January 1 - January 28,
2010
If you've found
something useful on this website, please consider
sharing one of your own treasures with us all .....
an obit, photo, cemetery transcription .... just
about anything that pertains to Clayton co. families
and their historical setting can be added to this
website. I wish everyone the very best in their
family search in 2010 and am looking forward to
hearing from many of you this coming year!
~Sharyl Ferrall, Clayton co. IAGenWeb
volunteer coordinator
- Amazing website! Thanks so much! ....
researcher in southern Cal.
- You and your volunteers are to be
congratulated, I've just started making
my way through the information and am
very impressed ..... Audrey in New Jersey
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A huge Thank-you to our January contributors: Mary
Durr, Bill Griesinger, Terry Sargent, Joye Kohl, Glen
Stevenson, Paul Moritz, Mary
Cameron, Judy Holthaus, Connie, Schaefers, Joyce
Reilly and a 'volunteer'
BIOGRAPHIES - 1894
*Reuben S. Huntington, F.H. Bruns, Christian
S. Maxon, Gregor McGregor, Thomas H. Studebaker,
Frederick Aulwes & Jacob Clark
BIOGRAPHIES - misc.
*Jerome Yearous
CEMETERY RECORDS & GRAVESTONE
PHOTO PROJECT
*Updated the cemetery index, Mt. Olivet
cemetery & St. Mary's Guttenberg pages to clarify
the relationship & locations of these cemeteries
*Updated the Griesinger information for Illyria
cemetery
*Gravestone photos from Illyria cemetery
DOCUMENTS
- misc.
*Luana buffalo herd sold, 1905
MILITARY & OTHER SERVICE RECORDS
*WWII casualties page updated with photos &
additional information about Robert V. Fry
OBITUARIES
*94 new obits were posted to the Obituary Board in
January, some with photos
PHOTO
ALBUM
*Zahn family album
*Kohl family album
*Guttenberg views album, added photo of the Lakeside
Ballroom
*William Brown family album
*Oelke family album was updated, added photo of the
Henry & Elsabea Heesch family
*Schafer/Schaefers album was
updated - this 'mystery' photo has been positively
identified!
SCHOOL RECORDS
*Heddleson school, District #5, Cass twp., photos of
school children
SURNAME REGISTRY
*Ferol McQuarrie has registered surname Chilson /
Chillson. Sumner Chester Chilson was his grandfather
(wife was Mary McCrae). He's trying to find the names
of all their children.
*A researcher has registered surname Gutheil.
Rearching Gutheil's in and around Clayton County
*Elizabeth Stack has updated her email address for
surname Moser
OFF-SITE DATA that
will be of interest to Clayton co. researchers (all
links open in a new browser window)
*Be sure to check the Allamakee co. Obit board, the Delaware co. Obit board and Dubuque co. Obit board. Lots of people in these neighboring
counties had connections to Clayton county.
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