The ELUSIVE ANCESTOR I went searching for an ancestor. I cannot find him still. He moved from place to place and did not leave a will. He married where a courthouse burned. He mended all his fences. He avoided any man who came to take the U.S. Census. He always kept his luggage packed, this man who had no fame. And every 20 years or so, the rascal changed his name. His parents came from Europe. They should be upon some list Of passengers to USA, but somehow they got missed. And no one in the world is searching for this man So, I play genea-solitaire to find him if I can. I'm told he's buried in a plot, with tombstone he was blessed. But the weather took engraving, and some vandal took the rest. He died before the county clerks decided to keep records No Family Bible has emerged, in spite of all my efforts. To top it of this ancestor, who caused me many groans Just to give me one more pain, betrothed a girl named JONES. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Sept. 15, 1899 >From an article titled THAT AWFUL CRIME The atrocious assault reported to have been committed on a young woman of questionable character by a crowd of bullies in the Round Woods on Wednesday morning, following the picnic of the Crystal Hose company, was the theme of considerable discussion among the peace-loving residents of the West side.....That she did not die from the effects of the punishment inflicted upon her and exposure for serveral hours was due to the heroic efforts of her female companions, who, woman-like stood by her until she was removed to more comfortable quarters. Coming Funerals: The remains of Mrs. Mary White of 334 North Filmore avenue, will be interred in Washburn street cmeetery tomorrow afternoon. Services for Mrs. Clara BOURAY will be held at the home of her sister, Mrs. Helen BOURAY of 802 Hampton street, this afternoon. Interment will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Mr. William O'MALLEY of Jackson street will soon submit to an operation at the Moses Taylor hospital for an injury which he received in the mines some time ago. Dr. J. J. BRENNAN recently of Shamokin has opened an office at 213 Main Ave. The doctor is giving special attention to diseases of women and children. The fulneral of Thomas GERRITY, who died on Wednesday morning, will take place this morning from the family residence, 2042 Cedar ave. Requiem Mass wioll be sung at St. Joseph's church, and interment will be made in the Minooka cemetery. Mrs. Clarence MCGUIRE died at the home of her father, 629 Pear street, on Wednesday. A high mass will be said at St. John's church. Internment will be at Hyde Park cenetery. Mr. Anthony LYNCH and Miss Mary COUGHLIN, both of the south side, were joined in marriage by Rev. Father Fleming at St. John's church yesterday afternoon. Philip RADER of Birch street has returned from a visit to friends in Mauch Chunk. Mrs. Herman SENKER of Stone ave. has returned from an extended stay with friends at Fort Wayne, Ind. and Buffalo N.Y. September 22, 1899, Friday TAYLOR Wed nesday evening a party of young people were chaperoned through the Pyne mines by T. J. HUGHES. After exploring the mines the party repaired to the home of Mr. Charles ADKINS of Storrs street, where they were pleasantly entertained by Miss Sadie CARTER. Those who comprised the party were: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas JONES, Miss Grace FORAYLER and Mr. John HUGHES of Scranton, Mr. & Mrs. John A. EVANS, mr. & Mrs. Charles ADKINS, Mrs. BODI and the Misses Susie HARRIS, SALLIE WILLIAMS, CHOICE POWERLL, LIZZIE DAVIS, GWEN DAVIS, SADIE & JENNIE CARTER, LILLIAN AND OLIVEN HOWELLS & mESSRS. Frank DECKER, Thos. J. HUGHES, Evan G. WATKINS, Rex CARDWELL, Evan DAVIS, & Adolph URWEIDER. Mrs. John MORGAN and children of Grove street are visiting relatives at Selin's grove. Miss Lizzie GRIFFITHS, an accomplished young lady, and Mr. John HOWELLS, a prominent young man of this town were quietly married at the Methodist parsonage Wednesday evening by the Rev. Francis GENDALL. ddMr. George REINHARDT will leave this morning for Hoboken, N.J. Miss Grace FERAYLE of Scranton was the guest of Miss Susie HARRIS Wednesday. Born -- To Mr. & Mrs. John THOMAS of Grove street, Sept 21, a daughter. To Mr. & Mrs. John THOMAS of Grove, Sept 21, a son Mrs. Edmund CARTER of Main street is visiting relatives at Shamokin. Tomorrow afternoon the primaries of the Republican party will be held at the different wards in the borough between the hours of 4 and 7. Vote for Morris, Penman, Kiefer and Ward. The meeting of the Willing Workers of the M.E. church for the fair last evening was a very enthusiastic one. Mr. Thomas SAMUELS is a candidate for vigilance committee to be elected tomorrow evening. The Taylor Oratoric society will meet for rehearsal at the Calvary Baptist church this evening at eight o'clock. Haydn's Creation will be given this winter. September 29, 1899 TAYLOR The funeral of John Francis Dunden (?) took place yedsterday morning. The funeral cortege leaving on the 8 a.m. train for Tobyhanna. A large number of our people attended the funeral of Father John LOUGHRAN yesterday morning. Miss Susie SIMONS, who has been visiting Mrs. Sam BAKER, Rendham, for the last few weeks, will return to her home in Maryland this morning. Mr. James SCRIVENS is home from his southern trip. Miss Agnes EAGAN of Feltsville and Mr. John GALLAGHER were united in marriage last Wednesday. The REv. Father Moffit performing the ceremony. Minooka tribe, No. 247, I.O.R.M. elected the following officers Wednesday evening. Prophet, William WHITE, sachem, Thomas SAMUELS, senior sagamore, Philip NOAKES, junior sagamore, John PARKER, trustee for 18 months, Jenkin DAVIES.

Check out the following WEB site on the Hotel Jermyn http://home.epix.net/~fagan/jermyn.html Bill

I am also researching the Jordan family. Anybody out there have any info?

Jane, It's titled "Minooka: Story of a Parish and a Town" A Tribute to the Boys in Service. It's dated May 30th, 1945. It has a brief history of the town, St. Joseph's Church and School and some civic organizations. Half the book is advertisements and lists of patrons. Judy (Hart) Murphy Buffalo, NY Researching: HART, NEWCOMB, JORDAN, LANGAN STARKEY, KING, LANGAN, McNULTY

Hello~I have Harriet N. Jordan from Abington, PA. She was born 1819. She married John B. Gritman about 1836. She also had a second husband Harrison Doud. I do not have any additional information on Harriet, i.e. her parents. Any matches???? Karlene >From: Xiomaramcd@aol.com >Reply-To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] Re: Minooka Book >Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:35:02 EDT > >I am also researching the Jordan family. Anybody out there have any info? > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Visit RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative: http://www.rootsweb.com/ >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

I am also looking for a Dalton obituary from 1903. Please keep me informed if you would. Garthe Benjamin in NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally Walton" <ncwalt@dnet.net> To: <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] it was evening leader tnx to Richard Reese > Hello. Is anyone able to tell me what newspaper handle the news for > Dalton,PA.? I am trying to locate an obit for William Prosser Jenkins who > died in 1907. He lived in Dalton. I only have the year of his death and the > fact that he was buried in Dalton Cem. Does the Library in Dalton have an > email address? Would SKS call to check and get it for me,please? Thanks ! > Sally > > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Have you visited the Lackawanna County page lately? http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/ > To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > > >

Hello. Is anyone able to tell me what newspaper handle the news for Dalton,PA.? I am trying to locate an obit for William Prosser Jenkins who died in 1907. He lived in Dalton. I only have the year of his death and the fact that he was buried in Dalton Cem. Does the Library in Dalton have an email address? Would SKS call to check and get it for me,please? Thanks ! Sally

Hi,all. If anyone knows where these records are held,I would like some information on WestMountain Hosp. ,too. My William P. Jenkins died from TB in 1907. He lived in Dalton and was very ill for a long time and probably spent time there,too. Sally ----- Original Message ----- From: <Dfconcannon@cs.com> To: <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] TB Hospital? > Richard > > Thank you for the information. Would they have records available at the > Sanitarium? I found my grandmother in the 1920 census and she was in West > Mountain Sanitarium. She was an orphan at St. Patricks Orphanage and she was > in West Mountain with her two sisters. Her name was Wilhelmina or Philomena > Brown..it is spelled differently on different records. Any additional > information would be greatly appreciated. My grandmother is very hard to > find information on. > > Donna from CT > > ______________________________

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Greetings I am trying to find a newspaper article For- Peter Bugjo 1942- 1943- He was my uncle He was Captured Feb.1943 All I have is the top of the clipping it says at the top of picture "Plymouth Soldier Missing In Action" And just the top of his hat. I would like very much to have the rest. I am sorry I dont know the exact date or the news paper. Maybe the Record ?? I do hope some one will help me my e mail zettle@infi.net Thank you Joan

Joe--if it's on microfilm, chances are you can borrow it from the State Library through the interlibrary loan system of your local library, or the nearest library that's part of I-L-L and also has a microfilm reader. Anne

Rich, I know this will be helpful to me. Thanks so much. Anne

Has anyone been able to get access to this recently?

I have no idea. -----Original Message----- From: Dfconcannon@cs.com <Dfconcannon@cs.com> To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, September 06, 2001 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] TB Hospital? >Richard > >Thank you for the information. Would they have records available at the >Sanitarium? I found my grandmother in the 1920 census and she was in West >Mountain Sanitarium. She was an orphan at St. Patricks Orphanage and she was >in West Mountain with her two sisters. Her name was Wilhelmina or Philomena >Brown..it is spelled differently on different records. Any additional >information would be greatly appreciated. My grandmother is very hard to >find information on. > >Donna from CT > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Visit the Lackawanna County, PA Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/lackawp.html >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList >

Hello list: Everyone is so helpful there so I thought I would offer any help on North Dakota if anyone needs it.. shoot your requests to me and I would be glad to help with any North Dakota look ups! Joe Callahan jcallaha@ctctel.com

Richard Thank you for the information. Would they have records available at the Sanitarium? I found my grandmother in the 1920 census and she was in West Mountain Sanitarium. She was an orphan at St. Patricks Orphanage and she was in West Mountain with her two sisters. Her name was Wilhelmina or Philomena Brown..it is spelled differently on different records. Any additional information would be greatly appreciated. My grandmother is very hard to find information on. Donna from CT

The West Side Hospital may have once been located on South Main Avenue at one time but it didn't go out of business in the 1930s. It was located on Jackson Street and was still in existence as pretty much of a full service hospital (including child delivery and a fine nursery) until sometime around the 1960s I believe when it merged with the Hahnemann Hospital. They became at that time Community Medical Center East and Community Medical Center West. After a few years the West branch (the old West Side Hospital) was closed and CMC East simply became Community Medical Center (CMC). Scranton State General Hospital on Mulberry Street was demolished to put up the new State Northeast Veteran's Center between 1988 and 1991 when the ground was broken for the Vet's Center. The Mercy Hospital is also on Jefferson Avenue in Scranton and many children were born there. Rich is right though when he says that chances are that someone born in 1919 was born at home. People didn't usually go to the hospital for childbirth then. In a message dated 9/5/2001 10:17:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, PALACKAW-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > X-Message: #8 > Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:20:39 -0400 > From: "Richard M. Reese" <richreese@fast.net> > To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <002e01c13661$622c90e0$1ea25cd1@rich> > Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] Richard JAMES III > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="Windows-1252" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > In all likelyhood he would have been born at home. However, the West > Side hospital on S. Main Avenue is a possibility. More of a clinic, having > only a few beds, West Side went out of business in the 1930's just prior to > the death of its' founder Dr. Daniel W. Evans. > The other hospitals were Scranton State General located on Mulberry > Street, demolished in the early 1970's I believe; Hahnemann, now CMC, and > Moses-Taylor - both are in the Hill section just east of center city. > Although the county stopped recording of births Dec. 31, 1905, when the > Commonwealth (Bureau of Vital Statistics) took over, the Board of Health of > the City of Scranton did maintain some record keeping functions. Perhaps > either of them would be a better direction to go. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Long <cactuspatch@charter.net> > To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:12 PM > Subject: [PA-LAC] Richard JAMES III > > > >I need some advise or assistance. Richard JAMES 3rd was born Feb 13, 1919 > in Scranton PA. I am trying to get information on his parents. What > hospitals were available in 1919 that I might find a birth record? > > > >Also, he served in WW2. Would there be a site that might help me with > service records and would they have parents information? > > > >Thanks for any leads. Jim >

Hello All, I need to get in contact with anyone who is descended from or related with this BENJAMIN line. Particularly the man who e-mailed me a few months ago in reference to a Wells Benjamin who is buried in a somewhere in Scranton, PA? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Garthe Benjamin in NJ

David Have you tried to contact the Lackawanna Historical Society? They might have some info that you need. Patti in NJ