In a message dated 1/5/2000 9:23:49 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: ------clip------- << Surely you have a copy of a newspaper obituary on our Sabra Watson Blackburn. As our kin Tom McNaghten wrote to me a long time ago: "It was presumably printed in a Missouri newspaper after her death on Oct. 3, 1914. It reads as follows: "Old Settler Passes Away" "Sabra Watson Blackburn was born in Pittsylvania Co. Va., Dec. 14, 1827. She was married >> ------clip---------------- What a wonderful obituary!!! How lucky you are to have such a wonderful timeline laid out for you. I wish all my Blackburns did the same thing! Mine are more like: He died and his son's house and we buried him. Happy Hunting to you all! Cheri