[or-roots] Keep answering those queries

[glenkc7mbm at comcast.net]

Ronda
That was great work, have you been to the Clark County Genealogical Society yet, not sure when I will be working the Library in January.
Glen

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Glen A. Jones

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From: "Ronda Howard" <whizinc at comcast.net> 

> Hi everyone, 
> I just wanted to tell you the end of this story. Eija sent a query to this 
> list in August. Thanks to Sue's information, my Dad copied two obits and a 
> couple of pages out of the cemetery book for Mt. Solo Cemetery in Longview 
> and sent them to me. I misplaced them until this week while cleaning for 
> Christmas. I scanned them and emailed them to Eija. She replied and said 
> there was a cousin living in Vancouver which is where I live. So I called 
> them up, then took them four pages of our email correspondence. It turns 
> out the Ina we were researching is this cousin's Mother. She had lost Ina's 
> address book with all her Finnish relatives after Ina's death. All this to 
> say that the American cousins are getting in touch with their Finnish 
> cousins. What a joy to be part of it! 
> Merry Christmas to all! 
> Ronda 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sue Steward" 
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 6:02 AM 
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] thanks Suo for Simonson 
> 
> 
> > Okay, here's your information. Since you mentioned that Richard was 
> > buried 
> > in Cowlitz County, Washington, I looked up that way. 
> > 
> > 1930 Federal Census 
> > Kelso, Cowlitz County, Washington 
> > Joe Simonson b. ca 1891 Washington Head 
> > Ina Simonson b. ca 1897 Wife 
> > Hazel Simonson b. ca 1917 Daughter 
> > Frances Simonson b. ca 1921 Daughter 
> > Richard Simonson Son 
> > 
> > (So I assume that Joyce and Gloria were probably born after 1930) 
> > 
> > Washington Birth Index 1910-1919 
> > Name: Inez Hezel Marie Simonson 
> > Born: 4 August 1916 
> > Place: Cowlitz County, Washington 
> > Sex: F 
> > Race: White 
> > Parent: Joe Simonson 
> > Parent:: Ina Lahti 
> > 
> > (I suppose that Ina is an Americanized version of Aino) 
> > 
> > Oregon Death Index 
> > Ina Hel Simson (maybe this is Helen but number of characters is limited) 
> > Born 23 June 1896 
> > Died 10 November 1974 
> > Multnomah County 
> > Certificate: 74-17934 
> > Spouse: Joe 
> > 
> > Mount Solo Cemetery, Cowlitz County, Washington 
> > SIMONSON, Ina Helena 23 Jun 1896 10 Nov 1974 
> > 
> > Mt. SOLO CEMETERY, Mt. Solo Road, Longview, WA 98632 
> > 
> > The Mt. Solo Cemetery was founded in 1897 by 29 Finnish citizens of this 
> > pioneer community. 
> > One acre of land was purchased from Matt Ryding and is currently under the 
> > management of the 
> > Pioneer Mt. Solo Cemetery Association. There are about 242 burials at this 
> > date, and it is still 
> > occasionally used by families of the original owners. 
> > 
> > There were no known sexton records for this cemetery. The following 
> > records 
> > were gathered from tombstone 
> > inscriptions, obituary articles, mortuary records and the Washington State 
> > Death Index. This 
> > information was compiled by Alice Bortnem and Pam Chilton in 1983. 
> > 
> > The US GenWeb Archives provide genealogical and historical data to the 
> > general public without 
> > fee or charge of any kind. It is intended that this material not be used 
> > in 
> > a commercial manner. 
> > All submissions become part of the permanent collection. 
> > 
> > caren at knotzmade.com 
> > 
> > You might be able to check with this e-mail address above and see if she 
> > knows if Joe Simonson is buried there as well. Otherwise, you'd have to 
> > get 
> > a copy of Joe's death certificate to find out where he is buried. There 
> > are 
> > two Lahti names in that cemetery as well. 
> > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wa/cowlitz/cemeteries/mt-solo.txt 
> > 
> > LAHTI, Marie 18 Jul 1857 10 Aug 1932 
> > LAHTI, William Frederic (Hille F.) 11 Nov 1857 20 Aug 1922 
> > 
> > 
> > Joe Simonson 
> > Born 27 January 1891 Washington 
> > Died 9 July 1986 
> > Certificate: 86-12117 
> > Multnomah County 
> > Spouse: Ina 
> > 
> > Good luck! 
> > Sue 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "eija kristo" 
> > To: 
> > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 11:55 PM 
> > Subject: [or-roots] thanks Suo for Simonson 
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure what was Aino Simonson's birth name, maybe Lahti. I know that 
> > she is relative by my ggfather August Lahti (born in Finland, Muonio 
> > 1.10.1862), he has also been in USA, but I haven't found the official 
> > information on that yet. 
> > Thanks for information of Mark Nyman. I'll contact to him. 
> > Hope he is one of them. 
> > Thanks 
> > Eija Kristo 
> > 
> > 
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