Dear Joyce, The Missouri Historical Society archives has a collection of papers of the Fritschle family. You can view the inventory to this manuscript collection at http://mohistory.org/content/LibraryAndResearch/Archives.aspx Dennis Northcott Associate Archivist for Reference Missouri Historical Society Joyce Curry wrote: >My names of interest >CURRY, MCGOVERN, BENDER, DOTTER, STORY, NIEMAN, >MEEKER, CLARK, FRITSCHLE, WRIGHT, HOWARD, BECKLEY, >DOYLE, PICARD. > James CURRY and Ellen MCGOVERN came to St Louis in >about 1854 with their children, Isabelle, Ann, James, >John, Ellen and Hugh. Disaster of some kind overtook >them, perhaps a boat accident; Ellen was left alone >and the children were placed in other homes, possibly >as domestic employees. > Some of them moved on to Kansas City and New >Orleans. Ann remained in St. Louis, married William >STORY in 1865--had children: Isabelle, Lillie, >Lauretta, William, Ellen, Bertha and Francis. Lillie >married Emil NIEMAN, had son Emil Jr. and daughter >Estelle, who married David MEEKER. Lauretta married a >CLARK and Bertha married a HOWARD. Francis married >and had sons Francis and James STORY > Ellen married Thomas WRIGHT but moved on to Kansas >City, as did James and Hugh. John married Maggie >FITZGERALD at St. Malachy's in 1874, witnesses Charles >PICARD and Kate FITZGERALD. Had sons John and James. >Calvary cemetery has 2 John CURRYS buried in one plot >in 1877, must be father and son. Other son James >CURRY, born 1877 may have married Josephine BECKLEY in >1902. Any help appreciated. Joyce Curry > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > > >==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== >If you haven't visited Dave Lossos' "Genealogy in St. Louis" website (http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/) you might want to take a look. > > > >