Well, first if you are looking for a Manning family; there is one here in Indianapolis that's pretty famous named "Peyton". I had to throw that in. As for a story like that, I also have one or two. In the mid-1800's my g-grandfather W.D. Rimes (from Louisiana) supposedly had an argument with his dad over horses and music and ran off. He changed his name from Rhymes to Rimes and at times was quite a scoundrel. One of his daughters married a cousin of Black Jack Ketchem but she and her husband were very nice people. Now W.D.'s second wife (my g-grandmother) was living with a cruel aunt when she was 12 and ran away. I can't find out what happened to her mother and dad so she is a brick wall. She supposedly had enough Indian blood to qualify her living on a reservation but was ashamed of it. I've heard her name was Butcher but she lived with a family named Guthrie who took her in. On her wedding information, she used the name Guthrie as hers. There must have been something in the water in LA in those days. I've heard that many people concocted stories like that to get away from something in their past--like Indian blood. That's something that I'm proud of today but was really frowned upon in those days. If you could chronicle these stories, you might have a hit TV series like Roots. Ha! Good luck. I feel for you. Ken

Such a shame prejudice and ingnorance cause these rifts and people afraid to find scoundrals in their families. They are missing out on the really great people as well. Every family has at least one scoundral! Most have secrets, also. My situation is a brick wall caused by ignorance and secrets. What's a person to do? I'm missing out on some really super people also, I'm sure. In the grand scheme of things, what do those things from even one generation ago even matter? Why would it be so important today to keep people from their heritage? So sad... Sandi Mitchell Menifee CA >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [BROWN] Brown's in Louisiana >Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:14:56 EST > >Well, first if you are looking for a Manning family; there is one here in >Indianapolis that's pretty famous named "Peyton". I had to throw that in. >As for a story like that, I also have one or two. In the mid-1800's my >g-grandfather W.D. Rimes (from Louisiana) supposedly had an argument with >his dad >over horses and music and ran off. He changed his name from Rhymes to Rimes >and at times was quite a scoundrel. One of his daughters married a cousin >of >Black Jack Ketchem but she and her husband were very nice people. Now >W.D.'s >second wife (my g-grandmother) was living with a cruel aunt when she was >12 >and ran away. I can't find out what happened to her mother and dad so she >is a >brick wall. She supposedly had enough Indian blood to qualify her living >on a >reservation but was ashamed of it. I've heard her name was Butcher but she >lived with a family named Guthrie who took her in. On her wedding >information, >she used the name Guthrie as hers. >There must have been something in the water in LA in those days. >I've heard that many people concocted stories like that to get away from >something in their past--like Indian blood. That's something that I'm >proud of >today but was really frowned upon in those days. >If you could chronicle these stories, you might have a hit TV series like >Roots. Ha! >Good luck. I feel for you. >Ken > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message