Same thing happened with my family as with Jan's. Everything that belonged to the BASS family was with the two old spinsters and the bachelor, "Uncle Dick, Aint Leona and Bertha Mae". (You have to say it all together - always have) They never married, lived in the house together, worked on the farm together, etc. all their lives while the other BASS children married and moved away. My grandmother was one of the older BASS children and always went back as often as possible to visit and take care of them, as did some of the other older siblings. When my grandmother died we still went to Ridgely and visited and took care of them. We were only 14 miles away. One day the youngest BASS sister's children came from way off, visited and then had them committed to a nursing home. They immediately sold all of the old family items or threw them away before we even knew. Don't think they were being mean either - they just were not interested in the "junk" and thought they were "helping" them by putting them in the nursing home. Oh what I would give to see the old family Bible....................... What secrets did it hold? Abigail, my daddy's cousin (not the BASS side) and the Lake County Historian, has the rocking chair that my great great grandmother insisted on bringing with her to Lake County after her husband died. Her husband had bought it for her when they first married. She treats it well and it will be passed to someone in the family who has children who are interested enough to preserve it and pass it along. Since I don't have children that won't be me and all my cousins on the MOORE side aren't interested. I hope that Abigail's great grandchild will some day treasure it. Leslie Moore lmoore@ecsis.net Personal homepage: http://www.ecsis.net/~lmoore/ Lake County, TN Gen page: http://www.ecsis.net/lakecounty/history/ Kennedy Family Info: http://www.ecsis.net/~lmoore/kennedy.html Volunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness at http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/