Is there anyone on the list who is a descendant of Michael COLBETZER (whatever spelling)?? Or anyone who has information about any COLBETZER, BETZER, COLPETZER, etc. in Medina Co? I'd like to exchange info and fit Michael into the rest of the families. Phyllis Phyllis Rickard Adrian, MI [email protected]

I need to make a correction with my posting on the LADU and MCCRAY families. ALZINA LADU was a sister to HANNAH LADU and the parents names are OLIVER P. LADU and HULDA M. JACOBS. HANNAH LADU married OLIVER PERRY MCCRAY in 1852. Thank you, Verna

I am new to your list and hoping that someone will help me find a marriage record between OLIVER PERRY MCCRAY and HANNAH ELMIRA LADU. The date I have from HANNAH'S obit says they married Sept. 22, 1852. They were living in Hinckley and had a daughter, ALZINA. I would appreciate any help in locating this family, maybe they would be on a census. Verna

Ohio marriage records show OLIVE GANNET married Shubel SMITH 9 Jan 1837 in Lorain Co. (I have just read that part of Medina Co. used to be Lorain Co.) They had an inn/tavern in Spencer, Medina Co. OH. Is anyone doing any GANNET research? I am unable to find anything on the SMITH family. Lola Texas HAYES, INMAN, LIPPENCOTT, MARSH, ROGERS, SANFORD, SMITH All of Medina Co., OH from NJ, VT, MA, CONN via NY ENGLAND; AVIS, COOK, CRACKNELL (CRACKNAIL), HAMMOND, HOLLAND, ORREDGE, PULHAM, THOROGOOD, TURNER

Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina?read=323 Surname: Ault, Anderson, Beebe, Cook, Hale, Lamb, Pemberton, RANDALL, Witter, Wightman ------------------------- I am searching for information on the family of William H. V. and Catherine (Randall) Witter of Medina (Medina) Ohio. They were married in Medina on December 16, 1832.

Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina?read=321 Surname: Anderson, Ault, Beebe, Cook, Hale, Lamb, Pemberton, RANDALL, Wightman ------------------------- I am researching for information on James RANDALL (1778) (1849) his wife Joanna PEMBERTON (1780)(1851) and family; Sophia P., Rev. Pemberton, Delano P., David Austin, DD, Catherine, Mary Henrietta and Harriet. James was a farmer and blacksmith in the Granger, Medina and Richfield area until his death. I will be pleased to exchange information with members in this lineage

Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina?read=319 Surname: Lemuel Sheldon ------------------------- Im looking for info aboutmy great grandfather He came from Ohio and I thought maybe Medina county His name is Edmund Lemuel Sheldon I dont his fathers name he move to Hardin count Illinois and was married there he was born in 1825 I really would like to know his parents name thanks

Just acting on some requests to alert you as to when I would be on the PBS series Ancestors. In the Pittsburgh channel 13, WQED viewing area I am on THIS Saturday the 29th at 6 p.m. It is a 30 minute show. I have not seen it yet, so can't tell you if it is worth it. LOL! If you are in Erie it will air on WQLN at Friday 8/04/00 12:30 PM and Sunday 8/06/00 11:00 AM. If you are not in the Pittsburgh or Erie areas you will have to check with your local PBS station to see if and when they air the episode on Cemeteries which is #207. I know the Johnstown, PA PBS station airs it on Sunday mornings at 11 a.m. since we saw it there while on vacation. Or you can go to the website : http://www.kbyu.org/ancestorsbroadcast/listings.asp which can tell you when it will be aired in your area. Let me know what you think. Of course I will be unable to watch it live. That's why they invented VCR's! -- Elissa ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

The 96th Reunion of the Dague families will be held Sunday, August 20, 2000 at Sunset Lake, east of Spencer, Ohio. The meal is at 1pm. Come early and stay late. Bring a well-filled picnic basket and table service. Beverages will be furnished. Anyone connected to the Dague family is invited to attend. Carole Schetter, Historian

Looking for information on the family of Jacob and Mary Snyder believed to have resided in Homer Township during the mid 1800's. They had children named Gabriel, Alexander, David, Mary, Elizabeth, Jacob A. and Henry V. Thank for any info. Barb Snyder

Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina?read=318 Surname: BUNTON, DAVIS ------------------------- Searching for relatives of Queene Isabelle Bunton b. 5/1876 in TN. Married John Bell Davis. Lived Guthrie (Todd County)KY where shown on 1900 Census. >From 1905-1915 lived in Madisonville (Hopkins County) KY. By 1919 was in Fairmont (Marion County) WV. Sometime in 1940's moved to Cleveland, OH where believed she died sometime in 1950's. Any info on relatives appreciated.

Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina?read=317 Surname: ------------------------- From: History of Medina Co., OH - Baskin & Battey - 1881 There is no mention of his children, but the book makes it clear that John McGregor was a highly respected teacher. Page 624 Within a chapter on the settlement of Sharon Twp: "The ruling spirits of the center of the town were generally New Englanders, fully alive to the importance of education, and early conceived the idea of a higher school. To this end, a charter was obtained in 1836, for the erection of an academy, which was accomplished during that year. This building also served a double purpose, the first floor being used for school purposes, while the upper room was occupied by the Universalist Society as a church. The first seven years of the existence of the academy, was mainly under the direction of JOHN McGREGOR, a very successful teacher, and under whose supervision the school acquired a widespread reputation, Mr. McGREGOR was a native of Scotland, and had there become quite a prominent politician, but for the expression of some radical sentiment, he had left old Scotia, and came to Vermont in 1829. Through the intervention of Mrs. Caroline Gibbs, he came with his family to Sharon, and took charge of the academy during the winter of 1836-37. In the spring, he was induced to go to Wadsworth to start a school there. Under his directions, the octagonal building in that village was erected and used by him for two years, when he returned to Sharon and taught five years. His first residence in Sharon was a log house near the residence of the late Mrs. GRAVES, one mile north of the Center. He bought a farm on Lot 39, two miles west of the Center, on which he lived a short time. He moved to Wadsworth finally, in 1842, settling on a farm on the diagonal road, near Wilson's Corners. His death took place in 1847, from the bursting of a blood-vessel. He was of an eccentric turn of mind, and zealous in any subject he took hold of." Page 626 Also within the chapter on settlement of Sharon T. "HORACE GIBBS was Sharon's first cabinet maker. He made chairs, tables and coffins - "the latter at $1 a foot." He had a turning-lathe, on a spring brook, near the residence of VALENTINE WALTMAN, where he got out his round stuff. He afterward located his shop at the Center. He was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he held for many years. He married a daughter of JOHN McGREGOR; moved from Sharon to Medina, where he kept a grocery for a year or two, then moved to Michigan. He afterward went to Kansas, where he died in 1874." Page 627 "The first hotel in Sharon was erected by MILO and HORACE GIBBS, in 1835, and kept by them until 1845." Page 629 "Mrs. CAROLINE GIBBS was a prominent personage in the settlement of Sharon. She came from Vermont in 1833, with her husband, MILO GIBBS. In consequence of some domestic trouble, he left her, and she carried on the battle of life alone; she was a leader in all matters of a political or public nature, and did her full share in developing the township; she personally helped to clear off the public square; doffing the dress of the parlor and putting on garments suited to the work, she grappled with the logs and stumps of the new clearing; she was a great reader and well versed in history and politics; she was a Democrat in her proclivities; she removed to Michigan in 1873, and died there in June, 1880, aged ninety-eight years. Her native State was Connecticut." There is another discussion on the talents of JOHN McGREGOR on pages 428 & 429 - mostly on his teaching methods. If you do not have it already, and would like it, let me know, and I will type it for you. According to page 4 of my Medina Co. tombstone book, JOHN McGREGOR and is buried in Woodlawn Cmty in Wadsworth: (his headstone reads: Sept. 6, 1848 - 52y 2m 9d), but no other McGREGOR's are also in that cemetery. I see nothing to indicate who his wife may have been. Jean Best

Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina?read=316 Surname: McGregor ------------------------- I am looking for information on John McGregor and his children born in Medina County. They are Caroline McGregor Lanphear born (aft 1834) at Sharon Center; Malcolm Graham McGregor(1843)and Emma McGregor Jenkins, born (aft 1835) in Wadsworth. Isabel (Belle) McGregor married Horace Gibbs, who I believe may have been from Medina County also. Any information on the above is greatly appreciated.

Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina?read=314 Surname: WILLIAM STOWELL, MARY SHAW, DAVID STOWELL, POLLY REMINGTON ------------------------- Sounds like you may have already seen this, but on page 826 of History of Medina Co., OH -(Baskin & Battey - 1881), within a bio of O. E. WHITE, (that's OZRO E. WHITE) born October 12, 1834, in Sheridan Twp., Chautanqua Co., NY, it states that on May 3, 1855, he married VANILLA M. STOWELL, b. April 17, 1836 in Plainfield, Mass., "daughter of WILLIAM and MARY (SHAW) STOWELL; he was born in Massachusetts March 28, 1812, she in same State in 1822; his father's name was DAVID, whose wife was POLLY REMINGTON, to whom were born NATHAN, SALLIE, DAVID, WILLIAM, HARRIET, MEHITABLE and CLARISSA. The STOWELLS are of Scotch ancestry. Mrs. WHITE's grandfather, on her mother's side, was JOHN. Mrs. WHITE has one brother and one sister living - LYDIA A., Mrs. T. RICE, of Sullivan Twp, Ashland Co., Ohio, and WILLIAM H., in Fulton Co., this state." As an asside, a relative of mine married OZRO STOWELL WHITE, son of OZRO E. & VANILLA M. STOWELL. And another relative of mine married DAVID PORTER STOWELL. I don't know if he was a son of WILLIAM & MARY (SHAW) STOWELL or not, but his tombstone indicates that he was born in 1827. I assume you have the info from the families tombstones at Chatham, but if not, let me know and I will be glad to tell you how the Medina Co. tombstone book lists them. JEAN BEST - [email protected]

Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina?read=312 Surname: Stowell, Shaw ------------------------- Looking for information or pictures of William Stowell and family who lived in Chatham beginning about 1850.

Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina?read=311 Surname: ------------------------- The Giles name has been confusing to trace. We really aren't sure if there is a junior or not. We do know that Bobby's ggrandfather was William Benjamin Briggs and that his father is listed as Giles Briggs. I have found a death record for a Giles Marshall Briggs in Memphis, TN, 1931. We are going to try to get a copy of this and see if it will provide any more information. We do know that if the Giles Briggs in Ohio is the right one, they moved to Berrien Co., MI, then Corpus Christi, TX, and finally Shelby Co., TN. Thanks for your response, Bonnie Briggs

Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina?read=310 Surname: ------------------------- Did you check the LDS site? They list a Daniel Boyer being married to a Mrs. Elmira Boyer abt 1839 (I know a lot of help right?) Also, you might want to check with the Medina County Library I think they do look ups when they have time and see if they have an obit for a Elmira Boyer. Good Luck. Judy

This is a forwarded message. Please reply to "ALL" or the person/email listed below. ----- Original Message ----- From: Diane Medina <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 7:13 AM Subject: From Diane Medina Dear Maggie. I have written to you once before in regards to research of my citys history, but I have a question about searching for someone from Medina, and Cleveland. I went to the Medina site, was able to see others put out info of search, but I could not figure out how to post these two names . Can you help?? Thanks Diane Wargo Medina from Lorain. My great grandmpther Juliana Matisz Varga Wargo died in Lorain in 1939, and had two sisters still living.Bessie Kovacs of Medina, and Catherine Horop(Maybe Horvath) of Cleveland. Their was a young woman by the name of Minerva from Medina that could of been Bessie's daughter, their was a Mary Kovacs that comes into picture, another relative?? Hungarian background, my Juliana survived the Black Plague in Europe, the Johnstown Pa flood, and the 1924 tornado, had 13 children but only have 11 names. She had two children Sophia and Joseph in 1882/ 1885, then marrying my great grandfather in 1887, not sure if she left a husband back in Europe, abusive or was not married, questions arise if she came to the U S with her sisters. She was married in Sharon Pa in 1887 June 6th. My gr grandfathers name was Varga, byt changed it to Wargo. They were sharecrop farmers all their children were born all over the U S. My grandfathers name was Gabriel.. How can Ipost all this as well as all the names of the siblings?? Maybe someone out there may remember a name. Thanks so much Diane.

Posted on: Medina Co. Oh Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Medina?read=309 Surname: CARNEY ------------------------- I would like more information on Tryphosa Carney born 23 May 1816 In Medina, Ohio. She married William Ellsworth. They later moved to Indiana. Any help would be appreciated on locating info. on her and parents. Thanks, Aimee

I know there were SHOOKs in Medina County. Perhaps this could be a clue as to where they were from in Pennsylvania? Take it for what it is worth.... just passing it along. I do not have a vested interest in SHOOKs unless you find a Moses married on 15 Sep 1860 to Suzanne Maria HELLER. My interest is the HELLERs. -- Elissa --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Marjorie B. Winter" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:07:09 -0400 Subject: [PACENTRE-L] THE CENTRE MAGNET October 10, 1894 I have part of this old paper. News items include MILHEIM MURMURINGS A new coal firm is composed of Messrs. E. B. McMullen and J. Spiglemyer. The Y.P.S. of the Lutheran church will have a social time Saturday evening, with ice cream, cake, oysters, etc. at JOHN HOFFA's residence. (Ice cream and oysters ???) Dr. F. E. GUTELIUS have moved to Lykens, Pa. R. A. BUMILLER, H. H. LEITZELL and E. E. KNARR made a bicycle trip to Milton and Watsontown. ISRAEL CRAMER, of Poe Mills, lost his pension certificate. GEORGE SHOOK, who left this locality 56 years ago for Ohio, there became a wealthy farmer. He died a couple of weeks ago. He was one of a family of ten children. He wasmarried three times and leaves a large family. ==== PACENTRE Mailing List ==== Centre County was formed in 1800 from parts of Northumberland, Mifflin, Huntingdon and Lycoming Counties. In 1839 part of Centre County was formed into Clinton County. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.