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/lEC.2ACE/1996.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank-you Roxanne! I'm trying to figure out if Jacob and Frederick are related to Herman. I'll add this info to my files, just in case I connect them. I appreciate the speedy reply! Skip

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gundlach, Gundlack, Gunlah, Runkel Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1996.1 Message Board Post: No more biographies, I'm afraid. References, however, are: p. 628 - Jacob and Frederick Gundlach enlisted from the Town of Clifton in the 16th Wisconsin Infantry, Co. E. p. 637 - Frederick Gundlack's name is inscribed on the veteran's monument in Lancaster as one who died in the Civil War, as part of the 16th Regiment. p. 1004 - This is the same reference as the Herman Gunlah biography that you've already received. Catharine E. Runkel is Herman's wife, and Ferdinand P. is their son. Hope this helps! Roxanne

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gundlach, Gundlack, Gundlah, Klippel, Runkel, Runkle Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1996 Message Board Post: I am looking for the following biographies: Gundlach Frederick 628 Gundlach Jacob 628 Gundlack Frederick 637 Gundlah Catharine E. (Runkel) 1004 Gundlah Ferdinand P. 1004 Either a typed transcription on this board or photo copies (Happy to pay for copies and postage!) I am researching the Klippel, Runkel, and Gundlach families. They also lived in Juneau Co., WI. Skip P.S. - thank-you to the kind person who post the bio for Herman Gundlah (Gundlach), he is one of the people I am looking for!!!!

Well, this is the very last biography I could find in the book. If you have any further questions, please e-mail me. Make sure to check the biography index at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigrant/1881bioindex.htm and the whole-book index at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigrant/bookindex.htm . This will really speed up any look-ups, and if the name you're looking for is not in the whole-book index, it just isn't there, I'm sorry. Roxanne -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of rmunns@uwalumni.com Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 11:13 PM To: WIGRANT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WIGRANT] Willis ST. JOHN Biography, Potosi This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: St. John Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1995 Message Board Post: >From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 760. WILLIS ST. JOHN, an important factor in the sum of events in Potosi, the Hon. J. W. Seaton, says: "He was a man of athletic build, of fine form, and though advanced in years and broken in health at the time I knew him, the indomitable energy of his nature was unquenched, and would show itself in the strong sententious language that expressed the independence of his thoughts and the energy of that will which laughed at the difficulties that subdue and conquer weaker minds. Of his early life and personal history previous to his entrace to the mines, I am uninformed. He was among the very first that reached 'Snake Hollow,' as the Potosi mines were then called, and, by a lucky turn in Fortune's wheel, he was one of the first she smiled upon, and the place where she opened up her glittering treasures to his wondering gaze is still known as 'St. John's cave.' It is said to have turned out a million of mineral, but that is a 'big pile,' and some allownace must be made for the authority of the story! and the number of times it has been told. At all events it proved a valuable lode, and has been profitably worked down to a recent date. Its site is near the summit of the bluff opposite the place where the Catholic Church now stands. On the opposite side of the road, he built what was known as an 'ash furnace,' and did his own smelting. He was soon enabled to purchase real estate and other valuable property, and was long esteemed for his great generosity, kindness and manly traits of character. The Methodist preachers, who follow in the wake of civilization, soon found him out, and they never lacked for their favorite dish - yellow-legged chicken - while his roost was full. They taught him, too, their favorite texts, 'God loveth the cheerful giver,' 'Cast your bread upon the water,' etc., and St. John was the man ever ready to practice all good precepts. Through his instrumentality the Methodist Episcopal Church at Van Buren was built, and the quarterly dues of the local ! preachers and Elders were promptly met; and all went smoothly on till there came a crisis in the monetary affairs of the State Bank of Illinois. This, with other reverses of fortune, crushed the old man with its accumulated weight of trouble, and he never rose again. I have often listened to his sad story, which he would repeat with thrilling effect, and wondered at the mysterious Providence that could thus cast him off. He felt keenly the loss of the property that once gave him influence and position, but more keenly the cold shoulder and averted looks of those whom he had once befriended. Poverty, with all its deprivations, he could endure, but the neglect of those who should have given him succor in the hour of need, galled his high spirit and made him curse the race of man. He was warm and genial in his friendships, but bitter in his hates and scathing in his imprecations. For years the shadow of his once strong frame might have been seen moving slowly and sadly about our streets - a wronged and ruined man - emaciated by disease and only a! waiting the end he knew was drawing nigh. 'One morn I missed him on the 'custom'd hill, Nor up the lawn nor at the wood was he.' "St. John was at rest. The spirit of a good and just man had returned to God who gave it." [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!] ==== WIGRANT Mailing List ==== Support free volunteer genealogy. Contribute your data and your time. For details see: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html RootsWeb supports our research by hosting our mailing list! 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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: St. John Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1995 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 760. WILLIS ST. JOHN, an important factor in the sum of events in Potosi, the Hon. J. W. Seaton, says: "He was a man of athletic build, of fine form, and though advanced in years and broken in health at the time I knew him, the indomitable energy of his nature was unquenched, and would show itself in the strong sententious language that expressed the independence of his thoughts and the energy of that will which laughed at the difficulties that subdue and conquer weaker minds. Of his early life and personal history previous to his entrace to the mines, I am uninformed. He was among the very first that reached 'Snake Hollow,' as the Potosi mines were then called, and, by a lucky turn in Fortune's wheel, he was one of the first she smiled upon, and the place where she opened up her glittering treasures to his wondering gaze is still known as 'St. John's cave.' It is said to have turned out a million of mineral, but that is a 'big pile,' and some allownace must be made for the authority of the story! and the number of times it has been told. At all events it proved a valuable lode, and has been profitably worked down to a recent date. Its site is near the summit of the bluff opposite the place where the Catholic Church now stands. On the opposite side of the road, he built what was known as an 'ash furnace,' and did his own smelting. He was soon enabled to purchase real estate and other valuable property, and was long esteemed for his great generosity, kindness and manly traits of character. The Methodist preachers, who follow in the wake of civilization, soon found him out, and they never lacked for their favorite dish - yellow-legged chicken - while his roost was full. They taught him, too, their favorite texts, 'God loveth the cheerful giver,' 'Cast your bread upon the water,' etc., and St. John was the man ever ready to practice all good precepts. Through his instrumentality the Methodist Episcopal Church at Van Buren was built, and the quarterly dues of the local ! preachers and Elders were promptly met; and all went smoothly on till there came a crisis in the monetary affairs of the State Bank of Illinois. This, with other reverses of fortune, crushed the old man with its accumulated weight of trouble, and he never rose again. I have often listened to his sad story, which he would repeat with thrilling effect, and wondered at the mysterious Providence that could thus cast him off. He felt keenly the loss of the property that once gave him influence and position, but more keenly the cold shoulder and averted looks of those whom he had once befriended. Poverty, with all its deprivations, he could endure, but the neglect of those who should have given him succor in the hour of need, galled his high spirit and made him curse the race of man. He was warm and genial in his friendships, but bitter in his hates and scathing in his imprecations. For years the shadow of his once strong frame might have been seen moving slowly and sadly about our streets - a wronged and ruined man - emaciated by disease and only a! waiting the end he knew was drawing nigh. 'One morn I missed him on the 'custom'd hill, Nor up the lawn nor at the wood was he.' "St. John was at rest. The spirit of a good and just man had returned to God who gave it." [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hyde, Bennett Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1132.1 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 589 - 590. JEHIEL H. HYDE, M. D. Although not one of the "old settlers" of Grant County in the stricter sense of the term, Dr. Hyde was so prominently identified with it for some fifteen years as to entitle his name to a place among those who have made their mark upon its society and institutions. He was a son of Luther Hyde, of Highgate, Vt., well known to many of the citizens of Grant County, who were formerly from that vicinity, and was born at Fairfield, in that State, July 29, 1812. His early life was spent upon a farm until he arrived at a proper age to pursue his studies, in preparation for professional life, for which he was always designed. Turning his attention to the profession of medicine, he studied with Dr. Hall, of St. Albans, and attended medical lectures at the Vermont Academy of Medicine at Burlington, and was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1834. He commenced his practice at Hardwick, Vt., but soon afterward removed to Michigan. Here he was one of the pioneers, and endured the hardships and privations incident to the settlement of a new country in those days - remote from the appliances of our modern civilization, and subject to the influence of the malarial diseases for which that State at that stage of its settlement was noted. Here he pursued the practice of his profession for a number of years, and in 1839 married Sarah A. Bennett, of Leona, Mich. Finding that his constitution could not withstand the climatic influences, he reutrned, in 1840, to his native State and practiced his profession at St. Albans and across Lake Champlain, at Potsdam, N. Y., for some nine years, his health becoming re-established. In 1855, he came to Lancaster on a tour of inspection, and a visit to his brother, already resident in that village. His professional services were at once in demand, even before he decided to settle here, which he did soon after, and speedily established a high professional reputation and a lucrative practice. For many years Dr. Hyde was the leading surgeon of the large territory embraced in the limits of Grant County, and was often called upon to perform difficult operations, or to meet his professional brethren in consultation, in every part of the county. The roads were at that time in a very imperfect condition; many miles of those he was compelled to travel at all hours of the day and night were mere paths thro! ugh the woods. With such a practice, under such circumstances, exposure was inevitable, and in time led to the development of the hereditary disease which finally terminated his life - pulmonary consumption. In 1867, his health began to fail and in the following year he removed to Minneapolis, Minn., where he spent a year, in hopes that the change of climate would prove beneficial in arresting the progress of the disease from which he was suffering. Finding that his hopes were not realized, he reutrned to Lancaster in the spring of 1869 and purchased a residence, which, however, he occupied but a few months before his disease had run its course, and on December 7, 1869, he was called hence. He left no children, his immediate family consisting only of his widow and her niece, who had been adopted as a daughter. A number of his brother's family connections, however, are still resident in Lancaster and other parts of the county. Dr. Hyde was in the front rank of his profession in Wisconsin, his surgical skill being perhaps unexcelled by that of any physician in the State. During the war he was employed in the Provost Marshal's Department at Prairie du Chien, in which capacity his thorough anatomical knowledge was of much service to the Government. He has appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions to the position of Examining Surgeon, which position he held until physical inability compelled his resignation. Dr. Hyde was a high Mason, having attained to the Royal Arch degree and perhaps higher, and was well skilled in the mysteries of that fraternity and of high repute as a Master of the craft, having held the position of Master of Lancaster Lodge No. 20 for twelve years. The high estimation in which he was held by his brother Masons was well shown by the Platteville, Potosi, Beetown and Lancaster Lodges, and Grant Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, which, notwithstanding very unfavorable weather, attended his funeral in bodies, as also did many brethren from other parts of the county, and interred his remains with the impressive ceremonies of their order. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hough Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1994 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 588 - 589. ASA EDGERTON HOUGH. Mr. Hough, who takes rank as one of the oldest pioneers of Grant County, was born at Lebanon, N. H., that old Granite State whose noble sons are to be found in every portion of the Union. He received a fair education, and, at an early age, entered the counting-room of Benjamin Dodd & Co., of Boston, at that day large merchants and extensive ship-owners. At the age of eighteen, young Hough was sent out as supercargo of one of the vessels belonging to the firm. At the age of twenty-four, he was a Master, and, in this capacity, followed the sea for two years, when he went to Washington and engaged in mercantile pursuits, which he followed with success for two years longer, when a fire not only burned up all he had, but left him many thousand dollars in debt. During his residence in Washington, he had succeeded in making friends of many of the leading statesmen of the day, among them, Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Benton, Van Buren and Gen. Jackson. After the fire, he immediately took! his family, consisting of his young wife and son, and came to St. Louis. The contracts for supplying the military posts on the Upper Mississippi being then advertised, he put in bids and secured most of them for the posts of Fort Armstrong, Rock Island; Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien; and Fort Snelling, then just being built. Steamboating was then a new business on the Upper Mississippi. Mr. Hough, however, chartered the steamer Rover, a boat of eighty or ninety tons measurement, but considered a first-class boat for that day, and, with a couple of barges, transported the supplies to these forts, taking back lead from Galena. In a few months he found himself out of debt, and with sufficient cash to again start in business, which he did in St. Louis. He remained in that city until the year 1827, when, in company with other gentlemen, he came up the river to Galena in a pirogue, and afterward started a smelting furnace at a place he named Gibralter, on the Platte, and set m! en at work clearing away the ground preparatory to the erection of a s aw-mill, which he built in 1828-29; the first mill, probably, ever built by private persons in the present State of Wisconsin. The same year, a post office was established at and known as Gibralter, it being the only one between Galena and Prairie du Chien for many years. In 1832, Mr. Hough took part in the Black Hawk war, and was at the battle of Bad Ax. He continued in the smelting business until 1834, when he closed up this branch of his undertakings, and moved his family to his mill where he resided until 1845, the year before his death, when he removed to Potosi, where he died in 1846. Mr. Hough was a man of more than ordinary intelligence. He had a passion for books, was a close student, and became a fine scholar. He was a man of medium stature but of commanding presence, and his opinions were always listened to with respect. In business, he was a straightforward, open man. He had little patience with what are generally known as sharp traders, and abominated a falsehood. Politically, he was a Whig, and, like most Whigs of the day, became almost sick when he heard, through the old-fashioned, slow mail-coach, that Pennsylvania had gone against Mr. Clay, and that James K. Polk was elected to the Presidency. Mr. Hough was a man of strong opinions, but of generous and charitable impulses; a man of remarkable polish, and easy, graceful manners, he held fast to his own opinions while treating those of others with respect, and held his friends with hooks of steel. Among the latter was Gov. Duane Doty. During the years that Mr. Hough resided at his mill, he became an extensive hog and cattle breeder, and much of the fine stock in Southwestern Wisconsin can still be traced to his herds. He also was a careful student of the leading agricultural journals, and sent for seeds, and experimented with them, and thus introduced those most desirable in the country. He was among the first to introduce and successfully cultivate the Bowles' dent corn. At that day corn-raising in Grant County was looked upon as more uncertain than it is at present in Minnesota. When Mr. Hough came West, Dubuque, as a promising town, was unknown; to-day, his remains rest quietly in the elegant cemetery at that city. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Coons Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1992 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 581 - 584. MAJ. JOHN R. COONS. BY J.W. SEATON. While the evidences of hopes deferred and visions ruptured were only too numerous during the early settlement of the new diggings, still all who came and went out from the mines were not failures. Many succeeded in business beyond their most sanguine expectations and others arose from the humble occupation of miners to fill the most responsible and exalted positions in the land. Many were in affluent circumstances and from the first ranks of society and came here for the purpose of extending their business and adding to their wealth. A well preserved and fine example of the latter class who engaged my respect and admiration, thirty years ago, was Maj. John R. Coons - a man who derived his patent of nobility from the hand of nature. He hailed from the "Blue Grass State" - the land of Henry Clay, of Prentice, the Breckenridges, the Marshalls - those men of giant intellect and universal fame, the home of heroes and some of the fairest speciments of the "gentler sex" that ever came from the hand of a Divine Creator. Springing from such a source, the Major was no exception to his race, or disparagment to his kind. His gentlemanly bearing - his pleasing conversation - his generous nature and abiding friendship - bespoke the true Kentuckian - and the truer man. He was no adventurer or common fortune-hunter, but with good business qualification, a sound constitution, and a will to encounter and overcome all difficulties, he sought to win his way by true merit and probity alone. Coming to St. Louis in 1808 w! hile yet a boy and while it was but a small French village, his chances for education were limited, though he became an adept in penmanship, a good calculator, and stored his mind with useful miscellaneous reading. The French patois of the place he spoke with the glibness and familiarity of his mother tongue. At this time the old French habitues who were gathered in and around St. Louis and Carondolet, in their modes of living, habits, customs and social intercourse, were a peculiar people, and in all things a law unto themselves. Hunting and fishing was their chief employment in summer, and the winter season was one unbroken round of gayety and fun. The sound of the festive violin filled the air; and the Creole girls, dressed in their gauzy robes of pink and white tarlatans, the sweet carnation of the rose glowing on their warm, olive cheeks, and love beaming from every nook and corner of their "soft, dark eyes," moved with angelic grace through the "mystic mazes of the da! nce" and led captive many a willing heart. The quaint gable roofs of t heir houses - their vine-covered balconies and jessamine wreathed windows that greeted the first glow of morning and around which tenderly lingered the last beam of the evening sun, reminded the elders of the sunnier skies of their once beloved France, and made the life of the younger float like an idyl set to the sweet, monotonous melody of whispering trees and the still music of the ceaseless flow of the mighty river. In heavenly scenes like these, what cared they for the grosser things of life? The earth, air and waters yielded the supplies of nature without coaxing or cultivation; and Eden, before the fall, was not a happier place - "Mirth, with thee I mean to live" was their motto and they forgot it not. Little dreamed these light-hearted, fun-loving Frenchmen of the great change that was so soon to be wrought in their vine-covered gardens and primitive cabins. And yet many of them are still living, to look abroad upon a vast city, its streets surging with the ever rest! less throng of trade and the mighty river, on whose beautiful moon-lit banks they danced the gay quadrille, converted into the mart of a continent and the highway of a nation's commerce. Gigantic steamers now moor in the place of the frail bark canoe and rough bateaux, in which the hardy voyageurs of fifty years since, pursued their dangerous travels; the lightning-winged train usurps the paths of the patient mule across the plain, instead of peltries and robes from the mountains, bringing the exhaustless treasures of a then unknown land, and teas, spices and the golden products of Far Cathay. Such has been the change witnessed by a generation still living, and in place of the rude hamlet, a city has sprung up, rivaling in wealth, influence, potency and importance, many of the most renowned cities of the old world. While a young man dwelling here, Maj. Coons witnessed these gay scenes and the rapid changes taking place around him, and became imbued with the spirit and enter! prise of its people. For a long period the American Fur Company made S t. Louis one of the principal points of its extensive business; and from here in the spring, annually went forth the long wagon trains of supplies, to the plains, the mountains, the head-waters of the majestic rivers that lave this inland city, to the remote trading-point of Santa Fe, and returned again in the fall, laden with fur, peltries, silver and the rich spoils their emissaries had gathered in. Of this wealthy and widely influential company the Major became a trusted employe, and, in the year 1827, was sent to the Upper Lead Mines and assigned to a clerkship with Gratiot, Choteaux & Co., a branch of this famous house, located at Gratiot Grove, Wis. Their business was smelting, selling goods and trading with the Indians for furs and Uncle Sam's annuities, and no doubt, at this period of uncertain values, it was found a very profitable one. Nothing occurred to interrupt their prosperous trade until the spring of 1832, when rumors of an advance of the warlike Sauk (or Sac) Indians, up the valley of the Rock River, became rife in the settlements, and soon culminated in the Black Hawk war. At this critical juncture, no one knowing the magnitude or proximity of the danger that surrounded them, the peaceful pursuits were neglected, and every precaution for safety and defense was taken. Block-houses were constructed, forts built and the women and children hustled into them, and the men organized and armed, ready at a moment's warning to ward off or go in the pursuit of the wily foe. In all these preparations and forays, Maj. Coons took an active part, and, although his valorous deeds were not recorded in every bulletin from the field of battle, as were those of some others less worthy, his services were untiring and highly appreciated by his superiors. His family being removed to safer quarters, the house they o! ccupied at Old Shullsburg - strongly built log house one and a half stories high - was converted into a place of defense and garrisoned with soldiers. When peace was restored, the family returned, and his eldest son, Henry (the amiable and gentlemanly Town Clerk of Potosi), well remembers playing soldier when a boy and shooting out of the port-holes from the chamber. He was braver then than he is now. Several guns were left by its heroic defenders, and, in handling them afterward, one was accidentally discharged, the contents going through the floor and lodging in the bed beneath, luckily unoccupied, or Henry might have become a "poor motherless boy" for his carelessness. Maj. Coons was one of a detachment sent out by Col. Gratiot in search of the Hall girls, two beautiful young ladies who were spared at the dreadful massacre of their father's family and neighbors, on Rock River. They were taken captives by one of Black Hawk's roving bands, and a reward of $2,000 being offered for their rescue, by Gen. Atkinson, they were afterward brought in to the fort at Blue Mounds, by three Winnebago Indians, who received the reward, but being suspected as spies, were ordered from the fort and to proceed at once north of the Wisconsin. The girls were in a most destitute and forlorn condition, but received the warm sympathy of the ladies in the fort, by whom they were properly clothed and soon after restored to their friends. Peace being finally restored by the capture of Black Hawk and the destruction of his band at the bloody battle of Bad Ax, Maj. Coons was relieved from further duty and returned to private life. He soon after obtained what was called a "smelter's grant" from the Government and removed to Dubuque, which, though not open to settlement, was fast being filled up with miners, tradesmen and adventurers. He built his furnace on the Catfish, near the present site of the Rockdale Mills. Here he enjoyed the confidence of the miners, and did a lucrative business, though paying thousands of dollars to the Government in the shape of rent. His tax rule was afterward reversed and the money refunded, but unfortunately for the Major, he did not give the matter his prompt attention, and to the extent of his loss the Government profiteth. Belmont, the once famous capital of Wisconsin, next attracted his attention, and here we find him running one of the largest dry goods stocks in the West. During his absence from home, on one occasion, his shrewd and far-sighted wife, took it into her head to visit the land office at Mineral Point, and when the Major returned he found himself the owner of some of the finest farming lands in this section of the country. The strangulation of the young city in its infancy, by the removal of the seat of government to Madison, blighted its future hopes, and determined the Major to find a place of brighter prospects and more commercial importance. That place was Potosi. And thither he came, like Joseph of old, out of the land of Egypt, with his family and his fortune. Hooper, Peck & Scales were then heavily engaged in the mercantile business at Galena, and with them an alliance was formed and a branch house established, under the firm name of Coons, Wooley & Co., in that part! of the village of Potosi then and still known as Lafayette. Here, in 1836, the Major erected the first frame store building in Potosi, shipping the material for its construction from Cincinnati by the way of the Ohio River. It stood immediately above the residence of the late James F. Chapman, though now reduced to the menial grade of horse stable on the farm of Nick Bonn. Its internal arrangements and finish were a marvel of beauty and elegance. Piles of valuable goods adorned its shelves and counters, and its capacious cellar and wareroom were plethoric with staple groceries and choice liquors. But, alas! for things material as well as things spiritual! The disease of debt was already fastened upon the vitals of the parent house, and the offspring was not exempt from its taint. The credit system predicated upon the inflated, worthless currency of the Illinois banks, had collapsed. Gen. Jackson had issued his famous specie circular, and down to this rock basis all must co! me. No man or firm in business could withstand the wild tempest of ban kruptcy and disaster that swept through the length and breadth of the land. All toppled and many went down. Hooper, Peck & Scales tried to weather the storm, but it was of no use. The proud firm and its dependences were taken from their anchored foundations, twirled in the air, and dropped in one common wreck. Some of the members emerged from the ruins with a few dislocated joints and bruised limbs, but poor Maj. Coons was a cripple for life, and almost a penniless man. He never overcame the shock or recovered from the deep injuries. Quietly and unostentatiously, he pursued the even tenor of his life, gaining, as best he could, a livelihood and an education for his little family - till, wearied at last with the unequal struggle, he bent his proud form and "slept with his fathers." Well do I remember the hour and the event; and when they told me the old man had passed from his humble home to his heavenly rest, I said within myself, It is well - a true, a warm and generous hea! rt hath ceased to beat; a kind, a just and upright soul has burst the prison bars of death, overcome the rough and rugged storms of life, and found a shelter in a happier home. "Methinks I hear the parting spirit say It is a dread, an awful thing to die." Oh! no, it cannot be. No vain regrets; no sorrowing words e'er linger round the dying lips; no tears bedew the eyelids of the dead. Affection, love, forgiveness, faith and hope the faltering voice and failing breadth alone imparts; and on the marble cheek the smile of love and hope immortal reigns. And so he died. Twenty years - swift, fleeting, ever-hurrying years of time, have fled since then, and still in loving hearts his memory lives embalmed. Although he sleeps within a lonely dell, far from the busy walks and strife of men, the wild rose blooms around his grave; the feathered tribes of spring pour forth their sweetest notes, and come to build their nests amid the quiet trees; the dews of Heaven fall gently o'er the springing grass and budding flowers; he hears, he heeds, he knows it not; yet, from this lonely bivouac of the dead comes forth the fragrance of a noble life, and sheds its hallowed influence around the name, the grave of John R. Coons. [I am not related to this family. 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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burnett Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1991 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 590 - 592. THOMAS PENDLETON BURNETT. Mr. Burnett was born in Pittsylvania County, Va., September 3, 1800, and was reared from early childhood on a farm in Bourbon or Spencer County, Kentucky. During this time, he obtained such instruction as he could by the aid of an academy and private instruction from neighboring gentlemen, laboring with his own hands, and afterward teaching, to acquire the means of support while prosecuting his studies. "While reading law, he was favored with some minor offices, such as Constable, Deputy Sheriff, Sheriff, etc., from the fees of which he derived a scanty means of support." Soon after his admission to the bar, he settled at Paris, Ky., where, in the practice of his profession, he is said to have been brought in contact, and often into professional collision, with some of the ablest lawyers in that State. For two years he filled the office of District Attorney. After the accession of Gen. Jackson to the Presidency in 1828, Mr. Burnett, who had been a warm partisan of the Genera! l, received October 15, 1829, the appointment of Sub-Agent in the Indian Department, to reside at Prairie du Chien. An accident which occurred soon after, when he was laboring with characteristic zeal and courage to resist the progress of an extensive fire at Paris, and which resulted in crushing one of his legs, confining him to his bed or his room for seven months, and leaving him a cripple for life, determined him to accept the appointment, far as it was below his hopes, rather than attempt to regain his practice after his long illness; and a severe domestic misfortune aided in procuring this decision. Arriving at Prairie du Chien in June, 1830, he found "but two or three American families in the place, except in the garrison at Fort Crawford. The major part of the inhabitants, four hundred in number, were Canadian French and half-breeds, who spoke only French with some Indian languages, all of which were to him unknown tongues." Mr. Burness was at first disappointed in ! the country, the people, and the duties of his office, but upon better acquaintance became strongly attached to them all. To the employments of his agency - the salary of which was only $500 - he was permitted to add the practice of his profession, in which he soon obtained some business, including suits prosecuted in behalf of the Government. In 1834, his connection with the Indian Agency ceased, and he devoted himself more completely to the practice of his profession. Some question having been made as to the existence of a vacancy in the office of District Judge, on account of the alleged non-residence of Judge Irwin, Mr. Burnett's appointment to the office was strongly urged upon the President; but the latter did not recognize the existence of a vacancy. In January, 1835, Mr. Burnett was appointed by Gov. Mason, of Michigan Territory, District Attorney for the counties of Crawford, Iowa, Dubuque and Des Moines; and he attended the summer terms of the courts in those counties; but finding it "inconvenient and unpleasant," tendered his resign! ation to Gov. Mason, September 10, 1835. In October following, he was elected to the Legislative Council of Michigan Territory, which was appointed to meet at Green Bay, and, on the meeting of the Council in December, he was chosen its President; but the meeting, which was of doubtful legal validity, was a practical failure. Congress was, however, memorialized at this session in favor of a speedy organization of the Territory of Wisconsin; and a memorial to the President of the United States in reference to the offices of the contemplated Territory, urged upon him the appointment of its own citizens in preference to persons from other parts of the country. As it was understood that Gen. Dodge would be appointed Governor, Mr. Burnett was urged as a suitable person for the office of Secretary. "If the Secretaryship could not be obtained," we are told, "Mr. Burnett desired a Judgeship;" that is, he desired to be appointed one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the Territory! , and his friends in Congress, Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, a nd Col. George W. Jones, then Delegate from Michigan Territory, and through their influence Senators Benton and Linn, of Missouri, and Senators Wright and Tallmadge, of New York, earnestly, though unsuccessfully, sought to secure his appointment to one of the two offices named. About the same period, Mr. Burnett is said to have become a member of the Four Lake Company, organized under the lead of Gov. Mason and Mr. Doty, for the purpose of laying out a city in the Four Lake region, which should become the capital of the new Territory. By the appointment of members of the First Legislative Assembly of the new Territory, as made by Gov. Dodge, upon the basis of a census taken in 1836, Crawford was allowed two members of the House of Representatives, but no member of the Council. The people of that county claimed that, under the organic act, each county was entitled to be represented in each House; and Mr. Burnett was unanimously elected by them to be a member of the Council. The full number of members authorized by law had, however, been chosen in other counties, pursuant to the Governor's appointment and proclamation, and very naturally Mr. Burnett's election was not certified by the Governor, nor was he admitted to the seat he claimed. During that session of the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Burnett was nominated by the Governor, and confirmed by the Council, as District Attorney for Crawford County, but this was done without his knowledge, and he subsequently declined the appointment, on the ground that the ! Council "was not legally organized, and that it had not therefore the lawful authority to perform any valid and binding act." This characteristic protest echoed the displeasure of Crawford County at the failure of Gov. Dodge to give them a representation in the Council. Whatever may have been the merits of their claim, it is needless to add that the objection of Mr. Burnett, if sound, would have been fatal to the validity of all acts passed by the First Legislative Assembly, which have, nevertheless, always been treated by the courts as valid. Upon the organization of the Territorial Supreme Court in December, 1836, on the motion of D. G. Fenton, Esq., Mr. Burnett was appointed as its official reporter, a position which he held until his death, some ten years later. The decisions of this court to the close of the term of 1840, were prepared by Mr. Burnett, and published in 1841 by the direction of the Legislature, as an appendix to a volume containing the acts of a regular ! and a special session of the Legislature. The decision of 1842 and 184 3 were published by Mr. Burnett in a separate volume in 1844. In 1837, he had removed from Prairie du Chien to Cassville, in Grant County, and subsequently moved to a farm in Mount Hope, on the line of the old military road from Fort Crawford to Fort Winnebago, which he had selected and embellished with taste and care for his permanent home, and to which he had given the name of "The Hermitage." Field, garden and lawn were already taking shape under his eye and hand. A dwelling of stone was planned to take the place of the comfortable log cabin, which had been erected for temporary occupancy. In the winter of 1844-45, and again the succeeding year, Mr. Burnett had served in the Territorial Legislature as a member of the House of Representatives from Grant County, and upon the election of delegates to the first Constitutional Convention in 1846, he was chosen as one of the county's representatives in that body. Mr. Burnett had been confined at his home by disease for some months before the meeting of the Convention in October, and it wa! s not until the 14th of that month that he took his seat. He was assigned a position as a member of the Committee on Corporations, where he served for about three weeks. October 25, he was recalled to his home by the intelligence of the alarming illness of his wife from typhoid fever. A wagon-ride of eighty-five miles, commenced after an exhaustive day's work, brought him to his home, only to be himself struck down with the fever. Himself, his wife and his aged mother, who had recently come from Kentucky to spend her last days with him, lay prostrated by the same disease, under the same roof and within hearing of each other. "The mother died on the 1st of November, the husband and the wife on the 5th, and on the 7th of that month, when the evening shadows fell on 'The Hermitage,' the bodies of the three reposed side by side, 'in a beautiful grave at the head of the garden,'" in a spot that the owner had chosen as the burial-place of the family. On the 10th of November, his colleague, Hon. J. Allen Barber, announced Mr. Burnett's death to the Convention. That body, thereupon, adopted resolutions of condolence, respect and sympathy, to go into mourning by wearing crape on the left arm of each member for thirty days, and adjourned over one day out of respect to the memory of their deceased brother. Mr. Burnett had acquired great prominence during his comparatively brief career. He was a worthy and valued citizen, eminently gifted, intelligent and useful. "His death created a profound and painful sensation over the entire Northwest, where he had been so well and favorably known." 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I have a JAMES ELLIS that married LYDIA TOWNSEND 27 Mar 1859 in Grant County, WI. Lydia Townsend was a daughter to my GGGrandfather, LYSANDER A. TOWNSEND, and a sister to my GGrandfather, MARK W. TOWNSEND. Would this James Ellis be any relation to your Washington Ellis? Bud Engelhardt budengelhardt@msn.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Cummins" <cummins7@mindspring.com> To: <WIGRANT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [WIGRANT] your Jane ELLIS Teggear Farrey ???? research > At 10:01 AM 8/10/2006, Mary Thiele Fobian wrote: >> >>In Washington and Elizabeth ELLIS's household in the 1850 census, >>13-year-old Yerelda J. is enumerated; the initial J might be for Jane. >>(Note, however, that there is a marriage record for Zerelda Jane ELLIS, to >>LLOYD L. CARTER on 24 Apr 1859 in Grant Co.) > > The Zerelda listed in the 1850 census is, in fact, the Zerelda Jane who > married Lloyd Carter and who was Washington and Elizabeth Blankenship's > daughter. > >> Also, consider this: Agnes appears to be Washington ELLIS's third (or >> later) wife, as he is listed with Elizabeth in 1850, with Nancy in 1860, >> and with Agnes in 1870. It may be that Jane is Agnes's daughter by a >> previous marriage. > > Agnes is Washington's 2nd wife. They were married in 1855 in Dubuque IA. > Why she is not listed in the household in 1860 and a Nancy is, is a > mystery. Agnes IS enumerated in the census over in Harrison. Nancy was NOT > married to Washington. None of the family came from Tennessee, where she > is listed as being born. The children in the 1860 household were listed as > Harvey (James Harvey), Samuel, Ballam (Ballard), Eliza, Nancy & Martha. > These were all Washington's children with his first wife. John, age 4, is > Washington and Agnes' eldest son, and Louiza and James Cox are Agnes's > children by her first husband, John Cox. > >>Note, too, that in 1850 and 1860 Washington has "extra" children with >>other surnames in his household; if no other explanation emerges, consider >>the possibility that Jane was fostered or adopted into the ELLIS household >>and considered Washington and Agnes her parents for the purpose of listing >>parents on a marriage record. > > What do you have listed in 1850? I transcribed this census decades ago and > only have a listing of Washington, Elizabeth and 9 of their children, all > with the last name of Ellis. > > See above for the explanation of the Cox children listed with Washington > in 1860. > > Susan, Washington and Agnes's g.g.granddaughter > > ==== WIGRANT Mailing List ==== > If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail me > Mari, WIGRANT List Admin at WIGRANT-admin@rootsweb.com > *--*--*--*--*--*--*Happy Hunting!!*--*--*--*--*--*--* > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >

At 10:01 AM 8/10/2006, Mary Thiele Fobian wrote: > >In Washington and Elizabeth ELLIS's household in the 1850 census, >13-year-old Yerelda J. is enumerated; the initial J might be for >Jane. (Note, however, that there is a marriage record for Zerelda Jane >ELLIS, to LLOYD L. CARTER on 24 Apr 1859 in Grant Co.) The Zerelda listed in the 1850 census is, in fact, the Zerelda Jane who married Lloyd Carter and who was Washington and Elizabeth Blankenship's daughter. > Also, consider this: Agnes appears to be Washington ELLIS's third (or > later) wife, as he is listed with Elizabeth in 1850, with Nancy in 1860, > and with Agnes in 1870. It may be that Jane is Agnes's daughter by a > previous marriage. Agnes is Washington's 2nd wife. They were married in 1855 in Dubuque IA. Why she is not listed in the household in 1860 and a Nancy is, is a mystery. Agnes IS enumerated in the census over in Harrison. Nancy was NOT married to Washington. None of the family came from Tennessee, where she is listed as being born. The children in the 1860 household were listed as Harvey (James Harvey), Samuel, Ballam (Ballard), Eliza, Nancy & Martha. These were all Washington's children with his first wife. John, age 4, is Washington and Agnes' eldest son, and Louiza and James Cox are Agnes's children by her first husband, John Cox. >Note, too, that in 1850 and 1860 Washington has "extra" children with >other surnames in his household; if no other explanation emerges, consider >the possibility that Jane was fostered or adopted into the ELLIS household >and considered Washington and Agnes her parents for the purpose of listing >parents on a marriage record. What do you have listed in 1850? I transcribed this census decades ago and only have a listing of Washington, Elizabeth and 9 of their children, all with the last name of Ellis. See above for the explanation of the Cox children listed with Washington in 1860. Susan, Washington and Agnes's g.g.granddaughter

>William died in 1872 and Jane was apparently remarried by 1880, but I cannot locate a marriage certificate in Grant County, WI for her. There are too many places she could have gone to check without more details. Any ideas? From what you say here, I assume you've found Jane ELLIS T????? Farrey with a third husband in 1880. In that census, what is Jane's name, age and birthplace, and what birthplaces are listed for her parents? In Washington and Elizabeth ELLIS's household in the 1850 census, 13-year-old Yerelda J. is enumerated; the initial J might be for Jane. (Note, however, that there is a marriage record for Zerelda Jane ELLIS, to LLOYD L. CARTER on 24 Apr 1859 in Grant Co.) Also, consider this: Agnes appears to be Washington ELLIS's third (or later) wife, as he is listed with Elizabeth in 1850, with Nancy in 1860, and with Agnes in 1870. It may be that Jane is Agnes's daughter by a previous marriage. Note, too, that in 1850 and 1860 Washington has "extra" children with other surnames in his household; if no other explanation emerges, consider the possibility that Jane was fostered or adopted into the ELLIS household and considered Washington and Agnes her parents for the purpose of listing parents on a marriage record.

Thank you. Linda

Maybe Boise Creek.... Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mari [mailto:ddmmjm@netins.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:32 PM To: WIGRANT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WIGRANT] was wondering..... Ah....Thank you! Mari At 05:02 PM 8/9/2006,VistaRon96@aol.com wrote: >Potosi Township Cemeteries > >British Hollow >Van Buren >Old Boice Creek-Hampton >Boice Prairie >Boice Creek-United-Brethern >Kinney >Tennyson St. Andrew Cath Dutch Hollow >Tennyson St. Andrew ==== WIGRANT Mailing List ==== Support free volunteer genealogy. Contribute your data and your time. For details see: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html RootsWeb supports our research by hosting our mailing list! Do you support RootsWeb? ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.8/413 - Release Date: 8/8/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.8/413 - Release Date: 8/8/2006

And that's the end of the biographies! I'm still finding more biographies scattered throughout the county and city histories, though. So, I'll have another batch, I think. However, this is the majority in the book. Hope you enjoyed them! Roxanne -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of rmunns@uwalumni.com Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:41 PM To: WIGRANT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WIGRANT] Edward WISEMAN Biography, IRE<WI This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wiseman, Parker Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1990 Message Board Post: >From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 1046. TOWN OF MILLVILLE EDWARD WISEMAN, Sec. 18; P. O. Patch Grove; owns 320 acres of land, valued at $5 per acre; born in Ireland in 1851[?]; came to America in 1844 and settled in Wisconsin in 1848; located on present farm in 1866. Enlisted in Co. C, 2d W. V. C., in 1861; was discharged in 1865. Married Ellen Parker, a native of New Hampshire; they have one child, Maggie. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!] ==== WIGRANT Mailing List ==== Send NO attachments of any kind to the list. If your email program automatically generates attachments for coding, please be sure it is turned off. If you have a document or other file of interest, please send it to individual addresses rather than to the list. The guidline also includes the "vcards" attachments. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.8/414 - Release Date: 8/9/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.8/414 - Release Date: 8/9/2006

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wiseman, Parker Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1990 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 1046. TOWN OF MILLVILLE EDWARD WISEMAN, Sec. 18; P. O. Patch Grove; owns 320 acres of land, valued at $5 per acre; born in Ireland in 1851[?]; came to America in 1844 and settled in Wisconsin in 1848; located on present farm in 1866. Enlisted in Co. C, 2d W. V. C., in 1861; was discharged in 1865. Married Ellen Parker, a native of New Hampshire; they have one child, Maggie. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whitt, Lea, Atkins Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1989 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 1044. TOWN OF HICKORY GROVE JOHN WESLEY WHITT, farmer, Secs. 25 and 26; P. O. Blue River; he is a son of Meredith and Sarah Atkins, natives of Virginia; they left their native State and located in Kentucky; in 1842, they came to this State and located in this county. John W. was born in Kentucky in 1834; he came to this State with his parents, since which time he has been engaged in farming and lumbering. He married, Nov. 25, 1857, Miss Sarah B. Lea, a native of Ohio; they have three children. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Warner, Paul, Weed Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1988 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 880 - 881. JARED WARNER was born in Canfield, Ohio, on Decemgber 6, 1811. He removed, with his father's family, to this county in the year 1838, where they made the first settlement in Millville, and built their first shelter on the banks of the Wisconsin River. They were towed up the Mississippi in a keel-boat, with several other families. These came not to make a fortune by speculating, or mining, or hunting, or gambling. They were among the first families that came to this new country to live here, to stay here, to die here. The school of "suckers" ascended the river in the spring, but swam south before winter. These families came here to make farms, build mills, and to test the fertility of our soil and its capacity to support a permanent population. That dull metal, known as "lead," has the honor of turning the attention of the enterprising classes in every part of the United States to the then Territory of Wisconsin. The idea of converting our great natural meadows into corn and wheat fields ! and sprading them out into a vast agricultural region, was hardly regarded as probable or possible. But cabins began to make their appearance, and small inclosures ran out into the prairies from thicket and grove; there were beaten paths to the nearest spring; attempts were made to cultivate the apple and even the peach. The sod dug-outs and pole shanties were supplanted by more pretentious cabins, and the cheerful word "home" found its way in ordinary conversation. Mr. Warner and his father built the first pine saw-mill in this county, as we are informed. The small stream that discharges into the Wisconsin in the town of Millville became the center of a large business. Here Mr. Warner, then a young man, engaged in the lumber business without a rival, and few houses were built in that part of the country at that time that had not some of its material from his manufacture. He loved business activity - it was a necessity of his nature, and he had less delight in making money ! than in the pleasures of employment and the perfection of machinery. T he cunning handiwork of the inventor always attracted his study and admiration. Mr. Warner was too much of a student, too fervently attached to ideas and opinions ever to become a millionaire. Having secured what he thought was a competency, he abandoned his saw-mills, settled in Patch Grove, where he bought a fine trace of land, built a comfortable house, improved a neat but not extensive farm and superintended its cultivation till the season before his death. Here he enjoyed years of comparative leisure, read books, periodicals and newspapers on all sorts of subjects, and developed those mental traits and speculative opinions that will cause his name to be remembered long after his lumbering and farming are forgotten. Boldly asserting the most unpopular opinions and advocating them with original arguments and illustrations, he compelled his oponents to read and study like himself, so that there are few neighborhoods anywhere to be found where the arguments for and against ! revealed religion, involving every branch of human knowledge, are more generally understood and examined. The majority of men and women must ever diseent from many of Mr. Warner's views on political and religious subjects; still he believed them to be better adapted to further human happiness than any other, and, when satisfied of the sincerity of the heart, we should pardon the aberrations of the head. Mr. Warner had been a great sufferer for several months before his death, but seemed desirous of concealing, as far as possible, his failing condition. He had been much in public life; a member of the Legislature, often in the County Board. He was Collector of Taxes in his town at the time of his death. In this business his intimate friends discovered his memory began to fail. He was original in his modes of doing business. He believed men were more likely to pay a debt when not bound to it by mortgages and securities. He often lent money without even a note of hand, making a memorandum of it in his account book. At his death some of his loans had been forgotten, but those he had accommodated readily come forward and told what they owed. On the day he died, he was observed in the morning to be writing on a sheet of paper. He placed this paper in an atlas, where it was accidently found afterward. He then went to his barn, about one hundred yards distant from the house, to tur! n out his horse and cow. Mrs. Warner, knowing his custom was to walk every day down to the post office and through the village, thought nothing of his absence. At dinner time it was found he had not visited Mr. Paul's. Miss Weed, who was then living in the family, immediately ran down to the barn. Mr. Warner was lying on some hay as if asleep. She attempted to arouse him. She stepped back affrighted. Jared Warner was dead! Mr. Warner thought an obligatory will might cause contention. The paper he had written in the forenoon was found to contain his wishes in reference to the division of his property. And such was the effect of this simple writing, that his wife and children all met together at his house, in obedience to his injunction, and by solemn writing and deeds divided their inheritance precisely as he advised. Thus passed away one of the most remarkable men known on the roll of the old settlers of Grant County. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]

Thanks for reply...no...i am not certain.... Just know they were in the area.... :) greg -----Original Message----- From: Mari [mailto:ddmmjm@netins.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 2:32 PM To: WIGRANT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WIGRANT] was wondering..... Greg, The main link (page) to the Tombstone Pictures website is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wi/cemetery/ It doesn't appear that Potosi is listed. Do you know for certain that there is a cemetery located there?? Mari List admin At 04:20 PM 8/8/2006,Greg wrote: >Noticed tombstone pictures being posted lately…. > >Are any available from Potosi, Wisconsin? In Grant county… > >Recently….a fellow poster…David Taft….helped me find the family connection I >had been looking for, for years…which I will forever be grateful David… > >Any pictures of the Sedbrook’s (Sudbrock’s) would be greatly appreciated… > >Or any other info anyone can give me… > >Finally found my great-great grandfather…William Sedbrook, who resided their >along side his brother Frederick….and their dad John Henry… > >Thanks everyone…. > >This has been a God send! > >Greg E. Sedbrook ==== WIGRANT Mailing List ==== Send NO attachments of any kind to the list. If your email program automatically generates attachments for coding, please be sure it is turned off. If you have a document or other file of interest, please send it to individual addresses rather than to the list. The guidline also includes the "vcards" attachments. ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.8/413 - Release Date: 8/8/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.8/413 - Release Date: 8/8/2006

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Virgin Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1295.2 Message Board Post: There is a portrait of H. H. VIRGIN in "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 595. This portrait is posted here. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]