These are the people that are my main brick walls.  I can track back to them, but either have trouble confirming their parents are just can’t find anything about who their parents were.  There are obviously a lot more places I can’t track back, but these are in the closest generations to me.  I’ll add more info on them later.
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Gospel Herald – Volume XLVIII , Number 19 – May 10, 1955 ­ page 454, 455.

Berkey, — Sarah Jane (Whitney), was born June 21, 1878, at Bertrand, Nebr.; passed away at McMinnville, Oreg., April 11, 1955; aged 76 y. 9 m. 20 d. She had been in poor health for some time. On Jan. 10, 1894, she was united in marriage to Henry Berkey, who preceded her in death by 7 years. About 1903 they moved to Jasper Co., Mo., where they united with the Mennonite Church near Oronogo, Mo. In 1907 they moved to Wyoming where they lived until 1935, when they moved to Sheridan, Oreg. She is survived by 4 sons and 3 daughters (Samuel, Filer, Idaho; Oliver, Sheridan; John J., Pendleton, Oreg.; Chester, Buhl, Idaho; Mrs. Cordehlia Bush, Denver, Col.; Leah Phoenix, Torrance, Calif.; Katherine Ervin, Salem, Oreg.), 18 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and one sister (Mrs. Josephine Callwell, Burns, Wyo.) She was much interested in spiritual things and was faithful to her Lord and Saviour. Funeral services were conducted by G. D. Shenk and D. F. Shenk.

BTW the site looks MUCH better if viewed in FIREFOX.

Ok, I did something REALLY stupid and made the rootspersona part of the website go BOOM and have to be reset so links in some of the recent posts to people, pics etc might not work but anything newer than this should.

I’ve gotten annoyed by the sharp rise in spam lately. I use Akhismet to keep it down, but 500 in a week was crazy. ANyway, if you want to post a comment you now have to create a user id and log into the site. Probably just means now I’ll have 500 new users all spammers…but we’ll see….cheers!!!

uh-oh…I love rootspersona but the latest upgrade whacked out the pictures sizes on here. If you go to peoples pages the first picture seems to be HUGE!! or at least the ones I looked at tonight. still it’s an AWESOME plugin check it out at rootspersona

Men and Regiments Assigned to Remove Cherokee's in 1832 – Tennessee Trails.

Israel Blagg and Jefferson Blagg are listed. Israel gets a land grant in Arkansas due to his service.

Blog entry about Bethlehem Cemetery in Washington County Arkansas. There’s several family members from different branches of my family buried there. Kind of interesting they were in the same place generations before their descendants married. Check out the photo and info on Martha Muse Oliver and her husband Benjamin Franklin Johnson. She was the granddaughter of two Revolutionary War veterans. Thomas West and Mary Renshaw’s tombstones are also featured.

Escape to the Silent Cities: Bethlehem Cemetery – First Public Cemetery In Washington County Arkansas.

Lucille Blagg would have been 100 today. Happy birthday Grandma, miss you.

Notice of Brillhart reunion and info on Valentine and Susanah Doremire Brillhart

The Fort Scott Tribune – Google News Archive Search.

From Braille Monitor April 1959

Our Kansas affiliate suffered another great loss with the passing of Miss Lillian Blagg, who had been its recording secretary for more than 14 years. Miss Blagg was one of the first blind people to be employed in industry in Kansas.