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/4NB.2ACI/77.1 Message Board Post: 1920 U.S. Federal Census; Montana; Meagher County; Township of White Sulphur Springs; Roll #: T625_973; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 62; Image: 0061. DUNKEL, Chauncey; field hand; male; white; 29 years of age; single; born in Indiana; both parents born in Pennsylvania; occupation: laborer--ranch. ----------------------------------- 1930 U.S. Federal Census; Montana; Meagher County; Township of West Copper; Roll #: T626_1259; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 1; Image: 0004. DUNKEL, Edward L.; head of household; male; white; 37 years of age; married; first married at 34 years of age; born in Indiana; both parents born in Pennsylvania; occupation: farmer--stock farm. (Must be Chauncey's brother, and either lived on the same, or adjoining farms because they appeared in this order on the census sheet). DUNKEL, Martha; wife; female; white; 24 years of age; married; first married at 22 years of age; born in Wisconsin; father born in Iowa; mother born in Wisconsin; occupation: none listed. DUNKEL, Chauncey; head of household; male; white; 40 years of age; married; first married at 31 years of age; born in Indiana; both parents born in Pennsylvania; occupation: farmer--stock farm. DUNKEL, Matilda; wife; female; white; 47 years of age; married; first married at 38 years of age; born in Minnesota; father born in Norway; mother born in Wisconsin; occupation: none listed. -------------------------------- MONTANA DEATH INDEX (1954-2002) SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX WASHINGTON DEATH INDEX (1940-1996) DUNKEL, Louis Edward Born: 30 Mar 1892 Died: 15 Dec 1983 at 91 years of age; County(s) of Death & Residence: Meagher County, MT Marital Status: Married Cert. #: 6367 DUNKEL, Martha L. Born: 15 Jan 1908 Died: 16 Mar 1988 at 79 years of age; County(s) of Death & Residence: Meagher County, MT Marital Status: Widowed Cert. #: 1406 DUNKEL, David L. Born: 12 May 1930 Died: 27 Feb 1999 at 62 years of age County(s) of Death & Residence: Meagher County, MT Marital Status: Married Father: DUNKEL, Louis Edward Mother: THOMPSON, Martha L. DUNKEL, Chauncey Born: 05 Apr 1890 Died: 26 Mar 1975 at 84 years of age Place of Death: Puyallup, Pierce County, WA DUNKEL, Matilda Q. Died: 28 Nov 1972 Place of Death: Puyallup, Pierce County, WA Hope this fills in a few spaces on your tree for you!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Deckard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4NB.2ACI/24.1 Message Board Post: No, Dorothy, I don't believe so. I just came across your question as I started looking for information on my paternal grandfather Joseph Deckard (I think his middle name was Earl) who was born 28 Apr 1888 in Kentucky. I know that he was in the White Sulphur Springs (MT) area in the WWI era and that would be the reason for his draft registration showing there. He was married to my paternal grandmother Eudora Coward Monroe (originally from KY) and was probably a ranch hand in the area. I understand that my grandmother was a cook for the County Poor Farm in WSS where a James Alfred (Al) Abney (from Nebraska) also worked. Joseph and Eudora (nicknamed Robert) divorced about 1918 when my father Gilbert Earl Deckard (1912-1991) was six years old. Al and Robert soon worked their way west to the Portland (OR) area before finally settling in 1922 in Fallbridge (renamed Wishram in 1926), Washington for the remainder of their lives where Al worked for the Spokane, Portland & Seatt! le Railway in the car repair department. Joseph acquired a mining claim half way between Pierce (ID) and St. Regis (MT) where he lived most of the rest of his life. My father discovered his whereabouts in the 1950s and we visited him on the mining claim a couple times. In the winter he would retreat to Lapwai (ID) where he cared for an old Nez Perce indian chief. Both my father and Joe had very distinctive Indian facial features. I a child I understood that Joe Deckard was either a half or quarter Cherokee and I am just now starting to try tracing that lineage.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dunkel, Quale Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NB.2ACI/77 Message Board Post: I am looking for any information that may exist on the family of Chauncey Dunkel. He was married to Mathilde Quale who was born 4/27/1882 in Dane County Wisconsin. I stumbled across a bureau of land management record for a Chauncey Dunkel, showing land in Meagher county and have a very old note from my grandmother showing that Mathilde died in Montana. That is all the information I have to go on. I am not at all familiar with Montana, so any info would be greatly appreciated...or direction where to look next. Thank you, Jinger Mandt

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/4NB.2ACI/47.1 Message Board Post: Although it has been some time since your posting, I am a descendant of Earl White. My Grandmother on my fathers side was Inez White. My father grew up in sixteen. I hunted and fished in and around Sixteen and My Grandfather had a summer cabin after having homsteaded up and beyond the hill behind Sixteen. You can see the hip-roofed cabin in the background of Ivan Doigs picture of the kids on the horses in His book "This House of Sky" Well....gotta go for now. Drop a few lines.

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/4NB.2ACI/29.27.33.1.1.1 Message Board Post: To Robert Christensen I just found your message of last July and am so sorry it has taken so long for me to find it. I would love to have contact with you. Please email me at [email protected] - I can tell you about lots of relatives.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hoyem Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NB.2ACI/20.1 Message Board Post: Have you tried the US Gen Web Site. Go to Montana, then Sweet Grass County. They have different books, etc listed with name of John Hoyem. I am researching Iver Hoyem that came as well in 1882. He had a brother named John, but I do not know the names of his wife and children. My email address is [email protected]

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/4NB.2ACI/29.27.33.1.1 Message Board Post: This is especially for Eileen Berger. I found your pedigree for the Bergland family and was very excited. I am descended from Mathilde Christensen's half-brother. Otto August Christensen. I have information about Mathilde's parents for you. Also, I grew up in the Spokane area so it is quite interesting that I had Bergland relatives there whom I didn't know about. Bob Christensen

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stephenson, Hagbery, Brooks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NB.2ACI/76 Message Board Post: I have some photos from the early 1900's of wranglers to share, if someone can help me to identify them. One of the buildings in the background has GRUBB's Livery on the roof. My great-grandmother, Musetta Stephenson, lived around Sand Springs for a time. I believe her father, RB "Steve" Stephenson is in some of the photos. If anybody can tell me where GRUBB's Livery was, it would sure be a great help! Email me directly at aharman AT willamette DOT edu

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/4NB.2ACI/75 Message Board Post: DOING RESEARCH ON THE HEDGES FAMILY OF MONTANA.APRECIATE ANY INFORMATION

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jawbone Railroad, Parks, Shearer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NB.2ACI/70.2.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the reply. Yes, I saw that book in the White Sulphur Springs Library and ordered one. I also have one on Meagher County 1867-1967. I would love to have a copy of the story you do on Ringling. My dad spoke of Ringling when I was a young girl. I visited there a few years ago when I was in White Sulphur Springs. Thanks again for your reply.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jawbone Railroad, Parks, Shearer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NB.2ACI/70.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for the sites regarding Jawbone Railroad. I will look them up. I was at the Sixteen,Mt. site of the railroad (also, Ringling,Mt) a few years ago. I am interested in anything I can learn regarding this railroad and the people that built it. Thanks again.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kuhnes, Beaumont in Meagher Co., MT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NB.2ACI/74 Message Board Post: Searching for Anna S. BEAUMONT & Valmah Richard KUHNES. They lived in Meagher Co. from 1915 until deaths in 1949. They had one son Thaddeous Steven BEAUMONT 1901-1968. Anna's brother Elijah P. Lovejoy BEAUMONT lived there also and died in 1952. Thanks for any help with these families. Julie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BARNES, HOAG Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NB.2ACI/73 Message Board Post: Greetings, I hope someone can help me. I am researching the earliest ordained women in American Congregationalism. One of them was ordained in Castle, MT. According to the 1897 Congregational Year Book, which contained statistics from the year previous, Mrs. A. S. Barnes was ordained in Castle, MT on September 12, 1896. The Congregational church in Castle was "gathered" in 1891. ALICE S. N. BARNES was called to serve it, beginning in 1891. In 1896 that church had 6 members and 40 people in its Sunday School, representing 8 families. The Clerk of the church was: Deacon J. D. BAKER. At the time, it was one of 12 Congregational churches in Montana, the earliest having been gathered in Billings in 1882. Alice left the Castle church about 1900. From 1902-1906 she is said to have served the Congregational church in Columbus, Montana. She died in Long Beach, CA in 1924. It has been said that she was born as Alice Nichols in 1841 in Winthrop, Maine. I appreciate any help. Apparently she remarried someone with the surname Hoag, sometime after her ordination. Thus far, I don't know the first names of either of her husbands, etc. I would like to know more about her life and her ministry. Thank you, Rev. Dr. Doug Showalter

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wysocki Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4NB.2ACI/62.4.1 Message Board Post: My great grandfather''s brother, Frank Wysocki, worked at the Ringling Bros. ranch somewhere from about 1890-ish until his death - after 1920. He was a bachelor - as far as we know. I was hoping to find more info on him. I contacted Ringling Bros. - and they have no records going back that far. Are there any archives in that area? Thanks. Lou Wysocki - Detroit, MI

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/4NB.2ACI/70.2 Message Board Post: I am doing a story on Ringling, MT for the local Summer Guide in White Sulphur Springs, MT. There is a good book on the Jawbone in our library it is called : The Montana Railroad, Alias the Jawbone by Don Baker. published in 1990. Publisher is Fred Pruett, Boulder CO. It has a nice story line a lots of pictures. Hope this helps Jane

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/4NB.2ACI/72.1 Message Board Post: I don't know if the following will enlighten you any more than you are already, but it is an interesting story and one other descendant of Thomas Francis Meagher is mentioned, in addition to his wife. The following is extracted from the book "Names on the Face of Montana: The Story of Montana's Place Names," by Roberta Carkeek Cheney, published by the Mountain Press of Missoula, MT, and originally copyrighted in 1983 (I am using 7th edition, printed June 2000: "MEAGHER COUNTY (Pronounced MAR) is located a little southwest of the center of Montana. It was created in 1867 from parts of Chouteau and Gallatin Counties; a part of Meagher County was taken to form Fergus County in 1885, and a part to form Broadwater in 1897; parts were annexed to Cascade and Lewis and Clark 1890-1900, a part of Fergus was annexed to Meagher in 1911, and parts of Meagher were taken to form parts of Sweet Grass in 1885. White Sulphur Springs is the county seat. Meagher County was named for Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, an Irish patriot and Civil War "hero" who was a federal official when he arrived in Montana. Kenneth Richard Meagher of Antelope High School, a descendant drawing on family records, says, "Before coming to the United States, Meagher joined a band of men in Ireland who were trying to separate Ireland from England by violent means. When put to trial he was sentenced to death for treason, but the sentence was changed to live imprisonment in! Van Diemen's Land, now called Tasmania. On his way to Van Diemen's Land he managed to escape and come to the United States, where he became a general leading a Union band called the Irish Brigade. After the Civil War and his release from the Army, he became a writer and lecturer. Failing at this, he took his chances and came to Montana and was acting governor of the territory during the Blackfeet trouble. He became known as 'Meagher of the Sword' because he once stated in a speech that the only way to freedom was by bloodshed. Meagher disappeared from a riverboat on the Missouri at Fort Benton." What happened to Thomas Francis Meagher remains one of the mysteries of pioneer Montana. Some of his staunch supporters declared him a martyr to the Irish cause and erected a statue of him on the capitol grounds in Helena. Elizabeth Lake and Elizabeth Falls in old Missoula County were named for his wife." I hope this provided you with a little information that perhaps you hadn't had before.

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/4NB.2ACI/70.1 Message Board Post: I just found your query tonight. There are several good links to information about the "Jawbone Railroad" that can be found on Google: http://www.folkways.org/Harlowton/ http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~twodotmt/two%20dot%202.htm http://data.detnews.com/hotbox/hotboxstory/details.hbs?myrec=4 These stories should keep you busy for awhile! &;-)

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/4NB.2ACI/72 Message Board Post: Hello, I'm looking for a Meagher Family Tree. I know my great-grandfather was Thomas Francis Meagher but I can't find any relationship to any other Meagher Family on the web. My grandmother is Judith Isabel Meagher Gray. She doesn't know any family after her father. Here is my website where I am building my family tree; www.geocities.com/rklenseth/familytree.html Any help is appreciated, thanks, Richard Kenneth Lenseth

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Meagher, Quan, Forstall Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4NB.2ACI/58.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I am trying to document his ancestry through the QUAN side to the FORSTALLs. I have some data, but no "absolute proof" or copies of original documents. As you must know, all genealogists are greedy. <grin>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Straugh, Ward Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NB.2ACI/71 Message Board Post: I grew up on a ranch near WSS. I haven't lived there since 1955, however. Anyone who remembers me can email back.