Des Moines County Iowa Queries 2006

Hello,

I' m trying to find my two third-cousins.
I had found them in 1905 census, in the 1910 census they don't appear may be
because they had married.

Their names before marriage:

1. Netta Niederman (maybe Neuderman or other spelling) born 3/1877 Romania
or Russia
2. Rose Niederman " " " born 6/1879

Their parents were Samuel & Anna (Emma)
Lived in DesMoines

If you can find any records according Netta & Rose it will be great.

Thank you,

Orna Neiderman

KUNTZ, NEFZGER

Burlington, IA area

I am looking for a Nefzger that married a Kuntz. Possibly Benidict or John

The Nefzger lady had two brothers in Minnesota. They were born in Germany in 1856 and 1857. They came to U.S. in 1874 &1875. They came from Gungolding, Bavaria, Germany. She would have been a cousin to Ralph's grandfather.

Thank you,

Mrs. Ralph (Shirley) Nefzger

209 East Margaret St.

Earlville, Iowa 52041-9758

rsnefzger@iowatelecom.net

From: "Cynthia Zieber" <czieber@earthlink.net

Date: October 14, 2006 10:07 AM

I am interested in the Zieber and Newkirk families of Missouri and Des Moines, Iowa. I know that members of the Newkirk family are buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Lee twp. In particular Winfield Scott Newkirk died 17 April 1930. Sarah Newkirk may have died 19 February 1930 or in 1929. Also Willie A Newkirk died 13 April 1919. I would particularly like to get copies of obits for any of these or other related Newkirks and pictures of their gravestones.

   Any help would be greatly appreciated.
   Thanks,
   Cynthia Zieber


   Cynthia Zieber
   czieber@earthlink.net

James THOMAS & wife Anna or Hanna both born in Wales.

In 1850 Census James and Hannah lived in Franklin township with their family which included Mary, Margaret, Henry, Harriet. It was thought that there were two more children, Sarah and a Thomas but we can't find a record for them.

On the 1860 Census of Franklin TWP James is not listed but rest of family is.

Was there an 1856 census of Des Moines County?

If someone lived in Franklin TWP which cemetery would it be likely that they would be buried in. Or is Franklin TWP a part of the city of Burlington.

Sorry to make this so long but needed it all to explain what I am looking for. The place and perhaps the date of James death. There might be other family members buried in the same plot or close by. Any help greatly appreciated.

Sarah Rierson
Mitchellville, IA
iowamom@prairieinet.net

My uncle, Ernest DEVORE passed away in Des Moines, Iowa, in April of 1970, according to the SSDI. The record is listed as:

Name:---------------------------- Ernest Devore
SSN:------------------------------ 508-01-2986
Last Residence:-------------- 52613 Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A.
Born:----------------------------- 15 Jun 1886
Died:----------------------------- Apr 1970
State (Year) SSN issued: Nebraska (Before 1951)

Is there anyone on the list that does Obituary lookups, Death Notices lookups, and/or Death Certificate searches? I actually need a copy of Ernest's DC to identify his parents to know for sure that he is my uncle. I would appreciate any help. Thank you.
This list is for everyone who had ancestors or family who lived in Des Moines County, Iowa

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From: JR243@aol.com To: ocollaugh@comcast.net

Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:25 PM

Subject: Re: Worth/Faucett marriage

Am trying to find any records in DM County of Mable Worth (Stamper) marrying a Faucett between 1920 and the late 20's. Any help appreciated. Ruth Worth Arnold

McCallister/McAllister:

looking for information on william peter McCallister/McAllister born 1941 in burlington iowa and put up for adoption.

joan dinnel

jdinel@aol.com

I recently was given a link to this site to see a photo of an Oscar Donaldson from Des Moines CO. and a school where he attended. I don't seem to be able to find it, if this is not the correct place, please direct me to where I can find them. Many pictures show up but some show up with an X in the upper left. Help????

Thanks,

Pamela

Pamela McGinty

"...for such a time as this."

Esther 4:14

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Anna Charlotta "Lottie" Floden (Jonasson)
B. 17 Jan 1855 Floby, Skaraborg, Sweden
D. - ? sometime bet 1917 and 1929 ? in Burlington ?

Please help - maybe she will appear in the city directories after 1882? Or perhaps 1895 Iowa census?
Emigrated from Sweden to Burlington Apr-July 1882 with daughter Elizabeth, brother John & his wife Josephine. Elizabeth appears in 1900 DM census as servant, can't find Lottie anywhere.

Obit for sister Clara Anderson/Rockford IL in 1917 listed her sister "Lottie" as living in Burlington; brother John's obit in 1929 doesn't list her.....(John is my G-G-grandfather)

Thankfully appreciate any help, as will be some time before I can get back to Burlington.
Diana

Hi all,

I am researching the Brookhiser family of Burlington & Lee County.

I am trying right now to mainly concentrate on the family of William John &
Wilhelmina Henrietta Dietz Brookhiser of Burlington .

Children:

Frank Andrew Brookhiser b 11 Aug 1884--Have all info on him
Katherine Louise Brookhiser b. Aug 1887 married Fred Hartman @1907
Louisa W H Brookhiser b July 1891 married possibly a William Wilson-She died
after Dec 6.1945 before Jan 26, 1945 most likely.
Matilda E. Brookhiser b 3 March 1894 married 26 Sept 1917 Grover Willson
Esther Brookhiser b.March 1898 married possibly a Wiliam Wilson
William Henry Brookhiser b 18 Oct 1899 married 2 March 1919 Blanche
Catherine Milliman
Florence M Brookhiser b 10 July 1903 married Lorenz Vahle @1930's. Married
William Rehm

Any help on any of the families would be deeply appreciated. I am very
willing to share info with anyone researching these lines. I do have bits &
pieces of info on nearly each persons family-it is quite sketchy though.

Thank you so much,
Kathy

Don

Forgot to mention that my web site (www.military-heroes.com) is also the official web site for Burlington's Medal of Honor recipient, Jimmie Earl Howard. Information and pictures were provided by his family.

Richard

In a message dated 2/20/2005 6:31:37 PM Central Standard Time, Reworthy writes:

Don

Once the information comes in, I expect the site to be more and more beneficial to family historians and genealogists (You can see that with the information I was able to get for Davenport's Assumption High School and Saint Ambrose Academy's heroes. The students family provided more information about their hero than I had ever expected.). I was able to contact Cleo Whorton's niece based on information she provided on another genealogy web site. Yesterday, someone told me of a nephew named after Ned Oscar Hunger. So, yes I do see genealogists and family historians might find this site useful. Therefore, please feel free to post my web site on the Des Moines County GenWeb site.

Richard

Hi Richard, just a suggestion:

If you find information that genealogists might find interesting you can get
wider exposure by giving me permission to post the information to my
DesMoines County GenWeb site.........with full credit of course.

I have a military project on that website.

Thanks

Don Kelly, DesMoines County GenWeb
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From: <Reworthy@aol.com
To: <IADESMOI-L@rootsweb.com
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 1:57 PM
Subject: [DES MOINES COUNTY] Burlington High School's Heroes

I’m working on a book for Mr. Tom Messigner, Principal Burlington High
School, honoring the schools graduates and former students who died while
in service
to their country. So far, my research has identified the following 38
graduates and eight former students:

Arthur T. Andrew, Class of 1935
Milton A. Blaul, Jr., Class of 1933
Merle E. Bolte, Class of 1975
Warren Bonewitz, Class of 1944
George Howard Briear, Class of 1942
Calvin Lee Brissey, Class of 1942
Robert G. Chase, Class of 1943
Kenneth Richard Cloud, Class of 1949
Marvin Romaine Collins, Class of 1935
Rollin J. Cowles, Jr., Class of 1915
William A. Distelhorst, Jr., Class of 1942
Paul E. Ebert, Class of 1936
Michael Edward Flynn, Class of 1938
Charles E. Gardiner, Class of 1936
Max G. Gunsolley, Class of 1942
Harold S. Harris, Class of 1943
Lonnie Dean Hartsock, Class of 1964
James Edward Herin, Class of 1966
Chester E. Hills, former student
Ned Oscar Hunger, Class of 1939
Daryl Alan John, Class of 1968
Charles Thomas Koger, Class of 1968
Frank DeVere Latta, Class of 1928
Eugene O. Lee, former student
Michael Thomas Martin, Class of 1970
Howard Edward Morris, former student
Laverne J. Ploeger, former student
Eldon Prugh, Class of 1941
Melbourne Rieke, Class of 1938
Lavern K. Roth, Class of 1942
Robert S. Russell, Class of 1940
John William Salome, former student
Monty E. Snyder, former student
Glen R. Speidel, Class of 1943
Mahlon Stelle, Class of 1939
Merwyn Leroy Stratton, Class of 1951
Richard Wayne Suesens, Class of 1932
James H. Suman, Class of 1943
Michael Richard Tyrrel, Class of 1973
Norman Walker, Class of 1923
Delbert W. Webster, Class of 1936
Gelnn Edward Werhan, Class of 1947
Cleo Whorton, Class of 1942
David Lee Yoder, Class of 1967

What information I have collected, can be found on my web site
(www.military-heroes.com/burlington_high_school.htm). If anyone has any
information on
these heroes that they would like to share or knows of a hero not listed,
please
let me know. If you know a family member of one of these heroes, please
inform
them of the book and web site. Tom is also looking forward to hear from
them.

Richard Worthy

In a message dated 2/20/2005 4:30:13 PM Central Standard Time, donkelly@grovenet.net writes:

Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 8:13 PM

Subject: John Millross

Looking for a John Millross who is found in the 1856 Iowa state census and the 1860 US Census, living with a Harris Family in Union Township, Des Moines County. This is the family of Cooper Harris who died between 1856 and 1860. John's age is given as 17 (1856) and 19 (1860). He was from Canada. I do know that his parents died in 1848 in Des Moines County, Iowa. Any information regarding this individual would be most helpful.

Thank you

From: Lee Potter

I have one little piece of Arnold family connected to the George Winters family in Keokuk. Don't know if it connects as I haven't researched the Arnold family. I don't even know the birth dates of William Arnold and his wife.

1-William Benjamin ARNOLD
+Emma Ellen ???
. 2-Wilma Bertha Caroline ARNOLD
    b: 6 JAN 1915 in Alexandria, Clark Co., Missouri
. +George Swafford WINTERS
    b: 11 JUL 1905 in Morning Sun, Morning Sun twp., Louisa Co., IA
    m: abt 22 APR 1935 in Keokuk, Lee Co., IA
    d: 18 JUN 1985 in Keokuk, Lee Co., IA
. . . 3-Sandra Elaine WINTERS
        b: abt 5 OCT 1936 in Keokuk, Lee Co., IA
. . . 3-Kenneth George WINTERS
        b: 1 DEC 1937 in Gregory Landing, Clark Co., Missouri
. +Grover C. WALLS
    m: aft 1935

Thank you Robert.

For valued listers who do not know, we started a tombstone project for
DesMoines County Iowa in 1998 and have been posting transcribed records of
burials in this county since then, BUT we still have a long ways to go to
have a complete reference online of every cemetery in this county.

As a result of reading Robert's post below it reminded me that we have a
church section on this website that dates back to 1996. There has not been
much information posted to that file. A pastor in Reno Nevada provided some
church records for some German churches (Lutheran as I recal) in this county
which were posted to the Des Moines, IA website.

I invite everyone to pitch in and add to the church and the cemetery
records. And don't forget old photos. They have some genealogical value and
can often help researchers, BUT visitors just plain enjoy looking at old
photos. Photos of chapels or graveyards, or of monument transcriptions, when
received will all be added to the appropriate cemetery file.

Thank you all for your support of local genealogy on the internet. I love
what I do.

Don Kelly, admin
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From: "Robert L Webb" <bwebb9@juno.com
To: <IADESMOI-L@rootsweb.com
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 10:55 AM
Subject: [DES MOINES COUNTY] Old Stone Church/Cemetery near Sperry

Hi,
   I visited the site many years ago (probably about 1976-1978) and took
a picture of the old stone church. I don't remember the details but
remember that I was able to go inside, but failed to take any pictures of
the interior. I do have a much older photo of the church with a large
group of people in front of it, taken in (I think) 1907. We paid to have
the records of the church microfilmed, and have a copy of the film, as
well as the association of which the church was a part. From this film, I
have transcribed the names of the members and when they joined, and
entered it into a database. The church was organized in 1840, the
building was erected in 1847, as your website page shows. I met the lady
who got it registered on the National Register of Historic Places.
    I wonder if the church building is still standing and completely
intact. I suppose by now it would have needed to be reshingled since I
saw it last. Have had some people inquiring about going to see it in the
past two or three weeks, whose ancestors were members there.
     Robert Webb
      Carthage

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My Berry and Robinson families are from Franklin Township, Des
Moines
County and most buried in the Old Stone Church cemetery. Same
time period
as well. Can you connect any Arnolds to Berry, Robinson,
Grannaman, or
Pings?

The Des Moines Co. Genealogical Society has copied and published
information from the Des Moines Co. Marriage Books beginning with Book
No. 1, 15 Mar 1835. I do not know aoubt 1857, but it is worth a check.

Des Moines County Genealogical Society <http://www.dmcgs.com/
P.O. Box 493
Burlington, Iowa 52601

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I know that William Cole and Lusetta Buchanan were married in Des Moines Co. on Feb 12 1857
I am hoping that I could get a copy of this record in hopes of finding William's parents names.

If anyone could help please let me know
Thank you.

I know that William Cole and Lusetta Buchanan were married in Des Moines
Co. on Feb 12 1857. I am hoping that I could get a copy of this record in
hopes of finding William's parents names.

Iowa did not keep records that far back. Between my mother and ,I there as
been a 25 year+ search for the marriage of my great-grand parents. The only
thing we could find was a record from their Iowa minister to the new one in
Oklahoma stating that they were a couple and in good standing with the church.
They were married in 1871 in Washington County, IA. There is a CD that is
selling on EBay, and I contacted someone who purchased one and he told me
that the information for my family is on the CD but there is no primary source.
I would suggest attempting to find the church in Iowa and focusing in that
direction.
Bettye

Correctionville News; Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa; October 28, 1909

GUINAN
John A. Guinan an old resident of Woodbury county died at Danbury, Oct.
15. The Danbury Review says concerning him: "The deceased was born in King's
county, Ireland, in 1849, and came to this country when a boy. He spent some
time in the west in the earlier days and his wife died at Laramie, Wyo. in
1876. From there he went to Missouri and from there to this county in 1882
and located in Morgan township near the Midway postoffice where he owned
valuable farm property at the time of his death. About fifteen years ago he
moved to a farm adjoining the town of Danbury where he purchased another
fine tract of land. About a year ago his health began to fail and since that
time he has been cared for by his only child, John L. Guinan of Sioux City.
The deceased was a man of rugged character, honest and upright in all his
dealings with his fellow men.

Cathy Joynt Labath
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I am Calvin Huffman and I am looking for information about my great great grandfather, Jesse Huffman.

I need to find a death date and any other information for Jesse. I want to come to Burlington to check records. What type of material is in the library and or court house that might be helpful to me? What else can I do? How can I find some of this information? My funds are limited and I would like to make my trip fruitful. If you could lead me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

My e-mail is caldyan@mchs.com.

I found information on the internet that states Jesse married Margaret Hartman Jan. 27 1848. He , Margaret & their children are in the 1856 Iowa census and the 1860, 1870,federal census. Margaret died in 1872 and is buried in the North Walker Cemetery in Des Moines County. The 1880 census shows Jesse married to a Harriet (Webster). These census shows that Jesse was born in North Carolina and an Elizabeth (Eliza) Huffman, probably Jesse's mother, lived with them.

Is there anyway I can trace Jesse back to North Carolina. There are no records that I can find that tell where he came from exactly.

I would appreciate and tips or tidbits you can give me.

Thank You,

Calvin Huffman

Calvin & Dianne
caldyan@mchsi.com

From: "Kathy F." <Kathyfuhr@new.rr.com

Subject: Looking for Augusta Lutheran Church

Hi,

I have a January 1923 obit that states: "After arriving in this country he
came to Burlington and resided on a farm near Augusta. He was married to
Miss Christiana Peters in Burlington and she died May 7, 1922 in Augusta.
Mr. Dietz was a member of Lutheran Church of Augusta and was well known and
esteemed in this community."
Can anyone tell me what church in Augusta that is today?

Thank you,
Kathy

Barbara Buttz bbuttz@iowatelecom.net I am interested in any information about my GG grandparents William and Cynthia JEFFERSON. I know that he died in Des Moines County 15 Mar 1848. Some of the family ended up in Mercer County Mo. I would be interested in any information also about Andrew and Agnes RAMSEY, both born in 1808, and buried in Shiloh Cemetary. Thank you Barb

Surnames: Talbert / Dean
Classification: Query

James and Hester were both from Burlingtin in the early 1880's. They had a son, Charles in 1882, another son, Horace in 1888, and a son William in 1891. I believe there was a 4th child who did not survive. Hester was from Ohio origonaly and her father's name was Eli Dean. She had a sister named America and a brother Eli Jr. I can't find any information on James R. Talbert and know that be died between 1891 and 1899. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Surnames: Ament, Higgs, Huling, McKeever, Hull, Nelson, Nearhood, Davidson
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Looking for information on Orville E. Kelly, his parents were William E. Kelly and Leola Mae Thompson. Was adopted or raised by Charles H. Kinsley and his wife Evelyn Thompson of Burlington, Iowa..