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I give up!! No death records, no probate records, no cemetery listings. I'm beginning to wonder if these people died or just evaporated. Any ideas would be welcome - I can't do the obituaries in the newspapers until I get to Lansing next year.

1. Daniel Hosler/Housler/Hostler/Hassler/etc.(1844-?) Shows in the 1890 veteran's schedule with wife Caroline in Blue Lake township. Also in the 1894 state census & the 1895 Muskegon Co. directory. After that - nothing. Wife is listed as a widow in 1900 census.

2. Caroline (Erskine) Hosler/Housler/Hostler/Hassler/etc.(@1845-?) In the 1900 census as a widow in Blue Lake township. In the 1901 county directory. No further mention found.

3. Sophia (?) Erskine Brand (@1823-?) Living with her son, Henry H. Erskine in 1880 census, Blue Lake township, as a widow. Not listed in the 1884 state census.

I'm currently at the FHL in Salt Lake and have hit bricks looking through their microfilms. Have only been to Muskegon once, and that was before I had all the information I currently have.

Any ideas would be welcome!!! Many thanks.

Merryann
http://www.palmersrv.com

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I'm guessing you've looked through Michigan GenWeb's site, already? Here's a link to Muskegon's listings just in case: http://www.usgwtombstones.org/michigan/muskegon.htm. Otherwise, I'm afraid the best I can offer is my sympathy. A number of my relatives seem to have vanished into thin air. Currently, I'm stuck on one of my grandfather's cousins, born in Michigan. He just disppears after about 1900.
Merryann --

When I go to the "library" tab at familysearch.org, click on "library catalog" and then on "place search," type in "Muskegon" part of "Michigan," and finally click on "Michigan, Muskegon," I find indexes for probates, vital records including deaths, and cemetery listings.

Or do you mean that the library has these materials, but your people aren't in them under any spelling variant? I see they do have tax lists, deeds (partly indexed), and at least one county directory -- any hope there? They also have many years of chancery court files, which apparently are indexed volume by volume. (I haven't used these, but in Indiana those indexes are usually only by plaintiff, but at least you can read them faster than the full record.) I guess the next thing after that is to go after the families they married into and did business with, and try to come at them sideways. Hope this helps -- Harold



-- Harold
Yep - they are there. Been through them all. The people just aren't there. I haven't gotten to the tax records yet, so that's always a possibility - although some of the ancestors rented, rather than owned their farms. I'll keep trying.

Merryann

Harold Henderson said:
Merryann --

When I go to the "library" tab at familysearch.org, click on "library catalog" and then on "place search," type in "Muskegon" part of "Michigan," and finally click on "Michigan, Muskegon," I find indexes for probates, vital records including deaths, and cemetery listings.

Or do you mean that the library has these materials, but your people aren't in them under any spelling variant? I see they do have tax lists, deeds (partly indexed), and at least one county directory -- any hope there? They also have many years of chancery court files, which apparently are indexed volume by volume. (I haven't used these, but in Indiana those indexes are usually only by plaintiff, but at least you can read them faster than the full record.) I guess the next thing after that is to go after the families they married into and did business with, and try to come at them sideways. Hope this helps -- Harold



-- Harold
Thanks, Margaret!

Yes, I've been to the website. It's really pretty good - but nothing. It would have been so much easier if Daniel Hosler had decided to apply for a pension. Must be he figured diarrhea wasn't worthy.

Merryann

Margaret Shuey said:
I'm guessing you've looked through Michigan GenWeb's site, already? Here's a link to Muskegon's listings just in case: http://www.usgwtombstones.org/michigan/muskegon.htm. Otherwise, I'm afraid the best I can offer is my sympathy. A number of my relatives seem to have vanished into thin air. Currently, I'm stuck on one of my grandfather's cousins, born in Michigan. He just disppears after about 1900.
That's even worse!!! At least mine have the decency to hide before the State required death registrations!
I googled Blue Lake Twp, MI. There is two counties with a Blue Water Twp, Muskegon and Kalkaska County. Maybe that will help. Check the census records and make sure it is Muskegon CO. See if that helps. Also, check Civil war registrations. I found one of my disappearing relative through the service records and was found in WI in a soldiers home.

Hope that helps.
Thank you, Dear, but is is definitely Muskegon county - the county directories and census records I mentioned in the original post show that. Daniel shows in the 1890 veterans' schedule, but there is no record of him in the CW graves registration transcriptions, or any of the cemetery listings I can find. He never applied for a pension.

I think I'll go after another ancestor for a while.
I found one of your 3 missing relatives. WWW.SeekingMichigan.org has the death certificate for Daniel Hostler with a death date of 13 Oct 1898. I will continue to search for you to see if I can find anymore.
OMG!!!!

I've been on that site and didn't find it.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
I was just at the Library of Michigan and they said that everything is not loaded yet. You may want to keep checking it. The date range is from the year 1867 to 1920. So anything before and after these dates will not be loaded.
Have you tried Newaygo County and Oceana County Blue Lake is close to both of those 2 counties
But of course! Thanks for the thought - so many people have blinders on as far as area goes, and miss so much because of small moves and border changes.

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