Does anyone remember the Camp Meeting that was held in the summer time. The camp was just above Bonifay ? That is one of my favorites. Wanda Worthington Lartz ----- Original Message ----- From: <PennSimHen@aol.com> To: <FLHOLMES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [FLHOLMES] Ice Truck > Hi, all you cousins. > I have listened very quietly as each of you told of things so > important in your lives. All these wonderful things make us the great people > we are. > Liz, you and I talked so we both have Yohn blood. Janice , you and I > have talked so we are cousins through your husbands Faircloth line. Max Yates > and I have Yates blood. Michael Barnes has Faircloth blood. Each person that > I have talked with I have learned to love even though we have never met. > The great and wonderful thing about genealogy is age does not matter > at all. We all are a big family willing to help each other. And that is > great. I lost my oldest sister Nov. 1, and almost lost all my interest in > genealogy and many things. She told me of the many things she remembered > about Holmes county because she was 65 and I am 58. But how many story she > told me that now are coming alive because all you have really been a healing > for me. > I indeed myself remember the ice truck and the Grand Ole Opry. But > most of all I remember the fabulous Southern Gospel Singing Conventions my > parents took me to. In 1950 we came south to Polk County to find work. But we > continued thee singing and all our family can still sing. When my sister died > she was in De Funiak at a state singing convention. How proud I am to be from > Holmes County, Fla. How proud I am to have all these bloodlines because our > blood makes us the tender, loving people that we have come today. > Love, > Barbara Ann Sims > Henderson > > YATES, SIMS , YOHN, LEAVINS, PATE, YOUNGBLOOD, PENNINGTON, BEALL, FAIRCLOTH, > BARENTINE, PETERS, > DAUGHTER OF MARY ETTA PENNINGTON AND WILLARD ALLEN SIMS BOTH ALIVE AND WELL > AT 85 and 89 YEARS OF AGE. > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >