Is there anyone on the list that is familiar with early Methodist Episcopal Church records in Richland County? My 4th great-grandfather, Samuel VIRTUE, and his family were in Washington Twp. from about 1818 until 1839. Can anyone tell me where I might find M.E. Church records for that time period? I am especially anxious to find the death date and burial place of Samuel's first wife, Elizabeth (nee FREEBORN). She died sometime between the 1830 census and Samuel's marriage to wife #2 (Sarah JAMES) on 19 March 1839. Thanks ever so much for your help and suggestions. Sydney Stephens Washougal, WA

The Ohio Historical Society is changing its' hours of operation due to budget constraints ... if you are planning to visit the library/archives for research - PLEASE be aware of the decreased hours. Visit the OHS site to view the new schedule ... http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/archlib/ Amy

Hi Listers, I'm a new subscriber to the list, wanting to find an obituary for a Philomena (Minnie) RYAN, who died in Richland Co., in December, 1972. RYAN should be her married name - I don't have her husband's first name. She may or may not be buried there. Is there a volunteer on the list who can look this up for me, please? Thank you. Joey Stark

============================================== Richland Co., Ohio USGenWeb Site Update ... 24 July 2003 http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/ ============================================== WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK? http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/New2003a.htm + Researcher Directory (Update) + Cemetery Records: Mt. Pleasant Cemetery (Plymouth Twp.). Transcription and Location Map. Submitted by Steph and Amy. + Historical Records: Masons, 1918 -- Mansfield Chapter No. 28 R.A.M. Submitted by Amy. + Neighborhood News: Select Lucas and Butler news items from the Loudonville Democrat: 13 June 1895. Submitted by Amy. + Neighborhood News: Submitted by Amy. * Worthington Enterprise: 13 February 1890 * Worthington Enterprise: 20 February 1890 + Obituaries: Submitted by Amy. * Mrs. Andrews € * Mary Bachelder € * George Mitchell € * Clyde Robinson € * ---- Williams € + Pictures Of People / School Records: Submitted by Amy. * Weller High School Faculty, 1937. Surnames Pictured: Moore, McCollough, Boling, Baker, Moffett and Howard. * Weller High School Senior Class, 1937 w/ Class History. Surnames Pictured: Kissell, Meyer, Plank, Pittenger, Clingan, Stoffer, Oswalt, Williams, Parsons and Green. Other Surnames mentioned: Showalter, Scott, Tarbert, Myers, Harris and Jackson * Weller High School Junior Class, 1937 w/ Class History. Surnames Pictured: Kent, Cook, Berry, Cox, Clingan, Mawhorr, Scott, Bowser, Purdy, Lehman, Weaver, Anderson, Baker, VanTilburg, Korak, Schoffstall, Warrick, Stimpert, Pittenger, Wade, Oswalt, Holmes, Fulk. Other surnames mentioned: Scott, Yoha, Anderson, Hinz, Klear, Harris, Weaver, Clingan, Kent, Baker, Pittenger, Holmes, Purdy, Bowser, Oswalt, Wade, Stimpert, Korak, Berry and Mawhorr

Hello everyone! It has been a good long time since I posted to the list perhaps someone new might know my ken folks. Samuel H. MELICK/MELLICK married twice, frist to Lucretia MYERS I do not know of any children from this marriage if there was please holler you are missing! Samuel H. MELICK/MELLICK married Ida E. WADE ( any and all spellings please) she was born January 12, 1870 in "TIRO" Ohio the daughter of CALVIN WADE. Does anyone know Ida or Calvin? They are lost and need to be found also. Ida E. Wade married a second time to Henry H. LORO, I know of no children from this marriage. Samuel, Ida and Lucretia are all laid to rest in Oakland Cemetery, Richland County, Ohio along with them are Grace Eulene Mellick who died as a infant, and William Grant Mellick who passed away December 16, 1963. Ida WADE lived most of her life in Richland county, married twice and raised a family there she passed away May 23, 1959. While I have a great deal of information on our MELICK/MELLICK family, little is known about Ida and her family. If anyone happens to know Ida please let me know. We would dearly love to know her family and the correct spelling of her maiden name. Thanks Debbie Below is the family SAMUEL H.1 MELICK was born May 22, 1851, and died November 11, 1927 in Mansfield. He married (1) LUCRETIA MYERS. He married (2) IDA E. WADE Abt. 1893 in Mansfield Ohio Richland County, daughter of CALVIN S. WAIDE. She was born January 12, 1870 in Trio, Ohio, and died May 23, 1959 in Mansfield Ohio Richland County. Children of SAMUEL MELICK and IDA WADE are: i. EARL2 MELLICK, b. March 18, 1894, Bloomingrove Twp., Richland Co., Ohio; d. April 17, 1965, San Antonio, Texas Bexar County; m. LUCILE ROBINETT, July 10, 1926, San Antonio, Bexar County Texas; b. April 15, 1909, Holland, Texas Bell County; d. November 04, 1992, San Antonio, Texas Bexar County. ii. WILLIAM GRANT MELLICK, b. January 09, 1896, Plymouth, Richland County Ohio; d. December 16, 1963, Chicago Il, buried in Shelby Ohio. iii. MINNIE O MELLICK, b. April 14, 1897, Shelby, Richland County Ohio; m. EDWARD SPIESS. iv. MARTHA M. MELLICK, b. May 06, 1906, Mansfield, Richland County Ohio; d. June 23, 1923, Mansfield, Lexington, Richland County Ohio; m. GEORGE LOGAN. v. MEARL M. MELLICK, b. May 06, 1906, Mansfield, Richland County Ohio; d. September 1967. vi. GRACE EULENE MELLICK, b. September 23, 1909, Mansfield, Richland County Ohio; d. October 06, 1909, Mansfield, Richland County Ohio.

============================================== Richland Co., Ohio USGenWeb Site Update ... 17 July 2003 http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/ ============================================== WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK? http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/New2003a.htm + Researcher Directory (Update) + Church Records: Sabbath School Book from the Pleasant Grove Evangelical Church: Dec. 5, 1880 -- Nov. 5, 1882. Posting in Progress!! Submitted by Jim. + Historical Information: Mansfield Rotary Club Directory, 1954-55. Submitted by Amy. + Land Records: 1873 Plat Book. Weller Twp. w/ farm index. Submitted by Amy. + Neighborhood News: Submitted by Amy. * Shelby Independent News: 07 October 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 14 October 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 21 October 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 28 October 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 04 November 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 11 November 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 18 November 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 25 November 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 02 December 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 09 December 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 16 December 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 23 December 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 30 December 1875 * Worthington Enterprise: 02 January 1890 * Worthington Enterprise: 09 January 1890 * Worthington Enterprise: 16 January 1890 * Worthington Enterprise: 30 January 1890 * Worthington Enterprise: 06 February 1890 + Obituaries: Submitted by Shirley. * Maxine T. Balser [MNJ: 5/3/2000] * William Brodhead [MNJ: 2/24/1987] * Noel H. Klein [MNJ: 8/20/1978] * Glenn D. Milner [MNJ: 5/3/2000] * Walter F. Rice, Jr. [MNJ: 2/24/1987] * Florence Ely Tiffany [MNJ: 5/8/1984] * Barclay Walker [MNJ: 5/3/2000] + Obituaries: Submitted by Amy. * Eve Adams € * Thomas B. Andrews € * Daniel Augustine € * Daniel Augustine € * Nancy Bancroft € * Joseph Beer € * Eliza A. Berlin € * ---- Chapman € * George W. Cole € * Timothy Costin € * Mrs. Samuel Deihl € * Elizabeth (Higgins) Stevens Forbes € * Col. Isaac Gass € * William Heck € * Seth C. Hickox € * Mary Hollenbaugh € * Mary Hollenbaugh € * Charles W. Holmes € * ---- Houpt € * ---- Kile € * Joseph Killian € * Mary L. (Wright) Marvin € * Adam Matthews € * ---- May € * Catherine (Wertz) May € * Elizabeth May € * Thomas McBride € * Frank Myers € * Max N. Myers € * ---- Pittenger € * Elijah Ruth € * Peter Sechrist € * George H. Sargeant € * Barbara Shames € * --- Souder € * Rachel Jane "Rady" Souder € * Samuel Stack € * Mrs. George Stahl € * David Stough € * Watson Strong € * H.H. Taylor € * Rebecca (Devoe) Valentine € * A.C. Welch € * Rev. Henry Williard € * Sarah (Calhoon) Wilson € * F.A. Wolfe €

Hello listers, Does anyone out there have access to any of the Richland County Cemetery Books. I am looking for any information on the John STONER, b. at the Rome Presbyterian Revolutionary War Cemetery, in Blooming Grove Twp. All I know of this John STONER is that he was a Revolutionary soldier and is buried at that cemetery. Thanks so much. Christopher Barttels Dayton, WA

============================================== Richland Co., Ohio USGenWeb Site Update ... 10 July 2003 http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/ ============================================== WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK? http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/New2003.htm + Researcher Directory (Update) + School Records: History of Shelby Schools. Submitted by Amy. + Neighborhood News: Submitted by Amy. * Shelby Independent News: 08 July 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 22 July 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 29 July 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 05 August 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 12 August 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 19 August 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 26 August 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 02 September 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 09 September 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 16 September 1875 + Obituary: Theodore "Dora" Timmerman. Submitted by Margaret. + Obituaries: Submitted by Amy. * Mary Clinesmith € * Mrs. James Dawson € * ---- DeVoe € * William H. Garrett € * Rev. Henry Hess € * Harry Hollenbaugh € * Perry Hutchinson € * Dr. Loughridge € * John Alexander Mann € * Henry Hiram Marvin € * John Miller € * Elick Ralston € * ---- Richardson € * Nellie Sipe € * Jacob Stiving € * Jacob Stiving € * Patrick George Sullivan € * Catherine Tooker € * William Tooker € * Lydia (Baur) Trew € * George Walters € * Mrs. Wise € + Pictures Of People: John William & Nancy Ann (Kurtz) Hibner. Submitted by Janice.

Dear Fellow List Members, As most of you will know, I have been trying to gain some recognition for Amy's work on the RCO GenWeb site. While official recognition remains yet out of our reach, I have received the "go-ahead" to prepare an article for publication in the OGS News. The "mandate" I have been given for preparing this article includes: "... [p]eople need to know this information is out there, plus how to make a site attractive and informative to make people want to visit. While the Minerd article [this was a recent article in OGS News on a family-genealogy-oriented Website] was focused on putting together a "family" website, you might want to focus on the wonderful "county" websites in Ohio and the information they contain." This is a bit broader than I had planned on, but I think it will be good for everyone who is interested. Always assuming, of course, that whatever I produce is considered publishable! Anyway, I would like to ask for some help here (this is called "e-mail mailing-list interviewing"). I would like to invite as many persons who are interested and willing to do so to e-mail me OFF-LIST their answers to the following 5 questions. Please note: I may quote you. If I quote you with attribution (i.e. giving your name), I will ask your permission to do so before even submitting my draft. Five Easy Questions: (any other Jack Nicholson fans here?) 1) Do you use the Richland County, Ohio GenWeb site or the Ashland County GenWeb site? 2) If so, what do you think of it and the changes it has (they have) undergone in the past year or so? 3) What (other) Ohio genealogy resource Websites do you use? 4) What do you particularly like or find most helpful about them? 5) If there are Ohio genealogy resource Websites you do not like, what is it about them that you particularly do not like or find "off-putting"? For those of you who may not be OGS members (why aren't you?), I will try to cut a deal with OGS News, this mailing list and my own pathetic Website to make sure that everyone can see the final product. Thanks for the help, Jim Boyce

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AYB.2ACE/226.2.2 Message Board Post: Mary, My line is through Samuel Stout brother of Suzannah. Read a postin that said you had pictures of Suzannah and Elizabeth would love to have a copy sent by e-mail. The line goes. Samuel Stout, son Cyrus Stout, son Vernon Stout, and daughter Stella Stout. Stella maried twice and were both my relatives.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brubaker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AYB.2ACE/284.1 Message Board Post: I don't know if you have found what you are looking for or not but Daniel and Magdalena are the parents of Julieann Brubaker married to Bradley Vance. Your Welcome Lisa

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nail Sweeney Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AYB.2ACE/492 Message Board Post: Looking for connection for Anastacia Sweeney Nail b. 1881 listed as divorced in 1920.(daughter) Anthony J. Sweeney b. 1852 Head Robert Nail b. New York 1905 (grandson) Harry C. Nail b. New York 1910 (grandson) Margaret Nail b. New York 1912 (grand daughter) Florence Nail b. New York 1915 ( " ) Robert, Harry and Margaret attended Mansfield High School . Harry was an attorney and admitted to bar in abt 1938. In 1930 census Anthony J. Sweeney is not listed or Robert Nail. Anastacia, Harry, Margaret, and Florence are still listed and living on Park Avenue West. Does anyone have any information on this family?

Hi list, I would like to thank all the angels that answered my request, love yah all! Dave, Peggy, Annie and one person who did not leave their name. If I have missed anyone I apologize. At the moment I do not need a look up. Someone had just asked about getting information on a couples marriage license just before my message and I was going to send the url for the msn site and could not locate it in my notes to help that person. But I have it now <grin>. And it is written down along with the people who so kindly volunteered to do a look up, gotcha now (smile). Thank you all! Peggy, I notice your last name "Price" would you happen to have a Joseph C. Price and Sarah Jane Crawford Price in your tree branches? Deborah Toledo, Ohio

======================================================== Richland Co., Ohio USGenWeb Site Update ... 03 July 2003 http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/ ================================== WHAT'S NEW? http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/New2003a.htm + Researcher Directory (Update) + Historical Information: Meily Coverlets - Information and photographs. Submitted by Sally. + Land Records: 1873 Plat Book. Submitted by Amy. * Ganges (Bloominggrove Twp.) - no index * Junction City (Sharon Twp.) - no index * Millsborough (Springfield Twp.) - no index * Newcastle (Springfield Twp.) - no index * Olivesburg (Weller Twp.) - no index * Ontario (Springfield Twp.) - no index * Richland (Cass Twp.) - no index * Shenandoah (Bloominggrove Twp.) - no index * Washington (Washington Twp.) - no index * West Windsor (Weller Twp.) - no index * Windsor (Mifflin Twp.) - no index + Neighborhood News: Submitted by Amy. * Shelby Independent News: 25 March 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 01 April 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 08 April 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 15 April 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 22 April 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 29 April 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 06 May 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 13 May 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 20 May 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 27 May 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 03 June 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 10 June 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 17 June 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 24 June 1875 * Shelby Independent News: 01 July 1875 + Obituary: Charlene M. Bradley. Submitted by Kathy. + Obituaries: Submitted by Amy. * Sarah (Ewing) Ashley € * Mrs. Jacob Bargaheiser € * Laura Billow € * Jonas Blocker €€ * Daniel Brewer € * Jacob Cline € * Joseph Dounend € * George Duffner € * Joseph Duncan € * Elizabeth (Livensperger) Dunlap € * W.A. Flanders € * Stutely Gipson € * John W. Hagenbuch € * Christian Huber €€ * Christina Hull € * Emanual Kimmel € * Zuliana Mattoon € * Zulima (Van Fleet) Bigelow Mattoon € * Thomas McGraw € * Catharine (Shaffer) Miller € * Katie Moore € * Christian Mull € * Eli W. Niles €€ * Samuel Nixon € * Siegfried Ott € * Anna Sotzen Polin € * Regina Schneck € * ---- Snyder € * Alice E. Ward € * Frederick Wise € + Pictures Of People: Submitted by Sally. * Andrew & Susan (Whisler) Meeting, 1896. * Emanuel Meily + Pictures Of Places: Meily's Notion Store, Mansfield. Submitted by Sally.

Hi all, Awhile back, maybe within the last sixty days a gentleman posted a web site to look up Richland County marriages along with some other counties in Ohio. Does anyone have the url for the site, I remember it was at msn.com but cannot locate it in my notes. Please help. Thank you all, Deborah Toledo, Ohio

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Allen Wiles Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AYB.2ACE/491 Message Board Post: I hope that some guardian angel can help me. Does anyone have marriage records for Richland County. I'm searching for a woman with the last name of Wiles who married a man with the last name of Allen sometime between 1780 and 1840 in Richland County. Can anyone help? Cordially, Margaret Schmidt [email protected]

Below is the text of a message that I sent to several officers of the Ohio Genealogical Society and the Richland County chapter thereof. Except for Ms. Broglin, to whom I sent this separately, I have received exactly NO reponses. Now, we can debate the present value of vital records from the State of Ohio. I really don't think, however, that we can debate the present and future value of the Richland County GenWeb site (or the growing value of the Ashland County site). If OGS can create an award and give it to the Licking County GS Website (simply because the site was created by a Chapter of OGS), and if it can devote the cover of its most recent "OGS News" to a Pennsylvania Website, then I think they can come up with an award or at least some good words to recognize the work that Amy has done here to make Richland County genealogical information freely available to us all. If you agree, pass this along to all the e-mail addresses below. Personally, I think the institutional refusal to acknowledge this site is reprehensible. But, hey, I've been Frenchified! For the record: Amy is also the manager of this list, AND this message will come as new to her as to any of you. I have tried to work quietly to get Amy the recognition she deserves, but that is not working. Maybe if a whole bunch of us so so, she will get it. Maybe she does not care. I really think that she does not. But she deserves it. Jim Boyce Please read on: ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Boyce To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:12 PM Subject: Richland County GenWeb Site Hi Sunda, Although I have searched my e-mail files to no avail, I am certain that we have communicated on this subject before. In fact, I believe that I had been promised that something would be passed along before the Bicentennial Conference of OGS, but I have heard from no one, so you are the lucky recipient of my follow-up. It is amazing how quickly time passes by at this age! It seems it was just last week that last I contacted someone on this matter, and that was before the Annual OGS Conference! I was suddenly reminded of time passing because I received today my May/June issue of OGS Genealogy News, complete with an article on Mark Miner's "Award Winning Genealogy Website". I have visited, out of curiousity, more than anything else, Mark's Website, and it is pretty cool. It's even cooler if you are a MINERD-MINER-MINOR. I have also, in pursuit of my own, non-MINERD, research visted numerous "county" and "state" genealogy Websites. These all attempt to serve ALL of those who seek their roots in a region, not just a particular surname or surname lineage. Some are great. Some are pathetic. Some don't even exist. And a few are extraordinary. Ohio is home to one of the extraordinary Websites. In fact, Richland County is the home of that Site. Visit it, at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla; see what it has to offer; compare it to any other "general" genealogy resource Website you know or can find. There may be better ones. I know of none. There are a few that come close and 1 or 2 that may be its equal. Now that Amy has taken on Ashland County's Website as well, who knows. In any case, I would like to make my case again. Unlike me, Amy says that she is not even a member of any Genealogical Society. She certainly appears to have done this monumental work outside the purview of the local Societies, and without any direct support from them. I don't think that that should count in the matter of recognition. Amy has made a contribution to Richland County genealogical research and, with her contributions to and support of other Ohio Websites, Ohio State genealogical research that is remarkable and, I believe, commendable. Ultimately, that is the point of this whole e-mail: commendation. And recognition. I don't think it should matter whether Amy is an OGS Member or not. I think what is important here is the high quality of her contribution to Ohio Genealogical research and her creation and maintenance of an almost unique source of genealogical information. Okay. I have contributed to it, and so have hundreds of others. But that is the point! Amy has created something that is alive, that breathes, that feeds genealogists and calls them to contribute to help others. The Richland County Website has become not just a Website; not just a source of information; but an unstructured, loose community of people with common, but often "unrelated" roots, sharing, contributing and preserving our common past. If OGS won't do it, maybe RCGS should: create its own award for "Internet Genealogy Resource of the Year" or "Best Ohio Genealogy Website" or some such. That's the world we live in and such an award OUGHT to be added to the usual annual awards for publications, etc. And the first of these awards -- and it would have been really wonderful if it could have happened in this Bicentennial Year -- ought to go to Amy E Armstrong ([email protected]) for the remarkable work she has done on the Richland County GenWeb Website and, more recently, on the Ashland County GenWeb site. If you have any doubts about what I am saying, please spend some time at both of the sites. Then compare them with any other comparable resource sites you know or can think of. Ohio has a voice that so far seems to be proof of an old Biblical cliché: "No prophet is accepted in his own country." (Luke 4:24) I really would like to change that. DISCLAIMER: For the record, I am not related, biologically, by adoption or by marriage to Amy Anderson, nor do I have any other personal relationship with her other than a friendship formed by e-mail as a result of our common interest in Ohio genealogical research nor does she have any knowledge that I am making these efforts on her behalf. I would like to be kept informed of any actions and/or decisions that may result from this enquiry. Also, just to be clear, I am copying this to the several persons named above, officers and or trustees of OGS and RCGS + Jana Broglin, by separate e-mail. Best regards, Jim Boyce

In the midst of the numerous exchanges I have had on this topic, 2 ideas have emerged that I wanted to share with the whole list: 1. I don't know what it would take, but it would be great if all of us genealogists could get it organized so that the various county or State genealogical societies could film the records and put them all online. Of course, I know that even many of these societies won't put the records they DO have online because then THEY can't charge for them! 2. The Richland County GenWeb site is one of the best for any county in the country, and Amy posts all kinds of things there. I bet that if we all sent her scans of the certificates we already have, she would post them and that would help others. Who knows, we might even build up a great resource. Cheers, Jim Boyce

I passed along the info, I think Amy has really been an asset to the Richland County GenWeb site!!! Thank you!!!

This is just one of the less personal and/or abusive responses I have received "off-list" to my comments on cost increases. If the comments can't be made in the context of the list, I think they should perhaps not be made at all. Jim Boyce ----- Original Message ----- From: remarksk To: Jim Boyce Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [OHRICHLA] RE: Cost Increases for Ohio Records Yes you are. If France would pay the United States what they owes us, Maybe we would not have to raise our prices here. Think you are way off base in your statements.