Well, welcome to all the new Owen Co. reachers that have joined the list. I just checked and we have 17 members and the list is only a day old, so I just wanted to say welcome. Don't be shy ask some question give some history on your families, remember not everyone on the list knows each other we will have a lot of new people to get acquainted with. I just wanted to pass on an Email I just received from Melanie (she is a Hammon/Morgan researcher) she and cousin Elizabeth went to Owenton this weekend on a research mission, first time to visit the area and look what she found............... You are not going to believe what I found! I went to a flea market over the weekend after I had gone through the Owen County courthouse. I was walking by this outdoor booth and I saw this signature quilt and it caught my eye because of the age. It was or looked like it would have been made in the 1880's. (For your information I collect and make quilts so that is why I was able to tell the age of it.) It was really pretty and it had all these names on it. Guess what names it had on it? Hammond, Morgan and several other Owen County names on it. It was done in the late 1880's and it is a family quilt. Can you believe it? I almost died when I started reading all of the names. What a great find. I was looking for something that may have been made around the 1800's in Owen that I could just have. It probably sounds funny but at the time it didn't matter if it was made by my family or not but I cant believe I found this. One of the names is John Morgan and his wife. Another is Grandma Hammond. It doesn't have her first name on it though. Melanie ------------------------------------------------- I always wish I could find the family bible, etc., but to find a quilt made by your family!!!! She was so excited she did not even tell me what they found at the court house. Barbara