----- Original Message ----- From: sisters To: ALCLAY-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:25 PM Subject: Casey/Hurst/Freeman/Watts/Hollingsworth/Patterson & Allied Families Of Clay County I am searching for ancestors/descendants/relatives of William Hurst & Nancy Elizabeth Scruggs Hezekiah Edwin Carr Hurst & Sara Ann Freeman Jacob Watts & Permilia 'Millie' Hollingsworth Thomas Arthur Patterson & Louisa Jane Watts Robert Williamson Taylor Casey & Ann Powell (1st) wife - Martha Almanda Mellon (2nd) wife. Robert Campbell Mellon & Aramitta Frances Sims I have a few photos and considerable research to share. Sandra Hurst Glendale, AZ "My Dear Departed Family by Tracey Ann Prior" "The years roll on relentlessly and clouds obscure my memory But beloved faces come to me; my dear departed family. Their struggles are now history compiled upon my family tree. Their skeletons for all to see, laced richly with humanity. Their tears and wars and harmony. Their ignorance and illiteracy, Intelligence and decency. Their wisdom, wit and courtesy. A large assembly watches me and whispers from eternity. Somehow I feel they're close to me anticipating eagerly. I cannot stem my welling pride for those who cried and tried and died. Who persevered unsatisfied and now in bliss reside"