Wow...small world...I live in Comanche Oklahoma just 15 miles up the road from Waurika and my daughter graduated from OBU Joyce Oklahoma ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bcookiegma@cs.com> To: <ILMACON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 6:23 AM Subject: Re: [ILMACON] Jane in OK > Jane, > I get homesick for Illinois sometimes, especially in the autumn when all > those beautiful Illinois fall colors appear. Our children could not believe the > black soil when we took them to Illinois for the first time. They were used to > red dirt. > My uncle Bob & aunt Carol WOODCOCK lived in Boody, IL for until a few years > ago. > I loved riding the buses and to the transfer house as a child. > I was born in my 2nd great-grandpa John MARSH red brick two-story homestead > farmhouse east of Maroa, IL. that he built in the 1860s. He built a log cabin > there first. My uncle found traces of the old log cabin when planting trees > there. > He helps his son with a landscaping business part time. My grandparents MARSH > moved to Argenta, IL when they retired and uncle Pete moved to the farm. > An uncle lives in the brick home now. My folks moved to 345 N. 25th St. in > Decatur, IL.and then to Vandalia, IL. then Maroa, IL again then to Albuquerque, > New Mexico. > I graduated form Maroa High 1957. > Do you know anyone from Maroa, Argenta or Vandalia, IL? > My husband and I moved in 2002 from New Mexico to Wichita Falls, Texas which > is not far from Walters, Oklahoma. > Our son-in-law's family live in Waurika, Oklahoma. One of our daughter went > to Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, OK and the other to Oklahoma State > University in Stillwater, OK. One is a teacher here in Texas. > Beverly Jane (HIMES) BARGER > > > ==== ILMACON Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list send a message to: ILMACON-L-request@rootsweb.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > To unsubscribe from the digest send a message to: ILMACON-D-request@rootsweb.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > >