I loved this story that you sent. Thelma ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Cooper" <thedonnacooper@gmail.com> To: <mobarry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:52 PM Subject: [MOBARRY] family story > List readers, yesterday on the phone my son told me that his wife and > sons were on a trip and so he asked his five year daughter where she > would like to go while they were gone. Get this - she said she wanted > to go on a bicycle ride to the cemetery near the house they just > bought. It is located in the historical district and they are going to > moving there in a few days. Here is the background story about that - > Henry Ford's brother and sister-in-law built the house and it was > built in 1913. > > So - on the phone she told me about a person buried there that the > Indians had killed and about an entire family that died in the 1860's. > She said that there were a lot of old graves there dating back to the > 1860's and 1870's. She explained that some people died before Idaho > was a state and that some people died while traveling the Oregon > Trail. She explained how the stones looked and about the angles craved > on the markers of children and babies. She said that went I come to > visit her in Boise that she will take me there and show me all these > things. > > It sounds to me like she had a history lesson while there. I dream and > hope that someday I can take her to a few of the Barry County > cemeteries and show her where her ancestors are buried - who knows > maybe even tell her some stories about them. > > It sounds like a genealogist was born yesterday, or - at least there > is one in the making, and so I had to share it with you. > > Donna Cooper > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (thedonnacooper@gmail.com) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message