Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Ball families, especially those descended from Francis Ball, of Springfield, Massachusetts, who died in 1648.

Melvin Hazel West was born 17 August 1911 in Girard, Macoupin, Illinois and died 25 September 1998. His parents were Thomas West and Ada Jackson. He married (1) Thelma Mae Redding, daughter of Arthur Redding and Mabel Miller, 21 December 1929 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. She was born 1 November 1911 in Athens, Menard, Illinois and died 25 January 1955. He married (2) Beryl Gladys Hazelwood 26 November 1955 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois....

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Jonas Phillips who was born ca. 1824 in Hawkins Co., Tennessee. He married Sarah Sally Sutton (daughter of Cornelius Sutton and Mary Jenkins) sometime prior to the year 1846 in Tennessee. They lived in Cocke Co., Tennessee and were the parents of fourteen children. Descendants lived in Tennessee, North Carolina, Ohio, Louisiana and elsewhere.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Poe (and variant spellings) families in America.

Chiefly a record of some of the ancestors and descendants of John Earl Swaim. John was born 3 Jun 1885. He married Camilla Blanche Munger 25 Nov 1910 in Spurgeon Wingo, Texas. She was born 2 Nov 1885 in Harvard, Illinois. She died 18 Feb 1958. He died 18 May 1965. They were the parents of four children. Descendants lived in Oklahoma, Illinois, and elsewhere. Ancestors include: Thys Barentsen (b. ca. 1621-1662/3), Willem Sweem (b. ca. 1676/7)...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Ramage (and variant spellings) families who are related to Chapman Truman Ramage (1864-1925). Some Ramage ancestors lived in Maryland in the 1700's, and moved to Virginia in the 1800's. Chapman's grandfather, Thomas C. Ramage was the first of his family to settle in Harrison County, West Virginia. Chapman's parents were William Notley and Rebecca V. Rider Ramage. In 1886, Chapman...

Augustas Oliver (1818-1887) was born in Georgia. In 1840 he married Elizabeth Emaline Hamrick and they were the parents of ten children. In about 1855 the family moved to Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Augustus served in the Confederate Army in the Civil War and was captured at Vicksburg. He then returned to farming in Alabama. Descendants and relatives lived in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, California, Georgia, Michigan and elsewhere.

Orange County, New York Wills made and Probated from 1814-1820. The names are as follows: Aaron Closson (Closon), Daniel Conkling, Joseph Bailey, Jacob Brown, Andrew Dickson, Richard Welling, Oliver Cosman, Sarah Baird, Ezekiel Roe, Alexander Duer, Eunice Mapes, Ebenezer Stephens, Samuel Mapes, Benjamin Brewster, Elizabeth Schoonmaker, Silas Youngs, David Cory, Huldy Boyd, Silas Horton, George McNish, and Stephen Sayer.

James Halstead was first mentioned in the records of Greenbrier, Virginia in 1787. The veterans headstone placed " ... on his gravesite at Indian Mills in Summers County "--P.3. in the government cemetery list his birth and death dates as 1740 to 1815. He may have migrated from North Carolina. He had three known sons and one daughter. "James and his sons John, Amos and Benjamin were found in many old records of Greenbrier and later Monroe County."--P....