Some of the apple growing Kiesters and Kirgans moved to the Rio Grande to grow citrus around 1920+. Perhaps Clarence Kirgan.Eula Kiester. My uncle, Robert Simpson Fagley was supt of Locust Corner High,then of Owensville High. He marr ied Nellie Kiester by 1920. The Fagley's wintered with the Rio Grande river citr us growing K irgans and K iesters many years.Bob and Nellie were buried there. Their son,Robert Kiester Faglkey is on-line.

I am looking for obit or death certificate of Elizabeth (Lizzie) Kirgan. Her family are buried in Amelia IOOF Cemetery, Clermont County, Ohio, but cannot find her there. She was in 1920 census. KIRGAN LIZZIE 58 F W OH OH CLERMONT UNION 1920 `°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º Eileen º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°` `°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º Eileen º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`

I am looking for obit or death certificate of Elizabeth (Lizzie) Kirgan. Her family in are buried in Amelia IOOF Cemetery, Clermont County, Ohio, but cannot find her. She was in 1929 census. KIRGAN LIZZIE 58 F W OH OH CLERMONT UNION 1920 `°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º Eileen º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`

Wow, John, you have been busy. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort. Looking forward to finding all this information on your website. I hope you will let us know when you have the information uploaded. Irene John Charles Tippet <[email protected]> wrote: Fellow Behymer/Beckelhymer/Picklesimer/Pickelheimer/etc. researchers: Following is a summary of research accomplished on my annual trrip to Clermont County: (1) I copied about 200 Ohio death certificates of Behymers and allied surnames at the Cincinnati Public Library for the years 1908 through 1953. This is on top of the 100 or so that I already had. This took me 4 trips to the library to get them all which are on microfilm. (2) I copied about 50 Kentucky death certificates of Behymers and allied surnames at the library in Falmouth, Kentucky for the years 1911 through 1951. This is on top of the 285 or so that I already had. (3) I photographed available marriage records, estate records and wills for Behymers and allied families at the Pendleton County Court House in Falmouth. I say available because some of the records were destroyed in the flood of a few years back. (4) I visited the Spring Grove and Vine Street Hill Cemeteries in Cincinnati. Both of these cemeteries are very large. I photographed a half a dozen or so tombstones of Behymers in Spring Grove, but time not permit doing the same at Vine Street Hill. (5) I photographed about 45 Clermont County marriage records at the Probate Court in Batavia. This is on top of most of the records I had already photographed on earlier trips to Clermont County. (6) I photographed about 75 Clermont County death records at the Probate Court in Batavia (these are all before 1908 and hence, are not part of the state-wide records available at the Cincinnati Public Library). This is on top of most of the records I had already photographed on earlier trips to Clermont County. (7) I copied Anne (B'Hymer) Eslaman's and Christian Plackard's estate papers at the Probate Court in Batavia. (8) I copied John Waggoner, Sr's and Holeman Rice's wills at the Probate Court in Batavia. (9) I photographed the original T P White funeral home records for Behymers and allied surnames. (10) I copied 45 or so marriage records on file at the Kenton County Court House in Covington. These are for the approximate years 1878 to 1940. (11) I photographed available marriage records, estate records and wills for Behymers and allied families at the Kenton County Court House in Independence (Kenton and Campbell County are the two counties in Kentucky that have two court houses). For some reason, the early marriage record books were not at the court house and the people there did not seem to know where they were being kept. The Order books were also no where to be found in the court house. Some of the estates on file provided some very valuable information which connects some of the dots on my missing link family members. I will share this information with the list after I have catalogued and indexed all the photos I took. (12) I photographed Jacob Rardin's will, the Adam Youtsey/Trevana Smith marriage bond (with David Pickelheimer as bondsman), the Andrew Beckelhymer/Eliza Wayman marriage bond and the John H Morgan/Nancy B Hymer marriage license on file at the Campbell County Court House in Alexandria. This picks up a few loose ends that I missed on an earlier trip to this court house. (13) I attended the Clermont County Genealogical Society's First Families reception. The guest speaker gave a talk on the 1918 flu epidemic. (14) I visited with Bob Beckelhimer and noted Clermont historian, Herm Fagley. (15) With help from members of the Clermont County Genealogical Society, I located and photographed tombstones in the following two private cemeteries located in Ohio Twp: Goble Cemetery (where Samuel Custer is buried) and Love Farm Cemetery (where Abel Donham is buried). (16) I walked and photographed tombstones in Mt Moriah Cemetery for Behymers and allied surnames buried in sections 8 and 10 (the two oldest sections in the cemetery). Some tombstones I had already located and photographed on earlier trips to this cemetery, but this was a methodical, detailed, comb-through of these two sections. I think I now have > 95% of the tombstones located in these two sections. I intend to comb-through the other sections on future trips to Clermont. (17) I photographed tombstones in the following additional cemeteries: Mt Orab (Brown Co, OH), New Harmony (Brown Co, OH), Blanchester IOOF (Clinton Co, OH), Flag Spring Baptist Church (Campbell Co, KY), Peach Grove (Pendleton Co, KY), Butler (Pendleton Co, KY), Greenwood (Campbell Co, KY), Wheeler-Short (Clermont Co, OH), Independence (Kenton Co, KY), Mt Pisgah (Clermont Co, OH), Lindale Baptist Church (Clermont Co, OH), Edenton (Clermont Co, OH), Plainview (Clermont Co, OH), Old Bethel (aka Bantam) and Old Baptist Church in Newtonsville. (18) I copied a few miscellaneous items at the Kenton County Library in Covington and at the Doris Wood Library in Batavia. I had intended to copy the Kentucky death certificates at the Kenton County Library, but they gave me a lot of hassle so I made the copies at the Falmouth library instead. More on this latter. (19) I walked the Amelia IOOF cemetery and took photos of all Behymers and allied families that I did not have on previous trips to this cemetery. This was on my last day and sort of ended my trip on a sour note due to all of the vandalism that I found (see previous E-mail already sent to the list). Note that for all of the tombstone photos I took, I also recorded their location in the cemetery with a GPS receiver so that I (or anyone else) can easily located them in the future. I took close to 1,100 digital photos on this trip. Transcriptions of most of the above will eventually show up on my web page. John Charles Tippet [email protected] ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. 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Fellow Behymer/Beckelhymer/Picklesimer/Pickelheimer/etc. researchers: Following is a summary of research accomplished on my annual trrip to Clermont County: (1) I copied about 200 Ohio death certificates of Behymers and allied surnames at the Cincinnati Public Library for the years 1908 through 1953. This is on top of the 100 or so that I already had. This took me 4 trips to the library to get them all which are on microfilm. (2) I copied about 50 Kentucky death certificates of Behymers and allied surnames at the library in Falmouth, Kentucky for the years 1911 through 1951. This is on top of the 285 or so that I already had. (3) I photographed available marriage records, estate records and wills for Behymers and allied families at the Pendleton County Court House in Falmouth. I say available because some of the records were destroyed in the flood of a few years back. (4) I visited the Spring Grove and Vine Street Hill Cemeteries in Cincinnati. Both of these cemeteries are very large. I photographed a half a dozen or so tombstones of Behymers in Spring Grove, but time not permit doing the same at Vine Street Hill. (5) I photographed about 45 Clermont County marriage records at the Probate Court in Batavia. This is on top of most of the records I had already photographed on earlier trips to Clermont County. (6) I photographed about 75 Clermont County death records at the Probate Court in Batavia (these are all before 1908 and hence, are not part of the state-wide records available at the Cincinnati Public Library). This is on top of most of the records I had already photographed on earlier trips to Clermont County. (7) I copied Anne (B'Hymer) Eslaman's and Christian Plackard's estate papers at the Probate Court in Batavia. (8) I copied John Waggoner, Sr's and Holeman Rice's wills at the Probate Court in Batavia. (9) I photographed the original T P White funeral home records for Behymers and allied surnames. (10) I copied 45 or so marriage records on file at the Kenton County Court House in Covington. These are for the approximate years 1878 to 1940. (11) I photographed available marriage records, estate records and wills for Behymers and allied families at the Kenton County Court House in Independence (Kenton and Campbell County are the two counties in Kentucky that have two court houses). For some reason, the early marriage record books were not at the court house and the people there did not seem to know where they were being kept. The Order books were also no where to be found in the court house. Some of the estates on file provided some very valuable information which connects some of the dots on my missing link family members. I will share this information with the list after I have catalogued and indexed all the photos I took. (12) I photographed Jacob Rardin's will, the Adam Youtsey/Trevana Smith marriage bond (with David Pickelheimer as bondsman), the Andrew Beckelhymer/Eliza Wayman marriage bond and the John H Morgan/Nancy B Hymer marriage license on file at the Campbell County Court House in Alexandria. This picks up a few loose ends that I missed on an earlier trip to this court house. (13) I attended the Clermont County Genealogical Society's First Families reception. The guest speaker gave a talk on the 1918 flu epidemic. (14) I visited with Bob Beckelhimer and noted Clermont historian, Herm Fagley. (15) With help from members of the Clermont County Genealogical Society, I located and photographed tombstones in the following two private cemeteries located in Ohio Twp: Goble Cemetery (where Samuel Custer is buried) and Love Farm Cemetery (where Abel Donham is buried). (16) I walked and photographed tombstones in Mt Moriah Cemetery for Behymers and allied surnames buried in sections 8 and 10 (the two oldest sections in the cemetery). Some tombstones I had already located and photographed on earlier trips to this cemetery, but this was a methodical, detailed, comb-through of these two sections. I think I now have > 95% of the tombstones located in these two sections. I intend to comb-through the other sections on future trips to Clermont. (17) I photographed tombstones in the following additional cemeteries: Mt Orab (Brown Co, OH), New Harmony (Brown Co, OH), Blanchester IOOF (Clinton Co, OH), Flag Spring Baptist Church (Campbell Co, KY), Peach Grove (Pendleton Co, KY), Butler (Pendleton Co, KY), Greenwood (Campbell Co, KY), Wheeler-Short (Clermont Co, OH), Independence (Kenton Co, KY), Mt Pisgah (Clermont Co, OH), Lindale Baptist Church (Clermont Co, OH), Edenton (Clermont Co, OH), Plainview (Clermont Co, OH), Old Bethel (aka Bantam) and Old Baptist Church in Newtonsville. (18) I copied a few miscellaneous items at the Kenton County Library in Covington and at the Doris Wood Library in Batavia. I had intended to copy the Kentucky death certificates at the Kenton County Library, but they gave me a lot of hassle so I made the copies at the Falmouth library instead. More on this latter. (19) I walked the Amelia IOOF cemetery and took photos of all Behymers and allied families that I did not have on previous trips to this cemetery. This was on my last day and sort of ended my trip on a sour note due to all of the vandalism that I found (see previous E-mail already sent to the list). Note that for all of the tombstone photos I took, I also recorded their location in the cemetery with a GPS receiver so that I (or anyone else) can easily located them in the future. I took close to 1,100 digital photos on this trip. Transcriptions of most of the above will eventually show up on my web page. John Charles Tippet [email protected]

In a message dated 9/29/2005 5:47:54 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Amelia I.O.O.F. Cemnetary,if in any township,is in Batavia,not Union township. I stand corrected. Union Twp has the West Clermont SD and Amelia's schools are part of the district. Yes, IOOF is in Batavia Twp and the contact information is available at the township site below. Although this the cemetery is not listed as one of the Twp Cemeteries that they are responsible for. _http://www.bataviatwpoh.org/_ (http://www.bataviatwpoh.org/) But, I found this and better yet is the contact person for the Ohio District of the I.O.O.F. is: Grand Lodge of Ohio, IOOF Hebern Hannah, Grand Secretary PO BOX 1088 Springfield OH 45503 United States of America Tel: 937-399-8631 Fax: 937-399-8876 Email: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Chyrl Lawrence-Bulger, CC

Amelia I.O.O.F. Cemnetary,if in any township,is in Batavia,not Union township.

In a message dated 9/28/2005 8:43:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Amelia IOOF Cemetery I hate also that this is being done, unfortunately these days it is far to often. I know that some of the Cemeteries in the County are managed and maintained by the Township if it is a Township Cemetery. You could do one of two things. Contact the Township and the link to there web site is below which has their address & phone numbers. They don't list this cemetery on their site though, but they may know who is responsible for it. Or you can contact the Village of Amelia and talk with the city offices and see if they know who manages the cemetery. Also possibly talk with the Police and report it. There web site is below also. _http://www.union-township.oh.us/_ (http://www.union-township.oh.us/) _http://www.ameliavillage.com/home.htm_ (http://www.ameliavillage.com/home.htm) Another option might be to contact the Clermont County Historical Society and their web link is here. _http://www.clermonthistoric.org/_ (http://www.clermonthistoric.org/) Off hand those are the only ones I can think of that can help. Chyrl Lawrence-Bulger Clermont County Coordinator

I just returned from a 1-week research trip to Clermont County. While there, I visited the Amelia IOOF Cemetery and was shocked to find that a significant amount of cemetery vandalism had occured since I was there a year ago. Sadly, the stone of Joel Behymer was knocked over and broken in half. Many other stones were knocked over, most of them surviving the crash but without breaking. These are now laying on the ground, knocked off their base. The stones of Behymer descendants, John Waggoner, Sr and wife, Nancy Littleton, and John Waggoner, Jr and wife, Sibby suffered this fate. This makes me very angry, and I am wondering if anything can be done to stop this wanton desecration. I don't know who is in charge of the cemetery and I doubt if they even lock the gates at night. If anyone has any suggestions on how to deal with this issue, please contact me. John Charles Tippet [email protected]

We did some probing at the cemetery and were able to find 7 more stones and 3 more footstones bringing the total to 25 [compared to the 35 noted on various earlier readings]. We were please to note that one of the stones uncovered was for John Hill (1735-1803), thought to be a Revolutionary War Veteran, who had purchased the property on which the cemetery is located from Thomas Paxton. Pictures of the uncovered stones can be seen at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohwarren/Cemetery/hillwagner/index.htm

Dear List my ggranddad William Jennings Brown(married Elizabeth Bateman) and his Brother Adam Truman Brown(married Catherine Presocia Kate Garland) both Married in Clermont County in 1870 by minister Elisha C Smith. My question is does anyone know anything about this Minister of the Gospel? What faith or what Church? Both brothers tried homesteading in Kansas, then made the Oklahoma Land run in 1889. Would really apreciate any information. Thanks [email protected]

My aunt was Helen Moorhead m Edward rown.Edward was orn about 1895. Glenn and Donald Brown were their sons.Donald had Donna and Joe. Her sister was Irene Moorhead m Eldon Wilson and Jess Jordon. Irene lost a Wilson baby boy. Their brother lived north of Oxford,Ohio. Was his name Walter? They lived in sw Williamsburg twnsp on the East Fork of the Little Miami.

In a message dated 9/24/2005 1:00:57 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I have a copy of the veterans made by the DAR. Who are you looking for? > > Donna BINKLEY Lograsso - St. Louis, MO I have pictures of Moorhead graves that I believe came from Williamsburg Cemetery. The inscriptions are very hard to read.

I also have McCoy in my line. Susannah McCoy b. 1762 married Daniel South b. 1760. Both from Washington Co. Maryland. Removed to Clermont Co. where they died. Susannah's father was Archibald, his father was John. Is this any connection to your McCoys? Joan Williams. Miami,FL. [email protected] wrote: >Williamsburg cemetary is about the oldest in Clermont. 179 7.The village >had no other name,except Lytletown.Williamsburg t ownship has Clover,and >Concord >cemetaries,and just beyond the township is New Harmony,Taylor's Chapel,Bloom >Rose, >Hutchison's or Greenberry,cemetaries.The oldest section of Will iamssssburg >cemetar y has been heavily vandalized,as has Neville'soldest,on Rt 52,in town > > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > > > >

Williamsburg cemetary is about the oldest in Clermont. 179 7.The village had no other name,except Lytletown.Williamsburg t ownship has Clover,and Concord cemetaries,and just beyond the township is New Harmony,Taylor's Chapel,Bloom Rose, Hutchison's or Greenberry,cemetaries.The oldest section of Will iamssssburg cemetar y has been heavily vandalized,as has Neville'soldest,on Rt 52,in town

No dates,but Anna Badgley had a stone in Vesper adjoining Ann Sagars Badgley, Thomas Sagersand ,Sarah Sagars.George W bADGLEY,GAR Co B Co B GAR Civil War-J.A.McCoy,and Gertr ude McCoy,1900-02,and Eunice McCoy 1902-05. DAR ladies addedother McCoy's were Chester,Lily,Hodley,John,Sarah,Oce-no dates small stones. Mrrs Judge Loui s Swartz was [1] DAR in 1958,and 2 ,lived then north of Neville, near Vesper cemetary,and [3] is alive and on-line. She likely copied the tombstones 47 years ago.

I have a copy of the veterans made by the DAR. Who are you looking for? Donna BINKLEY Lograsso - St. Louis, MO SEARCHING: BINKLEY -Allegheny and Cambria Co., PA DAVIDSON, FRICK - Westmoreland and Allegheny Co., PA BINKLEY, MORGAN, STOUDER - Clermont Co., , OH BECK, MYERS - Westmoreland and Allegheny Co., PA + Germany/Austria SABOCK, YENETS, PERCICH - Cambria Co., PA + Yugoslavia TRBOVICH, KOSANOVICH - Allegheny Co., PA + Yugoslavia

Does anyone have a Williamsburg Cemetery book? Did it ever go by another name?

Thanks for your response. Are you saying there were no burials in the Neville cemetery after 1860? After which time they started burying in Neville Vesper cemetery. Because William and Susannah McCoy whom I am looking for died in 1882 and 1884. Rose

>> Elizabeth Wood, young wife of Robert Badgley, was in the Wood cemetery. You can find information on Elizabeth WOOD at my site: http://mywoodfamily.us Walter Wood