Can't find anything interesting to read in tonight's paper? Here are some abstracted articles from Steubenville, Jefferson Co., OH's newspapers which feature Ohio Valley life in 1899-1900. (Friday, June 2, 1899 Steubenville Gazzette) MEMORIAL DAY - Fitting Ceremonies Observed in Steubenville. The annual custom of decorating the graves of soldiers was observed in Steubenville Tuesday. The weather during the afternoon was delightful and there was a good sized turnout. The Spanish American solders met in the Council chamber and marched to Fourth, near Washington and took position in the procession at the head of the G. A. R. (Grand Army of the Republic). There were twenty-eight in all, and Rough Rider McKINLEY was one of the number taking a place as the parade started. He came from Richmond on his bicycle and was applauded as `he rode up Fourth street. The G. A. R. met at the post room and formed on Fourth near Washington, and there were 84 in line on foot. They were headed by six policemen and the G. A. R. drum corps led by Capt. SELAB. After those on foot came carriages with the aged soldiers and W. R. C. in them. They decorated 379 graves, one of them being Chas. WATKINS, the Confederate Black Horse Cavalry man, who died here. We are informed that in 1877, the first year the present G. A. R. assumed this duty, only 37 graves were decorated. (Friday, June 23, 1899 Steubenville Gazzette) $10 To The Seashore: Summer Excursion to Atlantic City via PA LINES. July 6th and 30th, August 3rd and 17th, just the time for your vacation trip, the $10 round trip excursion tickets will be sold from Steubenville to Atlantic City, Cape May and other popular seaside resorts; return limit on these tickets 15 days including date of sale. Trains run thorough City without change. For further info, please call upon or address J. M. REYNOLDS, ticket agent, Pennsylvania Line. Jas. GILL found a set of gold teeth plates in the sand at the old graveyard on South Fourth street. They are in connected by springs and are in good condition. Dentists regard them as a curiosity of over fifty years ago. The same work today would cost nearly $200. This morning Si MYERS was driving Paul CASTNER's delivery wagon up Fourth near Market and was passed by Al SHOUSE with two fire engine horses. One of the fire horses shied at a street car and started for Market street. MYER's horse started to back and pinned the horse SHOUSE was riding against a telephone pole, where in his frantic efforts to free himself, he slowed the wagon so hard a wheel broke. SHOUSE held to the other horse until the saddle girth broke and he was thrown off by the pole. Both horses were caught by bystanders. SHOUSE was not injured and neither of his horses hurt. Lightning struck the central school building at Toronto on Tuesday evening, damaging it slightly. The stack of the Minor brick works clay bank was blown down by the storm. The trestle leading to the King's creek stone quarry (an easy walk across the river in Hancock Co., WV) was considerably damaged by the heavy rain. The bronze fountain, which will supply water for man and beast is now on the site of the old stone trough put up by Mayor IRWIN years ago. While the new fountain is more artistic, it will never do more real good than the one put up by the ex-Mayor, for then there were no troughs in the city. (Friday, June 30, 1899 Steubenville Gazzette) The boating stage in the river is over for awhile at least and nearly all the boats have gone to the bank after a long and profitable season of navigation. At present (the Ohio River is) three feet seven inches and falling slowly with no prospect of a rise. The Keystone State stuck in the mud several times in getting to Pittsburg but finally with the aid of boats . . . . . there yesterday afternoon at 8 o'clock, and will remain until more water comes. The Ben Hur left Pittsburgh yesterday at noon and reached here this morning at 8 o'clock, twelve hours behind schedule time. She will proceed as far as Marietta and there tie up. No word has been received from the Virginia due up today and it is thought she will come no farther than Wheeling. If you find this a nostalgic and interesting read, visit the Jefferson County Chapter, OGS abstracted news articles on this web page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohjefogs/100YearsAgo.htm All are past features of the Jefferson County Lines Newsletter. Wishing everyone a familiar Ohio Valley surname featured in these articles. JEFFERSON COUNTY CHAPTER, OGS http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohjefogs/index.htm Julia A. Krutilla, Web Master

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/1887.1 Message Board Post: I have been requested to give information on my grandparents. Elbert Snow Wimer married Elsie Ina McKim.They lived in Ohio. Their first child was born in 1923. Elbert was born Jan.21,1898 in W.Va. His children's birth certificates give conflicting places of birth for him. One says Upshire County,(I know there is an Upshur) one says Arlington (which I know is in Upshur) and one says Parkersburg. He had at least two brothers.Benjamin was probably born around 1906,He still lived in W.Va in 1925 when his first child was born, then they moved to Stark County, Ohio. My mother thinks another brother's name was Enoch. Thanks to those who are trying to help me get past this brick wall.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/1887 Message Board Post: My grandmother got married when she was 16, I didn't find a marriage license for them in Ohio, they probably had to cross state lines to get married. They lived in Stark Co.Ohio, so I'm guessing that they probably went to W.Va. to get married. My grandfather was born in W.Va., in Upshur County. I would guess that they probably would just go somewhere just inside the state line. Hancock county would be the closest, though they could have gone to Brooke or Ohio Counties. How in the world would I locate their marriage license? I have not been able to find out who my grandfather's parents were, I was hoping their marriage license would tell me.

Once again, the Tri-State Genealogical & Historical Society is having a Stocking Stuffer Book Sale. I have pasted the details here and you may also find them posted on the society's web site. There have been 4 books added since last years sale. Happy Hunting, Janet Waite Tri-State Genealogical & Historical Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvtsghs/indext.htm STOCKING STUFFER BOOK SALE Take advantage of this special sale to expand your library between October 7, 2002, and December 6, 2002. All orders are payable in advance to: Tri-State Genealogical and Historical Society P.O. Box 454 Newell, West Virginia 26050 Please add $2.00 postage and handling for the first item ordered and $.50 for each additional item. Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery. Postage for the cemetery map is $.50 for each one ordered. Your Name______________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________________ City______________________State___________________Zip ___________ Title & Description Quantity SALE Price Frankfort Springs Cemetery, Hanover Twp. Beaver County, Pa. $4.00 Scottsville Cemetery, New Sheffield Twp, Beaver County, Pa. $8.00 1917 Beaver County, Pa., Farm Directory (w/maps) $3.20 1940-41 Rural Directory of Beaver County, Pa. $6.00 Earliest Know Readings of Stones in Service U. P. Cemetery, Raccoon Twp., Beaver County, Pa. $6.40 Hancock County, W. Va, Marriages 1848-1879 by Kathleen Murray $16.00 Hancock County, W. Va. Marriages 1880-1912, by Janet Waite & Bonnie Ryan $16.00 Census Index - 1840 Brooke, 1850-1880 Hancock, W. Va $8.00 1850 Census, Hancock County, W. Va. By Frieda Olash $8.00 1860 Census, Hancock County, W. Va. By Jan Waite & Bonnie Ryan $9.60 1870 Census, Hancock County, W. Va. By Janet Waite $9.60 1890 Veteran's Census of Hancock Co., W. Va. $4.00 Field's Funeral Home Records, New Cumberland, W. Va. Vol 1, A-L, or Vol 2, M-Z. Please specify which volume if only ordering one. Each Volume is - $20.00 *Cemeteries of New Manchester, Flats, Union and Meth. Prot. $20.00 Shadow Lawn Cemetery, Newell, Hancock, WV $5.20 Locust Hill Cemetery, Chester, Hancock, WV $20.00 Hancock County, WV, Cemetery Location Map $1.20 Probate Wills & Estates, Hancock Co., WV, by Janet Waite $9.60 Windows on Hancock Co., WV, Biographical & Local History for 150 Years 1850-2000 $20.00 History of Newell, Hancock, WV $12.00 History of Chester, Hancock, WV Gateway to the West $20.00 Up High and Down Main in Pughtown, WV $6.40 Early Baptisms of Presbyterian Church of Fairview, 1799-1826, Brooke Co., WV $4.80 Calcutta U.P. Church Cemetery, St. Clair Two, Columbiana Co., Ohio, By JoAnn & Tom Bennett$8.00 Yellow Creek Cemetery, Columbiana County, Ohio $9.60 Index to Columbiana Co., Oh, Naturalization Records, By Velma Poole $8.00 1877 Columbiana Co., Ohio Directory $16.00 1891-92 Columbiana Co., Ohio Directory Vol 1, Covers East Liverpool & Wellsville $20.00 1891-92 Columbiana Co., Ohio, Directory Volume 2, Covers remaining Villages and Townships $16.00 1891-92 Col Co Directory, Both of the above volumes $32.00 Selected Obituaries from the East Liverpool Tribune 1880-1910 By Jean Butler $20.00 1877 Jefferson Co. Ohio Directory, w/County Businesses $12.00 *Early Reminiscences of Fawcettstown [E. Liverpool] By Wm G. Smith 1888 $12.00 *Ohio Valley in Colonial Days By B. Fernow 1890 $20.00 *Greater Toronto $12.00 *Note: Four of the above books are new publications added this year!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Duval/Duvall/DeVoll/McIntire/McIntyre/McEntyre/McEntire Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/1854.2.1 Message Board Post: Sharon, thanks for responding to my message. I am looking for any and all info on these Brooke Co Duvalls. What happened to all the brothers; where did they go???? What were the names of their wives and children? Who did the children marry? Of special interest to me is the family of Ben Duvall and Sarah Thompson. I think they might be the best bet to be parents of my Elizabeth (1803-1848) who married Robert McIntire Jr of the Buffalo Valley area of Wellsburg. I have not been able to find any information about Ben's or Sarah's death -- no will, no cemetery listing. Somewhere I have seen that Ben died the same year as Isaac--1828--but I have not come across any source for that date. So. . . I think if I collect data on all the brothers, that will give me a better idea of which brother was father of my Elizabeth. I also think that Elizabeth had a brother William who died at age 29 in 1844. He is buried in the McIntire plot next to Elizabeth and her husband in New Alexandria, Jefferson Co OH. Again, any info you have will help me figure out who my Duvall belongs to. Many Thanks and God Bless, Janet Currie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/1294.1 Message Board Post: I am researching the Lazear family and would like info on Lorna Lazear (my great aunt) and Ross Cortese. I understand that they had two daughters. I would like to contact them for info on the family. Lorna's brother Vane Bryson Lazear was my grandfather.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/1854.2 Message Board Post: I am a descendant of the Duvall (Duval) family. Issac Duval and his brother founded the Duval Glass Mfg Co in Wellsburg, WV (Charleston). What exactly are you looking for? Let me know. Sharon

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FCC.2ACE/1854.1 Message Board Post: I am a descendant of the Duvall (Duval) family. Issac Duval and his brother founded the Duval Glass Mfg Co in Wellsburg, WV (Charleston). What exactly are you looking for? Let me know. Sharon

Allen Eckart has written a series of historical novals,that are often available even in paperback. They are reasonably accurate,and contain great footnotes for further research. His "The Frontiersman " gives a graphic account of July-Aug,1782 Col Wm Crawford's defeat. His "That Dark and Bloody River" accounts Crawford's defeat,but also other Indian warfare along the WV panhandle,where Edward Logsdon,Sr-Jr were. Dugal McQueen and George Brown[e] were adjoining neighbors at n e Westminster,mD, and John Brown and Edward Logsdon,Sr m Dugal's daughters,among others.John Sappinhton,Sr, Richard Wells,Sr,and John Baxter were Brown's sons-in-law Dugal's son, Thomas Sr,is said by someone [?] to have been killed by Indians in Nov ,1763,during Pontiac's War,in the Big Cove of mid southern,Pa,just north of Hancock,Md, Some portion of the Logsdon-Durbin-Mattingly-Sapp-Workman colony gave oaths in 1778 further west yet,neat Oldtown Md -Mt Savage,Md. Md is 1 1\2 mile wide at Hancock,Md,and WV is 6 miles wide at Harmon's Creek, Weirton-Hollidays Cove,WV. Early spring,1774,at Jousha Baker's cabin in the northern WV panhandle,the Mingo chief Logan's family was lured across the Ohio,and massacred by white men that included a Greathouse,John Sappington,and Baker's bro-in-law,Nathanial Tomlinson,and others. [ Jousha McQueen,grandson of Dugal, called Jousha Baker his "best friend" and floated to Natchez in 1780-81 with Nat Tomlinson. Chalkley's "Cronicles of the Scotch-Irish in Augusta Co,Va" has abstracts of a Va district land suit court suit re the 1773 squatting of Wm.West,Jousha McQueen,and John Sappington in Campbell's cabin at Holliday's Cove,and my George Brown,,and others,riding to their rescue. Spring,1782,after many white deaths by Indians, a whitemilitia rode from Mingo Boton into the "No Man's Zone"" between the warring tribes of Indians,in Ohio,and the white's.They rode 75-100 miles into Ohio to a village of Christian [Moravian] indians,who empty village had been used to shelter hostiles the past winter. Now reoccupied by the Christian Indians, but among them were found clothing items of whites recently killed. The Moravians were herded into ther church,and ,next am, led out,and made to kneel,and a few of the white milita walked behind them,bashing 90 plus heads. Another portionof the white militia joine a young ,white minister,at prayer while the massacre occured. Many of the same miltia,enlarged by others,joined Col Wm Crawford,in riding to defeat in late July of 1782,further west in mid-Ohio near Upper Sandusky. 1780 is the date I use for the 1st of our colony long hunting buffalo and genseng out of the 1775 Boonesboro fort in Madison Co,Ky. 1787 is the date I use for the colony moving their wifes to George Boones-Wm Hoy's fort 7 miles west of Boonesboro,Ky at Foxtown,or White Hall,Ky. Trading Hill,it was called. Foxtown is yards wst of I-75 south of Lexington,Ky,and south of the Kentucky Rivera very few miles. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

My volume of Penn Archives is so battwred ,it has no cover,nor the 1st 55 pages, so don't ask what vol. and series. I'm starting on page 507. I've been talking,from memory,to Logsdon-l@rootsweb.com,but added WVBROOKE-L @rootsweb.com for this Email. No attempt will be made to name all the 1st land owners on what became Brooke,and Hancock,WV,and nw Washington Co,Pa. I use the 1772 date for 1st settlers like Harmon Greathouse,of Harmon's Creek,to settle at Weirton,WV Thomas Gist likely claimed Cove,or Brown's Island earlier. 1773 is the date I use for the colony of kinsmen from Westminster-Hampstead,Md. 1779 is the year the new Va government passed it's "cornright" land law allowing 400 acres to those proving they grew an acre of corn,and raised a cabin by 1779. In less peopled area of Va like Ky County,Va, it was possible to get 400 acres,plus buy cheaply 1000 acres adjoining,if unsettled. But that additional 1000 acres was rare in sw Pa-WV panhandle. Richard Wells,400 acres Cross Creek [3,maybe 4 Richard Wells in area. George Wells,400 acres Cross Creek Alex Wells 400 acres Cross Creek-enters Ohio at Wellsburg,but his mills were at what became the Pa-WV line John Sappington,400 acrs Harmon's Run [Weirton,WV] jOHN sAPPINGTON,400 ACRES Cross Creek. Wm Baxter,400 acres Harmon's Run [6 miles lies in WV] Edward Logsdon,400 acres Harmon's Run George Brown [mine] 400 acres Harmon's Run, William West,400 acres Harmon's Creek, John Baxter,400 acres Harmon's Creek, Wm Baxter,400 acres Harmon's Creek, Harmon Greathouse 400 acress Harmon's Creek [1774,a Greathouse,Sappington,Tomlinson et al were a Jousha Baker's cabin killing the Mingo chief Logan's family touching off Lord Dunmore's War. When his army was returning from Ohio in late 1774,they siezed Ft Pitt,and sw Pa for Va. Above area was West Augusta District,Va in 1775,and 1776-81,Yohohania Co,Va,and portions,1781,Washington Co,Pa. WV-Pa line surveyed about 1783. John Greathouse 400 acres Harmon's Creek Wm Greathouse,400 acres,Harmon's Creek-Greathouses,Sapp's and Logsdon lastly from Upper Potomac around Oldtown,Md Jousha Brown Caleb Merryman Richard Wells, Richard Laevens, Henry Bolin,Cross Creek,Gerrard Bowlin,Cross Creek, Moses Decke,Cross Creek, John Sapp New bifocals giving me trouble. Quitting mid-stream. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

Hello List, Could someone please tell me how to get to Franklin Cemetery. I will be in Wheeling on Monday. Thank you Vicky

The date of the Anderson obit is probably 1936; 1884 + 50 (golden anniversary) + 2. Anyone have any Goddards floating around out there? I'm looking specifically for John Goddard/Rachel Cochran descendants. Thanks, JaneB@copper.net

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/FCC.2ACE/1886.1 Message Board Post: Wonderful!!! Adds further dimension to our family connections. My mother's brother married a daughter of Robert Wylie Anderson. I had no information on his lineage nor siblings! Would be willing to learn more...and share what I have on Robert Wylie's family...Thank you.

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/FCC.2ACE/1886 Message Board Post: ELDERSVILLE, May 18--- Mrs. Mary Jane Anderson, wife of W. A. Anderson, a native of Hanover Township, died in her home, 1433 Pennsylvania Avenue, Steubenville,O., after a four-week illness. Mrs. Anderson, daughter of Robert and Margaret Lee McGough, came of Scotch and Revolutionary ancestry. October 20, 1884, she was married to Mr. Anderson at Hickory, and they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary two years ago. They lived in Steubenville 20 years. Besides her husband she leaves four children: Robert Wylie Anderson of Follansbee, W.Va., John and Charles of Steubenville and Mrs. Ray Jackson of Burgettstown. She also leaves a brother, John L. McGough of Burgessttown. I found this partial obit in the papers of my late GAunt Mildred (Conn) Ramsey. I do not have more info, dates or know which newspaper, but I hope this much helps.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wheeler Richcreek Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FCC.2ACE/906.911 Message Board Post: I was wondering if you'd found anything "new" since this post? I'm looking for information about Isaac and Joshua Wheeler (b. MD) listed in the 1830 Muskingum Co. OH Perry Twp. Census. 1830 Muskingum Co. Perry Twp. Isaac Wheeler 2m un 5 1m 20-30 1m 30-40 1f un 5 1f 10-15 1f 30-40 Next door is Joshua Wheeler b. 1810 MD (probably a brother of Isaac). Joshua did not marry until 1834 in Muskingum, so family members are probably his mother and siblings. Joshua Wheeler 2m 10-15 1m 15-20 1m 20-30 3f 15-20 1f 40-50 Isaac was gone from Muskingum Co. in the 1840 census. There is a Catherine Wheeler in the 1840 and someone on the Wheeler-L had Isaac married to a Catherine. In the 1820 Brooke that you posted, Thomas comes closer to the number of children in the above family than William. There are Coshocton/Muskingum connections. Joshua married Frances Ann Richcreek in Muskingum Co. in 1834.(her father was in Coshocton 20 and 30, her grandfather in Muskingum). Joshua and Frances were in Coshocton by 1850. Gale

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/FCC.2ACE/1885.1 Message Board Post: Samuel and family were listed as B042 in the 1880 Census of Brooke County. Son George is listed as being 13. As were his parents, he is listed as having been born in PA. I am looking for Jennie, b. abt 1863, who married William M. Silver in Bethany on 17 Sep 1886. She is not listed in Samuel's family in the 1880 Census. Anybody have a lead on her? Or on William Silver for that matter? Thanks!

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/FCC.2ACE/1885 Message Board Post: I am looking for the George Rizor family who lived in Brooke County in the 1890's. George Rizor married Emma Umbel on December 23, 1890. Their children were: Pearl Mary, Violet Louise, Juleen Rose, Emma Alice, James Henry and William. I would appreciate any information you could give. Thank You.

Could some one tell me if the Wellsburg Herald is on microfilm for the year 1892. The FHC does not have it on microfilm. Also if it is on microfilm, which library would I go to, to view the film. A friend is traveling next week and has offered to stop in Brooke Co and do Obit look ups for me. So I would like to have all the information I can on where she should go to do the look up. Also are there death records for 1892? Thank you Vicky vsutton@nc.rr.com

Did you know that: "Lewis chose Pittsburgh as the expedition's point of departure, not just for its fortuitous confluence of rivers, but because only in Pittsburgh and its environs could he find skilled workmen to build the keelboat he needed for a transcontinental voyage." City undaunted by historical snub They tried. They failed. And now, after being rebuffed by a St. Louis-based national commission, the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center http://www.pghhistory.org/ has called on some big names -- from the state House to Dan Rooney to former Gov. Tom Ridge to President Bush -- to help it stake Pittsburgh's claim as the place where the Lewis and Clark expedition began. Read more at: http://www.postgazette.com/nation/20021010lewisclarkp2.asp The Thursday, October 10, 2002 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a wonderful illustration of a keel boat on it's front page along with the headline link above. It's a shame the Lewis & Clark 2003 - http://www.lewisandclark200.org/ is overlooking the importance of Pittsburgh in this bicentennial celebration.

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/FCC.2ACE/1884 Message Board Post: I need someone to look in the 1840 census of Brooke Co. on page 200 and give me the reading for GEORGE GLASURE. I would truly appreciate this gesture. Jean