What do you have now, if anything beyond an old woman's memory. Was she a reader, who paid attention to spelling? Have you Googled her name and "Pellit Creek"? Is it a real place name, or just the name of an old post office, long vanished? [That's s mistake which led me astray for a long time, looking for a place where my great-grandparents lived in the 1800's] Do you know where she's buried,and when? Do you have access to the US Census data? Duncan the Librarian Yarmouth Port, MA _WallDuncan@AOL.COM_ (mailto:WallDuncan@AOL.COM) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Mr.Duncan: With much respect sir, I differ with you on this email. The memory of " old ladies", , my grandmother and great grandmother, led me directly to my great grandmother's home in Mississippi. Prior to making the journey to a place I had never been but only heard stories of, I had been in contact with a distant descendent from another side of the family that lived in the area. We exchanged family data. In one email she asked me if I knew where the home place was located... No, says I...and told her some of the many stories my grandmother had related to me as a small child... No TV back then , so on those wonderful Texas nights grandma told me stories. One such story described the house where her mother had lived. she never saw the house either but her mother, my great grandmother had described it to her. I told her what I knew about the house, where the smokehouse was, and what direction from the house you took to go to the Pecan orchard where the towering pecan trees stood. I described the formal dining room where they turned back the rugs when all the family gathered for socials or dances. In a return email she said the back of her neck tingled...for SHE knew where the old home place was and part of it was still there. It was just as I described. Two of my great grandmother's sisters died in 1864, while making their wedding dresses as their marriage would take place when their beau's returned from the war. They contracted Typhoid Fever and died within a day of each other. They were buried, in their wedding dresses. Normally, because of their illness, they would not have been buried in a cemetery or church yard. Their father, well thought of and not without funds would have nothing to do with that thought. They were buried, in the church cemetery directly behind the church, with no stone. They were buried late in the afternoon, just at sundown. Needless to say not too many locals knew they were buried in the church cemetery. His wish was to be buried beside them and in 1871 that is where his wife and family buried him. I am not a reader....don't even believe in those things. I would not have known my treasured stories of my ancestors had it not been for my sainted grandmother and uncle, both now long gone. Of the stories I have heard...and there have been many, not one was untrue. They all "worked" out to be a necessary tool by which I found an ancestor or the trail leading to that ancestor. I am sure there are those stories that perhaps the spelling or pronunciation might be in question. Some things were called something way back when.. that they are not called today. And, perhaps there may be a few stories that are stacked high with imagination...Nevertheless.....I give... hats off to my grandmother, great grandmother and uncle for they loved history and their family and passed on truthful, treasured stories about their lives and events. As to the others out there. .who might pass on a tale.....look close. there just may be some truth or a clue in that tale...I don't' discount ANY old person for their story or their memory. I only hope my great grandchildren will remember the ones I have told them. J. Lewis From: WallDuncan@aol.com<mailto:WallDuncan@aol.com> To: arcrawfo@rootsweb.com<mailto:arcrawfo@rootsweb.com> ; bhendrix1@cox.net<mailto:bhendrix1@cox.net> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] Pellit Creek,Arkansas What do you have now, if anything beyond an old woman's memory. Was she a reader, who paid attention to spelling? Have you Googled her name and "Pellit Creek"? Is it a real place name, or just the name of an old post office, long vanished? [That's s mistake which led me astray for a long time, looking for a place where my great-grandparents lived in the 1800's] Do you know where she's buried,and when? Do you have access to the US Census data? Duncan the Librarian Yarmouth Port, MA _WallDuncan@AOL.COM<mailto:_WallDuncan@AOL.COM>_ (mailto:WallDuncan@AOL.COM<mailto:WallDuncan@AOL.COM>) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com<http://www.aol.com/>. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message