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