Sorry I caused such a furor by forwarding my last query. I was not aware of the rule. I had inadvertantly misent it and rather than retype the whole thing. But, here goes. Searching for information on Minerva HOOD, b 16 Oct 1832 in OH, d 23 Dec 1932 Fairfield Co. Buried with her husband, Llewellyn LANE (md 1 Jan 1867, Fairfield Co.) at Wesley Chapel Cemetery Fairfield Co. According to her Death Certificate her parents were George and Sarah (Unknown) HOOD. I know nothing about that family and would like to find siblings and mother's maiden name. There were two estates settled for George HOODs in Fairfield County, but I have been unable to see the records. I have a good deal of LANE information, but would really appreciate any assistance with the HOOD connection. Will gladly exchange info. Jeanne T. Lane

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-----Original Message----- From: Alicia Grannis <agrannis@plix.com> Date: Sunday, December 06, 1998 7:44 PM Subject: Fw: [OHFAIRFI-L] Mail problem - on my greenapple system > >-----Original Message----- >From: Carol Swinehart <cshart@greenapple.com> >To: OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com <OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Sunday, December 06, 1998 10:36 AM >Subject: [OHFAIRFI-L] Mail problem - on my greenapple system > > >>If you have tried to contact me in the last two days - please resend your >>messages. My mailbox on greenapple had a problem and all mail for the last >>two days had to be deleted. >> >>Thank you. >> >> >>Carol Swinehart cshart@greenapple.com >>Admistrator of OHFAIRFI-L OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com >>Fairfield County OGS Webpage: >>http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org >>Fairfield County Genweb: >>http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org/genweb.html >>Searching Fairfield County Families: Swinehart, Homrighouser, >>Betz,Foltz,Quickel,Anspach,Spohn,Troutman,Zartman >>Church Archive Links: >>http://www.greenapple.com/~cshart/chlinks.html >> >

If you have tried to contact me in the last two days - please resend your messages. My mailbox on greenapple had a problem and all mail for the last two days had to be deleted. Thank you. Carol Swinehart cshart@greenapple.com Admistrator of OHFAIRFI-L OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com Fairfield County OGS Webpage: http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org Fairfield County Genweb: http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org/genweb.html Searching Fairfield County Families: Swinehart, Homrighouser, Betz,Foltz,Quickel,Anspach,Spohn,Troutman,Zartman Church Archive Links: http://www.greenapple.com/~cshart/chlinks.html

Die herzlichsten Weihnachtsgrusse - Hearty Christmas Greetings The Fairfield County Chapter of The Ohio Genealogical Society will hold their annual Christmas potluck luncheon on Thursday, 17 Dec, 1998 at 12:00 pm in the Garret of the Fairfield County District Library. Festivities will include a white elephant gift exchange and induction of the charter members of Fairfield County Pioneers. Please reply to ksmith@greenapple.com if you have any questions or would like to attend.

>Resent-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:46:03 -0800 (PST) >Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:44:52 -0500 >From: Tim Pierce <twp@rootsweb.com> >Old-To: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Subject: RootsWeb and Recent Hotmail Problems >X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i >To: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <listowners-announce@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2 >X-Loop: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: listowners-announce-request@rootsweb.com > >Hi Listowners -- > >A couple of nights ago, Hotmail's servers went crazy and started >sending us duplicate and triplicate copies of everything they sent us. >We were receiving dozens of extra copies of their mail every second. >That much mail can kill a mail server. > >In order to protect RootsWeb, we were forced to reject all mail coming >from Hotmail for about fifteen hours. That means that between 1am and >6pm on December 3, anything sent from a Hotmail user to rootsweb.com >was just discarded. Even with this protective measure in place, the >mail server crashed twice overnight trying to deal with the barrage of >Hotmail messages. > >This message is just to let you know in case your subscribers ask >about disappearing mail, or in case any listowners are Hotmail users >themselves and are wondering. Next week's RootsWeb Review will >mention this problem, so there's no need to forward this message to >your lists. > >-- >Regards, >Tim Pierce >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative >system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades > > >

Dear Friends: I requested some info re securing a death cert for Jacob CAMPBELL, and haven't heard back. I wondered if you replied and I accidentally deleted it. That finger flies up to the delete button quickly it worries me for fear I will delete the wrong thing. If this is the case, please accept my apologies and resend if you still have the information I requested. Maxine

In 1958, Ruth Shull Brown of Logan OHIO published an exhaustive genealogy of the descendants of Frederick Jacob Shull (1778-1862) and Anna Barbara Weidner (1781-1848), who came to Lancaster OHIO from Dobel, Wurtemberg about 1840. It includes descriptions of their emmigration; as well as dates of births, deaths, and marriges. It includes complete genealogies for the next three generations; and for seven generations through their son Mathias Shull (i.e, all 253 of Mathias' gr-grandchildren!). A copy of this book was given to a distant relative of mine in the early 1960's; after we connected for the first time a couple months ago, he sent me a photocopy of his original. As my copy is quite smeared, the only way I can transfer its words is to re-type them. I can answer specific questions on specific people OR I can send a summary of the first three generations to anyone who is interested. One thing to note is that Ms. Brown gave absolutely no references for the dates she wrote down, she only stated them to be correct. I know some of the facts she lists are wrong; but, overall, she did an excellent job. A copy of this book absolutely belongs in the Fairfield County Genealogy Library; but, unless someone can find who presently owns the copyright, I cannot make a copy of it or re-type its information directly. Amongst the children and in-laws of Frederick and Anna were: Mathias Shull (1801-1879)and Christiana Weidner (1805-1879), Christina Elizabeth Shull (1808-1847) and John Phillip Ruff (1802-1851), George Frederick Shull (1812-1853) and Susan Catherine Wahl (1819-?), Johann Martin Shull (1814-1887) and Louisa Wahl (1822-1896), John Jacob Shull (1819-1905) and Phillipina Fautz (1824-1909). Amongst the other names mentioned in the first three generations are Daubenmier, Shaw, Schwenkel, Burris, Schamding, Sigler, Kull, Baumann, Blum, Shoemaker, Miller, Paulis, Hart, and Zimmerman.

Hello all: I am trying to find out who the parents of James W. RAGAN were. He lived most of his life in Fairfield Co. until 1867 when he moved to Shelby Co. Illinois. He was born in 1827, and died in 1886. I would also appreciate any information on his wife, Ellen SPRINGER, b. 1826, d. 1905. Their children were: Eber A. Ragan, Silas A. Ragan, Addison A. Ragan, George W. Ragan, James F. Ragan, Joseph A. Ragan, Laura A. Ragan, and William H. Ragan. If anyone has anything they can share, please contact me. Steve Ragan sragan@springnet1.com

THANKS to the response received from an earlier posting via Karen S. Smith. Now it has been established the GROVE (name of) superintendent's actual name is Otto and Etta Grove who were at the Fairfield County Children's Home in Lancaster, Ohio, sometime around 1920. I have talked by phone with a 96 year old woman who taught school while Mr. & Mrs. Otto Grove were there. Any additional information to tie down the BEGINNING and ENDING of said superintendency will be appreciated. Please reply directly to William Venrick <wvenrick@greenapple.com> THANKS

>Looking for information on William GARRISON. I'm afraid I've no help. I do have a question, though. >Children of William and Eleanor were: James, Johanna, Thomas, Rebecca, >William, Charles, David, Washington. ... >Washington once had a grocery store on Main St. in Lancaster.... > >Mary EARLE Garrison I'm also looking for information about a Garrison. Harriet "Hattie" Sheets of Fairfield Co, was apparently married to a Garrison in the 1890's, though by 1910 she was married to Joseph Ansel. I believe Hattie and ? Garrison had four children: Versie (Garrison) Imboden, Zona (Garrison) ?, Ward C, and Cyril F. Cyril died in Lancaster in July, 1987. [I believe Hattie and Joseph Ansel had two children as well: Ora E, and Merl.] Do you connect with these Garrisons, or at least know something about them? Bert Shaw, Portland OR

Dana, Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this MILLER family. It is a good thing that it did because now I have more infomation to send you. I found this on GENFORUM, another Ohio researcher let me know it was there and I have written a message and am hoping for a reply. In the meantime I looked on my FTM Ohio Marriages 1789-1850 and came up with the marriage dates for the children mentioned in the query and also the given names of the spouses. So here is what I have gotten and it has not all been verified but it looks resonable! The query was for Peter MILLER and Mary BROWN who are my ancestors. Let me know what you think. MILLER, Peter 1757-1824; PA-OH Family Group Record ========================================================== Husband: Peter Miller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Birth: abt 1757 Death: 1824 Marriage: ========================================================== Wife: Mary Brown ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Birth: abt 1770 Death: 1831 ========================================================== Children ========================================================== 1 F Rebecca Miller Spouse: Betzer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 F Elizabeth Miller Spouse: Frederick Kibler (m 3 Jan 1822) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 F Catherine Miller Birth: 21 Mar 1791 , , Pennsylvania Census: 1850 Liberty Twp, Highland, Ohio Census: 1870 Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa Death: 7 Sep 1872 Lived: With Joseph and Mary Phillips in 1850 Lived: With Joseph and Mary Phillips in 1870 Spouse: Barnett Meleiser (m 31 Jan 1815) Spouse: John Crawford (m 2 Feb 1822) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 F Mary Miller Spouse: James Carmean (m 22 Feb 1820) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 F Sarah Miller Spouse: Reedy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 M John Miller Spouse: Catherine Blaine (m 30 Jan 1825) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 M Peter Miller Spouse: Harriet Holderman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 M Jacob Miller Spouse: Mariah Dawson (m 26 Nov 1829) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9 M Henry Miller Spouse: Harriet Bunn (m 2 Aug 1832) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 F Nancy Miller Spouse: Isaac Moore (m 22 Aug 1828) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11 F Eve Miller Spouse: James Dawson (m 20 Mar 1832) ========================================================== Prepared 26 Nov 1998 by: Margo Lurvey 2181 Avenal Lane Grand Junction, Colorado 81503 ======================================================== ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Looking for information on William GARRISON. William was b. 17 Mar 1812 in New Castle Co., DE, married 22 Nov 1837 Eleanor REYNOLDS in Perry Co., OH, lived the remainder of his life in Perry Co. Died there on 30 Mar 1889 and is buried in West Rushville. Children of William and Eleanor were: James, Johanna, Thomas, Rebecca, William, Charles, David, Washington. Who were William's parents?? (James & ??). Washington once had a grocery store on Main St. in Lancaster. Can anyone help with this?? Thanks. Mary EARLE Garrison mlgarrsn@aol.com

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Ignore the first message. I had the address for digest mode wrong. I thought you all might like to know about a new Ohio mail list at Rootsweb. OH-FOOTSTEPS-L-request@rootsweb.com or OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode) This list if for original Ohio source material... wills, deeds, bible records, tax lists, cemetery files, pension applications, obituaries, old letters, marriage lists, etc... with other Ohio researchers. To subscribe send a message to one of the addresses above. Include no subject, just the word subscribe in the body of the message. Patsy Kishler Fairfield County Chapter OGS Webpage: www.fairfieldgenealogy.org Fairfield County, OH GenWeb page: http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org/genweb.html Fairfield County, OH mail list: OHFAIRFI-L-request@rootsweb.com (send a message with no subject and only the word subscribe in the body)

I thought you all might like to know about a new Ohio mail list at Rootsweb. OH-FOOTSTEPS-L-request@rootsweb.com or OH-FOOTSEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode) This list if for original Ohio source material... wills, deeds, bible records, tax lists, cemetery files, pension applications, obituaries, old letters, marriage lists, etc... with other Ohio researchers. To subscribe send a message to one of the addresses above. Include no subject, just the word subscribe in the body of the message. Patsy Kishler Fairfield County Chapter OGS Webpage: www.fairfieldgenealogy.org Fairfield County, OH GenWeb page: http://www.fairfieldgenealogy.org/genweb.html Fairfield County, OH mail list: OHFAIRFI-L-request@rootsweb.com (send a message with no subject and only the word subscribe in the body)

I'm sorry to post this to the list but my computer's stroke caused me to lose all my e-mail addresses! Joanne, I received all the wonderful information you sent on the Presidio of San Francisco. THANK YOU!!! This provides more information that I can add to my files on John Suiter. He was born, raised and died in Fairfield County, Ohio but went to California for the Gold Rush and joined the Civil War. Please let me know if there is anything I can do for you here in Fairfield County! Karen

DON'S MOM AND THE TURKEY It all started in July at a grocery store promotion. "How large is this turkey?" the local grocery store asked. Guesses ran to 30 pounds or so, but actually it was 42 pounds. This was, needless to say, a "large" turkey. But in July, no one wanted the turkey, and it was put in the freezer till a more auspicious time. And so it came to pass that Mom was in the store just before the Holidays in 1994, and since she is a naturally talkative person, she struck up a conversation with the butcher at the counter. "I need a kind of big turkey for my family coming," said Mom. To which the butcher replied, "Well, if you are looking for a big turkey, I may have just the thing." And he hauled out the 42- pound bird for Mom. "Nice big bird," said Mom, "but it would cost far too much for my fixed income budget." "Here's the deal," said the friendly butcher. "I can't move this bird at all at the usual price. No one wants a bird this big, so tell you what I'll do. I'll sell you this turkey for 49 cents a pound." Mom, being nobody's fool, thought that such a purchase would be entirely reasonable. After all, twenty bucks for a really BIG turkey would be a reasonable price. And besides, of such stuff are Really Neat Family Legends made. (Little did she know.) "Sold," said Mom. It took four days to thaw out. I showed up in Fargo two days before, and Mom was all a-twitter with ideas for how to put on a family dinner tour de force. We are talking "major" stuffing here. And so, off we went to the various stores to purchase dinner-making stuff. Let me point out something important here. No one makes a roasting bag to handle a 40 pound turkey. And few roasters can handle it either. So we bought one of those nifty open aluminum roasting pans, figuring to cover it with, oh, an acre or two of aluminum foil. But there were some other interesting engineering problems to deal with. Like how to lift it. "No problem," said Mom, "we'll just get some cheesecloth, wrap the bird in a kind of sling, and lift it that way." Elegant solution. Mom, methinks, has missed her true calling of engineer. And so, the Night Before, figuring we'd need a really long cooking time, we stuffed, slung, positioned, covered, vented the bird, and popped it in the oven at about 1:30 a.m. And so to bed, for a long winter's nap. Wrong. At 3:15 a.m., I heard my Mom calling my name. Now you have to understand, when things are going well, I am "Don" to everyone, including Mom. But when that is not the case, I become "Donald." And Mom has a special way of saying Donald. "Donald," she said, "oh, Donald!" I responded groggily. "What? Whatsamatter?" I know Mom, and waking folks at 3:15 a.m. is just not her style. "Donald," she said, "we have a problem." "What," I responded, "problem do we have?" "Our turkey is running over," said Mom. The shift from "the" turkey to "our" turkey was subtly done, in retrospect. At the time, it was effective. This was now a joint crisis. For those who do not see such things clearly, it turns out that turkeys, in the process of cooking, release large quantities of juices, which for normal birds often later becomes gravy. For this bird, it had become a flood, and had overflowed the all-too- shallow roasting pan into the bottom of a hot oven. Smoke. Small apartment. Smoke detectors at 3:16 a.m., roughly corresponding to opening the oven door. And cleaning turkey juices from the bottom of a hot oven at 3:19 a.m. is No Easy Thing, I can assure you. Many towels, not of the paper variety. Even some other cloth materials I still do not recognize. Mom is ready for any crisis of spill, it seems. And so it got cleaned up. The towels got put in the washer at about 3:30 a.m., the fans blew the smoke out of the apartment. The smoke detectors got reset, and so to bed, for an altogether shorter winter's nap. Wrong again. The turkey overflowed again at 5:20 a.m. Same scenario, in all relevant ways. We tried to suck up some of the juices from the roaster, but the turkey baster bulb was bad, and wouldn't create a vacuum. Smoke alarms, much general good-natured grousing, and Mom standing around saying gratuitous things like "If I had known this would happen, I never would have bought that darned turkey." There is no way an eldest son can respond to that appropriately, other than with variations on a theme of, "Oh, it's all right, Mom. This is just Another Neat Adventure on the Road of Life, and Someday We'll All Laugh At This Together." So we each played our preordained roles in the crisis, and by that time, it was time to shower and shave and get ready for the siblings, grandchildren, etc., and just hang out. By about 11:30 a.m., the tiny kitchen was crowded with sisters, each moving in a mysterious choreography, getting in each other's way, using the Very Dish That I Needed for things like glorified rice and other holiday dishes, and the general buzz of Big Holiday Meal Preparation. And when the time came to lift the bird, out it came in Mom's cheesecloth sling, just as nice as you please, and if I do say so myself, it looked like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting on its platter. Much frenetic activity followed, including the required Making of the Gravy from what remained of the copious turkey juices in the bottom of the pan. Mom is not one of your cornstarch gravy people. She does a flour paste, mixing it thoroughly and putting it in a bowl, thereafter to be stirred into the gravy juices for several minutes, and it really is quite wonderful. Now I have to tell you, I was standing right there, and I don't know how it happened. But somehow, the white glass bowl with the flour/water mixture in it ended up on top of the stove. On a burner. Which was on. The bowl was opaque white glass, not Pyrex, and not made for this kind of insult. And the bowl exploded. I don't mean cracked and fell apart, I mean "exploded," with a loud bang, and the throwing waist-high of glass splinters mixed with flour and water all around the kitchen, including onto the aforementioned hot burner, which promptly gave off a cloud of smoke, setting off the aforementioned smoke alarms yet again, which caused the smallest children to panic and cry -- well, you get the idea. Rising (well, stooping actually) to the occasion, I: a. turned off the burner b. threw everyone out of the kitchen c. disconnected the smoke alarm d. opened the windows e. started to clean up the mess Mom had been standing there all this time, watching this happen with an air of almost mystic detachment. I was looking directly at her when she recovered her equanimity. "Darn!," said Mom, "That was my last flour. I'll have to go to the store and get some more." And she put her coat on and out the door she went. Leaving yours truly to once again reorganize the scene. And when she got back with flour, about 15 minutes later, all was again In Order, and the day progressed more or less uneventfully. The dinner was magnificent. The quantity and quality of the leftovers were astonishing. It was, in every possible way, An Event of Significance. But (you may already have surmised) it was Not Yet Over. Afterwards, the sisters took over the kitchen, cleaning everything up and generally fulfilling the role of Dutiful Daughters (no sexism implied, as I had already fulfilled the role of Dutiful Son for most of the previous long winter's night), packing the dishwasher, putting stuff away, etc. And, as it turned out, Turning On the Self-Cleaning Oven. Now, for those not familiar with the technology, SCOs heat themselves up to a relatively high temperature, lock themselves (this is important) with a solenoid so that no one can open them again, then heat WAY up and literally burn the stuff off the inside, reducing it to a fine ash that can easily be wiped out or even sucked out with a small vacuum cleaner. Remember the turkey juice that had overflowed? Well, there was still a fair amount of it left on the bottom of the oven. We had not gotten around to sponging it out, and the late-arriving sister didn't know that needed to be done. So, oven REALLY hot and locked, turkey juice on the bottom, and a vent for excess heat. Smoke. Not just a little smoke; we are talking SMOKE here -- billows of smoke, clouds of acrid smoke, really serious smoke. And the aforementioned smoke alarms, causing little children to panic and cry. Open windows, and smoke billows out. Open doors to hallway, and smoke fills the entire apartment complex. Which, of course, has its own smoke alarms and automatic fire department call relays. And we can't open the oven, which takes a while to cool down, and still pours smoke out the vents. So, smoke, alarms, neighbors, fire department folks. We gave them all some fudge, put fans in the windows, and assured everyone that The Situation is Temporary and Really Under Control. Mom moved wraith-like through it all, and kept saying "Boy, we're going to remember this one for a long time."

To anyone on the list who may be waiting to hear from me: I would be the first one to tell every computer user to back up their system. However, I did not heed my own advise and I lost everything last night. I am in the process of rebuilding but anyone who is expecting e-mail from me, please e-mail me again. Please forgive me for posting this to the list but I didn't know of any other way to make contact. Karen S. Smith Corresponding Secretary