At 10:25 PM 11-25-1997 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, everyone! My husband, Ronald L. Duncan, and myself (Dot) have just >joined the Roll mailing list. As this is a distaff side, we are just >beginning our research. We are impressed by the activity and enthusiasm of >all the participants and hope that we will be able to contribute something in >the very near future. So far, we have: > Frieda Malissa Roll, b 17 Jun 1903 in Peck, Sumner Co, KS m. Berna O. >SNIDER, b. 18 Dec 1902 in Fairgrove, Greene Co. MO, Frieda died 19 Nov 1978 >and is buried at Arapaho Cemetery, Arapaho, OK. Berna died 05 Sept 1979 in >Norman, Cleveland Co, OK and is also buried in Arapaho Cemetery. We don't >have an exact wedding date yet. The Sniders had ten children. > Parents of Frieda are RALPH ROLL, b. abt 1860 in MO,and JESSIE J. >(SURNAME UNKNOWN), B. ABT 1881 IN kANSAS. > Any info you would be willing to share to help us in our quest to link >to to your family lines would certainly be appreciated. Thanks for allowing >us to join your group. Ron and Dot Duncan, Tampa, Florida > Dear Ron and Dot, Do you have a web browser, i.e. Netscape or Internet Explorer? I found references to Frieda and Ralph on Family Tree Maker's World Family Tree CD ROMS. I don't have these, maybe you can find someone who has them. Roll, Frieda. 1850-1949. World Family Tree: Volume 7, Tree: 3961 (The dates are not necessarily birth and death dates.) Roll, Ralph. World Family Tree: Volume 4, Tree: 3402 ----- But, more importantly, I found... Elizabeth Melissa Jane WEBBER BIRTH: 27 Nov 1849, Fawn River, MI DEATH: 3 Apr 1931, Wichita, KS BURIAL: Clearwater, KS Family 1: Eligah Hamilton DEWATER MARRIAGE: 1867 1.Anna Bell DEWATER 2.Ezra Eligah DEWATER 3.Cora Ellen DEWATER 4.Ella Mae DEWATER 5.Bertha Anne DEWATER 6.Eula Jane DEWATER 7.Myrtle Ethel DEWATER 8.Jessie Irean DEWATER <-------------------- 9.Livera Irean DEWATER 10.Elma Irean DEWATER 11.Elmer Irean DEWATER 12.Charles Curtis DEWATER 13.Carrie Elizabeth DEWATER 14.Phillip Ola DEWATER 15.William Lauerence DEWATER __ __| | |__ __| | | __ | |__| | |__ | |--Elizabeth Melissa Jane WEBBER | | __ | __| | | |__ |__| | __ |__| |__ ----- Jessie Irean DEWATER BIRTH: 29 Jan 1881 Father: Eligah Hamilton DEWATER Mother: Elizabeth Melissa Jane WEBBER Family 1: Ralph ROLL _Amos DRINKWATER _ _Elijah DEWATER __| | |_Nancy ___________ _Eligah Hamilton DEWATER _______| | | __________________ | |_Mary Ann ZELUFF _| | |__________________ | |--Jessie Irean DEWATER | | __________________ | __________________| | | |__________________ |_Elizabeth Melissa Jane WEBBER _| | __________________ |__________________| |__________________ ----- I found this information at a web site named Our Heritage at... http://www.ourheritage.tierranet.com/ancestor.html Look under Group Two, Individual Sub-Index. The following URL will take you right to Ralph Roll, but the URL can be changes anytime they update their database: http://www.ourheritage.tierranet.com/grouptwo/d0002/g0000060.html#I05134 ----- You will also find Ralph Roll/Jessie Irean DEWATER at The Weymouth Home Page at... http://www.tiac.net/users/weymouth/ The following URL will take you right to Ralph Roll, but the URL can be changes anytime they update their database: http://www.tiac.net/users/weymouth/Html/fam04347.htm I am aware that there was a Ralph Roll who married one of the Mayflower descendants. There is a link to a Mayflower descendants database at the Weymouth home page. I suspect that Ralph was of British descent, but I could be wrong. ----- I found this pedigree chart at Scott McGee's site (look for Mayflower database on this home pate at... http://www.genealogy.org/~smcgee/genweb/genweb.html Jessie Irean Dewater - Pedigree Chart Samuel DRINKWATER, b. 1744, CT Amos DRINKWATER, b. 1772, ,,NY Olive GRAY Elijah DEWATER, b. 16 JUL 1804, Marcellus,Onondaga,NY Nancy Eligah Hamilton DEWATER, b. 29 JUN 1848, Fawn River,MI Mary Ann ZELUFF, b. 1810 Jessie Irean DEWATER, b. 29 JAN 1881 Elizabeth Melissa Jane WEBBER, b. 27 NOV 1849, Fawn River,MI -Bill _________________________________________________________________ William Henry Roll Blythe, California [email protected] The Roll Family Genealogy Windmill http://members.aol.com/whroll The genealogy of the ROLL, MANGEL and VAN WOGGELUM families "A thousand candles have burned themselves out; yet I read on."