Thank you for such a great lesson! Loved it. Does baggin' onions, picking tomatoes, cherries, peaches, apricots, walnuts & grapes count? Marge =================================================================== -----Original Message----- From: Atpowelljr@aol.com [mailto:Atpowelljr@aol.com] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:49 PM To: CAMPBELL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE-Birth Dates CUZ JIM Campbell & My many Cousins, The Birth Dates are Good, Another BIT that I do not see ANY Concern about is Nick Names. MY Amherst & Nelson County Campbell's Most of the older group Had a Nick name that Better I.D.ed them that their Given name as so many of them had the Same First Name. For ANY of yo that Are lucky enough to OWN the Nelson County Va Hertiage Book, Please go to Page 92- Campbell Nicknames By COUSIN NITA Lawhorne, Her & I Both Descend from George & Catherine Campbell's 2nd Grt Grand Son Joshua W <BOSS JOSH> Campbell, Me from 2nd M to Rohda Campbell & Cousin Nita from Frances North 3rd Marriage, NITA has 52 nick names With very little Connection to their First Name,s. & ME, A. T. KNOWN FROM THERE HERE & MOST ANy WHERE ON LINE & 45 Years Traveling the Us & Can, Driving a truck, MY Full name would be a stranger, to those who know <A T>, I am the oldest of 11 children, A T, MERT, Meredith< George, T>George Frank, R C.- Rastus Laverne Campbell P- Dickie, Richard Harvey, Uncle's, Hazel Lee To his brothers Hettle, Earl Mitchell, To Family & Friends, MITCH, My Brother inlaws & Sons, James L. & JR. <BUBBA> James H & Son Jr, Little Jimmy & to cousins BOO BOO, 1/2 Brother to my Grt Grand father, My late Grt Uncle, James Preston, <Jim Buck, One Son Big Buck, Another John Buck One Daughter Pearl Buck, there were 4 BUCK Campbell;s in the same Family. THIS is a true FACT, there is a BUCK, <CAMPBELL> Reunion up there Near Lowesville, Va. <JUST PLAIN BUCK REUNION> And very likeky a George reunion also, <George Campbell> NOT that I am any wise, IF as smart as my RESEARCHING Cousins, But it is that I am more, Mountain fied than Y,ALL. NOW for the Difference: CUZ Y.ALL haint seed nutin, till ya nigh put out yo eyes cuouing, <CUREING TOBACCO> tobaca & picked sun berris fo makin moonshine. an hepted kil em fattin hogs, and had frseh hog pluck, <Hog Liver> fo duner an Clean de Chittlins and soak um & scarpe em fo a week & have em fo christmas Moning. AH now es ole boy nos at mountain TAUK. Now when we, all go up there to our Reunion we very well will not hear ANY of that now. BUT ya see Cuz , ah wuz bon in em mountins in 1926, & Growing up warnt Fancy in em days. YOU see, if you remember the Walton's, Just across Piney River in Nelson County, & down the road a Piece is Walton's Mountain, That Story WAS about the time that I wuz growing up ova in AMUS COUNTY. NOW that may sound FOOLISH & non Genealogical, But I do not have the problem with Knowing MY Cousins & Our Mountain Roots as some Do. NOW I know that My ancestoral roots have led me to the greatest Family on earth. AR ant no strangers, WE IS CUZENS. Be sure not to forget those NICKNAMES. CUZ A T & Leona <atpowelljr@aol.com> -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.12/194 - Release Date: 12/7/2005 ______________________________