List Readers, I have had three e-mails today about the note I posted on the featured photo. That proms me to tell you this family story. When I was about ten or twelve years old, I spent the night at the Jess Corn family household and while at dinner that night, around a large oak table, Jess Corn engaged the family with a few stories. He asked me about my family and I told him about what my grandmother had told me about the Hancock family. That one little word started the conversation that lasted for over an hour. Jess told me and all at the table about how his great great or great great great [can't remember which] grandfather John Hancock helped write the Declaration of the Independence. He told how the Corn family moved from Virginia to Franklin Co., TN. So I went home and told my grandmother about the story and she said - oh, my goodness, our Hancock family lived in Wayne Co., KY, it was our Berryhill bunch that lived in Winchester. He must be confused. Then she added - but my Grandpa Hancock said that his Grandpa Benjamin Hancock was a brother to John Hancock who helped write the Declaration. I sure would like to talk to him, she said. But of course, she didn't. Then, a few years passed and my grandmother became a widow. So she then hired Elsie, Jess' youngest daughter to come and spend nights with my her. That is when she figured out that the Corn story was accurate. She then told me that John Hancock's daughter, Nancy who had married into the Corn family and had moved to Winchester, TN, and that the story they told was the same story her grandpa told - the same story that he wrote about in his diary. Her grandpa went to Wayne Co., KY, so those two legs of the tree had no communication or any way to share the story - but almost two hundred years later tell the same story. Then sometime after that - I found another leg that had the story. I noticed in a Wilson Co., TN, Goodspeed that the same John Hancock story was told in print. Gee, now we have three legs of the story telling the same story. It is amazing because the story matches. I think this is the most awesome family story that I have ever heard passed down by mouth - a story that didn't change - that remained accurate even though it was told over and over. I wish I could go back in time and hear Jess Corn tell it one more time. If I could - then I'd record it and send it to the people who cobbled up World Connect with information that is impossible to document. I did see that one researcher told the story and had it right. Ah-hh, one out of twenty isn't too bad. Hope you enjoyed my Sunday entertainment and maybe I even took the bumpy ride out of your Sunday. Donna Cooper

Donna: I think it's a fantastic story and I'm so glad you told it. Celesta Eustice -----Original Message----- From: mobarry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:mobarry-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Donna Cooper Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 4:03 PM To: mobarry@rootsweb.com Subject: [MOBARRY] Family Story List Readers, I have had three e-mails today about the note I posted on the featured photo. That proms me to tell you this family story. When I was about ten or twelve years old, I spent the night at the Jess Corn family household and while at dinner that night, around a large oak table, Jess Corn engaged the family with a few stories. He asked me about my family and I told him about what my grandmother had told me about the Hancock family. That one little word started the conversation that lasted for over an hour. Jess told me and all at the table about how his great great or great great great [can't remember which] grandfather John Hancock helped write the Declaration of the Independence. He told how the Corn family moved from Virginia to Franklin Co., TN. So I went home and told my grandmother about the story and she said - oh, my goodness, our Hancock family lived in Wayne Co., KY, it was our Berryhill bunch that lived in Winchester. He must be confused. Then she added - but my Grandpa Hancock said that his Grandpa Benjamin Hancock was a brother to John Hancock who helped write the Declaration. I sure would like to talk to him, she said. But of course, she didn't. Then, a few years passed and my grandmother became a widow. So she then hired Elsie, Jess' youngest daughter to come and spend nights with my her. That is when she figured out that the Corn story was accurate. She then told me that John Hancock's daughter, Nancy who had married into the Corn family and had moved to Winchester, TN, and that the story they told was the same story her grandpa told - the same story that he wrote about in his diary. Her grandpa went to Wayne Co., KY, so those two legs of the tree had no communication or any way to share the story - but almost two hundred years later tell the same story. Then sometime after that - I found another leg that had the story. I noticed in a Wilson Co., TN, Goodspeed that the same John Hancock story was told in print. Gee, now we have three legs of the story telling the same story. It is amazing because the story matches. I think this is the most awesome family story that I have ever heard passed down by mouth - a story that didn't change - that remained accurate even though it was told over and over. I wish I could go back in time and hear Jess Corn tell it one more time. If I could - then I'd record it and send it to the people who cobbled up World Connect with information that is impossible to document. I did see that one researcher told the story and had it right. Ah-hh, one out of twenty isn't too bad. Hope you enjoyed my Sunday entertainment and maybe I even took the bumpy ride out of your Sunday. 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