Maradee...and all. Thanks so much for the glimpse back into the lives of our precious ancestors. It's hard to iamgine, as I go adjust the ac thermostat and turn on the sprinkler to my garden how hard life was for those folks. I can't imagine their strength. Awsome! I've just rec. permission to put online in Calcasieu a diary that spanned about 20 or 25 years that was kept by the first school teacher in Cal. pr. It started in 1836. I am anxious to get to work on that. I'll let you know when it is up. It too is a wonderful glimpse into the past. Their lives were SO different and if we weren't hooked on this wonderful pastime that fills our floors with stacks of papers, we would have no idea of what their lives were really like. Sorry...I didn't mean to get carried away. Jan At 06:28 AM 5/19/1999 EDT, [email protected] wrote: >My mother, Edna Matthews Liggin, lived in Union Parish and did a lot of >research into the families of that area. I have been slowly going through her >files and notes. As we are descended from Mary Edmunds Tabor Lee she has lots >of notes on the Edmunds family. I noticed that this name has appeared in >several of the lists of researcher on this list. I have begun going through >and typing my mother's notes and thought I would post them in here as I type. >Doing it a little at a time. >Maradee Liggin Cryer > >[Diary of Leonaidas P. Spyker] > >>From the diary of Leonaidas P. Spyker who brought his family from Bossier >parish in 1857 to New Hope Plantation in Morehouse in January of that year. >The 10th of January found them at Shiloh, with clear cold weather. He had >gone ahead from their camp 7 miles west of Shiloh to get his buggy repaired >which had again broken. He was nearly frozen when he got to Shiloh where he >sought out a cake shop, then went on to Cornie about 3 p.m. and found the >boat half full of water, ice and snow. This detained them until nearly >sundown. They then camped half a mile east of Cornie, the night clear and >pleasant. Two children were sick and had traveled 20 miles that day. On the >return trip Jan. 30th, he wrote �Friday, cold and cloudy and with a tolerable >early start, reached Harper�s about 10 a.m., halted a few moments and came to >Edmond�s where we lunched and reached Shiloh about 4 p.m. We expected to stay >but were disappointed and had to drive hard five miles to Edmond�s where we >stayed all night in the same room with his family about 16 in one room. >Thirty one miles that day. (This was again when he was traveling east on his >second trip. It seems from the two different mentions of Edmonds both times, >both east and west of Shiloh, there must have been two different branches of >the family he knew real well, and used these two Edmonds families as stopping >places.) > > >