point taken I should have done the math. LInda ----- Original Message ----- From: "jeff" <jeff61@comcast.net> To: <mdallega@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] William R. McFarlane 7/23/1874 >I doubt this guy was fighting in WWII at the age of 60 something years old > with black lung and could barely breath. > > -----Original Message----- > From: mdallega-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:mdallega-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of soulmate > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 8:05 AM > To: mdallega@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] William R. McFarlane 7/23/1874 > > Buttin in, with a death date of 1/8/1843 I'd try the KIA for WWII and see > if > > he is listed there. > Linda > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chere Athey" <athey12@yahoo.com> > To: <mdallega@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 7:20 AM > Subject: [MDALLEGA] William R. McFarlane 7/23/1874 > > >> Boy-O-Day, I'm really frustrated trying to find my grandfather's brother, >> William McFarlane. My cousin (who has a treasure trove of very old >> papers > >> and photos that were my grandparents) has his birth date as 7/23/1874 and >> a death date of 1/8/1943. I find him in our g-grandfather James G. >> McFarlane's household in 1880 and then can't find him again in Coney >> after > >> that. There's a hit in Rawlings but I'm a little skeptical of that one >> although it does list some of his children with names the same as his >> siblings. I also can't find a draft card for him. >> Going from memory, my mother used to take care of an uncle (one of my >> grandfather's brothers) across the alley from us in Knapps Meadow. I >> thought she called him "Uncle Bill". She said she could hear his >> breathing before she got to the porch so I assumed he worked in the mine, >> at least long enough to get black lung. But anyway, you know how it >> goes, > >> everyone that I could ask about him is gone. I'm going to try to phone >> my > >> Aunt Evelyn Thrasher, Dad's sister, today to see if she remembers this >> dude my mother took care of; I'm almost positive it was "Bill"... but it >> could have been "Jim" I've been wrong before :-). She took care of him >> in > >> the 40's. I can't find a draft card on this William R. McFarlane either. >> So frustrating! >> Sorry for the ramblings; sometimes it helps to bounce things off people. >> ~Chere >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MDALLEGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Keep unwanted email out. > Visit www.spamsubtract.com for more information. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MDALLEGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MDALLEGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ________________________________________________________________ Keep unwanted email out. Visit www.spamsubtract.com for more information.