Dan, I would personally love to hear the whole truth no matter how much it hurts, the truth is history and I think it should be told. I would love to hear about some of the things you know. Everyone has skeletons in the closet. Cindy Hamrick Brown pocotwo@hotmail.com >From: "HAMRICK,DANIEL" <dhamrick@neo.rr.com> >Reply-To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com >To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [HAMRICK-L] Dot Deloris Hamrick Hancock >Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:57:40 -0500 > > I believe I may have met you a few years ago at a family reunion in >W.Va. >Your comments are very interesting. > I've never had any doubt that the root of the problem of inaccurate >and >incomplete information in obituaries is with the families, which should >tell >list members some things about unqualified trust of that information. > But some funeral homes would tilt toward pleasing the customer rather >than get the facts right. > In my case, if we thought something were true that was not presented, >we >would ask the funeral home and then go directly to the family. > So I understand the funeral home problem. I have been told myself >that >they don't want a certain wife or a certain marriage mentioned. > Patsy Hamrick-Weikart, my good friend and a descendant of Kelly Ben >and >Naomi Mollohan Hamrick, points out that there is an infant buried in the >Hamrick Cemetery atop Morton Hill in Webster Springs, WV. He is identified >as the son of Eli "Rimfire" Hamrick but never is mentioned otherwise as the >legendary accounts of Rimfire grow and grow and take on Paul Bunyan >stature. > Furthermore, there never was much mention of his marriage. Or that in a >contest for the state Senate, he was defeated six to one. The accounts >prefer, "Rimfire was a candidate for the West Virginia Legislature." >Patsy's >grandfather and Rimfire were brothers. > I'm not trying to pick on the nature lover. He was articulate in a >homespun sort of way. And he was an environmentalist and lover of nature >before its time. > We not only have the problem of ordinary people believing more of what >they want to believe than what is true. And we compound the problem when we >set it to writing. But to know him is to know the detail: He could go >anywhere in the woods but got lost in Clarksburg, WV, a 25,000 city with >only a couple of highways running through it. > I am not personally immune from the idea of withholding information.. >I >have an item ‹ not a fact of genealogical importance ‹ that I believe would >have embarrassed close relatives that I do not mention. I hope to get the >courage to do it some day but I haven't yet. > Isn't that human nature? My belief is that it is but it is not the >truth, the whole truth and nothing but. > >dhamrick@neo.rr.com >Dan Hamrick >402 23rd Street NW >Canton OH 44709 >Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 > > > > >---------- > >From: "Richard M. Hamrick, Jr." <rhamrick@cfw.com> > >To: "'HAMRICK,DANIEL'" <dhamrick@neo.rr.com> > >Subject: RE: [HAMRICK-L] Dot Deloris Hamrick Hancock > >Date: Sun, Jan 16, 2000, 2:27 PM > > > > >Dan: As a funeral director of 52 active years, now retired, we always > >felt it was tougher to get information into obits. Here is Staunton, VA, > >all funeral homes in the area, take copies, hard or otherwise, to the two > >papers for them to run. We have not had many problems, mostly caused by > >families wanting information in the obits, which are free up to 10 column > >inches, which the the paper's policy says is a a no-no. > > On the other hand, we never gave out information to anyone without the > >family's permission, except for service times and not that if the family > >was having a private funeral. It was amazing the immediate family > >relationships that exist. "He was my first wife's uncle's cousin's > >husband. I"m close family". That is not an exact quote of someone, but >an > >example of what we heard, probably every couple of weeks. > > I have enjoyed the discussions of the Hamrick chatroom. I once spent a > >couple of hundred dollars with a genealogist in the general area of > >Philadelphia, who could find no reference to George or his sons. At any > >rate I enjoy them. > > > >Dick Hamrick > >Staunton, VA 24402 > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com