Did you consider putting it in the Archives? > > Subject: [MOCRAWFO] FERGUSONs from Crawford Co., MO > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:36:52 -0600 > From: Sharon Clark <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Hello, > > I thought I would share the obituary of Cledis R. Ferguson with you. I > received it today from the Houston, TX Public Library. I was hoping it > would have some information in it that would help me find some of his > kids, but as you can see, it has nothing. I already had these names. I > was hoping to find a male to participate in the Ferguson DNA study. > Here is the obituary: > > Houston Chronicle, Section 2, Page 7, April 1, 1983: > > Cledis R. Ferguson, 59 of Porter, passed away Wednesday. Survivors: > Wife, Carol Ferguson; daughters, Kathleen and Jacqueline Ferguson; sons, > Daniel and Michael Donoven, Richard, Gene, and James Ferguson; mother, > Mrs. Nellie Ferguson; two sisters; four brothers; numerous other > surviving relatives. Services 11:00 Saturday, Brookside Chapel. > Interment Brookside Memorial Park. Brookside Funeral Home, Eastex > Freeway at Lauder Road, 449-6511 > > I have put all of these names in Switchboard.com and also Yahoo People > Find, and I have no idea which ones they might be. > > Cledis was the son of Nellie Cook and Eugene Ferguson of Crawford Co., > MO, and a descendant of my 4th g-grandparents, Catherine GILMORE and > William FERGUSON, who were originally from Albemarle Co., VA Catherine > and William married there 28 Oct 1793. They seem like such nice people, > but I can't find any other soul trying to find them. You would think if > Cledis had "numerous other surviving relatives" that at least one of > them would care about family history. > > I get so depressed because I can't find these folks, or at least anyone > who gives a hoot about them. I guess it's time to put them away for > several years and then try again. > > I hope the rest of you are more successful than I am at finding Fergusons. > > Best wishes, > Sharon Clark > Fort Worth, TX > [email protected] -- Joe L. Miller Missouri Archive File Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/mofiles.htm Missouri Tombstone Project Manager, USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/missouri.html Research Coordinator - The Pinnell Family Network http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pinnell/ United We Stand..