I would be interested in your Landrums. One of my ancestors is a Landrum from Virginia. Are yours from there? Bethel -----Original Message----- From: kyallen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:kyallen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of LYNDON NIX Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:53 AM To: kyallen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [KYALLEN] Mildred L. Jent Well said Mimi. Mildred helped me with my Landrum's who had married into the Goodrum's. She told me of stories about the family, that would have been lost in time and I would have never known. Sorry to hear of her passing. Gay (Pedigo) Nix Mimi Alexander <wallyjakeandme@msn.com> wrote: Message from Mimi Alexander Thank you Lou for letting us know about Mildred Ackerman Jent. She lived a good life, a long life, a meaningful life, and those who knew her will truly miss her enthusiasm and love of life. I always felt as if my friendship with her was a gift. She left a lasting impression in my heart. For those of you List Members who have not read her material which she wrote from her own research and personal memories taken and recorded over the years, please take a moment to read her Goodrum material at the two links below. What you'll find is a collection of her Goodrum ancestral lines written exactly in her own words. My part in this project was simply to put the material together, organize it, and transcribe her very own words as she wrote them. Below, I've cut and pasted the, "Introduction Page", I wrote telling how the papers came to be written. ~God bless the wonderful, Mildred Ackerman Jent~ http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/allen/miscellaneous/goodrum.txt http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyallen/index2.html INTRODUCTION OF THE GOODRUM PAPERS, from.....Mimi Alexander. Several years ago while visiting my OLIVER / HOLLAND cousins in Allen County, KY., I met someone who had distant connections to some of the surnames I was researching. I met, Mildred Ackerman Jent. She was an ex-school teacher in her late 70s and had actually taught some of my ancestors at those wonderful little old school houses in Allen County, KY. Mildred had a deep interest in Genealogy as her own ancestral ties, (like my own), went back to those early beginnings of Allen County. This lady was a walking encyclopedia with volumes to say and volumes of knowledge to share. She had a wonderful creative style of writing, bringing the least little detail into focus, coloring it with words of beauty, expression, love, and joy. She spoke and wrote with vivacious enthusiasm! Mildred and I exchanged letters for awhile and one day I received a packet in the mail. It was a packet from Mildred. It was a packet of her wonderful personal stories of the life and times of her GOODRUM ancestors. The GOODRUM line is not my direct or even my collateral line, yet her ancestors indeed connected to mine in other ways. My only connection to the Goodrum line is in my friendship to the lady who wrote the story of her ancestors, known as, "THE GOODRUM PAPERS." The author of these papers has graciously consented and given approval for me to share her research with so.....It's with great joy and pleasure I'm able to share these papers with you. Mildred wrote from the heart, in a very personal style, yet filling in with her notes of personal research done over many years. Please remember.....I am only the "messenger" of her research and have nothing to add. This is not my work nor do I claim any part of it. It belongs solely to, Mildred Ackerman Jent. I can not add or take away since I know nothing of the Goodrum line. Mimi Alexander ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYALLEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KYALLEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1292 - Release Date: 2/21/2008 4:09 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1292 - Release Date: 2/21/2008 4:09 PM