Good Morning: Our featured photo for the coming week is one of the J. R. Allen family, submitted by Barry County researcher Alice Allen. Maybe Alice will tell us more about the Allens and their connection to the Hutchens family. I suppose that most of you know they are the same Hutchens family group who had the mill in Pioneer. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/oddsnends/bryfams.htm Our thanks to Alice for all the wonderful old photos she shared with us. Earlier this week she sent us a disc with well over a hundred old photos on it. There were some that weren't named - of unknowns. Those give us a lot of Barry County research material to work on. As we plow through them and compare them to other old photos in books and in libraries we will uncover the secrets of the past and learn about our own heritage. Again, thanks, Alice, for all that you are doing for Barry County. We appreciate it so much! Donna Cooper

Donna, I finally was able to spend some time researching what you have on the Barry Co site about the old mills. The Hutchens brothers, Wilson, Isaac and John F. owned the McDowell mill and in 1889 they bought the Pioneer mill. Their sister, Mary Jane, married John Robert Allen in 1881 and they lived in Pioneer. J.R. and Mary Jane's son Walter is my husband's father. Walter worked in the mill for his uncles. My husband Forest was born in Pioneer in 1938. He remembers the mill and remembers the day it burned. He was 7 years old and was told not to touch the window to the store across the street because it was hot. Of course he touched it anyway and burned his hand. Alice Allen ----- Original Message ----- From: Donna Cooper To: mobarry@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 10:03 AM Subject: [MOBARRY] FEATURED PHOTO Good Morning: Our featured photo for the coming week is one of the J. R. Allen family, submitted by Barry County researcher Alice Allen. Maybe Alice will tell us more about the Allens and their connection to the Hutchens family. I suppose that most of you know they are the same Hutchens family group who had the mill in Pioneer. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/oddsnends/bryfams.htm Our thanks to Alice for all the wonderful old photos she shared with us. Earlier this week she sent us a disc with well over a hundred old photos on it. There were some that weren't named - of unknowns. Those give us a lot of Barry County research material to work on. As we plow through them and compare them to other old photos in books and in libraries we will uncover the secrets of the past and learn about our own heritage. Again, thanks, Alice, for all that you are doing for Barry County. We appreciate it so much! Donna Cooper Please tell us about your Barry county ancestors. The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) ------------------------------- 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.17/1178 - Release Date: 12/8/2007 11:59 AM