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/JhB.2ACE/1129.1 Message Board Post: THIS IS EVERYTHING IN TEXAS 1870 CENSUS ON ANY MCDUFF FOUND NONE IN CASS COUNTY Name Home in 1870 (City, County, State) Estimated Birth Year Birthplace Race Gender Anna Mcduff Not Stated, Bastrop, TX abt 1851 Texas White Female Edward Mcduff Not Stated, Bastrop, TX abt 1863 Texas White Male Hinders Mcduff Not Stated, Bastrop, TX abt 1860 Texas White Male John Mcduff Not Stated, Bastrop, TX abt 1854 Texas White Male Joseph Mcduff Not Stated, Bastrop, TX abt 1868 Texas White Male M A Mcduff Not Stated, Bastrop, TX abt 1818 Alabama White Female Percill Mcduff Not Stated, Bastrop, TX abt 1831 Alabama White Female Richard Mcduff Not Stated, Bastrop, TX abt 1858 Texas White Male Thomas Mcduff Not Stated, Bastrop, TX abt 1856 Texas White Male William Mcduff Not Stated, Bastrop, TX abt 1853 Texas White Male Amanda Mcduff Beat 4, Cherokee, TX abt 1865 Texas Colored Female Ann Mcduff Beat 4, Cherokee, TX abt 1858 Texas Colored Female Berry Mcduff Beat 4, Cherokee, TX abt 1856 Texas Colored Male David Mcduff Beat 4, Cherokee, TX abt 1834 Tennessee Colored Male Harriet Mcduff Beat 4, Cherokee, TX abt 1863 Texas Colored Female Jane Mcduff Beat 4, Cherokee, TX abt 1860 Texas Colored Female Louisa Mcduff Beat 4, Cherokee, TX abt 1835 Ala Colored Female Martha Mcduff Beat 4, Cherokee, TX abt 1834 Ala Colored Female Mary Mcduff Beat 4, Cherokee, TX abt 1853 Texas M Female Adaline Mcduff Precinct 5, Davis, TX abt 1821 Tennessee White Female George Mcduff Precinct 5, Davis, TX abt 1845 Alabama White Male Huldy Mcduff Precinct 5, Davis, TX abt 1848 Tennessee White Female James Mcduff Precinct 5, Davis, TX abt 1819 Tennessee White Male James Mcduff Precinct 5, Davis, TX abt 1867 Texas White Male John T Mcduff Precinct 5, Davis, TX abt 1869 Texas White Male Richard T Mcduff Precinct 5, Davis, TX abt 1851 Arkansas White Male Ruth C Mcduff Precinct 5, Davis, TX abt 1860 Texas White Female William Mcduff Precinct 5, Davis, TX abt 1856 Texas White Male John Mcduff Not Stated, Red River, TX abt 1848 Arkansas White Male Richard Mcduff Not Stated, Red River, TX abt 1860 Arkansas White Male DID FIND THIS FOR 1880 1880 United States Federal Census Record about John H. M. Mcduff Name: John H. M. Mcduff Age: 13 Estimated birth year: <1867> Birthplace: Alabama Occupation: Works On Farm Relationship to head-of-household: Son Home in 1880: Precinct 5, Cass, Texas Marital status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Father's name: Mathew T. Mcduff Father's birthplace: TN Mother's name: Frances J. Mcduff Mother's birthplace: AL ALSO FOUND THIS BUT NOT LIKELY THAT IT IS THE ONE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR Texas Marriages, 1814-1909 Record about M. J. McDuff Name: M. J. McDuff Spouse: J. J. Baxter Marriage Date: 13 May 1869 Location: Red River State: 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/rw/JhB.2ACE/1137 Message Board Post: Searching for descendents of Robert Griffen Vaughan. They lived in the Linden /Kildare area and also Lodi. Some of the children were Robert, Emment, Henry,Annie,Frank Maudie and Sarah.

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/JhB.2ACE/178.64.1 Message Board Post: Did Henry have brothers and sisters? If so do you know their names?

Just a reminder to everyone that the TXGenWeb has a page for you to post the following type of notices: Genealogical Seminars Monthly Genealogy Society meetings Cemetery Association meetings Family Reunions http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/GenSociety/txsem.html Please send the information with the details, contact information, and/or website URL to me at McStumped@cox.net Thanks! Elaine

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/JhB.2ACE/1136 Message Board Post: need photos of Robert E. Browning and Mellie Browning's tombstones Robt's b/d 01-13-1850 d.04-03-1934 Mellie's b/d/09-10-1850 d. 12-31-1934 in Linden Cemetery,Linden,TX Anyone interested? Thanks junie b

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jarrett, Clayton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JhB.2ACE/1135 Message Board Post: Would like to exchange information with descendants of William Raford Jarrett and Emily Jane Clayton. Emily, along with several other family members, is buried at Corinth Cemetery, north of Linden. Their children married into the Davis, Perser, Putman, and Wallace families. Have old photos to share. Look forward to hearing from anyone working on this line. Gayle

Hi all, Ever so often I send a message to the Cass County web site in hopes that someone who is descended from the John Frederick Kasling family of Linden, Cass County, Texas, thru the Wesson, Graham, and Kirkland lines will respond to me. SUCCESS IN SEARCHING GERMAN & IRISH ROOTS After reading other success stories, I decided to share the success story of my search for the German roots of John Frederick Kasling, my maternal Great-Grandfather. My search for my Mother¹s Grandfather¹s German roots began some fifty years ago in 1949, when I wrote a family history report for my high school history class. My Grandmother Kasling was 83 years old and she told me what she could remember about her father-in-law, John Frederick Kasling, and her mother-in-law, Elenor Quigley Kasling. She told me that he was born about 1832 in Bavaria and had come to the U. S. A. when he was about 19 years old and had lived with an aunt in Springfield, Sangamon Co., Illinois. He married Elenor Quigley, an Irish immigrant, and after their children were born, they moved before 1880 to Linden, Cass County, Texas (my birthplace in 1934). My Grandmother Kasling gave me no dates other than the date of my Grandfather Edward Stephen Kasling's birth - 28 Aug 1857 in Illinois. My Grandparents, Edward Stephen Kasling and Nancy Caroline Givens, were married in 1885, so the only information that I had was what my Grandmother Kasling knew about John Frederick Kasling and Elenor Quigley Kasling from the early 1880's until Elenor died 10 Oct 1889 and John Frederick died 15 October 1892, two weeks before my Mother was born. In the 1960¹s, after I was married and beginning my chosen profession and our children had been born, I became interested again in tracing the Kasling lineage. I found John Frederick Kasling and his family in the 1880 Texas Census but could not find him in the 1870, 1860 or 1850 Census of Sangamon Co., Illinois, where my Grandmother had told me the Kaslings were from. Even though, John Frederick Kasling and Elenor Quigley Kasling were buried in a Protestant cemetery in Linden, Texas, next to my Kasling Grandparents, my Grandmother Kasling erroneously believed her Kasling in-laws were Roman Catholic, and I was never able to find any church records for them in any Roman Catholic Church in East Texas or Illinois. So, for the time, I gave up my search for these Kasling Great-Grandparents. As I neared retirement in 1996, I returned to my search for these elusive Kaslings. I again checked census records for Springfield, Sangamon Co., Illinois and as a last resort, I checked the Chicago, Cook Co. census records. Nothing. On a whim, it occurred to me that right next to Sangamon County, Illinois, was Cass County, Illinois and since my Kaslings had come to Cass County, Texas, why not look at Cass County, Illinois. I wrote to the Genealogical Society of Cass Co., Illinois and got a quick response. No Kaslings in Cass Co., Illinois, but in the neighboring Morgan County that also bordered Sangamon County, the Genealogical Society found John Frederick Kesling and Elenor Kesling and their children in the 1870 Census of Morgan County in Jacksonville, Illinois. They also found the marriage record in 1856 for John Frederick Kesling and Elenor Quigley. This was my first realization that the spelling of the name Kasling or Kesling was probably not the original spelling of the name. I quickly verified that the Morgan County, Illinois, ³Kesling family² was my ³Kasling Family². My Grandfather and his sisters were all listed in the 1870 Census of Morgan County, Illinois. I then began my search of all the books listing German immigrants between 1850 and 1856. In the book ³German Immigrants, List of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York², I found my Great-grandfather, Johann Friedrich Kiesling, from Quellenreuth, Bavaria, listed on the ship manifest of the ³Bark Constitution² sailing from Bremen, Germany, arriving in New York on 16 April 1852, with a destination of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By 1997, I was on the Internet searching for Kasling,Kesling and Kiesling descendants and ancestors for John Frederick Kasling/Kesling/Kiesling. I found none other than my one Kasling cousin and his family who I knew. I soon discovered that Kasling, Kesling and Kiesling were all Anglicized versions of the German surname Kiessling/Kießling. It was then easy to accept that John Frederick Kasling had three spellings of his last name from the time he stepped aboard the ³Bark Constitution² in Bremen in 1852 to the time he arrived in Texas by 1880. The ship manifest gave me new hope. I verified the ship manifest on NARA microfilm at the local LDS Family History Center and everything began to fit with what I knew. I now knew that John Frederick Kasling¹s German name was Johann Friedrich Kießling, that he was born in 1832 in Quellenreuth, Bavaria, and in 1852, he had come to New York. He then went to Pittsburgh, Pa., and by 1856, he was in Morgan County, Illinois. There, he married Elenor Quigley on May 21, 1856, and with their children, they were in Linden, Cass Co. Texas, just before the 1880 Census. My next step was to find out where Quellenreuth was in Bavaria. By sheer luck, I was given the name of a young man in Bavaria whose last name was Kießling and we started an e-mail correspondence. He was not sure of a family connection, but he told me the location of Quellenreuth: a small village in Bavaria, Northeast of Munich, South of Hof, and close to the Czech border. Future e-mails told me that the Evang. Lutheran parish Church for the area was St. Gumbertus in the town of Schwarzenbach an der Saale and that the village of Quellenreuth was only a mile or two away. St. Gumbertus had a web site, and once I clicked on the web site, I quickly found the name of a person who did genealogy research there at the Church. Unlike many other Evang. Lutheran Churches in Germany, St. Gumbertus church records are all intact and they are still there in the Church. The original church was built after the early founding of the Evang. Lutheran Church by Martin Luther in the 1500¹s. After an exchange of several e-mails, this researcher told me that there were Kießling birth, baptism, marriage and death records there in the Church. This researcher quickly found my Johann Friedrich Kießling¹s recorded birth, 24 July 1832, and a notation in the margin of the records that Johann had gone to North American in 1852. Johann¹s parent¹s and sibling¹s names, dates of birth, etc. soon followed. Today, I have 250 years of Kießling ancestors before my Great-grandfather came to the U. S. in 1852. I now have some 13 generations spanning 400 years from just before 1600 to my Granddaughter who was born in 1993. Fortunately, as a bonus, I am now in contact with a distant Schodel cousin who lives in Quellenreuth, Bavaria. Even though the surname of this new found German cousin is not Kießling nor Schodel, her family lives in house No. 3 next to my Great-Great-Grandparents house No. 2 and her family farms 110 acres of the original farmland purchased in the early 1800¹s. This German cousin¹s great-great-great-grandmother was a sister of my Great-Great-Grandmother, Elizabetha Schodel Kießling, mother of John Frederick Kasling. In December of 2003, I was successful in my search for Elenor Quigley¹s immigration. For many years, I had searched U. S. ports passenger lists from Ireland and was unscuccessful in finding anyone whose name was Elenor Quigley. In December of 2003, I became aware that thru Ancestry.Com that there were some Canadian passenger lists that had been indexed. Bingo!! Suddenly, Elenor Quigley¹s name appeared in the Canadian passenger list sailing on the ship ³Prudence² of Londonderry. Further searching led me to the transcribed passenger list of the ³Prudence². The ³Prudence² sailed from Londonderry, Ireland on 23 May 1838 and arrived at St. John, New Brunswick, Canada on 11 July 1838. Listed was Elenor Quigley, child, age 6, from County Donegal; Ann Quigley, spinster, age 22, from County Donegal; William Quigley, labourer, age 17, from County Donegal. Elenor¹s age on leaving Ireland agreed with her known birthdate on her tombstone. By the time the ³Prudence² arrived in St. John, Elenor had had her 7th birthday. This is the earliest known record of Elenor Quigley and it is assumed that Ann and William were older siblings of Elenor. The names of their parents are unknown. Possibly Elenor named her first son, Edward Stephen, for her father and her first daughter, Mary A. (Ann), for her mother. The following are the children of Elenor and John Frederick Kasling/Kesling: 1. Edward Stephen Kasling, b. 28 Aug. 1857, Morgan Co., Ill. d. 2 July 1941, Linden, Cass Co., Tex. Married Nancy Caroline (Jeffie) Givens 13 May, 1885 in Linden. (My grandparents) 2. Mary A. (Mollie) Kasling, b. ca. 1860, Morgan Co., Ill. Married George Wesson ca 1879. 6 children but no known descendants. 3. Thomas Kesling, b. ca 1862, Morgan Co., Ill. No known descendants 4. Isabelle (Belle) Kasling, b. ca 1866, Morgan Co., Ill. Married Will Graham. No known descendants. 5. Maggie Kasling, b. ca 1867, Morgan Co., Illinois. Married Andrew Jackson Nelson ca. 1890. Only child was Andrew J. Nelson (no descendants). 6. Elner M, (Ella) Kasling, b. ca 1871, Morgan Co., Ill. Married William G. (Bud) Kirkland. 10 children. No known descendants except for Cindy Blair. Jim Skelton tiff4219@zianet.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/rw/JhB.2ACE/1134 Message Board Post: Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives (SARA) of the Arkansas History Commission in Washington, AR will have our Third Annual SARA Genealogy Fair on October 29 in the 1914 Schoolhouse at Old Washington Historic State Park. Lunch and workshops are all offered at no charge. 10-11:20 Room One: “One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Gleaning Information from Arkansas Photographs” by Lynn Ewbank and “Voices of the Dead: Extracting Genealogical Information from Arkansas Cemetery and Death Records” by April Goff. Room Two: “The Longley Family, A Case Study: Learning About Those Elusive African American Ancestors” by Christine Longley Gatewood and “A Lasting Arkansas Legacy: Preserving Family Heirlooms” by Julienne Crawford. 11:30 lunch 1:30 The workshops listed above will be repeated. Certificates of attendance will be provided for teachers. All genealogical and historical societies in SW Arkansas are invited to have a vendors table at no charge. Notify Faith Riley or Gail Martin at 870-983-2633 or friley@southwestarchives.com to reserve a space. Visit our website at www.southwestarchives.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McDuff Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JhB.2ACE/1133 Message Board Post: I'm looking for any information on any McDuff family who was living in Cass County, Texas in the 1870 - 1880. I'm interested in a girl with the initals of M.J. She was married in Jan. 1800.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mason Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JhB.2ACE/1132 Message Board Post: I am a volunteer researcher for the Texas Peace Officers Memorial. Dallas Morning News (11 Mar 1919) reported that Cass County deputy sheriff J H MASON was near Hughes Springs while walking along the train tracks and was struck by the southbound MK&T train on 9 Mar & died 10 Mar 1919. I am interested in locating his place of burial, family history and any info that he was on duty when this accident occurred.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nickleberry, Bonner, Barber, Warren, McCoy, Black Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JhB.2ACE/1131 Message Board Post: I am researching my husband's ancestry, and am having a tough time. His Grandmother(Arelia Barber) was born to Robert Barber and Mary Molly Nickelberry(Berry Nickleberry and Rosa Warren's daughter). His Grandfather(Haynelius Bonner) was born to Lemon Bonner and Lula May Nickleberry(Robert Nickleberry & Sallie MCCoy's child). I know that his GGGGrandmother Caroline Black married Zachariah Warren and that is as far back as I can go on that side. I am headed to Marietta next weekend to talk to an aunt of his and to go to some cemetaries. I'd appreciate any info anyone has on all the intermarriages, etc.

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/JhB.2ACE/1130 Message Board Post: Will someone from the CCGS please contact? I have some old photographs I would like to see if someone can help me identify the people in them. Thank you, Johanne

I am searching for a current e-mail address for Charlene or Will Stewart. Would appreciate any help. Jim Skelton tiff4219@zianet.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/rw/JhB.2ACE/1119.2 Message Board Post: James A. Shaddix, born Mar 1859 in AL, is enumerated in the 1900 Census, Cass Co., TX, page 172A.

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/JhB.2ACE/1050.1.1 Message Board Post: I would appreciate any info on the Stewart Family and the Ball family of Cass Co.....you may contact me at nanoo@cableone.net.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McDuff Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JhB.2ACE/1129 Message Board Post: I'm looking for a M.J. (Mary J. ?) McDuff in Cass County in the 1870 Census. Her age would be 7-12.

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/JhB.2ACE/1128 Message Board Post: Does anyone have any infor on Robt E. Browning or Mellie (Carroll) browning both died in 1934 but lived in Linden for yrs. They are buried in Linden --Can anybody help on the cemeteries around Linden. Thanks e-mail me

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/JhB.2ACE/1127 Message Board Post: I have a picture that shows 16 men and women. They are outside a building by a window. Above their heads is a sign that reads - Bivins Lyceum Club 1895. The man in the center of the back row has a book in his hand. Can anyone help me identify this group? Thank you for any help, Johanne

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/JhB.2ACE/1126 Message Board Post: Hello, I am searching for African American grandparents in Cass County, Texas. My grandfather's name was George Brannon, a Methodist minister. His first wife, my grandmother, was named Grady Beatrice Barnes Brannon. They had three daughters, Irmagene, Essie, and Ruth. He relocated back and forth between Texas and Mississippi as minister. Anyone with information on him or his wife, please contact me. I have only one aunt living now and I would like to reconnect her as well as myself with any remaining family.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: king Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JhB.2ACE/1125 Message Board Post: I looking for any info on Richard King and wife Mary King. They migrated through Texas from the southwest to northeast also in La. and Ark. Richard b: 1831,Pa. d: 1879-80 Cass County. Mary b: 1834,Tn.d: after 1920 Harrison County,Marshall,Tx. Nine children: Logan b: 1855,Tx., Easter b: 1856,Tx. Martha b: 1860,La. Franklin(Frank)b: 1866,Ark.or La. not sure,William b:1870,Tx., James b: April 4,1872,Tx ,Thamas b: Jan. 1874,Tx., Richard b: March 12,1876,Tx. Jane b: 1879,Tx. What I would like to know when exactly then Mary died and where is she buried if possible. James King settle in Bowie County. Franklin settle in Cass County,Richard in Harrison County. I have tried to trace the rest of the children but no luck . I would appreciate any help pertaining to this family. Thank you for your time.