This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Olmstead, Kinne Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/12240 Message Board Post: This is in response to welcoming notes from Jay Priest and Dee Davidson. I was born in Jamestown in 1925 and now live near Chicago. I'm interested in my grandpa's family. He was William Sheldon Olmstead. My grandma was Alice Della Kinne (Kinney), born in LeRoy, NY. Both are buried in Gerry Cemetery, where I'll join them someday. My name on my birth certificate is Arthur Wall, but I am known as Ed, and during my newspaper days in Hawaii and elsewhere I often used A. E. P. Wall as a byline. This is a terrific site. My thanks to everybody who makes it terrific. I hope I'm doing this correctly!

Hi, A. E. P . Welcome, and you did it exactly right; Your William S and "Della" as she is called in 1910 census lived then in Jamestown; He is aged about 47 b NY a motor man his parents b Ny also Della I cannot read her age b Ny they have been married then 27 yrs Della has had 5 children, 3 living Children still at home was Doris age 6 and is it HIS father EDISON? OLMSTEAD age 71 a widower This census is very hard to read in 1920 still here William S and wife Della he is then 57 she is 56 living right beside them or in an apartment same house is a child bride DORIS WALL age 15 wife of George ? WALL born England ae 25 came to the US i n 1909 his name is garbled hard to read but I think YOU know who they were is this him? George Wall City:Jamestown County:Chautauqua State:New York Birthplace:Lancashire;England Birth Date:10 Apr 1893 Dee ----- Original Message ----- From: <aepwall@ameritech.net> To: <NYCHAUTA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 6:58 PM Subject: [NYCHAUTA] Introduction > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Olmstead, Kinne > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/12240 > > Message Board Post: > > This is in response to welcoming notes from Jay Priest and Dee Davidson. I > was born in Jamestown in 1925 and now live near Chicago. I'm interested in > my grandpa's family. He was William Sheldon Olmstead. My grandma was Alice > Della Kinne (Kinney), born in LeRoy, NY. Both are buried in Gerry > Cemetery, where I'll join them someday. My name on my birth certificate is > Arthur Wall, but I am known as Ed, and during my newspaper days in Hawaii > and elsewhere I often used A. E. P. Wall as a byline. This is a terrific > site. My thanks to everybody who makes it terrific. I hope I'm doing this > correctly! >

Hello, Dee-- That's almost spooky! <smile> William S. was a motorman for the "JW" (Jamestown-Westfield) and then for the Jamestown Street Railway. His father was Addison Olmstead, his mother Julia Sheldon. He and Della lived in Jamestown, then Celoron. Doris, my mother, died at 95 in 1999. Thanks again! Aloha, Ed (A.E.P.) Dee Davidson <jcricket@strato.net> wrote: Hi, A. E. P . Welcome, and you did it exactly right; Your William S and "Della" as she is called in 1910 census lived then in Jamestown; He is aged about 47 b NY a motor man his parents b Ny also Della I cannot read her age b Ny they have been married then 27 yrs Della has had 5 children, 3 living Children still at home was Doris age 6 and is it HIS father EDISON? OLMSTEAD age 71 a widower This census is very hard to read in 1920 still here William S and wife Della he is then 57 she is 56 living right beside them or in an apartment same house is a child bride DORIS WALL age 15 wife of George ? WALL born England ae 25 came to the US i n 1909 his name is garbled hard to read but I think YOU know who they were is this him? George Wall City:Jamestown County:Chautauqua State:New York Birthplace:Lancashire;England Birth Date:10 Apr 1893 Dee ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 6:58 PM Subject: [NYCHAUTA] Introduction > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Olmstead, Kinne > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/12240 > > Message Board Post: > > This is in response to welcoming notes from Jay Priest and Dee Davidson. I > was born in Jamestown in 1925 and now live near Chicago. I'm interested in > my grandpa's family. He was William Sheldon Olmstead. My grandma was Alice > Della Kinne (Kinney), born in LeRoy, NY. Both are buried in Gerry > Cemetery, where I'll join them someday. My name on my birth certificate is > Arthur Wall, but I am known as Ed, and during my newspaper days in Hawaii > and elsewhere I often used A. E. P. Wall as a byline. This is a terrific > site. My thanks to everybody who makes it terrific. I hope I'm doing this > correctly! > A. E. P. (Ed) Wall 17953 Indiana Court, Orland Park, IL 60467 708-478-1236 www.aepwall.com

I might as join the band wagon... My name is Kelly Miller. I am originally from Buffalo, NY & now reside in North Carolina (NASCAR country). I too perform lookups for individuals who post their queries to the list &/or the message board (for those who don't know that is located at http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.st ates.newyork.counties.chautauqua). I'm not exactly sure how long I have been a subscriber to this but I'm sure it's over 3 years now. I have often been a part of other genealogy lists too. I have never seen such dedicated volunteers. The hard work that Dee, Jay, Loraine, Kathy, & Bob do is not totally appreciated. Not only are they helpful- they're nice people too!!! I wish other lists were half as terrific. The following surname are the main lines I am researching from all over Chautauqua Co, mainly in Ripley: Bronson / Brownson, Culver, Hamm, Parker, Thorp, & Waite. Mrs. Kelly Miller Family Historian http://kindredroots.com