My deepest sympathy to you on the loss of your mother. I know from personal experience, this is one of the hardest things of ones life... Have a safe and learning trip. Oletta Redell T Reed wrote: > I want to tell you that my mother, Myrtle Reed Trimm, of Pueblo, > Colorado, died last month. She was probably one of the oldest McElroy > researchers. She was 104 years, 3 months. At her request, we kept her > home while her tired body was just shutting down, with the help of > Hospice and my two daughters. She was lucid to the very end, telling us > each good-bye with her eyes and then just closed them. I will miss her > terribly because we were companions for the last 9 years and always had > been close before that. She was a wonderful, kind, Christian lady. > She had started doing research on the Reed line 50 years ago, but I > thrilled her by finding the Phelps/McElroy connection. We come through > Rachel McElroy (Muckleduroy, Muckelroy, etc.) married to Aventon Phelps, > to dtr. Abigail who married George Reed. They lived in Rowan Co. NC in > mid to late 1700's, from Maryland before that. > I will be out of town for a couple of weeks from June 19th, attending > the Nat'l. Reed Assoc. Reunion in Corinth, MS. At that time, I will > UNSUBSCRIBE, but I'll be back and getting to work again on the research > in Maryland, maybe back to Ireland for the line. > Redell Reed <[email protected]> > > ==== MCELROY Mailing List ==== > PLEASE NOTE: This list is for queries and replies, comments, > requests for help, and other genealogical related information > that is of interest to researchers having a connection or a > possible connection to any McElroys. If you have questions or comments please contact the list administrator. > Maryann Dixon Moseby, [email protected]