Hello, I have been looking for the death date of Elijah Maness for many years. This last week I stumbled across it by accident. I was actually looking at the Jefferson Democrat microfilm in the year 1892 for someone else’s obituary. I never found the obituary I was originally looking for, however, my eye caught sight of another familiar name. My husband is a direct descendant of Elijah Maness. “Elijah Maness, one of the oldest citizens of the County died at the residence of George Merseal, near Frumet on the 29th, of May, 1892. He was born Sept. 11th, 1811. He was married three times, and raised quite a large family. Several years ago he had a stroke of paralyses, and since then he has been almost helpless. He was for years a member of the Methodist church. His remains was interred in the Methodist Cemetery at Richwoods Mo.” Source: Jefferson Democrat, Hillsboro, Missouri; June 9, 1892; page 3, column 3. By the way Elijah was actually married four times. Richwoods is in Washington County, Missouri. Just wanted to share!! Christine Merseal --------------------------------- Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.

Congratulations! It's such a joy to find stuff like that, isn't it? Sharon Texas -----Original Message----- From: mojeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:mojeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Christine Merseal Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 8:21 PM To: mailing list Subject: [MOJEFFER] Found Elijah Maness' death date! Hello, I have been looking for the death date of Elijah Maness for many years. This last week I stumbled across it by accident. I was actually looking at the Jefferson Democrat microfilm in the year 1892 for someone else's obituary. I never found the obituary I was originally looking for, however, my eye caught sight of another familiar name. My husband is a direct descendant of Elijah Maness. "Elijah Maness, one of the oldest citizens of the County died at the residence of George Merseal, near Frumet on the 29th, of May, 1892. He was born Sept. 11th, 1811. He was married three times, and raised quite a large family. Several years ago he had a stroke of paralyses, and since then he has been almost helpless. He was for years a member of the Methodist church. His remains was interred in the Methodist Cemetery at Richwoods Mo." Source: Jefferson Democrat, Hillsboro, Missouri; June 9, 1892; page 3, column 3. By the way Elijah was actually married four times. Richwoods is in Washington County, Missouri. Just wanted to share!! Christine Merseal --------------------------------- Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Congrats & Awesome find! :) LaDonna -------------------------------- LaDonna Garner, CG(SM) www.LeafSeeker.com Certified Genealogist(SM) and CG(SM) are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists(R)used here under license.