Twila wrote: >I'm sure we would like to believe that our ancestors were well-educated, but I >don't really believe that this family was. They were farmers and >millwrights. But wasn't it in a part of Aaron's diary that the family (his family, anyway) read the Bible in both German and English? And didn't he say that most of his uncles could read and write? Maybe I'm thinking of something else, but I was under the impression that the Botetourt/Clermont bunch were relatively well-educated. Tom Tom Robison Ossian, Indiana tcrobi@adamswells.com Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child forever. [unknown]