This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------C3BBBF2F04950B98E71696AB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thought I would share this wonderful story from my Wabash county list. -- Mike Sweeney --------------C3BBBF2F04950B98E71696AB Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: by gonzo for sweeney2 (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.21 1997/08/10) Tue Jul 28 21:16:44 1998) X-From_: INWABASH-L-request@rootsweb.com Tue Jul 28 20:47:13 1998 Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by wolfenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10452 for <sweeney2@wolfenet.com>; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 20:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA11817; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 20:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 20:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <001101bdbab3$94a38a60$b1ba2dd1@jstory.comteck.com> From: "Jack Story" <jstory@comteck.com> Old-To: <INWABASH-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 22:41:44 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Subject: [INWABASH-L] McCullough Family Bible Resent-Message-ID: <"1HgcbB.A.A4C.7rpv1"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> To: INWABASH-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: INWABASH-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: INWABASH-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <INWABASH-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/72 X-Loop: INWABASH-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: INWABASH-L-request@rootsweb.com I recently posted a message to the mailing list concerning an old family bible that had been given to me by a friend, which contained information on the family of Thomas McCullough who was born in 1882, and married Inez Burk in Wabash in 1902. My goal was to find the descendants of Thomas McCullough and return the bible to the McCullough family. I am happy to report that I was able to locate the youngest daughter of Thomas McCullough, Wilma (McCullough ) Rust, who lives in Marion, and gave the bible to her today. The story of this bible is amazing, but I'll try to be brief: This 100 year old bible was found in a trash dumpster 10 years ago! The person who found it, pulled it from the trash and kept it in their home, not knowing what to do with it. Just this past week, they decided to give it to a friend of mine who knew of my interest in history, especially genealogy. I received several responses from my posting, but no direct descendants, however, by using People Search, I located Wilma Rust, Thomas McCullough's youngest daughter. When I contacted Wilma and told her about the bible, she was thrilled and amazed. She told me that she had given the bible to her nephew several years ago and thought that he was old enough to understand its importance. But when cleaning house one day, he threw the bible away. She thought that this priceless family bible was lost forever. What a thrill it was to hand the bible back to her and to see her shed tears of joy as she spoke of the memories of her parents and family. Wilma said that getting such an important part of her family's history returned to her after 10 years, was by the providence of God. I would have to agree. Jack Story --------------C3BBBF2F04950B98E71696AB--