Franklin County Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 353, Ottawa, Kansas 66067
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QUERIES, Volume 2, Number 3 - AUGUST 1994

Charles and Sandra M. Cain
2636 Florida Rd., Pomona, KS 66076 (785) 566-3586

Looking for information on the Cain, Kaub, Scovill(e), Blankenbeker, and Gettinger families. These families were early settlers in the Pomona, Kansas area. Charles paternal grandparents were Lewis and Marietta (Scoville) Cain. His maternal grandparents were John and Mary Alice (Blankenbeker) Gettinger, and Great Grandparents were Amanda (Roberts) and Benjamin Newton Blankenbeker.


Don E. Ireland
9813 Blue Jacket, Overland Park, KS 66214 (913) 888-9309

Looking for information about Elizabeth Chance who lived in Williamsburg Township about 1880.

 


Marian Cougher
5618 Park Hollow, Wichita, KS 67208
(316) 682-2051

Looking for information concerning Reuben Francis Moore. Reuben owned land in Peoria Township between 1870 and 1900. His wife was George Ann Pieratt. She is buried in Peoria Cemetery.


Earl P. Otto
2018 Brashem Ave., Bremerton, WA 98310

Looking for information on William Glidden who lived in Douglas County, KS. William was born in Ohio, and his wife Florilla Crawford Glidden born in New York. Florilla went to California eventually and lived with Lydia Ann Glidden Perkins, her daughter, in Modoc, CA. What happened to William? William Glidden was in Howard County, KS in 1870, living near John H. Perkins and his wife Lydia Ann.


Joseph Meyer
Box 30A, Brussels, IL 62013
(618) 883-2298

I am searching for someone who knew of or is a relative of Mrs. Anna Sexton, who lived in Centropolis at that time her brother Robert A. Harmon passed away, June 17, 1941 in Kansas City, KS. My wife is the great grandaughter of Robert and we need to find out about his other relatives and his first wife.


Michael Worden
Rt. 1, Box 79, Perry, KS 66073
(800) 657-7251

Looking for information on Jasper Baker, born October 3, 1839, died August 11, 1916. Buried in Dean Cemetery.

 


QUERIES, Volume 2, Number 4


 

Charles E. Butler
2407 Ave. D, Wichita Falls, TX 76309-2323

Looking for information about my Great Grandparents, Ellick L. Butler and Nannie Lynn Butler. My dad was born in Ottawa in October 1909.


Adelia Rice
Box 943, Elkhart, KS 67950

Looking for information about a relative named Emily Adelade Johnson, who at one time lived in Ottawa. She moved to Mexico in 1911. Emily represented us as "Miss Kansas" at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1893.


Arralien Hoagland
6540 Sequoia Dr., Buena Park, CA 90620

Looking for information about Lewis Davidson who lived in Franklin Township in the 1870's.


Ruby Barclay Johnson
732 Uranium Ct., NE , Rio Rancho, NM 87124
(800) 218-3952

Looking for information about: Ephraim Barclay, James Barclay, Cora Lee Maddox Barclay (James and Cora were in Oklahoma by 1900), Thomas D. Smith, son of Albert G. Smith and Dora Lee Akers Smith, Dora the daughter of Joel Akers Jr. (left Kansas in 1897 to move to Oklahoma).


Verna M. Williams
13688 Sun Forest Dr., Penny Valley, CA 95946
(916) 432-9166

Looking for information about the Minnick and Hopkins families who were in the Centropolis area in the 1860's.


Tom Glickman
5253 Pleasant Hall Court, Virginia Beach, VA 23464-2647
(916) 432-9166

Looking for information about: Ezekial & Elizabeth Bunyan, 1870s in Ottawa area; Hugh & Pollie Wyant Gilliland, 1870's in the Ottawa area; Michael & Julia McCarthy O'Flaherty (Flaherty), 1870's to 1950's in the Emerald community south of Williamsburg, and Edmund & Julia Sullivan McCarthy, 1868 to 1910 in Melvern Township, Osage County. Would appreciate hearing from any members who may have researched or belong to any of the families, particularly Gillilands.


Thelma Ricker Cooper
713 Randall, Ridgecrest, CA 93555

also Cheryl Edwards

Looking for information concerning David M. Ricker and James S. Ricker. James S. and his wife Agnes are buried in Highland Cemetery, he died in 1906. David M. died in 1879 and is buried in old Methodist cemetery near the Homewood exit off I-35. James wife Rebecca died in 1883 and is buried at Waterville, KS.