Does anyone have the address for the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Suring, Oconto Co., Wisconsin? I was told that my g-g-grandfather, Levi Blasier/Blazier lived in Suring and may have died there. I was hoping that someone might have the address of the cemetery so that I could write them to find out if a Levi Blasier is buried there. Also, does anyone know if this is the only cemetery in the town? All of the best, James

Hello All, Does anyone have a current address for the Northern Wisconsin Genealogists? I attempted to contact them but my letter came back. I did find the address in a rather old genealogy magazine . Thank you! Priscilla Rodriguez

Got this on another list I'm on. If it's true, what a bargain! Happy Hunting! Marsha Wilcox mwilcox@lnd.com Wilcox Web Design -- http://www.usroots.com/~wwd/index.html USGenWeb County Coordinator for: Lake Co., IL -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~illake/ Listowner for ILLAKE-L, tracing your roots in Lake Co., IL Oconto Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/ Home Page -- http://mall.lnd.com/wilcox/ My Genealogy Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mawilcox/index.htm SpamHunt! -- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1616/ Pat Hamp wrote: > > Here is an interesting item-new CDs from LDS. Enjoy. > > Dear Friends: Please do not consider this a 'commercial msg.' in any > way, shape or form. I am merely sharing a "news item" which I consider > interesting and perhaps some of you will, too. > > This news item came from the Angus, Scotland list. Thought someone out > there might be interested. Certainly seems a reasonable price to me, and > > will save me many trips to the library/research center. > > Have great days and peaceful nights! > Shirley: bobert@panacom.com > ------------------------------------------------- > Bill and Jennifer Agar wrote: > > I don't know if anyone is interested in this or not, but I thought I > would pass it along as I know I am. > > The LDS Church announced it is making two new CD-Rom packages available > for home use. > > "The North American Vital Records Index" lists nearly 5 million names > taken from church and civil records and from other collections in the > United States and Canada. The items in this 7 CD set focus on marriage > records (6 discs) and also list some births and christenings (1 disc). > The North American records indexed date from 1620 to 1888. It is priced > > at $19 US. > > "The British Vital Records Index" contains nearly 5 million names from > parish registers, civil registrations and other record collections in > England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The records on the index span > more than three centuries, from 1538 to 1888. The 5 CD's in this set > concentrate on birth and christening records (4 discs) and also list > some marriages (1 disc). It is priced at $15 US. > > These items can be ordered from the Church Distribution Center, 1999 > West 1700 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84104-4233. Telephone: 800-537-5950 > > (from the US or Canada) 801-240-1126 (international). Fax orders: > 801-240-3685. > > The Family History Department expects to begin releasing the 1880 US > Census and the 1881 British Census in early 1999. This collection will > total more than 80 million names. > .......................................... > Jennifer in cloudy but warm Kamloops, BC > ===================================================== > > -- > Pat Hamp > <hamp@voyager.net> AOL Messenger: "downbound2" > AUGER Family Assoc. <http://my.voyager.net/hamp/auger/> > Auger Surname Mail List <AUGER-L-request@rootsweb.com> "subscribe" > Auger Surname Mail List <AUGER-L@rootsweb.com> to post query > -- > G.L. Shipping Genealogy-Downward Bound > <http://www.rootsweb.com/~migls/index.html> > GLShips-L Mail List > <http://www.rootsweb.com/~migls/glshipsmaillist.html> > Gratiot Co., MI USGenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/~migratio/index1.html> > > ----------------------------------------------- > To contact the list owner, use stephenL@indiana.edu > > For information on available lists, other list options, and other > generally useful information, visit > http://php.indiana.edu/~stephenl/genealog.htm

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The following is an article written by Bill Shaw of the Indianapolis Star/News. I'm sure most people don't realize that this kind of thing can happen anywhere. Randy Fuhrman The Death of a Cemetery 23-Aug-1998 Indianapolis Star Wayne Township graveyard destroyed for warehouse shows final resting places aren't so final under state law. By Bill Shaw Indianapolis Star/News INDIANAPOLIS (Aug. 22, 1998) -- Sometime in 1844, James Rhoads, a prominent Wayne Township farmer, died. He was 70. His family members and friends buried him in a grove of walnut trees on a hill overlooking a little creek. It was the first burial in what would become Rhoads Cemetery. During the next half-century, 43 members of the Rhoads, Foltz, Shute and Rude families would be sent to eternity in the walnut grove. The tiny cemetery was the scene of extraordinary grief over the years as members of the four families repeatedly journeyed in horse-drawn wagons across the sweeping fields and up the lonesome hill to bury their children. Thomas B. Rhoads was 7 months old in August 1849 when he died of an inflamed brain. Elmer Shute was 2 when he died of a bowel infection in August 1859. Hiram Foltz was an infant. George Foltz was 1. Lillian Rhoads was 2 and died of whooping cough on Aug. 13, 1878. Casey Rhoads died of an inflamed brain when he was 2. Emma Rude died at 18 months. On and on they died until there were 35 children buried in the peaceful cemetery on the hill. By the dawn of the 20th century, the burying ceased as the four families either died out or drifted away from southern Wayne Township. Nobody paid much attention to the old cemetery anymore. The cemetery and surrounding farmland changed owners several times. Each new owner farmed the fields and tended the old cemetery out of respect for earlier generations of Hoosier families. The farmers could have knocked down the trees, plowed under the tombstones, planted corn on the graves and made a few more dollars at harvest. But they didn't. The pace of change in Wayne Township picked up dramatically in 1931 when the Indianapolis airport opened on 900 acres, gobbling up farmland and triggering a development explosion in western Marion County. Still, the land around the old cemetery remained untouched, save for the annual spring plowing. The burying ground remained unmolested, decade after decade, hidden on the hill in a 60-foot-wide opening in the walnut grove Danny J. White grew up in the Lafayette Heights neighborhood, just south of the cemetery. In the 1970s, the field around the cemetery served as a dirt bike track for White and his teen-age buddies. He crossed it many times walking to Ben Davis High School. The old dead-end dirt road served as a teen- age lovers' lane. Neighborhood families held picnics beneath a massive, gnarled oak tree just east of the cemetery. White, 41, is a tool and die maker and an Indy Racing League mechanic. He helped fabricate the car Eddie Cheever drove to victory in the 1998 Indianapolis 500. Every day driving to work along I-465 near the airport, he'd glance to the east through the sprawl of hotels, office buildings, warehouses, parking lots, gas stations and fast food joints, and take comfort that the solitary hill and the dark grove of trees remained in this mass of concrete and asphalt. "Even when I was a kid the cemetery and the area surrounding it was breathtaking," he recalled. In the name of development By 1995, the fields that stretched to the horizon when James Rhoads was buried so long ago had shrunk to 21.2 acres. Now jet planes scream overhead, and the rumble of nearby I-70 and I-465 is constant. Cement trucks and construction equipment line the old lovers' lane, and new buildings seem to appear daily, landscaped with skinny stick trees, surrounded by acres of asphalt. One day about 18 months ago, Danny J. White was driving to work and glanced toward the familiar hill and the concealed cemetery. He was startled to see it surrounded by yellow trucks, graders, backhoes and dirt scrapers. He raced immediately to the cemetery and felt his stomach heave. The tombstones were gone. There were ugly gashes in the earth. The big yellow machines had pulled the graves from the earth. "It was sickening," he recalled. He was furious. He made dozens of phone calls and fired off angry letters to an assortment of government officials seeking an explanation. He got one. It was all quite legal, according to state officials. Now go away and quit bothering us, Danny J. White. He wondered how such an abomination could occur in conservative, family-values Indiana where, he, like most Hoosiers, was raised to respect the dead and revere their hallowed, final resting place. "How did this happen?" he asked. "You don't mess with graves." Well, here's what happened, Danny. They do mess with graves. James Rhoads, Thomas, Henry, Casey, Elmer and the other children and eight adults who rested more than 150 years in the safety of the walnut grove became the property of Duke Realty Investments Inc. Duke, which owns or manages 60 million square feet of real estate in eight states, bought the 21.2 acres and the 360-square-foot cemetery in 1995. "We purchased the land for development purposes," explained Donna Coppinger, the helpful vice president of marketing for Duke. "We couldn't develop a site with a cemetery on it." Why? "It wasn't what we wanted to do," she said. Duke will soon level the hill and build a 458,000-square-foot bulk distribution warehouse on the 21.2 acres, obliterating the one-tenth-acre Rhoads Cemetery. It's legal Nearly two years ago, after they bought the land Duke hired an archaeology company called NES Inc. in Blue Ash, Ohio, and together they filed the necessary forms with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology to dig up the Rhoads, Foltz, Shute and Rude families. State laws, which are made by the 150 members of the Indiana General Assembly with extensive guidance from corporate lobbyists, allow property owners to demolish old cemeteries they find on their land. Throw away the tombstones, plant corn or build a warehouse on the graves. It's legal. DNR's chief archaeologist Rick Jones is monitoring the Duke demolition. He said his agency issues about 10 cemetery relocation permits a year. How many cemeteries simply are destroyed, he doesn't know. "We have no way of knowing," he said. But throwing away tombstones and paving over graves doesn't require a permit. Just do it. It's legal. In fact, old tombstones often end up in flea markets. "Most people think cemeteries are forever," Jones explained slowly and uncomfortably. This is not a topic most state officials enjoy discussing. "In Indiana, cemeteries are not forever. If you own the property, you can bulldoze them down. Basically, in Indiana, nothing is sacred." Digging into graves and moving them does require some paperwork, except for farmers who are exempt from even that minor inconvenience. "Farmers can just throw away the tombstones and plow up the graves," said Jones. "And they do. The Indiana Farm Bureau got the legislature to exempt farmers." A couple years ago, DNR proposed a bill to offer some mild protection for old pioneer cemeteries. Corporate lobbyists smothered the bill in committee, and it never received even token consideration. The end of Rhoads Anyway, Duke's cemetery demolition project proceeded under DNR Digging Permit 960062. NES Inc. archaeologist Jeannine Kreinbrink directed the removal of "remains," once known in another life as James Rhoads, Elmer, Thomas, Casey and others. Kreinbrink, who now works for Natural and Ethical Environmental Solutions Inc. of Liberty Township, Ohio, did not return phone calls. She did submit a preliminary report, as required, to the DNR's Rick Jones. It's a haunting document, complete with photographs of the "remains." In many cases, much remains of the remains, like the perfectly preserved bones of little children, their arms crossed, lying in tiny hexagonal coffins. Pieces of shoes and clothing remain. The report also contains a diagram of each grave's location, the shape of the coffin and what was in it. Each former person is identified by a letter and a number. For example, C-2 was the "well-preserved remains of an adult. Sex unknown. Head to west. Arms at side." B-10 contained the "well-preserved remains of an adult. Arms folded with hands over waist." Mr. D-1 was obviously a wheat farmer because he was buried with a wheat scythe and a small plate. Infant D-6 was buried beneath 2.8 feet of dirt in a decorative metal coffin called a sarcophagus with a glass viewing window. E-7 was an older adult male with a engraved tulip on his coffin and the words "Rest In Peace." A-1 was the "poorly preserved remains of an infant, sex unknown. Few scattered post cranial remains." B-1 was an "adult female 20-35 years. Well-preserved remains." And on it went in graphic detail. Most people were buried under only 2 feet of dirt, symbolically facing the setting sun, the western horizon. "I feel a connection with these people," Rick Jones said quietly, flipping through the depressing document. "You feel something looking into a child's grave after 150 years. These are people that used to live, walk around and breathe. We're literally looking into the past and I feel a profound sense of respect." He paused, blinked a couple times. "This is a serious thing." Once Elmer and the others were dug up, labeled with numbers and letters, they were shipped to anthropologist Stephen Nawrocki at the University of Indianapolis on the Southside. He was hired by Duke under terms of digging permit 960062, which required an "osteological" investigation by an anthropologist. That is a study of the bones and "artifacts" for historical significance. "I haven't been cleared by Duke to discuss this with reporters. I'm just a sub, sub contractor," said Nawrocki. Jeannine Kreinbrink called and told him not to talk, he said. Her firm is paying his fees. When will your report be done, doctor? "I don't know." Once his report is complete, DNR will either order Duke to rebury the "remains" somewhere else or they will "be kept in a lab for future study," said Jones. Last December, Blair D. Carmosino, Development Services Director, Duke Construction Inc., fired off a stern letter to DNR officials. "Duke's schedule for construction start-up in this project area is rapidly approaching, so it is imperative that the (DNR) properly issue a clearance letter for this project area." Part of the reason for delay was DNR's displeasure with Jeannine Kreinbrink's preliminary report. Jon C. Smith, director of DNR's Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, found about 40 points in her report he wanted explained, corrected or expanded upon -- like what did Duke plan to do with the "unwanted" headstones they dug up? On July 22, DNR issued a conditional permit to begin "ground disturbing activities" but demanded an archaeologist be present in case additional "human remains" are uncovered. "We'll probably start drainage work and soil things soon," said Donna Coppinger, the Duke marketing person. "Site preparation before winter means if we can get the site ready, we construct our industrial warehouse product this winter. The building will be 1,032 feet long and 440 feet wide." This is good news? "It is good news. We're good corporate neighbors," she said. Property of Duke The other day Danny J. White visited the old cemetery one last time before the ancient walnuts and solitary oak are bulldozed, the hill flattened and the "final" resting place for 35 kids and eight adults is erased from the face of the earth. He hiked through the alfalfa field, brimming with buzzing bees, butterflies and summer wildflowers and up the hill. He rummaged around through the dense brush at the edge of the cemetery. Day lilies planted 150 years ago around the graves still flourish. "Look what I found," he said suddenly, emerging from the brush with the broken top half of a tombstone bearing the words "WIFE OF JAMES RHOADS. DIED." He found it in a bulldozed pile of dirt between two old tires, beer cans and soda pop bottles. What to do? Surely the DNR would want Mrs. Rhoads' broken tombstone. It couldn't be left in the pile of tires and broken glass. Somebody might steal it. It might be demolished in "site preparation." It could be lost forever, a historic treasure, the last poignant symbol of a person's life, sacrificed on the altar of economic development and corporate neighborliness. A quick phone call to DNR research archaeologist Amy L. Johnson provided the answer. "Put it back," she said firmly. What? "Put it back," she said again. Why? "It belongs to Duke. It is their property." James Rhoads' wife's name was believed to be Hannah, and she died on July 24, 1849, at age 85. Her husband, remember, was the first person buried in the cemetery in August 1844. Her broken tombstone, which was carefully placed in the Hoosier soil during solemn, no doubt tearful, ceremonies 149 long summers ago, was returned to the pile of bulldozed dirt, tires, broken glass, beer and pop bottles. It belonged to Duke. It's the law.

Hi all! Forwarding with permission. Can anybody help Victoria out? Happy Hunting! Marsha Wilcox mwilcox@lnd.com Wilcox Web Design -- http://www.usroots.com/~wwd/index.html USGenWeb County Coordinator for: Lake Co., IL -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~illake/ Listowner for ILLAKE-L, tracing your roots in Lake Co., IL Oconto Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/ Home Page -- http://mall.lnd.com/wilcox/ My Genealogy Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mawilcox/index.htm SpamHunt! -- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1616/ Vml821@aol.com wrote: > > I need help finding my Grandfather Adelin LeComte in any records. He came > here from Belgium around 1888 and worked as a lumberjack in Oconto. He had > two brothers that also worked with him in the woods. Gustave and Freeman (he > changed his name to Freeman and we don't know what his real name was) > LeComte. Adelin married Marie Clare Picard Goulin, a widow. Her first husband > was killed in a papermill accident in Peshtigo. This is about all I know > right now. Both are buried in Oconto. Victoria LeComte VML821@AOL.COM > Thank you for any help. And then she wrote: > I have just started this and am kind of picking my way through some of my Father's > things. One being my Grandmothers Diary. She had several referals to the fact that > her first husband (named Goulin or Golin ) was killed in a pulp machine and all they > had to bury would fit in a shoe box. I think it was in Peshtigo where they lived. I > think Granny grew up there because she also talks about the Peshtigo fire in the > diary. It was bigger than the Great Chicago Fire. It also occurred at the > same time. She said the air was so hot that you had to keep going into the > river and ducking down so your hair wouldn't catch on fire. She also > talked about an Indian that did some work for he father named Ol Patchnose. I > guess he wore a patch where his nose used to be. He told her somebody bit it off > in a fight but later heard his wife did it. I know she had a daughter by this > first marriage named Barbara. I also think her oldest brother left home > before she was born. She used to write letters to him in The Yukon twice a > year so the boat would take her letters in the spring and fall. I think > Peter Picard was in Dawson City. Don't think he ever married. So you can see I > do have some info but don't know what to do with it. I need threads to pull > it all together. I do have some more info but I guess this is longer than I > had intended to write I just sort of got carried away. I tend to do that when > I start to talk about the things I have found out. By the way both Marie > Clare and Adelin are buried in Oconto. I also think their daughter Virginia is > buried in the same place. I was there as a child but don't remember too much > about it. I have a hard time going up there seeing as I don't drive any > more. I'm sorry for bending your ear or should I say Eyes.. Please foreward any > info to anybody that might help. Thank you very much for your interest. > Victoria > E-mail at vml821@aol.com

Thought you'd enjoy this! Marsha > > >>From Placer Trails, Placer Co, CA Newsletter: > > > >The Future Family Tree > > > >A future mother is explaining to her little girl about pictures in the > >family photo album. "This is the geneticist with your surrogate mother and > >here's your sperm donor and your father's clone. This is me holding you > >when you were just a frozen embryo. The lady with the very troubled look > >on her face is your aunt, a genealogist."

Maybe this will help someone. Marsha > I have > put together this "LIST OF OCCUPATIONS" used in the older records. I > put these 130 items together from many sources and used it as a handout > for our local Orange County (NY) Genealogical Society. I was asked by > many War Chart recipients if the CHART could be forwarded to other lists > or used in local newsletters. The answer is yes -- please share this > > information. > > Dan Burrows > dburrows1@juno.com > dburrows2@juno.com > > Accomptant Accountant > Almoner Giver of charity to the needy > Amanuensis Secretary or stenographer > Artificer A soldier mechanic who does repairs > Bailie Bailiff > Baxter Baker > Bluestocking Female writer > Boniface Keeper of an inn > Brazier One who works with brass > Brewster Beer manufacturer > Brightsmith Metal Worker > Burgonmaster Mayor > Caulker One who filled up cracks (in ships or windows or seems > to make them watertight by using tar or oakum-hemp fiber produced by > taking old ropes apart > Chaisemaker Carriage maker > Chandler Dealer or trader; one who makes or sells candles; > retailer of groceries > Chiffonnier Wig maker > Clark Clerk > Clerk Clergyman, cleric > Clicker The servant of a salesman who stood at the door to > invite customers; one who received the matter in the galley from the > compositors and arranged it in due form ready for printing; one who makes eyelet > holes in boots using a machine which clicked. > Cohen Priest > Collier Coal miner > Colporteur Peddler of books > Cooper One who makes or repairs vessels made of staves & > hoops, such as casks, barrels, tubs, etc. > Cordwainer Shoemaker, originally any leather worker using leather > from Cordova/Cordoba in Spain > Costermonger Peddler of fruits and vegetables > Crocker Potter > Crowner Coroner > Currier One who dresses the coat of a horse with a currycomb; > one who tanned leather by incorporating oil or grease > Docker Stevedore, dock worker who loads and unloads cargo > Dowser One who finds water using a rod or witching stick > Draper A dealer in dry goods > Drayman One who drives a long strong cart without fixed sides > for > carrying heavy loads > Dresser A surgeon's assistant in a hospital > Drover One who drives cattle, sheep, etc. to market; a dealer > in > cattle > Duffer Peddler > Factor Agent, commission merchant; one who acts or transacts > business for another; Scottish steward or bailiff of an estate > Farrier A blacksmith, one who shoes horses > Faulkner Falconer > Fell monger One who removes hair or wool from hides in > preparation for leather making > Fletcher One who made bows and arrows > Fuller One who fulls cloth;one who shrinks and thickens woolen > cloth by moistening, heating, and pressing; one who cleans and > finishes > cloth > Gaoler A keeper of the goal, a jailer > Glazier Window glassman > Hacker Maker of hoes > Hatcheler One who combed out or carded flax > Haymonger Dealer in hay > Hayward Keeper of fences > Higgler Itinerant peddler > Hillier Roof tiler > Hind A farm laborer > Holster A groom who took care of horses, often at an inn > Hooker Reaper > Hooper One who made hoops for casks and barrels > Huckster Sells small wares > Husbandman A farmer who cultivated the land > Jagger Fish peddler > Journeyman One who had served his apprenticeship and mastered > his craft, not bound to serve a master, but hired by the day > Joyner / Joiner A skilled carpenter > Keeler Bargeman > Kempster Wool comber > Lardner Keeper of the cupboard > Lavender Washer woman > Lederer Leather maker > Leech Physician > Longshoreman Stevedore > Lormer Maker of horse gear > Malender Farmer > Maltster Brewer > Manciple A steward > Mason Bricklayer > Mintmaster One who issued local currency > Monger Seller of goods (ale, fish) > Muleskinner Teamster > Neatherder Herds cows > Ordinary Keeper Innkeeper with fixed prices > Pattern Maker A maker of a clog shod with an iron ring. A clog was > a wooden pole with a pattern cut into the end > Peregrinator Itinerant wanderer > Peruker A wig maker > Pettifogger A shyster lawyer > Pigman Crockery dealer > Plumber One who applied sheet lead for roofing and set lead > frames for plain or stained glass windows. > Porter Door keeper > Puddler Wrought iron worker > Quarrier Quarry worker > Rigger Hoist tackle worker > Ripper Seller of fish > Roper Maker of rope or nets > Saddler One who makes, repairs or sells saddles or other > furnishings for horses > Sawbones Physician > Sawyer One who saws; carpenter > Schumacker Shoemaker > Scribbler A minor or worthless author > Scrivener Professional or public copyist or writer; notary > public > Scrutiner Election judge > Shrieve Sheriff > Slater Roofer > Slopseller Seller of ready-made clothes in a slop shop > Snobscat / Snob One who repaired shoes > Sorter Tailor > Spinster A woman who spins or an unmarried woman > Spurrer Maker of spurs > Squire Country gentleman; farm owner; justice of peace > Stuff gown Junior barrister > Stuff gownsman Junior barrister > Supercargo Officer on merchant ship who is in charge of cargo and > the commercial concerns of the ship. > Tanner One who tans (cures) animal hides into leather > Tapley One who puts the tap in an ale cask > Tasker Reaper > Teamster One who drives a team for hauling > Thatcher Roofer > Tide waiter Customs inspector > Tinker Am itinerant tin pot and pan seller and repairman > Tipstaff Policeman > Travers Toll bridge collection > Tucker Cleaner of cloth goods > Turner A person who turns wood on a lathe into spindles > Victualer A tavern keeper, or one who provides an army, navy, or > ship with food > Vulcan Blacksmith > Wagoner Teamster not for hire > Wainwright Wagon maker > Waiter Customs officer or tide waiter; one who waited on the > tide to collect duty on goods brought in > Waterman Boatman who plies for hire > Webster Operator of looms > Wharfinger Owner of a wharf > Wheelwright One who made or repaired wheels; wheeled carriages, etc. > Whitesmith Tinsmith; worker of iron who finishes or polishes the > work > Whitewing Street sweeper > Whitster Bleacher of cloth > Wright Workman, especially a construction worker > Yeoman Farmer who owns his own land

Enjoy! Marsha > > On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: > Here lies > Ezekial Aikle > Age 102 > The Good > Die Young. > > In a London, England cemetery: > Ann Mann > Here lies Ann Mann, > Who lived an old maid > But died an old Mann. > Dec. 8, 1767 > > In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery: > Anna Wallace > The children of Israel wanted bread > And the Lord sent them manna, > Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, > And the Devil sent him Anna. > > Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: > Here lies > Johnny Yeast > Pardon me > For not rising. > > Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery: > Here lies the body > of Jonathan Blake > Stepped on the gas > Instead of the brake. > > In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: > Here lays Butch, > We planted him raw. > He was quick on the trigger, > But slow on the draw. > > A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery: > Sacred to the memory of > my husband John Barnes > who died January 3, 1803 > His comely young widow, aged 23, has > many qualifications of a good wife, and > yearns to be comforted. > > A lawyer's epitaph in England: > Sir John Strange > Here lies an honest lawyer, > And that is Strange. > > Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont: > I was somebody. > Who, is no business > Of yours. > > Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona in > the cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery in > > Tombstone, Arizona: > Here lies Lester Moore > Four slugs from a .44 > No Les No More. > > In a Georgia cemetery: > "I told you I was sick!" > > John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery: > Reader if cash thou art > In want of any > Dig 4 feet deep > And thou wilt find a Penny. > > On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Virginia: > She always said her feet were killing her > but nobody believed her. > > In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England: > On the 22nd of June > - Jonathan Fiddle - > Went out of tune. > > Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont has an epitaph that > sounds like something from a Three Stooges movie: > Here lies the body of our Anna > Done to death by a banana > It wasn't the fruit that laid her low > But the skin of the thing that made her go. > > More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England: > Gone away > Owin' more > Than he could pay. > > Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood: > In Memory of Beza Wood > Departed this life > Nov. 2, 1837 > Aged 45 yrs. > Here lies one Wood > Enclosed in wood > One Wood > Within another. > The outer wood > Is very good: > We cannot praise > The other. > > On a grave from the 1880's in Nantucket, Massachusetts: > Under the sod and under the trees > Lies the body of Jonathan Pease. > He is not here, there's only the pod: > Pease shelled out and went to God. > > The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a consumer > tip: > Who was fatally burned > March 21, 1870 > by the explosion of a lamp > filled with "R.E. Danforth's > Non-Explosive Burning Fluid" > > Oops! Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York: > Born 1903--Died 1942 > Looked up the elevator shaft to see if > the car was on the way down. It was. > > In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: > Here lies an Atheist > All dressed up > And no place to go. > > But does he make house calls? > Dr. Fred Roberts > Brookland, Arkansas: > Office upstairs

Does anyone know the names of the newspapers that were in print in Octagamie County Wisconsin in 1876, and Waupaca County Wisconsin in 1894? I am trying to get an obituary for my ggrandmother, Julie Lamere, and ggrandfather, William Lamere. My ggrandmother died in the township of Cicero in the early part of 1876. My ggrandfather died in 1894 and is buried in Floral Hill Cemetery in New London. All information is appreciated.

Hi everyone.... I hate posting this to the list, but I tried to e-mail "DJohn39031@aol.com" and the mail was denied. So, hopefully, someone on the list knows how to forward this to her. Dear Darcia, I didn't see any EHLE's but I did find a EHLER--I have a copy of it..if it's of use, I'll send it "snail-mail" Here's the data: Name: JOHN EHLER Age: 22 yrs. DOB: April 16, 1895 Citizen?: Natural born Birthplace: Hartland, Wis. (I think he means Township of Hartland, Bonduel,Wis.) Occupation: employed on farm By who: Ede Ehler, Hartland Financially supporting anyone: no Race: Caucasion/Single Any military service? none And then his signature is on the page. Take care, Anne

Janet, I found this on the "Quinn" family web site. <http://www.ida.net/users/dhanco/gen.htm> It had no author listed: "What parents leave in their children is more important ~~~ than what they leave to them." Could this be it? Rita From: JKM47@aol.com Date sent: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 22:57:08 EDT To: Zorblitz@prodigy.net Subject: Re: [WauShaOcon-L] Here's Help > Yes it was something similar to that. But you don't happen to know the exact > wording do you? Would appreciate it if you ever find it to let me know. > Thanks. Sorry to hear about your problems. That might be why you never > answered my emails. Take care > Janet

Does anyone know anything about the Flanagan family that lived in Oconto between about 1912 and 1920? There were 7 children who would have gone to school in Oconto - probably to Catholic School - Joe (b. 1898), Jim (b. 1899), Margaret (b. 1903), Zenaide or Florence (b. 1906), Bill (b. 1909), Leo (b. 1912), and Josie (b. 1916 - probably too young for school). Mother of this family was Exzelda Reandeau Flanagan. Father may also have been home during these years. He was James Stewart Flanagan. The family owned a home in Oconto (perhaps inherited from Exzelda's family). They left for Seattle about 1920. Family was devoutly Catholic. Does anyone know what church or what school the children might have attended? Or anything else at all? Thank you for your consideration. Bel Morrison

Forwarding with permission. If you have any information, please contact Ronald Wagner, not me! I'm only the messenger! ;-) Happy Hunting! Marsha Wilcox mwilcox@lnd.com Wilcox Web Design -- http://www.usroots.com/~wwd/index.html USGenWeb County Coordinator for: Lake Co., IL -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~illake/ Listowner for ILLAKE-L, tracing your roots in Lake Co., IL Oconto Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/ Home Page -- http://mall.lnd.com/wilcox/ My Genealogy Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mawilcox/index.htm SpamHunt! -- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1616/ Rwagnerkv@aol.com wrote: > > My name is Ronald Wagner and I live near Corning,NY. My father's name was > Harold Andrew Wagner. He Was born in Green Valley, WI on Dec. 18, 1910. His > parents were Mathias (or Matthew Wagner and Belle (Thompson) Wagner). Several > years after my father was born (in 1938) my grandfather was killed in a farm > accident. At some point then my grandmother remarried a man named Martin > Kvaley. They lived (during my lifetime) at 731 South Hamblin St. in Shawano. > My step grandfather passed away sometime in the earily to mid-60's and then > my grandmother passed in the late 60's (it was about 1967 or 1968). She is > buried in one of the cemetaries in Shawano. I am fairly sure that is is the > one on the left going out of town toward Gillette. I was in town last year > and tried to find the grave site. I was not successful. I wonder if you > could help me or point me to someone who could. I am also looking for > information on my father's brothers (Normand and Louis) who per-deceased him. > I would appreciate any help that you can give me. My e-mail address is > Rwagnerkv@aol.com. Thanks in advance. > > Ronald Wagner

Someone on this list posted a cute saying many months back and hope one of you can help me. It was a little saying about It isn't ???? you leave their children, but ??? heritage. Would appreciate it if that person could repost it and who it was by. Thank you very much in advance for your help. Also does anyone have any information on the tavern in Shawano in 1909 that was opened in the old Schweers building by Christ or Christian Schenk. Would appreciate the info. Thank you for this too.

Hello, I am new to the list and just wanted to post the families I am researching. LEUTHOLD in Oshkosh, Iola and Helvetia GROVE in Iola, Helvetia STAUB in Iola, Helvetia My gg grandfather Wilfred LEUTHOLD married Anna GROVE in Iola and had three children: Alfred, Clara and Mina. Anna is the daughter of Amund GROVE and Mary LARSON. Wilfred is the son of John Henry LEUTHOLD and Fredaline FEHR. They also had a daughter Amelia who married Jacob WIPF. John Henry married a second time to Emma STAUB and had seven children: Robert, Robert Emanuel, Edward, Edward Arnold, Rosa, Meta, and J. Henry. John Henry's parents were John LEUTHOLD and Barbara STAUB? John Henry came to Wisconsin from Switzerland in 1857 with his parents at one year of age. If anyone can help me with additional information on this family, I would appreciate it. Thanks from Arizona, Kim Rahberger. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Hello Everybody! I hope you all had a great long weekend... I know I did.. I wanted to let everybody know that I have added the a page for those of you who have homepages. There are a few on there now, so go take a look. If you would like your page listed just let me know. I have gotten a really good response to the "can you identify the person in the photo" idea as soon as I get some pictures in I will add the page. If you would like to email me a picture please send to guenth74@marinemwr.or.jp If you would like to send it let me know I will give you my snail mail. I am adding a link to my IGI records that are online, Currently I have Wisonsin Marquardts. I will be adding Malueg's. If you have any IGI records I would love to get those up as well. You can send them email to guenth74@marinemwr.or.jp. If you don't have a scannner and would like to send them, email me and I will give you my snail mail address. I would love to hear any ideas you may have as to what you would like to see on our Shawano County page. I will do my best to get it done. Well again. I hope you all had a good weekend. LuDeanne Visit my personal Homepage at http://www.angelfire.com/mt/mypageIcreated/index.html Shawano County Wi Gen Web Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wishawan/ Get Your Free E-mail at Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com) Ancestry.com -- For all your Family Correspondence!

Hello everyone!! Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend! Just a few things to pass on to all of you. First of all, I have a new email address - brad-n-denise@geocities.com - if you have questions or concerns, please contact me at that address and not the one listed in your original welcome message. Second, when you want to send mail to the list, send it to this address - waushaocon-l@rootsweb.com. If you send it to the waushaocon-l-request address, it gets sent to me, and not to the list. Third, thanks to LuDeanne Guenther for taking over the Shawano Co. genweb page! That should be all for now!! Any questions, feel free to contact me!! Denise Dickson ************************************************************************* Denise Dickson List Owner of WauShaOcon-L and Berg-L Mailing lists My Genealogy Page: http://www.geocities.com/~brad-n-denise/genehome.html My Home Page http://www.geocities.com/~brad-n-denise/index.html **************************************************************************

Does anyone have information on the parents of James Argro A. Farrer (Farrar)? All I have is they were John James Farrar and Sarah Simpkins (Simkins?). Would love to know where they were from and some birth and death dates, etc. Ruth C. rcolburn@mail.cvn.net

Hi everybody! I received some information this weekend that I want to follow up on. Background: My ggrandfather's brother, Gilbert Anslin (Asselin/Ashlon, etc) married, abt 1880 in ?Brown Co.?, Delia BODOH. I've got: Delia & her family on the 1870 Suamico, Brown Co. Census. Gilbert & Delia on the 1880 Suamico, etc. census (with boarder Crilla Taylor - who's she?) Gilbert (as Herbert) & Delia in Manawa, Town of Little Wolf, Waupaca Co, for the birth of their 2nd child, Arthur, in 1882. (1st child: Joseph, b:?) There's a note at the bottom of the birth record that the family is very poor & being supported by the town. Delia's brother Julius is also in the area, having children, marrying them off... Gilbert & Marie (parents of Gilbert) on the 1885 census in Manawa, with enough people in the household to account (maybe) for Delia & Gilbert living there -- but *not* the children. Gilbert (father) died 4/24/1895. Gilbert (the son) probably living in the household of his brother Alfred on the 1895 Suamico, Brown Co. census. No Delia, no children. 1900 census has Alfred of head of household for the family, including widowed Gilbert (son). No death record for Delia in Waupaca or Brown Co. A BODOH researcher told me this weekend that his family story is that Delia disappeared after her marriage, and there may have been foul play. (!!) Now, she didn't disappear too far, because her brother is in the same Town as she & her hubby. But, did she take the kids & leave my gg-uncle Gilbert? Was he abusive? Or just too poor & unmotivated for her? Or, did she die? And how? Where did Joseph & Arthur go? <Inquiring minds want to know!> These two people get more & more interesting! How can I follow up in Town of Little Wolf on this family? Were there newspapers for the time period? Would Township records have anything and where do I write for them? How much would that cost? What about court or constablulary records? Can I get anything from my FHC? I have some names in Manawa, Mary Craig & (if I can find it) Dick Gloicke (?sp?) who used to be the Town Supervisor. And then there's Lucy Putnam, a BOZILE researcher, from Clintonville. But I'm kind of embarrassed to ask them to do this kind of digging without compensation. And I can't afford much at the moment. I figure Manawa's a 3-4 hour drive from here, and I can't get the time right now either. Anybody have any ideas? Anybody related & know the story? ;-) Happy Hunting! Marsha Wilcox mwilcox@lnd.com Wilcox Web Design -- http://www.usroots.com/~wwd/index.html USGenWeb County Coordinator for: Lake Co., IL -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~illake/ Listowner for ILLAKE-L, tracing your roots in Lake Co., IL Oconto Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/ Home Page -- http://mall.lnd.com/wilcox/ My Genealogy Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mawilcox/index.htm SpamHunt! -- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1616/