Great stories! Thanks for taking the time to compose and post them. --pam -----Original Message----- From: Steve Illum [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 6:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CAAMADOR-L] Hattie Harding Not that I have any right to say so, but I am sure proud of everything that you are all doing. I joined this group about what? 2 months ago? You have just made it one of the high points of my life. Thanks so much to Art, and to all of you. Incidentally, have you all seen Sadie's Story among the Pioneer Stories on the website yet? It's worth your gander . . . http://www.rootsweb.com/~caamador Eventually, I'm just hoping beyond hope that I can somehow find from where Rocco & Tina came to Boston. Where in Italy, that is. I admit that the latest political developments in Italy make me a little nervous, but I would like to travel there to meet my living Caminetti & Giusto families someday. Eileen & I have been to Denmark twice to meet my Illum family. In fact, this last trip, we conducted 5 family reunions across Denmark, and chartered 2 boats to Illum Island, full of Illums who had never been there before. We visited the 2 Illums Department Stores in Copenhagen, and had dinner with the last family owner with whom I'd initiated correspondence in the 1960's. I was lucky enough to retrieve a photo of my GGGG grandmother. We stayed with family everywhere we traveled. It was another high point of my life. Again, someday, I hope to do the same kind of thing in Italy. We've also had Danish family come visit our home in The Ozarks. I'm up to about 20,000 names in my Family Origins file. Tons of photos too. Truly, it's been an experience of a lifetime. And, you've now become part of it too. Each of you causes me to consider each day . . . what detective work can I do next to find out more about Rocco & Tina. It can be very frustrating, but you provide so much daily energy. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Carolyn Crawford <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 4:14 PM Subject: Re: [CAAMADOR-L] Hattie Harding >Judy, >This indeed is part of my family. Thank you so much for finding this for me. >Carolyn >-----Original Message----- >From: Judy Mawhorter <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >Date: Saturday, May 08, 1999 6:25 PM >Subject: [CAAMADOR-L] Hattie Harding > > >>I think someone on the list was researching this family. Does this help? >> >>>From Amador Dispatch, 10/16/1903: DEATH OF HATTIE HARDING -- Information >>has just reached us of the death of Hattie, eldest daughter of William >>Harding of Pine Grove. Deceased left Amador county about a year ago, to >>join her mother, Mrs. Frank Onkeson, in Nevada. She was married on June >>27th and on August 28th she went to the well to draw a bucket of water, and >>it supposed she slipped and fell in, as her body was found in the water. >>Her father did not know of her marriage until he heard of her death, and >>did not then learn who she married. He is nearly heart-broken over the sad >>news. She was a niece of Mrs. Charles Calvin, of Pine Grove. She was well >>known in Amador and Calaveras Counties, and was at one time a pupil at St. >>Agnes' Academy at Stockton. She leaves a father, mother, one sister and >>two brothers besides many friends to mourn her sad and early death. >>(Stockton papers please copy.) >> >>Judy in Winnemucca, NV >>[email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> >