Thanks Bud -- I hadn't thought about they did it in the winter time. "Fording" to me meant swimming.... BTW - was Fr. Thomas Rust one of your relatives? He was pastor at St. Francis when I was a child. Lois --- BnLFAMILY@aol.com wrote: > Lois, my Mom says her dad always told about coming to > Oklahoma about 1900. He > was still with his parents, George and Anna Littleton > Rust. He evidently > said they crossed the river at or near Quincy, but it was > in the winter, and > the river was frozen. They took the bed off the wagon and > used it like a sled > to get across. > Bud Caudle > > > ==== ILADAMS Mailing List ==== > Messages posted to this list must be on the topic of > Adams County genealogy. > > ============================== > 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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com