In the 1880's to early 1900's my husbands family had a big business in strawberries & apples in Rudy, which is just north of Alma. farming was the way of life with just a few that were preachers, clerks and a couple drs. Rozie Surname partial search List Rozell (various spellings), Blakely, Bonner, Burrow/s, Cheary, Chitwood, Clanton, DeLung, Hamilton, Hammack/ock, Harrison, Hopkins, Marcum, Osborn, Oxford, Pierce, Scott, I work on genealogy everyday except the Days that don't end in a Y Ü _Rozell Surname_ (http://hometown.aol.com/rozie10263/myhomepage/Rozell.html) In a message dated 1/12/2007 11:16:45 A.M. Central Standard Time, OkiegrlGG@aol.com writes: > Since I'm not really familiar with the area but understand it's at least > very close to the Ozarks, does anybody know if farming was the main way of > life at the turn of the century in this area? If it was, what did they > raise? > > Billie