Via Wikipedia: Vincent Joseph Dunker (6 December 1878 – 11 March 1974) was a photographer, inventor and camera manufacturer who began his career in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri in the late 1890s. Dunker built a wide variety of cameras, contact printers, photo enlargers, and photo booths over a period of thirty-seven years. In 1924 he began production of his specialty, long roll film cameras [...]
Category: Genealogies
John Patterson was living in the Saline township of Ste. Genevieve County just east of Coffman, MO, when he died in 1847. (Will Probated 31 day August 1847.) He had obtained the patents for his Missouri homestead in the mid 1820s and he had probably been living on the land as early as 1818 and [...]
Allen W. Holloman was the eldest child of Mary Barrett and Edmund Holloman. He was born New Year’s Day 1805 in Raleigh, NC. When he was about two years old, his parents moved to Tennessee and when he was five years old his parents joined a wagon train led by “Bent” or “Ben” Counts that [...]
Abner S. Holloman was the second child of Mary Barrett and Edmund Holloman. He was born in 1807 soon after his parents had moved to Tennessee from North Carolina. When he was about three years old, his parents joined a wagon train headed from east Tennessee to Missouri. Not long after his family settled down [...]
Edmund Holloman and Mary Barrett named their third son for Mary’s younger brother John S. Barrett who had migrated from east Tennessee to Missouri along with the Holloman family. Young John B. Holloman was born in late 1812 soon after the Holloman family moved from the earthquake devastated area in the Cape Girardeau district to [...]
Elizabeth Holloman was the oldest daughter of Edmund Holloman and his wife Mary Barrett. Elizabeth was born in 1816 about four years after her family settled in the “New Tennessee Settlement” in Ste. Genevieve County Missouri. Her mother undoubtedly enlisted Elizabeth’s help with cleaning house, preparing meals and helping with the younger children when Elizabeth [...]
Thomas Right Holloman was the fourth son of Mary Barrett and Edmund Holloman. He was born in 1818 near Avon, MO. It is very likely that his devoutly religious mother Mary named him for the stirring Rev. Thomas Wright who was the itinerant preacher assigned in 1817 and 1818 to her Methodist-Episcopal community, designated at [...]
Mary Ann Holloman, born about 1820 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO, was the second daughter of Mary Barrett and Edmund Holloman. She probably enjoyed a happy and carefree childhood until her youngest sibling Edmund Wesley (E. W.) Holloman was born when she was about five. By the time she was six, her mother would have [...]
Edmund Wesley Holloman, youngest child of Mary Barrett and EdmundHolloman, was born in 1825 on his parentsâ homestead near Avon in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO. By 1832 his family had moved to a new homestead near Coffman, MO. As E. W. grew up, he received a fairly good education, learning to read and write. He [...]
The Family History Of Thomas Cheesbrough and Jane Patterson By Inez Audrey Cheesebrough Steffee Thomas Cheesbrough, a man of English ancestry came to the United States in July 19, 1834 on the Ship “Virginian” from Liverpool England . He traveled from the New York port alone across country to Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. I have [...]
compiled by Lynn Fusinato – 2008 William HOLMES was born in Maryland on 01-23-1777 during the turbulence of the Revolutionary War. After the war, he was raised somewhere in Pennsylvania. Almost nothing is known of his life before his mid-twenties. Even the given names of his parents, step-parent and half-siblings are unknown (although, reportedly, one [...]
compiled by Lynn Fusinato – 2008 Documents included: Page from Family Bible of Robert B. Blackwell & wife Sarah C. McFarland According to an obituary of the Rev. John McFarland that appeared in the “Western Christian Advocate” issue published Jan. 15, 1847, John was born sometime between 1782 and 1783 and died in Ste. Genevieve [...]
compiled by LynnFusinato 2008 Jesse Blackwell of Goochland Co. VA married young Elizabeth “Betty” Smith, daughter of John and Elizabeth Smith, in early 1783. Betty’s parents signed the marriage bond on Feb 25, 1783, in Chesterfield Co. VA giving permission for their daughter to marry, indicating that Betty was under 21 years old at that [...]
Compiled by Lynn Fusinato – 2008 Thomas Madden reportedly was an Irishman who migrated to the American Colony of Maryland before the American Revolution. He is thought to have been born around 1761 but census data indicates that he may have been born as early as the 1740s. According to some of his McClanahan-McGready descendents, [...]
The following photos are owned by Gretchen Wolf-Yahnig, please contact her if you are connected to this family at wolfoffl at msn.com. Sophia Gillenberg ThomureKaskaskia Island1889 (?) Jacob Gillenberg’s daughters:Sophia Gillenberg Thomure, Mary Gillenberg Cambron (my great-great-grandmother), and Elizabeth Gillenberg BeisGillenberg Homestead, Kaskaskia Island1885 (?) The Gillenberg Homestead, Kaskaskia IslandHome of Jacob and Wilhelmina Gillenberg1880 [...]
Please contact Peggy Boyer Moore with or for more information at (Enable Javascript to see the email address). James Brazier Griffard 1850-1890, s/o Louis Andre Griffard and Mary Anne Heberle. He married Mary Emily Thomure, d/o Francois Xavier Thomure and Aglais Dorlac. They had a farm at River Aux Vases and baptized 9 children at [...]
The following photos were all submitted by Janet, please contact her at (Enable Javascript to see the email address) with information. Pauley Boyer is suppose to be on the right and Gus Z. Portell on the left. They are at their tiff mine. Washington Co, MO Francis Champ and Virgie Politte Washington Co, MO Francis [...]
This photo was submitted by Jeff Calliotte. For more information, questions, etc, please contact him at (Enable Javascript to see the email address). This is Peter Calliotte (1888 – 1935) and Philomena (1890 – 1923). Both of them died in train accidents, twelve years apart.
These were submitted by Diane Karr. If you are connected, have questions, etc, please contact her at (Enable Javascript to see the email address). William B Isbell / Molly Bequette IsbellMarried Oct 26 1894Children Hester Arwin IsbellAllie Isbell Mary (Molly) Bequette Isbellb.Oct 5th 1873d.Feb 27th 1917Daughter of Joseph Bequette/Luvinia Thomason Luvinia Thomason Bequette [...]
With this site gaining in popularity, people have started to request that their family genealogies be posted somewhere. If you are wanting to post some information on your family, yet it’s more than you feel should be posted in the surname queries and less than you feel would warrant a family tree website, this is [...]