In a message dated 3/19/03 9:27:43 PM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > . When > she was 16, my grandmother was sent to Columbus, GA to work in a cotton > mill. > Eventually, her brother, all her sisters, her mother (Lillie Leona Barrett > McCarty) and Perry Lysander Barrett followed her there Ann, Just wanted to let you know I received a letter from Melba Holmes saying that she and her family will be attending the reunion. Melba and Louie, thier daughter Teresa Bell and husband Mike and daughter Courtney. Also James Phillips, Dorthy Allen and J Vernard Smith. Yu may alreadt know all this but just wanted to pass it on since you are so closely related to them. Are you going to be able to attend? Hugs, Janet