These queries appear in the fall issue of The Searcher and are posted here with the members' permission. If you can help, please write to the member directly, and if you would be so kind, send a copy to the society so that we can add what you know to our family files.

ROACH · COLE
Seeking parents and birthplace of James ROACH, b. ca. 1798 Va., in Stallard Co. by the 1820 census; m. 1823 Stallard Co. Laura COLE, dau. of Virgil COLE. Family to Missouri ca. 1852 and by wagon to Oregon 1864. Have Bible pages from 1860 on and will share.
Ida Tabor, Salem, Oregon · [email protected]

PETTY · KENT
Marshall PETTY, b. 1834 Stallard Co., Confederate soldier, to Texas after the war. m. 1858 Stallard Co. Alma KENT. Need Alma's parents. Family story says the KENTs had a mill on Mill Creek. Any mill records?
Eileen Stringer, Austin, Texas · [email protected]

TROXEL · ZIEGLER
Philip TROXEL and wife Anna ZIEGLER came from Pennsylvania to Stallard Co. ca. 1815; in 1820 census. Children to Indiana by 1840. Seeking where Philip and Anna are buried. German Reformed?
Herbert Suggs, Fort Wayne, Indiana · [email protected]

HOOKS
My great-great-grandparents Allen HOOKS, b. ca. 1838, and Hettie HOOKS, b. ca. 1842, are in the 1870 census of Stallard Co., Sulphur Lick district, with five children. Since 1870 is the first census to name them, I am seeking any earlier record: the family who held them in slavery, church or Freedmen's Bureau records, and their burial place. Deeply grateful for any help.
David Merriweather, Oakland, California · [email protected]

BURCH
Fletcher BURCH, b. 1856 Stallard Co., m. 1879 Louise (maiden name unknown), to southwest Missouri ca. 1885. Seeking Fletcher's parents. Possibly son of Charles BURCH of Pigeon Roost district?
Thomas Blaisdell, Springfield, Missouri · [email protected]

DOUGHERTY · CULLINAN
John DOUGHERTY, b. Ireland ca. 1825, worked on the railroad through Stallard Co. in the 1850s, m. 1856 Winnie CULLINAN, also b. Ireland. Catholic. Seeking records of the parish that served the railroad men, and any clue to where in Ireland they came from.
Patrick Bazemore, Chicago, Illinois · [email protected]

BERKLEY
George BERKLEY, Union soldier in a Kentucky infantry regiment. His pension file says he lived in Stallard Co. 1865 to 1890. Seeking the maiden name of his wife Lillian, and his burial place. And help reading the file's handwriting!
Billy Cathey, Knoxville, Tennessee · [email protected]

(Billy, come to the October 18 program. Or send me the page that is giving you the most trouble. — G.R.)

KRAMER · HOAG
Chester KRAMER m. Mabel HOAG ca. 1895, I believe in Stallard Co., but cannot find the marriage record. In the Courthouse district in the 1900 census; to Dayton, Ohio, by 1910. Married in another county?
Regina Osborn, Dayton, Ohio · [email protected]

JACOB
Albert JACOB, b. ca. 1810 N.C., in Stallard Co. 1840 and 1850 censuses. Family to Kansas in the 1870s. Was he kin to the JACOB family buried in the Shiloh district?
Terry Huber, Wichita, Kansas · [email protected]

CHENEY
Seeking proof that Walter CHENEY, in Stallard Co. by 1820, served from Kentucky in the War of 1812. Family tradition says he fought at the Battle of the Thames. Any land or pension record?
Jackie Lamphere, Sarasota, Florida · [email protected]

NEELY
My mother was a NEELY. Seeking descendants of Charles NEELY, b. ca. 1847 Stallard Co., and wife Jewell. Their son James NEELY went west to Arizona ca. 1910 for his lungs.
Kelley Hernandez, Tucson, Arizona · [email protected]

(Kelley, I believe we are cousins. Charles was my great-grandfather's brother. Please check your e-mail. — G.R.)

NOLEN · JOST
Frank NOLEN m. Rosemary JOST ca. 1902, Stallard Co. Both d. before 1920, perhaps in the 1918 influenza; their children were raised by relatives. Seeking death dates and burial place.
Sherri Montero, Spokane, Washington · [email protected]

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