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From: "Peggy Truesdell" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Bernie & Vera (off-subject)
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 21:16:14 -0500
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Whatcha' gonna' do if you end up being kin to me?

I'm gonna' call ghostbusters!

Peggy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernie Moore-Knowles" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Don, Peggy & Vera


> You girls!
>
> I am still rereading Don's story and it is one that I have never heard!
LOL
>
> I do so wish that Wanda Inglish were still alive to hear it............she
> would get the biggest kick out it! I miss her and her great emails.
>
> Don't I have some great stories on my families, though? Those Sinors
> particularly were something else.
>
> I haven't even told you all the rest of them - and as far as I can tell,
> they are all true. Poor Dollie's Little Rock census sure backed up "her
> story," didn't it?
>
> Don..........back at ya after dinner and you girls (Peggy and Vera)?
>
> Whatcha gonna do if you end up being kin to me? LOL (I would love it!)
>
>
> Bernie Moore-Knowles
> Phoenix, Arizona - Papa'aola, Hawai'i
>
>
> "I have Indian blood in me. I have just enough White blood for you to
> question my honesty." ........Will Rogers
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peggy Truesdell" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 6:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Bernie & Vera
>
>
> > I'm laughing. Peggy
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Vera Reeves" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 7:21 PM
> > Subject: [ARIZARD-L] Bernie
> >
> >
> > > OH boy that's all she needs is another story like that to leave her
> > > grandkids. Vera
> > >
> > > > >Another of my ancestors; Joel Sinor was married first to a Sarah
> Henry
> > in
> > > > >1835. He was seventeen years old...........and she was
seventy-four
> > > years
> > > > >old!
> > > > >
> > > > >True story.
> > > >
> > > > Bernie,
> > > > I thought the story that goes along with that marriage was
> very
> > > > interesting. The elderly lady, Sarah Henry, told Joel's parents if
he
> > > would
> > > > marry her, she would leave all her possessions to him. 1850 Bradley
> Co.
> > > > Tn. Census lists him as 26 and she is 85, so she didn't die off
> quickly.
> > > > Maybe that is why he became a Baptist minister during the first
> > marriage.
> > > > As I recall I saw an extract of their marriage and I thought it was
> 28
> > > Mar
> > > > 1839 in Green Co. TN. At least all the math works out if his birth
is
> > 1822
> > > > and she about 1765 rather than the marriage of 1835.
> > > > As I recall he was not much luckier with the second
marriage,
> > she
> > > > promised she would marry him if she could bring along her aging
> parents.
> > I
> > > > guess that worked out on the farm in Colfax, Marion, (now Baxter)
> County
> > > > Arkansas. The only reasonably flat farming land in that area is now
> the
> > > > Country Club and Golf Course. Wonder if he once owned that land. He
> > traded
> > > > for this land while on a trip to Springfield Mo. from Tennessee, to
> > take
> > > a
> > > > preaching job, he stopped and stayed all night with an alone lady
> whose
> > > > husband was running from the law and hiding in Missouri. The lady
said
> > she
> > > > would trade her land for his horse and wagon and she wanted to keep
> her
> > > > personal possessions. She left for Missouri and he left to go back
to
> > get
> > > > married and bring his wife and her family to Arkansas.
> > > > During the Civil War, Joel and others would hide out at a
> near
> > by
> > > > spring to avoid the Bushwhackers. Lydia would bring food at night.
> > > > He is still shown in the 1900 Census at that location
> > > > Don
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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