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<P>First for all you folks with Stevens surname in your family tree check this
out;<BR><BR><A href="http://www.geocities.com/joycestevensturel/"
target=_blank>http://www.geocities.com/joycestevensturel/</A><BR><BR>If you can
tie into these folks you will have hit gold if their work is half as good as it
looks, more specifically if you link to them you will get the pleasure of seeing
a bunch of cousins life stories with pictures. I wish I had the ambition to do
this with my family, of course i would be a pig and want to do this with all my
kin and half the photos we have that would make a site like this we don't know
who the heck they are any more.<BR><BR>Now on to Laverne, I didn't find him in
Oregon State Archives, but didn't find my Laverne French either and I know he
died in Oregon, so not positive proof your Laverne is still around. I find the
remark " don't have a relationship with" very distressing, I assume this is not
a good thing, at least I would be very distressed to have kin about whom I had
to say that.<BR><BR>I have tried googleing him and the only likely possibility
is in the payroll dept of Texas tech University, all the other Lavernes I turned
up on google were either women or definitely not your guy.<BR><BR>Sue places
Homer in Guthrie Co. Iowa which should have made him easy to find, but when I
pulled up the Godfrey's in that county, no Edward, thinking perhaps he is with
another relative, say a much older brother I took the youngest first and things
get curiouser;<BR><BR><BR>Series: T623 Roll: 434 Page:
127 <BR> Surname GivenName Age Sex
Race Birthplace State County Location
Year<BR> GODFREY WILL 27 M W IA
IA GUTHRIE RICHLAND TWP 1900<BR><BR>Godfrey
Will b. Mar 1873 age 27
Iowa
Indiana
Illinois Prop of
Livery<BR> Ethel
Oct 1874
25 1 ch 1lvng
Illinois
Ohio
Illinois<BR> Homer
July 1893 6
Iowa
Iowa
Illinois at school<BR><BR>I have had
no luck running Will/Edward down in 1910 or 1920, even went so far as to check
out the 1900 neighborhood and no luck, though census pretty poor there in 1910.
So I tried looking for Edward in 1880 and i think this may be your
folks;<BR><BR></P>
<P>
<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#336699><FONT
color=#dbdbc8> Name </FONT></TD>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#336699><FONT
color=#dbdbc8>Relation</FONT></TD>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#336699><FONT color=#dbdbc8>Marital
Status</FONT></TD>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#336699><FONT
color=#dbdbc8>Gender</FONT></TD>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#336699><FONT
color=#dbdbc8>Race</FONT></TD>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#336699><FONT
color=#dbdbc8>Age</FONT></TD>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#336699><FONT
color=#dbdbc8>Birthplace</FONT></TD>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#336699><FONT
color=#dbdbc8>Occupation</FONT></TD>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#336699><FONT
color=#dbdbc8>Father's Birthplace</FONT></TD>
<TD vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#336699><FONT
color=#dbdbc8>Mother's Birthplace</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR bgColor=#ffffff>
<TD> <A
href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/census/individual_record.asp?INDI_CODE=1880US_7795509_0&frompage=5">Alfred
H. GODFREY</A> </TD>
<TD align=left> Self </TD>
<TD align=left> M </TD>
<TD align=left> Male </TD>
<TD align=left> W </TD>
<TD align=middle> 39 </TD>
<TD align=left> IN </TD>
<TD align=left> Farmer </TD>
<TD align=left> NC </TD>
<TD align=left> OH </TD></TR>
<TR bgColor=#efefe7>
<TD> <A
href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/census/individual_record.asp?INDI_CODE=1880US_7795509_1&frompage=5">Jamina
GODFREY</A> </TD>
<TD align=left> Wife </TD>
<TD align=left> M </TD>
<TD align=left> Female </TD>
<TD align=left> W </TD>
<TD align=middle> 29 </TD>
<TD align=left> IL </TD>
<TD align=left> Housewife </TD>
<TD align=left> OH </TD>
<TD align=left> OH </TD></TR>
<TR bgColor=#ffffff>
<TD> <A
href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/census/individual_record.asp?INDI_CODE=1880US_7795509_2&frompage=5">Lovie
D. GODFREY</A> </TD>
<TD align=left> Dau </TD>
<TD align=left> S </TD>
<TD align=left> Female </TD>
<TD align=left> W </TD>
<TD align=middle> 10 </TD>
<TD align=left> IA </TD>
<TD align=left> </TD>
<TD align=left> IN </TD>
<TD align=left> IL </TD></TR>
<TR bgColor=#efefe7>
<TD> <A
href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/census/individual_record.asp?INDI_CODE=1880US_7795509_3&frompage=5">Edward
M. GODFREY</A> </TD>
<TD align=left> Son </TD>
<TD align=left> S </TD>
<TD align=left> Male </TD>
<TD align=left> W </TD>
<TD align=middle> 8 </TD>
<TD align=left> IA </TD>
<TD align=left> </TD>
<TD align=left> IN </TD>
<TD align=left> IL </TD></TR>
<TR bgColor=#ffffff>
<TD> <A
href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/census/individual_record.asp?INDI_CODE=1880US_7795509_4&frompage=5">Phibie
J. GODFREY</A> </TD>
<TD align=left> Dau </TD>
<TD align=left> S </TD>
<TD align=left> Female </TD>
<TD align=left> W </TD>
<TD align=middle> 5 </TD>
<TD align=left> IA </TD>
<TD align=left> </TD>
<TD align=left> IN </TD>
<TD align=left> IL </TD></TR>
<TR bgColor=#efefe7>
<TD> <A
href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/census/individual_record.asp?INDI_CODE=1880US_7795509_5&frompage=5">Joseph
HOUSEMAN</A> </TD>
<TD align=left> Other </TD>
<TD align=left> S </TD>
<TD align=left> Male </TD>
<TD align=left> W </TD>
<TD align=middle> 38 </TD>
<TD align=left> OH </TD>
<TD align=left> Farmhand </TD>
<TD align=left> OH </TD>
<TD align=left> OH </TD></TR>
<TR bgColor=#ffffff>
<TD> <A
href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/census/individual_record.asp?INDI_CODE=1880US_7795509_6&frompage=5">Melvin
NEWMAN</A> </TD>
<TD align=left> Other </TD>
<TD align=left> S </TD>
<TD align=left> Male </TD>
<TD align=left> W </TD>
<TD align=middle> 20 </TD>
<TD align=left> IA </TD>
<TD align=left> Farmhand </TD>
<TD align=left> OH </TD>
<TD align=left> OH </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></P>
<P><SPAN class=individualLabel><FONT size=+1>Source
Information:</FONT></SPAN><BR></P>
<P>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD 10??> </TD>
<TD vAlign=top><B>Census Place</B></TD>
<TD vAlign=top>Richland, Guthrie, Iowa</TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD width=10> </TD>
<TD vAlign=top><B>Family History Library Film</B> </TD>
<TD vAlign=top><A
href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C180%2C0&filmno=1254342"
target=_parent>1254342</A></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD width=10> </TD>
<TD vAlign=top><B>NA Film Number</B> </TD>
<TD vAlign=top>T9-0342</TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD width=10> </TD>
<TD vAlign=top><B>Page Number</B> </TD>
<TD vAlign=top><A
href="javascript:imageWindow=open('1880USCensusCost.asp','imageRecord','menubar=yes,toolbar=yes,status=yes,resizable=yes,width=600,height=440');imageWindow=open('http://www.ancestry.com/FamilySearch/?nara=T9-0342&pgno=22C&irecid=1880US_7795509_0','imageRecord','menubar=yes,toolbar=yes,status=yes,resizable=yes,width=600,height=440');imageWindow.focus();">22C</A>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></P>
<P><BR><BR> I came to this conclusion based on the fact that I found a
Jamima in guthrie county in 1900; she is widowed, living with dau Hattie age 15
who is her fourth living child of four, Jamima b. Nov 1849 and Hattie b. jul
1884 the only particular that doesn't check is in 1880 she lists mother as b. in
Ohio and in 1900 give Illinois;</P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Series: T623 Roll: 434
Page: 128 <BR> Surname GivenName Age
Sex Race Birthplace State County Location
Year <BR> GODFREY JAMIMA 51 F W IL
IA GUTHRIE RICHLAND TWP 1900 <BR> </FONT></P>
<P> If I wanted to be a real hero I would try to push these folks back one
more generation, but am sleepy and tired so instead am going to send this
off.</P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Les C</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR><BR>Leslie,<BR><BR>That is
some really great information you have. Let me give you what I know.
I didn't want to type it all in at the time.<BR><BR>Bessie Mae Stevens; parents
- Thomas Stevens and Minnie Bell Snyder (Stevens); born 1/29/1898 in Linden,
IA.<BR><BR>Homer Godfrey; parents - Ethel Crosson and Edward Godfrey (I guess I
did have his parents, sorry!); born 7/10/1895 in Jamaica, IA.<BR><BR>After
Bessie and Homer married they lived in Washington, IA for a while. I don't
know when they moved to Oregon.<BR><BR>Their daughter, LaVonne is still alive
however I don't have a relationship with her. How do you find out if their
son LaVerne is still around?<BR><BR>Thank you for your help! I don't have
any clue about Thomas Stevens' family at all. I do have a lot of Minnie's
though.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Tina Jacobson </P></BODY></HTML>