This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CHESLEY, SANDERS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RJB.2ACI/308.1 Message Board Post: Minnesota Death Index: SANDERS, MARIA CLARKSON Date of Birth: na Place of Birth: na Mother Maiden Name: na certid# 1917-MN-011986 Date of Death: 04/17/1917 County of Death: ROCK Surname Soundex: S536 Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002 Name: John Ramey Sanders Death Date: 20 Nov 1919 Death County: Rock State File Number: 013075 Certificate Number: 013075 Certificate Year: 1919 Record Number: 288288 another possibility, seems less likely: Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002 Name: John Sanders Death Date: 27 Feb 1912 Death County: Rock State File Number: 010750 Certificate Number: 010750 Certificate Year: 1912 Record Number: 93850 Transcription from Rock Co., Minn. biography publ. 1911: "Roy E. CHESLEY, farms a half section of Beaver Creek township's productive soil, the home being on the southwest quarter of section 23. The father of our subject was Edwin CHESLEY, a Rock county homesteader, who was born in Canada September 18, 1832. He came to Rock county in 1874, homesteaded in Springwater township, and died January 30, 1884. The mother of our subject is Mrs. J.R. Sanders, of Beaver Creek. Her maiden name was Maria CARKSON(sic). Roy Chesley is a native of the county, having been born in Springwater township March 29, 1879. After his father's death in 1884 he located in Luverne, where he resided until 1900, making his home with his mother. Since the last named date he has been engaged in farming in Beaver Creek township, having been on the present farm since 1904. Mr. Chesley owns stock in the Farmers Elevator company of Beaver Creek, and for several years past he has served as a director of school district No. 9. On March 16, 1904, in Beaver Creek township, Mr. Chesley was united in marriage to Ella WALKUP, a daughter of Charles and Evangelyn Walkup, of Beaver Creek. Mrs. Chesley was born on the farm upon which she now lives on April 9, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Chesley have one child, Evangelyn, born February 28, 1905." (trancscriber's note: 2 additional children, Cecil & Helen) Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002 Name: Ray(sic) Edwin Chesley Death Date: 3 Oct 1930 Death County: Rock State File Number: 013262 Certificate Number: 013262 Certificate Year: 1930 Record Number: 573752 CHESLEY descendants still live on the farm.