Surname Locations
Scotland, Ireland, Germany, France; in the U. S.: Delaware, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Louisiana, Illinois and Missouri
Best genealogy moment
Discovering the young clerk in a retail store was actually related to me! I returned an item and, when the clerk signed her name as "Hunter," I told her THAT was my maiden name. I asked her where her family was from and she looked confused and said Missouri. I explained I was doing research in family history and asked her where her family came from before they lived in Missouri. When she answered, "Indiana," I almost fell over. "Me, too--what county?" "Daviess county." It was an OMG moment: her great-great-grandfather and mine were brothers!
Specialty
Genealogical research; history--and relating it to the time period in which my ancestors lived
Time in history
1700-1755 in Scotland; 1755-present in the U. S.; mid-1800s in Ireland; mid-1700s in France, then to U. S. after 1790; late 1800s in Italy, then to U. S. after 1880; late 1700s to early mid- 1800s in Germany, then to U. S. after 1845.
Hobbies
Genealogy and family history; history and researching; reading; gardening
Music
Celtic; almost anything--except heavy metal, hip-hop, rap and gangsta
Books
Gone With the Wind; The Hobbit and One Ring series; anything Patricia Cornwell, Sue Grafton, or Janet Evanovich write
Movies
John Wayne Westerns: especially, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande; the Thin Man series, with William Powell and Myrna Loy; The 10 Commandments, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Z, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and, of course, Meet Me in St. Louis
TV
HG-TV--it's almost always on; TCM; Prison Break; Lost; The Closer; Burn Notice
The following deaths are taken from the 4 Jan. 1881 issue of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. These are NOT a continuation of my on-going posts on 'The Noted Dead,' but are new information.
Again, please note that I do NOT have any further information on these names, unless the person is a family member of mine.
Yesterday's Mortality
The following deaths were reported to the Board of Health yesterday (3 Jan. 1881.)
Rose McGintey, aged 73 years, at 1124 North Fourteenth street, of old age.
Nicholas Pahl, aged 50 years, at 803 South Second street, of cholera morbus.
George Jenkins, aged 42 years, at 3238 North Tenth street, accidently shot.
Bartley Riley, aged 30 years, at Sisters' Hospital, of meningitis.
Robert Pratt, aged 38 years, at 1254 Collins, of bowel disease.
Lizzie Finnegan, aged 60 years, at 2305 Division street, of apoplexy.
Louisa Beggs, aged 21 months, at 2727 Eliott av., of pneumonia.
Bernhard H. Rahmeir, aged 66 years, at 2609 North Fourteenth street, of paralysis.
Henry Lindner, aged 32 years, at 1607 Cass av., paralysis.
Wm. Hippe, aged 35 years, at 3313 North Thirteenth street, of fever.
Hanora Geraghty, aged82 years, at 921 North Twenty-first street, of old age.
Thomas Michaels, aged 58 years, at 1016 North Tenth street, of consumption.
E.H. Docter, aged 59 years, at Ninth and Exchange, congestion of the brain.
Here's hoping someone might find that elusive ancestor!
Continuing a partial listing of deaths in St. Louis in 1880....
April
April 2. Rev. Louis Padberg, aged 23, at 3901 Jefferson avenue, of pneumonia.
April 6. George R. Taylor,
one of the wealthiest and best-known citizens of St. Louis, at his
residence, No. 1804 Lucas place, of cerebral congestion, in his 61st
year.
April 17. Robert L. Jones, aged 64 years, of pneumonia. Mr. Jones was an old citizen and a member of the first House of Degelates.
April 22. Edward Nugent and H. J. Redemeier, dislocation of cerebral vertebrae.
April 22. Barlett Barber, a colored man, born in Virginia, living on Belgrade avenue, of gangrene of the leg, at the advanced age of 102 years.
April 27. Christian Gebhard, aged 85, at 2616 Carondelet avenue.
May
May 2. Eberhard Anheuser, founder and principal proprietor of Anheuser's Brewery; death caused by effects of a surgical operation at Eighth and Pestalozzi; deceased was 75 years of age.
May 9. James G. Barry, aged 80, at 1340 Chouteau avenue.
May 18. Emma Chase, a noted courtesan, at St. John's Hospital.
May 18. John D. S. Ferrier, the first colored lawyer of St. Louis, aged 26.
May 22. Sister Mary O'Callaghan, of the Convent of Scred Heart, aged 36.
Oh my goodness! I sure hope your broken bones are well on their way to being healed and healthy by now! I've been off-line more than on for a few weeks . . . I'm here in jumps and spurts. Life does that with or without broken limbs, doesn't it?!
My husband and I both have Scottish heritage. He is a "Shand". I am a Scotch-Irish "Wilson".
We have a little of our research from the 'motherland' but just about enough just to get us in trouble probably. . . . LOL!
Take care and thanks for sharing the "hunters" symbolism with me - Extremely Cool!
"Howdy" from a newbie to AncestralSpace! I enjoyed reading your profile page & I look forward to getting to know you & everyone better as we put some 'puzzles' together.
Maybe it's already been addressed . . . but this snoopy newbie's gonna ask anyway: I love your avatar, but don't recognize the symbol. May I ask if you might share the story?
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Herstory n' History7:54 PM