Hi, I beleive you two are talking about the same person. You might want to get a hold of each other. Plus, Sydney, if you would like a copy of the bio I would gladly send it to you also as I did to Dan F. Hope this will help the both of you.
Love Foxie
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/county/warren/


I understand that there is a bio of Michael Riner, my wife's g-g-grandfather, on page 811 of the 1886 Portrait and Biographical Album of Knox County, Illinois. Does anyone on this board have a copy of this book, by chance, and if so, would it be possible to check this reference and copy the article to me if it is there? Thanks for any help on this.

Hi Daniel,
I have all three of the History books on Knox County, IL, of the time. email me at toy_fox@yahoo.com with your address and I can copy the information from the books and snail to you. Only cost to you is postage and cost of copying. Have a good day.

Foxie Hagerty.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/county/warren/


Thanks very much, Foxie. I'm signed on at an Internet cafe in St. Andrews, Scotland at the moment. We're here on a 40th anniversary trip and won't be back home for another couple of weeks. But I very much appreciate your efforts and look forward to seeing the material you mailed when we get back

Allbest, Dan



>From: Foxie Hagerty
>To: danandcandy@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: Michael Riner
>Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:43:29 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
>
>Hi Dan,
>Am going to put in the mail today what I have. I still have some copies to
>make in another book but am pressed for time and don't want you to have to
>wait. So, am sending the bio out of the P&B OF BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF KNOX
>COUNTY, IL. Plus, a copy of the Index of Knox County Cemeteries and a sourc
>code page and the source page for the bio. Can take pictures of the
>tombstones at the Walnut Grove Cemetery in or rather it's on the edge of
>Altona, IL, sitting up on a hill if you would like. I have other pictures
>am going to be taking. Plus, I need to find some I took for somebody else.
>Right now my office, as I like to call it, is in part of my living room and
>it is in a shambles. You are right in the Bio of Michael Riner. It gives
>his father's name and occupation of a blacksmith and in the American
>Revolution and was shot in the leg. He died at the age of 96 years. Then
>it gives his grandfather's name of Jacob lived and died in Berkeley County,
>where he was born and followed the profession of farming he married Hannah
>Snyder from the same county. They are buried in Berkely County, VA. Then
>goes on to tell about his father, Henry, and his wife Miss Mary Roney, of
>Irish descent, whose father died in Berkely Co., VA.
>
>They lived in Walnut Grove Township, Altona, IL. I also have an extensive
>history on the history of Altona, I did with my girl scout troop a few years
>ago and will check it for you also. Michael's wife was born in Warren
>County, IL. Also, tells of Michael's second wife, but they didnt' have any
>children as of the writing of the Bio. Don't be surprised if you have to
>read it a couple of times to get who they are talking about it. It's the
>way they worded things and then not so explicid with who they are talking
>about. But you'll get it and I don't want you do have to wait. Riner's
>were of Germany descent.
>
>Talk with you soon.
>
>Love Foxie
>
> http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/county/warren/

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