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Subject: [MNHENNEP] Re: Ohio to Minnesota
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:33:05 EST
In a message dated 1/13/03 11:04:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, MNGenLdy writes:
> never heard of Elk Grove in Sherburne County.
Haha- yes my brain doesn't always function as fast as I type. It is still Elk
River and my ancestors who settled there are burried there. I have family and
my cousins have family from Maine and I found while hunting the 1860 census
in Sherburne County- the majority of Elk River's inhabitants were from Canada
and Maine. I found some of my cousins ancestors (direct and collateral) that
she had lost in Maine settled in Elk River.
I imagine if they offered free land today many families would pack up the
babies and their belongings and head for a future in a new land.
My husbands family is german and I guess since Minnesota emptied out Ohio- my
husbands gr grandfather left Germany to settle in Marietta, Ohio in 1879. As
some of the descendants from my gr.gr.gr. grandfather were still in Marietta
at that time- I stepped rather gingerly tracing my family and his through
Marietta.
Gayle Payne
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