Yes, I am interested. Please send me any files about or connected to the Swopes. Thanks once again. Louise Swopes Hill -----Original Message----- From: RAILSELLER@aol.com <RAILSELLER@aol.com> To: MOMERCER-L@rootsweb.com <MOMERCER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:39 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. > >