Hey, Howdy! The Cemetery Committee for the White River Valley Historical Society is meeting at the Old Jail at 8 AM this Saturday, 17 Aug 2002, for a cemetery hop. We will be transcribing Forsyth Cemetery (attempted this last month, had an "emergency salvage" to do). Then we will be coming back to the old jail to continue work on plotting the Taney County Cemeteries, probably around 10 AM. All who live in the area are invited to join us for both activities. (We won't meet for breakfast, but I imagine a food stop could be arranged somewhere along the way, if enough are present....LOL) We plan to be done for the day by sometime around noon... Vonda ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~vondak/

The Jennings family were some of the earliest settlers in Taney County. They lived west of what later became Taneyville, near the mouth of Bull Creek; what is now the village of Rockaway Beach was some of Jesse Jennings' land. I hadn't heard about a still any of them had, but it wouldn't surprise me; many families did. Vonda ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~vondak/

Hi I would be like to know if you know of any Jennings or Slates that may have lived in Taney, Mo. Is Taneyville the same as Taney or is Taney just the county? I was told that at one time the Jennings had a large bootleg still in Taney and I am very curious to find out if this is true. Any help would be appreciated. All the ones who would know are gone and I have no one left to ask. Thanks Carole Jennings Cravatt

Justine, Jo Stacey Albers is currently researching the Old Branson Cemetery. I'll pass your email along to her. HOWEVER...now you've hit kin, in a roundabout way. Faun Rowland was married to my great-grandmother's sister, Etta. I don't know who the parents are of your grandmother, Martha Augusta Bull, but I'd like to know. My great-grandmother was Sarah Elizabeth Bull, who was married to John Woodrow Wilson (she was later married to Newt Bruffett). I know Faun and Etta both ended up in the Kansas City area. Paydirt! Vonda ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~vondak/

Wanda, and others, Bluff was a small village which sat above Bull Creek, just south of the Taney County line. The road it was on is now called Round Mountain Drive. If you have been to Meadows Cemetery, and look to the hill north of the bridge, that was where Bluff was, according to Chuck Keithley, who told Greg some time ago. V ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~vondak/

Hi, Joy, What a great site and thank you so much for sending it. It really is kind of cool tracking these details down, isn't it? Adrienne ----- Original Message ----- From: Joy To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] more computer time http://www.mophil.org/mopo/townb.htm Found what I was looking for - mor than one Bluff pfrommer wrote: >'Morning, Wanda. I got out our "best" Missouri map and could not find a Bluff listed. Nada, nothing. Just the ones I mentioned before. Just a thought. Does Bluff relate to folks you are researching at a certain time? Towns do tend to come a go with time. If you have a time-frame, perhaps we could find an old map and look there? Just a thought. >Adrienne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Grnd5@aol.com > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 6:36 PM > Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] more computer time > > > All I know with the info I have that there was a Bluff town in Mo > thanks for your help > > > WANDA > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."--Victor Hugo > > ============================== > 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 ==== >"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 > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."--Howard Aiken ============================== 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

In a message dated 8/11/2002 10:31:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time, beatsme@netins.net writes: > http://www.mophil.org/mopo/townb.htm > Thanks, that was what I was looking for only my grandparents didn't run it that long. Thanks again to all WANDA

Thanks That is what I was looking for, an uncle was born there and grandparents had a store and post office in the area WANDA

Well; I am related to a bunch of families in the White River Valley area. In TANEY and its adjacent counties: Mitchell Reece / Reese Roberts Austin and many intertwining folks: Mapes, Shipman, Workman, Watts, Hall, Stephens, Caudle, Garrison, Newman, Frank, Schwegler, Box, Lotspeich, Elkins, Pendergraft, Frazier, Mustain, Hembree, Bills, Bennett, and others. Over in Lawrence, Barry, and the far southwest corner are my Johnston, Briscoe, Clanton, Schell/Shell, Wilson, Hutson, Frazier, and other folks too. Many of my families also crossed the line over into AR; or came up from there. The Johnston folks came up from Madison Co.; along with Frazier, Johnson, King, and other folks. My Hankins and Elledge folks were over in the area around West Plains, Howell Co.; and Koshkonong, Oregon Co. I know I am probably forgetting some, but this is most of the crew! Gerald Hankins "Jerry" Johnston List Admin. for Taney Co., Missouri Researching the following families: Johnston; Hankins; Reece; Ferguson; Mitchell; Roberts; Hutson; Stephens; Elledge; Adkins; Champ; Frazier; Springer; Garrison; Bennett; and many more; especially in both the Taney Co., MO area and that of Pittsylvania Co., VA. Both the Ozarks and the Piedmont area are ripe with my kinfolk!

I checked the GNIS and Bluff is not a town, but is listed as a locale. It is near Day, Mo. in Taney County near the Taney/Christian County border. Jo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy" <beatsme@netins.net> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] more computer time > Anyone got the book of old P O's? It's possible it's an old town that > is no longer in existance. > Or, also possible it's only a reference that the loca's used to a > specific place. > Joy > > pfrommer wrote: > > >'Morning, Wanda. I got out our "best" Missouri map and could not find a Bluff listed. Nada, nothing. Just the ones I mentioned before. Just a thought. Does Bluff relate to folks you are researching at a certain time? Towns do tend to come a go with time. If you have a time-frame, perhaps we could find an old map and look there? Just a thought. > >Adrienne > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Grnd5@aol.com > > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 6:36 PM > > Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] more computer time > > > > > > All I know with the info I have that there was a Bluff town in Mo > > thanks for your help > > > > > > WANDA > > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."--Victor Hugo > > > > ============================== > > 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 ==== > >"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 > > > > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."--Victor Hugo > > ============================== > 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 >

http://www.mophil.org/mopo/townb.htm Found what I was looking for - mor than one Bluff pfrommer wrote: >'Morning, Wanda. I got out our "best" Missouri map and could not find a Bluff listed. Nada, nothing. Just the ones I mentioned before. Just a thought. Does Bluff relate to folks you are researching at a certain time? Towns do tend to come a go with time. If you have a time-frame, perhaps we could find an old map and look there? Just a thought. >Adrienne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Grnd5@aol.com > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 6:36 PM > Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] more computer time > > > All I know with the info I have that there was a Bluff town in Mo > thanks for your help > > > WANDA > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."--Victor Hugo > > ============================== > 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 ==== >"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 > >

Anyone got the book of old P O's? It's possible it's an old town that is no longer in existance. Or, also possible it's only a reference that the loca's used to a specific place. Joy pfrommer wrote: >'Morning, Wanda. I got out our "best" Missouri map and could not find a Bluff listed. Nada, nothing. Just the ones I mentioned before. Just a thought. Does Bluff relate to folks you are researching at a certain time? Towns do tend to come a go with time. If you have a time-frame, perhaps we could find an old map and look there? Just a thought. >Adrienne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Grnd5@aol.com > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 6:36 PM > Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] more computer time > > > All I know with the info I have that there was a Bluff town in Mo > thanks for your help > > > WANDA > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."--Victor Hugo > > ============================== > 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 ==== >"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 > >

'Morning, Wanda. I got out our "best" Missouri map and could not find a Bluff listed. Nada, nothing. Just the ones I mentioned before. Just a thought. Does Bluff relate to folks you are researching at a certain time? Towns do tend to come a go with time. If you have a time-frame, perhaps we could find an old map and look there? Just a thought. Adrienne ----- Original Message ----- From: Grnd5@aol.com To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] more computer time All I know with the info I have that there was a Bluff town in Mo thanks for your help WANDA ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."--Victor Hugo ============================== 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

All I know with the info I have that there was a Bluff town in Mo thanks for your help WANDA

Adrienne, You've just made one flat-lander who probably won't ever get to see the Ozarks very happy! Just no way I can say how much I would appreciate your kindness. My g-g-grandfather, Aaron V. Matthews is buried in Bradleyville Cemetery. Also, my g-g-grandmother, Eliza Jackson and the person I believe to be my g-g-grandfather, Richard Robertson. (Eliza Jackson and Richard Robertson are buried next to each other.) Don Houk very kindly sent me the info he found on them in a Taney Co. cemetery book. I can't recall, but it may have included the location of the graves in Bradleyville Cemetery. I'll check through my files and see if it did and let you know. Thank you so much for offering to do this for both Geri and for me. Can't explain it, but it would mean so very much to me to see their headstones. I'll get back to you later after I find Don's message to see if it included a section number or anything that would be helpful to you. Thank you!!!!! Nancy ----- Original Message ----- From: pfrommer <pfrommer@webound.com> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Snapshot > Geri, it is no trouble. Will be a fun outing for my Dad and me. I saw the message you forwarded. Nancy does not say what names she wants photos of. Just that she would like pictures of the headstones for her g-g-grandparents. Do you know just what she is looking for? Could do hers and yours in one trip. Pretty cool, huh? :-} > Adrienne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: gerie > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 5:22 PM > Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Snapshot > > > Hi Adrienne, > That would be just great and you will never know how much I appreciate you > taking the time to do this. > I would like to forward an email to you that I received - I will not reply > without your permission. > Thank you so very much, > Geri > --- Original Message ----- > From: "pfrommer" <pfrommer@webound.com> > To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 4:21 PM > Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Snapshot > > > > Hi, Geri. Would a digital photo sent to you via email do? If so, I will > be happy to do it for you and at no cost. Let me know. > > Adrienne > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: gerie > > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 11:42 AM > > Subject: [MOTANEY] Snapshot > > > > > > Looking for someone willing to take a snapshot of my great-grandmothers > headstone located in Old Forsyth Cemetery, Forsyth, MO. Name Alwilda JAMES > wife of Rev John M James. Will gladly reimburse you for your time and film. > > Geri > > > > > > ==== 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 > > > > > > ==== 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 ==== > "Determine the things that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."--Abraham Lincoln > > ============================== > 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 ==== > "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 >

Narrow it down how? I don't know of any Rowlands I am related to sorry. BTW I have an online tree through ancestry.com if anyone would like the link to see what I have let me know. Justine

My Taney County families are James and Rachel OLIVER who were in Taney by early 1830s, and the ARCHER family, which by the time they arrived in Taney, included mother Ann, and her children William, James Madison, Moses, Frances, Elias Thomas, Jane and Sarah. William Archer married Abigail Oliver who died early leaving him with several children, among them a girl named America. William, Ann, and Moses are later found in Jasper Co., Mo, and after that I have lost them. Frances Archer married John Oliver and remained in Taney Co., James Madison Archer married Lucinda Jane Oliver and moved to Tarrant Co., TX, Wise Co., TX, and Montague Co., TX where he is thought to have died close to 1900. All of these Olivers who married Archers were siblings and children of James and Rachel Oliver. James and Rachel also had James Jr., Milton, Cynthia, Elizabeth, and Martha. I'm sure if I've left someone out, one of my cousins will remind me. I descend from James Madison Archer and Lucinda Jane Oliver who came to TX by 1852. At least three of their children later went on to Indian Territory (now Grady Co.,) in OK. Their son, Robert Lee Archer donated land at Bailey, near Marlow, for a school, church and cemetery. I know that the father of the Archer children was Elisha Archer and died in 1832 in MO. He fought in the Black Hawk Indian Wars. He was born in TN and his father in VA, but I can't find ties back to TN or to the many Archers of VA. Is anyone else researching this family? Ida

Adrienne, LOL, I really don't know what I want? I would like to see if anyone knows anymore about John Iller or his parents also Laura Ellen ROWLAND groves and her parents. I have pictures of the headstones have been there several times. I don't know the address of the cemetery but it is in the old district over close to the crescent motel. If you were to take old 65 to Branson past skaggs hospital, then cross lake taneycomo it would be the first left and it would be one or two blocks. I don't know who maintains it or if there is any information I could get about it but would like to have it. I would love to know if any family of john or Ella AKA Laura were around for me to contact. As I said my great grandparents and great-great-grandparetns are buried there as well as numerous others and my Uncle who died in infancy is buried there with no marker but I know where he is supposedly buried and would like to see about putting a marker up for him. I have tales upon tales of the Branson area. My grandmother used to read the shepard of the hills to me and my siblings and tell us who the characters were in real life. my family lived in Branson till around 1955. OHH sorry the name of the cemetery is Branson Cemetery est. 1863. thank you Justine

Geri, it is no trouble. Will be a fun outing for my Dad and me. I saw the message you forwarded. Nancy does not say what names she wants photos of. Just that she would like pictures of the headstones for her g-g-grandparents. Do you know just what she is looking for? Could do hers and yours in one trip. Pretty cool, huh? :-} Adrienne ----- Original Message ----- From: gerie To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Snapshot Hi Adrienne, That would be just great and you will never know how much I appreciate you taking the time to do this. I would like to forward an email to you that I received - I will not reply without your permission. Thank you so very much, Geri --- Original Message ----- From: "pfrommer" <pfrommer@webound.com> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Snapshot > Hi, Geri. Would a digital photo sent to you via email do? If so, I will be happy to do it for you and at no cost. Let me know. > Adrienne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: gerie > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 11:42 AM > Subject: [MOTANEY] Snapshot > > > Looking for someone willing to take a snapshot of my great-grandmothers headstone located in Old Forsyth Cemetery, Forsyth, MO. Name Alwilda JAMES wife of Rev John M James. Will gladly reimburse you for your time and film. > Geri > > > ==== 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 > > > ==== 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 ==== "Determine the things that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."--Abraham Lincoln ============================== 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

Hi Adrienne, That would be just great and you will never know how much I appreciate you taking the time to do this. I would like to forward an email to you that I received - I will not reply without your permission. Thank you so very much, Geri --- Original Message ----- From: "pfrommer" <pfrommer@webound.com> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 4:21 PM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Snapshot > Hi, Geri. Would a digital photo sent to you via email do? If so, I will be happy to do it for you and at no cost. Let me know. > Adrienne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: gerie > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 11:42 AM > Subject: [MOTANEY] Snapshot > > > Looking for someone willing to take a snapshot of my great-grandmothers headstone located in Old Forsyth Cemetery, Forsyth, MO. Name Alwilda JAMES wife of Rev John M James. Will gladly reimburse you for your time and film. > Geri > > > ==== 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 > > > ==== 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 > > >