This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown - TO - Wiley Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4263 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. August 27, 1931. "The Forney Reunion".-- The sixth annual reunion of the Forney family was held Sunday, August 23, at Thurman. While the gathering was not quite so large as last year, it was a goodly assemblage numbering well over a hundred. A photographer from the Omaha World-Herald was present and made pictures of the group at the dinner table, as well as of some of the older Forneys. A barrel of lemonade was consumed during the day by the large family. C.W. Forney, a former county surveyor and well known to almost all of Fremont county, has recently published an autobiography of the family, a work on which he spent several years, and which traces its lineage back for generations. His mother was the first white girl born in Plum Hollow, long since known as Thurman. In this interesting history Mr. Forney sets out that direct descendents of his original forebears number into the thousands and are known in various sections by the names of Farney, Fahrne, Phorne, and a dozen other spellings, but all of the same bloodlines. Sunday's picnic was attended by dozens of relatives from all parts of the county, especially Bartlett, Thurman, McPaul, Tabor, Sidney and Anderson, the names of whom we have not room to publish, and in addition to these the following from distant points: Mr. and Mrs. Will Brown and children of Council Bluffs Miss Inez Burrows of Des Moines Mrs. Etta Cook of Chambers, Nebraska Mr.and Mrs. Frank Davis and daughter of Shenandoah Mrs. Delmar Davison of Council Bluffs Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dyke of Chambers, Nebraska Mrs. Mary C. Dyke of Chambers, Nebraska David Ettleman and wife of Dumphries, Iowa Mrs. Alice Forney of Shenandoah Wallace Forney of Omaha Wayne Forney and family of Hopkins, Missouri Mrs. Joy Holloway and daughter of West Point, Nebraska Mr. and Mrs. Don Keefer of Glenwood Mr. and Mrs. John Pope of Sloan, Iowa Charles Tarpenning of Lakefield, Minnesota Mrs. Charlie Stephenson of Council Bluffs Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Stewart and daughter of Waukon, Iowa Owen Wiley of Big Spring, Nebraska