> The Joplin Public Library has Carterville cemetery records...as well as > cemetery records of most of the other small towns in the county.... Also, don't overlook the library in Webb City. They have a very nice genealogy section in the basement, and I've found they're a real treasure trove - as I recall, they have a lot of local records (yearbooks, city directories) not available in Joplin. Also, I've been able to get information from them via email. Candy Cox

Carterville Cemetery records are very sketchy. The cemetery is nonendowed and the city of Carterville will have no information on it. Pat West is the caretaker of the cemetery and she can be reached by looking for Bob West in www.smartpages.com. If anyone has any trouble getting in touch with her, just send me an email and I will see what I can do. Renessa Lewis ----- Original Message ----- From: "susan lane" <sbowen2@midsouth.rr.com> To: <MOJASPER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] Carterville > Thank you Candace for all the information. It has been most helpful. I had a > lot of folks in that part of Missouri but I know very little about it. Susan > Lane in Memphis > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Candace Cox <ccox@carolina.rr.com> > To: <MOJASPER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 10:51 AM > Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] Carterville > > > > > I want to thank those of you who helped me with the cemetery info. If > > > Cartervill Cemetery is a city cemetery, who would have a list of > burials? > > > Thanks, Susan > > > > If it is a city cemetery, which deparment houses the records will depend > on > > the city. In Joplin, it is the Parks and Recreation Department. > > Carterville is small enough that you could write the Town Clerk and I'm > sure > > your request would be forwarded to the correct department. > > > > Candy Cox > > > > > > >

Just wanted to thank you for sharing your memories with us. My grandparents lived in Picher and worked for Eagle Picher Mining. They moved from the Picher area after loosing a little girl. I to would like to see some of the old pictures. Maybe if they decide to flood the area they will donate the pictures to the closest library. Again thank you for sharing it brings back memories of stories my grandmother told. Carole Jennings Cravatt

Thank you Candace for all the information. It has been most helpful. I had a lot of folks in that part of Missouri but I know very little about it. Susan Lane in Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: Candace Cox <ccox@carolina.rr.com> To: <MOJASPER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] Carterville > > I want to thank those of you who helped me with the cemetery info. If > > Cartervill Cemetery is a city cemetery, who would have a list of burials? > > Thanks, Susan > > If it is a city cemetery, which deparment houses the records will depend on > the city. In Joplin, it is the Parks and Recreation Department. > Carterville is small enough that you could write the Town Clerk and I'm sure > your request would be forwarded to the correct department. > > Candy Cox > > >

Susan, Yes, the cemetery is still there. I am researching my daughter's in-laws. Her father in-law, Matt Wood is buried there in a unmarked grave. If anyone has any information about him. I would deeply appreciate it. Thanks, Toni Roush > > > > Susan , My name is Harley Lusher, My Great Grandfather was buried in > Carterville Cemetery. Also a lot of his children and other relatives, but > in > 1949, My great-grandmother had them all removed and brought to Kansas City, > > and buried in Green Lawn Cemetery. That is all that I know about the > Cemetery. I dont know if this helps you or not but It is or was there at > one > time. Harley > >

Susan , My name is Harley Lusher, My Great Grandfather was buried in Carterville Cemetery. Also a lot of his children and other relatives, but in 1949, My great-grandmother had them all removed and brought to Kansas City, and buried in Green Lawn Cemetery. That is all that I know about the Cemetery. I dont know if this helps you or not but It is or was there at one time. Harley

The Joplin Public Library has Carterville cemetery records...as well as cemetery records of most of the other small towns in the county.... > >Susan, >I have been to the Carterville Cemetery. It is not off the beaten path, >and >it's quite large and maintained. I don't know if a book has been compiled >of burials there, but it may be a city cemetery. If that's the case, the >city would have rcords of the burials. > >Candy Cox > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "susan lane" <sbowen2@midsouth.rr.com> >To: <MOJASPER-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 8:38 PM >Subject: [MOJASPER] Carterville Cemetery > > > > Does anyone on this list have a book of cemeteries? I have found two >people > > buried in Carterville and think there may be others. Is this cemetery >off > > the beaten track? It is not even listed on the Jasper County web site. > > Thanks for any info. Susan > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

I would like to clarify that this was written by my father and I just typed and mailed it for him. ----- Original Message ----- From: "LBonstein" <LBonstein@msn.com> To: <MOJASPER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 10:05 PM Subject: [MOJASPER] re: Rob Roy Ratcliff > After reading your story concerning Picher, Oklahoma, I wish to tell you my expiernces there. > > My grandfather, Charlie Charboneau, was a lead, zinc, and jack miner for the Eagle Picher Mining company. You made mention of there being photos of the miners gathered in front of the mine shafts and was wondering how I could get some of the photos. > > I remember my grandad enjoying playing the violin, but before playing he would light a fire outside to scare off the mosquitoes. After a hard day at the mines he would come home and this would be the family entertainment. > > My brother and I were orphaned at a very young age. We went to live with my grandparents, Charlie and Sarah Charboneau. > > My brother and I would climb the chat piles from the mines and would gather copper and anything else we could find to help pay the grocery bill. I remember a small Mom & Pop grocery store burning to the ground and and leaving canned goods which was taken home for us to eat. Also my brother had a little steam engine that ran on alcohol and when we exausted the fuel for it we hooked it up to a treadle sewing machine. > > We lived close to the mine. One day my brother and I were sent to the store. On the way home while we were walking across the slush pond gates and I fell in. It was a very good feeling when someone grabbed me by the hair and pulled me out. Occassionaly they would open the gates and let the slush pond drain out into the streets. > > My grandmother would on occassion send us over to the blacksmith shop for small steel shavings, which she would put in vinegar, let it soak and then drink it. Never did know why she did it. > > Your letter stirred some of my memories of living in Picher and wanted to share some of my boyhood memories in this 91 years of my life. > > Please if anyone has photos of my grandad, Charlie Charboneau at the mines I would greatly like to be able to see them. > >

I want to thank those of you who helped me with the cemetery info. If Cartervill Cemetery is a city cemetery, who would have a list of burials? Thanks, Susan

After reading your story concerning Picher, Oklahoma, I wish to tell you my expiernces there. My grandfather, Charlie Charboneau, was a lead, zinc, and jack miner for the Eagle Picher Mining company. You made mention of there being photos of the miners gathered in front of the mine shafts and was wondering how I could get some of the photos. I remember my grandad enjoying playing the violin, but before playing he would light a fire outside to scare off the mosquitoes. After a hard day at the mines he would come home and this would be the family entertainment. My brother and I were orphaned at a very young age. We went to live with my grandparents, Charlie and Sarah Charboneau. My brother and I would climb the chat piles from the mines and would gather copper and anything else we could find to help pay the grocery bill. I remember a small Mom & Pop grocery store burning to the ground and and leaving canned goods which was taken home for us to eat. Also my brother had a little steam engine that ran on alcohol and when we exausted the fuel for it we hooked it up to a treadle sewing machine. We lived close to the mine. One day my brother and I were sent to the store. On the way home while we were walking across the slush pond gates and I fell in. It was a very good feeling when someone grabbed me by the hair and pulled me out. Occassionaly they would open the gates and let the slush pond drain out into the streets. My grandmother would on occassion send us over to the blacksmith shop for small steel shavings, which she would put in vinegar, let it soak and then drink it. Never did know why she did it. Your letter stirred some of my memories of living in Picher and wanted to share some of my boyhood memories in this 91 years of my life. Please if anyone has photos of my grandad, Charlie Charboneau at the mines I would greatly like to be able to see them.

I was at Carterville Cemetery this summer.It is a large well kept cemetery.It's not off the beaten path.There is a caretaker (volunteer) but when we were there we couldn't find them.NJ

Susan, I have been to the Carterville Cemetery. It is not off the beaten path, and it's quite large and maintained. I don't know if a book has been compiled of burials there, but it may be a city cemetery. If that's the case, the city would have rcords of the burials. Candy Cox ----- Original Message ----- From: "susan lane" <sbowen2@midsouth.rr.com> To: <MOJASPER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 8:38 PM Subject: [MOJASPER] Carterville Cemetery > Does anyone on this list have a book of cemeteries? I have found two people > buried in Carterville and think there may be others. Is this cemetery off > the beaten track? It is not even listed on the Jasper County web site. > Thanks for any info. Susan >

Does anyone on this list have a book of cemeteries? I have found two people buried in Carterville and think there may be others. Is this cemetery off the beaten track? It is not even listed on the Jasper County web site. Thanks for any info. Susan

There were some alarm buttons pressed last May when this list noted a front page story in the Washington (DC) Post which described the lingering effects of lead poisoning in the lead and zinc mine areas of OK and MO. Readers reacted, many with concerns about what it meant to their health. A new "alarm" was struck last night in Ted Koppel's "Nightline" program on the ABC TV network as he reported on the plight of nearby Picher OK. After spending millions of dollars to clean up the area, there are now plans to buy-out residents and abandon the entire city and flooding it. The program interviewed residents who held pro and con views. There were pictures of the "chat" (tailing) piles of residue from the abandoned mines that are evident throughout the Jasper County area. There were tales of playing on them, swimming in the water-filled mine holes, cave-ins, use of the tailings in road building, home foundations, cement, etc. All reflect the memories of my growing up in Webb City and similar scenes throughout Jasper Co. Did you see it? Photos of miners gathered in front of a mine shafts were shown. Some dated as recently as the 1940's. So many messages on this list have asked about ancestors who worked in the mines--many of whom may have been around only a short time, moving on as the mines closed. Many of the communities in this county and the surrounding area were literally "towns that Jack (lead and zinc) built." Webb City was a "boom" town. A lighted sign across a main street read : "Webb City MO, The Zinc City." Then in 1918, according to a history of the city, the greatest ore strike in the Tri-State (MO, KS, OK) area was discovered in OK. Similar to the "gold rushes" we've read about and seen in the movies, miners flocked to the OK mines--so fast that many mines in the Webb City area closed "in a matter of hours." Miners reportedly abandoned their tools and machinery which became covered with water and lie in the abandoned tunnels that are scattered underneath the city and surrounding areas. Have studies been conducted in Jasper County similar to those in Picher OK? Certainly the "boom and bust" aspects of the mines left their mark on the county and must be considered as we research the travels of our ancestors who lived in this area. But what effects did residence there have on their health? And what about the health of those still living in the county? Has this been studied and discussed locally?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Long Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1MB.2ACI/1931 Message Board Post: I am trying to find out about my gggrandfather Elmer E. Long and gggrandmother Annie Jane Young. What I know so far is that Elmer was born April 19, 1866 m.Annie Dec. 1888 in Crawford, KS d.Feb 18 1920. Annie was born Jan 21, 1867 and d.Nov 15, 1941. I am trying to find out who their parents were and how they ended up in Missouri. I know that They were buried in Anderson, Mo. I am also trying to locate info on my ggrandfather Daniel Leroy Long b. Sept. 11, 1889 d. Mar 20, 1969. He was married to Emma Goldie Braezeale and had two children, my grandfather and my great uncle. I can't seem to locate any info on there marriage. I do know that they were divorced at some point and Emma moved to California and Daniel remarried. Daniel is buried in Joplin, Mo. I am trying to look this info up for my grandfather and any help is greatly appriciated. I am new to this and don't know how or where to start.

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I am searching for any information about Hiram C. and Vincy Fenton. They lived in Jasper Co., he died in Jan. 1888, don't know about burial or where Vincy died. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you,Bernice. (G-grandparents)

----- Original Message ----- From: Tyler Spence <tylerspens@snowcrest.net> To: <mojasper-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:23 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} Fern Coe > Redding -- Fern Overlees > Coe, 91, of Redding died Fri- > day, Feb. 22, 2002, at Kirk- > wood Residential Care Center > in Redding. > Private family services > were conducted. > Born Nov. 13, 1910, In Jo- > plin,Mo., she moved to Shasta > County in 1999 from Capitola. > She was a secretary for > Luyster Motors in Glen Cove, > N.Y., a member of the Ameri- > can Red Cross and the Rebe- > kah Lodge. > Survivors include husband > William Jr.; sons William III > of Key West, Fla.; daughters > Jane Laind of New York City > and Jill Hadsell of Palo Cedro; > and three grandchildren. > Arrangements are being > handled by Allen & Daahl Fu- > neral Chapel in Palo Cedro. > > Taken from the Record > Searchlight, Redding, CA.

I am searching for any descendants or information on the Samuel B. Craig family. His children were Mary e. born 1856 John W. born 1857 William W. born 1858 Susan Rebecca born 1860 Leonard A born 1863 James W. born 1865 George C born 1867 Thomas W born 1870 Ida A born 1871 Willis P. born 1876 Some or all of these folks lived in Jasper county, some in Joplin. I would appreciate any information whatsoever on any of these people. Some of the men worked the mines. Susan Lane