march 2003 belcher blues





    Welcome to the Belcher Blues Newsletter for March 2003.
    This months focus is on California Research.
    Many people went to California during the Gold Rush days and when the dust bowl hit Oklahoma and surrounding states, many traveled to California for jobs.
    the movie,"The Grapes of Wrath" depicts this so very well.

    We also have a special page of Kentucky marriages from 1851-1900.
    All marriages are not listed but a lot of them are, so check it out.
    We have included in the marriages of Kentucky, surnames: Belcher, O'Dell,Ramey,Chaney,May,Slone,Potter,Polley,Drake,Bentley,Looney,Wells,Wallace,Mullins, Church, Clevinger, King, and Bishop.

    April's research will be on Oregon, Washington State, and Montana. So if you have anything to contribute in those areas or any other, please send it along.

    editors:
    Gayl Wells
    Greg Belcher



    California Research



    Kentucky Marriages 1851-1900

    List of Surnames included:
    Belcher, Ramey, Chaney, O'Dell, King, May, Childers, Looney, Church, Carty, Bishop, Clevenger, Mullins, Francisco, Polley, Potter, Rains, Slone, Wallace, Wells, Barrett, and Hawkins.

    Kentucky Land Records



    Sir Edward Belcher






    Inquiries


     Hi I am trying to find info on my uncle Herman Belcher.I know he settled in Snohomish Washington,He married Edith Hall she was b 1916 and died in abt 1995 I do not know if Herman married Edith in WV or Ohio because her family was from WV but later moved to ohio I have all of Ediths family line,And I know Edith and Herman had a son named Albert anyone connected to this family I would love to hear from you.will gladly share what I have.
    Thank you Lois Hall Downour
    Roseville
    E-Mail

    Looking for relatives from Grundy Virginia
    Buchannan County on my mothers side, Lois Belcher Strunk
    Bart and Dollie Owens Belcher
    Martha A. Woesner
    West Alexandria Ohio
    E-Mail

    I am searching for the Rameys that tie into the Potters. Any info on this line. Would be Pressley Ramey; James Ramey m.Sarah Vazey in Missouri or Virginia.
    Dorothy Bower E-Mail
    Kansas

    My grandmother was leona potter,dauthter of Amazar Potter and Dora May. Connie Strahl E-Mail
    Hilliard,ohio

    looking for information on Simeon Belcher
    born 24 June 1831 in Claiborne County Tennessee died 1888 in lee county Va.
    Married: Celia Testerman in 1865? daughter Synthia (Sarah) born 1869 Walden Creek, Lee County Va. Married Floyd Owens in 1887.
    Their Daughter Sarah Vada Owens born 1898 Newman Ridge Lee County married Richard Haywood Evans
    Thanks for your time.
    Michell D. Jones
    E-Mail

    I'm looking for Albert Lee Belcher of West Virginia
    ,Thomas Belcher or Billy Belcher,this was my father ,grand father and great grand father .I live in Fayette co,W,V. My father wasborn in Fayette co ,I think my grand father was born in Kanawha co. on Campbells Creek I seem to be getting nowhere if you could help I would really thank you...
    Tim Belcher
    E-Mail

    I and my family are from Union County Illinois. My great grandfather was named George Washington Belcher born around 1852 in Kentucky or Tennessee, I think. He married a lady named Charity ? from Pope County Illinois in the 1870�s or 1880�s. They had several children one of whom was named Roy, who is my grandfather. Roy had a brother, along with several other siblings, named Alvin and both lived in the Mississippi river bottoms near Wolf Lake, Illinois. They were tenant farmers. Roy and Alvin were among the youngest, if not the youngest, of their family. I would like to know if this George Washington Belcher (my great grandfather) is related to the George Washington Belcher in Belcher, Kentucky or one of the Kentucky George Washington�s brothers? My family in Illinois were all illiterate and so records were not kept and I can�t seem to locate a line back before my great grandfather.
    Thank you very much for any assistance you may be able to give me in my search.
    Terry Belcher
    E-Mail

    I'm a Belcher, father;Henry Monroe Belcher of Cedar Springs Mo. Mother Lola McMillin also from Cedar Co. Mo. They married April 1931. Henry is said to have time in prison for making and selling beer. Not been able to locate any records. Do you have any ideas where to look?
    Also Lolas ggrandfather, Aaron McMillen served prison time for murder of Jack Logsdon, from Saline Co. Mo. in 1848. He was pardened in 1850. Story goes that Aarons oldest son John McMillen was really the killer, John was married to Ruth Logsdon sister to Jack Logsdon.
    Are you aware of a place to research news paper articles?
    Most all of Aarons family moved from Boone Co. Mo. to Cedar Co. Mo. and changed the spelling of McMillen to McMillin.
    I would be most grateful for any help. Thank You, June
    E-Mail

    My Grandmother Alma I Hughes was born to a George Washington Belcher from MO. She was born in Cass county to be exact. He died in Oct? 1949 in Delheart Texas on the train on the way out to California to see be with his daughter Alma for the birth of her first child. Anyway I would appreciate it if there is any way you could help me trace down this connection..
    Thank You
    ML Gage
    great great granddaughter of George Washington Belcher
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    Man's Quest for Wisdom
    1  Surely there is a vein for the silver,
            
    and a place for gold where they fine it.
    2  Iron is taken out of the earth,
            
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    and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:
    8  the lion's whelps have not trodden it,
            
    nor the fierce lion passed by it.
    9  He putteth forth his hand upon the rock;
            
    he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
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    12  But where shall wisdom be found?
            
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    13  Man knoweth not the price thereof;
            
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    20  Whence then cometh wisdom?
            
    And where is the place of understanding?
    21  seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living,
            
    and kept close from the fowls of the air.
    22  Destruction and death say,
            
    We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
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    and seeth under the whole heaven;
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    and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
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    he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
    28  And unto man he said,
            
    Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; Ps. 111.10 · Prov. 1.7 ; 9.10
    and to depart from evil is understanding.