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From: "Robert W. King" <>
Subject: [ARIZARD-L] FW: A Little Levity
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:39:49 -0600

Hi Folks!

Got this from another group and thought it appropriate here.
"Reminds me of a true story I read years ago of a woman who was doing
genealogical research on the branch of her family who had lived in the late
1800s in the territory which is now in Southeastern Arizona. Somehow she
got lucky and found an old family Bible. (Traditionally, families would
record birth dates, deaths, marriages, etc. inside the front cover.) She
was surprised to find several references to a great-great-.....great-uncle
named Sylvester of whom she had never heard mention before, and she wondered
why there had been no mention of him in other sources. The last Bible entry
read something like this:
'Sylvester died today of a sudden neck injury at a public gathering.' She
wrote down the date, looked up an old copy of the Tombstone Gazette for that
day, and sure enough-you guessed it! Sylvester was hanged as a horse thief
that date."

Robert W. King
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