Nancy, Try this addy for the cemeteries http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/taney/cem_index.htm I didn't see any MORRIS listed http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/taney/taney.html Brian Shay on 9/2/02 5:24 PM Nancy Boyd typeth: > Vonda: > > I had the page bookmarked for Taney Co. the one that had the cemeteries, > marriages and Tornado links on it. I keep getting page not found. Has the > page been pulled or the link changed? > > I needed to look up a buriel in Bethel/Lindsey Cemetery. > > At least someone might be able to help. > > I believe it was the Bethel Cemetery I found a John Morris and Susan Morris > buried next to each other. I know John has no dates but Susan did and I need > her info. > > Nancy M. Boyd > Help Fight Spam > http://members.hostedscripts.com/antispam.html > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.268 / Virus Database: 140 - Release Date: 8/7/2001 > >

Vonda: I had the page bookmarked for Taney Co. the one that had the cemeteries, marriages and Tornado links on it. I keep getting page not found. Has the page been pulled or the link changed? I needed to look up a buriel in Bethel/Lindsey Cemetery. At least someone might be able to help. I believe it was the Bethel Cemetery I found a John Morris and Susan Morris buried next to each other. I know John has no dates but Susan did and I need her info. Nancy M. Boyd Help Fight Spam http://members.hostedscripts.com/antispam.html Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.268 / Virus Database: 140 - Release Date: 8/7/2001

Have you looked at Ancestry.com? They have tons of census info. Adrienne ----- Original Message ----- From: Grnd5@aol.com To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] more new stuff I need help to find a web site for buying cd censuses, I bought some at one time, but have lost the web address. Thanks in advance for your help. Wanda King Cook, Berry, Norman, Cassidy ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== "Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."-C. Lindbergh, "Is Civilization Prgress?" Jul 1964 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Whom ever is researching Cook Berry Cassidy and Norman Line. I am interested in the Cassidy line, if I have not been in contact with you before Barb in OK >From: Joy <beatsme@netins.net> >Reply-To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com >To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] more new stuff >Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:33:23 -0500 > >Which ones do you want? Heritage quest has some - but not all. >Many are available on Ebay (alot of used ones that are just fine) > >Grnd5@aol.com wrote: > >>I need help to find a web site for buying cd censuses, I bought some at >>one time, but have lost the web address. >>Thanks in advance for your help. >> >>Wanda King >> >>Cook, Berry, Norman, Cassidy >> >> >>==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== >>"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an >>indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of >>divinity to matter."-C. Lindbergh, "Is Civilization Prgress?" Jul 1964 >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >>go to: >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> >> > > > >==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== >"A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual >with amnesia."--David C. McCullough, "LA Times," 23 Apr 1978 > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

Thanks all for your help Wanda King

I need help to find a web site for buying cd censuses, I bought some at one time, but have lost the web address. Thanks in advance for your help. Wanda King Cook, Berry, Norman, Cassidy

Well, I knew I should've just asked first, but I "shore" enjoyed the past 24 hours going through the new listings for the cems I did. McCoy...I guess I didn't realize that Martin Fisher and Peggy would be buried there, else I didn't realize the cem was located in the right area. <<sigh>> So much to do...so little mind to deal with it...<BG> THANKS! Vonda ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~vondak/

Try Heritage Quest heritagequest.com Grnd5@aol.com wrote: > I need help to find a web site for buying cd censuses, I bought some at one > time, but have lost the web address. > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Wanda King > > Cook, Berry, Norman, Cassidy > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."-C. Lindbergh, "Is Civilization Prgress?" Jul 1964 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Wanda, I've always had great luck with S-K Publications http://www.SKcensus.com Nancy > >I need help to find a web site for buying cd censuses, I bought some at one > >time, but have lost the web address. > >Thanks in advance for your help. > > > >Wanda King > > > >Cook, Berry, Norman, Cassidy

Which ones do you want? Heritage quest has some - but not all. Many are available on Ebay (alot of used ones that are just fine) Grnd5@aol.com wrote: >I need help to find a web site for buying cd censuses, I bought some at one >time, but have lost the web address. >Thanks in advance for your help. > >Wanda King > >Cook, Berry, Norman, Cassidy > > >==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== >"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter."-C. Lindbergh, "Is Civilization Prgress?" Jul 1964 > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Good Morning! Due to a Meadows family story, I'm investigating Martin Fisher Melton and his wife, Margaret Ann "Peggy" Bilyeu. Their daughter Allie md Robert Alexander "Old Bob" Meadows, shortly after the Civil War. Now, I'm updating my database through the Christian Co. cemeteries sites (Brenda, GREAT JOB!), and going through all the cems to fill in gaps I have. I have Martin Fisher as dying in 1870, near Bradleyville in Taney Co. Peggy died in 1908, in Ozark. I don't have burials for either of them. I KNOW Allie Melton Meadows has a stone at Meadows Cem, near Bluff. According to what I've been told--and all of you know how I feel about family stories--when she died in 1914, supposedly some of Old Bob's sibs, etc., wouldn't let her be buried at Meadows, so she was taken to a Native American burial ground off Indian Point in Stone Co. This story claims Allie was Osage. I was also told that Old Bob buried her, but she's listed as a widow in the 1900 Taney census, and I have him dying in 1895 (no dates on his stone at Meadows, which is a military stone) Now, y'all know I believe that the Bilyeus are/were Cherokee, and I suspect some NA in the Meltons, although I can't verify either, nor the Meltons' particular kind. I do know of a NA burial ground off Indian Point, which was not removed when Table Rock was impounded. So I'm investigating, listing possible burials if I can't find the people elsewhere. And guess what? While I've checked Selmore, Prospect, both Highlandville cems, Linden, and Jones/Chastain, I've not found Martin Fisher & Peggy. Are they unmarked at Meadows? Surely someone knows? Vonda ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~vondak/

Pat, The information for John and Ruth Ann Coggburn Stephens' marriage came from the 1870 census; as well as mortalities, those who'd been married less than a year from the date of census had to be recorded by the census taker. That source should be listed at my GEDCOM, too (3rd link below my signature). Since those records before 1885 are gone, unless someone has a copy of the license tucked into a family Bible somewhere, there's probably no way of knowing how many marriages Thomas actually performed. One collateral line of my family had a lay minister who performed marriages, and I guess they've got a list which he kept in a book. (I've not seen it) Which is one big reason why old books are worth going through, even if they aren't worth much money-wise. Lots of people stuck important family papers in them. V ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~vondak/

Hey, howdy! I've been a busy girl today; y'all can see the changes, again, at the WRV website. There's some new stuff on the Taney site, particularly--I've added links from the "Maps & Townships" to the "Towns & Post Offices", that sort of thing. <<whew...>> It's the blond one's 12th birthday, and I've got a dinner date! V ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~vondak/

Way to go ... This is what its all about helping each other... and sharing the finds... never know when it might help you in your own tree..caroljane -----Original Message----- From: POGMOTHOIN824@aol.com <POGMOTHOIN824@aol.com> To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, August 26, 2002 9:48 AM Subject: [MOTANEY] Bull family just sharing >this is Justine I am new to this group and genealogy so I don't know any of >you but I had to share this with someone I was so excited. I got a manila >envelope in the mail from OK, hadn't the foggiest who or what it could be and >to my surprise it was copies of pages from a book called standard history of >Kansas and kansans written in 1918. with these copies was a message saying I >heard you were researching and thought these might help. needless to say >through the family grapevine she heard this and i now have about 10 pages of >the bull history to pour over but it seems to go back to about 1600 or >earlier. I was thrilled since I couldn't even find my g-grandparents anywhere >on that side. I guess persistence, patience, asking questions of anyone >who'll listen and some luck just got me a mother load. where frustration was >setting in I now have excitement and enthusiasm this is all because I joined >this group and told my aunt about it, yippee! I'll stop babbling good hunting >to all of you. Jus > > >==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== >"Life here is not just where we're going, but where we come from."--Dick Solomon, "3rd Rock from the Sun" > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Vonda: Thanks for sending along that gem of a story. It has been forwarded several time to family. Pat Stevens

Wonder if you posted your query to the wrong list, Gayle. There is no Maple Grove Cem. listed in the 7 volumes indexing Taney Co. cemeteries, and appears the only Sylvania in Missouri is in Dade Co. -----Original Message----- From: gayle [mailto:gayle1@wheatstate.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 3:59 AM To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MOTANEY] Maple Grove Cemetery help needed My uncle, Hiram P. Forshey is buried at Maple Grove Cem, Sylvania. Is there anyone that lives nearby or has access to records that can tell me if his wife Charity Ann is buried there as well, and her dates or any other family members. Hiram was survived by a son, George D. Forshey. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks! Gayle ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== "A society that wants to build the future must know its past, its real past, as it was."--Anatoly Rybakov, NY Times, 31 Oct 1986 ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Too good to not pass on... Sunday Afternoon Rocking The Gift of Living History (from the Sunday Afternoon Rocking series) Malissa looked up from the garden and pushed a strand of hair from her sweaty face. "Where's Jim?", Nate hollered, drawing his horse up and ignoring the cries of the children welcoming their uncle. Malissa blinked and Nate did not bother awaiting an answer…of course Jim was down pasture. He galloped off and Malissa stood with her hands on her hips and a feeling of alarm. Her alarm was well grounded, for Nate had come with a warning. War had entered their homeland… and nothing would be the same again. Tonight she and Jim would bury the six place settings of family silver and the few coins they had to their name. They would bury the silver teapot that had come over the mountains with Jim's grandparents. Tonight they would convince their twelve-year-old son to wear a dress and a bonnet. Tonight they would warn their children to stay close. They would hide away food provisions. And in the days that followed they would cringe at the sound of the cannon fire. Folks would drop by and speak to Jim in whispered tones. Finally Jim would arm a gun for Malissa and one for himself, he would remind her what they had planned in case of trouble, and he would ride off with his brother. And when that was over, the nightmare would just have begun…and it was not even the armies themselves to fear, but the drifters who took advantage of a war ravaged country. And when that fear had abated, the carpetbaggers would come… I do not know that this scene ever took place, but it might have, might well have. For my family lived so close to a battlefield that my grandfather was able to tell me of his own grandparents telling him of it, of the sound of the cannon fire, of the dark days afterward. He would stretch a hand toward me, and uncurl his fingers to reveal a mini ball, and as I sat rolling it in my own smaller palms, he would talk of those days he did not remember, but the scar of which was firmly imprinted on his memory of those who did. All too often, all I have of my ancestors is the paperwork that prove they existed, if I am lucky a tombstone, sometimes a living memory link, but no more than a wisp… And so I look at the time frames they lived in, and where they were, and try to visualize a scene that was likely to have taken place, a word that was likely to have been spoken, a worry that had to have been carried on a heart. Maybe you do the same. It has occurred to me often to wish there were diaries, journals, something to tell me what they witnessed, what they lived through, what they remembered… but there is nothing like that. There are letters of a grandfather and a great grandmother, and the telegram they received telling them a brother and son had been killed in the first World War..there are his letters… I touch these, read them, feel the emotion…and wish for all of the stories of the past…the Confederate soldiers I know were there, the Revolutionary soldiers, the natives and the native fighters…that there were words on paper, words written by them. The act of pursuing genealogy, ancestors, has made history live for me, and just knowing they were in a place I have read of, a part of an event I have memorized in a class, has been thrilling. None of my ancestors were important enough to have been documented in history, none of them made great names for themselves, none of them were anything more than the common people who made up the backdrop for history to unfold. And all of them were the quiet characters on the stage that gave the scene the energy and vitality to unfold. I can use that which is documented, and my imagination and fill in what might have been their thoughts and their fears, their dreams, their motivation. But oh to have it in their words! That would not change history, or give insight into the power bases that made history…but it would do something more. It would give a glimpse of what each event was to the common man and woman who lived in its time…and that is what most of our families are. My life is but a short strand in the long links that make up time, but my children think it amazing I remember when John Glenn took his historic flight around the earth. They think it amazing that my husband was a part of the blockade during the Cuban missile crisis. It came to me recently to make a list of all of the things I remember of historic importance. The Cuban missile crisis, fallout shelters and drills, the assassination of JFK, the clips on evening news of war zones in a tropical country… For such a short strand in time, it is amazing the list that unfolds. And for each of these times and events, I have written a short paragraph telling where I was, why it is that the moment is carved so poignantly in memory, what the words were I heard spoken about me, what the feeling was. My list is not so long ago, it seems to me. For my children, it makes history live. I wish my parents, my grandparents; all of my ancestors had done such a thing… It is not too late to begin. Such a simple idea…why did I never think to do it before? For Christmas, my children will receive a living legacy and a beginning. My mother, myself, my husband will list all of the events that shaped a nation and a world, and which we personally remember or were a part of as common people. We will write a bit about each time, and try to make our adult children feel the mood of the times, and see it as it was. And we will end this notebook with blank pages that they might begin the same such documentation to pass on to their own children. And…we hope…that between the five of them, at least some family lines will continue this tradition of making history a living thing. We will hope that at least some of our descendants will keep the tradition, and that for many, history will become a real and breathing thing, a link to the past…and a glimpse of a future should history repeat itself. And something more…a source of pride, a feeling of belonging to some great chain of events much longer and more meaningful than our own singular strand in it. We invite you to join us and do the same for your own family! 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In the 1880 census I found Thomas Stephens, 54, Minister, KY-VA-TN. Living with his family was nephew Andrew, 20, MO-KY-VA At the time I wondered if Thomas could be a brother to James D. Stephens, also born in KY and one year older that James, and Andrew possibly belonging to another brother (his Mother was born in VA. and James wife Sarah was born in MO). In Vonda's new information on the WRV site I found where Thomas A. Stephens was the minister to marry Samuel Knox and his new bride in 1885. Samuel Knox had been married to Barbara Elizabeth Coggburn, she died sometime before 1885. James D. Stephens' son, John J. Stephens married Ruthe Ann Coggburn, sister of Barbara Elizabeth Coggburn. Did Thomas A. Stephens just happen to be the friend or Minister of Samuel Knox or was he related through James and John Stephens? Vonda has the date of marriage for John J. Stephens and Ruthe Ann Coggburn on her site but I haven't been able to find that record. I would be interested in knowing if Thomas A. Stephens married them. Incidentally, on Samuel Knox's marriage record in 1885, Thomas signed his name Thomas A. Stevens. Stevens is also how the name was spelled on the gravestone of John J. although all of the records I have found had the name spelled Stephens. If anyone has any information on Thomas A. Stephens I would love to hear from them. I would love to be able to put this family together. Pat Stevens

My uncle, Hiram P. Forshey is buried at Maple Grove Cem, Sylvania. Is there anyone that lives nearby or has access to records that can tell me if his wife Charity Ann is buried there as well, and her dates or any other family members. Hiram was survived by a son, George D. Forshey. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks! Gayle

Justine, I'm so happy for your good fortune.....I know just how you feel. Those unexpected genealogy surprises are the stuff family researchers dream about. I forwarded your message to an ardent Bull family researcher, so you may be hearing from him......don't believe he has ancestors in this part of the country, but thought I'd give it a try. Welcome......good luck in your research! Nancy, researching, Doty/Warren/Stringer of MA/VA/NC/GA/MS McCormick/Dawkins/Carmichael of NC/SC/MS Garrett of SC/MS Robertson of NC/AL/MO Matthews/Jackson of IL/AL/MO/TX Cain/Garmon/Yancey of GA/TX ----- Original Message ----- From: <POGMOTHOIN824@aol.com> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 9:48 AM Subject: [MOTANEY] Bull family just sharing > this is Justine I am new to this group and genealogy so I don't know any of > you but I had to share this with someone I was so excited. I got a manila > envelope in the mail from OK, hadn't the foggiest who or what it could be and > to my surprise it was copies of pages from a book called standard history of > Kansas and kansans written in 1918. with these copies was a message saying I > heard you were researching and thought these might help. needless to say > through the family grapevine she heard this and i now have about 10 pages of > the bull history to pour over but it seems to go back to about 1600 or > earlier. I was thrilled since I couldn't even find my g-grandparents anywhere > on that side. I guess persistence, patience, asking questions of anyone > who'll listen and some luck just got me a mother load. where frustration was > setting in I now have excitement and enthusiasm this is all because I joined > this group and told my aunt about it, yippee! I'll stop babbling good hunting > to all of you. Jus > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "Life here is not just where we're going, but where we come from."--Dick Solomon, "3rd Rock from the Sun" > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >