>Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:40:53 -0700 (PDT) >From: MO97Gt@aol.com >Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 22:39:13 EDT >Old-To: CHEROKEE-L-request@rootsweb.com, GenWisconsin-L@rootsweb.com, > HANDCART-L-request@rootsweb.com, KansasCity-L@rootsweb.com, > KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com, MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com, > Southern-Trails-L-request@rootsweb.com, > VAALBEMA-L-request@rootsweb.com, VACULPEP-L-request@rootsweb.com >Old-Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="part0_907123153_boundary" >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 170 >Subject: [MOTANEY-L] Fwd: Has the list seen this? >To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/194 >X-Loop: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: MOTANEY-L-request@rootsweb.com > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >--part0_907123153_boundary >Content-ID: <0_907123153@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > >--part0_907123153_boundary >Content-ID: <0_907123153@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> >Content-type: message/rfc822 >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >Content-disposition: inline > >Return-Path: <ROBINSON-L-request@rootsweb.com> >Received: from rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (rly-zb01.mail.aol.com [172.31.41.1]) by > air-zb02.mail.aol.com (v50.15) with SMTP; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:50:12 > -0400 >Received: from fp-1.rootsweb.com (fp-1.rootsweb.com [207.113.233.233]) > by rly-zb01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) > with ESMTP id PAA03596; > Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:49:49 -0400 (EDT) >Received: (from slist@localhost) > by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA19502; > Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:39:41 -0700 (PDT) >Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:39:41 -0700 (PDT) >From: Mamacin774@aol.com >Message-ID: <17bfce52.361137cf@aol.com> >Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:41:03 EDT >Old-To: ROBINSON-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Has the list seen this? >X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 52 >Resent-Message-ID: <"VVVB6D.A.6vE.7dTE2"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> >To: ROBINSON-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: ROBINSON-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <ROBINSON-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/3223 >X-Loop: ROBINSON-L@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: ROBINSON-L-request@rootsweb.com >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > > >Forwarded from another list. Know of anywhere else to post it? >>>Subject: Bible needs a family:Stough,Welk,Wantz > > >Just passing this along.......article clipped from a newspaper: > > "VIRGINIAN REVIEW - Sat 15 Aug 1998." It had the heading "VA >>MAN TRYING TO FIND FAMILY TO RETURN BIBLE.' > The article reads "YORK, Pa. - A Virginia man is trying to return a 100 >year old Bible to the descendants of a York County, PA family. >But finding them has not been an easy matter. > >Julian Gordon of Newport News, VA. >> Came into possession of the Bible last year, when his father-in-law > died. > His father-in-law had purchased the Bible in 1973 at an auction >in Delta. > But trying to find the family, Gordon doesn't have much to go on >-- just a few names written inside and eight photographs. The name >that occurs frequently is Stough. >The York County telephone lists about 145 numbers for homes and >businesses under that name. Gordon tried calling some of the Stoughs. >A few were openly skeptical, apparently think the call was some kind of >hoax..............." > Inscriptions, photographs, and papers inside the bible tell: "it was > given to Harry Isaiah Stough by his mother, Savannah on 25 Dec >1885. > Harry had a brother named Ammon, who married Minnie F Welk. >They had at least three children: Marie Florence; Laroy George; and >Raymond Welk. > Other papers mention Sevannia Wantz Stough and Lydia Wantz. The >pictures were taken at Jeffres Art Studio in York. > Mr Julian Gordon, according to the newspaper article has said he >will send the bible and contents to anybody who can tie their family >to Ammon and Harry Stough. >The newspaper quotes him "It's there. I'll send it to them. I'll pay >the postage," > > This will be quite a find if the right family can be located. > > Please pass this message on to other lists. We would all appreciate > finding it if it was our family bible. > >[my guess is you contact tje Virginia Review, or the York PA newspapers >if this is your family -elin] > > >--part0_907123153_boundary-- > > >==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== >Visit the Taney County USGenWeb Homepage! >http://www.rootsweb.com/~motaney/taney.htm > > >