This definitely sounds like my husband's family. Thomas LAWS b 1814 Death : 15 JUL 1897 ,Calloway Co.,Mo Married to Althea MATHEWS Birth : 1 APR 1813 VA Death : 14 FEB 1894. Their children were LAWS, John Spahr LAWS, James Sanson LAWS, Rachel Elizabeth LAWS, Joseph M.; LAWS, Margaret Ann; LAWS, Thomas Alexander Birth : 28 JUL 1850 IN; LAWS, Samuel Jenkins James Laws b 1790 appears to be buried in Cincinnatti according to the will of Samuel Spahr Laws (who I think is his son). Rachel Elizabeth above is my husband's great grandmother. I am looking forward to hearing from you. >From: SimpsonJamesA@aol.com >Reply-To: LAWS-L@rootsweb.com >To: LAWS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [LAWS-L] new subscriber connection via James Laws b. 1790 >Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:04:25 EST > >Connection via: >James Laws b. 1790 >Thomas Laws b. 1814 West Virginia >Joseph Matthews Laws b. 1830 West Virginia d. Canon City, CO. >Andrew Foote Laws b. 1864 Keokuk Co., Iowa d. Roswell, New Mexico >Mary Lucille Laws b. 1889 Auxvasse, Missouri d. Odessa, TX. >Marian Carlyn Conn   living >Me! > >I haven't done much with the Laws family. Mother had compiled the direct >line >on typed charts in the 1970's-1980's. Recently, I had looked on-line >without >any result until I found Cyndi's list. It is so good to find you! I hope to >locate more cousins and of course, work on older ancestors. I have a lot of >catching up to be able to recognize the subjects on the mail list.   > >We (Mom, Dad, brother and I) visited Canon City, Colorado in the 1950's on >vacation with MANY cousins in the Garden of the Gods park. > >In 1964, I took a picture of my grandmother and her sisters (it is on my >genealogy page linked below and excluded their brother Herbert Andrews >Laws). >Aunt Erma was a great kidder and a lot of fun. She said Uncle Herbert >didn't >count anyway.   > >My address on the mail list is <A >HREF="mailto:simpsonjamesa@aol.com">mailto:simpsonjamesa@aol.com</A> > >Regards, Jim > > >-- >James Simpson >alternate <A >HREF="mailto:jamesasimpsonjr1@netscape.net">mailto:jamesasimpsonjr1@netscape.net</A> >Genealogy site <A >HREF="http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/i/m/James-A-Simpson-jr/"> >http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/i/m/James-A-Simpson-jr/</A> > > > > > > > >==== LAWS Mailing List ==== >You may search the Laws-L archives on the Rootsweb web site at: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >In the surname field, type in LAWS > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.