My SEITZ family was in and out of Adair County over the course of three generations from 1879 to 1966. In addition, a collateral SANDS family line was in the county from shortly after the Civil War until sometime in the 20th century. Enoch Beery Seitz (1846-1883) arrived in Kirksville in 1879 to teach mathematics at the Normal School. With him were his wife, Anna Elizabeth Kerlin (1854-1918) and their oldest child, Raymond Enoch Seitz (1876-1954). Three more children were born in Kirksville: William Kerlin Seitz (1879-1936), Clarence Daniel Seitz (1881-1886) and my grandfather Enoch Beery Seitz Jr. (1883-1941). Enoch Jr. was born a few months before the senior Enoch died of typhoid fever. Anna Kerlin Seitz took her family back to her hometown of Greenville, Ohio. But in 1894, she returned to Kirksville to teach psychology and direct the Normal School's training school. She also studied at Columbian School of Osteopathy, graduating in 1899. She practiced in several locations around the country and returned to Kirksville for post-graduate work at the American School of Osteopathy before returning to Greenville for the last several years of her life. Her three sons who reached adulthood all graduated from the Normal School in Kirksville and the youngest, Enoch, taught at the training school for four years after his 1901 graduation, serving as principal for two of them before leaving to become superintendent of schools in Milan, Mo. Enoch's son and my father, Kerlin McCullough Seitz (1916-1985) graduated from Northeast Missouri Teachers College in 1939. He returned to Northeast Missouri State University to teach geography in 1963 and left in 1966. Jacob Sands, a first cousin of Anna Kerlin, moved to Adair County in 1868 and apparently lived there the rest of his life. I don't know when he died but it was after the 1911 publication of E.M. Violette's "History of Adair County." He served as county judge and later as probate judge. Jacob was born in Indiana in 1838. -- Karl Seitz