Hi Laura, Yes, I agree, Arnspiger is a pretty unusual name. There are very few of them in the entire US. The name has been misspelled so many times in so many different ways it isn�t funny. That makes the research a bit more difficult. I am not looking for info on the Arnspiger�s though. I studied the Arnspiger family in Portland area for a couple years and have file cabinets full of info on them. It is Miles Arnspiger�s wife, Mary Cassiday/Cassada/Cassday/Caseday/Cassady etc, that I am trying to figure out. Her married name was Arnspiger and I know a lot about the Arnspiger family. Mary was not born an Arnspiger. It would do little good to try and find the Arnspiger family when they were little because that would not find me anything about Mary Cassady, unless Mary Cassady�s family just happened to be living right by the Arnspiger family when her husband Miles Arnspiger was little which I don�t believe they were since I have every census page of all the Arnspiger�s there are. I know the Arnspiger family lived in Clackamas Co until aprox the 1880s sometime after which all of them moved into Portland area. I have searched for every Cassady family there is with every possible odd ball spelling you could think of and can�t find a Cassady family in 1870 with a daughter Mary Emma Cassady. Every census page I have found Mary on after she married had her listed as born in OR BUT they all have her parents as born in all kinds of different places none of which agree with each other. This Mary is a tough nut to crack. Mary's GrGr Granddaughter lives in LA and she would like to know where Gravel Hill is also and does not know who Mary's parents were either. Anyway, once again, I thought it might be helpful to figure out where Gravel Hill was but maybe it won�t be found? Nathan --- "Laura G." <[email protected]> wrote: > Nathan, I did not catch the person's name in the > first message - just the > Gravel Hill part. I tried GNIS for it and did not > find what you want, so > did not respond. But the message below caught my > attention. Back in the > 1930s or maybe 1940s there was, I believe if my > memory is correct a family > name Arnspiger that my parents knew. That is an > unusual name - at least I > do no recall running across it until your message. > I don't suppose this tiny bit of information would > help. What do censuses > tell you about Arnspiger? > > Laura > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nathan Haines Sr." <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 12:34 AM > Subject: Re: [GFO] Gravel Hill > > > > Hi Maggie, > > Thanks for trying. That was a good idea you > had. I > > discovered the GrGr Granddaughter of this lady in > LA. > > This Mary Cassady Arnspiger lived in LA the last > year > > of her life and died there. I told the GrGr > > Granddaughter when Mary died and she is going to > order > > a death certificate for Mary and maybe that will > have > > a clue or two that will help. I really don't know > what > > County she was born in. That would really help > like > > everything if I did. That is why I have been > trying to > > find where the world this Gravel Hill is to help > > narrow down just where she was born. I am guesing > from > > clues that I have that it was in either Mult Co or > > Clack Co. Not sure though. > > Nathan > > > > > > --- mbkitts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Nathan, > > > > > > http://www.topozone.com/viewmaps.asp > > > > > > 31 hits but no Gravel Hill in Oregon. > > > > > > > > > http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form > > > > > > too many hits to count but none in Oregon. > > > > > > Hmmm. Do you know which county was her place of > > > birth? > > > > > > Maggie > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Nathan Haines Sr." <[email protected]> > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:09 PM > > > Subject: [GFO] Gravel Hill > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > Has anyone ever heard of Gravel Hill? I > have an > > > > obit for a Mary Cassidy Arnspiger from the > > > Oregonian > > > > in 1936 and it says she was born in a log > cabin on > > > > Gravel Hill here in 1868. I am presuming that > here > > > > means Portland or at least near Portland. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Nathan > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== > > > > To unsubscribe, send a message to > > > [email protected] that > > > > contains (in the body of the message) only the > > > single word: unsubscribe > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > > Gain access to over two billion names > including > > > the new Immigration > > > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. > Click > > > to learn more. > > > > > > > > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== > > To unsubscribe, send a message to > [email protected] that > > contains (in the body of the message) only the > single word: unsubscribe > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including > the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. 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