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Does anyone have any idea where Janes Crossing & Straders Station is or
was? Found an old letter talking about these 2 places that my
GGGrandmother Frances Viola Hendrickson wrote. I am pretty sure it is in
Indiana near Illinois but not positive. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Hazel
Also researching Pierson from Pierson Twp. Vigo Co., In.
Hi Darla,
Yes, it's still standing...kind of. Right across from the Methodist
Church which he also helped build. My ggrandparent's little boy, David
William Devonald d. 1889, is buried in the Rosedale Cemetery...he only
lived for three months after arrival. I also have many Lewis ancestors
buried in Rosedale...Lewises also from Wales and brothers to my
ggrandmother, Margaret Sarah Lewis Devonald. Regards, Elaine.
Is the Methodist church on Main street on the right as you're going north
into town?
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From: elaine barsosky <eebarsosky(a)webtv.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:28 PM
Subject: [INVIGO] Rosedale Road
> Hi Darla,
>
> Yes, it's still standing...kind of. Right across from the Methodist
> Church which he also helped build. My ggrandparent's little boy, David
> William Devonald d. 1889, is buried in the Rosedale Cemetery...he only
> lived for three months after arrival. I also have many Lewis ancestors
> buried in Rosedale...Lewises also from Wales and brothers to my
> ggrandmother, Margaret Sarah Lewis Devonald. Regards, Elaine.
>
>
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Elaine,
Sorry to butt in on the conversation but I grew up in Rosedale. Do you
know where he built his house there?
Rosedale is very small so I might be able to remember.
Thanks, Darla
Darla, Leander TX.
Searching for Melton-Hanson
VA, NC, TN, KY and IN
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Dear Teresa,
Let me tell you where the name came from...it is the surname of my
ggrandfather, James Devonald. My grandmother, Gladys Devonald Perkins
Hartman, is still alive at age 98. We lived in the big white house on
the hill...think it's sided brown now. James came to this country in
1888 from Wales and built a home in Rosedale. His wife and two children
followed in 1889. Late 1800's they built a home in Burnett which burned
when my gran was about four years old...existing one is the one rebuilt
after the fire. James managed the Grant Coal Mining Company and we also
had the big store on the corner. Before my time and yours Burnett was a
rootin' tootin' place with twelve or thirteen taverns, lodging houses
and hotels...the original store was a huge two-storey. Upstairs was a
wooden floor and they held big do's there and dances and such. A lot of
the homes in Burnett that my ggrandfather built were moved to
Spelterville after the mining industry fizzled out in Burnett or
Scorchett as us locals called it.
Regards, Elaine.
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Dear Teresa,
Let me tell you where the name came from...it is the surname of my
ggrandfather, James Devonald. My grandmother, Gladys Devonald Perkins
Hartman, is still alive at age 98. We lived in the big white house on
the hill...think it's sided brown now. James came to this country in
1888 from Wales and built a home in Rosedale. His wife and two children
followed in 1889. Late 1800's they built a home in Burnett which burned
when my gran was about four years old...existing one is the one rebuilt
after the fire. James managed the Grant Coal Mining Company and we also
had the big store on the corner. Before my time and yours Burnett was a
rootin' tootin' place with twelve or thirteen taverns, lodging houses
and hotels...the original store was a huge two-storey. Upstairs was a
wooden floor and they held big do's there and dances and such. A lot of
the homes in Burnett that my ggrandfather built were moved to
Spelterville after the mining industry fizzled out in Burnett or
Scorchett as us locals called it.
Regards, Elaine.
If any of the listers are not familiar with the Hometown.net, here is a good place to post your search for ancestors from Vigo and surrounding areas.
Just send them to
sysop(a)hometown.net
Also if you would like to subscribe to read the news, just send to the same addy.
elaine barsosky wrote:
> Mary is right about Coal Bluff being east of Fontanet...leastways the
> one that I knew. I great up in Burnett which is south of both...my
> ggrandfather, James Devonald, was a mine boss there for many years and
> my family also had a huge general store. Regards, Elaine.
Elaine,
I lived in Burnett while I was in high school. My sister lives out there
now. Back when I lived there we always referred to the main road as
Burnett pavement. Now with 911, it's Devonald Rd. I always wondered where
the Devonald came from. :-)
Teresa Barton
Talked with our ISP provider and got squared away.... something to do with UUNET and translation of the DNS server.... so we access for now using 216.10.103.21 which is Ancestry's actual address.
Thanks for your comments and help..
Bill
Anyone here used the Ancestry.com web site since they revamped it a couple of days ago? We can no longer access the site at all and am wondering if anyone else is having the same problem. When we go to the home page, it still tells us to "Come Back Soon" and links to pages inside the site give us the deadly HTTP 404 error.
Bill Strahle
Various Federal Census list these families near each other in Prairie Creek
Township.
In the 1820 Eliphalet SHATTUCK and Jeremiah WILSON are listed near each
other as well as Moses WATTS. in the 1850 Census James W. SHATTUCK resides
near John WILSON (he is a son of Jeremiah). Now James W. SHATTUCK has a
wife named Sarah and Children Ithel, Sara Ann, Samantha and J. W.(?).
Ithel marries Mary Jane David on Nov 17, 1853 in Vigo County IN and lives
in Prairie Creek next to Jeremiah Wilson, Son of John and Mary( WATTS)
Wilson. Ithel's (Ithol, Arthur) daughter Isabella marries Jeremiah Wilson
on Oct 6, 1874 in Vigo County Indiana. In the Vigo County History a Moses
Watts runs a mill in Prairie Creek. John WILSON is later shown as a
'Miller" in the 1850 census. Was Moses Mary's father and did he sell John
the mill? Who was James W. Shattuck's father? Is it Elipahlet or Benjamin
or neither? Does anyone have any of these lines?
KAY(WILSON) DIEKEMPER
That must have been a frightening experience to say the least! Thanks for
sharing your memory!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Heath" <jim(a)haiku.mdn.com>
To: <INVIGO-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 5:26 AM
Subject: Re: [INVIGO] Coal Miners
> Actually, it was pretty odd. I don't remember the year, but I was about 5
or
> so. We were listening to the Lone Ranger on the radio, didn't have a tv
yet. We
> heard what we thought was a lot of shooting and went out in the yard. We
could
> just see the fires through woods. We lived about 2 or 3 miles from Lewis.
>
> What I remember hearing was one of the fireboxes (brakes?) on one of the
train
> cars caught on fire and the engineer dropped the whole train on the north
edge of
> town. Apparently, the box car that was on fire was loaded with small arms
> ammunition and the individual rounds went off first. The racket got
everyone's
> attention and they all ran out to see what was going on. The next car was
loaded
> with powder for naval guns and, of course, that all went at once and
flattened a
> lot of the buildings in town. The nearby farmers were plowing up various
small
> arms and light cannon ammo for quite a while after that. The other thing
that
> saved people was they were having pitch in dinner at the Masonic Hall on
the
> south side of town and a lot of people were there. Curiously, there were
no
> fatalities and only a couple of serious injuries.
>
> My Mom drove down to our neighbors and the wife was running through their
house
> turning the lights on and her husband was following her, turning them off
and
> yelling the "The Russians are coming!" or words to that effect.
>
> Jim Heath
>
> SparkynMad(a)cs.com wrote:
>
> > So Sorry, I was just passing on the information that my husband gave
me.
> > He must have been wrong about the closness of Lewis to Coal City. But
he
> > remembers when it happened. His mother was so upset, not knowing if
her
> > sister was dead or alive.
> >
> > She even wrote a song about it. Her sister was just a little banged
up but
> > was O.K.
> >
> > Madolin
>
> --
> Mine - Bagley, Bowman, Brinton, City (Citty), Cooprider, Darling, Duncan,
> Elleman, Embree, Harmon, Harris, Harry, Hastings, Heath, Hines, Hostetler,
Jones,
> Jordan, Leonard, Longdon, Love, Merrill, Minor (Miner), Neal, Miller,
(O')Mooney,
> Owen(s), Phillips, Retherford, Shaffer, Shuey, Straw, Thompson, Underwood,
White
>
> Wife - Allan, Bennington, Bigham, Gregory, Hamilton, Herrington, Howard,
McHarry,
> McCuen, Morrow, Nicholas, Pond, Shugarts, Stockwell, Swanson, Wods (Woods)
>
> mailto:jim@haiku.mdn.com
> http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/a/James-R-Heath/
>
>
Actually, it was pretty odd. I don't remember the year, but I was about 5 or
so. We were listening to the Lone Ranger on the radio, didn't have a tv yet. We
heard what we thought was a lot of shooting and went out in the yard. We could
just see the fires through woods. We lived about 2 or 3 miles from Lewis.
What I remember hearing was one of the fireboxes (brakes?) on one of the train
cars caught on fire and the engineer dropped the whole train on the north edge of
town. Apparently, the box car that was on fire was loaded with small arms
ammunition and the individual rounds went off first. The racket got everyone's
attention and they all ran out to see what was going on. The next car was loaded
with powder for naval guns and, of course, that all went at once and flattened a
lot of the buildings in town. The nearby farmers were plowing up various small
arms and light cannon ammo for quite a while after that. The other thing that
saved people was they were having pitch in dinner at the Masonic Hall on the
south side of town and a lot of people were there. Curiously, there were no
fatalities and only a couple of serious injuries.
My Mom drove down to our neighbors and the wife was running through their house
turning the lights on and her husband was following her, turning them off and
yelling the "The Russians are coming!" or words to that effect.
Jim Heath
SparkynMad(a)cs.com wrote:
> So Sorry, I was just passing on the information that my husband gave me.
> He must have been wrong about the closness of Lewis to Coal City. But he
> remembers when it happened. His mother was so upset, not knowing if her
> sister was dead or alive.
>
> She even wrote a song about it. Her sister was just a little banged up but
> was O.K.
>
> Madolin
--
Mine - Bagley, Bowman, Brinton, City (Citty), Cooprider, Darling, Duncan,
Elleman, Embree, Harmon, Harris, Harry, Hastings, Heath, Hines, Hostetler, Jones,
Jordan, Leonard, Longdon, Love, Merrill, Minor (Miner), Neal, Miller, (O')Mooney,
Owen(s), Phillips, Retherford, Shaffer, Shuey, Straw, Thompson, Underwood, White
Wife - Allan, Bennington, Bigham, Gregory, Hamilton, Herrington, Howard, McHarry,
McCuen, Morrow, Nicholas, Pond, Shugarts, Stockwell, Swanson, Wods (Woods)
mailto:jim@haiku.mdn.com
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/a/James-R-Heath/
Mary is right about Coal Bluff being east of Fontanet...leastways the
one that I knew. I great up in Burnett which is south of both...my
ggrandfather, James Devonald, was a mine boss there for many years and
my family also had a huge general store. Regards, Elaine.