Can anyone tell me if there is anyplace, online or offline, that I can go to find annulment or divorce records that would have been in the 1940's. I would surely appreciate it. Vivian

Vivian: If you go online to the webpage for any State and/or County within the State, you will find a link to a site that will give you all the information needed to order such 20th century records. The procedure and the cost will vary from place to place. Try http://www.usgenweb.org/ for starters. Click on the State you are interested in and then search for the appropriate link. Each webpage is set up a little differently, so you will have to scroll about to find the link that will help you. Good luck. -----Original Message----- From: MOJACKSO-D-request@rootsweb.com [mailto:MOJACKSO-D-request@rootsweb.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 12:00 PM To: MOJACKSO-D@rootsweb.com Subject: MOJACKSO-D Digest V05 #65 Can anyone tell me if there is anyplace, online or offline, that I can go to find annulment or divorce records that would have been in the 1940's. I would surely appreciate it. Vivian

Along Those Lines... Message Board Postings That Never Get Answered by George G. Morgan I don't know about you, but for me, message boards and mailing lists are an integral part of my genealogical research. I make contact with all sorts of people who are actively pursuing their family history. They share information in their postings, post queries for more information, and are often willing to collaborate with you for the purpose of extending their research. Best of all, these are free resources! Perhaps the best message boards on the Internet are at Ancestry.com and can be accessed from the tab labeled Message Boards at the top of the main screen. Another good source are the GenForum message boards (http://genforum.com) at Genealogy.com. It is unfortunate that so many posted messages are never answered. In "Along Those Lines . . ." this week, let's discuss the ins and outs of creating really good message postings that will pique the interest of other researchers and more effectively draw responses. Create an Informative Subject Line Whenever I get an e-mail that contains a meaningless subject line, such as "Help," I immediately delete it, along with all the e-mails with no subject line. They are certainly less than intriguing. They convey no information whatsoever about the contents of the e-mail. Subject lines on message board postings produce the same effect for me. I feel sad that the poster will probably never get a response to their posting. The subject line of your posting should cause someone to be interested. It should convey enough information that the reader can think, "Wow! That may be one of the people in my line!" There are message boards for surnames, geographies, and topic areas, so your posting might vary a bit. However, a really good subject line contains several pieces of pertinent information: * the name of the primary person for whom you are seeking information; * a year (or year range) for the information you are seeking, and * information about the location(s) where they may have been or to which they may have migrated. Here are examples of two good subject lines: Spencer BALL - (1773- ca. 1856) - Fairfax, VA> Tallagdega Co., AL This one tells me that a man named Spencer BALL lived from 1773 to circa 1856, and that he migrated from Fairfax, Virginia, to Talladega County, Alabama. The > character is used as an abbreviation to indicate movement. Walton C. WEATHERLY - 1882-1948 - TN>AL>GA>NC This one tells me that Walton C. WEATHERLY, born in 1882 and died in 1948, started in Tennessee, moved to Alabama, and then to Georgia, and then to North Carolina. Both of these subject lines help the reader understand precisely who the people are that you are researching, and perhaps he or she will open the posting to read the contents. A really bad subject line conveys little or no information. For example, there was a posting on a surname message board in 1998 and the subject line read, "Need [surname] Information." To this day, that message has received no response. Tell the Reader in the Body of the Message What You Are Seeking Once someone has opened your message board posting, you need to communicate exactly what you are seeking. That also should include any information you already know as well as any resources you may already have exhausted. This will prevent a reader from duplicating the efforts you've already expended. This is a very nice courtesy. The body of your message may include more information about the person or family for which you are seeking any information, including names and nicknames, vital dates, and places. It is better to provide more concise details to indicate what you already know that to omit what you feel is obvious. It is important to organize your message in such a way that it is logical and easy to understand. A wandering diatribe will lose the reader's interest, and he or she may not even be able to determine what it is that you want to learn! Here is an example of a body text of a message board posting that I made: "I am seeking information about Jesse HOLDER and his wife, Hepsebah (Hepsevah?) who lived in Gwinnett County, GA, in the 1830s and early 1840s. They produced at least two sons, Green Berry HOLDER and John Thomas HOLDER. I am descended from Green Berry and have all descent there, and most of his brothers. I am looking for more information on Jesse and Hepsevah (maiden name unknown). Thank you." Here is an example of a less than complete body in a message posting: "Hi I'm trying to find information on a Mr. and Mrs. Scoobydoo that died in 1929. They were on their honeymoon and the hotel they were at caught fire. I don't know if they both died in the fire or if they died shortly after as a result of it. The woman's name was Ruby but have no info on the gentleman's first name. If anyone can help, please post a reply. Thank you." As you can see, there is a big difference in the content of each posting. A good education for you is to go to one of the message boards and read some of the more interesting and complete postings. They will provide insight into what captures your interest, and you can begin to emulate really well-written postings. People Who Post Who Disappear Many of us have changed e-mail addresses over the years. If you change yours, post a message on the message board indicating that you have previously posted there and that you have changed the address. Ask people to respond to that address in future. You might do this as a general message, but it is perhaps more appropriate to post it in a reply to your message postings. Post to Multiple Message Boards Readers of message boards often read more than just the surname boards. Therefore, you may want to post the same or a similar message to the geographical message boards for the places that your ancestors lived or to which they migrated. You may often get a response from one or the other posting. There also are subject areas on the message boards and you might consider posting to one or more of those that may be appropriate for your ancestor's condition. Such categories might include the Adoption, Cemeteries and Tombstones, Ethnic/Race, Immigration and Emigration, Military, Orphans and Orphanages, or other message board forums. The USGenWeb Project at www.usgenweb.org consists of state and county websites, many of which allow you to post a query on some sort of message-type board. Its international equivalent is the WorldGenWeb Project at www.worldgenweb.org, which represents countries around the world and their subsidiary governmental entities, such as counties, parishes, provinces, etc. These, too, may provide the capability of posting queries. Family websites, including personal Web pages and family sites established at MyFamily.com, may also provide message posting facilities that help you make connections to other living family members and researchers interested in your family lines. Establish a Review Methodology If you post to a message board and never go back to check for replies, you've probably just wasted your time. The message boards on Ancestry.com provide a facility to add the board to a notification process. That means that, whenever someone responds to your posting, you receive an e-mail notification with a hyperlink that takes you to the board and the posting. Not all message boards provide a facility with this convenience. I also have a routine that I use. First, I bookmark the message board sites to which I have posted for the surnames, locations, and topics in my Web browser. I maintain these bookmarks in a separate folder. Then, every Sunday afternoon, I go out and check those message boards for postings that have been made in the last week. Therefore, whether my postings have been responded to, I can see who is posting and whom they are researching. Who knows? There might just be that missing link to knock down some brick wall. Message boards can be fun to use, and you will almost definitely make connections, perhaps to other researchers and long-lost or distant family members. If you haven't used the message boards, give them a try. Happy Message Board Posting! George [reprinted with prior permission of Juliana Smith, Editor of Ancestry Daily News] Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com "A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good." 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Thanks John ----- Original Message ----- From: "John O'Brien" <JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com> To: <MOJACKSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 7:15 PM Subject: [MOJACKSO] Miss Helen KELLER - visit to Kansas City, MO - 12 February 1915 > "The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Saturday, February 13, 1915 > > 'GOD IS LOVE' - Miss KELLER > > There is no darkness so deep but > that the sunlight of faith can find > its hear. --- Helen Keller at the > Grand Avenue Temple last night. > > Color to Miss Helen KELLER, who can neither see nor hear, > is a blending of poetic ideas and symbols, she told an audience > that packed the Grand Avenue Temple to its doors last night. > Red to her, she said, means warmth and strength. > > Miss KELLER's definition of her conception of color came in a > reply to one of a score of questions asked of her at the conclusion > of her lecture on "Happiness," the first entertainment of the Temple > lyceum course. As each question was asked it was repeated by > Mrs. Anne S. MACY, Miss KELLER's lifelong teacher and > companion, Miss KELLER reading the query with her hand on > Mrs. MACY's lips. And the answers that came readily from Miss > KELLER's lips gave those who heard her a glimpse of the brilliancy > of that mind which has conquered darkness and silence. > > LOVING THE ONLY HAPPINESS. > > "What is your conception of God?" was the first question. > > "Love," was Miss KELLER's reply, who a few moments before had > said in the course of her lecture: > > "Loving is the only real happiness. I was blind, now I see. I was > deaf, now I hear. I was dumb, now I speak. Without my teacher, I > should be nothing. Loving is the only way I have of telling that I am > happy." > > MEN SHOULDN'T VOTE FOR WOMEN. > > "Are you a suffragette," was another question. > > "Yes," replied Miss KELLER. > > "And do you really think women know enough to vote?" she was > asked again. > > "I don't think the men know enough to vote for them. Women must > pay taxes and I do not believe in taxation without representation. We > once fought a great war on that very issue." > > FLASH OF WIT WON APPLAUSE. > > In reply to another question, Miss KELLER said her favorite author was > Whitman --- and Mark Twain. Could she 'hear' the applause that greeted > her? > > "Yes, indeed. I hear it with my feet," Miss KELLER answered. > > She had 'heard,' or felt, as well the deep notes and rhythm of the temple > organ during a recital given by Powell WEAVER before the lecture. > > "Does it tire you to talk?" she was asked. > > "Oh, no," said Miss KELLER, "no more than any other woman," and then > as laughter swept through the audience she said she could 'feel' the > laughter, for "it is in the air all about me." > > "Can you distinguish light from darkness," Mrs. MACY repeated to > Miss KELLER. > > "No," was the reply, "but I can distinguish day from night because of the > difference in the atmosphere." > > EDUCATION MADE HER RADIANT. > > Before Miss KELLER was introduced to the audience to tell her story of > happiness, Mrs. MACY told the story of Miss KELLER's life --- of how > she was transformed from a terrible self-willed, untaught child, and of > how she keeps in touch with the world about her. > > Miss KELLER was not quite 7 years old when Mrs. MACY, then Miss > SULLIVAN, went to her. She had been blind and deaf from her nineteenth > month, the result of an illness. Within a few months the child, under her > teacher's guidance, had become 'a radiant child,' as Mrs. MACY expressed > the transformation last night. > > DID IMPOSSIBLE IN LEARNING TO TALK. > > "Language grew with her expanding faculties," continued Mrs. MACY. > "By the fourth month she was writing childish letters, and in six months > she was reading stories in raised print books and acting out the stories. > She learned so rapidly that it was a question of whether the teacher led > the pupil or the pupil drove the teacher. And I had to educate myself to > keep up with her." > > For the first three years Miss KELLER spelled on her fingers. Then she > insisted she could be taught to speak, and although this seemed > impossible, > she did learn to talk. "But it has taken Helen KELLER more than twenty > years to learn to speak well enough to ask you to come and hear her," said > the teacher. > > "And tonight you are a witness to a modern miracle," continued Mrs. MACY; > "a witness to what has been called 'the greatest individual achievement in > the > whole history of education.' " > > "MY HAPPINESS DEEP AND REAL" > > "I cannot see your faces nor hear the sound of your voices, but it makes > me > happy to be here tonight," said Miss KELLER after she had been guided to > the platform. > > "I like to go among people and to tell them that I am happy," she > continued. > "My happiness is deep and real. We win happiness by loving." > > MANY SUCCESSFUL BUT NOT HAPPY. > > "I am not afraid of the darkness, because there is a great light in my > soul. > The sun does not go out under the cloud. It is only hidden for the time." > > "Happiness does not mean possessing. Many are successful but not happy. > They achieve something splendid and are applauded, but it is not > happiness. > Love is the only happiness --- the love that means brotherhood and > service. > Love and happiness should endure forever. The world shall be saved by the > love that is in it, as I was saved by the love that was in the heart of > another." > > > ====================================================== > > > > ==== MOJACKSO Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Jackson Co., MO Mailing List, send > only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to MOJACKSO-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the > Digest list to > MOJACKSO-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > 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 > >

BRENNER, BRINK, GREGORY, JONES, LONG, MULLINS "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Saturday, October 16, 1897 THEY CALLED HIS BLUFF. Four saloon keepers were before the police board yesterday afternoon to explain why they violated the order of the board made recently, prohibiting them selling to children sent by their parents after buckets of beer. A. BRINK, 1011 West Seventeenth street, S. BRENNER, 417 Southwest boulevard, and Dan MULLINS, 1312 West Twenty-fourth street, explained that they sold beer only to children who had orders from their parents to get it, which the state law permits. When Harry LONG of 1419 West Twenty-fourth street was called before the board he had an idea that he could bluff the commissioners. "If you men," said LONG, "had to work as hard as I have, you . . ." "Now, I've worked just as hard as you or any other man," said commissioner GREGORY. "I don't believe in sending children to saloons for beer." "If you are going to prevent me from selling beer to children who have orders from their parents," said LONG, I wish you would compel others to do the same." "Every saloon man will be treated the same," said GREGORY. "Beer always has been sold to children," went on LONG, "and I don't see what right this board has to make radical changes. If I can't sell my goods when I buy them, there is no use for me keeping a saloon. If you want to take my license go ahead and do so." "I'm in favor of giving you one more chance to obey this order," said Mr. GREGORY. "I'm ready to revoke his license," said Mayor JONES. All the bluster was gone out of LONG when it was suggested that his license be revoked. "Why, gentlemen," said he very humbly. "I shall surely obey any order this board sees fit to make." He was given another chance to obey the law. So were the others. ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Saturday, February 13, 1915 'GOD IS LOVE' - Miss KELLER There is no darkness so deep but that the sunlight of faith can find its hear. --- Helen Keller at the Grand Avenue Temple last night. Color to Miss Helen KELLER, who can neither see nor hear, is a blending of poetic ideas and symbols, she told an audience that packed the Grand Avenue Temple to its doors last night. Red to her, she said, means warmth and strength. Miss KELLER's definition of her conception of color came in a reply to one of a score of questions asked of her at the conclusion of her lecture on "Happiness," the first entertainment of the Temple lyceum course. As each question was asked it was repeated by Mrs. Anne S. MACY, Miss KELLER's lifelong teacher and companion, Miss KELLER reading the query with her hand on Mrs. MACY's lips. And the answers that came readily from Miss KELLER's lips gave those who heard her a glimpse of the brilliancy of that mind which has conquered darkness and silence. LOVING THE ONLY HAPPINESS. "What is your conception of God?" was the first question. "Love," was Miss KELLER's reply, who a few moments before had said in the course of her lecture: "Loving is the only real happiness. I was blind, now I see. I was deaf, now I hear. I was dumb, now I speak. Without my teacher, I should be nothing. Loving is the only way I have of telling that I am happy." MEN SHOULDN'T VOTE FOR WOMEN. "Are you a suffragette," was another question. "Yes," replied Miss KELLER. "And do you really think women know enough to vote?" she was asked again. "I don't think the men know enough to vote for them. Women must pay taxes and I do not believe in taxation without representation. We once fought a great war on that very issue." FLASH OF WIT WON APPLAUSE. In reply to another question, Miss KELLER said her favorite author was Whitman --- and Mark Twain. Could she 'hear' the applause that greeted her? "Yes, indeed. I hear it with my feet," Miss KELLER answered. She had 'heard,' or felt, as well the deep notes and rhythm of the temple organ during a recital given by Powell WEAVER before the lecture. "Does it tire you to talk?" she was asked. "Oh, no," said Miss KELLER, "no more than any other woman," and then as laughter swept through the audience she said she could 'feel' the laughter, for "it is in the air all about me." "Can you distinguish light from darkness," Mrs. MACY repeated to Miss KELLER. "No," was the reply, "but I can distinguish day from night because of the difference in the atmosphere." EDUCATION MADE HER RADIANT. Before Miss KELLER was introduced to the audience to tell her story of happiness, Mrs. MACY told the story of Miss KELLER's life --- of how she was transformed from a terrible self-willed, untaught child, and of how she keeps in touch with the world about her. Miss KELLER was not quite 7 years old when Mrs. MACY, then Miss SULLIVAN, went to her. She had been blind and deaf from her nineteenth month, the result of an illness. Within a few months the child, under her teacher's guidance, had become 'a radiant child,' as Mrs. MACY expressed the transformation last night. DID IMPOSSIBLE IN LEARNING TO TALK. "Language grew with her expanding faculties," continued Mrs. MACY. "By the fourth month she was writing childish letters, and in six months she was reading stories in raised print books and acting out the stories. She learned so rapidly that it was a question of whether the teacher led the pupil or the pupil drove the teacher. And I had to educate myself to keep up with her." For the first three years Miss KELLER spelled on her fingers. Then she insisted she could be taught to speak, and although this seemed impossible, she did learn to talk. "But it has taken Helen KELLER more than twenty years to learn to speak well enough to ask you to come and hear her," said the teacher. "And tonight you are a witness to a modern miracle," continued Mrs. MACY; "a witness to what has been called 'the greatest individual achievement in the whole history of education.' " "MY HAPPINESS DEEP AND REAL" "I cannot see your faces nor hear the sound of your voices, but it makes me happy to be here tonight," said Miss KELLER after she had been guided to the platform. "I like to go among people and to tell them that I am happy," she continued. "My happiness is deep and real. We win happiness by loving." MANY SUCCESSFUL BUT NOT HAPPY. "I am not afraid of the darkness, because there is a great light in my soul. The sun does not go out under the cloud. It is only hidden for the time." "Happiness does not mean possessing. Many are successful but not happy. They achieve something splendid and are applauded, but it is not happiness. Love is the only happiness --- the love that means brotherhood and service. Love and happiness should endure forever. The world shall be saved by the love that is in it, as I was saved by the love that was in the heart of another." ======================================================

"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Monday, August 23, 1897 Henry H. CAMPBELL, an employee of the Santa Fe road for twenty-eight years, a resident of Kansas City since 1872, died yesterday at his home, 1424 Cherry street. Mr. CAMPBELL came of a railroad family. All his wife's relatives came of a railroad family. All his wife's relatives and nearly all his own relatives and friends are railroad people. He began business life when 12 years old as newsboy on the Santa Fe road, and for many years he was known in almost every state in the East as far north as Canada, and throughout the entire West as one of the oldest and most popular railroad men in the United States. What is most remarkable in his career is that during the entire twenty-eighty years of his service he was never in a wreck and he never had an accident on the road. Mr. CAMPBELL was born in Weston, Mo., in 1864. He was the son of a lieutenant in the United States army who was stationed at Fort Riley. From a newsboy on the train he became a brakeman, then a baggageman, then a freight train conductor in 1885. For several years his run was between Kansas City and Dodge City, Kas., on the California limited express. He was married two years ago to Miss Lizzie WILLIAMS of Detroit, Mich., who survives him. They have no children. The body will be shipped to Topeka tomorrow afternoon at 2:20 o'clock, where funeral services will be held by the Knights Templare, of whom Mr. CAMPBELL was a member. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Friday, August 27, 1897 TOSSED BY A WILD STEER. Mrs. Margaret KENNEDY, an elderly woman who lives at 1701 East Ninth street, Kansas City, Mo., was knocked down by a wild steer which escaped from the stock yards while she was crossing First street in Kansas City, Kas., yesterday afternoon. Mrs. KENNEDY had been visiting friends in Kansas City, Kas., and had started to go to James street to take a cable car for her home, when the steer ran down the street. She did not see the animal approaching her with his head lowered until she was caught on his horns and hurled to the ground ten or twelve feet distant. The accident was witnessed by Mrs. Mary DONOVAN of 329 North First street and Ed TRUEBLOOD, who lives next door. They expected to see the steer turn on Mrs. KENNEDY and gore her, but instead, he ran down the street. Mrs. KENNEDY was severely bruised, but she was able to go home after being assisted to a cable car by Sergeant CLARK. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

BENANTI, BORDEN, DUDDY, GIOLIGROTTI, GOODMAN, GRANBERGER, HOEDL, LOCKARD, MAY, NYE, RICHMOND, ROPFOGEL, SHIVELY, TERRANTE "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Wednesday, October 9, 1907 RECORD OF BIRTHS. Joe & C. TERRANTE, 617 East 5th, Oct 6, girl Wm. & Nellie NYE, 4923 East 8th, Oct 6, girl Arthur & C. LOCKARD, 6000 Perry, Oct 5, girl Joseph & Mary HOEDL, 2359 Baltimore, Oct 5, girl Chas. & Bessie MAY, 1637 Mersington, Oct 6, girl. Joe & C. GIOLIGROTTI, 1135 Mo. ave., Oct 5, boy G. & Z. BENANTI, 558 Holmes, Oct 5, boy J. F. & Hettie BORDEN, 806 Cypress, Sept 28, boy J. & E. GOODMAN, 1217 East 17th, Sept 28, boy H. & Bessie ROPFOGEL, 2201 Troost, Oct 4, boy Geo. & Mary GRANBERGER, 2903 Mercier, Oct 5, boy A. L. & J. SHIVELY, 327 Ord, Oct 7, boy Ed & Ollie RICHMOND, 316 East 16th, Oct 7, boy James & Mary DUDDY, 1662 Madison, Oct 6, boy (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com) ======================================================

ABBAS, BLATTMAN, BROSCHERT, BRUCE, CLANTANOFF, ELDRIDGE, HARDEN, HOHMAN, MOORE, PEALE, PETERS, SHRIMPTON, SIMPSON, SUTTON, WENDEL, WILKERSON, WILKINS "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Tuesday, October 8, 1907 RECORD OF BIRTHS. J. & L. BLATTMAN, 1834 Bellview, Oct 3, boy B. & N. WILKERSON, 1023 Myrtle, Oct 1, boy C. & N. MOORE, 27 S. Brighton, Oct 3, boy F. & N. CLANTANOFF, 3830 East 6th, Sept 30, boy J. & E. ABBAS, 1103 Miami, Sept 27, boy J. P. & L. P. PETERS, 2422 East 13th, Sept 29, girl E. & M. HOHMAN, 2525 Washington, Sept 29, girl C. & M. PEALE, German hospital, Sept 28, girl L. M. & E. BROSCHERT, 6448 Dauphin, Sept 25, girl H. & M. WENDEL, 5309 Holmes, Sept 28, girl G. O. & M. HARDEN, 1 Gray's court, Oct 5, girl W. & I. SUTTON, 4123 Michigan, Oct 4, girl H. & F. SIMPSON, 504 West 14th, Oct 3, girl J. & M. WILKINS, 1735 Troost, Oct 2, girl J. & G. BRUCE, Red Cross hospital, Oct 2, girl J. S. & M. ELDRIDGE, 3043 Olive, Oct 2, girl W. & N. SHRIMPTON, 135 N. Drury, Oct 2, girl (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com) ======================================================

BETTIS, BOLES, BOOTH, BOWER, BROWN, CARLSON, COLLINS, DARDEN, DUNN, FORRESTER, GILMORE, GOODWIN, JOHNSON, LAWSON, NOLE, PHIFIELD, WINNINGHAM, ZAHNER "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Sunday, October 6, 1907 RECORD OF BIRTHS. Ben & Lena DARDEN, 3006 W. Prospect, Oct 3, girl Jas. & Kate GILMORE, 3126 Benton, Oct 3, girl Edwin & A. LAWSON, 4121 Michigan, Oct 3, girl Lee & Lottie NOLE, 1217 Park, Oct 3, girl Homer & S. GOODWIN, 4401 East 9th, Sept 28, girl Reilly & Agnes BROWN, 2212 Colorado, Sept 27, girl J.D. & C. FORRESTER, 4724 East 6th, Sept 27, girl Ed & M. WINNINGHAM, 2224 E. Front, Sept 27, girl Will & Myrtle BOLES, 2532 Belleview, Sept 28, boy A. J. & W. PHIFIELD, 1321 McGee, Sept 24, boy Jacob & Sinda BETTIS, 622 East 6th, Oct 3, boy John & M. CARLSON, 445 N. Prospect, Oct 3, boy Dan & Sarah COLLINS, 1741 Belleview, Oct 2, boy Charles & E. BOOTH, 4124 Oak, Oct 2, boy Guy & Minnie DUNN, 4322 Woodland, Oct 1, boy Louis & B. JOHNSON, 2742 Belleview, Oct 1, boy Walter & Anna BOWER, 1212 West 41st, Oct 1, boy H. F. & Marie ZAHNER, 607 West 38th, Oct 1, boy (These are not all births for the period. Births were published when reported.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful. JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com) ======================================================

Hello everyone, I'm looking for information about Earl Vescelus b. 1877, his father (according to the 1880 census) was E. Vescelus b. 1848 and his mother was C.R. Vescelus b. 1849. I believe this is the same Earl from the 1910 census in Jackson Co., Missouri. According to 1910 census m. Mattie (b. 1886), daughters Frances and Pearl (my wife's Great Grandmother b. 1909). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ryan

Jackson County Historical Society 1859 Jail, Marshal's Home & Museum 217 North Main Street, Independence, Missouri 816-252-1892 http://ourworld.cs.com/historicjails/index.htm?f=fs In 1859, construction was completed on the new Jackson County Jail and Marshal's Home. As the twelve new limestone jail cells were opened hostilities between free state and pro-slavery forces were reaching a boiling point in the area. In 1854, Congress had passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which opened the Kansas Territory to settlement. The act provided for popular sovereignty in determining the issue of slavery. The result of this act was violent guerilla fighting which terrorized local populations on both sides of the Missouri and Kansas lines as abolitionists poured into the Kansas Territory. In Jackson County, the Battles of Independence and Lone Jack in 1862 ended in Confederate victories. The state of Missouri was held in the union by military force even though the elected Governor and legislators had voted to secede from the Union. In Jackson County old grudges erupted between families and neighbor turned against neighbor. Women and children were arrested and placed in the 1859 Jail now under the command of the Union Provost Marshals nicknamed the "Little Gods" for the power they had over the population. When the Jail overflowed with the residents of Jackson County, other buildings were used as jails. One of those buildings collapsed and several young girls were killed. Historians believe that this action resulted in the raid on Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. The raid resulted in the infamous Order No. 11 being issued which depopulated Jackson County as well as other counties along the Kansas-Missouri border. The enforcement of this order resulted in terrible hardships for the residents, many women and children had to walk to Texas or Kentucky. Many were killed in the act of obeying the order, Union and Southern families alike. Many families never returned to Jackson County after the war. Independence artist George Caleb Bingham captured their misery on canvas (and another copy was painted on a tablecloth). He later produced an engraving of the painting and sold signed, numbered copies of "Martial Law." One of his signed proofs is on display at the 1859 Jail, Marshal's Home and Museum. Reproductions are available for sale. Decades after the war ended in Missouri, the citizens of Jackson county felt the lingering bitterness and uncertainty of that great conflict. Out of these tumultuous times rode Missouri's most notorious outlaws. Outlaws like the James boys and Youngers used the remaining animosities from the outrages of the war to stay a step ahead of the law for nearly twenty years. In the spring of 1882, Jesse James was murdered. His older brother, Frank, began negotiations with the Missouri governor to surrender because he feared assassination. Frank James spent almost six months in the Jackson County limestone jail. In 1901, a brick jail was added to the back of the limestone jail to house chain gangs. Chain gangs were used to build roads, sewers and other tasks assigned them. They left six days a week at sunrise and returned at sunset. One inmate spent a year on the chain gang for stealing a cow. You can see the Marshal's home from Main Street, but the two-story limestone jail and the 1901 chain gang jail joins the rear of the home. Take a self-guided tour of the jail and museum for a first hand look at frontier justice. Tour the beautifully decorated home where the wife and children of the marshal lived. Guided tours are available upon request in advance. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com "A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Monday, September 20, 1897 GAMBLED WITH DEATH. The yellow fever epidemic in the South is a reminder of the terrible scourge that devastated that section, particularly along the Mississippi, in the fall of 1879. Hundreds died daily in New Orleans, Shreveport, Vicksburg and Memphis and, before the fever subsided with the advent of severe cold weather, the aggregate of victims amounted to many thousands. Two Kansas City physicians achieved fame and honors during that awful carnival of death. One was Dr. W. D. GENTRY, now in charge of the Montezuma hot springs, N.M. He went all through the scourged district and voluntarily attended to hundreds of cases. The other was Dr. R. R. HUNTER, then only recently graduated, who promptly responded to the call for physicians and went to Memphis when the epidemic was at its worst and stayed there till the end of the awful visitation. A pathetic case was that of a young Kansas City telegrapher named Charles M. CARR. It was just nineteen years ago this week when, after finishing his day's work in the Western Union main office here, he heard a statement coming in on the Associated Press report saying that there was a great scarcity of telegraphers in the stricken region, many having left and others having fallen at their posts of duty. At Vicksburg it is said there was only one operator on duty and he was working nineteen hours out of twenty-four. One hundred and fifty dollars per month and expenses were offered to volunteers. CARR was about 35, a mild, blue-eyed, fair-haired fellow, with a streak of recklessness in his composition. "I guess I'll go down there," he said to some companions in front of the telegraph office that evening. "That salary," he added, "is twice as much as I'm getting here and when I come back I'll have money to throw at the birds." Then he invited his listeners to a saloon nearby where before leaving, they shook dice for the drinks. In three throws, CARR made five aces which inspired him with courage, and he observed that it was an omen of good luck and that he was not afraid now to even gamble with death. "Good bye, boys," he said, "if I lose, come down some day to where I am buried and plant a flower on my grave." The next morning's train to St. Louis carried CARR and when he got there he received instructions to report at Vicksburg, as the only telegrapher that was left there would be apt to give out at any moment, and the city would be wholly without communication with the outside world, railway trains having ceased running. CARR took passage on a boat and was dropped off at Vicksburg. The operator in charge had been seized with the pestilence only two hours before CARR's arrival, but undismayed, CARR went to work at once and sent and received messages by the score, indulging occasionally in yellow fever witticisms over the wire with the boys in the St. Louis office. His meals were sent to him and he slept in the office. He put in about eighteen hours a day at the wire, with hardly a let-up. At the end of the third day, along about midnight, with a faltering hand he said to St. Louis: "Guess I'm at the end of my rope; the yellow devil has me at last. I feel like -------------" and there the sentence abruptly broke off, and the rest of that night Vicksburg was called in vain. Another volunteer reported there the next day and, in the press report received that night, occurred this paragraph: "There were nineteen deaths to-day, among them C. M. CARR, a telegrapher from Kansas City, who came here recently. He was found dead in the office, evidently having fallen from his chair while sending a message and suffered the most agonizing convulsions." One of CARR's Kansas City friends visited Vicksburg a few years later. He went over to the cemetery where were buried the victims of the saffron scourge. On the crest of a hill were graves marked only by pine boards. Near a magnolia tree he finally found his friend's last resting place, marked with only this inscription: "C.M. CARR of Kansas City." Poor CARR had gambled with death and lost! ====================================================== (I have no connection with these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

BRADY, COOK, HOFFMAN "The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Thursday, July 2, 1914 WOMEN MOBBED A SALESMAN. Charles HOFFMAN, salesman for a patent sadiron that was very sad, indeed, made the great mistake yesterday. He went back over territory that he had already canvassed. Then things began to happen. News of the near riot went by telephone to police headquarters on the Kansas side yesterday afternoon. In a house near Fifth Street and Rowland Avenue, James COOK, motor cycle patrolman, found HOFFMAN held captive by twenty-five indignant housewives. More were on the way, as COOK could readily observe. The telephone had summoned the neighborhood. From the answers, COOK gathered that HOFFMAN had sold an iron which he represented could be heated by carbon and would retain the heat an hour. "But it stays hot only about two minutes," said one woman, flourishing her purchase. "And to think I gave him $3.40 for it. Here, see for yourself." Thereupon the iron was heated and the woman attempted to iron a shirtwaist. The iron went cold and the waist looked like a venerable ruin. COOK rescued HOFFMAN from the women and took him to police headquarters. Sixty women by the count, half of them bearing purchases, appeared against HOFFMAN in the Kansas side police court this morning. Judge BRADY fined HOFFMAN $25 and sentenced him to three months in jail. ====================================================== (I have no connection with these people but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

Regarding the article about Walter who "BURNED HIS EYES OUT" and his sister Nellie: I was contacted by Nellie's granddaughter! She said that Walter did not go blind. He went on to own the Powers Printing Company in Kansas City. Nellie married and lived in Overland Park, Kansas (about 20 miles south of Kansas City). She and her husband moved to California where Nellie died in Huntington Beach. John > >"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Wednesday, August 25, 1897 > > > >BURNED HIS EYES OUT. > > > >Walter POWERS and his sister Nellie, 9 and 8 years old, visited > >their grandmother, Mrs. S. A. FRYBERGER, yesterday at > >2700 Mersington avenue, and were left alone in the house while > >the grandmother went to sing and pray with the prisoners in the > >county jail. > > > >On a top shelf of a sideboard in the dining room was a bottle full > >of powder. Little Walter climbed up and got it and he and his little > >sister went into the yard to play with it. They dug a hole in the > >ground under a peach tree and poured in some powder and > >covered it with loose dirt. Walter struck a match, bent over the > >mine and touched it off. The flame and dirt puffed up into his eyes, > >singeing the flesh and filling his eyes with dirt. He screamed with > >pain and was totally blinded. Little Nellie started with him for their > >home, twenty-one blocks away. She led him by the hand and held > >a fan before his face to shade his blistered eyes from the hot sun. > > > >The doctor who is attending little Walter says he thinks the child's > >eyesight has been destroyed. Walter is a son of F. G. POWERS > >of 2736 Woodland avenue. > > > >====================================================== > > (I have no connection with this family but I'd appreciate > > knowing if you found this posting helpful.) > > johnobrien@kc.rr.com > >======================================================

WHAT A TERRIBLE STORY...KIDS HAVEN'T CHANGED MUCH THOUGHT HAVE THEY.

BAAZE, BAEHR, CARPENTER, CUNNINGHAM, JOHNSON, LANDES, MAHONEY, MASUEIO, MILLER, PHILPOTT, SHIELDS "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Wednesday, October 9, 1907 BURIAL PERMITS. James MAHONEY, 2338 Terrace, October 6, age 26 Helen PHILPOTT, City hospital, October 6, age 54 James T. CUNNINGHAM, 1326 East 19th, October 6, age 4 Axel JOHNSON, St. Luke's hospital, October 6, age 40 Jennie CARPENTER, 223 East 26th, October 6, age 53 Joseph BAEHR, 720 Lydia, October 5, age 78 E. BAAZE, 1715 Broadway, October 7, age 56 Verna E. LANDES, 525 Chestnut, October 7, age 19 Patrick J. SHIELDS, 710 Penn, October 5, age 45 James M. MILLER, 1512 McGee, October 6, age 46 Joe MASUEIO, 533 Troost, October 7, age 1 Note: these are not all deaths for the period. Deaths were published when reported. ( I do not have obits for these people.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

GIANCARELLI, GILBERT, HUNT, JONES, LOUELL, MABERRY, MASUCH, MILLER, PLUMMER, SIMMONS, SMITHSON. THORNTON, WILLSON "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Tuesday, October 10, 1907 BURIAL PERMITS. Bernard MILLER, 1422 Central, October 5, age 64 Labin B. PLUMMER, 616 Cypress, October 4, age 50 Annie LOUELL, 528 N. Prospect, October 2, age 49 Giuseppie GIANCARELLI, 506 Harrison, October 5, age 52 Levi WILLSON, City hospital, October 4, age 32 B. SMITHSON, St. Luke's hospital, October 3, age 71 Mary E. HUNT, 3028 Wabash, October 3, age 63 Sadie GILBERT, University hospital, October 4, age 48 Amelia T. MASUCH, University hospital, October 4, age 70 B. F. THORNTON, 1213 Virginia, October 4, age 43 Laurece E. JONES, 1750 W. Prospect, October 4, age 1 William SIMMONS, 206 Clinton place, October 3, age 73 Oat MABERRY, City hospital, October 4, age 26 Note: these are not all deaths for the period. Deaths were published when reported. ( I do not have obits for these people.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================

BENSON, BUEHLER, CANDLE, COSTELLO, EWING, GIVENS, KELLY, LANDIS, LENTELL, OGDEN, PHILLIPS, STOTT, WARD, WHITE "The Kansas City Journal" (Missouri) Sunday, October 6, 1907 BURIAL PERMITS. David EWING, City hospital, October 2, age 48 Neomi PHILLIPS, German hospital, October 3, age 27 Mary A. KELLY, 1707 Prospect, October 2, age 61 Catherine STOTT, 3023 Montgall, October 3, age 83 Mary COSTELLO, 12th and Washington, October 4, age 50 David WHITE, City hospital, October 2, age 55 Effie WARD, W & C hospital, October 3, age 25 Thomas BENSON, Coe's hospital, October 3, age 66 Sam LANDIS, City hospital, October 2, age 63 Sam F. LENTELL, University hospital, October 2, age 19 John R. GIVENS, 1605 Montgall, October 1, age 55 Frederick BUEHLER, 18th and Cherry, October 4, age 61 E. J. OGDEN, 431 West 13th, October 3, age 82 Edward CANDLE, 554 Cherry, October 2, age 18 Note: these are not all deaths for the period. Deaths were published when reported. ( I do not have obits for these people.) ====================================================== (I have no connection with any of these families but I'd appreciate knowing if you found this posting helpful.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================