I say start collecting stories and sharpen your pencil!! You have work to do!! I learned that my great step grandmother, Celeste Pierce Root, moved to Owosso when her husband Lucius Root died where they were living in Chesaning. She had three young children to raise . . . not sure what their ages were, but Lucius died in 1891 . . . the newspaper obit was interesting . . . she apparently had finally retired and was caring for a grandchild who was just a toddler. She had a stroke and it was the child who apparently was left responsible for getting help. She never recovered as a result of the stroke . . . but imagine being that small child with your caretaker laying on the floor, not able to get up or answer you or understand that you were even there!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: <bartinsca@aol.com> To: <mishiawa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [MISHIAWA] Jerome Sawyer 1810 - 18?? > Owasso A To Z written by Helen Harrelson and published by Crest Inc. > Owasso > in 1993 is a loving effort by a native daughter to detail the early days > of > Owasso and list by surname many of the families settled there. > > I wish I had known she was writing it for my grandmother used to tell me > stories about her grandmother one of the first women to move there (from > CT then > OH and finally MI). The stories would have added to the early history of > the > area. Living was hard in those days as the market was so far from the > farms. > They hoped the capital of MI would be Bancroft but unfortunately for them > it > was some 60? miles to the West. Nancy > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MISHIAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >