Phone: (307) 883-2730
Internet E-mail address: jmower@cyberhighway.net
Web site address is: http://www.xmission.com/~mower/
NEWSLETTER MAY 1998
Thanks for all who are keeping in touch. I have recently sent names to St. George. I received a letter from the Boise Temple and the names I sent there two years ago are still sitting in their files. I phoned and had them released to temple patrons. This is the second time names have been requested at Boise and no one has worked on them other than completing baptisms. I won't be sending them there any more.
We are just now losing the snow which was four feet deep this winter. Our ground has been snow covered since November and just yesterday our pasture started showing bare ground. Looks like spring is right around the corner. We are ready to send Trudy Schenk another payment for research and expect to hear a report of her activities this winter. She is planning a European trip for us to Germany, but is waiting for answers from various pastors as she attempts to narrow down cities where the Brill line may have come from.
These are communications I have received from various people around the country this month.
Delivered-To: jmower@cyberhighway.net
From: MGLA27A@prodigy.com (MRS ROBERTA A GALLARNO)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998
Subject: Ralph Stiers
My great ggg grandfather was Ralph Stiers . He had 9 children , his oldest was Reason Stiers , who a son named George Harry, who had a son named George Carl , who had a daugther named Alice Marie , who had me , Roberta . How are you releted to him. Roberta in Seattle
Delivered-To: jmower@cyberhighway.net
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998
From: wilcor@poky.srv.net (Bill Cornwall)
Subject: Gen.
Jerry:
Just was on your web site. Great job!!! Are you still filling the temples? Boy there is so much Genealogy here on the internet that I can't keep up. Seams like my Wheelers tie into everyone in the world!!! I come thru Mary Amick. Henry's wife.
My Great Grandmother was Emma Mower.
BCNU
Bill
Delivered-To: jmower@cyberhighway.net
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998
To: jmower@cyberhighway.net
From: Hal Amick <halamick@earthlink.net>
Subject: Questions on John AMICK the Blacksmith
Hi,
I've been trying to assemble a brief history for my first cousins. In
looking over the notes on John I find that you recorded his land purchases
without dates, as follows. Do you have dates, or would they be on the
films you cite (I could order them here) or were there no dates?
Thanks,
Hal
FHL #1028688 John Amick requests to purchase from the state 213 acres in Bedford Co. bordering on the property of John Shaffer, Wm Andrews, Wm. Cornell, John Hann. lying on both sides of Brush Creek.
FHL #1028688 Pennsylvania Warrant Book Bedford A. #234 lists John Amick of Providence Twp. applied to purchase 50 acres of land adjoining John Shaffer, David Schlotter, Benjamin Shaw and Henry Mowry for 5 pounds money.
Also, do you think that Henry Mowry might be Mower or Maurer?
(I answered that yes this was Henry Mower Sr. who lived next to John Amick. I researched those land deeds about 10 years ago and neglected to write the dates down--- I was just beginning research in those years. If any one is close to Salt Lake and can look up those film numbers and get the dates for those two entries, please send them to me and I will send them to Hal.)
Delivered-To: jmower@cyberhighway.net
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998
To: jmower@cyberhighway.net
From: Bill <wcreager@mail.win.org>
Subject: Geisinger Line
Dear Jerry,
I obtained your name from Gerhard Ruf in Orem, Ut who suggested that I contact you.
I have recently gotten into genealogy and am trying to obtain information on my great mother's line. Her name was Ida Geisinger b 15 May 1858 in Frederick, Maryland, m William Henry Creager b 6 Jun 1854 in Walkersville,Maryland. I believe that Ida Geisinger was the daughter of Jacob Geisinger b Sept 1818, d 6 Dec 1900 and Catherine, b 9 Nov 1823 d 2 Jan 1899.
Jacob and Catherine appear to have had the following Children:
Barbara b abt 1844
Daniel b abt 1846
Mary b abt 1850
John b abt 1851
Ida b 15 May 1858
Thomas b abt 1857
Lewis Casper b 9 Oct 1859
Ida Geisinger appears to have been married a second time to a "Biggs"
That's is all that I have on the line and it stops there. Would you possibly have anything that might help me confirm this information or extend the line further back in history?
Happy Holiday
Bill Creager
Defiance, Missouri
Delivered-To: jmower@cyberhighway.net
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998
From: Bill Roberts <wroberts@rockymountnc.com>
Reply-To: wroberts@rockymountnc.com
To: Jerry Mower <jmower@cyberhighway.net>
Subject: Re: cockerham
Jerry,
Thanks for your quick reply. My wife, Eva FOSTER, and I have been tracing our family roots for about 5 years. With Eva being born in Columbia, Maury Co. TN being able to track the majority of her families has been made easier by being in the middle of the records. However, we do have some problems in TN. The Giles Co. Courthouse has burned at least twice and during the 'The War of Naked Economic Agression' (Civil War to us Westeners) the residents of Hickman Co. TN thought the Federals might use the courthouse as a command post so they burned it down. Did they remove the records - don't ask. By being far away from the IA records, I am encountering a great deal of difficulty of getting back to Surry Co. NC and to Buck's Co. PA. Do not know anything about Annie Runnels except her name.
My father and mother were members of the Mormon church when I and my younger brother Jack were born. I was 23 months old and Jack was only 2 months old when our mother fell in downtown Salt Lake City struck her head on the Penneys building and died of a skull fracture. Dad remarried Elizabeth an English lady and since she was of the Anglican (Church of England) faith, we became Episcopalians. We were the only Gentiles in the Center Ward District. I have very strong family values which I very proudly attribute to my Mormon Heritage and the love of my mother Elizabeth. The only thing that Elizabeth did as our mother was not give birth to us. We both get absolutely livid whenever we explain the above and people refer to her as our stepmother. She was our stepmother in only the legal sense.
I am in the middle of securing new employment. I am to receive an offer tommorrow from a Company in Conover, NC and am interviewing with a Company in Ft. Wayne IN for a position in Elkmont AL which would put us about 10 -15 miles from our grandchildren.. The Conover NC psoition would put us about a 1 to 1 1/2 hour drive from Mt. Airy, NC. It is amazing where life takes us. Eva was born in Middle TN and many of her lines came from Lunenburg and Charlotte Court House Co. VA and from Wilkes, Granville, Wake, and Cumberland Co. NC. In Maury Co. there is a Roberts' Bend Cemetery where Eva's paternal gg-grandfather John Tillman HOOD is buried. In the Cemetery is a tombstone for an Eva Foster ROBERTS. When we saw the marker, I told Eva that I didn't know that I had married a dead woman. I got to sleep in the tub that night.
With Eva's FOSTER line we know that they married into the COKERHAM family in Lunenburg Co. in the 1700s.
Do you happen to have the e-mail and s-mail addresses of any CCKERHAM researchers in IA? Would love to make contact with them.
In closing, I would like to share a little saying Eva's sister sent us. We laughed till tears came. It sums my position with my grandparents in IA.
I'm Lost.
I've gone to look for myself.
If I should return before I get back, please ask me to wait.
Thank you and warmest regards,
Bill Roberts
Thanks everybody for your help. We appreciate it. Jerry