Ohio State U degree in Fruits and vegetables here., It's been 50 years, but I think he was using a plant hormone. We had a student have to leave Ohio State to finish exams elsewhere,and he had to leave several potted tomatoes in our "care?". We painted the tomato fruit with a different plant hormone,and had roots growing directly from the tomato itself. Wasn't a spray of gibberelic acid used to set seedless grapes back then? Internet would say. I was growing seedless watermelons commercially by 1960'but that's genetic. This house at what was Fagley's Fruit Farm,Bethel,Ohio was rented to Kabler's about 1930-35 by my grandfather. Later,in 1944-46,Bill and Eddie JKabler rode my bus 7.Excepting this one,their dad picked remote farms on creeks to rent. On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 20:00:46 EDT GDBLSU@aol.com writes: > Doug, thank you so much for your insight as to the area of > "Shoemakertown." > > In 1993, we were able to go to Falmouth and one of George Green > Parson's > daughters, Elizabeth (Parsons) Fosset-Klaber and her husband, > Charles, allowed us > to come and visit with her. The lived on Beech Street at the time > in a lovely > home. > > She took us up on top of the hill overlooking the Licking River > where > George's mill was. Their old farmhouse, of course, is long-gone, > and there is > another home (built of brick, I believe) near where their home was > back in the 1920s. > > How wonderful to know you actually knew my family, and thank you for > the > story about George's growing seedless tomatoes! I didn't know that! > I wonder > what he "painted" them with? Interesting. > > The children of George Green PARSONS and Bess PRESTON were double > cousins > with another family that lived in Covington, Kentucky: Bess' > brother, James > "Matt" PRESTON was married to the sister of George Green PARSONS. > Her name was > Eleanor "Ella" PARSONS. As I understand, "Matt" was a mechanic in a > garage in > Covington and while working on a car, it fell on him and injured him > severely. > He was disabled for the most part for the rest of his life. > > Back to George's mill, do you suppose there might be any pictures of > the mill > or the grocery store that I mentioned? I would love to know more > about their > lives and his work. > > I will contact the Pendleton Co. Library and see if perhaps they can > do some > research for me. > > Again, thank you! What a nice surprise! It was kind of you to > write! > > Blessings, > Susan Strain <>< > Jenks, Oklahoma > "Kinfolk Korner" > > > ==== KYPENDLE Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE > to KYPENDLE-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM or if you are on the Digest > List to KYPENDLE-D-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!