Howdy! With Rootsweb being down over the weekend, I guess the servers still aren't "up to snuff," so to speak, for a while yet. I've not visited the websites to see if they are running, but no one's been yelling, so I suppose they are... With all the snow we had in December, and the rain we've had since--hallejuah! (hear the Tabernacle choir singing?)--Bull Shoals Lake is actually starting to resemble a lake again. Before the storms that came through on Saturday, the reports were that the levels were only 7 feet below normal; Greg and I were over in Forsyth last night, and while she ain't deep, the Bull is showing water from bank to bank at the E 76 bridge. Although I've been assured that there is no way we could get enough rain to flood out Shadow Rock Park in May, I'm a worrywort...I'm visiting the Corps of Engineers sometime this week to find out what their predictions are. Auditions for "The League: Taney County Justice" are being held this Saturday, 3 March, at the Old Taney County Jail in Forsyth. Starting time is 2 pm. Things are continuing to move in other preparations for "Law Day 2001: Outlaw Roundup", the main fundraiser for the White River Valley Historical Society's jail restoration effort. For more information, you can email me. My own genealogy research is stalled out, but I've met a new double cousin in the past couple of weeks that I'm anxious to get some more information from. I'll let you know when I do find some stuff. Those of you trying to figure out the "2005" date at the Cupp Cemetery...I've been told that the lady simply wasn't planning to die until that date. As far as I know, she is still alive. This Saturday is also the date for Renshaw Cemetery Cleanup, on Boys Camp Road in Rockaway Beach. Folks tend to meet there about 9 am. Last month, we had a weiner roast, but due to auditions, I'm not sure we're going to be able to go this time. Saturday night, 6 pm, there is a potluck and "pickin' 'n singin'" going on at Boston Center. That starts at 6 pm, and they were still running strong when Greg and I left last month at 10:30. My grandmother, who celebrated her 86th birthday this month, got up and danced at the last one. (Daddy egged her on, but she did it anyway...) Y'all have a fine week! Vonda Wilson Sheets ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/

I don't know why I hadn't subscribed to this list before-I think I thought I did, but then (as my grandma Dorothy used to say) "my train of thought got derailed". My ancestors came to MO in the 1830's and then AR. Settled in Springfield, Nixa, and eventually Mountain Home AR Jonathan Reno (my 5th great grandpa) came to Greene Co to escape the "smoke from other people's chimneys". He was stabbed to death in 1838, helping clear out some rowdies from a friend's store. Avenant Hollingsworth (my 4th great grandpa) came to Greene Co in the late 1830s and became a Sheriff and Marshal. He had married Mary "Polly Ann" Reno (Jonathan's daughter). In a terrible coincidence, he was stabbed to death in 1870 trying to help a drunk out of ditch near Springfield. Mary lost both her father and her husband as stabbing victims. Their son Harbin died as a result of injuries received in the Civil War, leaving two young sons, James Alva and John Walker Hollingsworth. James (my gg) was a Sheriff in Baxter Co AR when it was known as "Bloody Baxter". James married Missouri Tennessee West (their mothers were sisters, both daughters of James Harvey Reese, who had also come from TN to MO in the early 1830s). Their son Herbert John Hollingsworth married Ella Mae Kent in Mountain Home AR in 1908. Ella's mother Hannah Frances "Fanny" Arnold Kent died in Gassville in 1934-I'd love to find the cemetery where she's buried! The point of all this is to introduce myself - proud to be descended from the folks of the White River Valley. Anybody else researching Hollingsworth, West, Reese, Reno, or Kent from this area? Meg Gentry Bookout in Southern CA