Deborah- Here's the connection, in case you couldn't pick it out from rootsweb: Harry O. Penick's niece, Grace Louise Penick, married my ggf's brother, Joel Sherman Miller. I have pictures of them both. I haven't had any contact with JWB* except to transport bottles of it (back) to Scotland as gifts. J Never touch the stuff myself, except for a wee dram with the haggis on Burns Nicht. I do have a four-page article in the 1978 History Of Lucas County book, though, which I'll gladly copy and mail to JWB if he'll supply a snail address. It's a history of the Penick family from William Calvin Penick forward to 1978. Only brief mention is made of H. O. Penick of New Orleans, though. I have him married to Mildred Wadleigh. Dick Kinkead Lantana, FL *Johnny Walker Black ----- Original Message ----- From: Alohawahine75@aol.com To: rkinkead1@earthlink.net Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 4:43 AM Subject: Re: [IALUCAS] Penick and Wadleigh Good morning Richard, Thank you for responding. I ran across your family tree at rootsweb while checking for the person below, and when I looked up at your name I thought boy his name looks familiar to me. Now I know why <grin>. Anyways, just wanted to check with you to see if you have had contact in the past with this person. Perhaps a new connection for you. Deborah Subj: H.O.Penick-Bess Foster & Newbern Date: 4/25/05 1:45:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: garysuiteki@yahoo.com To: alohawahine75@aol.com Sent from the Internet (Details) Dear Deborah Brownfield-Stanley, I wonder & hope as to the reason that you have posted such important articles on the message board about H.O.Penick, The Fosters of Franklin,La and such? We here are descended from H.O.Penick & have been in touch with the Fosters through-out the many log years. I hope foe more information about H.O.Penick. He is a great-grandfather of ours.There are 6 of us left now. Myself & a brother & a sister,our mother,her sister & her son.Plus we have children & grand-children. My grand-mother was a step-child in his Foster marriage. She lived with the fosters at franklin until she married my grand-father in New Orleans,La. H.O. Penick was her father. Respectfully, J.W.B.