Dear Janis, Hey, Hi!! Yeah, it's me. My dad, Ronald Perry Bridges, was born in Corning in 1927. (His brother Thomas Grover, Jr. b. 1925 and his sister, Peggy Jean b. 1923 are the ones in the pictures I referred to in the Clay county website). My grandfather, Thomas Grover Bridges was born in Harrisburg, Poinsett County, Arkansas. After his father died in 1891, my great-grandmother took the family to Paragould where she had family (Phillips-Dover). My grandfather and siblings: George Perry, Lela Mae (Lam), and Clarence Gilbert Bridges grew up there . My grandfather became a druggist, graduated from Northwestern U. School of Pharmacy, Evanston, IL in 1913, went to France in WW I, and bought a drug store in Corning after the war. He married my grandmother, Lily Pearl Hosey on Dec. 25, 1920 in Corning. She was born in Success, Clay County, Ar. to William and Fannie Quisenberry Hosey. My mom's family, the Drilling's, moved to Corning in the early 1940's. My grandfather, Allen Leonard Drilling, bought a Ben Franklin Store there, which he ran nearly until his death. He was married to Carmon Belle MILLER (she was born in Solgohachia, Conway County, AR), and that is where our McMasters connection comes in. Her grandfather was John Lafayette Miller married to Esther Ann Alsup. John Lafayette's sister, Minerva Jane Miller (17 Sep 1834 - 5 Dec 1864), married John McMasters, and John Lafayette's brother, Alexander Miller, married Mary McMasters (14 Jul 1826 -- 14 Jan 1913). My mom and dad were high school sweethearts. They both graduated from the U. of A., and I was born in Ft. Smith in 1949 while my dad was finishing up his degree. (He was in the Navy and although he skipped a grade in grade school, graduated college a year behind my mom.) My cousin, Candace Hill, who is looking for the picture of the old Bridges house was the daughter of Peggy Jean Bridges and Horace Lonny "Chick" Hill of Rector. Chick moved to Paragould after he and Peg divorced. Like somebody said, all of us here in Arkansas are related to each other. It's so weird. I volunteer here at the Cleburne County Historical Society and I'm related at least through marriage to several other people who work there. Even eerier, Clarence Bridges' grandson, Carl McSpadden, lives here in Heber Springs, was a judge for many years, and his wife, Liesel, who was born in Germany lived 15 miles from where my Drilling ancestors came from in Germany and is the one who got me past the brick wall on my Drilling research. Glad to hear from you. Jan