> You mentioning the old oak wall phones brought back memories. When I first moved to Boody in 1945 that was the phone we had. There were 13 people on our line. Boy it was hard to make a call with so many on it. My Aunt Sally Matthews was on the line and used to listen to every conversation. ha When they replaced those phones I remember there was someone there in Boody who had all of them up in the hay loft of their barn. I too would love to have one of them now. We also had a huge lilac bush and I never forgot the wonderful smell. When we moved to Idaho in 1977 I planted a 50 foot hedge of lilacs and they are about 20 feet tall now. Boy do they perfume the air in May. Takes me right back to Boody. > From: Bcookiegma@cs.com > Date: 2004/01/17 Sat AM 05:32:36 PST > To: ILMACON-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILMACON] The Inter Urban train & the Maroa telephone operator Building > > Does anyone remember the old Inter-Urban train. I rode it as a child from > Decatur to Maroa, IL and loved it. The tracks were still in Maroa for many years. > When my dad was in the service my mother Ella Mae (MARSH) HIMES, > my sister Patricia Rose HIMES(we lost her to a car accident in Michigan in > 1975 a drunk teenage driver hit her car) and I would got to Maroa on it then go > to the little brick Telephone operator building and have her call my > grandparents Herb & Janie Mae(STOGSDILL) MARSH to come into Maroa and get us. > I loved grandma's old oak wall telephone & party line. What I wouldn't give > for that old oak wall phone now. I spent all my holidays and summer vacations > with my grandparents on the old farm. I was the oldest grandchild by 6 years. > My mother married at 16 so my grandparents were still young when I was a child. > I was almost 50 when I lost the last grandparent. I remember and cherish > those memories of my grandparents. The scent of Roses and Lilacs remind me of > grandmother's yard and gardens. She had wonderful strawberries from one of her two > big gardens everyyear. > How I loved those juicy strawberry biscuit shortcakes. Strawberries from the > store have no juice anymore. I had an uncles and aunts on both sides not much > older than I. There were 7 children in my mother's family and 10 in my dads. I > only had one sibling Patrica Rose HIMES. I miss her to this day. Its been > nearly 29 years since we lost her. > I have loved family history since very young child entertaining myself in > grandpa MARSH's old storeroom upstairs with all the photos and old books. Being 6 > years older than my sister or any other grandchildren I played alone and > entertained myself with history. I remember tiptoeing past storeroom hallway wall > with the large old framed hand drawn charcoal picture of my 2nd great > grandfather John MARSH,(son of Jesse MARSH I & Ann (SLOAN) MARSH), as an old man with > those starring eyes and his little starry eyed dog. > I loved the old tin-type color picture of my great-grandfather,son of John > MARSH & Henrietta Jane (SHERMAN) MARSH), Jesse MARSH II with his blue eyes when > he was young. > Jesse MARSH I 's grandmother Ann SLOAN was born in Ireland. > Beverly (HIMES) BARGER in TX > P. S. Searching- HIMES, MARSH, SHERMAN, FRAZEE, SLOAN, STOGSDILL, LEATHERS, > MCCORMACK, MCCORMICK, MCCOMMACK, MELTON, MONTGALL, MASSY, BESS, BEST, ELMORE, > ELAM, ELMORE, WALKERand many related & allied surnames. My ancestors were in > central & south central Illinois early. > Some by 1820. They came to PIATT, MACON, DEWITT, MCLEAN, CHAMPAIGN, SHELBY, > CHRISTIAN, BOND, FAYETTE, MONTGOMERY, WAYNE, CLAY and other counties in > Illinois. > > > ==== 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. > >