This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HMB.2ACE/1192.2 Message Board Post: I have been looking for Elizabeth Bowen's family, and found she was related to Fanny Simmons daughter of John Simmons who died in California in Apr. 1888, married to Elizabeth Brown in 1841. Son of James Simmons and Purry Warbleton married in Mar 1797. Son of John Simmons Jr. and Ruth Craig. That is where my search has stalled. I am looking at the records of the revolutionary war for John Simmons Jr. Can anyone help.

As many of you know, I am a volunteer for the RANDOM ACTS OF GENEALOGICAL KINDNESS website http://www.raogk.org/listing.htm If you are not a volunteer for your area or an area where you have resources available, please consider becoming a part of this great service. If you have ever asked for a lookup anywhere, anytime, this is your chance to GIVE BACK to those who need your help with resources that you can provide. Just last week, we received a picture of my husband's great grandmother's grave.... he and his family have never seen it because it is in a different part of the country... she died on route to someplace else. I know you know the thrill it was for us to see something for the first time. Without that RAOGK volunteer, we would still be planning on a long trip to that county. Each month, as volunteers, we get a RAOGK newsletter. I got the following message on the RAOGK newsletter tonight, and thought it was worth passing on.... WE GET MESSAGES A disgruntled cemetery employee has apparently been offended by genealogical researchers and volunteers. The anonymous person has posted a few messages to our Guestbook "Thank You" area and also sent a private message to the site. I don't know whether this person is singling out RAOGK volunteers/researchers specifically or all genealogical researchers and volunteers. Here is an example of the complaints we received: "The genealogy hobby has really placed a strain on cemetery and funeral home offices. Sites such as this one, are compounding the problem. You'd be surprised how many "volunteers" are coming in from websites (such as yours) and wanting info, and wanting it now. It's becoming quite overwhelming. Maybe you should consider putting in a paragraph about having respect for the office workers and realizing they may not be able to drop everything to assist the info seekers." I have faith that none of you has done anything to cause this reaction on the part of the cemetery/funeral home employee. This is just a general reminder to always be courteous and to remember that not everyone is understanding of our eagerness in hunting our ancestors. Sometimes, in our excitement to be in our ancestral homeland, we forget that not everyone is as excited as we are, that we 'have come home'.. Whereever, and whenever you travel to those important ancestral places, please remember to bring your best manners with you. Consideration is always a welcome, and honey will get you far more than vinegar. I don't know who this person was that wrote this note, I don't know if they just had a very bad day, or what?? But I DO know that most genealogists are kind, considerate, and lovely people to be around. It's those bad apples that give the rest of us a bad name or reputation. Let's do our part this year to go overboard in extending our sincere appreciation and patience with those who are working with the stuff we would give our eyeteeth to get our hands on... afterall, it's their WORK, it's our LOVE!! Go the extra mile in return this year, let's do our part in putting a smile back on the faces of those who we need to contact for our research. Let's be more than kind.. let's treat them as we would want to be treated!! Let's be the examples so that when the workers hear the words 'genealogists' or 'family historians', instead of them saying, "AAGHH Genealogists", they will say, "AH, Genealogists!" Happy New Year! Lanita Sconce Miller Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!

Please advise me on how to go about finding information for the following: Preston MAGUFFY, in the 1880 census was shown to be 30 yrs of age. (B. 1850 in Tenn). I known his sons, George and William grew up on Polk County. I would like to find where Preston and his wife, Martha A. are buried. Please check various spellings of McGuffee. I am assuming he lived to be around 70 so he would have died in the 1920s or 30s. ANY SUGGESTIONS???? Please help. Thank you. Sheila

I found this online, and found it very informative. My thanks to this group for posting this in an effort to learn about our forefathers and foremothers. This information was collected as a part of the research done by the 25th Continental Regiment, a living history group. The regiment re-creates an American unit from 1776 that fought in the American Revolution. HOW THE SOLDIERS COOKED: We drew a day's ration of beef and flour, what was called a pound of each. The flour, perhaps, was not far from its nominal weight, but the beef was, as it always was in such cases, and indeed in all others in the army, not more than three fourths of a pound, and that, at the best, half bone. And how was it cooked? Why as it usually was when we had no cooking utensils with us, - that is, the flour was laid upon a flat stone and scorched on one side, while the beef was broiling on a stick in the fire. This was the common way of cookery when on the marches, and we could get anything to cook, and this was the mode at the time mentioned. After I had satisfied my hunger, I lay down upon the ground and slept... Private Joseph Plumb Martin, 1777 We arrived at Valley Forge in the evening ... I lay here two nights and one day and had not a morsel of anything to eat all the time, save half of a small pumpkin, which I cooked by placing it upon a rock, the skin side uppermost, and making a fire upon it. Private Joseph Plumb Martin, 1777 F[riday] 16 to T[hursday] 29. very Cold indeed / we git sum wheat that is [in] bags below ware we go after wood and burn it wich makith very good Coffe and selling sum of our thing we git sum money & so we have once in a while Sum Caffe. Private Jeremiah Greenman, February, 1776 [At the siege of Yorktown, Sarah Osborne] took her stand just back of the American tents, say about a mile from the town, and busied herself washing, mending, and cooking for the soldiers, in which she was assisted by the other females ... cooked and carried in beef, and bread, and coffee (in a gallon pot) to the soldiers in the entrenchment. Sarah Osborne, 1781 ************* RECIPES OF THE 18th CENTURY AND THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD: At home, families in America cooked following the recipes handed down to them, or from English recipe books. The first American cookbook was not published until 1796, but English cookbooks had been re-printed in America before then. Breakfast Recipes: Indian Slapjacks One quart of milk, 1 pint of indian [corn] meal, 4 eggs, 4 spoons of flour, little salt, beat together, baked on griddles, or fry in a dry pan, or baked in a pan which has been rub'd with suet, lard or butter. Amelia Simmons, 1796 To make fried Toasts Chip a manchet [ a round loaf of fine bread] very well, and cut it roundways into toasts; then take cream and eight eggs, season'd with sack, sugar, and nutmeg; and let these toasts steep in it about an hour; then fry them in sweet butter, serve them up with plain melted butter, or with butter, sack and sugar, as you please. Eliza Smith, 1758 Meat Recipes: To broil Stakes When you have a very clear brisk fire, make your gridiron very clean, put some hot coals from the fire into a chafing dish, and place a dish over them, in order to receive your stakes when ready; take rump-stakes, which should be about half an inch thick; after you have thrown over them a little pepper and salt, place them on the gridiron, and do not turn them till that side be done; when you have turned them you will soon perceive a fine gravy laying on the upper part of the stake, which you must carefully preserve by taking the when ready warily from your gridiron, and placing them on the dish: Then covering the dish, send them hot to the table with the cover on. Some before they take the stake from the gridiron, cut into the dish a shalot or two, or a fine onion, and a little vinegar. Eliza Smith, 1758 To mumble Rabbits and Chickens Put into the bellies of your rabbits, or chickens, some parsley, an onion, and the liver; set it over the fire in the stew-pan with as much water mixed with a little salt as will cover them; when they are half boiled take them out, and shred the parsley, liver, and onion; tear the flesh from the bones of the rabbit in small flakes, and put it into the stew-pot again with a very little of the liquor it was boiled in, a pint of white-wine, some gravy, half a pound or more of butter, some grated nutmeg; when tis enough, shake in a little flour, and thicken it with butter. Serve it on snippets [pieces of toasted bread]. Eliza Smith, 1758 To stew a Rump of Beef Season your rump of beef with two nutmegs, some pepper and salt, and lay the fat side downward in your stew-pan; put to it a quarter of a pint of vinegar, a pint of claret, three pints of water, three whole onions stuck with a few cloves, and a bunch of sweet-herbs; cover it close, and let it stew over a gentle fire four or five hours; scum off the fat from the liquor. Lay your meat on sippets, and pour your liquor over it. Garnish your dish with scalded greens. Eliza Smith, 1758 Vegtable Recipes: To stew Cucumbers Pare twelve cucumbers, slice them as for eating, put them to drain, and lay them in a coarse cloth until they are dry; flour them, and fry them brown in butter; then put in some gravy, a little claret, some pepper, cloves, mace, and let them stew a little; them roll a bit of butter in flour, and toss them up; put them under mutton or lamb roasted. Eliza Smith, 1758 To dress Carrots. Scrape them very clean, and when the water boils, put them into your pot or sauce-pan; if they are young spring carrots, they will be boiled in a half an hour, but if large they will require an hour. Take them out, slice them into a plate, and pour over them melted butter. Eliza Smith, 1758 To dress Potatoes Put your potatoes into the sauce-pan with a proper quantity of water; and when they are enough, which may be known by their skins beginning to crack, drain al the water from them, and let them stand close covered up for two or three minutes; then peel them, plate them in a plate, and pour over them a proper quantity of melted butter: Or after you have peeled them, lay them on a gridiron, and, when they are of a fine brown, send them to table. Or you may cut them into slices, fry them in butter,and season them with pepper and salt. Eliza Smith, 1758 Dessert Recipes: Plain Cake. Three quarters of a pound of sugar, 1 pound of butter, and 6 eggs work'd into 1 pound of flour. [Bake in a loaf pan at 325 degrees F. for 75-80 minutes.] Amelia Simmons, 1796 A Nice Indian Pudding. No. 1. 3 pints scalded milk, 7 spoons fine Indian meal, stir well together while hot, let stand till cooled; add 7 eggs, half a pound of raisins, 4 ounces butter, spice and sugar, bake one and half hour. No. 2. 3 pints scalded milk to one pint meal salted; cool, add 2 eggs, 4 ounces butter, sugar or molasses and spice q.s. [quantum sufficit - as much as suffices] it will require two and half hours baking. Amelia Simmons, 1796 Apple Pastries to fry. Pare and quarter apples, and boil them in sugar and water, and a stick of cinnamon, and when tender, put in a little white wine, the juice of a lemon, a piece of fresh butter, and a little ambergrease or orange-flower water; stir all together, and when it is cold put it in a puff-paste and fry them. Eliza Smith, 1758 Puff Paste for Tarts. No. 5. One pound flour, three fourths of a pound of butter, beat well. Amelia Simmons, 1796 http://members.aol.com/Srlohnes/recipe.html Happy Holidays to you and yours! Lanita Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!

I am dumbstruck at the generosity of one whom I have helped this year. Check this message to me out: "Lanita, I have transcribed Monthly Meeting enteries on the Maxsons, Stanbery, Duly, Miller and others who came from NJ to PA. FHL 0017351  Hicksite Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting Minutes FHL 0017348  Rahway/Plainfield  Mens Month Meetings (alternating) So this is my Christmas present to all the people who helped me make the progress so far on the group of associated families.  I had hoped to be completely done but .... Let me know if you would like this file and what format you use.  I could also paste it into an email as well. Mike Miller" I have to tell you, that I have run across one very self centered, rude 'researcher' this week, and was taken back by his selfishness, and lack of generosity and manners... to receive this email today from someone else who offers to give so generously, just tells me that the bozo that refused to share and limited his info, wasn't a nice person, and not a true family historian.. This got me thinking... is there something that I can do for those who have helped me this year, genealogically speaking?? My wheels are turning..... and I hope to repay this and other researchers by being a true example of a genealogist.. how about you?? To all who have helped me on this list, I thank you!! To all who have become my friends, my leg work in the area, my eyes, ears, and fingers.... I thank you! May your Christmas and new year, be filled with brickwalls blasted away with the gain of many many new friends and cousins to meet. Happy Holidays Cousins!!! Lanita Sconce Miller Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morgan Family Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HMB.2ACE/1224.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the information on the Morgan Family. I am related to Lester & Connie Arnold, Lester Arnold's grandmother Cora Morgan Arnold is related to my Great Grandmother Loretta Morgan Maddy. The Morgan's that you gave me is related to William Jasper Morgan, who is Loretta's brother. Thanks for all you help, and have a Merry Christmas Joanie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HMB.2ACE/1224.1 Message Board Post: Fouts Cemetery also known as Ankron Cemetery located in Mooney Twp., Polk County, Missouri. (Polk County Cemetery 2002 Books) line 19. Morgan no dates line 20. Morgan no dates line 21. Morgan, Charles, Mar. 18, 1815-Mar. 15, 1878 line 22. Morgan, Hannah M., 1858-1943 line 23. Mordan, Oby, Feb. 26, 1893-July 18, 1911 line 24. Morgan, Orlando E., Sept. 29, 1877- Aug. 3, 1908 line 25. Morgan, Susan H., Apr. 7, 1826-Dec. 29, 1881 line 26. Morgan, W. Jasper, 1853-1926

Lanita: Wm C Cavin Oct 18,1818- Nov 5, 1901 Union Grove Cemetery There are two Union Grove Cemeteries, # 1 and # 2 . Source: Polk Co Cemetery Directory (1979) Polk Co Historical Society. Good Luck. R B

I assume the W. B. is the same as your William B. He is the one buried next to Herley Cavin. Linda

Linda, My mistake!! My Wm. C. is the dates given.. the Wm. B. dates [also at Union Grove] are: 20 Oct 1837 - 13 Feb 1895... Just to make sure.. do you show a Wm. B. with 1837-1895? Happy Holidays! Lanita Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!

The Polk County Cemetery book lists him with the dates you gave. I am not sure who read the cemetery for the book. I have an old reading and have seen his grave. His stone says-- William C. Cavin, Oct. 18, 1818--Nov. 5, 1901. Age 83 yrs 17 dys. He is in row 19 of the old part of the cemetery between Omer L Hankins and Herley S Cavin who was the son of W.M.&M.E. Cavin. Herley's dates are Nov. 7, 1894-Sept. 10, 1895. W. B. Cavin is buried next to Herley. His dates are 1837-1895. I notice you have William B and William C dates the same. Linda

Linda, What is your source on William C. being buried at Union Grove... we didn't find him there.. we had a William B. CAVIN [1818-1901] there but not Wm. C.?? Happy Holidays! Lanita Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!

He is buried in Union Grove. Linda

Okay, here's another one I need help with cemetery info. I have a William Clinton CAVIN [1818-1901], and there is a conflict on where he is buried. Some ssay Burdett Cavin Cem., others say Union Grove Cem. in Polk Co. Could someone please do a lookup on this one, PLEASE!!! Happy Holidays! Lanita Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!

The books will be finished sometime in 2004. We are working hard to get them done. They will have about 700 family histories in them and they are going to be worth the wait. Please be patient, it is a long, detailed process in order to make them as correct as possible. You can always go to the PCGS website for updates. Bunny Jones ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

Ready Yet? My daughter ordered one for me for Mother's Day. Appreciate an update. Thanks. Connie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Caplinger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [MOPOLK] History Book > I was in Bolivar a couple of weeks ago and stopped > into the Polk County Genealogical Society to check on > it. I was told they were in the process of > proofreading. I believe very soon they will be > sending it to the printer. Then the printer will > prepare it for printing. Once the printer has it > prepared for printing they will send a final proof to > the genealogical society for approval and any final > proofreading. I was told it will be close to the end > of the year before it is ready. > > I am very anxious to get it also. > > --- lanita miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > You probably have talked about this over and over, > > but since I have > > just resubscribed, please be patient with me.. > > > > What is the status of the History Book that is in > > the process of being > > published? I have a 99 year old father in law that > > is anxious to get it. > > > > > > Lanita Sconce Miller > > Wichita, KS > > > > > > For information on my families, check out my > > website: > > www.lanitasloft.com > > > > Am I the only person up my tree... sure seems like > > it. > > > > > > > > ==== MOPOLK Mailing List ==== > > Contact listowner: [email protected] > > > > Please change the subject line when the subject > > changes > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > http://search.yahoo.com > > > ==== MOPOLK Mailing List ==== > Please snip all of the previous message, leave just enough to let everyone know what you are responding to. Thanks! > >

NO, haven't tried Greene yet... Thanks for checking!! Happy Holidays! Lanita Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!

Not in Polk, have you tried Greene?

HELP!!!! Hubby has what we believe to be a distant cousin, and she has sent us a stone pic of J. M. CAVIN [Jan 14, 1846 - Nov. 15, 1931] and Mary A. WOOD, his wife, [June 7, 1854 - Mar 24, 1916] 'in a cemetery in Missouri". Trouble is, she doesn't know WHERE!! We believe that this J.M. CAVIN is Joseph M. CAVIN, son of Joseph CAVIN and Hannah KEAL/KEELE, who are buried at Burdette Cavin Cemetery in Polk Co.. The cemetery is definitely not that one, but it looks very much like either KIRK Cem. in Dallas Co., or perhaps one of the ones in Polk Co. Could someone please do a lookup for us, and see if these two are listed in any cemetery in the county?? THANKS so much!! Happy Holidays! Lanita Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!

I talked with Laura HOFFER at Pitts Funeral Home in Bolivar. She tells me the following: "Our records go back to deaths in October of 1928 thru today....I put them in a data base (all by myself!) when we first got the computer 5 years ago!  I can search  by deceased name, surname or first; mother's name; father's name, social security #, and cemetery.  I have printed out a lot of cemetery sorts, so that people can see who we have buried in a particular cemetery." To contact Laura [an ex cousin of mine by marriage], email her at: [email protected] Happy Holidays! Lanita Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall!