Winnie OK we may have an early spring here in the South, at least in Middle Tennessee. The Weather has been unseasonable warm, some sun and a lot of rain. My buttercups and tulips are already coming up and the cherry tree buds are trying to swell. Knoxville is about 225 miles east of me but if can get me a street address for your family I can send you a map. Washington County is another 100 miles or so past Knoxville along the North Carolina boundary. Tennessee and our major cities have great web site with lots of pictures, so you can get a look at the state. My uncle Marvin Choate and My Aunt Mary Matlock both taught in one room school houses that had a coal stove in the middle of the room. If fact my father and his older brother put their younger brother, John into the stove one day as a prank, fortunately there was not fire, but plenty of coal dust that took a day or two to come out from behind his ears. Keep on dancing Winnie My best regards Joe Matlock >>> winiford s bailey <[email protected]> 02/12/01 03:46PM >>> I appreciate hearing that the attachment flew ... all the way to Tennessee ... computers are a constant bag of surprises ... just think ... I started out in a little one room school house with a male teacher ... Mr Spagel ... We used chalk and small slate tablets. Remember, the Journal is a collection of collections, I just organized and indexed ... and put under one cover for easier reference. I didn't try to prove anything .... so you will find repeated information as it came in from various sources .... so many of them tried to prove their history .... so if two or three came to the same conclusion I figure that is pretty good proof. Matlock's ARE NOT of my family except by marriage ... it is on Jack's family tree. I would appreciate if you/all started using the individual numbers ... when you can .... pin down the person under discussion fairly quick and easy. Please find your number and send it to me ... Wanda and Jana are to be found in the DRIFTWOOD FILE. Jack is under 1.1.5.1.2. Ann MATLOCK and Ezekiel ELLIS ... so I think the next in line is 1.1.5.1.2.3. Elizabeth ELLIS married to Lewis RINEHART, received their licence to marry at the Carter Co Courthouse and lived in Buffalo Ridge ... near brother George RINEHART and ??? MATLOCK .... (Ann's sister) Besides you, the Journal has been sent to Wanda, Brenda, Shawn and to Jana .... Jana entered it into Shawn's web page some months ago ... but she lost the page numbers and the index in the process. I feel that you are a busy man ... still I want to use some more of your time ..... please ....I need some good news this morning ... tell me about the good things concerning Tennessee ... I do not want anything about storms. insects, weather, narrow twisting highways, ... only the happy and good today ..... the bad is for later. Got word last night that our daughter and son-in-law bought a home in TN ....... the word came from Knoxville by e-mail .... other then that she gave no idea where the house is. I am devastated to say the least. How far from Washington County TN are you ( especially the old town of Buffalo Ridge) ?????? How far from the Carter Co. Courthouse ????? I would like to learn about the one and get information from the other.... Still Dancing ...... but slower and slower Winnie S. Bailey Box 453, Scio, OR 97374