I do a lot of research at Sandusky Public Library if you would like I'd be happy to look up the information you have given and see if I can come up with anything. If you have any other information that may be helpful just respond to See2itgirl@aol.com Laura

my father was adopted at birth...his name was robert mahling b: 4--10-34 at providence hospital in sandusky to a ruth mahling who was born in 4-25-1913 at the same hopital... my father was then renamed james starkloff.... can any one tell me what became of ruth??????or any relative of!! thank you gary starkloff ph# 888-765-8545 or starshopping@juno.com or garyatbest@email.msn.com

------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 13-Nov-98 0:21 Subject: [ARCHIVES-L] Veterans Tribute ------------------------------------------------------------------ A nice tribute to veterans from the newly posted Greenlawn Cemetery transcription in Nahant, Essex, MA ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ma/essex/towns/nahant/cemetery/greenlaw n .txt War Memorial- A large natural boulder is at the center of this quadrant dedicated to war vets a brass plaque is set into the boulder the inscription reads as follows "In Memory of the Men. Citizens of Nahant Who in the war with Germany Freely and bravely gave their lives to win victory for their country and their countrys cause Mortimer G Robbins Frank M Coakley Everrett G Phibrick Andrew A Fuller "yea saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them" revelations XIV-13Erected by Mortimer G Robbins Post No. 215American Legion !^NavFont02F03480007NGHHJ4A2CF4

------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 12-Nov-98 22:45 Subject: Locating a person From: INTERNET:wcrother@syix.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi; Did some research in Marietta in September and ran on to a letter written by a Mrs. Edward C. Lay (Patty Lay) 231 46th Street, Sandusky, OH 44870. This was written in 1976 and was then searching for some of the family members that I am in possession of. Tried to search under Four11 and others but came up blank. She evidently was on the Library board at that time. The letter said that they had opened a new Museum July 1 (1976) and that she was on the genealogy section of the library. Can you help in finding this person. She may be dead at this time but if she isn't, I would very much like to contact her. Thanks for your help. Wallace Crother P.O. Box 150 Sutter, CA 95982-0150 phone 530-755-0466 e-mail <wcrother@syix.com> In Reference to Samuel Wood and Lydia Ballou (my ggg grandparents) !^NavFont02F036B0007NGHHJ6D0907

Subject: Re: [OHIO] Wagon Roads cont'd #5 From: glenys@sonic.net To: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman 73777,25 Date: 10-Nov-98 16:05 Thanks to so many, many of you who have sent me notes - I am so happy you are enjoying this little wander - I will resend #3, obviously it's floating around somewhere in cyberheaven. "Appeal of the Ohio Country" For twenty-five years after the Revolutionary War, the Ohio River was the primary destination of virtually all western migrations in the U.S. This is where the first public land sales were opened, unlike the South. Georgia did not cede its western lands until 1802, and these new public lands were encompassed into a new Mississippi Territory. Extensive Indian control of western Georgia delayed settlements there and migrations from the Atlantic regions into the Southwest did not happen until well after the Northwest Territory had opened for settlement. For example, the first land sales in Mississippi Territory did not begin until 1810. before that, the only real settlements in the South were located near the gulf seaports and the Mississippi River towns. As the first area opened for settlemtn, the appeal of the Ohio Country was for fresh farm land. The Ohio River was the main highway leading to settlements on the principal tributaries, such as the Muskingum, Scioto, Miami or Wabash Rivers. By floating downstream on a flatboat, the Ohio River provided access to fresh lands to be cleared for crop farming and where corn would grow so fast you could almost watch it rise. In addition, the soils between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River were well suited for wheat and other grains besides corn. Except for some open areas within the interior parts of the Northwest Territory, the river areas were densely covered with huge trees, some over a hundred feet in height. Due to the wide branches and closeness of the trees, little sunlight penetrated to the ground below. Visibility was limited to a couple of hundred feet in any direction, and there was an aura of darkness everywhere. However, with sparse underbrush below the towering trees, the trails were not nearly as difficult to follow as one would imagine. the improvement of older roads was to have an impact on migrations to the Ohio Country. ... travel on the Great Valley Road through the interior of Virginia continued the migration pattern established before the Rev. War. As an extension of the Great Valley Road, at Sapling Grove, VA (now Bristol) a wagon could head west through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, or continue south to Knoxville, Tennessee. Back in 1788 the Nashville Road had been built by the Militia, linking Knoxville to Nashville, a distance of some 180 miles west. (Tenn was not a state yet, and still part of North Carolina). The Nashville Road quickly became the primary route for East-West traffic through the interior of Tenn. Earlier travelers had found the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers as their main highways. With this link from Virginia to Knoxville, then on to Nashville, an important circle was completed. Nashville was the northern end of the Natchez Trace, an old Indian trail. By 1796, a road leading from Nashville connected settlements further north, all the way to Lexington, Kentucky. From there, a wagon road to the Ohio River linked overland travelers to Zane's Trace. It became possible to take a wagon from Natchez to Philadelphia - a trip that had prveiously been almost exclusively the opposite direction and mostly with the help of rivers. The Natchez Trace was first used as a return route for boatmen who had floated down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers on flatboats to the ports of Natchez or New Orleans. (New Orleans was controlled by the French until 1803 - making Natchez the southern most U.S. river port). The children of the first settlers of Kentucky and Tenn. became attracted to the lands of the Ohio River as well. Settled well before the Rev. War, the green valleys of KY and TN were very rewarding for farmers. For the first few years, a farmer could watch his corn stalks jump out of the ground in great abundance. But the soil began to lose its fertility within seven or eight seasons. The crops would begin to decrease in size and consistency. Crop rotation and contour plowing for soil retention were techniques not used yet, and the application of fertilizer to the soil was only practiced by a few enlightened German farmers in Eastern Pennsylvania before 1790. Those with large tracts of land learned they had to constantly clear and plant new fields and leave older ones fallow for a number of years before .. a good crop again. But many farmers gave up on their depleting soil - it was easier for some of the next generation to relocate, and find virgin land to start anew. A young man with only a small farm and a growing family to support believed he had everything to gain by moving to the Ohio Country. The opening of roads to the Ohio River from several different starting points was also an incentive. the lure of the Ohio River settlements was for cheap land and once the land was cleared, farming could be easy again. There were only a couple of 'minor' problems: a few Indians resented the ... invasion into their hunting grounds, and it was not necessarily easy traveling to the Ohio River from anywhere. Next #6 "Enter the Turnpike" Glenys -- >>Glenys Rasmussen<< http://www.sonic.net/~glenys/ >>"My home lies wide a thousand miles, In the Never-Never Land." (Henry Lawson)<<

Subject: [OHIO] Wagon Roads to Ohio From: glenys@sonic.net To: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman 73777,25 Date: 9-Nov-98 23:39 Meanwhile installment #4 - Wheeling Rivals Pittsburgh: During parts of the year, the lower water levels and obstructions of the loop of the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Wheeling made navigation difficult for the flatboats. Once Wheeling had been reached, it was relatively free floating all the way to New Orleans. In the early 1790s, a cut-off trail below Pittsburgh leading to Wheeling was developed. A family could leave Braddock's Road at Union-town, Pennsylvania, then head Northwest to Brownsville. After crossing the Monongahela River, the trail led to the present-day town of Washington, and finally to Wheeling. (Today this is route US Highway 40). At first, this cut-off was no more than a path, suitable for pack teams only - but an important overland route to the Ohio River. But by 1796, the pack trail was improved to allow wagon traffic to pass. As a result of its location on the Ohio River and with this overland road access, Wheeling began to rival Pittsburgh as the "Gateway to the West". From Wheeling, the journey down river to Marietta and Rufas Putnam's land office was only a three to four day boat ride. Zane's Trace One of the first land grants on the Ohio River went to a man named Ebenezer Zane, considered the founder of Wheeling, Virginia (now WV). Zane had control of the land on both sides of the river and operated a ferry. With a virtual monopoly on ferry traffic at that point, he became a very prosperous man. Crossing the Ohio River from Wheeling gave access to an Indian trail into the interior of the Ohio country. Rufas Putnam's land holdings were nearby and the creation of the new US Military District, the Fed. Govt. saw the need for upgrading the trail to provide access to these newly opened lands. In 1796 Ebenezer Zane contracted with the Fed. Govt. to construct the first wagon road into the Ohio country. The road began at the Ohio River opposite wheeling, then moved West on the same route today as US Highway 40 (and Interstate 70) to the settlement at Zanesville, then southwest to Chillicothe, and south to the Ohio River again. A ferry ride across the Ohio River landed at Limestone, Kentucky (now Maysville), where a road connnection from Lexington to the Ohio River was already well-traveled in the 1790's. When Zanes Trace was first blazed, the dense forests of Ohio meant that road construction consisted of cutting the trees, leaving the stumps, and clearing out any underbrush to creat a "trace" of a road. The passing wagons tended to form two rows of ruts, which were often the only visible evidence of a road surface. Grading or leveling improvements were made only at places where is was impossible to pass by wagon. On Zane's Trace, travelers referred to a "stumped" wagon as one that had been highcentered on a stump or stuck between stumps - and the word is still used today (when we are "Stumped" over something) (maybe like lost families ??:)))- my note, sorry <g> Southern routes to the Ohio River, ca 1800: Head your wagon towards Lexington, Kentucky. From Virginia, Maryland, or Pennsylvania, take the Great Valley Road to the Cumberland Gap and the Wilderness Road to Lexington. From the Mississippi River, take the Natchez Trace to Nashville. From Knoxville, take the Nashville Road, then north to Lexington. From Lexington, go north to the Ohio River at Maysville and connect with Zane's Trace into the Ohio Country, or build a flatboar and float down the Ohio River. >From NJ or PA begin at Philadelphia, head west to Lancaster thence to Hagerstown in MD keep pointed west to Cumberland thence to Wheeling and on to the Zanes Trail. Get to Zanesville and decide where to go from there. (Looks pretty much to me like your choice was Chillicothe, OH then Limestone, KY where you could divert to Cincinnati or continue southwest to Lexington then Nashville). Next: "Appeal of the Ohio Country" --- >>Glenys Rasmussen<< http://www.sonic.net/~glenys/ >>"My home lies wide a thousand miles, In the Never-Never Land." (Henry Lawson)<<

Subject: Re: [OHIO] Wagon Roads - Here's #3 From: glenys@sonic.net To: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman 73777,25 Date: 10-Nov-98 16:10 Gateway to the West: The first census of 1790 revealed that the US had a population of 3,900,000 people. There was no enumeration for the Northwest Territory, but the entire white population was estimated to be about 4,300 people. Along with the settlements at Cincinnati and a few other Ohio River sites, there were already over a thousand families living near Rufas Putnam's Marietta land office on the Ohio River in 1790. Many of the earliest settlers came to the ohio River settlements by way of Forbes' Road or Braddock's Road, both leading to Pittsburgh, which was becoming known as "the gateway to the west". Pittsburgh in 1790 had nearly 400 houses, mostly brick, and was already an industrial center, where sawmills provided finished lumber, and where a small iron works was in operation. Pittsburgh had the basic necessities and the manufacturing capability for wagon wheels, barrels, horseshoes, and virtually any accessor a migrating family would need to continue a journey west. Upon reaching Pittsburgh, the migrating families would buy or build their own flatboats for floating down the Ohio River to the new settlements. A flatboat was essentially a large rectangular wooden box and was built to hold all of the family's possessions as well as livestock. A flatboat was built for a one-way trip down river. The boat itself would be disassembled at the end of the journey to provide some of the materials and nails needed for building a shelter. Someone reminded me of the movie "How the West was Won" - there is a flatboat scene shown that gives a very good idea of what river travel would have been like - including the hazards and tragedies. Glenys -- >>Glenys Rasmussen<< http://www.sonic.net/~glenys/ >>"My home lies wide a thousand miles, In the Never-Never Land." (Henry Lawson)<<

Subject: Re: [OHIO] OHIO Wagon Roads - Cont'd From: glenys@sonic.net To: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman 73777,25 Date: 5-Nov-98 13:03 Here's the next installment: Rufas Putnam's Great Idea In 1785, a Boston businessman named Rufas Putnam had a great idea for making lots of money. As a former Rev. War General, he knew that the new US was filled with thousands of former Rev. soldiers, all of whom had been paid a suit of clothes and a promise of land "out west somewhere" in the form of a certificate called a Bounty Land Warrant. These certificates had a set value of $1.25 per acre of land, but a soldier would have to travel to the great western wilderness and claim his parcel of land. The certificates could be legally "assigned" and the buyer of the certificate would then gain the claim to wilderness land. Rufas devised a plan to buy certificates from former Rev. soldiers and for a fraction of their face value. He then figured out a way to combine these certs for obtaining large tracts of land in the west. Rufas was to become a land speculator... and he formed a company called the "New Ohio Company". By early 1787 the company was able to obtain warrants representing thousands of acres of land ... . The New Ohio Company did not have trouble buying these certs. Going west was dangerous ... it was estimated that 90% of all Rev. War Land Warrants were sold in this way. The New Ohio Company set up shop in New York City, on Wall Street (and it is how the NY Stock Exchange got started). Based on his assignments of bounty-land warrants, plus purchases on credit, the company's land grant was drawn on a map (north of the Ohio River, including all of present-day Washington County, Ohio), and exempted from the lands to be sold by the Federal Govt. Rufas also managed to gain much more land by agreeing to honor any soldier's bounty land warrants in the area granted to the company. All in all, Rufas' company managed to purchase seven million acres of land in the NorthWest Territory for an average price of eight cents per acre. Rufas said he was willing to manage his company's large tract of land, sell to private buyers, and act as an agent for the Fed. Govt. Congress ... voted for it, mainly because they had no method for selling the land themselves. The New Ohio Company ... was selling land in the new Northwest Territory well before the Federal Government began selling land there. Putnam told Congress he would pay for the land as soon as he sold it. The amazing part of the story is that he pulled it off! He moved to the Ohio River and founded the town of Marietta, Ohio where he began fulfilling his promise to Americans wanting to buy cheap farm land in the Ohio country. As a result, the earliest wagon roads into the Ohio were developed to get people to Rufas Putnam's land. Next: Gateway to the West -- >>Glenys Rasmussen<< http://www.sonic.net/~glenys/ >>"My home lies wide a thousand miles, In the Never-Never Land." (Henry Lawson)<<

Subject: Re: [OHIO] Wagon Roads to Ohio 1787-1820 From: glenys@sonic.net To: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman 73777,25 Date: 4-Nov-98 14:44 OK, seems like lots of you would like to see more, can't believe the response in just a few minutes! Because there are several roads covered, I will start with the first page and just work through them, probably a day per road. First a brief overview: "The role of the Ohio Company, a private fur trading company which had its roots in Virginia, was in maintaining British control of the Forks of the Ohio River. These goals were accomplished in 1763 when France relinquished its claims to the great Mississippi and Ohio Valleys. After the French-Indian War these areas belonged solely to the British and the Mississippi River became the undisputed boundary between British and Spanish Territory. Britain surprised its American colonies with the Proclamation Line of 1763 which took away from the colonies the right to grant lands in the western areas; in fact, the King's proclamation prohibited colonials from crossing the line at all. A revolution took care of that antagonism, and soon after the creation of an American government, the expansion into the western regions became a matter of national policy. By their act of ratifying the Constitution of the United States, some of the thirteen states were not only agreeing to the creation of a new Federal Government, they were giving up their claims to their western lands. The states of Virginia, Massachusetts and Connecticut ceded their western lands to the US government and in 1787 a new "Territory Northwest of the Ohio River" was established by the Continental Congress. ... Why were the thirteen states ready to give up these lands so easily? ... They gave them up for a very simple reason - as a landowner, the Federal Government would have a source of revenue by selling off land - and the states could stop subsidizing this new federal monster they had created. "An an orderly plan for the sale of land emerged, a plan for the creation of new territories and states was developed by Congress. Since the primary source of revenue ... would be from the sale of land, migrations West of the Appalachian Mountains became a matter of national policy. "Any new territories created were to have a Governor appointed, and provisions were made for a militia to maintain order and protect immigrants moving into the new lands. Congress determined that a territory could petition to become a state if there were at least 20,000 people living there. As the first territory established in 1787, the Territory Northwest of the Ohio River became a proving ground for various methods of dividing land ... meanwhile some private land speculators got into the act. More coming .... -- >>Glenys Rasmussen<< http://www.sonic.net/~glenys/ >>"My home lies wide a thousand miles, In the Never-Never Land." (Henry Lawson)<<

------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 11-Nov-98 22:58 Subject: Fwd: [NEBRRoots-L] orphan trains From: Fldollfin@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Washington Post, Horizon Learning Section has a full page with several pictures on Orphans Trains. Interested persons might wish to check www.washingtonpost.com and the section can be ordered for $1 post paid. The article is based on a book Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, by Andrea Warren, 1996. Mention is made of the Orphan Train Heritage Society of America in Springdale, Ark. Feel free to pass this note on to others. Enjoy Lewis Townsend !^NavFont02F02640007NGHHI65CA0E

Thomas Burke lived in Akron, Ohio at the time of his sister's death (she was my great grandmother) in 1938. His sister was Bridget Burke. He also had brothers Dennis, William, Richard, Peter, and another sister Nellie. Does anyone know what happened to this Thomas Burke? I would appreciate any help you could give me. Bridget was born in 1863, so I imagine Thomas was also born in the 1860's. Thanks for any help you can give me. Jill (Lowe3@prodigy.net)

Some of you may have read this as it was posted last year as well, however it is well worth repeating. Tomorrow is Armistice/Veterans Day in the US. Not just tomorrow but anytime you think of how you love your freedom, thank a Vet. BTW, you are welcome. My comrades in arms and I were proud to serve. WHAT IS A VET? Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg- or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking. What is a vet? He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day to make sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel. He is the barroom loud mouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel. She - or he - is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang. He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back at all. He is the Quantico drill instructor that has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs. He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins his ribbons and medals on with a prosthetic hand. He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by. He is the three anonymous heroes in the Tomb of the Unknowns, whose presence in Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognised with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep. He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now and aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife was still alive to hold him when the nightmares come. He is an ordinary and yet extraordinary human being; a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs. He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatness nation ever known. So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded. Two little words mean a lot, "THANK YOU". Remember November 11th is Veterans Day "It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protestor to burn the flag." Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC !^NavFont02F0AB50007NGHHQB64EC2

Hi Everyone, Well compuserve decided to go nuts last night and ate my mail. I only lost 54 messages but if you sent a message and I do not answer you might want to send it again. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes. Maggie !^NavFont02F00B70007NGHHGB853C3

Maurice Have you tried getting a Birth Record for Janis SHAW? You can request one by sending a SASE to: Erie Co. Probate Court 323 Columbus Ave. Sandusky OH 44870 Carol

------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 10-Nov-98 10:54 Subject: Query for Erie Co., Ohio ------------------------------------------------------------------ NAME: Maurice Bartell SHAW EMAIL: dhowell43@hotmail.com DATE:1998-11-10 URL: QRYTEXT: Looking for info on SHAW: Janis SHAW born in Sandusky 1906-7. Mother Ella(?) SHAW; father unknown. Janis & Ella were living in Detroit MI by 1918. May have returned to OH after 1919. !^NavFont02F01A70007NGHHHA98E44

Since things have been pretty quiet lately, I thought I would write some history I found in a book called "Sandusky Area Miscellany", by Charles E. Frohman, published by The Ohio Historical Society. The Singing Rock A long time resident of Oxford Township in the earlier days, M. S. Harrington, reminisced: I have heard father tell many a times how on the memorable 10th of September in `1813, he went from the fort a Bloomingville with a number of men to help mow the prairie on the Ford place, and how he took my brother Ralph, a little shaver of perhaps ten years, with him. There was a large rock close by the field, there to this day, and Ralph, after playing for a time, became sleepy and lay down on the big stone for nap, but unlike the Rip of literature, sleep was chased away by the "dogs of war." The cannon's reverberation over the water of old Erie seemed to center in the stone and in language as plain as that of a phonograph, said, " The battle is on - victory is ours!" After listening moment, Ralph ran, all out of breath , to father and said,. "That stone over there is singing." "Singing", said my father in surprise, "what do you mean, child?" "You just come and see," said Ralph. Father went and put his ear to the stone, and sure enough was "singing: with unbounded demonstration the skill and courage of that next-to- Washington, best-loved American soldier Commodore Oliver Perry." ( N.B.: The Singing Rock is on the east side of State Rout 4 south of the Turnpike, where Pipe Creek crosses the road.) The next one is titled: Public Bath House: Bath House, in Sandusky City- Opposite Colt's Exchange- and connected with Winfield's Barbering and Hairdressing Establishment. The subscribers- having an eye single to the wants and comforts of this community- would give notice to the inhabitants thereof, to travelers who may journey hither, and to public at large, that they have fitted up, at a considerable expense, a commodious Bathing Establishment, where all persons wishing to indulge in this wholesome luxury, can be accommodated in a manner most agreeable and satisfactory. Warm and cold baths can be had at any and all times, and the desirable accompaniments of Soap, Brushes, towels, Perfumery, etc., shall never be found wanting. The practice of bathing is too salutary to need comment. It is recommended by all physicians and its utility cannot but be obvious to every person mindful of health. We trust the public will manifest its appreciation of the advantages of this establishment by extending to it a liberal patronage. Published in the Sandusky Clarion, August 5, 1843 Tar and Feather Party: It was reported in October 1822, that a case entitled "State of Ohio versus Judson and Bristol" was tried in Norwalk, with Proscuting Attorney Latimer for the state, and Attorneys Whittlesey, Lane, and Williams for the defendants. The trial was upon an indictment for assault and battery, for violence done to the person for one Reuben Seely, in binding and tarring and feathering him. The defendants pleaded guilty to the indictment, Counsel for the defense then offered evidence in extenuation of the penalty, and offered to prove the general bad character of the person assaulted. The prosecuting attorney objected, but the court overruled the objection and received the evidence. Then counsel for the defendants offered to give evidence that the person assaulted had left his family and associated himself with other women. The prosecuting attorney's objections were again overruled and the court received this evidence entirely unconnected with the battery. Other evidence was likewise offered, which being strictly hearsay, was again objected to but overruled and admitted. When the evidence was concluded, the court fined the defendants seventy -five cents each. Hope you enjoyed a bit of history. Leora

Susan, You should be able to get her Birth Record at: Erie Co. Probate Court 323 Columbus Ave. Sandusky OH 44870 That is also the address for Marriage records to present, and Death records up to 20 DEC 1909. After 1909, Death Certificates are available at: Erie Co. Heath Dept. 420 Superior St. Sandusky OH 44870 Good Luck Carol

Carol A. Steele wrote: > Beth > According to "Erie County, Ohio, Cemetery Census Before 1909" I > checked all cemeteries in Milan Twp. and found the following: > Milan Cemetery, Milan Twp.: > MILLS, Adeline, d. March or May 31, 1852, 21 yrs. > " , Jenny, March 13, 1852, 6m. > " , Myron, Co. B, 101st Ohio Inf. (no dates). > I found no ERSKINEs. > Since Milan is actually partly in Huron County, check their page and see > if you can get a look up in their cemetery book. You may also try both > Probate Courts for a Death Record. The ones for the 1850s are sporatic. > Erie Co. Probate Court Huron County Probate Court > 323 Columbus Ave. 2 E. Main St. > Sandusky OH 44870 Norwalk OH 44857 > > Good Luck > Carol > > ==== OHERIE Mailing List ==== > This list is designed to provide a discussion forum for anyone who has an interest in Erie County Ohio. Hey guys ! Tell Beth I have a family of Erskines living next door to me in Lincoln Park,Michigan, can connect them if they want. Lisa

Beth, Also check both Probate courts for Marriage Records. Carol

Beth According to "Erie County, Ohio, Cemetery Census Before 1909" I checked all cemeteries in Milan Twp. and found the following: Milan Cemetery, Milan Twp.: MILLS, Adeline, d. March or May 31, 1852, 21 yrs. " , Jenny, March 13, 1852, 6m. " , Myron, Co. B, 101st Ohio Inf. (no dates). I found no ERSKINEs. Since Milan is actually partly in Huron County, check their page and see if you can get a look up in their cemetery book. You may also try both Probate Courts for a Death Record. The ones for the 1850s are sporatic. Erie Co. Probate Court Huron County Probate Court 323 Columbus Ave. 2 E. Main St. Sandusky OH 44870 Norwalk OH 44857 Good Luck Carol