29 April 2003
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Wyandot County :   LOCATION: U.S. Route 23, at the intersection of Township Road 98 (faces south) FACTS: This barn is owned by Sam and Laura Ruffing. The Ruffings have lived at the address since 1948, when Sam’s father bought the surrounding farm. After the farmland was sold, Sam and his wife bought the home site and raised their family there. 
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doris40@aeroinc.net  (Doris Mathis) Reply-to:    OH-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com  To:    OH-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com Locating Cemeteries Before a recent genealogical trip, my mother called ahead to a funeral home for instructions to a small country cemetery. The instructions were complex, so the funeral home director suggested we stop by and get instructions in person. However, we were stymied when the funeral home director was called away unexpectedly before we arrived. As we drove down the street wondering how to locate this cemetery, we noticed a florist. Of course! Florists know where all the cemeteries are located. We stopped to ask, and received excellent directions. Now we know to call florists for locations of cemeteries as well as funeral homes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ARKANSAS     [ARKANSAS] August 30, 1899 Van Buren Argus Date:    4/28/03 2:45:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time From:    alverson@valuelinx.net  (Fran Warren) Reply-to:    ARKANSAS-L@rootsweb.com  To:    ARKANSAS-L@rootsweb.com August 30, 1899 INDIAN GREEN CORN DANCE     Hundreds of Full Blood Cherokees at Hanson, Indian Territory.     A Harvest Festival     "Creek Brewer" the Patriarch of the Cherokees is Master of Ceremonies. Many Attending     One of the most successful celebrations ever held in the Cherokee Nation closed last night at Hanson, 25 miles west of here, successful from the fact that the attendance was very large and the very best of order was maintained. Thanks to the diligence of the police system under the management of J M Seabolt, who has served in the capacity of a Cherokee officer a number of years.     An Argus representative was in attendance on Wednesday night and witnessed the green corn dance of the Cherokee Indians, a custom as old as tradition and as sacred to the Cherokees as any of their rights and customs. Through the courtesy of Mr. D M Faulkner, a prominent merchant of Hanson and one of the promoters of the annual festival season.     Fully 3000 people were in attendance Wednesday and Wednesday night. Throughout the day, an interesting ball game was played between the Hanson and Muldrow clubs, the first named winning the game at a very close score. Merry-go-rounds, booths, photograph tents and many attractions usually to be found at such a gathering was there and were liberally patronized.     The principal event each evening was the "green corn" dance or harvest festival, in which they try by their songs and hours of endurance, to propitiate the "Great Spirit" and seek His aid in cleansing their food and drink from all evil spirits and that their garnered grain may give them health, strength and power to overcome their enemies.     The "stamp ground" was included in a circle 40 feet in diameter and had been carefully cleared of all sod. Just at dark arm loads of dry wood were piled in the center of the circle and a flaming torch applied. After the fire began to subside, "Creek Brewer" the Cherokee patriarch, 80 years of age appeared in the circle, and through an interpreter said "Tell the white brother we are their friend, we want them to partake of our Tom Fuller (pounded corn) and join us in our dance. There will be no more dances, nor more council fires. We must forget the customs of our honored Chieftain whom we followed from the far east into a land where the buffalos were as plentiful as the stars in the harvest skies."     Beating an improvised drum in a slow measure he began to walk around the smoldering bon fire. Other full bloods followed and in a moment, a score of them were chanting their harvest songs, the measure growing faster. "Creek Brewer", despite his 80 years of age walked upright and sprightly. The weird monotonous chant of the dancers seemed to revive the fire of his youth and faster he beat the "kari" and he walked when the circle was complete. Creek Brewer stepped to the center edge of the circle and squatting on his haunches, continued to keep time with his crudely constructed musical instrument.     The dancers seemed tireless. The fire burned lower and lower and the dust raised higher and higher and denser from beneath the dancers’ feet. The dancers grew in numbers. Fifty, seventy-five, one hundred are now in the circle. There is no room for more. As one became exhausted another was ready to take his place and their song, "keyi Kayo, kayu kalu, kali, Inh wagh," grew louder. They elicited no applause and they were as solemn in every act, utterance and gesture as if they were burying one of their number.     Creek Brewer, the leader in all the Cherokee Festivals, is a unique personage. He refused to leave his camp during the day, and it was not until after sundown would he mingle with even those of his own tribe. A few moments prior to his leaving camp for the campground, an Argus reporter, through an interpreter, J M Seabolt, induced this aged Cherokee to talk. We went out to his camp and found him seated in the midst of an abundance of barbecued meats, rye bread and "Tom Fuller". He was a typical Indian and his semi-civilized garb would not conceal the fact. Long feathers were stuck in each side of his hat, rings were pendant from his ears and the clear penetrating eyes that met those of his questioners, showed that his mind was yet quick.     He told how he made the trip from the homes of the Cherokees in the East with Chief Ross. He could not tell the number of years he had lived in the Territory and when asked how much land he had, smiled and shook his head, as much as to say he did not know. Asked as to the origin of the green corn dance he again shook his head as if in a meditative mood and through his interpreter replied, "our fathers could not tell us." implying that it had been a custom running further back than the minds of a dozen generations.     During the afternoon, a most shocking accident occurred, resulting in the death of the little 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norid. It seems that the child was passing near a vicious horse, which struck her down with its fore feet and continued to paw her in such a manner as to crush the skull and inflict other injuries from which she died at 8 p m. Fran Alverson Warren e-mail: alverson@valuelinx.net  479-369-2703 http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IOWA [IOWA] 1903 History of Woodbury County Date:    4/22/03 12:03:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time From:    Bare67deb@aol.com To:    IOWA-L@rootsweb.com     WOODBURY COUNTY is one of the largest in the State, embracing an area of  eight hundred seventy-three square miles.  It was first named Wahkaw but  changed to Woodbury, January 22, 1851, in honor of Judge Levi Woodbury of the  United States Supreme Court.  The county lies on the Missouri River in the  fourth tier south of Minnesota.  Along the river in this vicinity is a broad  expanse of level bottom land of great fertility, varying in width from five  to ten miles.  The bluffs beyond are high, steep and in places broken into  deep ravines and lofty ridges, gradually spreading out into gently rolling  prairie.  The principal interior streams are the Floyd River, branches of the  Little Sioux and Maple rivers and Perry Creek.  The Big Sioux forms a part of  the western boundary.     The Indian title to this part of Iowa was extinguished in 1847.  Early in  1848, forty-four years after this region was visited by the Lewis and Clark  exploring expedition, a single adventurous pioneer, William Thompson, made  his way up the Missouri valley and settled at Floyd's Bluff, within the  limits of what is now Woodbury County.  Here he built a log cabin, opened  trade with the Indians and laid out a town which he named Thompsonville.   After Wahkaw County was created this became the county-seat, but having no  steamboat landing, made but little progress and in a few years was abandoned.   In May, 1849, Theophile Brugnier a Frenchman who had married an Indian wife,  built a cabin on the bluff near the mouth of the Big Sioux about two miles  above where Sioux City stands.  In the fall of the same year Robert Perry, an  eccentric but well educated man from Washington D. C., settled near a creek  where Sioux City stands; he lived there several years and his name was given  to the creek.  In 1850 Paul Paquette built a cabin about two miles from the  mouth of the Big Sioux River.     In 1853, soon after the change of name, the county was organized and the  county-seat located at Floyd's Bluff.  The first county officials were  Marshal Townsley, judge; Hiram Nelson, recorder and treasurer; and Joseph P.  Babbitt, clerk.  At this time Woodbury County embraced a large territory  north and east which has since been divided into several counties.  In 1854  J. K. Cook, a government contractor, came with a party and bought claims in  the vicinity of Sioux City.  Among those who owned claims in this locality  was the gallant General Lyon who was killed at the Battle of Wilson's Creek,  the first year of the Civil War.  In the winter of 1854 Sioux City was  platted and among the pioneers in and about the new town were Joseph Lionels,  Hiram Nelson, Francis Chappel, G. W. Chamberlin and Marshal Twonsley.  In  July 1855, a stage line was established supplying the town with weekly mail.   The first term of court was held at Floyd's Bluff by Judge Riddle in  September, 1855.  Numerous settlers arrived in Sioux City early in 1856 and  the population of the new town was one hundred fifty.  By a vote of the  people the county-seat was moved from Floyd's Bluff to Sioux City where a  United States Land office was established in 1855.     The Omaha, a steamboat from St. Louis, arrived at Sioux City in June, 1856,  loaded with provisions and lumber framed ready to be converted into houses.   In July a steam sawmill was built.  The first white women in the new town  were Mrs. S. H. Casady and Mrs. J. R. Myers who arrived with their husbands  in the summer of 1855.  By the close of the year 1856 the population had  increased to more than four hundred, and ninety buildings had been erected.   On the Fourth of July, 1857, S. W. Swiggett issued the first number of a  weekly newspaper named the Iowa Eagle.     In 1853 Mr. Shook settled on the Little Sioux River at a place which took the  name of Correctionville.  R. Candreau, C. Bacon and M. Kellogg arrived the  next year.  For many years Correctionville was a station on the old stage  line from Fort Dodge to Sioux City.  Another one of the early settlements was  made on the Little Sioux River near the south line of the county at  Smithland.  In 1857, when Inkpaduta's band of Sioux Indians came through this  settlement on the way to Spirit Lake, hostile demonstrations were made and  the settlers gathered and disarmed a number of the Indians.  The savages  stole other arms, however, and continued their journey up the valley.     Sergeant's Bluff was laid out in 1856 by Crockwell and Dr. Wright of  Independence.  It was a rival of Sioux City, lying six miles south.  In 1857  a newspaper was established by Cummings and Ziebach, named the Western  Independent which was later removed to Sioux City where it became the Sioux  City Register.  The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad was completed to Sioux  City in March, 1868. Debbie Clough Gerischer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MASSACHUSETTS     [GM-L] New Plymouth & Bridgewater records Date:    4/26/03 1:57:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time From:    janedevlin@ameritech.net  To:    GenMassachusetts-L@rootsweb.com  Today I've added to the site [URL below]: Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA - Deaths  [Courtesy of Claire Dietz] &  Bridgewater Marriages - P [courtesy of Coralynn Brown] Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI janedevlin@ameritech.net  Records from CT, MA, & MI + family lines: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEBRASKA [NEBRRoots] NEBRASKA OBITUARY ABSTRACTS Updated Date:    4/28/03 1:59:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time From:    NelliBlu28@aol.com  To:    NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com  The NEBRASKA OBITUARY ABSTRACTS site has been updated. There are now 161 pages online with more to come as soon as I have the time to make additions.  I am in the process of moving some websites that I manage to new web space  provided by RootsWeb and so there may be fewer additions over the next 2  weeks but please keep checking as I will add more on a weekly basis when I  can.     The obituaries posted here are abstracts because these are recent. Please  contact the newspaper that these were published in for more information. I do  not have any further information and am not related to any of the people  listed. I wanted to provide these as an aid to other researchers who have  Nebraska ties. The obituary abstracts posted here will be from different  parts of the state. I recommend that you contact the appropriate County  Coordinator to submit your own obituary abstracts from your research data.      I'm sorry but I do not take submissions for these pages.   PLEASE NOTE . . . I am unable to reply to requests for personal research. I'm  not a professional genealogist, and my efforts in my own ancestor quest as  well as supporting my web sites are as much time as I can spare. I do not do  lookups, nor do I have access to older obituaries. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/ne-obits/index.htm  Always digging for my roots, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co. Coordinator, NEGenWeb Project ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW  JERSEY [NJ] CENSUS NJ 1860, p. 1266, Burlington Co., Shamong Twp. Date:    4/20/03 8:07:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time From:    MaisieAnn@aol.com  To:    NJ-L@rootsweb.com  BURLINGTON CO. NJ, 4 Oct. 1860, PO Mt. Holly, Shamong Twp. p. 1266 1266    1   2452 2427   SMALL   Benjamin    54  m   w   farmer  NJ 1266    2   2452 2427   SMALL   Samuel  18  m   w   farmer  NJ 1266    3   2452 2427   SMALL   Sarah   16  f   w       NJ 1266    4   2452 2427   SMALL   Benjamin, Jr.   14  m   w       NJ 1266    5   2452 2427   FRAMBLER    Henrietta   42  f   w   housekeeper NJ 1266    6   2452 2427   FRAMBLER    Isaac   4   m   w       NJ 1266    7   2453 2428   PETTITT Mahylon 68  m   w   farmer  NJ 1266    8   2453 2428   PETTITT Hester  84  f   w       NJ 1266    9   2453 2428   REEVES  Joseph  12  m   w       NJ 1266    10  2453 2428   REEVES  Isaac   10  m   w       NJ 1266    11  2454 2429   DIXON   David   30  m   w   laborer NJ 1266    12  2454 2429   DIXON   Hannah  38  f   w       NJ 1266    13  2454 2429   DIXON   Wesley  10  m   w       NJ 1266    14  2454 2429   WOODWARD    Mariah  57  f   w   nurse   NJ 1266    15  2455 2430   BOZARTH Andrew  27  m   w   laborer NJ 1266    16  2455 2430   BOZARTH Mary    24  f   w       NJ 1266    17  2455 2430   BOZARTH Rachal A.   2   f   w       NJ 1266    18  2455 2430   BOZARTH Amy A.  2   f   w       NJ 1266    19  2455 2430   BOZARTH Isaac N.    7/12    m   w       NJ 1266    20  2456 2431   TITUS   Joseph  20  m   w   laborer NJ 1266    21  2456 2431   TITUS   Sarah   50  f   w       NJ 1266    22  2457 2432   WILLS   Isaac B.    34  m   w   laborer NJ 1266    23  2457 2432   WILLS   Martha  31  f   w       NJ 1266    24  2458 2433   SAILOR  Samuel  25  m   w   laborer NJ 1266    25  2458 2433   SAILOR  Elizabeth   20  f   w       NJ 1266    26  2459 2434   CRAIN   Wm. 32  m   w   farmer  NJ 1266    27  2459 2434   CRAIN   Beulah  23  f   w       NJ 1266    28  2459 2434   CRAIN   Ann 4   f   w       NJ 1266    29  2459 2434   CRAIN   John    3   m   w       NJ 1266    30  2459 2434   WILLS   Mary    17  f   w   domestic    NJ 1266    31  2460 2434   CRAIN   Ira 25  m   w   farmer  NJ 1266    32  2460 2434   CRAIN   Jerusha 24  f   w       NJ 1266    33  2460 2434   CRAIN   Hester  2   f   w       NJ 1266    34  2460 2434   CRAIN   Charles L.  1/12    m   w       NJ 1266    35  2461 2435   CRAIN   Michal  27  m   w   laborer NJ 1266    36  2461 2435   CRAIN   Martha A.   28  f   w       NJ 1266    37  2461 2435   CRAIN   Mary    6   f   w       NJ 1266    38  2461 2435   CRAIN   Sarah   4   f   w       NJ 1266    39  2461 2435   CRAIN   Matilda A.  2   f   w       NJ 1266    40  2461 2435   CRAIN   Elvira  4/12    f   w       NJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OHIO Meigs County     [OHMEIGS] Middleport Pioneer Pictures Available  Date:    4/28/03 7:00:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time From:    meinhartstock@yahoo.com  (Mark Meinhart) To:    OHMEIGS-L@rootsweb.com     I've added about 100 pictures from Middleport Pioneer Cemetery to the Yahoo site. For those who do not know, you can make the pictures full size if you hit the tab, just hit the Full Size Tab in the Upper Right of the Pictures_____ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OHMEIGS/  Go to the Photo Section. If you need to sign in to see the pictures, do the following: Sign in: ohiomeigs Password: ohiomeigs That should get any non-Yahoo member in. Let me know if you have any problems, Mark Hope you find what you are looking for :)  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mercer County     [OHMERCER] May Program Date:    4/29/03 12:06:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time From:    kbennett@bright.net  (Karen Bennett) To:    OHMERCER-L@rootsweb.com  "Orphan Train" Story     Charline Craig will present "The Orphan Train" at the next meeting of the  Mercer County Genealogical Society on Sunday, May 4, at 2:00 p.m. at the Richardson-Bretz Building, West Fulton Street, in Celina.     In the late 1800's there was a large number of orphans in New York and the  Children's Aid Society was formed as a solution to the problem.  Between the years 1854 and 1929, an  estimated 100,000-250,000 children were transported west on the "Orphan Train", where prospective families in  Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Kansas adopted them.      Charline's husband, John Craig, was one of the children that rode an orphan  train in 1917.  Mrs. Craig, a resident of Otterbein in St. Marys, will tell about his experiences and the effort of his family to find their brothers and sisters.     Society members will be at the Richardson-Bretz Building at 1:30 to answer  research questions before the program.  The program is free and open to the public.     Any member of the Mercer County Chapter OGS who is descended from an ancestor that lived in Mercer County by 31 December 1860 is eligible to apply for First Families of Mercer County.  Any member descended from an ancestor that lived in Mercer County between the years 1 January 1861 and 31 December 1880 is eligible to apply for Pioneer Families of Mercer County.  Applications for First and Pioneer Families of Mercer County must be submitted by 1 October 2003 for induction at the December 2003 meeting. Karen Miller Bennett Vice President, Mercer County Chapter OGS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Muskingum County [OHMUSKIN] Zanesville Times Recorder Obits 20 April 2003 Date:    4/20/03 10:11:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time From:    drdx@neo.rr.com  (Denny Shirer) To:    OHMUSKIN-L@rootsweb.com  Obituaries appearing in the Zanesville Times Recorder, April 20, 2003 © Zanesville Times Recorder and Gannett Co., Inc. http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/  o Freeland, Claudius C., 51 http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/news/stories/20030420/obituaries/153682.html  o Garrett, Catherine E. "Betty", 90 http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/news/stories/20030420/obituaries/153684.html  o Hamrick, Jennie M., 74 http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/news/stories/20030420/obituaries/153685.html  o Kreager, George H., 86 http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/news/stories/20030420/obituaries/153683.html  o Kreuter, Katherine H., 83 http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/news/stories/20030420/obituaries/153687.html  o Nowell, Lulu May Smith, 94 http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/news/stories/20030420/obituaries/153689.html  o Peterson, Carlos L., 85 http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/news/stories/20030420/obituaries/153686.html  o Zaverl, Leota I., 92 http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/news/stories/20030420/obituaries/153688.html  Denny Shirer - drdx@neo.rr.com - North Canton, OH Muskingum County, OHGenWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohmuskin/  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PENNSYLVANIA Westmoreland County [PAWESTMO-L] Open House Date:    4/28/03 7:12:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time From:    LCH007@aol.com  To:    PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com          Baltzer Meyer Historical Society would like to invite you all to our open house at the newly restored Harrold school. May 3.2003 from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M..        Built in 1881, this one room school house stayed in service until 1929, from that date until the 1950s it was used as the shop for students from the Harrold Jr. High. In 1995 we became the owners of this building and have been restoring it seen then. Our Partners in this project is the Hempfield Area School District plan to use the building as a one room school to teach in that style and to teach about the local history this fall. We will also maintain it as a living museum open to the public and other school districts. We hope to see you all that can come. Tom Harrold President Baltzer Meyer Historical Society ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RHODE ISLAND Page 141 #202 William Manchester to  John Pearce ....William Manchester of Punkatest in New Plymouth..Yeoman..for.. Sixteen pounds of sterling mony of New England..paid..by John Pearce of Portsmouth..Have..sold..One fourth part of a Thirtith part..of  land at Pocassett..bounded..Northward and Westward by the freemens lotts neer the  fall river, and westward by the Bay or sound that runnith between the said  Land and Rhode Island Southward partly by a line that is Sett at a great Rock  on which is a Seader bush marked neer the way that leadith to Punkatest  Eastward to a pond at Dartmoth Towne bounds, and westward to Suppowett Creeks  mouth and partly by Dartmoth bounds, and Northward up into the woods to  Midlebury Towne bounds and quitquissitt pond (alwaies Excepted of   this...Sale Suppowett neck of land, and the Medows belonging to Punkatest  proprietors, and the land formerly granted by the Court of Plymouth to Captn  Richard Morris, and soe much..as shall be alloted...for the use of the  ministry) All..I with others lately purchassed of...Agents of...Collony of  Plymoth..by..Deed of feofment..date March 5th, 1679 1680..seventh day of  October..One Thowsand six hundred Eighty one. Wit   William X Manchester, John Sanford  his marke, William Coggesshall                          Mary   X   Manchestesr, Josephine Tripp her marke Wit..to..Mary Manchesters hand this 17th January 1683 Thomas Butts, Elizabeth   X   Butts her marke William Manchester...acknowlidged the above written..Decembr. 13th 1681                 Peleg Sanford, Governor

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