. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to locate his birth information? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Betty Wilson