Hi Kornegay kin! I'll try this again. I wrote it this morning and didn't save before I finished - Guess what - I lost it. So here goes. This is the miracle - you can read about it at: http://www.gopbi.com/yourtown/royalpalmbeach/000310.htm I saw Leland yesterday at his grandmother's house - which happens to be the house that Daniel Kornegay built. ( Daniel raised his family in this house as did his son Wooten - and now Carl - (Wooten's son) and Thelma Kornegay are living in the same house. Paul & I lived in this house the year we got married - we were tenant farmers at that time -) But getting back to Leland - seeing him yesterday - you could not tell what he has been through for the past 28 years and especially for the past 2 months. He is very outgoing- very pleasing to be around and just loves to joke He made a talk at our church -before surgery-and told us that he would live no matter what happen to him - that if he left this world that he would go and live with Christ. May prayers went out for Leland and Melissa - Judi and Carlyle during all this past 2 months and the Lord has surely blessed everyone. Since surgery - he has encourage many people that he (has that was awaiting surgery. We all know that the Lord is not through with Leland that he has much more work to do here on earth. We get up in the mornings after a good nights rest and don't take time to thank the Lord for us being able to take a good deep breath - but Leland had never had a good deep breath unitl he was 28 years old and had double lung transplants. He is certainly a walking miracle. Leland is a descendent of the Kornegay family that goes like this Leland Carlyle Herring, II (m) Melissa Lee Noble Marion Carlyle Herring (m) Judi Kornegay (Leland's parents) Carl Kornegay (m) Thelma Kornegay (Judi's parents) Wooten Kornegay (m) Lola E. Smith (Carl's parents) Daniel Kornegay (m) Margaret Ann Dail (Wooten's parents) Thelma Kornegay (m) Carl Kornegay (see above) Ransom Kornegay (m) Blanche Smith (Thelma's parents) Nichodemus Kornegay (m) Alice Goodson (Ransom's parents) Daniel Kornegay (m) Margaret Ann Dail (Nichodemus's parents) Daniel's parents were Hargett and Susanna Simmons Kornegay Hope this will help Ruth