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MEANS GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


While living in Wichita Falls, Texas, I met a couple at my church who were in the U.S. Air Force. Their names were Merrill and Phyllis MEANS. They were active members of the Assemblies of God and good friends. It would be interesting to find a family connection. I do not know where Merrill and Phyllis live now. Last I heard they were in Kentucky. I understand the Merrill's family has a reunion each year.

My wife's Means family is from Tennessee and settled in Madison Co., Arkansas in the mid-1800s. Here is my wife's MEANS lineage as far as can be proven:

  1. Josiah MEANS, b. ca. 1785 TN, d. ca. 1870 AR; md. Mary Ann "Polly" MCMURRAY, b. ca. 1795; d. ca. 1870 AR
  2. Elizabeth MEANS, b. 12 Feb. 1821 TN, d. 22 Dec. 1902 Madison Co., AR; md. ca. 1840 to John Calvin CALLICO, Sr., b. 1817 Warrren Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1894 at Wesley, Madison Co., AR
  3. John Calvin CALLICO, Jr., b. May 1847 Madison Co., AR, d. 22 Feb. 1927 Madison Co., AR; md. May 1870 Madison Co., AR to Sarah Frances "Fannie" JOHNSON, b. 22 Feb. 1854 Madison Co., AR, d. 1920 Madison Co., AR (both buried in Wesley Cemetery, Madison Co., AR)
  4. Franklin Montgomery CALLICO, b. 9 July 1877 Drake's Creek, Madison Co., AR, d. 15 Nov. 1969 Ely, White Pine Co., NV; md. 1900 Madison Co., AR to Kima Nevada ROBERTS, b. 1882 Japton, Madison Co., AR, d. 23 Dec. 1944 San Bernardino, San Bernardino Co., CA (buried at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA)
  5. Bonnie Ruth CALLICO, b. 5 Aug. 1905 Drake's Creek, Madison Co., AR, d. 1 Dec. 1968 San Bernardino, San Bernardino Co., CA; md. 22 Aug. 1928 to Robert Archie HENRY, Jr., b. 26 Aug. 1902 Sickles, Caddo Co., OK, d. 10 June 1944 Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA (both buried at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA) *These are my wife's grandparents.



MEANS E-MAIL LIST


If you have queries concerning the MEANS surname, you may post these at the Means Family Genealogy List which is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Means surname and variant spellings.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to: MEANS-L-request@rootsweb.com
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe

Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: MEANS-L@rootsweb.com

Archived postings to the Means e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

    http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

When prompted, type in MEANS for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in MEANS you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letters of the month.





ROOTSWEB MEANS MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the MEANS surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Means Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any MEANS name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.




An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the MEANS family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/means

***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the MEANS lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.



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Last updated June 1, 2003.


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