This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mcwasthere Surnames: Dunn, Brannon, Frick Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2243/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Please change the lookup below to Hugh Smith Dunn to Wildie or Alwilda Frick around 1904-1906. I just found where she was married to Frick before she married Dunn. Thank you. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mcwasthere Surnames: Dunn, Brannon Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2242/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I need a lookup for a marriage that may have occurred in New Madrid around 1904-1906--Hugh Smith Dunn to ___ Brannon. The bride's first name was listed as Wildie in a census, and an online tree has her listed as Alwilda. Thank you. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ThomasChronister Surnames: Asa Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2241/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am looking for someone who knows John Jefferson Asa 1863 -1936. His daughter was Florence Virginia Asa married to Gilbert Abraham Harden. He had a brother James R Asa who lived around Canalou. I am trying to obtain information about their father Hugh Asa 1828 - 1890. Any help would be appreciated. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mgold4419 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2238.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My Mom used to tell us stories about the panthers,in and around Gideon where she was born she was really a good story teller could make them come alive for us kids {Scary to}after the stave mill closed they moved to Canalou and then to East Prairie Mo.where she married my Dad George Lafe Morris Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I came across a website for Saint Louis-San Francisco Railway. They have an employee database that you can search in. This helped me with my New Madrid family history. http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/frisco/frisco.cfm On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:11 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: nelda3168 > Surnames: Tinker > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2240/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > My husbands Great, Grandfather was a Railroad Section Foreman and he lived > in Parma, New Madrid County, Missouri. I have no idea where to look for any > records or other information on which Railroad he would have worked for. > Would like to find out as much as I can. He was born 1867 and died 1929, so > it would have been during these years. Would appreciate any info I could > get. Thank you! > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would > like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and > respond on the board. > > > > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact > "Don E. Wright" [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: nelda3168 Surnames: Tinker Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2240/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My husbands Great, Grandfather was a Railroad Section Foreman and he lived in Parma, New Madrid County, Missouri. I have no idea where to look for any records or other information on which Railroad he would have worked for. Would like to find out as much as I can. He was born 1867 and died 1929, so it would have been during these years. Would appreciate any info I could get. Thank you! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: bddown_1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2235.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have a copy of New Madrid Co Marriages 1847-74. Did not find Stith and America, but found: Sargent Jones to Sidney C. Shy 2 Nov 1875 by L.W. Powell, Min. Gospel. Rec'd. 17 Nov 1873 Samuel Coleman to Rebecca Shy 26 July 1857 by Benj. F. Boyce Justice Co Court. Rec'd 10 Oct 1857. Robert Shy to Sidney Hart 12 Nov 1857 by Frederick C. Butler, Justice Co Ct. Rec'd 11 Nove 1857 (Appears that Sidney Hart m/1 Robert Shy, m/2 Sargent Jones.) 1850 New Madrid Co Mortality Schedule: Cebron Shy 41/44? male, md. b. Tn. farmer, d. Nov accident. 1860 New Madrid Co Mortality Schedule: Samuel Shy 55 male, md, Tn.,farmer, d. Apr. pneumonia. 7days Online I found: America Angeline Shy m/1 Stith Chappell, m/2 Joel Scott d. 4 Dec 1910 Lesterville, Reynolds Co Mo, age 71. 1880 census Lesterville, Reynolds, Mo: Joe Scott 41 farmer Tn Tn Tn America A. 41 Mo Tn Ky Mary J. Scott 8 Mo Tn Mo Cora B. Chappell 19 Mo MO Mo Eller S. Chappell 17 Mo Mo Mo Stith C. Chappell 15 Mo MO Mo Hope some of this is helpful. [email protected] Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: mzscott1131 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/935.3.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Benjamine Rooker Sr died more than 4 years ago(not exactly sure of the year but I moved in 2005 and he wasn't alive then. Ruby Rooker is alive. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: DonMartinThomas Surnames: Frampton - Lynch - Mann - Woods Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2239/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Is there a tombstone of a Ephraim M. Frampton who supposedly died in New Madrid County, Missouri in 1880? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I am a Shy descendant of New Madrid. By the way, for anyone with an interest in New Madrid genealogy, the 1994 book, "Pioneers of New Madrid and Related Families," which contains a data base name index of 29 pages, has just been released on CD. For further information, after January 1, you may go to my web site: www.marysueanton.com. I am away for the Christmas season but would be happy to answer specific questions about the Shy family later in January. Mary Sue Anton, author of "New Madrid: A Mississippi River Town in History and Legend, released in May 2009."

Dear Listers, I'm wondering if anyone can point me to any good sources to look for some missing ancestors. I have a family that migrated from Wayne County IL to New Madrid sometime around 1875. Most of them show up in the 1880 census but several of the children are missing and I'm wondering if they perhaps died or something else. I'm looking for an Marion WILSON born Illinois in 1867. I am told he often went by the name of "Fudge" so I suspect that he lived but cannot find any record of him. His parents died en route and so the children I do find were living with other families as hired help. I'm also looking for his brother Albert WILSON born IL 1863. Another Wilson child, Marvilla, married Nathaniel Richard Cole in Illinois and her family arrived in tact in New Madrid as I find them in the 1880 census. However, I cannot find where two of her children went: Sheridan COLE (b. 1872 IL) and Sherman COLE (b. 1875 KY). Did they marry in New Madrid or go off somewhere else. I cannot find them in any census after 1880. Thanks in advance for any help or direction. Happy holidays! Rick Wilson New York, NY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: PeggyRiggsKopp Surnames: WELLS Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2238.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Sherry, thank you for this information. It adds to the abundance of historical data for the area around Sikeston and surrounding SE Missouri that has been brought to my attention. All of it is truly appreciated. Oh, how I wish I had the opportunity to discuss details with my mother, who has long ago past on. What an adventurous childhood she must have had! Peggy Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sherrie25 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2234.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have a copy of the New Madrid County Cemetery Inscriptions by Jane Vann & Vera Ashley written 1985. None of your names are listed. However, the book only seems to cover found headstones and does not list Memorial Cemetery at all so it is possible they could still be buried in New Madrid County. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: sherrie25 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2238.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I don't know when the "wild" animals were driven away by the increasing human population in the area but there was an article printed in the Sikeston Herald on 2/10/1949 by Agatha W. Parks entitled "Town of Canalou Was Named By Pioneer Railroad Builder Louis Houck". The article is quite lengthy but a few sentences are as follows: In 1904...."wild and woolly in those days..." and "The timber was very thick and vast areas of wild cane was found in abundance. Various kinds of wild animals such as deer, bear, wolves, and wildcats lurked about in this dense forest." I know my ggrandmother's family moved to Canalou c.1900 and I was told that she remembered her mother crying all the way there (from Warrick County Indiana) because she didn't want to live in such a "wild" place. A stave mill was built in the local area in 1906 because there was such an abundance of timber. Apparently the mill was a big reason why many people came to the area. By 1925 most of the timber usable for staves had been exhausted and the mill closed down. My mother was born there in 1927 and she remembers mostly farmland. Certainly sounds like it's quite possible your mother's childhood memory was based on fact although that "panther" could have been a bobcat as well. They used to be quite numerous in the southern portion of the state and were frequently shot by farmers. Their numbers are currently between 10,000-18,000 statewide. Supposedly the last known wild native mountain lion in Missouri was killed in 1927. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Mary, thank you for responding. I am amazed to hear of big cats as late as 1940, especially near a populated area! I have checked to see if any of my WELLS and RIGGS lines might have been in Greene and Scott counties in IL, but have not yet found a connection. Peggy [email protected] wrote: > I was born in Scott County, IL in 1940. I remember as a small child > that for about 3 or 4 nights we heard the cry/scream of a big > cat......and we lived in the town of Winchester. I have cousins by > the name of Wells and they lived around Roodhouse, Greene Co., IL. > Their father was Irvin Elam Wells. There also were Riggs in > Winchester, Scott Co., IL. Mary (Cowhick) Tuxhorn

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: PeggyRiggsKopp Surnames: WELLS, RIGGS Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2238/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dear List - I am trying to pinpoint the location of my WELLS family's legend which possibly took place in an area of southeastern Missouri. There would have been a cabin situated amongst tall grasses where panthers roamed. The time frame of this legend would have been 1912-18. Scott County, 1911, is the last documented area where my grandfather, Edwin Finley WELLS, and his family lived but to date I've not found any reference to panthers and tall grasses in that area. The family previously would have lived in New Madrid County where their last two children were born. My mother, Daisy (WELLS) RIGGS, born there in 1910, related her terror when panthers got on the roof and tried to get down the chimney when she was "real little". Her older sister, Ada, spotted the tail of a panther in the tall grasses and her father shot it. Can anyone tell me of an area in southeastern Missouri where this may have occurred? Peggy RIGGS Kopp [email protected] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~peggyriggs... Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

I was born in Scott County, IL in 1940. I remember as a small child that for about 3 or 4 nights we heard the cry/scream of a big cat......and we lived in the town of Winchester. I have cousins by the name of Wells and they lived around Roodhouse, Greene Co., IL. Their father was Irvin Elam Wells. There also were Riggs in Winchester, Scott Co., IL. Mary (Cowhick) Tuxhorn -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 3:25 pm Subject: [MONEWMAD] PANTHERS/TALL GRASSES This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: PeggyRiggsKopp urnames: WELLS, RIGGS lassification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/2238/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Dear List - I am trying to pinpoint the location of my WELLS family's legend which possibly ook place in an area of southeastern Missouri. There would have been a cabin ituated amongst tall grasses where panthers roamed. The time frame of this egend would have been 1912-18. Scott County, 1911, is the last documented area where my grandfather, Edwin inley WELLS, and his family lived but to date I've not found any reference to anthers and tall grasses in that area. The family previously would have lived in New Madrid County where their last two hildren were born. My mother, Daisy (WELLS) RIGGS, born there in 1910, related er terror when panthers got on the roof and tried to get down the chimney when he was "real little". Her older sister, Ada, spotted the tail of a panther in he tall grasses and her father shot it. Can anyone tell me of an area in southeastern Missouri where this may have ccurred? Peggy RIGGS Kopp [email protected] ttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~peggyriggs... Important Note: he author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like o reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond n the board. NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political nnouncements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. onsideration for exceptions, contact Don E. Wright" [email protected] ------------------------------- o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: watson22ontheroad Surnames: Ellis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/654.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I may have some information regarding John Ellis of New Madrid, Mo. Born 1840 died 1914. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: watson22ontheroad Surnames: Ellis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/654.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am researching the New Madrid Ellis family. Please contact me with any information. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: watson22ontheroad Surnames: Ellis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.newmadrid/654.2.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I may have information regarding John Ellis born 1840 died 1914 and lived in New Madrid, Mo. He was my great grandfather. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.