Hello, I was wondering if anyone had any information on an Aaron Armstrong who was married to Margaret Jones, I know they had at least one daughter who was named Ananias she was born 10/30/1856, I am trying to connect him to my John Armstrong who was married to Lucinda McDavid. I found both their names on a tax list in Carter County, Kentucky, which is where my John was from. John is my brick wall I've been trying to find anything on him but SPLAT I keep running into the wall. Anything at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Pat _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Is Steven J. Zuraff on this list? Or does anyone know how to contact him? If so, please contact me. Thanks Dave Strong

Nice to hear of the success stories Herma. I may not be a true Armstrong, but over the years I know the brickwalls you all have put forward, so it is good to hear from folk when they knock down that brick wall. Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herma R Armstrong" <hrarmstrong@juno.com> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:15 AM Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] ARMSTRONG, Willis Sumner - St. Louis > Thanks to the leads provided by kind folks, I can update info. I sent a > few days ago on the family of my long-lost great uncle Willis Sumner > ARMSTRONG who departed southern OH about 1913 and never returned. I > still need info. on the children and their families if anyone has access > to St. Louis City resources that are not on-line. I would especially > like to have the obituaries of Uncle Sumner's son Paul ARMSTRONG who died > in Sep 1985 and of his wife Agnes ARMSTRONG d. 19 Aug 1988. I also > don't have a death date for Willis Sumner ARMSTRONG. His wife Agnes, who > was 12 yrs. younger than he, is on the SSDI, but he is not. Edna and > Arline may still be living. > > Willis Sumner ARMSTRONG b. Oct 1879 Adams Co. OH d. ? > married in 1912-13 Agnes Cecelia EMNETT b. 23 Jan 1892 Scioto Co. OH d. > 19 Aug 1988 St. Louis MO (zip 63116) > children: > 1. Paul ARMSTRONG b. 12 Apr 1914 St. Louis MO d. Sep 1985 St. Louis MO > (would love to have his obituary) > 2. Edna ARMSTRONG b. 1916-17 St. Louis MO > 3. Arline ARMSTRONG b. 1927 St Louis MO > > Willis (Sumner) was a shoeworker who lived in a multifamily res. on > Mississippi Ave. St. Louis in 1921. He was still a shoeworker in 1930 > but had bought a home on Dresden Ave, which is in the Humboldt Heights > area of Morganford or Oak Hill. The family may have been Catholic. > > Records I've found on the EMNETT family in OH shows that they were > Catholic. Willis, on the other hand, was the grandson of a Methodist > minister. Willis and Agnes left Scioto Co. OH for St. Louis not long > after their marriage. Another of Willis' brothers went to Warren, PA to > work and ended up marrying an Irish Catholic; he became a Catholic > himself. Altho' this other brother went back to southern OH to help his > parents with the tobacco harvest each yr., he never brought his family > along. From this circumstantial evidence, I get the idea that these > brothers' marriages were not welcomed by the Armstrongs. > > Herma Armstrong > near Buffalo, NY > hrarmstrong@juno.com > > >

Thanks to the leads provided by kind folks, I can update info. I sent a few days ago on the family of my long-lost great uncle Willis Sumner ARMSTRONG who departed southern OH about 1913 and never returned. I still need info. on the children and their families if anyone has access to St. Louis City resources that are not on-line. I would especially like to have the obituaries of Uncle Sumner's son Paul ARMSTRONG who died in Sep 1985 and of his wife Agnes ARMSTRONG d. 19 Aug 1988. I also don't have a death date for Willis Sumner ARMSTRONG. His wife Agnes, who was 12 yrs. younger than he, is on the SSDI, but he is not. Edna and Arline may still be living. Willis Sumner ARMSTRONG b. Oct 1879 Adams Co. OH d. ? married in 1912-13 Agnes Cecelia EMNETT b. 23 Jan 1892 Scioto Co. OH d. 19 Aug 1988 St. Louis MO (zip 63116) children: 1. Paul ARMSTRONG b. 12 Apr 1914 St. Louis MO d. Sep 1985 St. Louis MO (would love to have his obituary) 2. Edna ARMSTRONG b. 1916-17 St. Louis MO 3. Arline ARMSTRONG b. 1927 St Louis MO Willis (Sumner) was a shoeworker who lived in a multifamily res. on Mississippi Ave. St. Louis in 1921. He was still a shoeworker in 1930 but had bought a home on Dresden Ave, which is in the Humboldt Heights area of Morganford or Oak Hill. The family may have been Catholic. Records I've found on the EMNETT family in OH shows that they were Catholic. Willis, on the other hand, was the grandson of a Methodist minister. Willis and Agnes left Scioto Co. OH for St. Louis not long after their marriage. Another of Willis' brothers went to Warren, PA to work and ended up marrying an Irish Catholic; he became a Catholic himself. Altho' this other brother went back to southern OH to help his parents with the tobacco harvest each yr., he never brought his family along. From this circumstantial evidence, I get the idea that these brothers' marriages were not welcomed by the Armstrongs. Herma Armstrong near Buffalo, NY hrarmstrong@juno.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Armstrong Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kQB.2ACIB/541.1 Message Board Post: My Grandfather was Thomas Lofate Armstrong BD April 07,1876 Would like to hear from you.

I am looking for James, b. abt. 1868; John b. abt. 1871; Francis, b. abt. 1875; and George H. Armstrong b. abt. 1879, all b. in Cambridge, MA Do any of these Armstrongs sound familiar to anybody? Thanks, Cousin Marilyn Marilyn Armstrong Otterson Semper ubi sub ubi Researching: Armstrong, Milligan, Field, McCoy, Reid, Goff, Drake, Eaton, Norton, Gilbert, Roberts, Robbins, Flint, Haley, Whitten, Chadbourne, Bates, Walker, Goodwin, Gardner, Neal

That is quite interesting Debbie. It is reasurring to know there is a way of getting rid of the majority of the potency of the Chemicals. I shall look further, as it is a worry isn't it. Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbie" <debra.street@verizon.net> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG-L] Non Gen Query! > I did a Google search on: > > "chemical weapons" +destroy +method > > and got a lot of hits. You might want to look at some of those. Here's > part of one (I would think that the effect of a bunker busting bomb > would be similar to "incineration" but then again I'm no expert). > > http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/archive/092498-1.html > > "Currently, the Army incinerates chemical weapons stored in remote > areas. But this method is unsuitable for use around populated areas > because at high temperatures, chemical weapons combust and release > toxins into the air." > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 10:12 PM, Rob and Edie McArthur wrote: > > > Hi, > > Don't think this is political. I am curious to know what happens if > > one of those Bunker Bombing Missiles strikes a bunker or similar which > > may be concealing weapons of mass destruction with the chemicals > > already in them. Would the fire from the bombs kill the germs on > > impact, or could the poisons go out into the atmosphere. I was > > thinking that since they have already been tried on the Iraqis and the > > outcome is already known what happens when a person is exposed to the > > Chemicals, they are not going to be so stupid as to use them within > > their own country. > > > > Does anyone know what happens to such chemical weapons if they are > > bombed? Are they destroyed in the flames on impact? > > > > Thanks > > Edie > > > > > > >

Thanks Debbie, I shall take a look Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: Debbie To: ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com Cc: Rob and Edie McArthur Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG-L] Non Gen Query! I did a Google search on: "chemical weapons" +destroy +method and got a lot of hits. You might want to look at some of those. Here's part of one (I would think that the effect of a bunker busting bomb would be similar to "incineration" but then again I'm no expert). http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/archive/092498-1.html "Currently, the Army incinerates chemical weapons stored in remote areas. But this method is unsuitable for use around populated areas because at high temperatures, chemical weapons combust and release toxins into the air." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 10:12 PM, Rob and Edie McArthur wrote: Hi, Don't think this is political. I am curious to know what happens if one of those Bunker Bombing Missiles strikes a bunker or similar which may be concealing weapons of mass destruction with the chemicals already in them. Would the fire from the bombs kill the germs on impact, or could the poisons go out into the atmosphere. I was thinking that since they have already been tried on the Iraqis and the outcome is already known what happens when a person is exposed to the Chemicals, they are not going to be so stupid as to use them within their own country. Does anyone know what happens to such chemical weapons if they are bombed? Are they destroyed in the flames on impact? Thanks Edie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kQB.2ACIB/2614 Message Board Post: I am searching for any data on James Llwellyn Armstrong who lived in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. He was born sometime around 1850 and appears in the 1920 census. He is mentioned as still living in 1937 in the obituary for his son, Guy Clement, who is my wife's maternal grand father. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi, Don't think this is political. I am curious to know what happens if one of those Bunker Bombing Missiles strikes a bunker or similar which may be concealing weapons of mass destruction with the chemicals already in them. Would the fire from the bombs kill the germs on impact, or could the poisons go out into the atmosphere. I was thinking that since they have already been tried on the Iraqis and the outcome is already known what happens when a person is exposed to the Chemicals, they are not going to be so stupid as to use them within their own country. Does anyone know what happens to such chemical weapons if they are bombed? Are they destroyed in the flames on impact? Thanks Edie

Dear Snowless John... Actually, I am subscribed to the Armstrong list... however, I neglected to request that I be allowed to post messages from alternate email addresses. If you will kindly look at your records, you will find that I am subscribed under dbstrong@sos.net However, at the moment I am traveling and will be using dbsandmd@attcanada.ca as my address for the time-being. If you will look at the messages exchanged between me, Russell Laird and Nancy Godfrey, below and following my excerpt from your message, you will find instructions as to the procedures for administrators of Rootsweb lists to set up subscribers for "post-only" messages. I respectfully ask that you take the necessary action to set up subscription and post only message status for me so as receive messages only at dbstrong@sos.net, and to be able to send from that address and post only from dbsandmd@attcanada.ca as well as dbsandmd@nhb.com Thank You, (and the snow is melting here, but we had a lot of it.) Dave Strong ... DNA Study Coordinator & webmaster: Book I: RESEARCHING STRONG(E) AND STRANG(E) IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/contents.htm Database and manuscript. See especially Chap. 13, entitled "Lineages"; and Chapt. 15, "DNA Study" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/dnastudy.htm & Book II: THE DONEGAL STRONG PUZZLE: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/indxdrft.htm Research and study of Counties Donegal and Fermanagh Strongs and related families. ============================================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Armstrong" <ana@mtaonline.net> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 10:14 AM Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] Re: {not a subscriber} DNA Study Results, Update 22 March 2003 > David doesn't seem to understand that one has to be subscribed to a > Rootsweb Surname List before one can send anything to that list... > Therefore, since he is not subscirbed and his attempts l default at the > Administrators PC, I will forward his DNA article to the list.. > > Regards > John D Armstrong > Administrator, Snowless in Alaska > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Laird" <rll.geo@yahoo.com> To: "Nancy Godfrey" <godzoriz@lvcm.com> Cc: "David B. Strong" <dbstrong@sos.net> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:26 AM Subject: Re: Posting messages to the list > Hello Nancy, > > To allow Dave to post to STRANG-L from his other two > addresses, all you have to do is add them to your > accept list: > > Log in to your admin list tools page at: > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/login/strang > > Click the "Edit Files" link > > Click the "Edit the STRANG accept list" link > > Add Dave's two address in the text box and > click the "Submit Changes" button at the bottom. > > Here are the addresses he wants to add: > > dbsandmd@nhb.com > dbsandmd@attcanada.ca > > Once done, he will be able to post to STRANG-L > from these addresses as well, but he will receive > posts only at his subbed address. > > Let me know if I can help. > > Best Regards, > Russell Laird > Rootsweb list admin for STRONG-L, LAIRD-L and > HARALSON-L. > > > --- "David B. Strong" <dbstrong@sos.net> wrote: > > Hi Nancy... > > Thanks for your response... I assume you have just > > made a "typo" below where > > you say I am "resubscribed on the STRONG-L list"; > > it should read "STRANG-L > > list". > > > > As to how to configure the list so I can post from > > additional email > > addresses, I am copying this message to Russell > > Laird, who is the list > > administrator for the STRONG-L list. He > > accomplished this for me on that > > list, and I am hoping he can advise you on how to do > > it. > > > > Thanks > > Dave Strong > > ======================================== > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Nancy Godfrey" <godzoriz@lvcm.com> > > To: "David B. Strong" <dbstrong@sos.net> > > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 2:38 PM > > Subject: Re: Posting messages to the list > > > > > > Dave, > > > > You are resubscribed on the STRONG-L list just fine. > > All posts should > > work properly. > > > > As far as your second question, I have no idea how > > to accomplish it - > > I've never seen it on the Rootsweb lists. If you can > > let me know on > > what list you have it configured like that, I'll be > > happy to check with > > the listowner and find out how they did it, and > > apply it to your other > > addresses, if it's possible on Rootsweb. > > > > Cheers, > > Nancy > > > > -- > > > > On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 02:03 PM, David B. > > Strong wrote: > > > > > Hello. > > > I have unsubscribed from the Strang-D list, and > > subscribed to the > > > Strang-L > > > list. > > > I would appreciate being able to recieve messages > > as enabled by the > > > foregoing actions. > > > > > > I would also like to be able to POST ONLY, > > messages from the following > > > additional email addresses: > > > dbsandmd@nhb.com > > > dbsandmd@attcanada.ca > > > > > > I understand the foregoing can be accomplished as > > it has worked on a > > > different list. Would appreciate a reply > > indicating this has been > > > accomplished. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Dave Strong > > >

David doesn't seem to understand that one has to be subscribed to a Rootsweb Surname List before one can send anything to that list... Therefore, since he is not subscirbed and his attempts l default at the Administrators PC, I will forward his DNA article to the list.. Regards John D Armstrong Administrator, Snowless in Alaska David B. Strong wrote: >Hello Armstrong list members. > >I have posted updated results for the Strong, et al., DNA Study yesterday, >including two >additional kits. See: >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/dnaresults.htm > >There have been some changes in the commentary and insertion of additional >notes. I continue to revise the groupings as we receive additional >results. However, it seems clear that we have several different Haplotypes >and differing roots for the surnames under study. The information being >developed is in some instances helping to establish geographic origins. As >additional test participants join the study we will be gaining insights as >to the origins of various of the individuals in the groups as they develop. >For elaboration on our findings to this point, please see the Interpretation >of Results section of the webpage. > >Note, there is quite "strong" evidence that some of the participants in the >study are descended from other surname lineages in Lowland Scotland, >including BLAIR and MAXWELL and MURRAY, all well known names in the Borders >region. I am VERY interested in determining whether there are ARMSTRONG DNA >Signatures which may apply regarding these findings. We continue to need >participants. Your help would be appreciated! > >If you have any questions or comments, please let me know. > >Regards >Dave Strong ... >DNA Study Coordinator & webmaster: >Book I: RESEARCHING STRONG(E) AND STRANG(E) >IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND: >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/contents.htm >Database and manuscript. See especially Chap. 13, >entitled "Lineages"; and Chapt. 15, "DNA Study" >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/dnastudy.htm >& >Book II: THE DONEGAL STRONG PUZZLE: >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegalstrongs/indxdrft.htm >Research and study of Counties Donegal and Fermanagh Strongs and >related families. >============================================================== > > > > > >

Do you dream in color? I do. Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: <ROGUE8357@aol.com> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 12:23 PM Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] Seeing colors on a Black & White TV > Dear Judy, > I had to laugh when I read your letter about seeing colors > on a B&W TV. My mom always insisted that she could see colors in B&W movies & > on her B&W TV sets, especially red. I have to admit I was always skeptical. > > She was disabled during her later years, & often her only > companion was a little black & white set. Whenever I offered to get her a > color set she would bring up her color seeing abilities. She only relented > when the TV I bought her had a remote, so she wouldn't have to get out of bed > to change the channels. > Maybe this is a special Armstrong super power. > Roxanne >

I did a Google search on: "chemical weapons" +destroy +method and got a lot of hits. You might want to look at some of those. Here's part of one (I would think that the effect of a bunker busting bomb would be similar to "incineration" but then again I'm no expert). http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/archive/092498-1.html "Currently, the Army incinerates chemical weapons stored in remote areas. But this method is unsuitable for use around populated areas because at high temperatures, chemical weapons combust and release toxins into the air." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 10:12 PM, Rob and Edie McArthur wrote: > Hi, > Don't think this is political. I am curious to know what happens if > one of those Bunker Bombing Missiles strikes a bunker or similar which > may be concealing weapons of mass destruction with the chemicals > already in them. Would the fire from the bombs kill the germs on > impact, or could the poisons go out into the atmosphere. I was > thinking that since they have already been tried on the Iraqis and the > outcome is already known what happens when a person is exposed to the > Chemicals, they are not going to be so stupid as to use them within > their own country. > > Does anyone know what happens to such chemical weapons if they are > bombed? Are they destroyed in the flames on impact? > > Thanks > Edie > > >

Hello I am looking to make contact with anyone researching the following families. I know that they were in Stralustern in 1823 and cannot go any further except for one family. John Armstrong married Frances Wainwright and had Elizabeth Bapt. 15/7/1793 Samuel Wainwright Bapt. 20/9/1798 William approx 1804 John Bapt. 6/4/1807 Jane Anne Bapt. 15/11/1812 These children were baptised in Monaghan. William Armstrong married Mary Egerton 2/9/1829 at Aghadrumsee, Nth Ireland and came to Australia. I would really like to make contact with members of the other childrens' families. Any ideas? Thank, Janice Taylor Researching Armstrong, Wainwright, Egerton, Taylor, Rae

Listers, I am looking for any info. re: Willis ARMSTRONG in St. Louis MO. He was 50 yrs. old on the 1930 census. Unfortunately, the 1930 census pages for St. Louis have been taken down by Ancestry.com for re-scanning. Does anyone have access to city directories for St. Louis from 1920 to the 50's or 60's to look up Willis Armstrong, or have access to the 1930 St. Louis census? The 1930 census listing is p. 25A E.D. 473. Willis is not on the 1920 St. Louis census. I am trying to find out if the Willis Armstrong in St. Louis in 1930 is the Willis Armstrong b. Oct. 1879 in Adams Co. OH. If so, he is my grandfather's older brother. Is Willis Armstrong the same man as Sumner Armstrong? I have been looking off and on for Sumner Armstrong, older brother of my grandfather. Sumner left Adams Co. OH and went to Warren PA according to his father Caleb's obituary in 1915. His younger brother's 1920 obituary, however, refers to brother Sumner "of St. Louis." But neither I nor another family member who has checked all the Warren PA city directories and censi have ever found any evidence of Sumner Armstrong. There is indeed a Sumner Armstrong in RI, but he's not the right age to be our man. Now, however, we see on the 1880 Adams Co. OH census son WILLIS Armstrong, age 8/12, b. Oct 1879 in the household of my great grandparents Caleb Armstrong and Sarah Elliott. This is the first we have ever seen or heard of a Willis Armstrong in this family. Instead, Oct 1879 is the birth month and yr. given for Sumner Armstrong in his father Caleb's Civil War pension papers. So, it seems that Sumner and Willis are the same person because there is no Sumner listed on the 1880 census. Herma Armstrong near Buffalo, NY hrarmstrong@juno.com

Dear Judy, I had to laugh when I read your letter about seeing colors on a B&W TV. My mom always insisted that she could see colors in B&W movies & on her B&W TV sets, especially red. I have to admit I was always skeptical. She was disabled during her later years, & often her only companion was a little black & white set. Whenever I offered to get her a color set she would bring up her color seeing abilities. She only relented when the TV I bought her had a remote, so she wouldn't have to get out of bed to change the channels. Maybe this is a special Armstrong super power. Roxanne

Trade my washing machine for a 1953 wringer washer? ABSOLUTELY! Two (admittedly used) washers have died on me in the last six months. I have five daughters. Laundry is my life. I'd love to have an old reliable washer. Momma's old wringer washer or the front loader she got right after the wringer would suit me just fine. Self cleaning oven? I guess I have one---I clean my oven my self. LOL If you have old appliances from the 50s - 60s don't give them up ---unless you are giving them to me! Something I've always wondered about: Even though the pictures were black and white when I was a kid, I always "knew" what color things really were. Did any one else think they knew what color things were? Any time they actually referred to the color of something I was right too. Of course I did constantly see (in bands of gray) the color bars for folks to adjust their newfangled color sets. That's where I learned the word "magenta". You may call the little men in white suits now. :) Judy (who wasn't born till 1959) :-) Patti Armstrong wrote: > great poem, I'm not sure life was ever black and white--go back to > 1953--wanna trade in your washing machine for what was used in 1953--or > maybe your self-cleaning oven. > Patti > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rosemary Webb" <rosie@ipa.net> > To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:42 PM > Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] Black & White > > > I wish I'd written this > > > > author unknown > > > > Black and White (Under age 40? You won't understand.) > > > > You could hardly see for all the snow, > > Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go. > > Pull a chair up to the TV set, > > "Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet." > > > > Depending on the channel you tuned, > > You got Rob and Laura - or Ward and June. > > It felt so good. It felt so right. > > Life looked better in black and white. > > > > I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys, > > Dennis the Menace, the Cleaver boys, > > Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, > > Superman, Jimmy and Lois Lane. > > > > Father Knows Best, Patty Duke, > > Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too, > > Donna Reed on Thursday night! - > > Life looked better in black and white. > > > > I wanna go back to black and white. > > Everything always turned out right. > > Simple people, simple lives... > > Good guys always won the fights. > > > > Now nothing is the way it seems, > > In living color on the TV screen. > > Too many murders, too many fights, > > I wanna go back to black and white. > > > > In God they trusted, alone in bed, they slept, > > A promise made was a promise kept. > > They never cussed or broke their vows. > > They'd never make the network now. > > > > But if I could, I'd rather be > > In a TV town in '53. > > It felt so good. It felt so right. > > Life looked better in black and white. > > > > I'd trade all the channels on the satellite, > > If I could just turn back the clock tonight > > To when everybody knew wrong from right. > > Life was better in black and white! > > > > Pass this to someone (over age 40, of course), and brighten their day > > by helping them to remember that life's most simple pleasures ! are very > > often the best! > >

great poem, I'm not sure life was ever black and white--go back to 1953--wanna trade in your washing machine for what was used in 1953--or maybe your self-cleaning oven. Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemary Webb" <rosie@ipa.net> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] Black & White > I wish I'd written this > > author unknown > > Black and White (Under age 40? You won't understand.) > > You could hardly see for all the snow, > Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go. > Pull a chair up to the TV set, > "Good Night, David. Good Night, Chet." > > Depending on the channel you tuned, > You got Rob and Laura - or Ward and June. > It felt so good. It felt so right. > Life looked better in black and white. > > I Love Lucy, The Real McCoys, > Dennis the Menace, the Cleaver boys, > Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, > Superman, Jimmy and Lois Lane. > > Father Knows Best, Patty Duke, > Rin Tin Tin and Lassie too, > Donna Reed on Thursday night! - > Life looked better in black and white. > > I wanna go back to black and white. > Everything always turned out right. > Simple people, simple lives... > Good guys always won the fights. > > Now nothing is the way it seems, > In living color on the TV screen. > Too many murders, too many fights, > I wanna go back to black and white. > > In God they trusted, alone in bed, they slept, > A promise made was a promise kept. > They never cussed or broke their vows. > They'd never make the network now. > > But if I could, I'd rather be > In a TV town in '53. > It felt so good. It felt so right. > Life looked better in black and white. > > I'd trade all the channels on the satellite, > If I could just turn back the clock tonight > To when everybody knew wrong from right. > Life was better in black and white! > > Pass this to someone (over age 40, of course), and brighten their day > by helping them to remember that life's most simple pleasures ! are very > often the best! >

Sounds like Burma Shave was active! Patti ----- Original Message ----- From: "HAMID,LINDA (HP-Roseville,ex1)" <linda_hamid@hp.com> To: <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 4:08 PM Subject: [ARMSTRONG-L] Interesting True Tombstones > Interesting True Tombstones! > > Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York: > Born 1903-Died 1942 > Looked up the elevator shaft > to see if the car was on the way down. > It was. > ****************************** > In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: > Here lies an Atheist > All dressed up > And no place to go. > ****************************** > On the grave of Ezekial Aikle > in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: > Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. > The Good Die Young. > ****************************** > In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery: > Anna Wallace: > The children of Israel wanted bread, > And the Lord sent them manna. > Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, > And the Devil sent him Anna. > ****************************** > In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: > Here lies Johnny Yeast. > Pardon me > For not rising. > ****************************** > In a Uniontown, Pennsylvania, cemetery: > Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake. > Stepped on the gas > Instead of the brake. > ****************************** > In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: > Here lays The Kid. > We planted him raw. > He was quick on the trigger > But slow on the draw. > ****************************** > A lawyer's epitaph in England: > Sir John Strange. > Here lies an honest lawyer, > And that is Strange. > ****************************** > John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, > England, cemetery: > Reader, if cash thou art In want of any, > Dig 6 feet deep; And thou wilt find a Penny. > ****************************** > In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England: > On the 22nd of June, > Jonathan Fiddle Went out of tune. > ****************************** > Anna Hopewell's grave > in Enosburg Falls, Vermont > Here lies the body of our Anna - > Done to death by a banana. > It wasn't the fruit that laid her low, > But the skin of the thing that made her go. > ****************************** > On a grave from the 1880s in Nantucket, > Massachusetts: > Under the sod and under the trees, > Lies the body of Jonathan Pease. > He is not here, there's only the pod. > Pease shelled out and went to God. > ****************************** > In a cemetery in England: > Remember man, as you walk by, > As you are now, so once was I. > As I am now, so shall you be. > Remember this and follow me. > > To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone: > > To follow you I'll not consent > Until I know which way you went. >