B. KING, reply to this email, have KING, lived in Fort Smith, Ark. Claude/Lela King. Also London---Is it Riley or Risley??? dr ----- Original Message ----- From: "barbara king" <barbaraking119@msn.com> To: <arcrawfo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:14 AM Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] Pellit Creek,Arkansas > Beautiful story - thanks for sharing it with us. It gives hope to those who > have reached their brick wall but keep on searching. > > Not related but I was born in Fort Smith, AR and most of my family research > is in Arkansas. > > Thanks again. > > Barbara King > Surname Research: Allen, Bennett, Brown, Clark, Craughen, Crawford, Drake, > Foster, King, Kuykendall, London, McLaughlin, Powell, Prothro, Riley, > Silmon, Simmons, Sutherland, Walters, Wortham > > > From: "JoRetta Lewis" <jg_lewis@msn.com> > Reply-To: arcrawfo@rootsweb.com > To: <arcrawfo@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] Pellit Creek,Arkansas > Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:43:24 -0500 > > 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 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.0.0/754 - Release Date: 4/9/07 10:59 PM > >