[or-roots] Keep answering those queries

Thu Dec 22 13:28:15 PST 2005

It is a pleasure to be able to help someone whenever possible.  Sometimes it
just doesn't work out.  Last night I answered a query on the OR-COOS list
from someone in California.  Was able to find some information in the Coos
County histories I have and then got some additional information from the
Oregon State Archives and Ancestry.com.  The individual had just signed her
query BJ in CA.  I wondered about one comment she had made though about Glen
Aiken Road near Coquille, so I asked if she was from that area since my
husband is from that area.  As it turned out I sent her some personal
information about when my husband was born, where he had lived (very close
to Glen Aiken Road) and the little country school he attended.  She was born
the same year he was and they went to the same country school, she was one
year ahead of him.  In checking some pictures to scan for her about Valley
View School, my husband reminisced about some of the "kids" in the school.
It was great and I was able to provide her with some information she needed.
I would heartily agree that the people on this list are so helpful and you
never know when a little tidbit of information will be just the clue they
need to find something more.

Sue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronda Howard" <whizinc at comcast.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:06 AM
Subject: [or-roots] Keep answering those queries

> 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" <ssteward at ccountry.net>
> To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> 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" <eija.kristo at luukku.com>
> > To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> > 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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