There is a new list available at Rootsweb for Missouri Cemeteries. The message I've been asked to forward is this-- >>Dear List Owner. I have started a new mailing list called MO-Cemeteries. It is a mailing list for anyone interested in locating, and preserving historical information about, Missouri cemeteries or sharing information about them. To subscribe to this list - have your members send the word subscribe to [email protected] or [email protected] for the digest form. I look forward to helping this list grow and become another tool for those researching in Missouri. Kathleen Burnett List Mom<< Like ALL Rootsweb lists, in order to post to the list, you'll need to remove the "-request" from the addy for your posts. You only use "-request" to sub and unsub. (It took me a while to figure that out myself when I started). I'm going to e Kathleen and ask her if she'd like links to the list from the "Cemetery Corner" on the WRV site. For now, you can cut and paste the links above. It would be an interesting thing... Vonda

A good Labor (free) Day to you! I've gotten several volunteers to get Bob Miley's notebooks into a database. This week, I have a book to get done for a family reunion, and a newsletter to get out for a different family. Some time within the next 2 weeks, I'll go to the library and get copies of pages to start sending them out to volunteers. In my own databases, I've set the columns/fields up to have one each for: Surname Maiden name (if shown--this column won't be used much) Given name Middle name or initial date of birth date of death Comments on stone Shared stone? With whom? These will end up being alphabetical by surname. I have the descriptions and locations of each cemetery. While I would like to put a search engine on the cems, I've not really checked into the "how to go about its". I am sure Rootsweb has such a thing, but I've not figured out how to do it. After managing to get the WRV/Cherokee site part of a webring, I'm sure I can figure it out....(not! LOL) But I promise to check into it... Y'all who are volunteering have no idea how much I appreciate it. If I was given a magic lamp to rub and ask for 3 wishes, the first one would be "I would like to either have a way to get more than 24 hours out of a day, or else I need 3 of me!" <shudder> I don't know if the world could stand it...There's so much to do and be done in life, I have never been able to understand how a person (including my kids) could possibly get bored... So many thanks and much appreciation from the bottom of my heart! If you would like to volunteer, email me personally--and be sure you include your snail mail! mailto:[email protected] Vonda

I have a question and am hoping someone can help me. If your maiden name is Lain and your current surname is Hickle, then would you sign Ideana Lain/Hickle or Ideana Hickle/Lain? Second question is, would it be proper if it was necessary to put your mother's maiden name on your name also? In other words, my mothers maiden name is York, would it be OK to sign a letter I am sending to her relatives, Ideana York/Lain/Hickle? I am hoping this is close enough to genealogy, that I don't get hate mail for asking this on a mail list. Please e-mail me privately, thanks. Ideana Hickle [email protected]

When you go to the Snapps Cem. please look for Berry Ellisons graveside? Would very much appreciate it. Has it ever been transcribed for online? If it is too much trouble that's OK. Bonnie

Howdy! Bonnie wrote-- > Has it ever been transcribed for online? < Bob Miley, who should have a statue made of him for all he's done for Taney County History (there are a few folks I can think of, actually), has graciously granted permission for us to put his transcriptions online. Problem is, I simply don't have time to go to the Forsyth Library, make copies of all his transcription notebooks (even a few pages at a time), and put them into an Access Database. I have a few transcriptions that I've done and Carol McMullin has done; it is simply a matter of time, and I'm getting bad at getting sidetracked (right at the moment, I'm trying to find my desk...). Access is fairly easy to use, and a webpage with Netscape Composer is so easy to design, even I can do them. I've considered asking the list something along the lines that Jo Dunne and the Stone Co. listers have done for the 1920 Stone Co. Census--if I made copies of the notebooks, separated the pages into a few "piles", and mailed them out to y'all, if some of you would volunteer the time to put them into Access. I have Bob's list of cems pretty much done in a webpage, but there are no transcriptions of them at the moment on the one I've got designed, and I'm trying to figure an easier way to work it. So I'll ask--If I go to the library and make copies of Bob's notebooks, would some of you volunteer to put them into Access or even a Works Database, save them on a floppy, and mail it back to me? I've even got hundreds of floppys (thanks to being married to a technogadgetjunkie LOL) that I can mail with the pages. The only other thing I'll ask is to NOT ask me to pick and choose cems. I realize it's more exciting to do the ones your people are buried in, but if volunteers will just jump in and get them done, it'll be amazing how soon they get done. I will put them in webs for the WRV/Taney page, much like the marriages are now, with a few tweaks for cems, as I get them back. And each volunteer will get credit for database transcription. I had hoped to get more accomplished this summer (I sound like my mother now...), but what's done is done, and I've got to go back to work in the next couple of weeks. Email me personally at mailto:[email protected] if you would like to volunteer for this project. Vonda

Dear list, I need detailed directions on how to get to the Snapps Cemetery at Forsyth, Missouri. All I know from the U.S. Geological map is that the cemetery is south of town and across a river. I live in Indiana and I may come and visit Branson, Missouri and visit the gravesite of my cousin, Ronald "Ronnie" Charles HIGGINS who is buried at Snapps Cemetery. Is there an office for the cemetery because I don't know where at in the cemetery my cousin is buried? He was married to Willene GLENN. I would like to contact her but I can't find her. Any help would be appreciated very much. Thank you. John W. PEGG

Diana, I am researching Medows (is this a variant of Meadows?, I would think so). My gg-grandmother was Martha Medows (this is the spelling on my grandfather's death certificate. Martha was married to Thomas N. Robbins (I do not know what the "N." stands for). I know they were in the state of Missouri when my Grandpa Walter Everett Robbins was born on May 4, 1884. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Anna ----- Original Message ----- From: "diana" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Meadows Cemetery > Dont be bogged down to Meadows on a local won. LOOK serioulsy at the > waterays. That how the loggers got their timber south and the mail up. > Doesnt mean where they were as long as the creek had access. > > Diana Craig...been runnin those hill for over 25 years! di > > > At 04:03 PM 08/29/2000 EDT, you wrote: > >OK all, I am going to be coming to Taney, Christian and St. Clair Counties > in > >mid Oct. I am trying very hard to assemble some type of agenda so I can > plan > >my time well. I want to visit Meadows Cemetery and could someone give me > >directions to Meadows cemetery from Springfield, MO. Want town is Meadows > >Cemetery actually in or close to? I would also like to visit Cupp Cemetery, > >is it close also to this area? > >Thanks, Ideana > > > > > >==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > > > > > > >============================== > >Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: > >Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at > >http://resources.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. >

Another url for you to check out is the SMSU Bull Shoals Field Station, which is located in southern Taney co. near the MO-AR state line is: http://www.cnas.smsu.edu/bullshoals/ Vonda

Howdy Y'all, I realized yesterday that I hadn't posted about Ozarks Celebration last weekend. I must be out of it, for I usually can't wait to do that, as you well know....LOL Despite having plans for 2 months to go with Greg and the kids, Greg ended up working and the kids ended up staying at Mom's. So I begged my sis-in-law, Sherri, and away we went, with no kids (we have 10 between the 2 of us) and no men hanging around. They had a shuttle taking you to the central area, but Sherri and I walked around the campus before going into the Student Union bldg at Southwest MO State, and seeing the exhibits. The White River Valley Historical Society and other groups all had tables with brochures and information. While most of them were Springfield/Greene Co.-oriented, it was good to get info and ideas of what is out there, period. Taney County and other counties of the WRV have so little... There were 3 bandstands, one in the Student Union, 2 outside. A lot of groups had 1 and 2 hour blocks to perform traditional songs and folk songs that I can listen to for hours. In one grounds area, there were tents displaying the crafters who made their own soap; leather goods; several crocheting, knitting, tatting and cloth weaving demonstrators; a couple of fellas from Civil War re-enactments with a soldier's tent, a couple of fires, and their own handmade sausage. They were rendering lard, which was given over to the soapmaker for her products. A man was there with a "portable" forge, crafting sconces and statuary out of iron for sale; although there wasn't a horse in site, you could "see" them and hear the horseshoes being pounded out (time-travel, you know!) Another fellow and his wife teach workshops on basketry, weapons making, medicinal and edible plants, and more. We were lucky to see the final 1/2 hour of a clogging group in the 3rd bandstand; although I guess I always knew, cloggers and square dancers have a language all their own, and it was interesting to see the dancers do certain moves in response to the caller. "Diving for oysters" and so on...I don't remember all of them. But knowing that dances happened frequently in the WRV, depending on the availability of a fiddle player and caller, made it doubly interesting. Some websites and mail addys from what brochures I brought home (if you want more info): Red Willow Primitive Skills is holding a rendezvous and knap-in in late Sep/early Oct near Neosho, in Newton Co. MO. Addy is mailto:[email protected] General Sweeney's Civil War Museum, located just north of Wilson's Creek National Battlefield. http://www.civilwarmuseum.com You can access the WRV Historical Society from the main page of the WRV site. Ozarks Studies, a department at SMSU, has a link under the "Rags, Scraps, and Patches" section of the WRV site. Historic Springfield, Inc., has a tour of Springfield's many historical places available. http://www.historicspringfield.org/ The Missouri Archaelogical Society has a site at http://web.missouri.edu/~asm/main.html The Greene County Historical Society is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~gcmohs/ We were there about 3 hours, in 100 degree or so heat--we're having one hot end to the summer, with temps in the high 90s now for over a week, and forecast to continue until next week, at least (with no rain in nearly a month). But I sure didn't notice the heat much while we were walking and talking to the exhibitors... Vonda

Ideana, Neither cem is in a town. I've discussed them before; Cupp Cemetery is just off South Hwy 65, on the west side of the road. It's the first road south of Bear Creek, which you'll go over. Old Meadows Cemetery is on a ridge above Bull Creek, some distance upstream from Walnut Shade. Walnut Shade is on Hwy 160, which is the first interchange south of Cupp Cemetery. (160/65) Go east from Hwy 65 on 160; you'll need to make a sharp turn left on Hwy 176 before you actually reach the buildings of Walnut Shade. You might want to drive thru Walnut Shade first, then turn around, to get an idea of what your people saw during those times (although there are considerably more houses now). Going N/NW on 176 from Walnut Shade, you'll travel on an old road bed that the Keithleys and other Walnut Shade families cut out in the late 1800s. There is still a big ranch on that plateau, which you continue to climb. The road to take to Bluff and Old Meadows Cemetery is called Round Mountain Drive off 176. It's kind of a weird intersection, for Goodnight Hollow road also meets Round Mtn. Drive there. You can take either one, because they meet up again down in the "holler", and you'll take a concrete low-water bridge over Bull Creek. Better check with the weather forecast, for you won't be able to cross the creek if we've gotten a lot of rain, as is typical for October. Bluff is a couple miles up this road, which meanders along with Bull Creek, slowly climbing a ridge which leads to the old School House and cemetery, which will be on your right. Impossible to miss. This road will continue on into Christian county, and you can come out over on H Hwy, which runs north of Forsyth to Chadwick (and is also an old wagon trail--I think it was the old Springfield-Harrison Road). Beautiful drive, even if the trees are past their changing with the seasons. Vonda

I can get you to Cupp cemetey too. Where all are ou needing to go and I can simply sraw you a map and place it in the mail? Hows that? diana (from Walnut Shade!) At 03:28 PM 08/29/2000, you wrote: >Dont be bogged down to Meadows on a local won. LOOK serioulsy at the >waterays. That how the loggers got their timber south and the mail up. >Doesnt mean where they were as long as the creek had access. > >Diana Craig...been runnin those hill for over 25 years! di > > >At 04:03 PM 08/29/2000 EDT, you wrote: >>OK all, I am going to be coming to Taney, Christian and St. Clair Counties >in >>mid Oct. I am trying very hard to assemble some type of agenda so I can >plan >>my time well. I want to visit Meadows Cemetery and could someone give me >>directions to Meadows cemetery from Springfield, MO. Want town is Meadows >>Cemetery actually in or close to? I would also like to visit Cupp Cemetery, >>is it close also to this area? >>Thanks, Ideana >> >> >>==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== >> >> >> >>============================== >>Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: >>Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at >>http://resources.rootsweb.com/ >> >> >> > > >==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. > > >

I will helpy in anyays I can chances are if your cahsing that group we ARE realted. Kee me posted on yur travel pnas. I wdo dhare infomation. di At 03:17 PM 08/29/2000, you wrote: >iF YOU LET ME KNOW WAY IN ADNVACE i WOULD BE HAPPY TO MEET YOU THERE AND >TAKE TO TO MY STOMPING Grojds. I know Cupp, Walnust Shade, etc. please >feel free to contact me individualy at [email protected] The forsyth library >has ny\e s\\eimail under the walnut Shade Missouri book from 3 years ago or >so. I canm always plave the children with their chrandchildren as they love >them so much! You roffer remains oppen but do let me know before >beauroracy takes hold of my schuling. >Id wuld be a delight! diana Craig > > >At 04:03 PM 08/29/2000 EDT, you wrote: >>OK all, I am going to be coming to Taney, Christian and St. Clair Counties >in >>mid Oct. I am trying very hard to assemble some type of agenda so I can >plan >>my time well. I want to visit Meadows Cemetery and could someone give me >>directions to Meadows cemetery from Springfield, MO. Want town is Meadows >>Cemetery actually in or close to? I would also like to visit Cupp Cemetery, >>is it close also to this area? >>Thanks, Ideana >> >> >>==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== >> >> >> >>============================== >>Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: >>Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at >>http://resources.rootsweb.com/ >> >> >> > > >==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: >Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at >http://resources.rootsweb.com/ > > >

Does anyone know if the Taney County Republican newspaper, 1900 era, is available on microfilm at any location in Taney County such as a library? Jere Braden

OK all, I am going to be coming to Taney, Christian and St. Clair Counties in mid Oct. I am trying very hard to assemble some type of agenda so I can plan my time well. I want to visit Meadows Cemetery and could someone give me directions to Meadows cemetery from Springfield, MO. Want town is Meadows Cemetery actually in or close to? I would also like to visit Cupp Cemetery, is it close also to this area? Thanks, Ideana

In a message dated 8/29/00 11:35:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Ideana, Isaac is aged 70, living with Nancy. Neither Sarah nor Simpson are in Taney. >> Vonda, are there no children with Isaac and Nancy? Just trying to figure why they moved to the Taney Co. area. Up till them, I don't know of any relatives living there and was pretty sure Simpson came later to Taney. I also have been told by numerous people that Isaac Cupp died in Keytesville, Chariton Co., MO abt. 1883. (course none of these people can produce a grave or headstone anywhere) So guess Isaac went back to Chariton Co. sometime after the 1880 census for Taney Co., as Isaac is listed in the 1880 census for Taney Co., MO. Too many puzzles for my little bity brain. Thanks for getting back to me. Ideana

Dont be bogged down to Meadows on a local won. LOOK serioulsy at the waterays. That how the loggers got their timber south and the mail up. Doesnt mean where they were as long as the creek had access. Diana Craig...been runnin those hill for over 25 years! di At 04:03 PM 08/29/2000 EDT, you wrote: >OK all, I am going to be coming to Taney, Christian and St. Clair Counties in >mid Oct. I am trying very hard to assemble some type of agenda so I can plan >my time well. I want to visit Meadows Cemetery and could someone give me >directions to Meadows cemetery from Springfield, MO. Want town is Meadows >Cemetery actually in or close to? I would also like to visit Cupp Cemetery, >is it close also to this area? >Thanks, Ideana > > >==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: >Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at >http://resources.rootsweb.com/ > > >

iF YOU LET ME KNOW WAY IN ADNVACE i WOULD BE HAPPY TO MEET YOU THERE AND TAKE TO TO MY STOMPING Grojds. I know Cupp, Walnust Shade, etc. please feel free to contact me individualy at [email protected] The forsyth library has ny\e s\\eimail under the walnut Shade Missouri book from 3 years ago or so. I canm always plave the children with their chrandchildren as they love them so much! You roffer remains oppen but do let me know before beauroracy takes hold of my schuling. Id wuld be a delight! diana Craig At 04:03 PM 08/29/2000 EDT, you wrote: >OK all, I am going to be coming to Taney, Christian and St. Clair Counties in >mid Oct. I am trying very hard to assemble some type of agenda so I can plan >my time well. I want to visit Meadows Cemetery and could someone give me >directions to Meadows cemetery from Springfield, MO. Want town is Meadows >Cemetery actually in or close to? I would also like to visit Cupp Cemetery, >is it close also to this area? >Thanks, Ideana > > >==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: >Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at >http://resources.rootsweb.com/ > > >

>Isaac Cupp with wives of Sarah Cupp and Nancy Bridges. He could be living with one or the other but suspect he is with Nancy and maybe Sarah Cupp might be by herself if she is even there. Also while you are looking can you see if there is a Simpson Cupp listed?< Ideana, Isaac is aged 70, living with Nancy. Neither Sarah nor Simpson are in Taney. Forgot to tell the Taney list...<shame on me!> You can get a list of Janice Looney's publications, which include the 1870 Taney Census, from the WRV homepage.... http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ I finally got it on there... Vonda

Does anyone have the 1870 census for Taney Co.? If so could you please look for an Isaac Cupp with wives of Sarah Cupp and Nancy Bridges. He could be living with one or the other but suspect he is with Nancy and maybe Sarah Cupp might be by herself if she is even there. Also while you are looking can you see if there is a Simpson Cupp listed? Thanks so much for any information you can find. Somebody's cousin, Ideana @->->>--- http://www.homestead.com/cupps/mygrandparents.html Hi Ho! Hi Ho! Now where did my ancestors go? Lain/Lane, Cupp, York, Zeiler, Hooper, McCollum, Dorrell, McDaniel

Hello List, Well got thru the J. A. Bilyeu problem. It was I. A. for Isaac Aaron Bilyeu. That is my great great grandfather which means Stephen and Fannie were my ggg grandparents and so and so on. Also, Peter W., my great grandpa, middle name was Wilkerson. So have lots of new stuff to absorb and see if all fits nicely. So far so good. No stumps or hills. (but sure to be just around the bend). Anyway, I was happy to see where I fit in........... Just thought you might like to know. Keep on huntin, turnin every stone, bugging people (that one was for Vonda, Jo and Mike) GRINZ. Cause if this old hillbilly can do it, you folks can too. P.S. Thanks to everyone that has taken me this far, without you all there would be no family. Warmest Smiles, Pama