Still in search mode, the only William Mains found to have died in the 1960s in Montana, the place originally given, is a William L Mains who died in January of 1961. However, he seems to have been born in the 1870s and died in 61 and not 60.
The search continues.
In a search for William Perkins Mains on Ancestry.com I have not been able to locate any deaths in 1960 in the state of Montana for William. I have been able to find the marriage record for William and Virginia so one piece of information has been corroborated. I have yet to find a marriage for William and Helen.
I believe the next step will be to search for Helen. Anyone who finds any information please let me know.
Today, the 13th, I called Bellefontaine Cemetery, where Mary Virginia is buried and they confirmed that he is not buried there.
I am looking for information on William Perkins Mains, he was born in 1846 and supposed to have died in 1960. That’s right 114. However things just don’t seem to work out and I’d like to find more information on him and if he did live that long there should be an obituary or something out there.
William first married Mary Virginia Toncray (1848-1909), of which I have seen the marriage license from Missouri for. They had 7 children.
Next William was supposed to have married Helen Banter in 1911. They were supposed to of had 9 children together, however, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
If anyone has any proof on this second marriage, or when and where William died it would go a long way to fixing his information.
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We need to send out a congratulation to Glenn Main Jr, he is now a proud great-grandfather of Mac Brian on the 18th of August. Enjoy the new little one Glenn and pass on your family information to the new generation.
In my last post I said that I was close to having all of the information from Glenn’s work entered into a database. I have now finished that work. There are close to 31,000 names in the database.
Currently Glenn and I are working on fixing known errors, especially typos and misspellings. This will take some time as sometimes the information is just not easy to get. However, I feel that a well written book is getting much closer to reality.
The next step, which I am busy trying to do, is to find a publisher. I have contacted a couple of places and may have found one that will work. Because of the size of the database the book will be around 2200 pages which means multiple volumes. This also means that the cost of printing will be substantial.
For anyone interested in a hard copy please let me know. I will also like to know of places that might possibly like a copy. So far I will send a copy to the Historical Society of Frederick County and the Maryland Room at the C Burr Arts library in Frederick. I would like to only have one printing of the book if possible. IF you have any other suggestions please let me know.
Glenn Main Jr, for those that do not know, has four notebooks full of the descendants of Johann Georg Mehn. He began putting them into a database years ago, and for those who have contacted him you have probably gotten something from this database.
For the last two years I have been helping him enter names into the database. We are almost finished with this work. Within the next couple of months the data entry will be finished and be ready for editing. This is the same information that is in the family tree on this site so if you see any problems please let me know so that it can be corrected.
After the editing stage a book will be published. This will be a very large book, over 2000 pages, and only a handful of copies will be made, most will go to libraries and historical societies in the area. I am still looking for a publisher so if you know of one please let me know.
The Main family cemetery is again overgrown. I stopped by today to check up on it, haven’t been in a couple of months. The path to the cemetery is still there, it just needs a few hours of cleanup.
I am happy though that all of the stones are still in the place that we set them in back in April and that they have not been further broken.
Someone also put a wreath in the middle of the cemetery, so whoever that was thank you.
Here is our first big mystery that is need of being solved.
Mary Christina Mayne/Main’s birth date is unknown. She is the daughter of John Jacob Mayne and Sarah Bopst. They had 11 children:
Joshua born 1820
David born 1821
Sarah born 1822
Sophia born 1824
John Jacob Jr born abt 1828
Mary Christina born abt 1828
Rosannah born abt 1832
Joseph born 1833
Susan born abt 1835
Eveline born 1836
Enos born 1841
Mary’s tombstone gives a date of birth as 5 February 1822, which puts her too close to Sarah. Her tombstone can be found at Find a Grave. Someone posted her date of birth as 5 February 1828 on Find a Grave, though gives no reason for it.
The 1850, 1870, and 1880 census records gives her a birth of about 1828. The next step will be to find the 1860 census, the census records for her brother John Jr and any church records for the family.
Hopefully this mystery can be solved and a good DOB can be found. If anyone has any more information please let me know.
I had a good visit with Glenn Main Jr over the weekend. We got some genealogical work done. For those that don’t know Glenn is the keeper of all of the information on the descendants of Johann Georg Mehn. We have been using his information to make the family tree on this site. Almost all of his work is entered into our database. Without his help, and that of his father, we never would of had the amount of information that we have today.
