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Sep 2010
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Sherrill Halsey "Steve" Stevens, who did most of the "grunt work" researching the genealogy of Hugh Lemmon and his many descendants, died on 4 Aug of this year from prostate cancer at 76 in The Dalles, Oregon -- just south of his retirement home in Goldendale, Washington.
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You'll find a brief bio he wrote several years ago along with an obituary on his page, just below his name, by clicking the bracketed link [1] -- which is appropriate, for without his help this site would be considerably smaller than it is today. Will include a photo on his page shortly, followed by a Photo Page later.
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While I've not had time to do a complete update and have done selected individuals from time to time, I hope to do a full-blown update after I begin traveling later this year -- hopefully early in 2011.

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July 2006
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This update contains eight new obituaries, one of which was mistakenly omitted by the webmaster in the Dec 05 posting; that is, the obit of Matthew McHenry Lemmon which was purchased via the Rutherford B. Hayes web site (see Resources Page) by S.H. Stevens has now been posted.

The other seven obituaries were either obtained on-line (many newspapers now have web sites and some have archives for a varying number of years) or provided by RAOGK volunteers. Special thanks to Kendra Hoffman, the RAOGK volunteer for Gage County, Nebraska; she provided obits for Lillian May Turnbull and Ida Jane Catlin, daughters of Jason Eli Lemmon.

Special thanks is also due Darrel Roberts, who scanned a great many photos that he and his sister Michelle had of their parents and grandparents, Bea Lemmon, Floyd Roberts, and Loyal & Mary Sallinen Lemmon. While time prevents including them all, you'll note that there are two new Photo Pages for Floyd Roberts and Mary Sallinen Lemmon. See the Photo Index and the top of the Resources Page. You can look forward to seeing more of the scans Darrel made in future updates.
Also, thanks to Nancy Carey Kier for providing a photo of her parents, Jim Carey and Gertrude Anderson Carey, daughter of Blanche Lemmon Anderson Johnson.
As noted last time, I've added a link on the Resources Page to what is probably the best web site for locating survivors of decedents, former classmates and teachers, and even the flaky neighbor who moved out without returning your lawnmower. And best of all, the site is free! ZabaSearch is better than Intelius in every respect except one: it does not list spouses or adult children living at home.

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December 2005
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There are eleven new obituaries, eight of which were provided by RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) volunteers in several different states. The two most recent are for the webmaster's late father, Robert Lemmon Sr, and Matthew McHenry Lemmon, whose obit was purchased via the Rutherford B. Hayes web site (see Resources Page) by S.H. Stevens.

Lori DeWinkler, an RAOGK volunteer in Butler County, Kansas, furnished obituaries for James Irl Pennington and his wife Zelma Manning Pennington. In case you had not noticed, there are more Mannings listed than for any other surname other than Lemmon. And Ann Domjan, a Kansas City, Missouri, volunteer who has provided obits previously, found one for Charles F. Manning, one of Zelma's many younger brothers.

Cathy Gowdy, who monitors the Marin County, California, RootsWeb board and does lookups for those posting requests [there has not been a Marin County RAOGK volunteer for some time], found an obit for Eva Mary Elizabeth Marriner Paige Lemmon Spade Clark, who may challenge one of Jason Eli's daughters who was married five times for the longest name.

With the exception of an obituary for Ivan McKinley Seal, an uncle of Sue Hellyer Lemmon who died in Moundsville, West Virginia, the remainder of the obits were dug up by Mendocino County, California, RAOGK volunteer Barbara Webster. They cover the family and ancestors of the late husband of Dorothy Lemmon, Neil Friberg.

As noted last time, I've added a link on the Resources Page to what is probably the best web site for locating survivors of decedents, former classmates and teachers, and even the flaky neighbor who moved out without returning your lawnmower. And best of all, the site is free! ZabaSearch is better than Intelius in every respect except one: it does not list spouses or adult children living at home.

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June 2005
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Three RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) volunteers provided the bulk of the 8 new obits in this update -- and two of them provided three abstracts of death certificates from County Recorder's Offices here in California.

Lynn Kaiser, an RAOGK volunteer in DeKalb County, Indiana, provided three obits of Hugh Lemmon decendants who passed on in either DeKalb or Steuben Counties. [For those who have not checked Mapquest for Angola, IN, lately, DeKalb County is immediately south of Steuben County, a focal or staging point of many of our L-Clan descendants during their migration west.]
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Lynn, who squeezes in some lookups while working as a librarian, furnished scans of obits for Riley Avery Lemmon, Sr., Elsie Lemmon Huffman, and Esther Lemmon Sanders, all longtime Steuben County residents.

Tom Greer, an RAOGK volunteer in Kitsap County, Washington provided obituaries for Marietha Irene Lemmon Walden and her husband Vinton Walden while two volunteers here in California, Barbara Webster in Mendocino County and Bernie Glienke in Santa Clara County , provided obits, death certificate abstracts, or both. And your webmaster made his annual trip to the combined San Jose City/San Jose State University Library [aka MLK Branch Library] to so some lookups for others as well as for this project. An obituary for the mother of Sue Hellyer Lemmon was located.

I've added a link on the Resources Page to what is probably the best web site for locating survivors of decedents, former classmates and teachers, and even the flaky neighbor who moved out without returning your lawnmower. And best of all, the site is free! ZabaSearch is better than Intelius in every respect except one: it does not list spouses or adult children living at home.

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March 2005
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Jessica Collins Leon made contact with us and provided some information on her branch of the Lemmon Clan. She is a descendant of Electa Jane Lemmon. Not only did she provide a Gedcom file, but she also provided two photos, which are described on the Resources Page.
She alerted us to an article on her grandfather, Robert R. Rierson, on the occasion of his retirement from the Postal Services after 30 years of walking routes in Bronson, Michigan, and Scottsdale, Arizona. Mark Manning, an RAOGK volunteer in Maricopa County, AZ, provided not only the retirement article but Robert's obituary as well.
Laurie Cotulla, an RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) volunteer in San Joaquin County, Calif., provided yet another obituary, this time for Fred Beardsley Lemmon, who died in Stockton in 1972. Two other obituaries, for LuAnn Lemmon Reade and Lucie Lemmon Wilcoxson, were located on-line.
HELP! As you will see on the Resources Page the Social Security Death Index (aka, the SSDI) has been stuck on 31 Jan 2004 for its end of data for over a year now. I suspect that budget problems mean that the SSDI will not be updated any time soon. If you are aware of Hugh Lemmon descendants, their spouses, offspring, etc. who have died since 31 Jan 04, please let us know the name, POD, and DOD of the decedent.
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11 April 2005:
Thanks to Cheryl Arver I discovered that the SSDI has been recently updated and is now current through 28 Feb 05. [Here's a quick method for determining the end date of the SSDI updates. Do an Advanced Search for John Smith with a year of death of 2005; then try months following Feb; there'll be several John Smiths who died in any given month.]

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December 2004
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The deaths of Evelyn Lemmon Colberg, oldest offspring of Loyal Lemmon and Mary Jane Sallinen, and the husband of the youngest, Dorothy, of the same family, resulted in two new Photo Pages as well as two new obituaries.

Laurie Cotulla, an RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) volunteer in San Joaquin County, Calif., provided obituaries for Louise Conklin Lemmon Drace and Julian R. Colberg.

As you will see on the Resources Page there are two new Photo Pages, each consisting of three photos, with this update. See the Photo Index for a list of those for whom one or more photos have previously been posted as well as a link to the respective individual's page.

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Some new projects prevented the webmaster from combining the Genlinks.Txt file into the Resource Page. But some helpful new links will eventually force him to make the long-planned revision. (Since he's not an ice fisherman, he can no longer claim he's too busy making fishing trips!)

September 2004
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Thanks to the work of two researchers with an interest in the Lemmon Clan there are five new obituaries in this update.

Joyce Crowl, after a trip to the Angola, IN, library, provided an obituary for Lenora Tuttle Lemmon, wife of David Riley Lemmon. Assuming the obituary in the card file at the library was correct, note that Lenora's name end with an "a" rather than an "e." Also, she was born at Pleasant Lake in 1840 rather than in Ohio in 1838.

Even more interesting is the fact that Lenora's father was named Lemmon Tuttle, and Joyce also provided the obit for him from the Angola Library card file. (Guess with a father named Lemmon, Lenora was destined to marry a Lemmon.)

Gerry Mack, who formerly lived in Fort Bragg, CA, but who has moved inland to the warmer climes of Willits, furnished obituaries for the parents of Lillian Ikola Lemmon, Emil and Emma Ikola, as well as an obituary for Lee Channel, late father-in-law of Dorothy Lemmon Friberg's youngest daughter, Cindy Friberg.

As you will see on the Resources Page there is one new photos with this update. See the Photo Index for a list of those for whom one or more photos have previously been posted.

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Too many fishing trips prevented the webmaster from combining the Genlinks.Txt file into the Resource Page. Once the trips end either on the second weekend in November or after a heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada after mid-October, there will be more time for such improvements.

June 2004
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There are eight new obituaries again this month thanks to efforts by RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) volunteers and an alert librarian in Ohio, one of the key states during the westward movement of Hugh Lemmon's descendants.

An additional obituary for Richard G. Lemmon was located (perhaps on-line on the advice of a LaPlata County RAOGK volunteer) and added to his text file. Humboldt County, California, RAOGK volunteer Steve Fox provided obituaries for husband and wife Carl B. Ortner and Ruth Lemmon Ortner. And Jane DiGirolamo provided links to a web site for the Salinas Californian, where an obituary of her husband's father, Tony DiGirolamo, appeared shortly after his death on 24 June.

But sometimes a mistake can be a good thing. An alert librarian in Powhatan Point, Ohio noticed that his grandfather, Allan D. Ramsey, was listed on this web site as the husband of Eleanor Odessa Keyes. But he knew your webmaster had the wrong person, for the correct person was Allan G. Ramsay. The name of the librarian? Alan Ramsey.

He furnished half of the obits in this update -- those for Eleanor Keyes Ramsay, Allan G. Ramsay, Iola Keyes Moore, and Reece "Alex" Moore. [Incidentally, he passed on a local joke: those living in Powhatan Point who spell their names Ramsey were democrats while those who spell their names Ramsay were Republicans. :-)]

As you will see on the Resources Page there is one new photos with this update. See the Photo Index for a list of those for whom one or more photos have previously been posted.

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If time permits for the next update, the text file GenLinks.Txt will be combined with the Resources Page. The former chief honcho of the Inyo County, Calif., GenWeb page told me that links are permitted outside of RootsWeb's domain.

April 2004
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In addition to eight new obituaries this month some "cool effects" have been added for those using Internet Explorer. See Form below.
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Since we have been having difficulties tracking down the descendants of Chaplin H. "Chapp" Lemmon, the obituary for his son Rex Lemmon provided by Ann Schmidt of Hillsdale County, Michigan, was quite useful. The RAOGK volunteer for Steuben County, Indiana, Lillian Zinnecker Stoner, secured an obit for Evelyn "Eva" Lemmon Riblett Keyes, who died in 1945. Several other RAOGK volunteers did lookups and found obits for Edith Dudley Manning, widow of Loyal Manning, Dr. Roger Carey, grandson of Blanche Lemmon Anderson Johnson, George C. Ernst, son-in-law of "Mertie" Lemmon Hempstead, William Everett Grinnell, son of Beatrice Lemmon Grinnell Taylor, and John W. Ortner, brother- in-law of Ruth Lemmon Ortner. Finally, the ever-reliable Gerry Mack sent an abstract of an obituary that originally appeared in a February 1944 issue of the Fort Bragg Advocate of Warren Harold Lemmon, who died during his Senior year at Fort Bragg High School.
Because some of the obituaries arrived only yesterday (and more are on the way), there should be some new descendants in the next update. If you're interested in genealogy and are not using RAOGK volunteers, you're working with one hand tied behind your back. You'll receive a response in most cases much sooner than if you make a post to a RootsWeb board requesting a lookup.
As you will see on the Resources Page there are no new photos with this update. See the Photo Index for a list of those for whom one or more photos have previously been posted.

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When you click a link using Internet Explorer you'll see the new page appear in a somewhat different fashion. Look for different effects in future updates.

February 2004
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There are four new obituaries this month, with one provided of Reba Lemmon Crowl by Joyce Crowl just last month. The other three are for Richard G. Lemmon, grandson of Arthur Earle Lemmon, Pauline Lemmon Schrader, daughter of Chaplin H. Lemmon, and Howard J. Harbaugh, son of Erdeen Lemmon Harbaugh.

The RAOGK volunteer for Steuben County, IN, indicated that after approximately 1950 the locals wanted a daily paper. (The Angola Steuben County Republican is published weekly.) Hence, she suggested that one check for obits in the Fort Wayne newspaper(s) as well after the deaths of relatives in Steuben County.

Note also that there is more information on the descendants of Sherman Beardsley "Boyd" Lemmon -- and they're not gin or gun runners!

As you will see on the Resources Page there are two new photos, both parts of new Photo Pages. Thanks to Toby & Sue Lemmon for providing the new "old" photos. See the Photo Index for more information as well as links to all of the photos or Photo Pages.

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December 2003
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As opposed to the last update, there are 16 new obituaries or funeral notices in this update, most of which were provided by RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) volunteers. The new text material, which one can reach by clicking the link or number in brackets just below a descendent's or spouse's name, are for the following: Raymond M. Thorpe, Angletta May, Ora Dowell, Ruth Ruby Lemmon, Statira Brown, Truman Beecher, Una Lemmon, Riley Avery Lemmon Jr, Louis D. Lemmon, Ethel C. Dirram, Klink Lemmon, Glen Birdsall, Oliver H. Birdsall, Martin Stoddard, and Chaplin "Chapp" Lemmon.
A special thanks to Sybil Herring, former RAOGK volunteer in Steuben County, Indiana. Because health problems now require a helper to get to the Angola Library, she deserves our thanks for her assistance in transcribing five of the obits on cards in a card file there.
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The funeral notice for "Chapp" Lemmon from Tampa was just that -- a notice as to when the funeral was to occur but no list of survivors. Hence, we're looking for someone who lives in or near Steuben County who can search for an obit of Chapp -- especially now that we have a nearly exacty DOD (Date of Death). What little we have on his particular branch is from his son Klink's obit from the Tampa Tribune.
As indicated on the Resources Page there are three new photos, principally of Evelyn Lemmon, the Colbergs, and the Andersons, all of Fort Bragg in Mendocino County, California. See the Photo Index for more information as well as links to all of the photos or Photo Pages.
On the Resources Page Karen Bogart, Ruth Guins, Gerry Mack, and Chuck Manning are listed with addresses of Unknown. While I should be able to locate Gerry Mack, who has provided more obits than anyone else, perhaps the rest of you know something of the whereabouts of the other three.
The GENLINKS.TXT file has been revised. The LDS Family Search link is now to their main Search Engine or page. After seaching the SSDI and any state- specific death records, the World Connect search engine and the Family Search site are usually worth checking next.

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October 2003 (actually 1 Nov 03)
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There is one new obituary this month -- for Lawrence C. Crowl, husband of Reba Lemmon. And it was provided by the Steuben County, Indiana, RAOGK volunteer, Lillian Zinnacker Stoner. As most of you know, next to Sandusky County, Ohio, Steuben County in the NE corner of the Hoosier state was the launching pad for many Hugh Lemmon descendants. Hopefully Lillian will have time to do more digging in the files at the Angola library so that we'll be able to read obits not only for those named Lemmon, but also for those who married Steuben County Lemmons; eg., those with names such as Fee, Crowl, Menges, Woolf, etc.
Further, sometimes an obituary for someone born in Steuben County who died in a large city elsewhere might be easier to obtain from the home county newspapers rather than from those of the large city.
Since I did not have many new photos with which to work for this update, I concentrated on improving the Photo Pages (see Form below). The new Photo Pages can accomodate an unlimited number of photos. If you're tired of seeing photos mainly from Sherrill & Bob, help broaden the coverage by sharing some of your line's family photos.
The following are L-Clan researchers listed on the Resource Page with addresses of Unknown: Karen Bogart, Ruth Guins, and Chuck Manning. Hopefully the three have not "cashed in." Joyce Crowl's address has been corrected.

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The Photo Pages now have a more polished look with a two-column table that includes borders and dividers. Take a look. One can navigate principally using the up and down arrows. Click on the photos or "Click to Enlarge" captions to see bigger versions (in most cases). Click on the Back Button (or use the Keyboard Shortcut: Alt + Left Arrow) to return to the Photo Page.
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Links to other pages are at the bottoms of each of the 15 Photo Pages.

August 2003
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There are seven new obituaries and a wedding announcement in this update -- and they were all provided by the distaff side. [C'mon, guys; surely you can dig up a few family obits too; otherwise, your better half may soon start flexing her biceps and start calling you a genealogical whimp!]
The obituaries for Ira J. Lemmon and Pearl Warren Lemmon as well as the wedding announcement for their son Mac were provided by Southern Oregon researcher Diane Evans. She says that the University of Oregon Library, which is open to the public, has microfilm of virtually every paper in the state. You'll find some links to it in the GenLinks.Txt file on the Resources Page.
Sybil Herring, RAOGK volunteer for Steuben County, Indiana, provided the obit for Richard Weir Lemmon, who, though he died one county to the east in Ohio, was born in Steuben County. Sybil says that there are a passel of Lemmon obits and such in the Angola Library; hopefully we can have her procure some of them for us while she's still able.
Old standby Gerry Mack, who seems to have every obit from Mendocino County, California thanks to her 8 or 9 volumne set of births, deaths, etc. on the Mendocino Coast, supplied obituaries for Blanche Lemmon Anderson Johnson, her two husbands, Edward Christian Anderson and Fred Johnson, and one of her daughters, Charlotte Anderson Snow.
The following are L-Clan researchers listed on the Resource Page with addresses of Unknown: Karen Bogart, Ruth Guins, and Chuck Manning. Hopefully the three have not "cashed in."

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One very minor tweak: the Vistor Counter at the bottom of the Home Page is now centered on the preceding text.

June 2003
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An obituary for Cornelia Brooks Lemmon Rose received two days ago from Sybil Herring, RAOGK volunteer for Steuben County, provides two heretofore unknown Lemmons: Elnora Lemmon and Mary L. Lemmon, both daughters from Cornelia's first marriage to Maurice Adhill Lemmon. Upon further online searching, however, the two were know to some LDS Church members since they had uploaded their birth and death dates in an Ancestral File.
Indeed, where a Lemmon or Lemmon descendant has become a member of the Mormon Church, one can usually find data on ancestors in that particular branch of our tree which currently starts with Hugh Lemmon. In fact, several branches that have Mormon members now have "fleshed-out" pedigree charts because of the data found on the LDS Family Search site. (You'll find a new link to it on the Resources Page.)
The other new obituaries are for Blanche Beatrice "Bea" Lemmon Roberts Sullivan, who died last month and whose obituary was furnished by sister Eleanor Lemmon Dahl Holberg, and several Colbergs, two of whom married Lemmon descendants in the Fort Bragg, CA, area. Finally, a quasi-obituary for Ruth Anderson Colberg was created from information provided by her son Douglas Colberg. (Hopefully Doug will also be furnishing some photos for the August update.)
The two new photo pages are for the aforementioned Bea Lemmon Sullivan and for Sherman Beardsley "Boyd" Lemmon, uncle of S.H. Stevens. While some might call Boyd a black sheep, he certainly did many different things in his 73 years. For the August Update you can expect an expanded text file outlining some of those accomplishments as well as some of his indiscretions. The new photo pages are followed by a "**" in the Photo Index. If you have some photos of Hugh Lemmon descendants or their spouses that you'd like to contribute, please let us know via e-mail or letter.
While Joyce Crowl has resurfaced, there are still several who have changed e-mail addresses and no longer receive notices of each update. If you know the present addresses of any of those in the table of researchers on the Resource Page whose addresses are Unknown, please clue us in!

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If you check out the new obituaries (eg., Cornelia Brooks, Bea Lemmon, and/or Ruth Anderson), you'll see improved text files with paragraph indentations. (The webmaster discovered how to improve the formatting while working on another genealogy project. Hopefully the forced line feed every 256 characters can be eliminated also.)
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Over time all of the text files will be converted to the format used in the new obits.
The other change is that the marquee still starts with Hugh Lemmon, but then continues with eight different descendants each update. And, before those of you who are NOW member complain that we're not including any female Lemmon, note that the eight names are evenly balanced with four males and four females.

April 2003
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This update contains six new obituaries, one less than ten days old, as well as three new photo pages. The photo pages were created from photos provided by one of Chryl Arver's cousins who wishes to remain anonymous because of the flaming e-mail she received from someone connected with her job.
Two of the new obituaries are for Clifford Anderson and Florence Snow Anderson, son and daughter-in-law of Blanche Lemmon Anderson Johnson. They were provide by long-time Mendocino County resident Gerry Mack. The obituary for Cecil J. Lemmon, grandson of Chester Err Lemmon and son of Richard Weir Lemmon, was provided by Martin Murdock, a first cousin. And, other than an obit for Earl Gunter dug up by the webmaster, the remaining two obituaries for Etta Cattell Rierson, great granddaughter of Electa Lemmon Houston, and her husband Fred Rierson were furnished by the aforementioned anonymous source.
You'll find the three new photo pages followed by a "**" in the Photo Index. They are for Etta Cattell Rierson, her brother, Russell W. Cattell, and her husband, Fred Rierson. While it's somewhat easier to obtain obituraries these days using the RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) volunteers, we prefer that the photos on the web site not be dominated by our close relatives. If you have some photos of Hugh Lemmon descendants or their spouses that you'd like to contribute, please let us know via e-mail or letter.
This Update is somewhat smaller or shorter than previous ones because the webmaster has been working on a web site looking at the teachers and staff of his high school at the time of his graduation many moons ago. I'm sure you've often wondered, "What ever happened to old so-and-so?" No, not that old so-and-so who made me run laps, but rather the high school teachers whose names I can't remember because I was never in one of their classes. Whether you still live near where you graduated from high school, attended a large or small high school, or was a student of a school that is now closed, there are many former classmates, teachers, staff members, and their descendants who would not only enjoy reading obituaries of those faculty and staff members no longer giving out large, circled red F's, but their ancestry as well, especially of those who taught you more than to be in class on time.
Finally, several of those who have changed e-mail addresses no longer receive notice of each update. If you know the e-mail addresses of any of those in the table of researchers on the Resource Page whose addresses are Unknown, please clue us in!

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Some minor changes were made to the Photo Pages to improve the displays. While the Text Pages have not yet been reformatted so that the date and day of the week of any obituary is posted at the top of page, that's still on the "To Do" list.
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Also, starting with the next update, the names in the Marquee will be changed with each update so that there will be eight different Hugh Lemmon descendants' names scrolling on the Home Page with each Update.

February 2003
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The major contributer to this month's update was Gloria Call Chenault, daughter of Shirley B. Call and Iszora Lemmon and granddaughter of Chester Err Lemmon and [Velma] Edna Muser. In searching for the families of the many spouses of Hugh Lemmon descendants the webmaster found a World Connect site put up by Gloria -- and her W/C site helped in the ongoing campaign to include the parents and brothers and sisters of as many descendants as possible.
If you're working on the genealogy of another family, consider exporting a Gedcom that deletes all but the names of the living. When you make a post to World Connect, you have the option of leaving the names of the living intact or replacing them with "Living Smith," "Living Jones," etc. But the big advantage to posting your Gedcoms on W/C is that other distant relatives of whom you're unaware may now be searching (or in the future may search) for connections between their ancestors and yours. [End of unpaid testimonial for posting Gedcoms to World Connect!]
In addition to correcting some of the errors in our data on the descendants of Err Lemmon, providing exact dates where we had none, and sending obituaries of her grandparents, Gloria also provided two photos which are the basis for this month's new photos. A family photo of Err and Edna Lemmon's family was cropped to provide most of the photos in this month's update; see the Resource Page and Photo Index.
Three other new obituaries that appear this month are of Claud Elliott Lemmon, his wife Vernoica "Billie" Eaves, and their daughter Roberta Lemmon Gaethle. Claud almost certainly qualifies as the most western of the Lemmon Clan since he learned to ride as a teenager and spent most of his adult working on his and other ranches in Montana. His obituary was provided by Great Falls, MT, RAOGK volunteer Kathrine Jenkins. (If you've not had much success in requesting lookups on the RootsWeb county boards, try using an RAOGK volunteer; see the link in GENLINKS.TXT.]
An obituary for Harvey Burton Lemmon was furnished by yet another helpful RAOGK volunteer in Branch County, MI, and an additional obituary for Beecher B. Lemmon was supplied by still another RAOGK volunteer. [Beecher vies with the two Uriahs (Lemmon and Thorpe) for having the most euphonious given name among the many Hugh Lemmon descendants.]
Finally, the last new obituary is for Andrew Colombi, son of Steven Colombi and Arlene Lemmon. While one expects to see obituaries for L-Clan descendants who are older than 70, it's painful to see one for someone only 19 years old -- and even more so for members of the immediate family. Andrew's father described the circumstances of his son Andrew's early death in a recent e-mail to the webmaster; that is included below the article and obituary from the Fort Bragg Observer.
The campaign to include the parents and brothers & sisters of the spouses of any Hugh Lemmon descendant continues. If you see that we do not have those family members listed and you have information that will help us, please send us either e-mail or a letter.

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No changes for the February 2003 update; however, the Text Pages will be reformatted so that the date and day of the week of any obituary is posted at the top of same. Also, in keeping with standard genealogical practice, the surnames at the top of the Text Pages will be capitalized.

December 2002
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In a word: Obituaries. In three words: Many new obituaries. And by new we mean new to us -- not obituaries of Hugh Lemmon descendants who expired in the last few months. While photos give you an image to connect with a name, an obituary fleshes out the mental picture of a person, especially if that recounting of a life comes from a small-town newspaper.
Electa Jane Lemmon is again in the picture -- this time because two of her descendants (or spouses thereof) have provided either obituaries or data on heretofore unnamed descendants. The latter wishes to remain anonymous, in large part because she became the target of some flames when her e-mail address became known. But she provided a great many new descendants (easily 100+) of Electa Jane's. Though not all of them appear on the web pages for various reasons, when the webmaster created the GEDCOM from which the web pages were created, there were 1572 individuals; the Persons Index on October's Update shows 1437.
Another source of obituaries (and new descendants named in those obituaries) was Cheryl "Busy Beaver" Arver, who finished a family history of her mother's family just in time to send us a passel of obituaries, some of which we had requested early in December from volunteers on various RootsWeb County boards who do lookups. (Cheryl and her unnamed cousin each deserve an extra cookie for dessert -- at least, until their husbands start making comments about their weights!)
A third source of obituaries of Hugh Lemmon descendants was provided by Nick Melhinch after Dick & Dona Lemmon sent a copy of one of his World Connect pages showing Charles Harvey Lemmon's wife's name as Bessie J. rather than Rebecca Jane. Three obituaries, included on her web page, show that "Bessie" was an unexpected nickname for Rebecca; thus, her name is now listed as Rebecca Jane "Bessie" Nehrhood. [Thanks, Dick & Dona, for bringing this question as well as Nick's World Connect site to our attention.]
If you download GENLINKS.TXT, renaming it to GENLINKS.HTM in the process, you'll have a web page of useful links -- and you'll find links to both Nick Melhinch's World Connect site and another site he calls Nick's Nook.
Also included is a link to the Cleveland Public Library's Necrology File; it contains 21 obituaries of Lemmons, many of whom are from Charles H. Lemmon's family.
     One of last two sources of obituaries was mentioned above: RootsWeb County boards. While there are many volunteers helping out on most of the county boards (the webmaster does lookups in Santa Cruz County, Calif.), some of the smaller counties (particularly where the weather is a bit adverse this time of year) do not appear to have someone who regularly does lookups.
     If you make a post to a RootsWeb County board and receive no response within two to three weeks, consider what may be a better alternative: RAOGK, an acronym for Random Acts Of Genealogical Kindness. A link to to its County Volunteer listing is included in GENLINKS.TXT. However, some (smaller) counties (eg., Steuben County, Indiana) do not currently have a listed volunteer.
     Some public libraries (eg., the Steuben County Library in Angola, Ind.) will do lookups for a small copying & mailing fee. Others (eg., the Corpus Christi Library in Nueces County, Texas) do not charge but do suggest a donation to the program that provides genealogical information. Your best bets are to check a library's web site (see Libdex in GENLINKS.TXT), send them e-mail or a letter asking if they do lookups, &/or phone them with your questions.
No new Photo Pages with this update, but there is a photo of Clifford Earl "Tip" Lemmon, on his web page. We hope to have some new Photo Pages for the February 2003 update.
Also plan to begin including the parents and brothers & sisters of the spouses of any Hugh Lemmon descendant. If you see that we do not have those family members listed and you have information that will help us, please send us either e-mail or a letter.

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October 2002
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Four new photo pages have been added for Clifford Anderson, Electa Jane Lemmon Houston, Cyrus Adhill Lemmon, and Uriah Blake Thorpe. Clifford Anderson was the oldest offspring of Blanche Lemmon Anderson and taught music in Fort Bragg, Calistoga, and Monterey, Calif., before retiring to the Mendocino coast where he was born.
Electa Jane Lemmon's photos are a study in contrast. In her wedding photo she looks even younger than her nineteen years. In the second photo with her two surviving middle-aged daughters, Ina and Ida, she stikes a rather defiant pose--as if to say, "Tell me something I haven't already learned." While she did smoke a pipe for a while, she gave it up, telling one of her daughters that didn't think it was "lady-like." (At least she didn't chew Beechnut--and I don't mean the gum!)
Cyrus Adhill Lemmon, a Civil War vetetan, went west to seek his fortune. While he apparently found little gold in Colorado, he did help populate the west with many of his descendants, some of whom moved further west to California or Oregon.
Uriah Blake Thorpe helps perpetuate one of the more notable names in the Lemmon Clan. And for those of you old enought to remember what television sets looked like in the early 1950s, check out the set in the background of the second photo. A wide screen in those days was often no more than twelve inches diagonally.
Finally, a fourth photo has been added to Loyal Lemmon Sr's Photo Page just to show what he looked like when he still had most of his hair.

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August 2002
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This August 2002 update was delayed in part to include some photos the webmaster first saw in Mar 01. While attending a reunion of the descendants of Loyal Lemmon in Fort Bragg, CA, on the weekend of 24/25 August I came prepared. I installed the scanner software on my brother's old Acer computer, and loaded it along with a scanner, keyboard, monitor, mouse, & assorted cables into the car for the trip. (The used Thinkpad laptop I had intended to use is now being repaired or replaced by the seller.)
Of the 21 photos scanned on 24-25 August, two were of George Thomas Lemmon, who left the Mid-West (Nebraska) in 1883 and headed west, perhaps along the Santa Fe trail. After spending some time in Los Angeles he slowly moved northward, with stays in Tulare, where daughter Blanche was born, San Miquel, where son Loyal was born, Santa Cruz, San Jose, where son George C. was born and daughter Gratia Mae was married, and Santa Rosa before arriving in the Fort Bragg area in 1898.
The two photos of George Thomas Lemmon were provided by granddaughter Eleanor J. Lemmon Holberg. One was taken sometime before wife Angeline Richards died in 1915; it's clear she was fond of flowers, as one can see in the photo of the two of them. George, however, may have been more interested in things he could eat, for the other photo is of him standing next to a peach tree he planted on his place just north of the Noyo River. Eleanor also provided a photo of her father Loyal taken when he was in his early 20s.
Another George is the subject of the fourth new photo: George Harmer Lemmon. After his father was killed [or murdered -- see the June 2001 below], George apparently moved with his mother Eva Page Lemmon to California, eventually settling in what is now known as Silicon Valley (the Santa Clara Valley). The photo provided by Eva's granddaughter Jan Anderson is some sort of gag shot taken at a "for sale" sign, perhaps for property in the Golden State.

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Because GED2HTML, the program the webmaster uses to create the web pages you see of various Hugh Lemmon descendants, essentially limits the user to only one photo per individual, photo pages have been created for four descendants: Uriah Blake Lemmon, William Sherman Lemmon, George Thomas Lemmon, and Loyal Albert Lemmon. You'll find them marked with an asterisk in the Photo Index.
The October update should see more Photo Pages, especially for individuals for whom we have two or more photos--assuming the webmaster spends more time working on them rather than fishing in the Sierras.
Hereafter all new photos in a given update will be marked with "**", making it easier to see "What's New."

June 2002
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Obituaries often provide some of the best clues about our ancestors. The webmaster spend three hours Saturday at the San Jose State library viewing microfilm of San Jose's main newspaper from the late 1800s to the 1960s. The purpose of the search was to find obituaries of an almost-forgotten branch of the Lemmon Clan.
After ariving in Southern California in 1883 George Thomas Lemmon gradually worked his way northward from Los Angeles to Tulare County, then westward to the southern end of the Salinas Valley, to Santa Cruz, San Jose, Santa Rosa, and finally to the Fort Bragg area of Mendocino County in 1898. The oldest daughter of George Thomas and Angeline Richards, Gratia Mae Lemmon, remained in San Jose, where she married a native of Missouri, Thomas Gunter, in 1897.
But Thomas Gunter died in 1914 when he was only 39 years old leaving five children and even more brothers and sisters. Gratia Mae or Grace died three years later when her youngest was only 11 years old. While it's not known who helped raise their children, Thomas Gunter's obituary as well as those of two of his sons did provide the heretofore unknow name of the only surviving daugher. For more information, check out the individual web pages of Thomas Gunter and/or Gratia Mae Lemmon.

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As mentioned two months ago, some changes are underfoot regarding the use of photos on this web site. Because the use of "(p)" in the World Connect Gedcom file is likely a mystery to others, the first step in eliminating those three characters have been taken by the creation of a Photo Index.
While time constraints may preclude including photos previously shown at the bottom of an individuals web page for this update, work is underway to create a separate page of photos for those individuals where many photos exist.

April 2002
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Bill Grinnell of Seattle has helped increase the number of Lemmon descendants by providing information of the descendants of Beatrice Lemmon, his grandmother. Additonally, he sent us the URL of a cousin who has photos of Beatrice and her parents on his web site. (For more info, see the Resources Page.)
Cheryl Arver, in response to a question from Jan Anderson regarding her grandmother's reference to an Aunt Caroline in a diary, provided information from the 1850 Census of Branch County, Michigan, that confirms the Aunt Caroline in question was not Jason Eli Lemmon's first wife but was rather a sister of his mother, Rosetta Babcock. Rosetta's parents as well as brothers and sisters have been added to the Hugh Lemmon data base.
Finally, Cheryl helped resolve a cross-link in which her father-in-law had two sets of parents: his brother and his parents. She also offered more DOB, POB, DOD, and POD for some of the Arvers. [She sets a fine example for those descendants who see only the names of their ancestors -- and nothing else!]

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While there are no changes in this April 2002 update, the webmaster is examining a method by which the limit of two photos per individual can be exceeded -- perhaps by creating a separate photo page for those Lemmon descendants where more than two photos exist.

February 2002
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Theresa Ferguson has again provided us with another obituary clipped by a great aunt from newspapers in Steuben County, Indiana. This update's obituary is of [David] Riley Lemmon; and it in part lends ammunition to one side in a running gun battle between Hugh Lemmon descendants.
That is, is Riley's father Maurice or Morris Lemmon? Until a death certificate, a cemetary record, or a birth certificate provides more evidence, we shall assume that the reporter who compiled the obituary had not first been to the local pub or tavern and, therefore, copied the names as given to him by a family member correctly.
Several new photos were again provided by S.H. Stevens, principally of his two uncles, Sherman "Boyd" Lemmon and Fred B. Lemmon, his aunt, Vivian Lemmon, and his mother, Hazel Marguerite Lemmon. Two of his aunts and uncles offer a study in contrasts. Vivian followed in the footsteps of her father, William Sherman Lemmon, and became a missionary. Boyd, however, chose a rather active life on the high seas. While he was not a pirate, his short text file indicates that he did some things of which his father might not have approved. But we know that all reverends' sons are paragons of moral rectitude.
Two slides taken by the webmaster at a Lemmon Clan Reunion in 1976 were cropped to provide views of the husbands of the two oldest daughters of Loyal Lemmon, one of George Thomas Lemmon's sons.
If you're holding back photos of Hugh Lemmon descendants, please help us increase the number photos on the web site. While some may claim they're tired of seeing Lemmons with their big noses and big ears, remind them that those appendages are not merely ornamental. If you have a photo, scan and e-mail it to us, copy it at Kinko's and mail the copy to us, or, if it's a particularly good photo, and you can afford it, have Kinko's copy it onto glossy photo-type paper.

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The biggest event since the October update was e-mail from a distant cousin of Chaplin H. Lemmon's wife, whom we had listed as Hattie M Gramling. Theresa Ferguson sent us an obituary for Mary Hattie Geamling. We were close -- but close only counts in grenades and horseshoes, not in genealogy.
Theresa indicated that she has a shoe box of clippings collected by a great aunt. Though she's stationed in Hawaii, she says she's willing to share what her great aunt accumulated over the years -- music to any genealogist's ears!
A new photo was provided by S.H. Stevens of his grandfather William Sherman Lemmon. That photo, which was cropped from a photo of eight of William H Lemmon's nine children, is now at the top of Wm S Lemmon's web page and the photo of Reverend Lemmon and his wife formerly at the top of the page now follows the text portion of the web page. And all but one of William Henry Lemmon's children now have photos at the tops of their respective pages.
Similarly, the webmaster has dredged up an old photo of his grandfather, Loyal Lemmon Sr, and placed that at the bottom of his page. And R.A.J. Thorpe's web site provided a second photo for the page of Uriah Blake Thorpe and his wife Hetty. The plan is to include more photos from early in a descendant's life at the top of a page and, where available, one from late in his or her life at the end of any text material.
Because the photos at the bottom of an individual's page must be hand-coded, there are only three with this update. As time permits the webmaster will add others where he has more than one photo. If you're holding back back because the web site already has one of a particular descendant, don't be bashful. Scan and e-mail it to us, copy it at Kinko's and mail the copy to us, or, if it's a particularly good photo, have Kinko's copy it onto glossy photo-type paper if Santa gave you gold instead of a bundle of sticks.
Other changes, corrections, or additions included entering the death and burial dates and places into the data portions of the pages where it was given in the text files for descendants of William Monroe Thorpe and Sarah Annett Lemmon. Finally, the parents and brothers and sisters of Eli Lemmon's wife, Jane Morrill, were added.

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October 2001
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Because the webmaster broke his left wrist while backpacking near Florence Lake, CA, on the South Fork of the San Joaquin River on 16 Sep and his father underwent triple bypass on 26 Sep, this bimonthly update will be somewhat smaller than normal.
Two different photos were used of Cyrus Adhill Lemmon as well as William Sherman Lemmon and his wife Anna Ione Beardsley; they show each of the subjects at a later age than the previously-used photos. The photos were provided by a well-know source; see the table of contributors on the Resources Page.
If you have photos of Lemmon descendants, please contact S.H. Stevens, whose e-mail address is on the home page.

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A few photos were "resized" to present a smaller view for those using Internet Explorer.
Look for two photos two months hence for some Lemmon descendants, particularly where one shows the descendant and/or spouse early in life and the other shows the subject later in life.

August 2001
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Whether you are interested in military history or not, the text files accompanying Martha McHenry's father and brothers make interesting reading. And if you have a specific interest in the French-Indian wars that preceded the Revolutionary War, read about the McHenrys and ponder just how different life would be today if your neighbor wanted your scalp.
Evelyn Lemmon Williams, granddaughter of Clarence L. Lemmon, pointed out that Clarence had a younger brother named J.D. Lemmon, who, after Clarence's death under the mysterious circumstances described below, moved to California. We hope to have more information on "Uncle Jay," as Evelyn called him, for the next update.
Several new photos were added for this update; see the table of contributors on the Resources Page.

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Current date added to upper left of home page using a JavaScript routine.
Added height and width specifications for smaller photos in some cases.

June 2001

While the entire web site is new, some recent entries have been made just this month. There had previously been no information on Clarence L Lemmon, Edward Orlando Lemmon's only son and one of Eli Lemmon's many grandsons.
He had moved from the Tri-State area of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan where he and many other descendants of Hugh Lemmon were born to Fillmore County in the southeastern corner of Nebraska. There he met and married an English woman named Eva Page.
But he met an untimely death. Was it suicide or murder? Read the text file on his web page and decide for yourself.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughlemmon/whatsnew.htm