Subject: [MOGEN] birth an death records on line from 1910 (when they began) to 1954. The state of Missouri is in the process of putting all birth and death records on-line from 1910 (when they began) to 1954. This will be a really great asset for genealogists. If you are interested in helping, check out the site below and read item number 4. The state is scanning the death records, but they need help with typing up the index to those records so they can set up an online searchable index. Copies of pages of the index will be sent to volunteers to type up. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/deathFAQ.asp Thought you would like to know.

Just got this comment on a TN county list.. you may want to consider it too when searching for those in the area! Your welcome Lanita, there are a lot of things to consider when you're talking about old cemeteries: 1. If you had relatives that were in the area during the Civil War and died during this time or before,it's a known Fact that Union Troops Pulled-up Tombstones to use as Hearths,Privy-Pits,as Breastwork Enhancements,and just to be Mean and Malicious to a Southerner. 2. In later times,some greedy Farmers or Sharecroppers dismantled the small Family Cemeteries,thinking that they had the right,so they could Sew More Seeds for Crops. 3. It is also a known fact that some Former Slaves desacrated the Cemeteries of some of the Former Slave Owner's. 4. Some Landowner's let thier Livestock Carrouse through the Burial Plots on thier property therby toppling Headstones and breaking them,then they usually got covered with soil and lost forever. So you see, there are many unpleasant things to be aware of in Burial searches,I have experienced about all of these with my Family,if you find a Family Cemetery that is endangered,State and Federal Law has Statutes that deal with abuser's harshly,they are the property of the Decendants of the Family buried there and the property owner must take care of the plot so no harm comes to it. Hope this helps! Lanita Researching: ARNOLD, BAKER, BELLAH, BIRCHETT, BENNETT, BEASON, BUTRICK, CALFEE, CARTY, COUCH, DETHROW, DAVIS [2 lines], DOOLEY [DULY], DUBOISE, FERRELL [FERRILL], ELLIOTT, HAYS, JUSTICE, MARIOTT, MAXSON, McWILLIAMS, PRINCE, RIMMER, ROSSELL, SHIELDS, SMITH [2 lines], STOGSDILL, SCONCE, STUBBLEFIELD, SUPLER, TAYLOR and VENABLE among many others.

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Doris Forsyth" <[email protected]> > Date: April 20, 2005 12:59:41 PM CDT > To: "'Lanita Sconce Smith'" <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: The Extreme/a discussion topic > > My son, Scott, and I flew to Marysville, Ohio, (Union County) June, > 2004, to > attend the rededication of the Abraham Amerine cemetery there. After > two > years of work by various local organizations the cemetery was in > beautiful > shape. Abraham Amerine is my 4th great grandfather and was a Rev War > vet, > my first DAR member. Reed cousins had taken individual pictures of the > terrible condition of each of the broken and fallen headstones, etc., > and > then took pictures them after all the hard work and restoration was > done. > It is a beautiful CD and very informative with text on each of the > graves in > the Amerine Cemetery. Believe the cemetery was used from 1813 until > the > 1930's. The majority of graves in the Amerine cemetery are Reeds and > Amerines. > > Doris Reed Forsyth > > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Edwards, King, Morris Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EKB.2ACE/686.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi: I found the 1900 DeKalb County, Mo., census, for Polk Township, address, Union Star. Isaac D. Edwards, age 60, and Lorena Edwards, age 57, and both born in Tennessee were on that particular census. As I understand it they were married in Iowa, then lived in Daviess County, Mo., for a while, and eventually moved to DeKalb County. My late mother-in-law advised me that they lived on Hwy 169 in the town of Union Star in the 1930's. The Edwards' daughter, Vernisha Aldora, married William Morris, and the Morris couple were the parents of my father-in-law, Aaron Morris. Sorry that I did not reply sooner. Would be glad to hear from you. Dennis

On today's ancestry.com's newsletter, there was a list of things that genealogists have reported doing, all for the sake of discovering and caretaking of our past... Here is what was reported... .look it over, and then tell US, what is the most extreme thing YOU have done!! If you do not subscribe to ancestry.com, you can still get their newsletter. They have some very useful FREE info in them!! I am not affliated with them, but I can tell you that they have improved a great deal and their census images in particular have become very easy and fast to manipulate and read... Here is parts of the article:  Honoring Our Ancestors Extreme Genealogy by Megan Smolenyak On the Road Again Anytime you delve into more than a few hundred of something, patterns emerge, and such was the case with the replies to this question. Clusters of similar responses appeared and the first to reveal itself was travel. Genealogists are serious road warriors. We'll go just about anywhere to find the answers to our questions. Name a country and we've gone there. Go to Ireland, Slovenia, Sweden, South Africa, Austria, or Oregon? Why not? Fly from New Zealand to the United States to meet distant cousins? Of course. Drive cross-country to see a dilapidated cemetery? No problem. Your responses need no embellishment, so I'm going to let them speak for themselves: • Made an eight-hour drive in the middle of a huge snowstorm in the nighttime to a state archives city because the trip was already planned and nothing could stop me! • Flew to Iceland for a long weekend just to see the "old country." • For me, it was to drive literally half way across the country, from Chicago to Baltimore, to meet a county archaeologist and see some of the items recovered from a dig on an ancestor's land. • Gone off on a research trip alone for a week, which really irritated my boyfriend who thought I should be vacationing with him. • Gone to Ireland and been elected clan chieftain. • I spent a week in a tent in a campground (even cooked my meals over a campfire), spending my days searching all facilities available and my evenings perusing graveyards 'til they closed the gates. • Flew to Wisconsin to help a third cousin I had met on the Internet clean up the old family cemetery of only a handful of grave sites on my great-great-grandfather's farm. • Drove 700 miles in five days through all five New York City boroughs and the other counties in Long Island to meet living relatives. • Moved to England from Texas. • Traveled for six months in an RV visiting states, courthouses, graveyards, etc. and finding more than I ever expected. Such a thrill to see where they once lived! • Took a trip to Budapest, hired a driver and translator, and visited country parishes researching family records. • Hired a lobster boat to take us out to an island where ancestors had lived off the coast of Maine. • Traveled from Australia to South Africa in the 1900s to meet descendants of my great-grandmother's brother who had "run away to join the circus," so the story ran, and had migrated to South Africa in the 1890s. • Made more than 500 trips to Mid-Continent Public Library to reach the U.S. Censuses and access their other resources over a twenty-year period. This was an hour's drive each time that I would go to research during the day, and then an hour's drive home again after, putting in from eight to twelve hours each time the library was open. • Spent time visiting cemeteries and other places to gather genealogical information while on my honeymoon. • To live in the country (Finland) where my ancestors came from for six months. • I'm almost embarrassed to admit that every time we plan a vacation now, we plan it around our family research. And most of my vacation pictures these days are that of cemeteries, tombstones, and historical landmarks. Yes, it's obvious that I have caught the genealogy bug and I don't care who knows it! • Bought a 42-foot RV and a new jeep to travel the country in search of the past. • Moved to Europe to be closer to my roots. • Motorcycle/genealogy trip to Wisconsin to locate adoption papers on my father's real (biological) parents. • Travel to the library in SLC. I am told Utah is a beautiful state, but in my numerous trips there, I've seen little but the inside of the library! • Took a 10,000 mile, 3-1/2 month family history trek across the country. • Drove 400 miles to interview my mother's 100 year old cousin and drove back 400 miles the next day to attend the memorial service of my father's cousin. • Attended seven family reunions in five different states in a single year (to the consternation of my spouse). • Taking my then 99-year-old grandfather back to a church homecoming in the town of his birth. My sisters, a cousin and niece went along. We drove him through the whole area and tape-recorded his memories, photographed his birthplace and cemeteries, and mapped out the area according to his version of our family history. He just passed away last week at age 102, but his memories and stories will live on. OKAY, Besides having more pics of tombstones than living people, cleaning the ancestral stones of friends of mine who would have loved to have been able to do it but couldn't because of distance, putting flowers on lonely graves of those I have absolutely no connection to but did anyway because I felt a compassion for the deserted grave, taking vacations to do nothing but research and tombstone/ grave caretaking, cleaning tombstones in 11 cemeteries in 1 day... the most of 22 in 1 cemetery, all these sound pretty lame compared to the others mentioned... What have YOU done? Lanita I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNE flower.

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/EKB.2ACE/686.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry I haven't replied sooner, but I never received notification that you had posted a reply. I don't know much more than what I have on the Edwards family- and that isn't a lot, unfortunately. Wish I could be of more help!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rogers, Oxford, Weldon, Wilburn, Welborn. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EKB.2ACE/164.168 Message Board Post: I am a six generation Rogers of Daviess County. My family showed up in the early 1840's. One of the families that my family came to Missouri with and was intermarried to was the Oxford family. I have an Oxford - Weldon connection but it isn't until the early 1900's. I have a Leona Oxford married to a Henry Weldon... Im going to have to guess that is was before 1920, and I have them being married in Daviess County. Do you recognize this Henry Weldon? I have no further information on his side of the family, but would be glad to share what I have of the Oxfords.

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/EKB.2ACE/164.167 Message Board Post: I am a decendant of the Weldon family. As early as I have researched back is 1858 Starting with James Best Weldon and Elizabeth T. Gillilan. I would be the six generation from them.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Weldon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EKB.2ACE/11.13.1 Message Board Post: Regarding James Weldon and Elizabeth T. Gillilan. This would be my great, great, great, great grandfather. James Harve Weldon was their son born 28 Feb 1858 the Harrison TWP of Daviess County. I have more info concerning the Weldons if interested.

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/EKB.2ACE/773.1.1 Message Board Post: Lanita, Yes, I think the Samuel of 1840 Daviess and that of 1850 Harrison are the same man (Harrison was formed out of Daviess in 1844 or 1846, I think). Thanks for looking in the Cemetery index. I was hoping that the Joseph ENDSLEY would turn up there. I can't find him in Harrison, either. Samuel ENSLEYmd Anna PATES in Daviess Co on 6 October 1839, so I think there is a good chance that these are the people I am trying to find, BUT ... The Samuels proliferate and I cannot account for the Josephs! Thanks for your help. Jim Boyce

<(Daviess Co was formed from part of Ray Co) > Sharon - This might be the answer to my brickwall search. Was Daviess in existance in 1864? Is Richmond, MO in Ray or Daviess? Gary Stoltman Mercerville, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 12:54 AM Subject: RE: [MODAVIES] Who were Samuel & Joseph ENSLEY 1840 Missouri? > Also note that in 1850 there is a John Endsley in Ray Co (Daviess Co was > formed from part of Ray Co) > John Sr 53 NC > Hannah 46 KY > James N/H/W 20 MO > Elizabeth 17 MO > Sarah A 12 MO > Saml V 14 MO > Henry E 16 MO > Susannah L 9 MO > Mary A 7 MO > A F (fem) 5 MO > Alsey 4 MO > Alley 2 MO > Abraham D 8.12 MO > Andrew 19 MO > > > > > ==== MODAVIES Mailing List ==== > For questions or comments regarding the Daviess County list or the > Daviess County web > page, please write to Lori Beckett Zukerman: [email protected] > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.5 - Release Date: 4/7/2005 > >

Also note that in 1850 there is a John Endsley in Ray Co (Daviess Co was formed from part of Ray Co) John Sr 53 NC Hannah 46 KY James N/H/W 20 MO Elizabeth 17 MO Sarah A 12 MO Saml V 14 MO Henry E 16 MO Susannah L 9 MO Mary A 7 MO A F (fem) 5 MO Alsey 4 MO Alley 2 MO Abraham D 8.12 MO Andrew 19 MO

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/EKB.2ACE/773.1 Message Board Post: I couldn't find Joseph, but there is a Samuel ENDLSEY in nearby Harrison Co., in 1850. He is b. 1775 in NC [75 yrs old], and his wife is 53 yr old Anna. Next door is the Gibson ENDSLEY family. There aren't any families listed in the Daviess Co. Cem. Index listed as ENDSLEY or ENSLEY, and none listed in 1850 in Daviess Co. census as well. Hope this helps, Lanita

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/EKB.2ACE/773 Message Board Post: Who were these men: Samuel ENSLEY age 50-60, with 1 female age 40-50 Joseph ENSLEY age 40-50, with 1 female age 40-50 and 1 age 80-90, both in Cravensville, Daviess Co. in 1840, next door to Edward & Joseph HUNT? Are they the same as Samuel ENSLEY age 40-50, with males under 5, 5-10 (2) and 10-15, females under 5 (2), 15-20, and 40-50 of Davidson Co., Tennessee in 1830 AND Joseph ENSLEY age 30-40, with females age under 5, 5-10 (2), 10-15, and 30-40 of Williamson Co., Tennessee? Or is Samuel (1840 MO) the son of Andrew ENDSLEY of Wayne Co., Ohio and the Samuel 1830 (TN) actually Samuel Vance, the son of Abraham ENDSLEY of North Carolina? And, in any case, who are these Josephs? Any enlightenment welcomed. Jim Boyce

Hi Lanita: I would like the pic of Lucien B. Noah on Page 3. My g grandmother was Lovina Jane (Noah) McMurtrey. Thanks so much, Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert at [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lanita Sconce Smith Date: 04/07/05 14:43:56 To: [email protected] Subject: [MODAVIES] portraits in 1882 History Book The following have portraits in the History of Daviess County 1882 book. If you want me to send to you in jpeg file, please tell me what page #. Samuel A. RICHARDSON..pg 157 J.T. DAY...page 191 Alex. M. DOCKERY....pg 225 H.C. McDOUGAL...pg 259 Seth MACY...pg 293 S.T. HOWELL, MD...pg 327? The following have portraits listed, but the page # is torn off so I will need to dig. F. M. MADDEN...pg 3**' Lucien B. NOAH...pg 3** John N. RALEY, MD...pg 4** Elijah HUBBARD...pg 4** [I THINK!!!] Let me know if I can help! Lanita

If you are connected to the above families, let me know. There are some items of interest on page 172 that you will be interested in. Lanita

[the abbreviations and CAPS are mine] Honey and Venison It was during the early days (1829) and before any settlements were made in the Grand River country, and when this, the finest portion of N. MO, was visited only by the bee hunters and others in pursuit of game, in which this country then abounded, that names were given to many of our streams. Honey Creek, S. of Gallatin was so named from the great number of bee trees found in the woods along it banks. John STOKES, who afterward lived and died near its wates, was one of the party of bee hunters who game it a name. Marrowbone Creek, which passes through Colfax, Sheridan, and the NW corner of Monroe Twps, received its name from a different cause. A party of bee hunters from Tay Co., among whom were Daniel DEVAUL, Jn. STONE, Wyman VANDERPOOL, and Thomas LINVILLE, were out in quest of honey and venison. They had camped on the creek near where the old Indian trace crossed it, in Sheridan Twp, N. of the old man MARSH'S, at what is yet known as the deep hole, when some one of the party announced that a drove of elks were approaching. Arrangements were immediately made for their reception. The wind was blowing from the elks to the hunters and everything was favorable. The party deployed themselves and with cocked rifles awaited the coming of the much-coveted prizes. They did not have to wait long. Old Uncle Daniel DEVAUL has repeatedly told that it was the grandest sight he ever beheld. The herd consisted of about 20 elks, led by 4 full-grown bucks, with antlers measuring from 6 to 9 ft from point to point. All was eager expectancy. Every hunter appeared to have his eye on those bucks and the wind continuing favorable the elks were permitted to come within 100 yds when at a given signal the whole party fired. The 4 bucks were killed and 2 others with them. Now this was considered pretty good work, and it was at once decided to celebrate the occasion and have a grand good time. The marrow in the bones of an elk is said to be superior to that of any other animal, and our hunters resolved to roast these bones and never stop until they had disposed of the last drop of the marrow. Visions of the good time they were going to have flitted through their minds as they prepared the fire on which to roast the bones. But, alas for human weakness! They had forgotten the warning of BURNS when he tells that "The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft aglee". The bones were roasted, the feast partaken of; each Nimrod, feeling well satisfied with himself and his day's work, retires to his virtuous deerskins. The camp was shrouded in gloom, except that now and then came fitful flashes from the camp-fire, leaving the darkness, however, more intense. Not a sound broke the stillness; even the hooting of the owl had ceased, and the wolves had not yet scented the blood of the slain deer. The dogs had eaten their fill and were slumbering the hours away. It seemed to be past midnight, and the 'wee sma' hours" were ushering in the coming day, when the camp was aroused by t he groans and contortions of Uncle Daniel DEVAUL, who complained of too much marrow in the stomach. But it soon became apparent that Uncle Daniel was not alone in "his glory". Uncle John STONE felt that if he were turned wrong side out it would be a relief. LINVILLE asserted in heartrending tones that he didn't wish to live any longer, while VANDERPOOL prayed for the Pool of Siloam that he might be cleansed. The whole camp in fact was moving and all seemed anxious to get rid of marrow on the stomach. But why attempt to describe the harrowing scene? The pen fails to describe or words to express its full horror, and only the artist's pencil could portray the vivid colors the moving panorama of the occupants of Marrowbone camp. Suffice it to say that for 3 days they enjoyed that rest which their successful effort in going into the "marrow" of their subject brought upon them. It took t hem that length of time to get strength enough to harness their team or saddle their horses. They named the creek "Marrowbone". The hunters survived, but never did they forget their victory over those marrow bones, and they never tired of telling of the awful incidents of that first night. On the 3rd morn. after the feast, feeling stronger, they concluded to move camp. And here may be mentioned the fact that the dogs had been feasting on elk for 3 days and nights, and t hereby hangs a tale. A dog is a singular animal, you never really know how much there is in a dog until you see him moving around. Give him plenty to dat and nothing to do, and he will lie quietly in the sun and dream of dog heaven with logs of rabbits, deer and elk. Our hunters moved their camp about 4 miles NE on the next creek, which was tributary to the one left. Here they pitched their tents, and about the time supper was over and they were enjoying themselves with their pipes around their new camp-fires, the dogs commenced coming in and arranging themselves around the fire. They were really tired. They had been moving around considerable since leaving the last camping ground, and the elk which had been dormant on their stomachs for 3 days became powerfully wrought up, and our hunters soon became aware that a mighty struggle was going on between the dogs and the elk for supremacy. At first they would imagine from the odor with which the air had become impregnated that it was all dog, but the next instant changed their mind, and they were fully as well satisfied that it was all elk, and then there would come a time when it seemed to be part dog and part elk. If they had become satisfied at their last camping place that they had had too much marrowbone, they were equally as well convinced that they now had too much dog. As they had named the other creek Marrowbone, they would now name this creek Dog Creek, and although by no means a romantic name, yet it is so called and known to this day, and the inhabitants on the banks of its classic waters are as well pleased with the name as though it had been called "Ceylon." That hunting trip proved a grand success, they having secured 4 horse loads of venison and honey. They carried the honey in the deer skins. Cutting off the elk's head, then taking hold of the skin and running their hands down on the inside the hide was pulled off perfectly clean, and they then tied up the neck and the joints on the legs, and their honey-proof sack was ready for business. This party had many other tramps after the one above recorded, where elk and honey were found, but they never afterwards indulged in marrowbone.

The following have portraits in the History of Daviess County 1882 book. If you want me to send to you in jpeg file, please tell me what page #. Samuel A. RICHARDSON..pg 157 J.T. DAY...page 191 Alex. M. DOCKERY....pg 225 H.C. McDOUGAL...pg 259 Seth MACY...pg 293 S.T. HOWELL, MD...pg 327? The following have portraits listed, but the page # is torn off so I will need to dig. F. M. MADDEN...pg 3**' Lucien B. NOAH...pg 3** John N. RALEY, MD...pg 4** Elijah HUBBARD...pg 4** [I THINK!!!] Let me know if I can help! Lanita

Okay, guys, I'm back and for today only, I am willing to do census lookups for anyone that needs it. I have access to the ancestry.com census images that they have for every year. A majority of the counties and states are listed for each year starting with 1790. So, if you need a lookup, let me know... PLEASE focus on 1 SURNAME and no more than 2 couples for today. If I see that I am not that busy, i may let the List know that I have time for additional requests.. If you try to send more requests, I will not look those additional ones up until all have had their turn. All results will be sent to the List so others may benefit just in case.... Who needs a lookup? Lanita

Anyone researching the Snyders? Lewis and Catharine (Blakely) Snyder their children: 1. Martha, married Joseph Bundy 2. Lucinda married Cornelius Johnson think Lucinda lived to over 100 and is buried in Livingston Co. 3. Angelina married Martin Miller 4. William, married Laura Oxford 5. Florence, don't think she married 6. Nancy, married a Blakely 7. Charles, married Clara Hazelrigg William and Laura had children, Audrey 1890-1973 and Ralph 1893-1978 Charles and Clara had child Wm. if I have these people right -- Wm died in 1980, his wife Velma died in 1991. In Lock Springs cemetery. I want to find a Snyder or someone with a good memory of Carlow. thanks, Eleanor