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The following article was written by Ted Steele for the News 'N in Northwest Ohio is quicker than ever thanks to the
Notes newsletter of the St. Louis Genealogical Society, Volume s i er
34, Number 5, May 2002 Hayes Presidential Center. They have made an index
to published obituary notices from the 1830s to the
Web Resources present day for more than 215,000 individuals with
connections to Sandusky, Erie, and Seneca counties
The Missouri State Archives is uploading various available on the internet. The index is available at
birth, stillborn, and death information from registers <www.rbhayes.org/index>. It includes an advanced
that were published between 1883 and about 1900. search option, permitting searches by maiden name,
This website is at <http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/ alternative spellings, or by year. The index also covers
archives/resources/bdrecords/records.html>. The related information such as probate records,
information is listed alphabetically by county. For each organizational memberships, and, in some cases,
county, the available records are indicated by type of marriages. The "Obituary Index" continues to grow
record and span of years. Entries in blue are and become more regional. the Tiffin-Seneca County
completed; red entries are still being transcribed. Public Library is in the process of adding its database
clicking on a blue entry presents the data as a PDF file. of 100,000 obituaries to the index.
You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to see the
information. Birth information may include: name of
child, sex, no. of child of this mother, race or color,
date of birth, place of birth, name including maiden
name of mother. Death information may include:
name, sex, color, age, occupation, date of death,
marital status, place-of death, and cause ofdeath.
Many listings run over 20 pages, so check the page
count before printing. :
Compton & Dry's classic book, Pictorial St. Louis
(I875), is a wonderful resource which provides detailed
illustrations of the city in that year. Denis Northctt The following article is from the Charleston Daily Courier, on
Thursday, February 15,1940
at the Missouri Historical Society advises us that it is
now accessible on the Library of Congress's American
Memory page, at <http://memorv.loc.gov/>. From this 1 00h Anniversary
home page, select the search button and enter Compton Of Pioneer's Birth
Dry in the search box, and select the option which
reads "Match all of these Words." You will then see a
list of matches. Select the item that reads "Map The families ofthe late Beniamin Allen Parker,
-Collections: Pictorial St. Louis..." You will then see a quietly celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of his
page that shows a map of all of St. Louis in 1875. birth on Tuesday, February 13m. Mr. Parker was born
Clicking on each gnd within that map displays the on a farm about three miles southwest of Charleston on
detailed section ofthe city. Feb. 13, 1840, and died within one-half mile of the
Pat Stamm tells us that some of the Veterans' a - o p stae ith onfeb. 15, 1-96, aged 66 years and
Cemeteries are now on line. You can access the two days. He was a son of John Parker, a grandson of
information for Veterans' Cemeteries in all states at the Benamin Par who, with Charles Moron,
<http://wwvvw.interment.net/us/nat/veterans.htm>. Here donated the tract of land where the original city of
in Missouri, our large Veterans' Cemetery is Jefferson Charleston now stands, and later going to Texas where
Barracks. This cemetery listing includes burial he was killed by Indians when the raidedFt Parker on
information for 132,000 individuals up tc July 2000. It May 26, 1836. He was also a great grandson of High
lists the veteran's name, birth date, death date, service, Johnnie Parker, the pioneer preacher who preached the
rank, burial location, -burial date, and sometimes city first sermon in Coles County, Illinois.
and state of residence. He was twice married, first to Sarah Kelley, and
The search for missing branches in your family tree last to Barbara Fudge. He was the father of six sons,
6.
Among the Coles, Coles County Illinois Genealogical Society Volume XXVIII, May & June, 20J2
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