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Subject: Re: [ILJOHNSO] Cedar Creek Cemetery - Volney Vancleve and Ulrich Smoot
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:26:35 -0600

Floyd, I'm a native of Johnson County and saw your post on the Internet. Peggy Smoot lives in Simpson, Illinois -- Johnson County -- and has done a great deal of genealogy. I think she doesn't check into the internet, though. White her snail mail at Ms. Peggy Smoot, Simpson, Illinois 6299_. That's not an exact address, but Simpson is a town of less than 100 people, and it will get to her. Tell her you heard about her from Katy Waters.

Kathleen Waters
1128 SE 11th Street
Lee's Summit, MO 64081
816 246-5351


----- Original Message -----
From: Floyd E Gingrich <>
Date: Sunday, February 27, 2005 6:33 pm
Subject: [ILJOHNSO] Cedar Creek Cemetery - Volney Vancleve and Ulrich Smoot

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for burial information on Volney Vancleve (spellings
> vary),s/o Elder Wilson Frost Vancleve. He died in 1862 at Cairo
> Illinois,while serving in the Union Army. I think his father,
> Wilson was pastor
> of the Cedar Creek Baptist Church, and he may be buried in the
> hard-to-find Cedar Creek Cemetery. Wilson is buried in the Robinson
> Cemetery New Burnside, Johnson Co., IL, but he died much later
> than his
> son (1886).
>
> I also am missing death information on my GGrandfather, Ulrich Zuengle
> Smoot. He and his second wife died while my Grandmother (Arista Smoot
> who married Arthur Gingrich) was a child; she was raised by Ulrich's
> brother, Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Smoot. Ulrich is sometimes
> referredto as a Missouri farmer. Ulrich and Frank Smoot's father,
> Reed Smoot
> (not the Senator, but his uncle) is said to be buried in the
> ReynoldsburgCemetery, though I have not found his grave when I
> visited there.
> My 1st cousin once removed lives adjacent to the Reynoldsburg
> Cemetery.
> Ulrich may well be buried at Cedar Creek -- does anyone know?
>
> I have seen information that the Illinois Smoots were Mormons, but I
> never heard any reference to that connection as I grew up. Does
> anyoneknow anything about that affiliation. I have a biography of
> Reed Smoot's
> brother, Abraham Owen Smoot, who was quite prominent in the Utah
> Mormonsettlement, and was the father of Senator Reed Smoot.
>
> Cordially,
> Floyd E. Gingrich
> 2624 South Arlington Ave.
> Independence, MO 64052
> Home: 816-833-3352 Church: 816-254-2601
>
>
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