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/TJB.2ACI/1587.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you so much for your reply! His mother's maiden name was Nelson, however, it is possible the father remarried, as Edwin was only four when she died. Just to let you know, I have looked at many death certificates at the MNHS for Edwin Johnson. There are a ton of them! I think I need to find an obituary. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Best regards, Beverly

Have you tried the obit index that is available on line from http://grrl10.grrl.lib.mn.us:8080/index.htm St. Cloud Regional Library on line? These are obits from 1927 to current Annette DeCourcy Towler Home page for DeCourcy & Pack http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~decourcy/ Web page for St. Cloud Area Genealogists, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnscag/SCAG/index.htm Family Researching in SE KY PACK, CHANDLER, WHEELER, FAIRCHILD,LeMASTERS, RAMEY,MILLER/MILAM/MILLAM, JAYNE, McSPADDEN Researching in NE KY DeCOURCY, ELLIS, BALL, MAINS, LEWIS, EVANS, SPILMAN, HUTCHINS, HAMILTON Researching in PA, IL WESSLING, SOMERS, SCHULER, PLAGGEE -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of apeterson1@charter.net Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 8:27 PM To: MNSTEARN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MNSTEARN] Re: Will do lookup and researching 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/TJB.2ACI/1587.2 Message Board Post: I am looking for an Edwin Johnson. He was a cousin of my husband's mother. The last we knew of him, he was living in Sauk Centre in 1949. He was born in abt. 1895. His father was Gustaf Johnson and his mother was Ellen. She died in 1899 in Litchfield, MN. Edwin was married, but we do not know her name. I know this is like searching for a needle in a haystack, but perhaps there are city directories or telephone directories. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! I am willing to pay for copying, postage, etc.

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/TJB.2ACI/1587.2.1 Message Board Post: I may be able to help make a connection if you know Edwin's mothers maiden name. Minnesota death records for some years are available and some show the mothers maiden name, which can help make a connection when little else is known Regards, Don

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/TJB.2ACI/1587.2 Message Board Post: I am looking for an Edwin Johnson. He was a cousin of my husband's mother. The last we knew of him, he was living in Sauk Centre in 1949. He was born in abt. 1895. His father was Gustaf Johnson and his mother was Ellen. She died in 1899 in Litchfield, MN. Edwin was married, but we do not know her name. I know this is like searching for a needle in a haystack, but perhaps there are city directories or telephone directories. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! I am willing to pay for copying, postage, etc.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hengel, Maher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJB.2ACI/55.479.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for the family of Catherine Hengel (ca 1870-ca 1891). She married George Edward Maher about 1888, had daughter Mary Margaret in 1889 and Alice Ruth in 1891, and died soon afterwards in Sioux Falls, SD. The Hengel family may be from Hamline, MN.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Miller, Muller Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/1631 Message Board Post: Looking for any information on Phillip and Barbara Muller/Miller. They lived in the St. Nicholas/Eden Valley area in the late 1800's and early 1900's. They are buried in the Assumption Cemetery in Eden Valley, Minnesota.

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/TJB.2ACI/1630.2 Message Board Post: Hello, This could be your Mary Martin from the 1880 US census John BRAKEFIELD Self M Male W 50 ENG Farmer ENG ENG Mary BRAKEFIELD Wife M Female W 32 IN Keeping House IN OH Mary BRAKEFIELD Dau S Female W 11 MN At Home ENG IN John BRAKEFIELD Son S Male W 9 MN At Home ENG IN Charles BRAKEFIELD Son S Male W 6M MN At Home ENG IN Mary MARTIN MotherL W Female W 70 OH Laborer OH OH Source Information: Census Place Avon, Stearns, Minnesota Family History Library Film 1254634 NA Film Number T9-0634 Page Number 508D Hope this helps Thelma

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/TJB.2ACI/1630.1 Message Board Post: Mary Jo wrote, "Looking for information about Mary Ann Martin widow of Andrew Martin. She was b in Ohio and went to Minnesota to live with one of her children when her husband died. Her children were Abigail who married John Booher, Mary Ann who married John Brakefield, Emmanuel who married Elizabeth Jones, Joseph and Sarah Margaret. Any info will be appreciated." Mary Jo, Do you already have census information? Do you have any idea at all when Mary Ann was born? Her maiden name? Or is that the point of your query? Do you hope to identify her parents or other ancestors? Or is your objective to perhaps determine her death date and place, and track her children and descendants forward to more recent years?

Found Mary Ann Martin living with the John Brakefield family in MN 1880 Name: John BRAKEFIELD Age: 50 Estimated birth year: <1830> Birthplace: ENG Occupation: Farmer Relation: Self Home in 1880: Avon, Stearns, Minnesota Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Head of household: John BRAKEFIELD Father's birthplace: ENG Mother's birthplace: ENG Image Source: Year: 1880; Census Place: Avon, Stearns, Minnesota; Roll: T9_634; Family History Film: 1254634; Page: 508D; Enumeration District: 124; Image: 0633. If you would like the census image, just e-mail me. Your personal e-mail address bounced. Blanche Minneapolis, MN

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/TJB.2ACI/1630 Message Board Post: Looking for information about Mary Ann Martin widow of Andrew Martin. She was b in Ohio and went to Minnesota to live with one of her children when her husband died. Her children were Abigail who married John Booher, Mary Ann who married John Brakefield, Emmanuel who married Elizabeth Jones, Joseph and Sarah Margaret. Any info will be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJB.2ACI/1629 Message Board Post: The USGenWeb Census Project is pleased to announce the completion of the following census transcription. 1870 Stearns County http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/mn/stearns/1870/ Abstracted by Thomas J. Steichen Second Transcriber Sandy Sterling [For more information on Stearns County, Minnesota, Please visit the Stearns County, MNGenWeb page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnstearn/] 1890 Stearns County - Veterans Census http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/mn/stearns/1890/ Abstracted by Lisa Gerving Second Transcriber Needed This transcription was made available due to the dedication and effort of the transcriber(s) and will now benefit researchers everywhere. Other New Additions to the project are online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/nu/index.htm Please visit the USGenWeb Census Project at http://www.rootsweb.com/~census/ if you are interested in transcribing any county of any federal census records. A copy of all transcriptions done for this project are submitted to the appropriate state File Manager for inclusion in the USGenWeb Archives. Sincerely, D. Joshua Taylor Regional Coordinator, USGenWeb Census Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~census/

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/TJB.2ACI/1587.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry for the delay in replying but yes, I did get my photos of headstones. Thank you for your generous offer. Diane

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/TJB.2ACI/1534.4.1 Message Board Post: Hi Uli, You can mail me, perhaps i can help you greetings from The Netherlands Paul Schackman

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/TJB.2ACI/1534.4 Message Board Post: Hi there; My name is Uli Schackmann and was borne in Germany. My father was Paul Schackmann and I too would like to get some more information on my family. My fathers parents where Nickolaus Schackmann und Anna Magdalena (?). I don't know here maiden name. They lived in Malstadt, Saarbruecken. If you could help with any information that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Uli

This showed up in the Stearns History Museum Catalog. Maybe you can find something there. Blanche Call Number:Agriculture Author: Title:Tobacco, 1914-2004 Subject:Lien, C. H. (Charles H.), 1860-1923. Adams, Julius. Fleischhacker, Joseph. Meyer, Ralph. Ruprecht, Lawrence. Terfehr, Julius, Brother, O.S.B. Jefferson Tobacco Company (Sparta, Minn.) United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Central Stearns County Tobacco Growers Association. Julius Adams Cigar Factory. Tobacco. Tobacco farms -- Minnesota -- Stearns County. Notes:In AGRICULTURE section. 5 items undated. Genre:Clippings (Book, newspaper, etc.) ; Reports ; Registers ; Interviews ; Photocopies from book ; Miscellanea ; Statistics. Colla:54 items (3 articles have 2 copies each; 2 have 3 copies) :ill., ports. Contents:Includes research paper on Tobacco industry in Central Minnesota by Carol P. Peterson; several transcribed excerpts of news articles on tobacco; registers ofarea tobacco farmers; Central Minnesota: relic tobacco shed region, by Ingolf Vogeler and Thomas Dockendorff; The history of tobacco, by M. Cocciardi; and obituary of C. H. Lien, who introduced tobacco to the area. If you have any questions or comments please contact us at: info@stearns-museum.org

In a recently acquired cache of family photos, there are a couple that show a group of people standing in front of the "Julius Adams Cigar Factory No.84G". On the window of the building it reads "Belle of St. Cloud" and "Idela". My grandfather, Fred T. (Ferdinand Theodore) LUX is in one of the photos, and it appears to have been taken about 1906-1907. Where was this factory located, in St. Cloud or in Sauk Centre? Fred T. LUX's biography says he learned the cigar making trade in St. Cloud, but a post card from his future wife, Mary GOERGER, is addressed to "Mr. Fred T. Lux, Sauk Centre, Minn. c/o J. Adams". What information I have on Fred and Mary LUX is posted at: http://winker.net/lux/fredt/ Tim Winker Email: Timothy @ Winker.net http://www.winker.net - The Winker Family site ****************************************************

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/TJB.2ACI/1628 Message Board Post: Walt here is the web address for the museum: www.stearns-museum.org Once you get to their home page click on MUSEUM STORE . Under select a category click on BOOKS. Under the subcategory click on COUNTY HISTORY. This page will list the book on the History of Stearns Co., you have to scroll a little more than half way down. If this doesn't work you could always call the museum and they would send you a copy. Their phone number is: 1-320-253-8424.

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/TJB.2ACI/1627.2 Message Board Post: Irene -- Brookhaven Press (catalog available at http://www.brookhavenpress.com/catag.asp) sells both historical books and searchable CD's (of some books). The books are extremely high quality reproductions (and are correspondingly very expensive) but the CD's are a real bargain in comparison. William Bell Mitchell's 2-volume (1736 pages total) "History of Stearns County, Minnesota" will set you back $189.95 for volume 1 and $239.95 for volume 2 in book form but only $59.95 for both volumes on CD in .pdf form. I have the CD and love the ability to search the whole tome for little details... and you can capture sections of text and paste it into your genealogies too. -- Tom (not affiliated with Brookhaven in any way)

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/TJB.2ACI/1627.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you so very much, I will check this all out.

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/TJB.2ACI/1627.1 Message Board Post: I know the Stearns County history museum has a book in their store about the history of Stearns County.It sells for $18.99. You could view it's contents on their website at the same name. I just got done reading the "History of Stearns County" written by W.B. Mitchell in 1915 which I checked out at the great river regional library, but I don't know if this one could be purchased somewhere.