Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Niagara/226 Surname: HEYROTH ------------------------- Looking for information such as siblings, parents, children on Vera HEYROTH, born 12 February, 1896, died Jan 1980 with last residence in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY.

Barb, your message touched me deeply. My great grandfather died as a result of that battle. He was 2nd Lt. Thomas L. Holt from Panola Co., Ms. We have never been able to find his burial place. He was wounded on June 25th and died July 12. If you have read very much on that battle then you know how terrible it was. Pam Holt Howard -- ----------------------------------------------------- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/

Here's the message to Vee forwarded to the group... Vee, not to worry over the order of your notes. They're fantastic. I'd love to know more about how the folks back home in NY coped during the war. I sit here today amongst many reminders of that war. I live just outside of Richmond VA, Capitol of the Confederacy. There are many reenactments of battles around in Virginia. As for the Battle of Cold Harbor, I've looked into it some since I learned that my great great uncle, Samuel Bullen of Somerset NY was in it. He was wounded in the June 3 battle and taken prisoner of war to Belle Isle prison camp in the James River, Richmond Va, where he died about 3 weeks later. Never knowing even of his existence until genealogy, I was shocked to learn that his body was taken up from its place of burial there, where it was identified, and reinterred in 1866 in Richmond National Cemetery, where it could no longer be identified and he became one of over 5,400 "Unknowns" buried, sometimes 3 to a grave. I wonder how he would have felt knowing that a great granddaughter of his older brother would one day be living where so many battles had taken place and near where he had taken that fateful bullet. I learned about what happened to him by finding accidentally that my great great great grandmother, Mary (Rathbun) Bullen had applied for a mother's widow pension for her son's service. Her own husband, father of Samuel, also named Samuel Bullen had died in 1863 but had not served to my present knowledge. I married a great grandson of one of the NC men who fought near here too. I don't think he was in the Battle of Cold Harbor though. He did fight in Petersburg, just down the road, and was present during the crater incident and was at the surrender at Appomatox, having served since 1862. He was promoted to major and ended up being the highest ranking officer of his regiment at Appomatox. I wonder if he was one of those North Carolinians who offered to continue fighting if Lee wished them to? He wrote in a diary about that fact and said that Lee just looked at them and said, a tear falling from his eye, "God bless old North Carolina." For various reasons Grant delayed the start of the Battle of Cold Harbor by a day, affording Lee an opportunity to get his men deeply intrenched. This fact did not go unnoticed by the men and they were seen pinning nametags to their uniforms the night before so that their bodies could be identified later. When the cannons exploded the next morning, they could be heard all the way in city of Richmond and window panes shook in the houses here. Some of Grant's lines experienced broken flanks and men got within a stone's throw of Lee's troops and were seen using a cup or plate or anything handy in desperate attempt to try and dig themselves some cover from the bullets of Lee's guns while Reb eyes watched. The soil here is mostly clay and hard as a rock at times. I can't imagine walking into a group of armed enemy even under cover of cannon smoke and gray dawn. Such bravery! Barb Petty >Well, I guess I posted the previous three message in the wrong order. But, >hey, I kinda indicated that I'm not in my right mind right now! :-) >Nonetheless, I hope you got the feeling of how the Civil War touched the >Town of Porter here in Niagara County. >vee >

Dear Group, I guess I just had to share with you the following. vee Just a misty memory Do you remember the TV series "The Golden Girls" when old Sophia would start out a long-winded story that went something like this. "Just picture it. It was back in 19. . ." Well, tonight I feel like Sophia. Just picture it. It was back around 1935 when I was about four years old or so. OK, I could impress upon you the fact that it was in the middle of the Great Depression; however, I certainly wasn't aware of it as a kid and I can't recall getting any sort of lecture to remind me that our country was in the middle of a depression. Hey, about all the demands that I ever made of my parents was just to beg them for a penny to buy some candy. What more could I have wanted? But I digress. The misty memory I still have in my mind is the sunny afternoon when I sat in front of mother's foot-pedaled sewing machine and watched her manipulating the material through the foot and needle of the magic machine where she was sewing up a brand new dress for me. I was totally fascinated by the mechanics of it. I guess I sat there for a long time-at least in my memory-but there came a time where my fascination with the machinery overcame me. I had become fascinated with the little hole in the back of the Singer sewing machine. It was a hole that had a swinging cover over it but at that time the cover exposed the hole and I could see something moving inside. And because I was about four years old, I had to stick my finger in the hole to investigate what was going on. And, of course you already know, the moving mechanism BIT my finger!! I jumped up and screamed and hollered and screamed and hollered some more! And of course my mother jumped up, investigated the HORRIBLE damage to my finger tip, realized the very minor damage, calmed me down with soothing and cooing words, bandaged my finger up and . . . Well, the entire experience left me with still a teeny tiny scar on my finger tip, but more than that, a misty memory that I cherish. Hey, do you want to see my scar?? See???

Dear Group, I thought I'd better post this before I faded into the sunset this evening--and/or before the men in the little white coats come to haul me off! In 1993 I wrote a book based on the history of the Town of Porter. It was designed to appeal to fourth-graders to give them an appreciation for our local history. It was more of a story book rather than a history book. The book continues to be used by local fourth-grade teachers in their teaching of local history. As I mentioned in my last message, this is the first chapter. vee GRANDPA MCCOLLUM AND HIS BROTHER MELVILLE Virginia plunked herself down on her bed and declared, "I won't ever forget this day. I'll never forget one single minute of it. I just want to lie on my bed and be by myself. I think Mother understands how I feel right now. I feel--well--so LOST !" Her upstairs bedroom was hot. She noticed that the windows were closed and she slithered herself off the bed long enough to open them to the fresh breeze. The lace curtains billowed out like sails into the room bringing with them the hot summer smells of the farm. Planted firmly back on her bed once again, she announced to herself dramatically, "Today, here in the Town of Porter, the County of Niagara and the State of New York, on the twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord 1912, they buried Grandpa McCollum. His name was Abram Madison McCollum." Then as if to explain to her unseen audience, "Well, he wasn't really my grandfather, but I miss him just as if he had been." It was understandable. He was her hero and her special friend. Everyone around here knew him and almost everyone called him Grandpa McCollum. She thought he was the most famous person in the world. He had fought in the Civil War and she knew he had been a brave soldier. He had told her about how he and HUNDREDS of other men from Niagara County had joined the Union Army. He spoke slowly and with great pride in his voice as he said, "I was a member of Company F of the Eighth Regiment New York State Heavy Artillery commanded by Colonel Peter A. Porter." The way he said it made her wish she could have joined it too. Her thoughts filled her mind as she propped her pillows up and leaned back. "I remember when Grandpa McCollum told me how he had been wounded at the Battle of Cold Harbor outside of Richmond, Virginia, the same day that his brave colonel was killed. (He always used to call Colonel Porter by that name, 'My brave colonel.') I think it's nice that they brought his brave Colonel Porter back home and buried him right near here up in Niagara Falls. I know it pleased Grandpa." Virginia hoped that one day she could visit his grave in Oakwood Cemetery on Portage Road. She continued to recall the story: "That battle took place way back in 1864, almost fifty years ago, but Grandpa McCollum remembered it just like it was yesterday." Grandpa had said, "I was only twenty-two years old when the battle took place. At dawn on June 3, 1864, the signal guns were fired and our troops rushed all at once toward the Confederate lines. I could hear our cannons booming behind us and then the Confederate cannons up ahead began firing back. As we closed in on the enemy, they opened up their rifle fire and the last thing I recall was the sight of all those rifles going off at once. It was like a sheet of flame. I felt the pain in my arm where I had been hit, and then I felt nothing as I fell to the ground unconscious. "When I regained consciousness, the battle was over and I found myself lying on the muddy battlefield too weak to move. I didn't know it then but I had been lying there from Friday until Sunday. They had left me for dead. I was choking for a drink of water, and a soldier passing by heard my cries. He filled his hat with muddy water and brought it to me. It was the best drink of water I have ever had! "They took me to a field hospital and bandaged my wounds as best they could and then they took me by ambulance to White House Landing. What had happened to me was that I had been hit in the left arm near the top of my shoulder. The Minie ball--that's a bullet, you know--passed upward through my shoulder cap and continued out the top of my shoulder where it then entered my head just behind my left ear and shattered the bone. There was nothing they could do about my arm and so they had to amputate it. Four days later at Fairfax Seminary Hospital they finally removed the Minie ball from my head." Every time Virginia remembered that part of his story it gave her goose bumps. "I still shiver when I think about it," she said. She tried to see if she could really shiver there in her still-stuffy room. She couldn't. She glanced around the room, deep in thought, and realized she had neglected to remove her shoes before climbing up on the bed which was covered with a light patchwork quilt that her mother had made. She hurriedly brushed the dirt crumbs off the quilt and as quickly as she could, she unbuttoned her high-top shoes. She slipped them off, wiggled her toes and let her thoughts continue. She knew Grandpa's head wound had always bothered him. Even though the doctors had removed the bullet and some of the shattered bone fragments, it never quite healed. She noticed that his wife Almira had to change the dressing more frequently lately, soaking the bandages with peroxide. Virginia's mother told her that the cause of his death just a couple of days ago was the head wound he had received over forty-eight years before. He had suffered a long, long time. Poor Grandpa. He didn't like to talk about what happened to him and he didn't like to talk about what happened to his younger brother Melville during the Civil War, either. But bit by bit she heard the whole story. "Melville was in the same company as I was," he told her, "and just a few months after I was wounded, our company fought in the Battle of Ream's Station in Virginia. Our Union soldiers lost the battle and Melville was one of the soldiers captured by the Confederates. They first took him to a prison in Richmond but within two weeks he became sick from the little food that he had to eat there and they had to send him to nearby Belle Isle Hospital for care. What food there was there was barely enough to keep him alive and less than a month later they sent him to Salisbury Prison in Wilmington, North Carolina. That was in October 1864. "The prison was so crowded that the prisoners had to live outdoors all the time and there was never enough food for them to eat. By January 1865 Melville had gotten weaker and weaker. But there was one last hope for him. It was at that time that both the Confederacy and the Union agreed to exchange the prisoners they had captured. And Melville was one of the ones set free--he was on his way home! But he never got any further than Wilmington. He was too weak and he died of starvation there." Grandpa had ended the story with a sigh and said sadly, "And my brother was only eighteen years old." (Sigh!) She remembered once that he added on to the story. He said, "But Melville wasn't the only boy I knew who died as a result of being in that same prison. Old Will Perry's son Ed died there too around the same time. You know the Perry family. They live down this here Balmer Road right on the corner of Creek Road. Some say Ed's father Will was the first baby to be born in these parts after the general settlement began. I think it was 1811. Yep, he was born in 1811." His eyes turned sad again and all he said then was, "Yep, I knew his boy Ed real well, I did." Virginia gave a deep sigh and got up and walked slowly over to the window. She stared out over the apple orchard that stretched between their farm and Grandpa's farm next door. "Yep, I knew Grandpa real well too, I did," she said sadly.

Dear Group, Barbara Petty sent me a MOST interesting message regarding one of her relatives from Somerset, Niagara Co., who was captured during the Battle of Cold Harbor and one of her husband's North Carolina ancestors who had fought in the Battle of Petersburg. And in checking the history of the regiments from Niagara County who had fought in BOTH battles, there was the chance that . . . Pardon me, but on the radio right this very minute they just started to play the theme song from Gone With the Wind!! It gave me a bit of a shiver! :-) Ahem (clearing her throat!), the point I wanted to make was that when we research our family histories, we may just find that in some point in time, it isn't just a matter of finding brothers fighting on opposite sides, as happened in some cases during the Civil War, but that in the Civil War and other wars, families eventually find that "enemy" descendants married into their eventual families. Or, in my case when my sister and I were finally reunited with our German third cousins, we found that one of our third cousins had been a soldier in the German Army who was killed during WWII. Whether it was an American bullet that killed him or an American bomb that killed him or just how he died. Nonetheless, it was an awkward moment when our third cousin Elfriede Geiger told us that her brother Otto had been killed during the war in 1943. There was an unspoken acknowledgment that we were Americans, they were Germans and that when we were just kids, our individual countries were at war with each other and in both of our families, family members had lost their lives during the war. Nothing more was said about it. However, Elfriede gave me a photograph of Otto taken when he was a little boy. I was touched by the gesture and I treasure the picture. Barbara, I'm certain that the list would REALLY enjoy reading the message you sent me. And if you would post it, I'll go ahead and post to the list the first chapter of the book I wrote about the history of the Town of Porter (It Happened Just Down the Road). The chapter is entitled, "Grandpa McCollum and His Brother Melville." There is a definite parallel between the two. Note: the Battle of Cold Harbor lasted between 5 to 20 minutes (depending on what source you have at hand) but I don't doubt the source I have at hand that says that at least 120 Niagara County soldiers lost their lives during those awful few minutes. And trust me, some of them were from Town of Porter. vee

Dear Group, Well, I guess I posted the previous three message in the wrong order. But, hey, I kinda indicated that I'm not in my right mind right now! :-) Nonetheless, I hope you got the feeling of how the Civil War touched the Town of Porter here in Niagara County. vee

Dear Group, As many of you know, I am struggling to keep my sanity over my forthcoming major surgery--now rescheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 15. But tonight I dug up enough mental strength to try to put together the September issue of the Town of Porter Historical Society Newsletter, "Porter's Past." Hey, after all, I'm the Editor of it! And what I managed to do this evening was to transcribe two letters written during the Civil War and I wanted to try it out on our group. It's still in the draft stage but this is the way I picture it: What do you think? vee In the news of our past, we have a letter that was written on September 1, 1864, by Peter S. Tower to his sister, Olive Almena Tower while Peter was serving in the Civil War. In addition, we have a desparate letter written by Abram Howe McCollum that was written on June 16, 1865. Referring to Peter's letter, he mentions the casualties, the prisoners and the wounded --individual members of Co. F, 8th Regiment, NY Heavy Artillery, as a result of the fight at Reams Station on the Weldon Railroad on August 24 and 25. In addition, he mentions his meeting up with his friend Madison McCollum the evening before. Madison was on his long way home after losing his right arm in the Battle of Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864. And in the number of names of the prisoners who had been captured in the Battle of Reams Station was M. C. McCollum. That was Madison's younger brother, Melville. Melville eventually ended up in Salisbury Prison, was eventually released but died of starvation or disease before he could make his way back home. He was only 18 years old. Therefore, the letter that was written by Melville's father the following year. Peter also mentioned Edward Perry as being taken prisoner. Dear Ed died in Salisbury Prison from what we have learned.. But then Peter also made reference to Lew. The Lew he was referring to was the young man that Peter's sister Olive Tower eventually married in 1869, Lewis Cass Hosmer, Sr. Peter returned from the war and so did Lew--and so did Madison McCollum. Melville and Ed didn't make it and a whole bunch of others didn't return to the Town of Porter. But then what do I know? I have only two letters at hand and a bit of research I've done over the years! The letters follow in the next two messages.

Youngstown, Niagara Co., N. Y. June 16, 1865 Dear Sir, Will you be kind enough to inform me when Melville C. McCollum, Co. F, 8th N. York Heavy Artillery died and how he died, whether he was in the care of the Sanitary or Christian Commission, when he died. Dear Friend, Please inform if you can, and if you cannot, try and see some one that will and may God bless you. Oh! Could I only hear all about his death, then I would be satisfied. It to [be?] reported that he died in the Blue Eagle Hospital near Wilmington about the last day of Feb. or the first of March last. He came from Salisbury and was on his way home. Please tell me where he was buried so that his grave can be found. Please find out by some one how he died and you will oblige an afflicted family. My oldest son lost his arm at the charge at Cold Harbor. Please inform me as soon as you can. Direct to Youngstown, Niagara Co., New York. Yours truly, Abram H. McCollum

Block House near Fort Dix September 1st, 1864 Dear Sister, I received your letter of Aug. 29th yesterday & hasten to answer it. You said Harm and Dan had gone to Lockport. I hope they are not afraid of the Draft. We want all such men down here to put this cursed [war, crossed out] Rebellion down & bring this war to a close. I suppose you have heard that the 8th has been in another hard fight in this at Reams Station on the Weldon Railroad Aug. 24 & 25th. One of our boys rec'd a letter from Co. F today giving a list of casualties in that Co. F. So I will write them just as we got them. Killed, Sergt. Chas. R. Northrop & John Greenman, both of Lockport; Prisoners, Corpl. I. C. Lloyd, Edward G.[?] Perry, Sylvester Moore, M. C. McCollum of Porter. T. Bust, R. Bailey, A. J. Case, Geo. Drake, Chas. Hewitt, Dan Harrington, Chas. McLaughlin, R. Mosier, H. Sanford, L. Smith, W. Werth, others pluses[?]. Wounded, Wm. Bromer[?] of Porter, John Kind, Jr., of Pendleton & F. Bishop of Tonawanda. Total 22. There was only 40 men in the Co. before the fight so you can judge for yourself how they were situated. I think I will be satisfied to stay where I am for all such fights as that. If I have to go, I will do it with a will, but I shan't beg for the chance. Would you? We had Muster & Inspection here yesterday at 10 A.M. & the boys are now looking for their pay but it does not last long with some of them. Madison McCollum got off the cars here last night to get a drink, and they started before he got back & he staid all night with me, went on to Seminary Hospital, Alexandria, this morning. I feel sorry for Madison for he is a first rate boy. If I was him I would not take my discharge till I could get a good Berth some other place, for he might as well get his pay & bounty of the Government for it is dear to him. The nights are pretty cold now and it must be hard for men that are lying out at nights. You said you thought Lew could stand it. He is sick in hospital but I don't know where. I suppose at City[?] Point. Was not in the last Fight. Joe Clapsaddle is in Command of the Co. I expect he will get a commission. He deserves it. Any way, Lt. Rectins[?] started for the Front last Saturday. Lt. Sully (or rather Capt. Sully) is confined to his bed at American Hotel, Lockport, N. Y. Capt. Maginnis was killed the 25th, Ult. I wish you would send me a paper with a list of casualties of the 8th in the last Fight. I am well, eat my daily allowance & sleep as much as ever. Give my love to all, keeping a good share for yourself. From your Brother, Peter S. Tower To O. A. T.

Subj: Searching for Mccargo(McHurg,McCarg, McQuharg,Machargs,Makargo,Cargo,Macargoe I am researching the family name of McCargo. I have them coming from England, Ireland and Scotland, by way of Canada. The name supposedly started in Galloway, Scotland around the early 12th century. I am seeking information on Peter, David, John and Alexander McCargo, around or about 1667-1873. Alexander was supposed to have come to the Americas from Canada(1860?). John was found to have settled in Virginia in the (1600's). Peter, i have no sufficient information on. David, applied for a land grant in Virginia in 1781. David had a brother named Stephen who served in the Revolutionary War. Any information would be greatly appreciated and i am willing to share what i have. Thank you, Velma A. McCargo

Dear Group, I just had to share with you what I wrote this evening. It goes like this. vee In this morning's "Niagara Gazette" I saw Uncle Harold's obituary in it. It read, "Harold C. Hausman, 97, of Hess Road, died Saturday (August 5, 2000) in Inter-Community Memorial Hospital, Newfane, [Niagara Co., NY] after a brief illness. Oh my goodness, Uncle Harold had died! However, I have to admit to you that he wasn't really my uncle, I'm not even related to him and, frankly, I had met him only once. However, I'll never forget the time when Uncle Harold and Aunt Edna kind of adopted my sister and me into their family. It was back around 1987 a few years after my sister and I had returned from our trip to Germany loaded with an armload of our own personal HAUSSMANN family history. My sister Norma and I had visited the southwestern part of Germany in the vicinity of Stuttgart and that's where we found the records that showed where our personal family was from and found that they had been living there since the 1400s. After our return, I continued to put the pieces of our family together and then I became quite curious about the local Hausman family who were living around here in Niagara County where Norma and I were living. Because we came back with a copy of the family coat of arms of our family, I thought the local Hausman family might be interested in seeing it. As a result, I got on the phone, talked with "Uncle Harold" and "Aunt Edna" and I learned the history of their family. Their Hausman family came to Niagara County from Germany and, from what I can recall, they came as one whole family; mother, father, two sons and four daughters. The year that they immigrated is unclear but I know that the two sons, John and William married the Dobbertean sisters, and from Uncle Harold's obituary, his father was William who married Ida Dobbertean. And from my scribbled notes that I still have, William's father was August. It was a wonderful conversation that we had, but trying as hard as we could, we couldn't come anywhere near to finding a family connection. You see, their family came from Mecklenburg, Germany, in the far north of the country, whereas our family came from far away southwest. Nonetheless, by that time we had the feeling that we had the same roots. And so it was that when they had their next Hausman family reunion they invited Norma and me to it and by unanimous vote of the entire assembled family, they adopted us into their family. After all, at that time, my sister and I were the only family we had up here in New York. We felt that we were like orphans separated from our Pennsylvania family, and you know how families take in "kin" when they become orphans. They just adopt them. And that's what Uncle Harold and Aunt Edna did. They adopted us! Uncle Harold died yesterday but his obituary tells us that he was a lifetime member of the Newfane Historical Society and it goes on to say that the society erected and donated the Hausman House which he helped to build in 1989, complete with personal items and memorabilia. He was the oldest member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, where he built the altar rail. Uncle Harold, Norma and I eventually lost touch with you and Aunt Edna, but under the circumstances, I guess it just might be time for me to visit the Hausman House in Newfane. It's a bit of a distance from Youngstown to Newfane, but then Stuttgart is more than just a bit of a distance to Mecklenburg. But, hey, when you're family, distance doesn't mean all that much, does it? Frankly, I'm curious to know what sort of personal items and memorabilia there is in the Hausman house. When you share the same family name, you just can't dismiss being a member of the same mutual family.

Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Niagara/225 Surname: Perry ------------------------- Regarding the First Methodist Church in Lockport..the oldest is: Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 75 East Avenue Lockport, NY 14094, 716) 433-2838. The best place to find resources is: Niagara County Historian, Niagara St @ Hawley St, Lockport, NY 14094, (716) 439-7324. If you contact me on my e-mail, I have permission to give you the address of a PERRY descendant. He insists that you be specific with whom you are seaching. Ellen Colangelo

Posted on: Niagara Co. NY Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Niagara/223 Surname: Perry ------------------------- Does anyone know of the location of the First Methodist Church of Lockport? Phone or address? We are planning a research trip to Lockport, and would like information or suggestions from anyone who has already visited there. Specifically, what are the best places to go to find resources for individuals pre 1860? How far back are the clerks, birth/death/marriage records. Who has the microfilm--the library or museum (which will be closed when we are able to visit.) Could not find the answer on the resources in the website, so hoping fellow researchers have ideas. Thanks,

> William & Mary Ann also made a Will--how do I get Wills in America? Janice sent this query to me privately first, and I told her about wills, but for others who don't know: By far the easiest way to look up Niagara County wills is to use SAMPUBCO's service at <http://www.sampubco.com/>. Janice's William and Mary Ann LINEs appear in the Niagara County indexes there, with record volume numbers given, so she even has approximate dates: LINES, MARY ANN LOCKPORT 32-53-165 LINES, WILLIAM LOCKPORT 32-47-301 (The second number is the volume; volume 53 (Mary Ann) was for wills probated 1898-99, volume 47 (William) was for those of 1893-1894.) I've used SAMPUBCO's service for some of my own Niagara County wills, and while it's not quick, I'd say it's effective and reasonably priced. For more information, see <http://www.sampubco.com/>. Ellen

Hi Listers, I am new to this group. I am trying to find information on my LINES family William, Mary Ann and their daughter Emma LINES Who moved to Niagara County in the 1800's. The family were from St. Ives in Huntingdon, England and were Market Gardeners in 1888 I have a letter written 14th march 1888 by William & Mary Ann LINES to their family in Huntingdon, England. Emma LINES was married and had 8 children in 1888. I have no idea who she married could someone please tell me how I would go about finding this information? William & Mary Ann also made a Will--how do I get Wills in America? The address on the letter looks like 356, Climbourne, Stockpool (or Stockpool) Niagra County America Any help would be appreciated. Regards Janice Wilson Auckland, N.Z

I am researching the surname BOWNE plus what other types of burial are there? as to cremations burial at sea family plots church plots government plots state plots city plots cemeteries that are abandoned some keep ashes at home maybe that is where some of our elusive family members are I am looking for allied families married to a BOWNE Thanks Audrey Bowne Seattle gbowne@email.msn.com

SMITH. Peter Jeremiah SMITH was b. 1820 in New Jersey (US Census) and d. 1879 at Lockport, NY (gs). He served as a corporal (1864) in the NY Vol. Inf., Civil War. His occupation was shown as teamster, but later he operated a feed and grain business in Lockport. Peter m. Roxania (6) E. NEEDHAM (Jeremiah 5-3, Anthony 2-1) after the Civil War. He bought land from a John SMITH (relationship unkn) in Niagara Co., NY. Was he previously married? Who were his parents? What brought him to Niagara Co., NY and when? Any suggestions on how to identify his origins? Thanks in advance. Ed

>Looking for any information on this family! Peter H. Adamy b 16 May 1805 Minham Twp. Montgomery Co.NY d.7 July 1892 Sebewa Twp,Ionia Co. Mi. Father:Peter Adamy Ny. Mother:Mary_______ Grandfather served in Revolutionary War___________ Peter lived in Montgomery until he was 5yrs Family moved to Niagara Co. in 1810 where he Lived until 1827 Peter enlisted in the army in 1827 and served until 1833 he returned to Niagara Co. Peter was a shopkeeper in Buffalo,NY until 1835 Peter went to Cuyahoga Co. Ohio in 1835 where he married Sophia Van Dusen 2 Sept 1935 in Cleveland Ohio Peter lived in Ohio until 1853 when he moved to Monroe Co. Mi. Peter moved to Allegan Mi. in 1855 an lived there until 1862 Peter moved to Ionia Co. Mi.Sebewa Twp in 1862 where he lived until his death. Peter & Sophia's children: George b.Abt.1841 d._____ m.Clara V. Bartlett in Kalamazoo Mi. Benjamin b.Abt 1843 Ohio d.______ m.Jennie Singer Allegan Co Mi. Thomas b.abt.1845 Ohio d._______ m.Sarah J. Fullerton Ionia Co. Mi. Helen b.Abt.1849 Ohio (ELLA)d.__________ m.Luther P. Redington Ionia co. Mi. Louisa b.abt.1852 Ohio d._________ m._______ Elizabeth b.31 May 1856 Allegan Co. Mi. d.29 Sept. 1931 Sebewa Twp Ionia Co. Mi m.Samuel Walker Downing William b.Abt 1859 Allegan Co. Mi. d._________ m. Any information or clues to Peter and his family would be appreciated! Mary mbesson@iserv.net

I am seeking information that might lead me to an obituary/death certificate/cemetery information on Bergen Mesler d. July 18,1824 at Gasport, NY buried at Hartland Central Cemetery, Gasport/Hartland. Any help appreciated. Thanks; Neil V. Mesler ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com