HI... I have the Vernon Parish Cemetary books at home (in Louisiana) however, I am in NC!! Don Marler and Gaytha Thompson, I think, both have a set of the books!!!! Thanks!! kaite... >Resent-Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 07:34:30 -0800 (PST) >Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 09:41:01 -0600 (CST) >From: "Jean D. Wallace" <jwalla03@mail.orion.org> >X-Sender: jwalla03@orionc0 >Reply-To: "Jean D. Wallace" <jwalla03@mail.orion.org> >To: bdavis@iname.com >Cc: KaiteKaite <KaiteKaite@aol.com>, Dyess-L@rootsweb.com, > Louisiana Roots Lists <LOUISIANA-ROOTS-L@listserv.indiana.edu> >Subject: Re: Fwd: [LA] Laysville, Louisiana >Resent-Message-Id: <"JrYHlC.A.yXC.8v0W0"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> >Resent-From: DYESS-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <DYESS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/47 >X-Loop: DYESS-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: DYESS-L-request@rootsweb.com > > >Hello, DICE cousins, >(Including you, Bud, :) > >Bud is right. This is the same family. Hattie McCLANAHAN was a second >wife. Because of circumstances beyond his control, James Franklin DIES >left his home, wife and children in Colbert County, Alabama, where they >lived briefly and then moved to Prentiss Co, MS, and back to Colbert Co, >AL. > >Hattie McCLANAHAN was said to have been working as a waitress in a large >hotel in Missouri, maybe St. Louis, when she met James Franklin DICE, who >was travelling with the covered wagon minstrel show. The next that was >know of her was when she gave birth to the daughter Eva DICE on Mar. 28, >1901. > >James Franklin DICE had a brother who was in the show with him. The show >may have been a medicine show. The wagon, in a picture that I have, has >some writing on it, that is only partially showing in the picture. It >looks like "MULLON. MURRUW SHOW" or "MOLLAN.MORROW SHOW". They evidently >lived in the wagon?? because it looks like household goods, including a >bag of potatoes in the back of the wagon. I suppose they could have been >selling groceries?? > >Anyway, I would very much like to know of his death. It is even possible >that what I have heard is not the whole story, and he may have married >again?? In Louisiana??? > >If any of you like being involved in a good mystery, Here's your chance!!! >It will take a pretty good detective to find the missing ventriloquist!!!! >Ihave told you all I know, so you have the clues!!! HELP! > >Bud, I'm sorry, I thought I had told you of this. > > >On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Bud Davis wrote: > >> Hi --- >> >> Information I received regards this family has James Franklin Dies marrying Rebecca Jones, 1/21/1890, in Colbert Co. Alabama. >> Known children were Asa, Robert CharlieBarton, and Martha. >> >> Bud >> >> KaiteKaite wrote: >> >> > Hi... >> > Thought I would forward this to the DYESS group... >> > >> > kaite... >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > >> > Subject: [LA] Laysville, Louisiana >> > Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 21:10:57 -0600 >> > From: "Jean D. Wallace" <jwalla03@MAIL.ORION.ORG> >> > To: LOUISIANA-ROOTS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU >> > >> > Hey, Louisiana Rooters, >> > >> > Can someone tell me what where is Laysville, Louisiana? What Parish? Is >> > it near Shreveport? >> > >> > A daughter, Eva DICE is said to have been born there on Mar. 28, 1901, and >> > that her father James Franklin DIES (DISE etc, any spelling) died in LA. >> > a few years later. >> > >> > Thanks for any help. >> > >> > Jean >> > >> > ----------------------------------------------- >> > To contact the list owner, use stephenL@indiana.edu >> > >> > For information on available lists, other list options, and other >> > generally useful information, visit >> > http://php.indiana.edu/~stephenl/genealog.htm >> >> >> >> >> > > > >