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/VgB.2ACI/37.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you so much for your interest in helping me, but I was able to find the answer to my question. I appreciate your help though, and have a great day!

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/VgB.2ACI/37.1 Message Board Post: I've looked into this briefly but have no great answers yet. I can tell you that Blue Bell Lodge is located in Custer State Park - a part of South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Department. The Peter Norbeck Visitors Center is the Park Museum and the main location for the park's educational and historical efforts - (605) 255-4464. www.custerstatepark.info and www.sdgfp may also prove helpful. I will be in the Rapid City Library in the next few days and will do some looking there for Blue Bell Lodge specifically.

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/VgB.2ACI/37 Message Board Post: I'm looking for the name of a man who helped build the Blue Bell Lodge in Custer, SD. He worked for Bell telephone company, hence the name of the lodge. If you have any information, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

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/VgB.2ACI/36.1 Message Board Post: I think I can help you with this if you will just give me a week or so. I live withing 30 miles of Fairburn and will run over some afternoon soon and see what I find.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FOREE Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VgB.2ACI/36 Message Board Post: Hezekiah and Mary H. FOREE are buried at Fairburn Cemetery near Fairburn. If someone lives near that town, I'd sure like to get a digital photo of their tombstone. Thank you

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/VgB.2ACI/35.2.1.1 Message Board Post: You don't have my e-mail right. Try again - v l n e l s o n @ r a p . m i d c o . n e t

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACI/35.2.1 Message Board Post: Hello Virginia, I sent 3 messages 2-27-05 to vinelson@rap.micco.net. Let's try this; Genforum, Teeters Family, Post # 151, 2-20-2002. I believe that Decatur is in Ne., the posts state floods in So. Dakota, Climax & Dirtywoman Creek.If this does not work , send me your snail mail address & I will mail you a copy of the post. Thanks Much. Dorris in Texas

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/VgB.2ACI/35.2 Message Board Post: I am not getting your e-mail. The e-mail address posted on the site is not correct but I cannot seem to get it changed. Please reach me at: vlnelson@rap.midco.net

Looking for information about the Joseph PELTZ family. Anna Nowlan Peltz his wife was listed in an obituary in 1928 as living in Custer City, S.D. I would like to find her children's names and when she died and where buried. I have information about her parents and siblings. Thank you, Brenda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACI/35.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Message sent via e-mail. Dorris djssmith@hotmail.com

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/VgB.2ACI/35.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Have not received your e-mail. Try vlnelson@rap.midco.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACI/35.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you much, I have checked all maps of states near to Decatur Ne. No Climax, also checked my zip code book. Sending you an e-mail message. dorris

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/VgB.2ACI/35.1 Message Board Post: I checked my book "Black Hills Ghost Towns" by Watson Parker & Hugh K. Lambert but found no listing for Climax, SD. Will continue to investigate and see if I can answer your question. Let me know if you get an answer elsewhere. GN

Hello I am looking for any info pertaining to Cary Howery Hamilton,James Reynolds, any Hamilton especially a Charles Hamilton. I am looking for the first husband of my gr grandmother Cary Edith Howery Hamilton who would later become Cary Reynolds. They may have been affiliated with the railroad. They may have been in Custer County, SD ,a surrounding town or in IOWA. I am not sure. It would have been 1903-1905.Give or take a year. WOuld a marriage certificate show any info pertaining to a first husband ? Rebecca R. Snyder Bradley Descendant and Geneologist Keep our History Alive If only our ancestors would have realized their Importance Surnames : Bradley, Rider, Fickle, Lillard, Vance, Brubaker, Howery, Roe and Reynolds Counties of Interest : Old Rag Mountain Area of Culpeper County,Va, Washington,Va, Madison,VA, Warren,Iowa, Eddysville, Iowa

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACI/34 Message Board Post: Does anyone have information on Herman STEICHEN? He was born 24 January 1900 at Bellevue, Jackson County, IA, son of Johann Peter STEICHEN and Juliana NEIERS. He died 1 June 1986 at Custer. Are there any obituaries? Does anyone know if he was married?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Titus, Soper, Lyda, Shorton, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACI/33 Message Board Post: Death Notice - Susan Maria Titus Soper Susan Maria Titus Soper was born in Providence, R. I., June 30th, 1839, and departed from this life March 15, 1921. Arteriosclerosis was the cause of death, which occurred at the home of her son in-law, Edgar A. Scott, at Olga, Florida. She was married to William Winthrop Soper, April 2nd, 1856, in Nemaha County, Nebraska. Six children were born to this union; two boys and four girls: She is survived by three children, Mrs. Mary Soper Scott, Olga, Fla.; Mrs. Adaline Lyda, Canby, Oregon, and Mrs. Anna Beatrice Shorton, Edgemont, S. D. In 1855 she came with her parents to the wide fertile prairie of southeastern Nebraska. The country was full of Indians and it took a stout heart to brave the wilds of that new land. From Nebraska she moved to Colorado in 1879, and buried her husband there in 1882. With her children she went to the, Black Hills of: South Dakota in 1883, where she resided until she came to Florida four years ago. She had good health until 1912 when her sight fail! ed, and she had a paralytic stroke in 1917 from which she only partially recovered. All winter she had been ill, and very low for seventeen days. Everything was done for her that loving hands could do. She was a Christian, a member of the Lone Star Missionary Baptist Church, Custer County, S. D. The end came like a tired child going to sleep. As she lay in the casket there was not a line, wrinkle or shadow on her face. She seemed almost transfigured, as though God had wiped away every trace of her long suffering. Services were held at the home at 11 a. m., March 16th, conducted by Deacon LaFayette Mills of the Missionary Baptist Church: Interment was made at the Alva Cemetery. When the mists have rolled in splendor From the beauty of the hills; And the sunshine, warm and tender FaIls in kisses on the rills; We shall read love's shining letter, In the rainbow of the spray; We shall know each other better, When the mists have cleared away. Note: Copy or Original obituary came from her great granddaughter Marie (Overlin) Gorsuch Custer South Dakota.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bender Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACI/32 Message Board Post: I am in posession of a copy of a letter, dated Washington, DC, Friday, 19 August 1938, written by Isham W. Perkins, detailing his road trip with "John and Eddie" from Washington to Hermosa, South Dakota earlier the same month where they stayed with either John or Eddie's family, "the Bender's" at their small ranch near Grace Cooledge Creek. There is mention of other family members, including a brother associated with a mine in Lead, SD. I have had no luck figuring out who these people were. I *suspect* John or Eddie was a son of Jacob and Mary Bender, who died in the 1940's, and are buried in a public cemetary that overlooks Hermosa. Would like to correspond with anyone familar with this family.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bemusdaffer, Huddleston, Emery, Nelson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VgB.2ACI/29.1.1 Message Board Post: Just found this site - not real sure how! I would be interested in visiting more with you. My name is Virginia Nelson - daughter of Myrna V. Huddleston Emery and Gdaughter of Bertha V. Bemusdaffer Huddleston. I have looked at your family tree several times but never got brave enough to write before. There are some errors in your information but more than that I think we might be able to help each other further our research. Most importantly right now - my correct e-mail address is vlnelson@rap.midco.net NOT noginelson-----. If you are interested in further communication - let me know. Thanks, Ginger Nelson

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACI/31 Message Board Post: Hello all; I could use some help. Searching for John Noble, he was born of Irish parents in Ontario, Canada about1854. He was last discovered in Sullivan Township, Grey County, Ontario in the early 1880’s. It is rumored that he may have settled in, or near the Black Hills of South Dakota. If in your research, you discover John’s whereabouts, please give me a shout. Your help will be appreciated. Thanks Bill Noble

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/VgB.2ACI/22.1.1 Message Board Post: If this is the widow of Guy's nephew, then she is related. My father was also a nephew of Guy's. If you don't mind, could I have a name and address for this person.