> [Original Message] > From: MAUPIN REUNION 2000 <maupinreunion@par1.net> > To: <MAUPIN-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 11/28/00 11:16:08 AM > Subject: [MAUPIN-L] JOHN RICE MAUPIN > > Good Afternoon!!! > > For those of you who were not at the Reunion, I would like to mention that Dorothy Snead of Roswell, > NM was there. Dorothy and I have been friends for some fourteen years or so. She is a lovely person > and this was the first time that I had had the pleasure of meeting her. She is the great grandaughter of > John Rice Maupin. Strangely enough she knew almost nothing of John Rice and his past when I first contacted her. She has since that time become very interested in her Great grandfather. Family members were not all told of his early life and apparently his later and last years were that of a quiet > business man operating a ferry on the Red River. > > When the information about is early life is posted and put out in printed form I am sure you will all understand the events that led up to his somewhat "wild" character. I will try within the next few weeks start posting information on this man and his family. He has been one of the Maupins in which a great > number has expressed a desire to more informed. > > William > > > ==== MAUPIN Mailing List ==== > RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without permission of the author. Read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use Policy at > <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html> > --- Robert Maupin --- mop1617@earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. Dear William, I'm very glad to here you will be posting some information on one of my favorite ancestor's. I'm still trying to find out about the possible lost finger of John Rice. Have found no reference to date. If you or any other cousins get a chance or are in an area where you can rent a movie by the name of Ride With The Devil you should see this movie. Not only was part of it filmed in Lexington MO. but one of our friends home is also in it. There's a scene in the movie where Dutch one of the main charactors get's his little finger shot off. I would like to think that if John lost a finger it was in a gun fight with federal troops. This movie is the best you will find that portrays the border wars in Missouri. Thanks for all you've done and please tell Dorothy Snead HI! from Robbie and Debbie Maupin. Your's Always Robbie Maupin.