Jerry, I get the Trenton Rep. Times and get hold of some distant cousins, Stottlemyres, Persells, McCulloughs Batson's and the like, thank you for your service to us and others. Janet Sister in Christ Cousins in Genealogy, For GOD so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:16-179:26 Researching surnames: Batson, McCullough, Stottlemyre, Long, Banyai, Rasmussen, Hansen, Repase(i), Baker, Minshall, Fiveash, Morris, Kimball, Abney, Keaster, Hufford, Summers, Vestal, Canady, Treat and Charleton. ----- Original Message ----- From: <RAILSELLER@aol.com> To: <MOMERCER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:33 PM Subject: [MOMERCER-L] Obituary's Week Of December 10th > Hello List > > I don't know if this would be of any use to the list but have an idea. Do any > of you have family or extended family living in Mercer County? Would you be > interested in the Obits. in the weekly papers of Mercer, Grundy and Harrison > Co., Missouri with Mercer County connections? > > I will give you abbreviated information here and send files to those who > request it in private e-mails. This way I won't be clogging up the list with > unwanted information. If you don't want me to do this just let me know. I > don't want to create extra mail for you to go through if you don't want it. > Please vote to the list and lets see what the majority of you think. > > Week of Dec. 10th > > 1. Raymond Bain b. 1912 father Cyrenus Roscoe Bain b. 1869 mother Mary > Lawrence grandparents Levi "Peter and Harriet (Linville) Bain my file 18 > pages of ancestors > > 2. Nellie Elizabeth Berndt b. 1913 married Newell Wright Beavers; father > William Berndt b. 1888 mother Susanna Vinzant grandparents Earnest A. and > Elizabeth (McDougal) Berndt and Stephen and Nancy (Yingling) Vinzant. My > file of ancestors is 70 pages > > 3. Corky Neff b. 1935 in Galt, Missouri married Frances Cunningham, daughter > of William and Bessie (Swopes) Cunningham of Mercer County. I have 33 pages > of her ancestors. > > 4. Winton Ballew b. 1913 married Vesta Hamilton, father John H. Ballew; > mother Loretta Pittman; granparents Benjamin and Elizabeth (Lyons) Ballew. I > don't have the Pitman ancestors, do any of you? My file of Ballew ancestors > is 12 pages. > > Mercer County has two newspapers. I would suggest you subscribe to "The > Mirror" Post Office Box 557 Mercer, Missouri 64661 660-382-4204 $24.00 per > year. Jennie Vertrees (past President of the Mercer Co., Missouri Gen. Soc.) > writes a very interesting column (half page usually) on the county history > and other things of our past. Randi Ferguson an officer or past officer of > the Mercer Co., Missouri Gen. Soc. is on staff and sees to it that the Obits. > contain the information we need for family history. > > Jerry Jones > > > ==== MOMERCER Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message with only the word "unsubscribe" to MOMERCER-L-request@rootsweb.com. > > >