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From: "Betty McCollum" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] ARIZARD Digest, Vol 1, Issue 94
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:20:12 -0700
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Hurrah for you, Mike! Glad you're back on ARIZARD!
Betty Mc
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Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] ARIZARD Digest, Vol 1, Issue 94


> Dear List,
>
> I wrote my email in a hurry this morning and haphazardly as I am trying to
> get in the habit of going to church which I have been trying to do the
last 2
> years since I got baptized 28 years ago. Anyway, I wanted to make amends
to
> everyone on the List. I do not want to appear to be a know it all. I am
> definitely not nor have I ever been accused of being one. I just love
sharing
> what I do know from my first hand sources and from public records that
proved
> those first hand sources from the old timers since 1979 and before since
I
> was 12 and younger even in a few cases. Some of my stories come from
personal
> memories of the things actually happening. But I am also on here to
glean as
> much information as I can from other people on the List, and Harold
Blevins
> and all the others - too many to mention - but you know who you are - I
thank
> you from the bottom of my heart for sending me the CD's and the other
people
> for all of the other information. I was never so proud to receive all of
> this information. It is a historian's delight.
>
> By the way, I live up here not too far from the National Archives, and
also
> to two genealogy libraries. One is in Independence - I think a Mormon
ne -
> and the other one is in downtown Kansas City. If anyone needs lookups
done
> on anything, please don't hesitate to ask me. These places are only
about 25
> or 30 miles from me. I have access to all the county census records in
the
> U.S. 1790 to 1830.
>
> A new email friend and cousin on here, Betty Hutson, did me a special
favor
> over the weekend and visited a first cousin to my father, Ollie McMurtrey
> Dearing, who is 94 years old and lives in a retirement home in Los
Angeles. I
> have never met Ollie, but she and I have corresponded and talked via
phone
> since 1980, and she has given me tons of information on the McMurtreys
and
> McCrackins. I remember when she first start writing me she was 68 years
old and
> thought she was old then. She drove a car all over LA until she was
nearly
> 90. I remember her telling me how her car stalled on an exit ramp. She
is
> quite a go-getter. She made dolls and repaired them and was called
Dollie Dr.
> Ollie. She had her own shop. She told me of all her travels overseas so
she
> has lived a really full life. She was even featured in the LA Times
> newspaper for her doll repairing with her picture. Betty has tried to
send pictures
> she made of her, too, while visiting. I can hardly wait to see those.
>
> Thanks to all those who did write me. I was just going through a tough
> time, so please don't worry I won't snap at anyone or be hateful with
anyone.
> Will just be glad to hear from the genuine crowd again - not the ones who
talk
> out of both sides of their lips. No, my main problem I was having was
the
> Digest method because I don't have time to read through every single
email -
> just the ones that pertain to me. But toward the end, in the Digest
mode, I
> was getting at least two or three negative remarks every time so as I was
> taught my Dad to always defend my rights, that is all I did. But the
past is the
> past, and to tell you the truth I have such a terrible short term memory
I
> have no idea who I even had harsh words with, and that is the absolute
truth.
> I don't have a clue. You could write me right now, and I would not know
if
> you were one I had harsh words with or not. But please, I hope you can
put
> everything in the past and let's move forward. I still want to do all I
can
> for Izard County. Just let me know if you want me to or not.
>
> Forgive me, and I can't do anything more than ask for that.
>
> Mike Walker
>
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