Midwest Historical &
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Anderson, Casteel, Davis(2), Door of Hope Orphanage Independence, Kansas(2)(3), Downall, Fox, Garber, Gordon, Gorton, Gronniger, Hager(2), Harwick, Hemsworth, Krehbiel, Lawrence, Lawson, Linabary, Mangan, Mcconnell, Mellington, Nutt, Overstreet, Price, Rhoden, Rush(2)(3)(4), Savage, Sharp, Shirley, Snyder(2), Stark, Thompson, Wemple, West, Worrel
| Author:Pat Wilson |
| Subject:STARK |
| Date:09/25/1998 |
| Email: pwilson@rochester.rr.com
Mailing address: 879 Independence Dr. Webster, NY 14580 Query: I'm wondering if someone has access to the following information and if so could send me the information? G-S-67 Stark Family Group Sheets; Yates Publ. Co. Source Code 2876.030 Thank you for your help. |
| Author:Gerald Edson |
| Subject:THOMPSON |
| Date:09/23/1998 |
| Email: GerryEdson@juno.com
Mailing address: 255 E. Loma Vista Dr. Tempe, AZ 85282 Query: Looking for info on Frank Thompson and his wife Marjorie Boggs Thompson. Married cir. 1936. Lived on farm near Rolla, Kansas. They had several children. She died in the 1950's or 60's. She was my aunt. |
| Author:Alice Gordon Overbey |
| Subject:Gordon/ Savage |
| Date:09/21/1998 |
| Email: ckpatch@pacbell.net
Mailing address: 617 11 th st. Ramona Ca. 92065 Query: looking for the lost family of Joe Dick Gordon. Family is hoping to get together. |
| Author:CHRISTIANE RUSH |
| Subject:RUSH |
| Date:09/19/1998 |
| Email: RUSHX6
Mailing address: Query: IAM RESEARCHING THE RUSH LINE IN MAIZE,KS. NAMES IAM LOKKING FOR: JOSHUA RUSH, JAMES D. RUSH, ALLEN RUSH, VAN VOLKENBURG THE FAMILY LIVED IN THE MAIZE AREA FOR A LONG TIME. THE V.VALKENURG'S DONATED LAND FOR A LOCAL CEMETERY. DOES ANYBODY REGONIZE THE NAMES? THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING |
| Author:James d. Rush |
| Subject:RE: RUSH |
| Date:10/09/1998 |
| Email: jambarie@fullnet.net
Mailing address: 23271 u.s.hiway 75 bartlesville,ok. 74006 Query: Searching for my daughter Valarie and saw your message. |
| Author:Christine |
| Subject:RE: RUSH |
| Date:09/21/1999 |
| Email: csafieddine@xenogen.com
Mailing address: Query: Looking for a Jay Rush married to a Minta Bell Kimbrough. Jay had brothers named Chase, Charlie, Walter and a sister named Clara who married a Charlie Tillery. They lived mainly in the Iola/Neewton, Kansas areas. If any of these names are familiar, please contact me! Christine |
| Author:Linda Hedlund |
| Subject:RE: RUSH |
| Date:03/14/1999 |
| Email: lunds@rapidcity.com
Mailing address: Query: I am looking for information on Cordie Neva (Taylor) Rush. She was born 6 March 1899 in Wichita, KS and married John I. Rush. They were married 28 Oct 1918 in Wichita. |
| Author:Beverly WILLIAMS |
| Subject:KREHBIEL |
| Date:09/17/1998 |
| Email: bev-ben@swbell.net
Mailing address: 1948 Hood Wichita, KS 67203-2240 Query: Herman KREHBIEL b. 02 Aug 1838 Weierhof, Germany d. 18 Jan 1923 in Burrton, KS buried Halstead, KS. His wife was Barbara "Babette" KREHBIEL b. 30 Dec 1839 in Weierhof. Germany d.? in Burrton, KS buried Halstead, KS. Looking for descendants of Herman and Barbara. I know of only the one child: Katharina Louise KREHBIEL. |
| Author:Beverly WILLIAMS |
| Subject:MELLINGTON |
| Date:09/17/1998 |
| Email: bev-ben@swbell.net
Mailing address: 1948 Hood Wichita, KS 67203-2240 Query: MELLINGTON, Moses b. 1830 in NYC, NY d. 1893 in Independence, Montgomery county, KS Needing information on his parents, siblings or other relatives. |
| Author:Billie McDavitt |
| Subject:OVERSTREET |
| Date:09/12/1998 |
| Email: tmacdee@aol.com
Mailing address:1041 Perry Street Wichita, KS 67203-3022 Query:In the 1930's Edith Pauline (Murphy) OVERSTREET wrote two books, trying to keep body and soul together. I am looking for a copy of these books. One is TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF A WICHITA FAMILY and the other is OLD FOLKS. Edith was the widow of Nellmer O. OVERSTREET, who died in Wichita circa 1933. They lived in the 2300 block of South Mead Street. Members of the Overstreet family are very interested in finding a copy of these books to learn more of their family while they were in Wichita. Two of Edith's sons, Richard C. and Stanley, had a gasoline station at 2500 Maple, called Overstreet Brothers Station. |
| Author:Galen L. Steele Jr |
| Subject:Lawson |
| Date:09/11/1998 |
| Email: GalenSteele@Juno.com
Mailing address: Query:My grandmother was Opal Pauline Lawson, born 4 March 1903 in Rose Hill, KS. Where in Sedgwick, County or is this Butler County, would I find here birth certificate or Census records showing her Father, John Lawson?? Thank you, Galen Steele |
| Author:Cecelia Tartar |
| Subject:Gronniger |
| Date:09/11/1998 |
| Email: dtartar@clandjop.com
Mailing address: 1206 Pineville Rd Neosho, Missouri 64850 Query: Luke Gronniger and wife Lizzie lived in Sedgwick County at least by 1910 with Lizzie's parents--Koppers. Any info will be appreciated. |
| Author:Jack Mercer |
| Subject:Downall |
| Date:09/09/1998 |
| Email: jmercer@arkansas.net
Mailing address: 101 Deer Trail Road Query: R.B. Downall - 1874 |
| Author:S M Gruenwald (Welch) |
| Subject:Nutt, David Lee & Vicky (sister) |
| Date:09/07/1998 |
| Email: dgruenw377@aol.com
Mailing address: 7950 N Desert Quail Ln Tucson, AZ 85743 Query: Looking for David and Vicky. They lived in Tucson in the 70's. Vicky married Ornell Nichols. If anyone has any information, please contact me. |
| Author:Allan C. Holden |
| Subject:Gusta & Lyda Anderson Baptist Home? |
| Date:09/05/1998 |
| Email:
Mailing address: Query: Looking for great great grandparents gravesite. They moved from Allegan county Mi. in or around 1930's to Huntsville Alabama later they moved into a care facilty in Kansas City area. It may have been a Baptist Home or a Home for Swedes, where later they died. His name was Gusta Anderson and her name was Lyda Anderson. My e-mail is: prostock@net-link.net Thank you; Al Holden |
| Author:Shirley Ortiz |
| Subject:WEST/CASTEEL |
| Date:09/02/1998 |
| Email: RSO714@cox.net Mailing address: Query: I am looking for any information on my grandparents Chester E.West b. 1886 in Illinois d. 1964 Wichita Ks. and Zeffie Casteel,b.1887 in Nebraska. d. unknown they married in Wichita Nov 1903. my mother Delora Violet West was b. oct 15, 1905 In Wichita Ks. on the 1925 Ks census Charley E. West Father was living with him, any information would be greatly appreciated. |
| Author:COurtney Storck |
| Subject:RE: Hager |
| Date:12/04/1999 |
| cps00@yahoo.com
Mailing address:1112 N gatewood Ct. Wichita, Kansas 67206 Query: I am also looking for information about Hagers. My great great grandmothers name was Ida Mae Hager. She lived in Kansas and Oregon. If you have any information that would be great. Thanks |
| Author:Raymond Hager |
| Subject:Hager |
| Date:08/18/1998 |
| Email:
Mailing address:3121 Morgan St. Middletown, Ohio 45044 Query:Family of Robert Hager Of Wolfe Co. Ky. early 1900's |
| Author:JEAN bOWERS |
| Subject:Harwick |
| Date:08/14/1998 |
| Email: jeanbow@ionet.net
Mailing address:RR5 BOX 171 ENID, OK 73701 Query:Needing information on surname Harwick, John & Harry F. |
| Author:C Griffiths |
| Subject:LAWRENCE |
| Date:08/14/1998 |
| Email: kodachrome362@hotmail.com
Mailing address: Query: Seeking any info on my gr-gr-grandfather Isaac LAWRENCE, b ca 1835, Illinois. Married Sarah Yost 1858 Marion Co, Missouri..3 children born there Andrew W. ca 1869; William S. ca 1861; Mary E. ca 1963; Ida D. b. ca 1865, Kansas; Charles G. b. 1870, Ft Scott, Kansas. Isaac was mustered into 2nd Indpt Battery, Kansas Light Artillery 28 April 1864., along with whom I believe to be his brother Robert Lawrence b. 20 Jan 1832, d. 18 Mar 1903 (interred in Mackville Cemetary, Piatt Co. Illinois) m. Martha Clingon. I also believe he had a sister Elizabeth b. 30 June 1836 whom married A. William Smith b 17 Dec 1832. I have Isaac and Robert's pension papers, and Isaac was denied, as well as his widow Sarah in 1883 after Isaac was presumed dead after disappearing ca 1876. Isaac is believed to have been born in Edgar Co., Illinois, but I have been unable to confirm that. |
| Author:C Griffiths |
| Subject:DAVIS |
| Date:08/14/1998 |
| Email: kodachrome362@hotmail.com
Mailing address: Query: Looking for any information on Francis Davis m Nancy Cline ca 1855 place unknown. Son Jefferson Rankin Beauregard Davis b 29 mar 1863, Wathena, Doniphan Co. Kansas. Other children (presumed died young) Martha and Francis H.H. Jefferson was married briefly to Hattie...marriage date/place unknown. They are not listed on the 1860 Census for Doniphan, and I cannot get access to the 1865 state census. |
| Author:Edith McDougall |
| Subject:Hemsworth, 1880's thru 1900 |
| Date:08/09/1998 |
| Email: eempem@gate.net
Mailing address: 4433 Bayridge Ct Spring Hill, FL 34606 Query: Would like any information on John E. Hemsworth and children: Claude, Roy F., Elmer L. and descendants. Children born in Witchita Sedgwick Cty, KS |
| Author:L. Don Rhoden, Jr. |
| Subject:Rhoden |
| Date:08/08/1998 |
| Email: DonRhoden@bigfoot.com
Mailing address: POB 1228, Largo, FL 33779 Query: Seeking info on parents/siblings of LOUIS OSCAR RHODEN 1890-1957. Clerk for Rock Island Railroad for 35 years. Born Marion County, KS married Evelyn Pearl Smith |
| Author:GGORTON |
| Subject:GORTON |
| Date:08/04/1998 |
| Email: ggorton@russellks.net
Mailing address: Query: Beginning to "search!" OSCAR GORTON wife, JENNY; farmed in Lincoln Co. Kansas |
| Author:June Johnson |
| Subject:DAVIS |
| Date:08/01/1998 |
| Email: jjohnson@colfax.com
Mailing address: 801 E Valleyview Ave. Colfax, WA 99111 Query: I'm looking for parents of my grandmother, Viola Janetta DAVIS, born 1874 in Opolis, Crawford County, KS. She married George W. FOX about 1900. She died in San Bernardino, CA in 1961. |
| Author:June Johnson |
| Subject:FOX |
| Date:08/01/1998 |
| Email: jjohnson@colfax.com
Mailing address: 801 E Valleyview Ave. Colfax, WA 99111 Query: Looking for parents of my grandfather, George W. FOX, born about 1868 in Mexico, MO, married Viola Janetta DAVIS, cir. 1900, died cir. 1930 in CA. |
| Author:Marilyn Craig |
| Subject:PRICE |
| Date:07/21/1998 |
| Email: waterloo@netusa1.net
Mailing address:618 S. 400 W. Russiaville, IN. 46979 Query:PRICE, George and Elizabeth, lived in Shepherdstown, W. Va. circa 1820-38. I know of one son, Alexander born 1838. George and Elizabeth moved their family to Ohio 1838-50. George owned some kind of factory in Shepherdstown. Hoping to find info on his parents. Thanks. |
| Author:Alice Windle |
| Subject:RE: DOOR OF HOPE ORPHANAGE INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS |
| Date:05/13/1999 |
| Email: Atoodles@aol.com
Mailing address: P.O. Box 639, Granite, OK 73547-0639 Query: Write to the following. If they do not have them, I bet they can find the records for you. Montgomery County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 444 Coffeyville, KS 67337-0444 |
| Author:katherine willfong |
| Subject:RE: DOOR OF HOPE ORPHANAGE INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS |
| Date:04/23/1999 |
| Email: rkwillfong@Verm.rurilnet.org
Mailing address: 904 w. Main st. hoopeston, il.60942 Query: have you found out where the records are for the door of hope orphannage? i hope so. our area had a simular sisuation as to no one seemed to know where such recors was kept afterwards. after a lot of searching it was found that the widow of the director had all of the records. she was contacted and arangements are being made for them to be given to one of the historical societies. may be they are in the state archives,genealogical society or even with the county records.if you have not found the records good luck in your search. maybe you can tell me as to where to find stored records of the wichita hospital sisters of st. joseph, which i now under stand is called via christi, st. joseph campus. i need my birth records 2-11-45 i have my birth certificate, but would like to obtain the medical records. any thoughts or ideas would be most welcomed.....thank |
| Author:Karen Standing at Kansas Children's Service League |
| Subject:DOOR OF HOPE ORPHANAGE INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS |
| Date:07/21/1998 |
| Email: kstandi@kcsl.org
Mailing address: PO Box 517 Wichita, KS 67201 Query: What happened to the records of this orphanage that used to be in Independence, KS? |
| Author:H TURPIN |
| Subject:MANGAN |
| Date:07/20/1998 |
| Email: HTO1955@AOL.COM
Mailing address: 597 East 1600 N Idaho Falls, ID 83402 Query:I am interested in finding information on any Mangan genealogy from any area in Kansas, specifically Cherryvale, Montgomery , Kansas |
| Author:Jeneva Snyder |
| Subject:Snyder |
| Date:07/13/1998 |
| Email: jsnyder1@gte.net
Mailing address:6571 Stanford Ave. Garden Grove, CA 92845 Query:I would appreciate any information I can get on this surname. I don't know much about my family. Some first names are Denis and Clarence;kids are George, Patty, Madonna.Thankyou |
| Author:Juanita Schneider |
| Subject:RE: Snyder |
| Date:07/28/1998 |
| Email: nitafay@yahoo.com
Mailing address: 1858 Joyce St. Sarasota, FL 34231 Query: In response to your Snyder query. It would help if you listed the full name, date and place of birth of your Snyder ancestors. For instance: My Mother's maiden name was Ruth Irene Snyder born 1911 in MO, she was the daughter of Thomas Oliver Snyder born Oct 26, 1883 in Richmond, Ray Co. MO and Almeda Manning born Sept 11, 1891 in Carrollton, Carroll Co., MO. Ruth's grandfather was James Allen Snyder born Jan 2, 1855 somewhere in Illinois and Mary Jane Farrar born Nov 20,1854 somewhere in TN. Does anyone have information that may help me locate where in Illinois James Allen Snyder was born? |
| Author:Pat Kenyon |
| Subject:GARBER |
| Date:07/08/1998 |
| Email: mouse@snowcrest.com
Mailing address: 490 Yolla Bolly Trl, Redding,CA 96003 Query:I would appreciate any information re: the Garber's of Sedalia, Mo. Some first names are Alonzo, Virginia Isabella(d.6/1/1895) Children:Leona, Lulu,Otha,Raymond, Orville. |
| Author:PAT KENYON |
| Subject:LINABARY, JOHN |
| Date:07/08/1998 |
| Email: mouse@snowcrest.com
Mailing address:490 Yolla Bolly Trl,Redding, CA 96003 Query:I believe that this might be my great grandfather who was killed in a boiler explosion possibly in Pettis Co in the early 1900's. He lived in Sedalia Mo. Information will be greatly appreciated. |
| Author:geneva rache worrel haney |
| Subject:worrel |
| Date:07/05/1998 |
| Email:
Mailing address: Query: richard worrel descendants.married jane snodgrass. william and susan moore worrel came to kansas from hendricks county in. 1870 to zeandale ka. robert and anna moore worrel came from harrison county,ky. |
| Author:Janice Stenger |
| Subject:SHARP, William |
| Date:07/04/1998 |
| Email: Ibis14@aol.com
Mailing address:16450 Laughlin Rd., Guerneville, Calif. 95446 Query:I am looking for evidence of Aaron Sharp who was counted in the 1850 census in Gentry Co. Mo. He was next door to my great grandfather William SHARP and I believe they were brothers as I believe their wives, Elizabeth Gardner SHARP and Martha Gardner SHARP were sisters. Both of these couples married in 1849 in Daviess Co. Mo. My great grandfather Wm. and his children and Elizabeth came across the Plains and settled in California in about 1857. Does anyone know if Aaron SHARP and Martha SHARP stayed in Gentry Co. or where they might have gone? Elizabeth Gardner SHARP was born in about 1831. in Butler Co. Ohio but that is all I know about her. Any information on either of these two couples, or any Gardners in Gentry county would be appreciated. |
| Author:Steve Kraft |
| Subject:McConnell |
| Date:07/03/1998 |
| Email: skraft46@aol.com
Mailing address: 748 Oak Dale Ave. Lake Dallas, Tx 75065 Query: I am searching for info on George McConnell (my maternal ggrandfather) who married Lula Easter of East Linn, Mo. (or Linn). They lived out their adult lives in LeRoy, Ks. and had 3 daughters, Gladys, Ethyl, and Golda. I don't know his life dates; however Lula lived from 1870 to 1946. Any info would be greatly appreciated. |
| Author:Joanne Gould |
| Subject:SHIRLEY |
| Date:07/01/1998 |
| Email: Knitjo@aol.com
Mailing address: Query: I am looking for any information about a Shirley family that came to Detroit, MI in 1900 from England. I am most interested in Alberta Shirley who was 16 yrs at that time. Her parents were Walter & Mary Shirley and would like to find any history on these three people. I am wondering if there were more children and if they had relatives in MI and where they lived in England. Any info is appreciated and please send to Knitjo@aol.com |
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