In a message dated 4/4/01 7:03:41 AM Central Daylight Time, MOFRANKL-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << But if you are really dedicated, go yourself. You won't be disappinted. I'm not even a Woodcock descendant, I'm aa McGee aand I know that the answers that you seek are not on the inteernet. Do yourself a treat and visit Franklin County and your rich history. It is vast. M. M. B. >>I must add to this good advice. In Union, Franklin Co, MO. you will find an annex building to the courthouse. This building houses actual wills and some probate records that you can see the originals. I had a good experience there, but be aware that the research area at the courthouse is small, crowded and well used. Mary

Let me be frank witth you. Yon need to go to Franklin County for the answers if you really want to know tthr Woodcock history.. There is much info on the Woodcocks in Franklin County. Take a few days and enjoy this beeautiful county and it will save you years of seaarching the internet. I am going back in May to visit my relatives and gather more info. If you can't go yourself, just email me with specifics you want an I will do my best for you. But if you are really dedicated, go yourself. You won't be disappinted. I'm not even a Woodcock descendant, I'm aa McGee aand I know that the answers that you seek are not on the inteernet. Do yourself a treat and visit Franklin County and your rich history. It is vast. M. M. B. ----- Original Message ----- From: <AMEON79@aol.com> To: <MOFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 2:00 PM Subject: [MOFRANKL-L] Help with Woodcock > Here I am again still looking for the elusive clue to what became of my > Woodcocks.William was in the 1830 census that is all I know about him in that > year.I do know that he was born in TN and he married a Mary?.There were > several children born to this union but I know of only Henry,Abraham,Elijah > ,George and either Rosella or Riesetta (maybe both).Elijahs death certificate > states he was born in Union Mo in 1850.Abraham was born in 1848 and Henry in > 1840.George in 1856.1 of the girls and George were in the home of someone > else at the time George was 5 years old.Must of been the 1860 census.These > parents must of died or farmed the kids out.I just thought I would post again > hoping that if someone runs across these people in their research that they > will keep me in mind.Thank you. >

CHARITON COURIER -- Keytesville, Chariton County, Missouri -- 23 November 1878 RUCKER, Capt. A.L.F., an old MO. Rev., man, and at one time owner of a dozen boats, blew out his brains on the 13th at the house of Dr. COMSTOCK in Kansas City. Capt. Rucker had been suffering greatly from consumption and becoming convinced that his disease was incurable, he took this speedy method of ending his sufferings. _________________________ THE FORT SCOTT DAILY MONITOR -- Thursday, 14 November 1878 ~~~~~~~ SUICIDE ~~~~~~~ Acting City Marshal Basemann, received a telegram from Kansas City last night, stating that CAPT. RUCKER, brother of CITY MARSHAL, C.T. RUCKER, of Fort Scott, had shot and killed himself in that city, at six o'clock, Tuesday night. Mr. RUCKER had been suffering from consumption, and had gone to Kansas City under the care of Dr. Comstock, in order to effect a cure if possible. No cause is assigned for the act beyond that of MENTAL and PHYSICAL SUFFERING and despairing of ever becoming well again, as he had repeatedly said that he would destroy himself if he did not improve in health. His body will be brought to Fort Scott for burial... -------------------- THE FORT SCOTT DAILY MONITOR -- Sunday, 17 November 1878 The remains of CAPT. L.F. RUCKER, who died in Kansas City on Tuesday last, were brought to this city on the Gulf Train yesterday afternoon and the funeral services will be held at the residence of C.T. RUCKER, corner of Main and Locust Streets, at 2 o'clock p. m. to day. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to be present. -------------------- BURIED: FORT SCOTT NATIONAL CEMETERY, Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas PLOT 4 - 0 - 459. According to the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs. -------------------- A Very Special Thanks to Nancy in Kansas for all your help. Thank You.!! Any Questions E-Mail: CARLA in OREGON leighton@pacifier.com

John Byerly, 1850-1860 in PA, and Mary Griffith, born about 1873 in MO, were married 2-17-1897 in Dent Co. MO. They were in Cuba MO (spelled Barley) in 1910 with the following children: Louisa or Laura M. age 11 Albert age 10 Mary J. age 4 M____? age 2 Bessie age ?/12 I believe they may have lived in or near St. Louis MO later. Mary Griffith was daughter of Jacob and Minerva Jane Dunlacey Griffith, who were married about 1870 in Pulaski Co. MO. Does anyone have any additional information on the John and Mary Byerly family? Thanks Jewell --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Personal Address - Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.

I ran across another book on my book shelf in it I found Reynolds Co. marriages from 1870-1891. I will do lookups Please tell me which area of this book you want me to hunt.It is not indexed for each section.NJ Grundy Co. births 1864-1870 Taney Co. Wolf Cemetery section 17 township 22 N range 17 W Carter Co marriage book 1 1860-1881 Macon Co. Ballinger Cemetery,Liberty township near Calleo Mo. road 612 Audrain Co. Appleman Cemetery Missourians on the Vietnam War Memorial Surnames A-C

AMBROSE LEE RUCKER - OBIT - 1882 -- 1898 This was sent to me by a Librarian in Wallowa, Wallowa County, Oregon, yesterday... Ambrose Lee Rucker Born: 09 May 1882 in Marmaton, Bourbon County, Kansas Died: 30 June 1898 -- West of Walla Walla, Walla Walla County, Washington. Burried: Wallula Cemetery, Wallula, Walla Walla County, WA His Grandparents were from Bedford County, Virginia, St. Louis and Franklin County, Missouri. His Grandmother was a Branch. Ambrose was a brother of my Grandmother Sedalia RUCKER Dexter. CARLA in OREGON leighton@pacifier.com August 12, 1898 Eastern Oregon Observer Amborse Rucker, a farm hand in the employ of Henry Adams, was drowned Sunday morning near Wallula, He and three other young men were in bathing in the Walla Walla river and Rucker, who cannot swim, got in to water too deep for him. One of the other young men rushed in to save Rucker but was nearly drowned in the attempt so near that he was inconsolable when taken out ot the water. Rucker was 18 years old and his home is near La Grande Or. He was buried Monday in Wallula. Coroner Smith of Walla Walla was notified but did not consider it necessary to put the county to the expense of an inquest. Milton Eagle of August 5th Found this---Mary Ann

Here I am again still looking for the elusive clue to what became of my Woodcocks.William was in the 1830 census that is all I know about him in that year.I do know that he was born in TN and he married a Mary?.There were several children born to this union but I know of only Henry,Abraham,Elijah ,George and either Rosella or Riesetta (maybe both).Elijahs death certificate states he was born in Union Mo in 1850.Abraham was born in 1848 and Henry in 1840.George in 1856.1 of the girls and George were in the home of someone else at the time George was 5 years old.Must of been the 1860 census.These parents must of died or farmed the kids out.I just thought I would post again hoping that if someone runs across these people in their research that they will keep me in mind.Thank you.

RUCKER -- BRANCH -- McCLUER RESEARCHERS: I have hit the old Brick Wall, can anyone help.?? I believe they would be in the above three Family Lines. This family could have been in the following places... Virginia -- Missouri -- Arkansas -- Kansas -- Georgia.. _______ Can anyone IDENTIFY the FAMILY below and share information and documentation that you might have on them with me.? Or at least tell me where I could find it, as I know some researchers that do not like to share anymore because other researchers have abused that privilege... _______ ***_______ THE MYSTERY FAMILY _______*** 1870 Woodruff County, Arkansas - Census, page 488, Freeman Township: LeGRAND F. RUCKER {Was he REALLY - Ambrose LeGrand Franklin Rucker lV}?? age 37, farmer - $12,000/1500 Born: Franklin County, Missouri Mary P. Age 28, keeping house b: Virginia John I. Age 11, at School b: Missouri Charles L. Age 6, at home b: Missouri Edward T. Age 2, at home b: Missouri { WILLIAM G. RUCKER } Born: Virginia Age: 43 Without ocupation, Due to a medical condition Thomas Hindman Age 25, (black) Farm Laborer b: Arkansas Joseph Hayhurst Age 24, Farm Laborer b: Ohio -------------------------------------------------- Maiden name of MARY P.? ___ WHO is this WILLIAM G. RUCKER.? Who were his parents.? How is he related to LeGrand F. Rucker.? He had a sister Mary Ann Elizabeth Rucker married to Augustus Barbonney/Barbarna. Who were they.? Franklin County, Missouri - Marriage Records Book B, Page 53 State of Missouri, County of Franklin I do certify that I joined together in Holy Matrimony according to law on the 24th day of July 1847 Augustus Barbonney and Mary Ann Elizabeth Rucker, presence of A. L. Rucker and Susan Rucker. Given under my hand this 24th day of July 1847. John Jones J.P. Recorded August 19th, 1847 How are they related to A.L and Susan Rucker.? _______ There parents.? Location & Date of their Birth and Death.? ________________________________________ You can E-Mail information to: leighton@pacifier.com Thanks in advance for your help... Thanks CARLA in OREGON leighton@pacifier.com :>) _______ (<:

Several of you requested this (these). Perhaps you can go take a look for yourselves. Let me know, please, what does and doesn't work. I'm copying herewith what I posted to a different rootsweb list. -DHF ============== Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:03:12 -0600 (CST) From: David H Finke <dfinke@coin.org> To: MO-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Fink(e) Cemetery in Berger, MO Sorry to be late getting back to all those who asked for the URLs for finding what I've found. Here they are, but be sure that as you copy them, you have them (each) all in one line [no spaces]. The Internet is pretty unforgiving that way. It doesn't know "You know what I mean," most of the time." I think I used several different programs. One of them (which someone here gave me) is this: http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnisform.html But the actual screen shots that show me the cemetery in topo, and my great grandparents house-on-the-bluff in aerial photo, are these (sorry I didn't write which is which), each of which is given as "1 KM north of Berger, MO - http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=11&T=2&X=1612&Y=10706&Z=15&W=0 and http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=3222&Y=21413&Z=15&W=0 Even if you get the numbers mixed up, perhaps you can get there with the "terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/" part of the URL. Wish I could help more. If somebody really gets stuck and wants to see it, send me a private note and I'll stick a print-out into the mail. Best wishes, -DHF David Hadley Finke Columbia, MO 65203

Is anyone reading this a descendant or know of Elijah Monroe Spradling or his brother, Joseph Columbus Spradling? They lived near Beaufort from 1862 until their deaths. Elijah died Oct 12, 1890 in Union, MO. Joseph died Jan 26, 1900, also in Franklin Co. The 2 brothers were born in Tennessee, Elijah was born, Aug 18, 1824, in what is now Marshall Co., TN. Paul H. Owen 4102 Bear Creek Ct. Ft. Pierce, FL 34951-3301 email: Plhown@aol.com

My father's father's father was a civil war veteran (Union: 31st Mo. Vol. Inf.) who was buried on land that he farmed after the war, at Berger, MO. He was Henry (Heinrich) Finke, and his son Edward had the land after he, and my great-grandmother Mary (Maria) Finke lived with them until her death in 1932. Edward was father to Elda, who married Forrest Forderhase, still living in Berger, who still owns that land. This weekend I was looking at a USGS mapping program on the Internet, and in curiosity homed in on Berger (you can just give a town name; don't have to know coordinates), and went looking at the old family land. As I zoomed in to the highest resolution (1 inch = 200 yards) there on the topographical map, to my amazement, popped up the words "Fink Cem." on the wooded bluff to the north of the land where their house was. (The house is still there, clearly visible in the comparable aerial photo, right above the railroad tracks on the bluff, first building north of town.) This burial site had been known in the family (and perhaps elsewhere?) as "The Indian Mound," and indeed when several years ago we were prowling up there, we saw what appears to be an ancient burial site, pre-European. We haven't yet found great-grandfather's grave, tho we see stones of people with cousins' names (e.g. "Zeugin"). Others are buried in the more accessible St. John's cemetery nearer to town, on County "B". But this is the first time I've seen acknowledgement on a USGS map that the cemetery was connected with my family. I think I've missed it on other indexes because my great-uncle, the firstborn, Henry II, changed the spelling of the family name, dropping the final "e" -- and even had the 1920 census-taker erroneously list his mother that way, along with Uncle Ed's family! (This has caused a major family split, over the years, apparently, with rumors of gravestones having been altered.) Does anyone else reading this Franklin County list know of "The Indian Mound" (about a mile straight north of Berger) being referred to as "The Fink(e) Cemetery"? ============== David Hadley Finke 1106 Maplewood Drive Columbia, MO 65203 ===============

Looking for informaton about he family of John Michael BROWN and Lorena LEWIS married March 9, 1873. John Micheal was born 1849 died 1932. Need the birth date of Lorena Lewis and any information you can furnish onthe both of them and their families.. Thank you. Sandy sandsu@juno.com

UNSUBSCRIBE from Mailing List due to being in the Hospital Personal E-Mail only I will be back To many unanswered questions from so many of you Thanks for all the information sent by all Thanks CARLA in OREGON leighton@pacifier.com

Early Marriages from Missouri Newspapers: Hi, Would like to know if the names Himmelberg, Ladner & Rehme (names maybe corrupted from these spellings) show up in the papers. Thanks, Pat

RUCKER, McCluer, Branch REASEARCHERS: I need your help... Does anyone have or know where I can find the following information... Where would I find a Look up for a DIVORCE sometime between 1841 and 1846... In St. Louis County -- City of St. Louis or Franklin County, Missouri... Does any researcher have this information or know where I could find it... Ambrose LeGrand F. Rucker, Sr. and Elizabeth Betsey McCluer Rucker... They both signed their names many different ways... Betsey died 5 June 1854, St. Louis, Missouri... They were married 4 March 1824 in Bedford County, Virginia... They relocated from Bedford County, Virginia to St. Louis in 1830, where he was the First Constable as it was then... They then relocated to Franklin County, Missouri in 1831... He was suposed to have been the First Sheriff of Franklin County, in 1831/32, but I have found no Documentation or Record of that yet... Does anyone have anything on this.?? He married Wife #2 Susan Elizabeth Branch on 23 December 1846 in Franklin County, Missouri... He founded Ruckers Prairie and Established the First Post Office there... He was the First Postmaster, 22 December 1853 to 15 May 1858... Resigning and leaving Missouri... He then left the State of Missouri, dying elsewhere, but thats another story... CARLA in OREGON leighton@pacifier.com

I have a list of marriages from 1820-1853.Most are in the 1850s.Will do lookups.Norma Jean

Gerry Meier: Which Terschluses are you interested in? Maybe I can help you a little. Dorothy Bennett Dwb12345@aol.com

Hi, I am interested in the Terschluses and their ties to the Kleekamp family in Washington and St. Louis, MO. traci wilson-kleekamp Dwb12345@aol.com wrote: > > Gerry Meier: Which Terschluses are you interested in? Maybe I can help you > a little. Dorothy Bennett Dwb12345@aol.com

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List, Thanks to everyone who answered my question about finding an obit of my uncle. Evidently the newspaper there doesn't have an obits archive on line. But I will send a request via snail mail. Thanks again. Pat