Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/EauClaire/572 Surname: BUEHLER, KNEER ------------------------- Seeking information on descendants of Theodore Buehler (father: John Buehler, mother: Mary Veraguth) and Julia Kneer (father:Mathias Kneer, mother:Barbara Betz). Married January 19, 1880 Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, WI. Theodore born Oct 23, 1857 in Fountain City, Buffalo County, Wisconsin and died April 14, 1930 in Alma, Buffalo County, WI. Julia born Dec 18, 1858 in Eau Claire County and died May 19, 1924 in Alma, Buffalo County, WI. Theodore and Julia children believed to be sons Edmund, Emil, Ernest, George and Theodore; daughters Laura and Gertrude.

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/EauClaire/571 Surname: DERGE, BETZ ------------------------- Seeking information on descendants of Julius Derge (father: Ferdinand Derge, mother: Augusta Greve) and Anna Kneer (father:Mathias Kneer, mother:Barbara Betz). Married April 16, 1879 in Eau Claire County, WI. Julius born July 1, 1853 in Germany (death date and place unknown). Anna born Sept 22, 1860 in Eau Claire County (death date and place unknown). Julius and Anna children believed to be sons Julius, Mathias and Frank.

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/EauClaire/570 Surname: YETTER, BETZ ------------------------- Seeking information on descendants of Hugo Yetter (father: Michael Yetter, mother:Charlotte Henne/Hume) and Louise Betz (father:John Betz, mother:Frances Korn). Married Sept 15, 1892 Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Wi/EauClaire/569 Surname: ERITY, BETZ ------------------------- Seeking information on descendants of Miles Erity (father: James George Erity, mother:Calene Spencer) and Theresia Betz (father:John Betz, mother:Frances Korn). Married April 29, 1886 Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.

Does anyone have access to the (72 page) book called "Pleasant Valley Remembered" by Watford Gerald Seguin (Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1985)? I tried the State Historical Society of Wisconsin; they do not have it. My MOON family lived in Pleasant Valley c. 1860-1890. The description of the book was found on WISCAT online catalog says: "Traces the history of Pleasant Valley Township and Community located in Eau Claire County." Thanks, Judy Dubauskas dubau@telus.net

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/568 Surname: Marten, Thiel, Janke ------------------------- How are you related to Lester and Anna (Marten) Green? Anna was my Great Grandfather's first cousin. Her father, Emil H. Marten, was a brother to my gg-grandmother, Ottilie Marten.

Barbara, Could you please forward me the article on James Wickham (I only recently got on the mailing list) and any other info on his marriages and family. All four of Kathryn McDonough's grandparents were also my third great grandparents. The following is from a document written by Violette (McDonough) McIver, dated May 16th, 1938: "Jane married Frank MC Donough, a brother of the above John. They had Irene , who died in infancy., Frank T. Married who married Grace McCord,whose children were Virginia and MCCord. Frank later married Victor Linley, who died. They had one child, Victor Jr., Later she married Judge James Wickham, then...Joseph Gilbert who married Louise Algeyer of New Orleans La. Whose child is Martha Lise, then Mary who married Josepf cook Culver , whose children are Mary Jane , Josephine, Frank McD, Louise and Patricia,.then Damien , who died in infancy, then Violette, who married George Walter Mc Iver, whose child is Jane McD." I saw his grave at Sacred Heart Cem in Eau Claire buried with two wifes Ida Oct 12, 1867 (birth?) and Helen. Who's son was William E. Wickham 4/27/1933? Here is my link to him. Sorry, I just noticed that I've somehow entered 1944 as 1864. do you have more exact dates on anyone? http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tdowling&id=I2974 Thanks, Tim http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/o/w/Timothy-M-Dowling/index.html --- RETFTRDOC@aol.com wrote: > Nance, > > Re your article dated 9 Nov 2000, Legal Profession > in ECC. > > I read with interest the item on James WICKHAM, > judge of the circuit court. > In the article it states that his parents were > Patrick and Catherine > (Quigley) > WICKHAM. > > This contradicts my husband's family history. His > history says that > Patrickwas surnamed BARNEY not WICKHAM and that > Catherine Quigley was > reallyMargaret Quigley, although one or the other of > her names could have > been reversed, i.e. Catherine Margaret or Margaret > Catherine, preferring to > go by just one of the names, and that she was born > in Canada, and that she > was Patrick's second wife, his first wife having > died on board ship on the > way to North America. > > The direct line of descent goes: > Patrick Barney (parentage unknown), father of > Thomas Barney, father of > Melentus Barney, father of > Helen Barney - my husband's mother > > Can anyone on the list shed some light on this > difference in surnames? > I'll be glad to discuss it with them. > > Thanks for your assistance, > :>) Barbara Wickham > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

Nance, Re your article dated 9 Nov 2000, Legal Profession in ECC. I read with interest the item on James WICKHAM, judge of the circuit court. In the article it states that his parents were Patrick and Catherine (Quigley) WICKHAM. This contradicts my husband's family history. His history says that Patrickwas surnamed BARNEY not WICKHAM and that Catherine Quigley was reallyMargaret Quigley, although one or the other of her names could have been reversed, i.e. Catherine Margaret or Margaret Catherine, preferring to go by just one of the names, and that she was born in Canada, and that she was Patrick's second wife, his first wife having died on board ship on the way to North America. The direct line of descent goes: Patrick Barney (parentage unknown), father of Thomas Barney, father of Melentus Barney, father of Helen Barney - my husband's mother Can anyone on the list shed some light on this difference in surnames? I'll be glad to discuss it with them. Thanks for your assistance, :>) Barbara Wickham

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/566 Surname: Jarvis ------------------------- I'm looking for information on the Jarvis Lumber Company of Eau Claire. I have pencils that say Jarvis Lumber Company, pictures of the mill and other things like church cookbooks that list the Jarvis Lumber Company as a sponsor. I can't find any information beyond that, though. I believe my great grandfather Arthur Jarvis was the founder or co-founder of the company. I also believe it was dissolved or sold during the later years of the Depression. Arthur Jarvis was also president of the Northern Wholesale Hardwood Lumber Association. Any information on the company or the man would be wonderful. Thanks.

Moving along in the book "Sawdust City" by Lois Barland, we are actually to a point in the book that she is calling "The Beginnings" (I guess what we've been previously reading was just an introduction). Anyway, here's more: The Village of Eau Claire by Marshall Cousins The reader should not confuse the platted Village of Eau Claire City laid out in 1856, with the political unit, of the same title, organized in 1868. The political unit embraced within its limits all of the platted "Village of Eau Claire City" as well as Adin Randall's first and second additions. The plats are shown on the map of the City of Eau Claire today, but the political unit does not show. Frantz Alexander Von Siebenthal entered 75 acres at the U. S. land office in 1855. He and his brother, Charles F. came to America from Switzerland in 1853. Charles located first in New York but Frantz came west and finally located in Eau Claire where Charles and his family came in September, 1856. In the family was a six weeks old boy, Frank R. Siebenthall, born on the Erie Canal. Frantz A. Sibenthall enlisted July 2, 1861 in D Company Sixth Regiment. He was wounded at the battle of South Mountain, September 14, 1862, and was killed in action July 1, 1863 at Gettysburg. He is buried in the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Mr. Siebenthall paid the U. S. Government $94.50 for the tract of 75 acres. March 15, 1856 he sold the tract to Ira Mead for $756. December 2, 1856, Ira Mead deeded this tract and other lands to Adin Randall for a named consideration of $20,000. James F. Moore and Wallace M. Spear were the engineers who ran the lines and made the plat of the Village of Eau Claire City. Mr. Spear was a La Crosse man. Mr. Moore at that time was already a resident of Eau Claire and became active in the affairs of the town, village, city and county. Adin Randall and Ira Mead signed the plat as "Proprietors." Charles Sebenthall was burned to death when Ingram and Kennedy's mill burned in 1880. His son Frank, married Ida S. Graham and the couple had three girls, Mrs. Clara Stepp, Mrs. Earl Ferguson, and Mrs. Harold Conrad and 3 sons. Frank sold farm implements at 131 River Street (Graham Avenue). The old Chas. Sebenthall family homestead was at 729 Second Avenue. Frank had five sisters who became Mrs. Will Korn, Mrs. John Kidd, Mrs. George Knapp, Mrs. Frank Adler. Eliza died unmarried. Town Organization The town was organized on April 1, 1856 by the election of Chapin M. Seeley, Ephraim Wheeler Robbins and Moses A. Page as supervisors, and a full list of town officers. Sixty three votes were cast. The boundaries of the town were the same as the boundaries of Eau Claire County today. An act of Legislature approved October 6, 1856, by Governor Coles Bashford changed the Town of Eau Claire into the County of Eau Claire. The fifth ordinance of the county board provided for the erection of a new town, called Half Moon Lake, and that the first Tuesday in April, 1857 a town meeting be held at the Niagara House, in the Village of Eau Claire City. March 11, 1858 the name was changed to Half Moon and again on November 27, 1861 it was changed to West Eau Claire. Agreeable to the ordinance of the County Board, on April 7, 1857 the voters of the new town assembled at the Niagara House, on Water Street. The meeting organized by the election of George W. Deming as chairman, Wm. S. Newburg as clerk, and J. E. Craspe and J. D. McVicar as inspectors. The following town officers were elected; Chairman, Ira Mead; supervisor, James F. Moore; supervisor, Peter Truax; clerk, George W. Deming; treasurer, Ephraim Boree; town superintendent of schools, Ira Mead; justices, Lenard W. Farwell, two years, George W. Deming two years; Augusta Geer one year, Michail Hanley one year; pound master, Ephraim Boree. Mr. Boree did not qualify as treasurer, and November 28, 1857, the town board elected Mr. Deming as treasurer. Ira Mead, the town chairman and superintendent of schools, was also the county judge. +++++ We'll be reading more of these men who were on the town board the next time we get together. -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Here are more of those early settlers from Eau Claire Co. Chapin M. Seeley erected a residence ready in the spring of 1857 which was the first plastered building in Eau Claire. (A dubious honor when considered in conjunction with the story about Selim Peabody's early experiences in Eau Claire.) Mr. Seeley's house and small bank building were located on the south side of Gilbon (Gibson? N. S.) Street, on the west half of the block between Barstow and Farwell. He was appointed with Charles Whipple and R. F. Wilson and others to lay out several state roads to Eau Claire in 1856, and was the surveyor who ran the lines for the village of Eau Claire acting as agent for the proprietors. Mr. Seeley was for a time cashier of the Bank of Eau Claire which had been started in 1856 with W. H. Gleason as president and C. R. Gleason, cashier. Charles Whipple succeeded Seeley as cashier in September, 1858 and Seeley moved to Meadville, Pa. the next month. Daniel Shaw located a mill at what is now called Shawtown. Ingram and Kennedy purchased a site for their first mill. Adin Randall came from Madison in 1885 (I believe this should actually be 1855 - N. S.) and began the erection of the Eau Claire house on the site of the present Hotel Eau Claire. He bargained for Gage and Reed's half of the town property for $45,000 the whole of which had cost them $300. In the fall he transferred his interest to Chapman and Thorp for a bonus of $2000. According to Marshall Cousins he was a second cousin of Simon, George and Thomas Randall. He was described as a "live wire" and did much to push the development of the west side. He had the west side platted in August 1856 by Frank Moore and W. W. Spear and recorded it as Eau Claire City. The land was covered with brush without a finished building upon it. By the fall of the following year about thirty houses had been erected but further progress was checked for some time when it was discovered that Adin Randall had executed a mortgage on the whole land and no title could be given purchasers. Permission was given Randall in March '57 to operate a ferry across the Chippewa. He, along with Shaw and Company excavated a canal 1200 feet long connecting Half Moon Lake with the river and built a planing mill near the mouth of the canal. This was in 1857. The mill was at the foot of 9th Avenue. Because of the financial panic and hard times of 1857-1860, he lost the land he had platted as Eau Claire City. He sold the planing mill in 1860 and went to Chippewa Falls for a short time, after which he built a saw mill at Jim Falls. Later he bought a grist mill at Reed's Landing. One time Mrs. Randall was lighting a camphene lamp when it exploded and burned her arms and face and almost everything in the room before the fire could be extinguished. Randall was making plans for a bridge across the Eau Claire at Barstow Street but died in 1868 before the plans were executed. He was only thirty seven years of age and left a wife and six children. His obituary said, "The west side was long called 'Randalltown' due to the interest Mr. Randall took in its growth. He was a man of strong inflexible mind who was most generous both with money and time used for the benefit of others." The family home still stands at 526 Menomonie Street. His son Edgar H. died in 1917 leaving two sons who lived in Eau Claire, Adin Arthur and Everett Harold. A son of Adin's, Burdett, died in Denver in 1880, and a daughter was Mrs. Nellie G. Palmer born on the west side in 1857 who died in 1910. Mrs. Adin Randall died of cancer in 1885. ++++++++++++ There's still lots more of these stories, so we'll just keep going on with them. I hope you are enjoying them! -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/565 Surname: Foster, Dunham ------------------------- Foster; Eau Claire, Eau Claire County Wisconsin Robert Foster, was b. about 1795 in Cornwall, Litchfield County CT and d. 13 Oct. 1872 in Eau Claire WI. He married first Nella Barney who died in Swanton VT. He married second Caroline C. Popeuelle, b. about 1808 in Willsboro, Essex County NY. She d. in 1882 in Eau Claire WI. Children of Robert and Nella (Barney) Foster: i. Rufus B. Foster, b. about 1823; d. 23 Dec. 1860 age 37 years; buried in Eau Claire WI ii. Elias R. Foster, b. 12 Feb. 1834 in Swanton, Franklin Co. VT; d. 2 Aug. 1915 in Eau Claire WI Children of Robert and Caroline C. (Popeuelle) Foster: iii. Anna A. Foster, b. 1836 Swanton VT, d. 4 December 1924 Eau Claire WI; married first William Mosier who was b. 1829 and d. 1858; married second June 1864 Francis R. Skinner. iv. Mary Jane Foster, b. 3 July 1841 Swanton, Franklin Co. VT, d. 5 Feb. 1888 in Eau Claire WI; married about 1858 Stephen Dunham. He was b. 5 July 1824 in Denmark, Lewis Co. NY, died 7 Jan. 1888 in Eau Claire WI. They are buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Eau Claire WI. v. Juliette Foster, b. 1846, d. about 1913 in Eau Claire WI. She married 4 Nov. 1873 George M. Withers. They had no children of their own but raised my grandmother Lettie Dunham after the death of her parents Stephen and Mary Jane (Foster) Dunham. My grandmother Lettie Dunham was born 20 May 1881 in Hancock, Waushara Co. WI. vi. John Milton Foster b. about 1856, d. 2 Aug. 1928 in Menomonie WI, buried in Eau Claire WI.

Here is more on the early settlers of Eau Claire Co. from the book, Sawdust City by Lois Barland. In 1856 there was nothing in Eau Claire except the lumber business. Population was estimated at 100. Two houses were owned (McCanns and Henry Huntingtons) and the whole capital invested did not exceed $20,000. E. E. Shaw and Henry Huntington started a store on a small scale, afterward the American House and in 1890 the Hart House. (corner Eau Claire, Farwell and Gibson) The house Henry Huntington built stood on the bank of the Chippewa near the end of Gray Street. It was in turn a general store, saloon, boarding house, a daguerro type room, butcher shop, etc. After undergoing many mutilations, it was moved to the rear of 331 Gray Street in 1863 and used as a barn. It was torn down in 1898 to make room for a more pretentious building. The lumber used in its construction was sawed at the first mill ever built in the city. The old house had seven thicknesses of floor each made of one inch lumber. It was built in the fall of 1854. Henry Huntington came to Eau Claire from Vermont where he had married in 1850 Jane Shaw, the daughter of Josiah Shaw. He was Postmaster from April 1856 to June 15, 1857, operated a steamboat between Eau Claire and Reed's Landing for a short time, and in 1857 bought a farm on what is now Rudolph Road and Benton Avenue where his descendants still live. Mr. Huntington performed a marriage ceremony in May 1857, marrying Charles R. Jones and Mary Bowles, both of Eau Claire. He had four children. Gage and Reed disposed of their entire interest in the mills, pine lands and village plot to Chapman and Thorp, who, during their first year entrusted the whole business to G. E. Porter who had come here from Michigan. James Reed conducted an Indian trading post at Trempealeau in 1845 before coming to Eau Claire, or Clear Water, as it was known then. At the time he came to Eau Claire, the Chippewa Indians still occupied the head waters of the Eau Claire and all the region above the Falls of the Chippewa. The Winnebago "wickiup" or wigwams were in sight a few miles south. Wild game was plentiful. Hundreds of deer would frequently be seen in a day's travel. Elk were plentiful also. A dozen would often be seen feeding in Half Moon Lake. Bear and grey wolves were close neighbors. Jim Reed told of having a blanket pulled from him one night by a bear and the ham which he had been using as a pillow seized from under his head. William Reed, brother of James, died in June 1855, his being the first death and burial in Eau Claire. His grave is about a hundred yards from the main gate at Forest Hill Cemetery, but he was probably buried near the Reed house and moved to Forest Hill later. James Reed married a Norwegian girl, Barbara Ann before February 2, 1856 as her name appears on a deed of that date as his wife. A daughter, Jennie, was born in Eau Claire, their eldest child. They also had another girl and a son George. James Reed build a "block" 45 feet wide by 48 feet deep and made with two rooms below each 20 feet by 48 feet and a second story containing two rooms in front for offices and a large hall in the rear. This hall became famous because of the meetings held in it. It was built in August, 1857 and opened to the public on September 15. One of the store rooms on the ground floor was occupied by Hall and Brothers Bank and the other by Stephen Marston as a furniture store. There was also the Gage and Reed boarding house to accommodate the mill hands. These buildings were on the north side of Eau Claire Street about in the middle of the block between Barstow and Farwell. In October 1858, Mr. Reed built a three story building on the east side of Barstow Street in the center of the block between Gibson and Grand. It was 24 feet by 60 feet. During the Civil War period he went west in search of gold, going as far as Los Angeles. He returned to Eau Claire and in '67 had a billiard hall in partnership with Mr. Clemmons. After three years Mr. Reed sold out his interest and built a billiard hall for himself on Gibson Street which held six tables. His son George was in the grain and merchandising business in Fall Creek and James moved to Fall Creek in 1878 where he died in 1895. Jessie J. Gage, Mr. Reed's partner in his first venture in Eau Claire, seems not to have stayed in the village long. In 1862 the Free Press called him "an infamous old scoundrel". This could have been for as innocent a cause as being a Democrat as the Free Press was strongly Republican and did not hesitate to denounce the opposition. +++++++++++ We'll read more about those very early settlers in Eau Claire tomorrow. -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

It seems I missed last Friday's mailing! With the holidays and my husband's funny work schedule, I kept thinking it was Saturday. I'll try to do better this week :~) Picking up where we left off, here's some background on some of the early settlers and the giant flood that hit the Chippewa Valley. An article in the Daily Wisconsin for July 11, 1867 says, "The honor of the first settlement is claimed by Steve McCann, a big, stout, good natured, Kentucky Irishman. His cabin was put up in 1846. His wife was the first white woman to remain in the Chippewa Valley and his son Stephen Jr., was the first one to be sacredly immersed in the Chippewa River. McCann has seven sons and two sons-in-law all of whom fought with him in the Union army. He has been justice of the peace for twenty one years, holding his summer court at Chippewa Falls arrayed in hickory shirt and overalls with bare brown feet. McCann says he raised the first wheat in the valley in 1843. He helped put up the Blue Mills in '42." Marshall Cousins calls him a man of superior intellect although lacking in education. He enlisted in the 1st Wisconsin INfantry when an old man. Three sons also enlisted and all were wounded. He had been in the Black Hawk War. At the time of his death from dropsy, at the home of his son-in-law, W. R. McDonald, it was stated that he settled at Blue Mills in 1837. We are indebted to William J. Young, in his day a prominent citizen of Chippewa Falls, and the Galena Advertiser, for an account of a flood on the 15th and 16th of July, 1855, that did much damage to Chippewa Falls. At this time there were no mills on the Chippewa River at Eau Claire and no mention is found of damage or loss to the mills on the Eau Claire River. Independent Republican, La Cross, August 22, 1855 -- William J. Young of Chippewa Falls writes the following particulars of the damage done by the late sudden rise of the Chippewa River; the letter is dated the 24th of July. Four years ago, H. S. Allen & Co. having then but limited means, were obliged in order to use their boom the following season to build temporary piers. They thought to use the boom carefully until something more substantial could be constructed. The following winter they commenced building piers that ice, water and logs combined can never endanger. They are forty feet square, logged with heavy timbers, and filled with stone to above the high water mark. Last winter, six such piers were added and one winter more would have completed the number to make everything secure. In the meantime they had increased the size of their mill sufficiently to render it capable of sawing 70,000 feet of lumber per day. This, of course, required an increased supply of logs. On the 13th and 14th of July there were indications of heavy rains at the north. On the 15th and 16th, the river rose so rapidly that by the evening of the latter day it had risen 16 feet, bringing into the boom one hundred thousand logs. On the 17th the water was nearly at stand, rising perhaps three inches during the day, at the close of which the boom still held. But, about midnight, the old piers gave away, and about thirty million feet of logs rolled over the Falls. In the morning the river was falling. Twenty-eight miles below the Falls, the river, which there runs with a current of six or eight miles an hour, was filled for one hour with logs borne down by the flood. Sometimes they were three or four in depth, and at all times during the hour, there were enough to cross the river on them. None of the new piers were moved, and it is thought that they are immovable by any force that can be brought against them. The old piers, which are only one fourth their strength, withstood the pressure of one hundred thousand logs until the very highest of the flood and twice that pressure can never be brought upon them. Account of the same flood by Thomas Randall in his "History of the Chippewa Valley." The mills on the Eau Galle and Red Cedar, during this period, were steadily advancing in wealth and improvements, being secure and able to defy the highest freshets. They had nothing to do but grow rich by silent profits, and persevering industry. Otherwise was it with the mill company at the Falls, who every winter spent large sums in erecting piers, renewing booms, and strengthening their work to secure logs, a charter granting ample privileges having been obtained from the legislature for that purpose, and so determined was the company to make secure, that piers costing more than a thousand dollars each were placed in t he river; booms with heavy iron fastenings were attached and every part of those vast structures seemed perfect, and impregnable against all freshets. The capacity of the mills was every year enlarged, and in the winter of 1854-55, a very large amount of logs were put in to supply the season's cutting; the spring drive was good, lumber sold readily and at a good price and all the affairs of the company seemed flourishing, but by a strange and sudden freak of nature all these hopes were cut short in a day. But little rain had fallen from early in April until the sixth day of July (Mr. Young says the 13th and 14th) when a dark cloud formed directly over the territory drained by the Chippewa, clearly visible from this place and the Falls. No rain fell here and only a little hail at the Falls, but dark masses of clouds could be seen, rolling and gathering from every direction into that one spot in the heavens, accompanied with fearful peals of thunder that made the earth tremble, and this continued for about thirty hours, appearing every moment as though it were coming right down upon us, but actually spending all its force in the single locality. The consequence was a sudden and terribly destructive rise in t he river, bringing down vast quantities of logs and drift wood, which drove all obstructions, and more than seventy thousand logs, (twenty-five million feet), together with their piers and booms were carried away and scattered all over the bottoms and amongst the sloughs of the lower Chippewa. The mill race, too, was badly damaged, and no more lumber could be made that year, which, when we consider that 100,000 feet was being manufactured every day before this unfortunate flood, and that every thousand feet was worth twenty dollars in gold, makes the loss very heavy. "The last straw," it is said "breaks the camel's back", and this was a very large straw which contributed very much to the final downfall of the company. Mr. Randall makes no reference to the mills below Chippewa Falls, or how they were affected by this flood, if there were any mills in 1855. In 1846 he was operating the Blue Mill, and lost his logs in the severe flood of the year. At a later period the site of the Blue Mills was called Badger Mills. ++++++++++ There's more to this background of the men and the mills in the Chippewa Valley. A reminder, this history is from the book "Sawdust City" and is used on this mail list and the accompanying website with permission of the Barland family. Please do not copy this information for any purpose without permission. -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/562 Surname: Epp ------------------------- Searching for Adam Epp family who is listed in WI Land Patents Database as having 71.6 acres in the Eau Claire area in 1861. Any information on this family would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/561 Surname: BABCOCK, NORTON ------------------------- I am descended from David R. BABCOCK, b. May 27, 1823 in Painsville, OH, d. Nov. 16, 1900, Augusta, WI. He married on August 24, 1845 in Chardon, Geauga County, OH, Rhoda Jane Norton, b. Jan. 16, 1900 in CT, d. Dec. 28, 1915. Both David and Rhoda are buried in Thompson Valley Cemetery, Augusta, WI. They had 5 children George William Babcock (my great grandfather), Austin Babcock, Lillian Babcock (also buried in Thompson Valley Cemetery), and another son and daughter. I have little information on their ancestors and that's what I'm researching.

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/558 Surname: Babcock ------------------------- As far as I know, we have no Babcock's in Wisconsin. However, I do have a few David Babcock's in my database that do not have dates or places associated with them. Do you have any of that info for your David R. Babcock? Here are mine: David Babcock b. Orange Co., New York m. 15 Dec 1789 to Elizabeth Peggy Howe d. Cataraqui Cemetery, Ontario Parents: unknown Children: William, Silas, Henry, Ely, Zeba (Zeke), Daniel David Babcock b. 17 Aug 1822 Parents: Zeba (Zeke) Babcock, Sarah Snider (Schneider) Children: unknown David Babcock b. abt 1920 Parents: Kenneth Babcock, Isabel Paul Children: unknown When I visited Augusta a couple years ago, I noticed a Babcock grave in one of the cemeteries there. I wondered if it could be a distant relative. It was kind of interesting because we were there for a reunion for my mother's side of the family (not Babcock's). I seem to remember there being a town named Babcock not far away too. We didn't have the time to check it out though.

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/557 Surname: STENBRO ------------------------- This isn't much help but I found the following listing in the 1931 Eau Claire City Directory: STENBRO Carl M rubberwkr Gillette Rubber Co r912 3d av This listing doesn't indicate a spouse. Wish there was more. Lori Hammell-Davis

Posted on: EauClaire Co. Wi Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/EauClaire/556 Surname: BANDOLI, ONSTAD ------------------------- The following listings were found in the 1931 Eau Claire City Directory: BANDOLI Carl F (Eliz) clk Hotel Eau Claire h512 Dodge BANDOLI Virginia sten Gillette Rubber Co r666 Galloway BANDOLI Wm F mldr Natl Pressure Cooker Co r1017-1/2 Grand av E ONSTAD Paul (Mabel)tire bldr Gillette Rubber Co h704 Gilbert I hope this helps. Good luck with your search! Lori Hammell-Davis (Researching COWAN in Eau Claire)

Linda Emerson wrote: > I have just found the following information on a possible ancestor in > the Thompson Valley Cemetery. Does anyone know how I can obtain more > information about this person from the cemetery records? Is there a > mailing address for this cemetery? > > EMERSON, A. Lorenzo 27 June 1843 26 Nov. 1904 > > What I do know is that his first name was Abraham and his spouse was > Elizabeth Young. They were married in Augusta in 1868. > > Many thanks... > > Linda Emerson > Twain Harte, CA Hi Linda, Welcome to the list! I hope you'll enjoy being here. When I saw your query, it got me interested. I have lots of family buried in Thompson Valley, so I always have to dig my book out and look when a question such as yours comes up. This is what I found. 1. A biography for John C. Emerson is in the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley Wisconsin, 1891-92", page 554. I believe John C. is a brother to your A. Lorenzo, so I'm sending it to you just in case you can use it. It reads: "John C. Emerson, farmer, P. O. Augusta, Eau Claire county, was born in Erie County, PA, August 14, 1834 (his tombstones says 1832), the fifth child of Abraham and Apama (Emes) Emerson, natives of the New England states. His brothers and sisters of whom there were ten are: Cordelia, wife of Daniel Hawkins; Puduthan (deceased); Julia (deceased); Jane, wife of Joe Williams; Ansil; Versel; Lorenzo; Levi; and Perry H. His mother died and his father was again married, taking as his second wife Almira Hill. Both are still living (1892). John C. was reared in Pennsylvania until he reached the age of seventeen, when, with his parents, he removed to Illinois, where he remained two years. In 1859 he came to Eau Claire county and purchased eighty acres of choice land in Otter Creek township, on which he remained until 1865, when he enlisted in Company G, Forty-eighth Wisconsin volunteers, under H. H. Stockings. On April 25, in the same year, he was severely wounded in the left hand while on guard duty. After receiving his discharge he returned to his home and family. September 14, 1865, he married Ellen, the fourth child in the family of ten children of John R. and Harriet (Spate) Brown. Mr. Emerson is a republican and believes in the doctrine of the Adventists. Second, my mother and I were the ones that compiled the cemetery information that you found online. I also had lots of contact with the keeper of the records from this cemetery and I'm very sure that she has no further information on any of these burials. I do have a history of the cemetery that was compiled by several older historians from that area, C. C. Campbell and Marion Magnussen, and although it doesn't go into any great detail, I did find this passage that might be of interest to you: "The first recorded death and burial (in Thompson Valley Cemetery) was Clarissa Emerson on April 26, 1863 on Lot #38, purchased by V. Emerson. This might have been Versel Emerson, a brother of John C. Emerson who came to Eau Claire County in 1859 and purchased 80 acres of land in Otter Creek Township." As far as the tombstones for Lorenzo, there are two of them. One reads: "Father -- The pains of death are past labor and sorrow cease, and life's long warfare closed at last his soul is found in peace." This stone is found in Lot # 95, Stall #1 and according to the cemetery records, this is where Elizabeth Emerson should be buried. The other stone for Lorenzo reads: "A. L. Emerson, born June 27, 1843, died Nov. 26, 1904, Emerson, Veteran 61 - 65. The last bit of info that I found is from my own family genealogy that I've put together. Here again, I'm not sure if this is anything that will be of help to you, but all of these families lived and died in the Thompson Valley area of Eau Claire Co., so I tend to think they are all somehow related. There was an Elizabeth Avis Emerson wo was born on 18 Feb. 1878. She died on 7 Apr. 1964 in Eau Claire at the age of 85. She was married to my great grandmothers brother, Robert (Rob) E. Edington. They are both buried in the Thompson Valley Cemetery. They had three children: Opal Lucille Edington - b. 20 Sep 1899 and married Charles A. Schulz Donald Robert Edington - b. 16 Aug 1901, married to Evelyn Young. Pearl E. Edington - b. 22 Apr 1908, married to Frank Young. Do you think it's possible that these Young spouses were also related in some way to Elizabeth who married Lorenzo? I just thought it was an interesting coincidence, but who knows? I don't know how much of this you can use, but I hope it will give you some clues on your research. If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask. If I have more info that you are interested in, I'll be happy to share it with you. -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net