Joy Harper ResumeRitr@aol.com wrote: > --part1_0.c77ce12c.253e649b_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Sounds like my very own g-grandparents, Rudolph and Cassie Hill of > Greenville, SC. Anybody heard of these Hills? > > Angela Betts > > --part1_0.c77ce12c.253e649b_boundary > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Disposition: inline > > Return-Path: <HILL-L-request@rootsweb.com> > Received: from rly-yb05.mx.aol.com (rly-yb05.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.5]) by > air-yb05.mail.aol.com (v62.10) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 02:46:35 > -0400 > Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by > rly-yb05.mx.aol.com (vx) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 02:46:27 -0400 > Received: (from slist@localhost) > by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA16099; > Mon, 18 Oct 1999 23:45:44 -0700 (PDT) > Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 23:45:44 -0700 (PDT) > From: Aims052@aol.com > Message-ID: <0.4bb44f55.253d6d79@aol.com> > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 02:45:13 EDT > Old-To: HILL-L@rootsweb.com > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 26 > Subject: [HILL-L] Thought someone might enjoy this. > Resent-Message-ID: <iJGcOB.A.Q7D.XOBD4@bl-14.rootsweb.com> > To: HILL-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-From: HILL-L@rootsweb.com > X-Mailing-List: <HILL-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/4284 > X-Loop: HILL-L@rootsweb.com > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: HILL-L-request@rootsweb.com > > MY ELUSIVE ANCESTOR > > > > I went searching for an ancestor. I cannot find him still. > > He moved around from place to place and did not leave a will. > > He married where a courthouse burned. He mended all his fences. > > He avoided any man who came to take the U.S. Census. > > > > He always kept his luggage packed, this man who had no fame. > > And every 20 years or so, this rascal changed his name. > > His parents came from Europe. They should be upon some list > > of passengers to U.S.A., but somehow they got missed. > > > > And no one else in this world is searching for this man. > > So, I play geneasolitaire to find him if I can. > > I'm told he's buried in a plot, with tombstone he was blessed; > > but the weather took engraving, and some vandals took the rest. > > > > He died before the county clerks decided to keep records. > > No Family Bible has emerged, in spite of all my efforts. > > To top it off this ancestor, who caused me many groans, > > Just to give me one more pain, betrothed a girl named JONES. > > ==== HILL Mailing List ==== > Questions about this list? Feel free to contact > the listowner for help at: > <gbh333@aol.com > > > --part1_0.c77ce12c.253e649b_boundary-- > > ==== HILL Mailing List ==== > Where to send messages to the list..... > HILL-L@rootsweb.com __________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html