Mr./Ms. LeGear, Would you, please, tell me just where the town of Columbia is situated? Thank you. Shannah ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Le Gear <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:46 AM Subject: [IP] EVEN SPOOKIER STUFF!! > Dear List > > Just got back from my flying visit to California for the family wedding and > thought I'd dash off this quick report. > > Firstly, I think this list has really perked up with all the instances of > serendipity coming in. Wow!! I'm fairly pragmatic but can all this REALLY > be coincidence? > > Anyway, the "even spookier stuff". One of our ancestors was a Dr Louis > LeGear, son of a LeGear that went to Ontario in 1843. He qualified as a > veterinarian in Toronto. He practised in St Louis, Missouri and also started > the "Doctor LeGear Medicine Company" in the late 1800s manufacturing > Veterinary products which he, and his brothers, hawked from wagons they used > to travel around in to farms and ranches in the West. The Company is long > defunct. > > The day after the wedding the largest known collection of LeGears to be in > the same place at the same time decided to go up to a Town called Columbia, > which some of you may know. It's an old Western Town which has been > preserved and is still used for films (High Noon, The Unforgiven etc). > > The Drug Store is preserved with authentic products from the times behind > glass cases. In the middle of the middle shelf of the middle case was a tin > of Doctor LeGear's Sore Head Powder for chickens. > > The wedding was full of stuff like this. for instance, both families > originated in Southern California, although hundreds of miles apart. The > bride and groom met at UCLA. It was only at the wedding that the bride's > father found out another amazing link. As a boy his close friend that lived > next door moved away with his family to another part of the state when he > was about 12 years old. As kids do, they lost touch. That boy became the > best friend, as a teenager, of the grooms's father. > > I was amazed at the United States and the people I met there. It and they > were fabulous and it was a privelege for me to be able to visit such a > wonderful country. > > Chris LeGear > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > ==== IRL-PALATINE Mailing List ==== > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the following: > [email protected] > Put either the word, subscribe, or unsubscribe in the subject line and body of the message. > >

Hi Shannah, Here's a link that can tell you more than I can. I know when I visited Columbia many years ago, I loved it. Regards, Judy McIntyre California http://www.sierra.parks.state.ca.us/history.htm