Query: John Davis/Catherine Whitesel, Randolph County

     I am looking for John Davis, born 1840-1846 in Ohio; married Catherine Whitesel in 1881 in Randolph County, Indiana. They had a son Franklin T. Davis, born 1884 in Jackson Township, Randolph County.

Carol

5764 W Caffey Ln

Homosassa, FL 34446

carol6070@live.com

Query: Joseph & Ann Baylie, Lawrence County

            Joseph Baylie, my third Great Grandfather; born abt 1827 in Switzerland. Arrived in 1848 from Glasgow, Scotland; 1850 U S Census lived in Davidson County, Tennessee; 1880 U S Census Lived in Mitchell, Lawrence, Indiana. He was a confectionary (Baker).

            He had a daughter Sarah Ann Baylie, born 5 Mar 1862 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee. (My Great Grand Mother)

            She was married at the home of Joseph and Ann Baylie in Mitchell, Lawrence, Indiana, on 3 Aug 1886, to Charles Hyde Webster, my Great Grandfather. This is the last record of Joseph & Ann Baylie. They didn't appear in the 1900 census.

            I'm looking for any assistance to locate any information about their deaths.  I'm not sure how to collect land deed records. I would appreciate any guidance you could provide. Thanks

Charles K Webster

Postal Address: 13017 Fencerow Rd

Fort Worth, TX 76244-8103

ckweb@sbcglobal.net

Bible Question From The Kokomo Library

[Anyone have a good answer for Amy Russell in Kokomo?]      

      We offer a service of scanning family Bible genealogy pages for anyone who brings one in.  We ask if we can post their information publicly on our Howard County Memory Project.  Occasionally, someone will *gift* us with Bibles.  This is beginning to become a storage problem.  If the book itself has no historical value, with the exception of the family pages, is there a respectful way to get rid of the book? 

            I know this is a very touchy issue because I have tried to get an answer on disposing of Bibles with mold (in my personal collection).  I have been told that the books can be burned in the same manner a flag would be burned.  I have also been told to bury the books. 

            So, what do I do with the Bibles gifted to us and taking up space in storage? (After we *harvest* all the genealogically significant information.)

            Thanks for your insight,

Amy Russell

Head, Genealogy & Local History Dept

Kokomo-Howard County Public Library

220 N. Union St. Kokomo, IN 46901

765-626-0838

www.khcpl.org

http://howardcountymemory.net

Know Any Jewish Civil War Soldiers?

[We received this email about a Civil War demographic not usually mentioned. Pertain to your family?]

Good Morning,

        My name is Eliza Kolander, and I am writing to you on behalf of the Shapell Manuscript Foundation, with regards to our Roster Project, a comprehensive database of Jewish-American soldiers and sailors who fought in the Civil War for both the Union and the Confederacy. Our starting point was Simon Wolf’s 1895 The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen, and over the last decade, we’ve verified the names he included as Jewish or not, identified their accurate military service, and added more than a thousand soldiers that Wolf omitted.

        The result of more than 25,000 hours of research, we are convinced that the Shapell Roster will be of interest to academic scholars, descendants, and anyone interested in Jewish American history. We hope to engage the public with primary source material--the human side of history--while significantly modifying the scholarship on Jews in America in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

        Based on your mission, I thought that your organization might be interested in this project, which we hope to make available to the public for the first time in 2019. Our searchable database, which will be free to the public, will go live with a limited set of records. As we complete additional research, more records will become available. We are so excited, and hope institutions like yours will be, as well.

        Through my communication with you, I hope to connect with

• descendants whose ancestors served during the American Civil War and/or
• organizations and institutions with information and sources relating to Jewish-American Civil War Soldiers. 
• If you have any thoughts or questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.

Thank you,

Eliza Kolander

Shapell Roster Project

http://www.shapell.org/the-shapell-roster

Shapell Manuscript Foundation

eliza@shapell.org

Query: John A. Williamson, Marion County

      I am writing a family history of John A. Williamson, B. 1841, Kentucky. He is listed with his wife Susan on the 1880 census living on Brookside Avenue, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana.      

      They had 4 children, Annie A., Clara B., Ida M. (my husband's grandmother), and Bertha. I am interested in adding to the historical perspective of Indiana's pioneer families by publishing my research.

      Any sources interested in publishing histories of pioneer families that you can direct me to in Indiana would be most helpful. Thank you!

Dorothy Seehausen

366 West St. Joseph St. #14

Green Bay, Wisconsin

rseehausen@new.rr.com