Hope this provides some clues: The following Ancestral File Information was submitted by: TERRY E DELLINGER, W2211 CTY. HHH , MALONE WI 53049 Submission: AF92-105051 L. GENE SIDWELL, 2177 CUMBERLAND DR SE SMYRNA GA 30080-4601 Submission: AF96-109429 John TROXEL (AFN:TQQ8-T2) Pedigree Born: 1837 Place: Carroll Co, In Died: Place: , , Wi Father: Elias TROXEL (AFN:TQQ8-RP) Family Mother: Katherene SUMERZ (AFN:TQQ9-9F) Rebecca SHEPARD (AFN:1NK4-TN5) Pedigree Born: Abt. 1841 Place: <Carroll Co, In> Father: Mother: CHILDREN: Abe TROXEL (AFN:TQQ9-5Q) Pedigree Born: Abt 1855 Place: <Indianapolis, Marion, In> Died: Abt 1871 Place: , , Ia John TROXEL (AFN:TQQ8-T2) Pedigree Born: 1837 Place: Carroll Co, In Died: Place: , , Wi Henry TROXEL (AFN:TQQ8-V7) Pedigree Born: 1838 Place: Carroll Co, In Died: Abt 1930 Place: Garrison, Benton, Ia Elias TROXEL (AFN:TQQ8-WD) Pedigree Born: 1840 Place: Vinton, Benton, Ia Died: Place: Vinton, Benton, Ia Chris TROXEL (AFN:TQQ8-XK) Pedigree Born: 1841 Place: Carroll Co, In Died: Place: Marysville, Marion, Ia Annie TROXEL (AFN:TQQ8-ZQ) Pedigree Born: 1843 Place: Of Robins, Linn, Iowa Died: Place: Robins, Linn, Iowa Susana TROXEL (AFN:TQQ9-0V) Pedigree Born: 1845 Place: Of, Carroll, Indiana Died: Place: , , Ia Elizabeth TROXEL (AFN:TQQ9-12) Pedigree Born: 1846 Place: Of, Carroll, Indiana Catherine TROXEL (AFN:TQQ9-27) Pedigree Born: 1848 Place: , Carroll, Indiana Died: Place: , , Ia Esther TROXEL (AFN:TQQ9-3D) Pedigree Born: 1850 Place: , Carroll, Indiana Died: Abt 1861 Place: , , Ia Levi TROXEL (AFN:TQQ9-6W) Pedigree Born: 1855 Place: <Indianapolis, Marion, In> Died: Place: Garrison, Benton, Ia Noah TROXEL (AFN:TQQ9-4K) Pedigree Born: 12 Feb 1853 Place: Indianapolis, Marion, In Died: 28 Feb 1932 Place: Endicott, Jefferson, Ne Buried: 1932 Place: Fairbury, Ne At 19:04 3/20/2002 -0600, you wrote: > >Hi all - > Haven't written anything requesting information about my own family yet, >so here goes: > My great-great-grandmother was Nancy Troxel. She was the daughter of >John and Rebecca (Shepherd?) Troxel, the eldest of at least six kids. Not >sure about the rest of her family (heard they were traveling west into Iowa >and something happened... everyone but her, a sister and a brother lived >... would love to know). Anyway, the family showed up in Richland County in >1870 and that's it. Seems like she lived much of the rest of her life >in/near Eagle Township of Richland County, though I'm not sure how much was >spent there or in possibly Grant County. I've looked for a death >certificate for her in Richland County, to no avail; as her tombstone at >the Basswood Cemetery in Eagle Township indicates she died in 1947. She >first married Jesse Hardy, then Samuel Turnmire. Seems like she had one >daughter with Samuel, the other five children (that I know of) with Jesse. >Jesse and Nancy's son Oscar (who married Lora Kite) raised a family in >Grant County, but he was apparently born in E! >agle Township, Richland County. I would appreciate more information on the >Troxel family, as well as a death date for Nancy. If anyone regularly goes >to Lancaster to look up information would check to see if her death >certificate is in Grant County, I'd appreciate it very much. > I also have another ancestor who lived in Grant County for a spell. >Samuel Groves, whose first wife died and who divorced his second wife, >married a woman named Harriet Pettigrove in 1884. This was found from his >Civil War record information. I am curious, when after his own children >were grown, why he married a woman who was several years younger than >himself and then had another child (he was 58 when his last son was born in >1885, which was about 25 years after his seventh child from his first >marriage). After Samuel died in 1900, I have no idea whatever happened to >his third wife, Harriet, and son Frank (with the exception that his wife >died in 1916, because she was dropped as a pensioner). So what happened to >Frank Harris? Anybody? Where is the cemetery in Avoca? Samuel is buried >there (note his first wife was buried in Richland County); I wonder if >Harriet and Frank are too. > Please contact me if we're related, too! > >------------------------------------------------ > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ============= Mary Thiele Fobian Writer/Editor Pacific Grove, CA