I write the Ozarks Genealogy column on-line for the News-Leader a Springfield, MO newspaper http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/genealogy/index.html Please fill in your query. I would be glad to run a query for you. I suggest you put your full name and mailing address as well as e-mail with your query. A lot of folks do not use computers and they go to the Library to read the print out and answer the ones they can. just a suggestion, let me know if you want to include you mailing address. Thanks Gloria Bogart Carter, Genealogist, 733 South Farm Road 89, Springfield, MO 65802, gbcarter@juno.com 417-869-7060; My BOOK LIST available by e-mail; My Ozarks Genealogy Query Column appears each Sunday on line http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/genealogy/index.html ; Visit Wright Co MO web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~mowright/wright.htm On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:55:48 -0700 "Gerald Johnston" <gerald.h.johnston@worldnet.att.net> writes: > Thelma; > > Saw your note re Chub Bennett. I am trying to find relations of my > ggg-grandmother, Mary Isabella Bennett Mitchell. She was supposedly > born in Randolph Co., MO; but it may have been in the Springfield > area. > > I have not found anyone with knowledge of her family yet. Her > youngest son was my great-great-grandfather, Thomas Josephus > Nathaniel Thilo Benton Mitchell. I have wondered if the Benton > should have been Bennett; or maybe her name was recorded wrong. > > Anyway, Isabella was a famous midwife in the Garrison, Christian > Co., MO area. She married Wm. C. Mitchell in about 1837 , or so, I > have to look. Then, after his death in 1860, she married Isaac > Peacock. > > Any help from you, or anyone you can connect me with would be > fantastic! > > Thanks so much! > > Jerry Johnston > > > > ==== 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 > >