This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Andrus, Matthews Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VV.2ADE/459 Message Board Post: I am in possession of a diary of Rachel Andrus. From research we have determined she lived with her parents Albert and Annadam Andrus and sister Sarah in Fulton Co., AR from at least 1900 to 1907. She was born Dec. 1883 in NE and her sister was born in 1885 in the same state. In the 1900 census her father is listed as a miner and born in 1858 in NY as was both his parents. Anadam is listed as born in 1860 and born in Iowa and parents born in Maryland and Penn. I know that the family was still living in this same area in at least 1907 but the father had died by this time. She taught school in Izard Co. in the year 1905-1906 then returned to Salem and her mother. I would really like to contact any one who knows this lady. I also have a picture that has been identified as Rachel. I would like to know what happened to her after the time of the diary.