I am trying to obtain an obit in Cleveland. I would like to find the survivors. Can anyone give me information of the Library in Cleveland, that could do a lookup on this obit, for me. His name is Alan Paul age 35 a victim of an auto accident on May 28, 1969 and his wife's name was June and 3 sons Kenneth 8, Dana 6, and Randolph 5. He died in Cleveland Clinic (Cuyahoga county )on June 20, 1969 and lived in North Canton (Stark county). Ancestry has it listed as Cleveland Cuyahoga county Res. 20,06 Vol. 19725 Ceilyi 049584. Cleveland has an on-line obit site but it is not listed there. The funeral home was Berkowitz and he was buried in Farmingdale, NY. Any advise appreciated. Faithie --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

If he lived in North Canton, Ohio at the time of his death, the obit should be in the Canton Repository which has a website. I have never heard of a Berkowitz Funeral Parlor in Canton so it was probably a Cleveland business. It wouldn't hurt to check with the Repository just in case. ----- Original Message ----- From: faithie41 Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 9:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OHVINTON-L] RE: Genealogy Library in Cleveland I am trying to obtain an obit in Cleveland. I would like to find the survivors. Can anyone give me information of the Library in Cleveland, that could do a lookup on this obit, for me. His name is Alan Paul age 35 a victim of an auto accident on May 28, 1969 and his wife's name was June and 3 sons Kenneth 8, Dana 6, and Randolph 5. He died in Cleveland Clinic (Cuyahoga county )on June 20, 1969 and lived in North Canton (Stark county). Ancestry has it listed as Cleveland Cuyahoga county Res. 20,06 Vol. 19725 Ceilyi 049584. Cleveland has an on-line obit site but it is not listed there. The funeral home was Berkowitz and he was buried in Farmingdale, NY. Any advise appreciated. Faithie --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

I have just finished reading and putting up an index of the Chestnut Grove Cemetery , which is situated on the Hocking & Vinton County line. Some stones were missing and others were very hard to read. If you have family interred there that are not in the reading or if there have been errors to hard to read stones ,please notify me and I will add or correct the list. Thank You, Lona Brown Stevens @ Dust in the Attic http://www.geocities.com/lonadawn1/chestnut_grove_cemetery.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------- >From the Dust in the Attic, through hallowed halls, Across oceans, mountains, prairies and cemetery walls. Discovering mere glimpses of your hardships and spirit to live free, Trying to record your tears, joys, and days in the Family Tree. Drawing from fragile pages, facts that will crumble in the end, Until the truth at last shall be found when we meet again. ~ Lonadawn ~ http://www.geocities.com/lonadawn1/Genealogy.com

Thanks Faithie, I did some more digging. I am interested in the family of Eleanor (Ellen or Ella) Fagan who married Edward J. Simons. I just found her obituary and it lists a son named Edward Simons of Raton, New Mexico. It also lists a John Simons and a Lizzie Butt of Murray. I am fairly certain that this must be the same family you mentioned. Carl Weersing [email protected]

I spoke with my husband today about "Simons" and the Ed Simons would have been born around 1880's. Our Ed Simons was married to my husband's cousin Elizabeth (Lizzie), don't know her maiden name. Sorry couldn't be more help. Faithie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 1:21 AM Subject: Re: [OHVINTON-L] Simons family of Wilkesville Twnshp Thanks for checking. I just did a search on the Church of the Latter Day Saints' FamilySearch website and here is what they show: Ellen FAGEN Sex: F Marriage(s): Spouse: Edward SIMONS Marriage: 3 Mar 1859 Vinton, Ohio

Thanks for checking. I just did a search on the Church of the Latter Day Saints' FamilySearch website and here is what they show: Ellen FAGEN Sex:  F Marriage(s): Spouse:  Edward SIMONS Marriage:  3 Mar 1859 Vinton, Ohio

Sorry none listed

You may possibly check with the Simmons family still in Vinton County. Simons may have become Simmons.

I looked for a Fagan or Simon marriage in the Vinton Co. book 1859 thru 1869 None listed. Might be a help to narrow it down Susie Simon

Here is what little I have on the Simons family. I have only recently figured out this connection and hope to find someone who knows more. Descendants of Edward J. Simons Generation No. 1 1. EDWARD J. SIMONS was born Abt. 1824 in Ireland1, and died May 25, 1900 in Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio.. He married ELEANOR FAGAN Abt. 1860 in Probably in Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio1, daughter of PATRICK FAGAN and CATHERINE. She was born June 25, 1835 in Braddock, Pennsylvania2, and died April 23, 1911 in Marion, Ohio3. Notes for EDWARD J. SIMONS: Simons, Edward J...death May 25-1900...age 76yrs May have owned 160 acres in Wilkesville Township according to the 1875 township map which lists owners. More About EDWARD J. SIMONS: Burial: Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio. St Mary's Church. Census 1860: 1860, name is listed as Simeonton or Simonton Census 1870: 1870, name is listed as Simons. Occupation: Farmer Notes for ELEANOR FAGAN: Is this her in the baptism records? Ella of Edward Simons & Ella Fagan...born 12 Feb 1872...bapt 18 Feb 1872 spons: Francis Lawler & Mary Rafferty Simons, Ellen...wife of Edward...death Apr 23-1911...age 76yrs More About ELEANOR FAGAN: Burial: April 26, 1911, St. Mary's Cemetery, Minerton, Ohio Cause of Death: Gall Stones, age and general debility Residence: at time of death was 573 North Prospect, Marion, Ohio. Ward 2 Children of EDWARD SIMONS and ELEANOR FAGAN are: i. PATRICK SIMONS, b. Abt. 1862. ii. JAMES SIMONS, b. January 1864. iii. EDWARD SIMONS, b. September 18, 1865. Notes for EDWARD SIMONS: Sept.23 - Edward, son of Edward Simons and Helen Fagan Simons, born Sept. 18, 1865. Sponsors: John O'Brien and Mary Lawlor. More About EDWARD SIMONS: Baptism: September 23, 1865, Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio. St Mary's Church. iv. THOMAS SIMONS, b. Abt. 1866. v. MARY SIMONS, b. September 10, 1868. More About MARY SIMONS: Baptism: September 21, 1868, Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio. St Mary's Church. Comment 1: 1870 census shows her as a twin? to John and both born in March 1870. I don't think this is correct. vi. JOHN J. SIMONS, b. March 28, 1870. More About JOHN J. SIMONS: Baptism: April 10, 1870, Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio. St Mary's Church. vii. ELLEN SIMONS, b. February 12, 18726. Notes for ELLEN SIMONS: Ella of Edward Simons & Ella Fagan...born 12 Feb 1872...bapt 18 Feb 1872 spons: Francis Lawler & Mary Rafferty More About ELLEN SIMONS: Baptism: February 18, 1872, Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio. St Mary's Church..

Carl, I am not sure which "Simons" you are referring to, but there was a Lizzie and Ed Simons, who were distantly related to my husband's grandfather. They lived, at one time, on the Johnson Mesa, NM, and of course, in OH. Let me know if you think this is the same family. Faithie Butt [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 12:17 AM Subject: [OHVINTON-L] Fagan/Colgan family of Wilkesville Twnshp I would like to know where the parents and other siblings are buried. Also any information on the Sweeney, Simons, McCartney families.

I am looking for any information on the family of Patrick and Catherine FAGAN who lived in Wilkesville Township, Vinton County. From census records I figure they had at least 7 children. Baptism and cemetery records are confusing in that some of the children sometimes went by the last name FAGAN and sometimes by the name COLGAN. I am wondering if Catherine Fagan perhaps was first married to someone named Colgan?They attended the St Mary's Church in Minerton in Wilkesville Township. Son John Colgan and daughters Mary Colgan Carey and Eleanor (Ellen) Fagan Simons are buried at St Mary's Cemetery. I would like to know where the parents and other siblings are buried. Also any information on the Sweeney, Simons, McCartney families. Patrick Fagan (Abt.1778 - 1868) married Catherine (1796 - 1881) Their children were: John Colgan (1820 - 1891) married Margaret Sweeny (1835 - 1902) Mary Colgan (1821? - 1897) married James Carey (1815 - 1881) Thomas Fagan (1826 - ) married Ann Catherine Fagan (1833 - 1892) married John McCartney (1833 - ) Eleanor Fagan (1835 - 1911) married Edward J. Simons (1824 - 1900) Nicholas Fagan (1838- ) Margaret Fagan (1840 - ) More details: 1. PATRICK FAGAN was born Bet. 1778 - 1783 in Ireland, and died May 24, 1868 in Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio. He married CATHERINE. She was born December 25, 1796 in Ireland, and died September 25, 1881 in Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio. Children of PATRICK FAGAN and CATHERINE are: i. JOHN COLGAN, b. Abt. December 13, 1820, Ireland; d. February 28, 1891, Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio; m. MARGARET SWEENY; b. January 1835, Pennsylvania; d. December 28, 1902, Wellstone, Jackson County, Ohio. ii. MARY COLGAN, b. April 19, 1821, Hagerstown, Maryland soon after family arrived from Ireland. Not sure about this date. It is more like likely that she was born around 1821; d. April 13, 1897, Columbus, Ohio; married JAMES CAREY, Bef. 1848, probably in Pennsylvania; b. November 18, 1815, County Donegal, Ireland; d. December 09, 1881, Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio.. iii. THOMAS FAGAN, b. Abt. 1826, Pennsylvania; m. ANN. iv. CATHERINE FAGAN, b. Abt. 1833, Pennsylvania; d. November 02, 1892, Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio; m. JOHN MCCARTNEY; b. July 1833, New York. v. ELEANOR FAGAN, b. June 25, 1835, Braddock, Pennsylvania1; d. April 23, 1911, Marion, Ohio; m. EDWARD J. SIMONS, Abt. 1860, Probably in Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio3; b. Abt. 1824, Ireland; d. May 25, 1900, Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, Ohio.. vi. NICHOLAS FAGAN, b. Abt. 1838, Pennsylvania. vii. MARGARET FAGAN, b. Abt. 1840, Pennsylvania. Thanks Carl Weersing [email protected]

Check with Bill Garrett, Vinton County Mortician at Garrett's funeral home in McArthur.

Researching the Garrett line of Hocking County, Vinton, and Pickaway Counties. I have just started so do not have much to share on the line, but am hoping it is enough to make a connection to those who are of the line or may have any information at all. Any help would be appreciated. 1. Sylvester Garrett, b. abt. 1847 in Ohio, resided in Washington Twp., Hocking Co., married Nancy Lodenna Culbertson, b. abt 1851, in Ohio. Children : 1. ) James (S. ?) Garrett, b. Sept. 20, 1878, Washington Twp.,Hocking Co.,Oh. d. Oct. 9, 1962 in South Bloomingville, Hocking Co., Oh. married Clara Jane (or Zelma) Van Fossen. 2. ) Bertha Garrett , b. abt 1875 3. ) Susan Garrett, b. abt. 1871; d. 1905. Married William R. Harden. Buried Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Salt Creek Twp., Hocking Co.,Oh. 4. ) Ocie Garrett, b. abt 1873 5. ) Silesta Garrett, b. Dec. 11, 1883 , Washington Twp., Hocking Co., Oh. 6. ) Elizabeth Garrett, b. Sept. 9, 1887, Washington Twp., Hocking Co., Oh. 7. ) Gertie Garrett, b. Feb. 17, 1881, Washington Twp., Hocking Co., Oh. A Job Garrett, b. abt 1825 , who married Julia Ann Sico , June 24, 1847 in Hocking Co. Julia was b. abt 1825 in Virginia. They had children: Jane B., James L., Elsworth S., and another son, plus a grandson Wm. A. Butter living with them in 1880 census of Ohio. I am trying to find a connection to Job and Sylvester since they were both in the Washington Twp. area at the same time. James L., is buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery , Salt Creek Twp., Hocking Co. Also in Salt Creek Twp., Hocking Co., trying to find a line to the following : Lyda Garrett, b.,1849 in Indiana, widow of William Garrett b. 1850, d. 1895 ,had children: Edward N. Garrett, b. 1883, d. 1922, William jr., Pearl, b. 1886 , d. 1968 , Frank, and Harley L. b. 1891, d. 1954. Pearl is buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery and own an orchard on Salt Creek Road. Also buried in Mt. Carmel is, Lydia, William, and Harley. Anyone who has information or can help me tie this families together would be greatly appreciated. Thank You, Lona Stevens

This is from the rootsweb-review mailing list. I don't know what mailing lists or web sites will be affected or whether all will be. 2a. ROOTSWEB UPGRADING SERVERS. To improve site performance, RootsWeb is upgrading its servers. As a result there will be times in the next couple of weeks when you will be unable to access portions of RootsWeb, including WorldConnect, Social Security Death Index, Mailing Lists and various other RootsWeb-hosted pages. When you encounter such problems, just try again later. Thank you for understanding, and excuse the dust. ======================================== Charles R. Weese, 4012 Pardee Rd., Stow, Ohio 44224 See http://web.raex.com/~cweese/weese/ and http://web.raex.com/~cweese/vance/ for my family info. I maintain the following USGenWeb county sites: Gallia County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgallia/gallia.htm Jackson County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohjackso/jackson.htm Vinton County Ohio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohvinton/vinton.htm

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I just recieved an e-mail virus, probably unknown to the sender. It contained a sentence from a post I have on the Vinton site. The virus is a worm called W32 Klez which replicates it's self and mails automatically unknown to the host computer's owner. There are E-mail Bot programs that seek E-mail address's and can be used to do mischief. I suggest you use a virus program to isolate and destroy any virus ASAP. This particular virus came in a file name HREF.zip. Href is a HTTP web site programing term used to indicate the presence of a picture.

Hello everyone, I am new to the Vinton County list and wish to introduce myself and explain what I am looking for. On September 30, 2001, at the Beyer Family Reunion, I was nominated/ volunteered/ etc. into compiling a family history with a genealogy for the next reunion September 29, 2002. [I'm glad they picked me. I am having a great time; this is fun.] I plan to go to press around August 31. In the last 8 months, I have successfully debunked several family "histories". With the help of Rootsweb message boards, I have also been able to trace the Beyer/Boyer/Byer line 7 generations back to David Beyer. I have documentation that David Beyer was living in Elk Township, Vinton County with his second wife, Ann, at the time of his death in 1862. I have no information on any family prior to David, or his first wife (my 4-great grandmother), and little more than a name for my 3-great grandfather, Joseph Boyer. I believe Joseph died prior to 1852; the year his wife Frances (Snider) Boyer remarried (in Perry County). I welcome any and all help concerning these people and I'm willing to exchange what I have (once I get it into some type of order, probably August). Also, I am looking for other Beyer/Boyer/Byer relatives who would like to be included in our family history/genealogy and/or reunion. Please e-mail me directly at [email protected] regarding this. Thank you for listening to me, Sheila Thomas (nee Beyer) Searching for Byer/Boyer/Beyer, Keller, Daniel(s), Fisher, Helser, Wagner, Fleak, Daring, Shidegger, Swinehart, Crist, Soliday, Miller, Dorris, Helser, Zartman, & Ridenour relatives--so far. ________________________________________________________________ CPAs . . . Making Sense of a Changing and Complex World.

I would like to welcome those of you new to this site and tell you there are some really great folks who are willing to help just for the asking. I, myself do Volunteer research at Andersonville Civil War Prison in Andersonville Georgia. There are Any research I do is absolutely at NO cost and I am willing to do what I can. There are 3857 prisoners on record from the state of Ohio and more than 1100 who died here, I thought I would send my offer. Here are my sources of research. There are 2 online databases to do lookups.....One by name...one by Company and Regiment. I also have a copy of the Dorence Atwater Death list which has the names and grave numbers of 12960 graves with only 460 marked as " UNKNOWN " This along with a CD I have which contains 34,000 names of the 45,000 who were imprisoned there which helps me find prisoner records because of misspellings of the names or alternate names. I visit the prison site every couple of weeks and have access to the onsite databases as well as the physical files. I would like to let you know of another service I offer which is to take photos of graves for a small fee. Please do not concider this spam as my research offer is FREE for the asking ad will be posted on this county site only once. If there is anything I can do in helping your research at Andersonville, please just ask. Kevin Frye Local Andersonville Historian / National Park Service Volunteer Hammer the Americans hard enough and you forge the best weapon in the world. --- Captain Simeon Ecuyer ...in a letter written to Colonel Bouquet during the siege of Fort Pitt Please visit my website dedicated to those Americans who were imprisoned and died in captivity while in the service to our country http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html AOL USERS go to http://hometown.aol.com/andersonvillecw/

Dear Bryson & Vinton Researchers, I need some pointers!!!! PLEASE & Thank You. Here is the history: Abraham Bryson is documented on several US Census as being born in Maryland, in 1800. He married Nancy McKee who was born in Pennsylvania. There is documentation that his first four children were born in Virginia. He is documented moving to Guernsey County, Ohio and then to Vinton County. Abraham Bryson had land (82 acres) in Vinton County. The 1880 US Census showed that he at the age of 80, his son Abraham, John, Harrison, and daughter Louisa were still with him on the farm. Senior Abraham died 20 May 1884. Here is my problem: I am searching for Senior Abraham's family of origin. The only information I have found regarding his parents was coincidently on the 1880 Census reporting that father and mother were born in Ireland (family history states they are Protestant, so that may be a clue as to where to look.) His death certificate does not have parent information. Would a will possibly have that information? If so, where would I obtain it? Any suggestions? Sincerely, Diana Bryson-Brooks