I graduated Minden (LA) High School in the 1960s. After my children had families of their own and I retired from the USPS, I got involved, once again, in genealogy. I have just marveled at all the wonderful work from people at Find A Grave. So much has happened in the last few years that I am wonderfully amazed.
On my mom's side is CAMP and MOESS / MACE / MAESS / and the German spelling that I'm not sure of. The Moess family that I'm familiar with is in Minden (LA) City Cemetery. I understand there were siblings of F. J. Moess in Cleveland, Ohio, who manufactured cigars in the late 1800s: A phone directory around 1885 or 1890 had 2 MACE names listed in cigar mfg. Another brother went to New Zealand. Unfortunately, the family home was broken into and all that information, along with some paintings Mr. Moess did were stolen, along with family letters written in German. Mr. Moess painted scenes on stage coaches for a living. Maggiore, Fuller, Breazelle, and Glass are names I've been trying to connect.
The Camp family: my grandfather was one of 22 children of his dad's. His mom died when he was 13. Barrington, Monzingo, Fuller, Morris, Disotell, Shaw, Ford, Merritt, Black, Kulish, Edwards, Brahle are just of the few names in this lineage. Many are buried in Pine Grove, north of Minden. Some of the family is buried in MS. Some of the family is in Fuller Cemetery at Nine-Forks. I would love to know where my granddaddy's family was when: he was baptized at Beech Springs. These locations, including Warsaw, are all around Minden. There was a Niceville listing. It took me awhile to find out that was near Shongaloo.
On my dad's side were many children. My dad was one of 12 children. His parents each came from equally large families: WEST and Dugal / Dougal / Doogle / Deoogle. Other names were McCormick, McBroom, Hicks, of the generations before my dad.
My best wishes and THANKS to all the Find A Grave volunteers. Alicia

I graduated Minden (LA) High School in the 1960s. After my children had families of their own and I retired from the USPS, I got involved, once again, in genealogy. I have just marveled at all the wonderful work from people at Find A Grave. So much has happened in the last few years that I am wonderfully amazed.
On my mom's side is CAMP and MOESS / MACE / MAESS / and the German spelling that I'm not sure of. The Moess family that I'm familiar with is in Minden (LA) City Cemetery. I understand there were siblings of F. J. Moess in Cleveland, Ohio, who manufactured cigars in the late 1800s: A phone directory around 1885 or 1890 had 2 MACE names listed in cigar mfg. Another brother went to New Zealand. Unfortunately, the family home was broken into and all that information, along with some paintings Mr. Moess did were stolen, along with family letters written in German. Mr. Moess painted scenes on stage coaches for a living. Maggiore, Fuller, Breazelle, and Glass are names I've been trying to connect.
The Camp family: my grandfather was one of 22 children of his dad's. His mom died when he was 13. Barrington, Monzingo, Fuller, Morris, Disotell, Shaw, Ford, Merritt, Black, Kulish, Edwards, Brahle are just of the few names in this lineage. Many are buried in Pine Grove, north of Minden. Some of the family is buried in MS. Some of the family is in Fuller Cemetery at Nine-Forks. I would love to know where my granddaddy's family was when: he was baptized at Beech Springs. These locations, including Warsaw, are all around Minden. There was a Niceville listing. It took me awhile to find out that was near Shongaloo.
On my dad's side were many children. My dad was one of 12 children. His parents each came from equally large families: WEST and Dugal / Dougal / Doogle / Deoogle. Other names were McCormick, McBroom, Hicks, of the generations before my dad.
My best wishes and THANKS to all the Find A Grave volunteers. Alicia