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L.C: II Vie) Pull over When you see or hear an emergency vehicle in action, get out of the way. Editorial, A4 The News-Messenger, Fremont, Ohio Police Monday, November 18, 1991 A3 United Way drive nears $5005000 1 1 (-04 a 1 1 4 4 I 'Nat ,10 4 1 a 1 4 The 1991 fund-raiser of the United Way of Sandusky County is still counting but figures indicate it is $10,620 ahead of the same time of the 1990 The agency has collected $492,323 so far. Last year's campaign raised $498,000. Agency officials hoped to raise at least 13 percent more than last year's totals to meet the needs of the 22 agencies that requested aid from them. The campaign began Sept.

26 with more than 200 volunteers who solicit from area businesses and firms. Executive Director Kathleen Campbell said the campaign is moving toward its final week when all tabulations will be made and when donations and pledges will be collected. Major firms have contributed $287,979 so far. This division has made the biggest contribution. Commercial manufacturing type businesses have contributed the second most with $52,300.

New Habitat president in town NowsMessengerIChris Walker DOLLIE BALIKUS with one of the six thick books of geneological research she has compiled over the years. Joy blossoms as she digs up her roots OUR RIEIGHB011 Do Ille Baukus AGE: 73 ADDRESS: 2049 W. Birchard Fremont AVOCATION: Makes and restores dolls and is past president and current member of the Sandusky County Kin Hunters. Three local band members returned to a trailer at the 3900 block of N. Ohio 19, Saturday night to practice, when they discovered their musical instruments and other equipment were gone.

Scott Freeze, 1686 West McPherson Highway, Clyde, told Sandusky County sheriff deputies that he and band members, Paul Burrows, 325 West Maple Lindsey; and Justin Humberger, 41912 Gabel Fremont had just practiced the night before. Apparently stolen were a Vandenberg red electric guit tar and case, a Bandit black amplifier, a microphone, televisions and radios valued at $1,170, sheriff reports said. The name of a suspect was mentioned in the report, but none of the three wanted to file charges, sheriff reports said. CLYDE A traffic manager at the Fremont Tool and Die 3177 U.S. 20, told sheriff deputies early Saturday morning, that sometime during the night a person or persons had broken into the factory and pryed open five vending machines to take an unknown amount of change.

Apparently, the rear south-' west door had been pryed open somehow and the suspect or suspects entered the cafeteria, Donna Williamson told deputies. Damaged were two cold drink vending machines, one candy, one sandwich and one hot drink vending machine owned by Arnold Vending, sheriff reports said. No monetary value was listed. Officers spotted footprints in the mud and dusted the ma' chines for fingerprints. 0 GIBSONBURG Sunday morning Terry Nickles of Sandusky went to the Fremont police station to report he was beaten up the night before at the Tavern, 7013 U.S.

6. He told sheriff deputies he had gone to the bar to pick-up a friend, when a Crystal Rock man allegedly hit him in the face with a beer bottle, inflicting a cut about his eye. Nickles told police he wanted to file a report so he could go to the prosecutor to file charges, Fremont police went to the residence of Brandon Stines, 1103 Roosevelt Saturday night to investigate a report about a stolen 12-gauge shotgun from Stines' front porch taken between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday.

The weapon was not loaded, the serial number was not known at the time, and no monetary loss was listed, police reports said. 0 At about 8 a.m. Saturday police investigated a broken window at the Goodwill Shop, 120 E. State St. Police reported a strong odor of beer.

Apparently, someone had thrown a beer bottle through a glass window. The value of the property was not listed. At about 6 p.m. Friday Fre: mont police investigated a re: port of a theft from a locker at Fremont Ross High School. Roshele Howard, 725 White told police someone had gotten into her locked locker and took a purse containing a bank card, social security and I.D.

cards, miscellaneous items and photos. There was no sign of forced entry, police 0 Dena Corbelo, 1320 Gordon Place, told Fremont police Sunday morning that some- time during the night four yard ornaments were taken from her front yard. The two Pilgrims and two Indians were valued at $60, police reports said. CLYDE Paul Brown 23, 1836 Sandusky County Road 236, Clyde, was arrested Saturday on charges of per- sistent disorderly conduct and failing to comply with a police order, Clyde Police reported. He had been asked to leave the area of a Nelson Street home at the time, police re: ported.

0 CLYDE Michelle Wheeler, 18, Port Clinton, was arrested Sunday on charges of obstructing Justice, Clyde Po: lice reported. Officers were tying to serve a theft warrant on a man, and were asking her for information as to his wherabouts, police said. How can you trace your family tree? Geneology is the study of family descent. One way to learn how to trace your roots is by joining the Sandusky County Kin Hunters. The group meets the second Sunday of each month at the Sandusky Township House from 2 to 4 p.m., but Do llie opens the doors at 1 p.m., and invites visitors to stop in early.

The Kin Hunters often ask a speaker to lecture, followed by coffee, tea, cookies and socializing. The Hayes Center is a great resource for information and its staff periodically offers training sessions to guide interested kin hunters through a myriad of clues toward tracing their By JOYCE HUNTLEY Staff writer Habitat for Humanity of Sandusky County will initiate a new president to replace founding president the Rev. Robert Quillen Dec.I. Ronda Wooten will serve as interim president of the organization for six months. Wooten transferred from Americus, the international headquarters of the organization.

She visited Fremont in September as team leader of the work camp that visited the area and erected Habitat's third house on South Front Street. "It is good to see so much commitment in the community," Wooten said of her first impression of the community. "My hope is that I can be of help people who put in all the hours to meet the goals they set. And many of the goals can be far-reaching," she added. Quillen, who served as president of the local chapter of the international organization since its inception three years ago, has taken a new job as pastor of the First United Church of Christ in Sandusky.

Quillen had resigned a similar post here in Fremont to take a job with Community Health Services. Habitat secretary Julaine Sticker said Quillen has not resigned officially from Habitat and will continue to work with the group until the end of the month. He will also continue to be interested in the organization since he will not leave the city. He told Habitat officials that his new job was too demanding to allow him to remain as president, Stricker said. Wooten has been in Fremont for a few days only and is looking for a place to stay, she said.

She is interested in house-sitting for those who may be spending the winter in warmer climates. She also needs a car to get around and welcomes any donations, she said. Anyone interested in helping Habitat reduce its upkeep of Wooten while she is here may call Habitat at 332-2678 Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. books on the Martin families," she said.

"I just closed my eyes and pulled down one of And in that book, there it was: A written entry of the birth of a baby on a ship sailing the At lantic Ocean for America a boy, christened William Seabom Martin. Tracing her family roots wasn't always easy because they traveled some much in search of good farmland. Her ancestors were farmers, Joining several other families who first settled in Woodbury, packed their belongings and headed west to New York then onto Madison in Lake County, Ohio. In search of the rich, agricultural farmland of the black swamp, her family settled in Wood County. Do Hie enjoys living vicariously through her ancestors' travels, trials and tribulations, but given the choice, she'd prefer to live in 1991, today.

rather stay in the generation I am in," Do Ilie said. "Over my life, I've seen a lot of changes. "We lived on Taft Street from third grade until the time I graduated from Fremont Ross, she said. Her parents, four brothers and herself "sat around the dining room table around one oil lamp, maybe two," she said. "When we got electricity, the neighbors thought we were spendthrifts." One regret is too little time to devote to her labor of love geneology.

"My husband used to joke about it," Do llie said. "We would drive past a cemetery and he would say, you sure you don't want to stop?" "Young people, nowadays, don't care about ancestry," she said. "But as you get older you realize you are your By LORI NOERNBERG Staff Writer It was the summer of 1930, between the sixth and seventh grade, when Do Ilie Schneider first became interested in geneology through her maternal grandmother. "Grandma hurt her ankle that summer," Do llie said. "And I went to her farm in Pemberville to help." Dollie spent the long summer days with Grandma Cora Calkins Long at her spacious farmhouse cooking, canning, learning to crochet and talking for hours around the pot-bellied stove.

"Grandma had a lot of pictures and I would ask who is that? And she would tell me the history of each one," she said. But it was a letter 10 years ago from distant cousin, Jerome Calkins, that rekindled her interest in family history, 73-year-old Dollie Schneider Baukus said. "He had a book of records of 8,000 people going all the way back to 1638 when Hugh Calkins came over from England." Recently Dollie discovered she has a direct geneological line to the Pilgrims, when ancestor Edward Fuller was placed at the signing of the Mayflower Compact in 1621. The Fremont woman lives a rather quiet life. She makes and repairs dolls, cooks for her son Douglas, takes care of her early American home and is active in St.

John Lutheran Church where she has begun researching archives for its coming 150th anniversary celebration. But her eyes light up when she talks about "kin searching," and shows off a bookshelf crammed with six scrapbooks chock-full of family birth and death certificates, wills, estates, land letters and military records back to the Revolutionary War. Past president of the Sandusky County Kin Hunters, Dollie has tombstone markers, and one item read: "Mr. Isaac Martin, died Nov. 6, 1832, age 75 years.

Soldier of the American Revo lund tion, Marker 1753-1832." Both the age and date of death were wrong on the marker, according to her research. Nonetheless, from there Do llie knew to search through old military records and soon found the papers Martin had filled out in applying for a pension. The form listed his father, Solomon, and the name of Isaac's children. Do Ilie's grandmother, whose mother's maiden name was Martin, did not even know that inforne mation a fact that Do llie admits made this discovery doubly exciting. Oftentimes a final bit of evidence after a painstaking search comes down to an accidental disve covery, coincidence or just plain "gut instinct," she said.

Do Ilie had heard a rumor that another Martin ancestor was born on the high seas enroute from England to the New Land. "There were seven or eight also been instrumental in helping others trace their roots. A lot can be discovered just by pouring over old newspapers and microfishe, especially in wedding annoucements, death notices and even murders, she said. Cemeteries are also a great source for researching family history. "Most folks want to know where they came from," Do the said.

"It's said. "Like a detective story. When you find a clue, it's like, oh, boy," said Dane. Her most exciting find came with the accidental discovery of ancestors related to her grandmother's great-grandfather, Isaac Martin. She had accompanied a friend to Cleveland's Western Reserve Historical Society and was just leafing through the Lake County Historical Monthly when "the pamphlet just fell open at one spot." That page was a listing of ng by he at ily lie id.

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Snow fell over the Rocky Mountains today, and thunderstorms also struck In Mississippi, southeastern Louisiana and Alabama. Weather In the New England and the mid-Atlantic states was fair, except for cloudy skies in New York State, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Periods of rain tonight. South winds 15 to 25 knots. Waves 3 to 5 feet.

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